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__label__cc	0.609011	0.390989	McPherson Buzz Obituary: Marvel L. (Allen) Rhine December 31, 2019 December 31, 2019 Editor 38 Views Stockham Funeral Home Marvel L. (Allen) Rhine, age 95, passed away peacefully of natural causes on Thursday, 26 December, 2019, at her residence in McPherson, KS. She was born on 18 December, 1924, at her parents’ home in rural Haddam KS, the youngest of three daughters to Loyd and Phoebe (Rutherford) Allen. Marvel was a child of the “Great Depression”. Her experience growing up in difficult times shaped an enduring sense of pragmatism, determination and resilience that she sought to pass along to her descendants. She attended a one room country primary school, then graduated from Haddam High School. Shortly after, in 1942 Marvel married her high school sweetheart, Melvin H. Rhine. The couple then set to farming and raising their family near Haddam. She also taught in a one room country primary school for a time before she began bearing her own children. Marvel was a firm believer in education; a lifelong, avid reader – and inspired others with her love of learning. She was fiercely proud of being a Kansan and a farmer. She would let any new acquaintance know that she was from Haddam, Kansas and then ask them if they knew how to milk a cow. She enjoyed cooking and baking, sewing and quilting, and all her life loved caring for children. She ultimately became “Grandma Rhine” to multiple generations, far beyond the circle of her own family, in locations as varied as Omaha Nebraska, Houston Texas, Reston Virginia and Hollywood Florida. Described by some who knew her well as “a tiny force of nature”, and “kind, tough, caring, and thoughtful all in the same breath” – she was the nucleus about which the extended family seemed to revolve for decades. Marvel is survived by her five children: Barry (Donna) Rhine, Dan Rhine, Karen (Leslie) Durst, Randy (Ilizete) Rhine and Bradley (Malu) Rhine; nine grandchildren; ten step-grandchildren; 14 great-grandchildren; 14 step-great-grandchildren; expectant first great-great- grandchild; plus multiple nieces, nephews, and their descendants. She was preceded in death by her parents, Loyd and Phoebe (Rutherford) Allen, her husband of 38 years, Melvin Rhine, her two sisters and their spouses, Juanita (Edwin) Novak and Eileen (Glen) Dolton, daughter-in-law Calista (Ryan) Rhine, and brother-in-law and spouse, Kenneth (Garnett) Rhine. There are no plans for immediate funeral services. A family and friends graveside service and Celebration of Life will be held in Haddam, Kansas at a later date, to be announced, possibly near Memorial Day 2020. In lieu of flowers or other consideration, the family suggests memorial donations to Sunflower Adult Day Services (Salina, KS) in care of Stockham Family Funeral Home, 205 North Chestnut, McPherson, KS 67460. Among all the loving acts that deserve mention, there must be a special place reserved for a daughter-in-law such as Donna (Mortensen) Rhine. Marvel shared a home with her son, Donna and their children for many years, and the two developed an extremely close bond. Donna provided such diligent personal care to her mother-in-law during her declining years that Marvel was able to remain with family, at home, until her health at last no longer permitted. Also, the entire family wishes to offer profound gratitude to Brenda Foster, RN, who provided such warm, personal and attentive care to Marvel in her Harmony Home during the final period of Marvel’s life. Brenda is a true gift to the world, who lives her creed and is a blessing deeply appreciated by the Marvel Rhine family. ← Monday Bowling Scores Volleyball USA: Swanson spends holiday break at Team USA training program → Obituary: Nancy C. Janssen January 12, 2020 January 12, 2020 Editor Obituary: Jarold Otis Koehn November 9, 2020 Buzz Staff Obituary: John Jesus “Jay” Abasolo February 13, 2020 Editor Get news delivered to your inbox! Obituary: George Dick Hess January 19, 2021 Buzz Staff McPherson County 911 Municipal Court Convictions Governor Laura Kelly to Close Capitol Complex, Administration Buildings Tuesday and Wednesday McPherson Buzz is an independent, locally owned, online news publication centered on local news. This completely free publication is for the residents of the McPherson area. It is produced by locals who care about the community. Filling a need for a local news outlet, The Buzz strives to provide timely and innovative coverage of local sports, politics, events, education and the people of McPherson County. We want to know what you think. For questions, concerns and suggestions for our publication contact us any time at editor@mcphersonbuzz.com. Buzz Posts Jonathan Coachman Likes The Buzz Copyright © 2020. All rights reserved. Powered by www.omni21.com. Obituary: Gregory Lindahl Heitkotter, Sr. July 21, 2020 Buzz Staff Obituary: Charles Roger Lindblade October 4, 2020 Buzz Staff	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0038.json.gz/line3447
__label__cc	0.726992	0.273008	Translation of Acción piece [ETA: I’ve been informed that this translation is illegal. I’m indexing this post and leaving it here for now, but if I am asked directly to remove it, I will. A .pdf of this part, along with the bio that accompanied the original article, which is not included here, is currently available at RichardArmitageNet.com, so if it’s important to you to save a copy, download it there. In that translation, “ensayo rodado” is translated as “filmed rehearsal” on the recommendation of Antonia Romera; below, Violet suggests “extended take.”] Hi, here’s my translation. I made it for RA Net, and when it posts there, I will take it down from here. Enjoy. Corrections welcome. I have a BA in Spanish, but I’m not a native speaker. Exclusive: Richard Armitage Interviewer: Jesús Usero Perhaps in in our country he may be more known for his television roles in series like Robin Hood or Strike Back, but we have also seen him in Captain America. All of this remains tiny in comparison with his most recent job, Thorin, the dwarf leader in Peter Jackson’s The Hobbit. An experience that the actor himself says that, if it were the last one of his life, it would make him happy. And he tells us all this in an exclusive interview he gave to Acción. The first thing we’d like to do is thank you for your time and ask what you can tell us about The Hobbit, one of the most anticipated films of the year. Well, I think that the reason that it might be one of the most anticipated films of the year is that it’s going to be a cinematographic event like no one has seen before, which has to do mainly with the return to Middle Earth and the way that Peter has created this work, in 3D, filming at 48 frames per second … I think it will be a very special event. And how did you get a role in such a special project? I got to do an audition for two roles: one for Bard and the other for Thorin, and then I met Peter Jackson, Fran Walsh and Philippa Boyens, and I didn’t prepare anything from the film, but rather a mixture of everything in which Thorin believes and all of his characteristics, I read this and we talked about the character, about Middle Earth, about how the film would be. … And we talked about Thorin’s quest, his dignity, his mission to recover his homeland … and it seemed that we had similar ideas and they offered me the role. When I met them, I had just injured my shoulder in a television role, and it hurt quite a bit, I had taken some relaxants, but they didn’t have much effect (laughs) … but I believe that they noticed a certain pain in my voice and my eyes that somehow helped me to personify Thorin. Was there any point at which you thought you would pass up the role, say no to this film? No, on the contrary, I don’t know how I would have been able not to do it. I remember when they were making the first films, and I would have liked to have been part of them. And when this appeared on the path … Obviously I knew they were going to film The Hobbit, but all the while it was delayed, and delayed, and I couldn’t believe that in the end we would be making the film, delayed, and I told Peter, I would have given my arm to work on it, and although I don’t think it will happen, if this were my last job, I would still be very, very happy. And with all these delays that you mention, was there any moment in which you were afraid for the film, at which you thought to yourself that The Hobbit was a project that would never be filmed? Yes, and I remember that a moment came when they were saying to me that they had to make a decision, because I had already turned down one project in order to be in The Hobbit, but the film was not getting a green light to be filmed. But I knew that it was going to be made, I knew that Peter was going to get to finish making it. And when you have the chance to do this role … you don’t think about other options. I remember saying to myself, if I make this act of faith, if I decide to stick with it, then the film will be made. And here we are, talking about a film that will be screened this Christmastime. Definitely. And what do you like best about Thorin? What attracts you most about this character? I think that what I like best about him is the idea that Thorin develops in a very unexpected way, the way in which he changes over the length of his life. It is a very interesting path that he travels. There’s a piece of guilt in him, but also a big piece of ferocity, a big internal struggle with himself, with which he begins the adventure, and all the catastrophic events that happen over the length of the story create an interesting drama, inside the character and at the same time, in the story. But at the same time, around the end of the film, there’s a feeling that the character achieves what he deserves, and that his relationship with Bilbo, which goes from the beginning to the end of the film, is a relationship that helps him to understand who he is. That this relationship in constant development makes Thorin who he is. And how was your arrival in this very special universe? How was it to arrive in New Zealand and see the sets and the whole operation? I think that this is part of what made of this a different experience for everyone. You go to the other side of the world, and coming from the UK I can’t think of many places much further away to go, unless it would be the South Pole. Basically, this experience makes you think that you’re taking a long trip to do it, that you’re going to Middle Earth, because I think that a lot of people see New Zealand as Middle Earth, and you’re going to see these places, the ones that appear in the first films, and you’re going to travel to this magical land. And from the moment in which we got on the plane, we were going on creating this sort of mystique in which our characters were going to exist. One of the most memorable moments for me was, the first day of filming, the ceremony on the set that the Kiwis [as they lovingly call the inhabitants of New Zealand] did, and it was right before we started to film for the first time, even though it was at night, we were in the entry to the studio and the sun was starting to set, while they were singing a song, the song of blessing. It was such an emotional moment, I thought, that we would all be blessed filming this film in this so special place. And I assume that it will have been an extended filming period, more than a year. How did you live there? It was about 18 months, because we got there at the beginning of 2011 and we left in August of 2012, so that probably it was about 18 months. And part of what made the experience so special was spending all this time with the people you are working with there, to feel yourself part of a long journey that isn’t even over yet. But it is something that unites people. You can talk with anyone who worked on The Lord of the Rings, and the feeling is the same. It’s a time that you spend together, you work in such unity … that it is something that I will never forget. As well as Peter Jackson, who is one of the most important directors of our age. How was it to work with him? From the first moment I was with him in a room, and he told me about the character, and the way in which he shaped it, I knew that Peter was a person very similar to me. He doesn’t like to lose time, he likes the camera to be filming constantly, and he does this thing he calls ensayo rodado [there’s probably a jargon word for this – possibly “one- take”?], where there’s no cut between takes, and then he ends up using it, I call this masterwork. I give the best of myself when I am working and working in the character without many cuts. But also at moments of doubt, when you feel like you’re not inhabiting your character, and you turn to him and you know, because you’ve seen it in the Lord of the Rings films, that he has all the characters in mind, that they will all appear, each with his own individual delight, because there’s not one single weak character in The Lord of the Rings. So that even when you plunge in, when you know that you are in deep waters, he is going to get you to the other side perfectly. ~ by Servetus on November 23, 2012. Posted in acting, Armitage as mirror, Armitage as victim, Armitage on Armitage, Armitage's body, Armitageworld dogmas, capitalism, Captain America, career, dwarves, fans, fantasy, fear, filmmaking, flow, gratitude, gravitas, Guy of Gisborne, Heinz Kruger, humility, if I could interview Mr. Armitage, interiority, John Porter, joy, loss, me, morality / ethics / norms, Peter Jackson, reality, Richard Armitage, RichardArmitageNet.com, Robin Hood, silliness, Strike Back, The Hobbit, the hype, the shoulders, thinking / feeling, Thorin Oakenshield, why Armitage?, Why me?, work 95 Responses to “Translation of Acción piece” Love it! I had my daughter working on it, but she was doing as a favor and will be relieved it’s already done. LOL! RAFrenzy said this on November 23, 2012 at 10:22 pm \| Reply a liberal arts degree oughta get ya something, no? 🙂 even if it’s quick translations of frivolous news 🙂 Servetus said this on November 23, 2012 at 10:26 pm \| Reply […] edit: Servetus now has a translation for the […] Richard, International « RAFrenzy said this on November 23, 2012 at 10:27 pm \| Reply I’m just going to skate right past the fact that you have a BA in Spanish and just thank you for the translation! 🙂 AgzyM said this on November 23, 2012 at 10:28 pm \| Reply youthful folly. Think of that way. Sure, came after Rocket science and before Maths 😉 By the way, I was just thinking that an RA fan has the edge when translating an interview like this. I mean we all know how he ‘sounds’ when answering such questions and you’ve certainly read your fair share of them. Just a thought, as it’s really RAish to read! To quote RA, “I am horrid at maths.” Which shuts out rocket science. I translated this very literally. So if there’s a place where a verb tense sequence didn’t make sense to me, as if he got lost in his thoughts, that’s reflected in the interview. It read to me like someone had taped the interview and then translated the tape into English, very stream of consciousness. Thanks for the translation. I like this Q&A style much better than those article that are heavily edited and filtered through the lens of the interviewer. Jane said this on November 23, 2012 at 11:00 pm \| Reply You’re welcome. Totally agree. Thanks, Servetus. I was going to cancel an appointment so I could charge out and go into town tomorrow morning on the early train, then hunt at the newsagents. I still want to get a copy of the magazine, and of course, I speak, read, and write Iberian Spanish. It sounds like you didn’t miss a trick. Leigh said this on November 23, 2012 at 10:37 pm \| Reply You should be obscura’s interpreter — I’ll put you guys in touch. Muchas gracias, Servetus. I will be reblogging. 😀 fedoralady said this on November 23, 2012 at 10:38 pm \| Reply Reblogged this on the armitage effect and commented: Dr. Servetus kindly translated the Accion article that went with that divine pic. Muchas gracias! Thank you very much for the translation, Servetus! Ania said this on November 23, 2012 at 10:44 pm \| Reply You’re welcome. And on notice that I cannot read Polish, so you will have to step up. Fantastic!! You’re a gem. Fanny/iz4blue said this on November 23, 2012 at 10:44 pm \| Reply anything for you. I wish I had beer import connections 😉 Fanny/iz4blue said this on November 24, 2012 at 5:02 am \| Reply So do I. I wish Westvleteren made some beer for export, too 🙂 Funny, I heard about that beer from you first! Might ask someone to bring back a bottle 🙂 Fanny/iz4blue said this on November 25, 2012 at 6:23 pm \| Reply I adore this part: “we were in the entry to the studio and the sun was starting to set, while they were singing a song, the song of blessing. It was such an emotional moment, I thought, that we would all be blessed filming this film in this so special place.” Wow! I think most of us felt what he described as we watched that ceremony. Can this get any better?!! Thanks for the “youthful” translation. My 1yr of Jr. high, 1 yr of high school and 1 yr of college Spanish didn’t get me very far. 🙂 The Queen said this on November 23, 2012 at 10:46 pm \| Reply me 2, I loved that bit. I noticed he didn’t mention that he played an important part in that ceremony. would it be any other way? 🙂 That unshakable modesty is one of the most attractive things about him IMO – I don’t think it is something that anyone could manufacture so constantly. obscura said this on November 24, 2012 at 12:07 am \| Reply I live in awe! Is there anything you don’t do? I need an interpreter for a tour group to Spain in 2014 – interested? (seriously?) Thanks! obscura said this on November 23, 2012 at 10:47 pm \| Reply My spoken Spanish isn’t that great anymore because I almost only ever speak German, and on top of that my Spanish sounds very Mexican. I sort of fell asleep when we were supposed to learn those Iberian verb forms. But you should get together with Leigh. Hers is probably great! Yeah – she is Andalucia yes? I’m doing Roman/Islamic Spain (lots of stuff in that area) I have 18 months to learn at least a little Spanish (it seems so rude not to) I’ve done Italian, French, Greek and Latin, but no Spanish. I’ve never learned Italian but Spanish easier than all the others, IMO. And all those romance languages you’ve had, can’t be too hard. I haven’t used anything but Greek in a very long time 🙂 Even there, the Greeks usually answer me in German. (from there hilarity ensues) Yes, I’m in Andalucia , in a tiny pueblo blanco– the closest city is Ronda. There is a ruined Roman theatre nearby at Acinipo, Arab baths that have been excavated and restored somewhat so you can visit them, The remnant of a mihrab marks the church of Santa Maria Mayor as the mosque it was before King Ferdinand and his knights took the city and made it into a church. The Moorish murallas have been restored (not entirely faithfully). There used to be part of a Roman aqueduct near the Sevilla road, but I’m not sure if it’s still there. As you say, there’s lots of stuff all through here. Managing Spanish if you know other Romance languages is not difficult. The key words you need, however, are idiomatic, e.g., “servicios?” means “where’s the restroom?” I’d be happy to help. Agree about the Romance languages. I took quite a few years of Latin and have had no problem with French, Spanish and Italian. I also took some Greek in college. But I’ve never spoken it. Well, not much anyway. I found that Greek, like Russian, is a fantastic language in which to curse. Still, after more than 30 years, I remember next to nothing. I agree…Romance language cursing still sounds pretty to my American ear…Greek cursing has a kind of staccato harshness that reinforces the point. (Although, as a woman, I don’t think I’m supposed to appreciated that 🙂 ) The really bad stuff in Iberian Spanish has a tone as if you are scolding a pet and often the translation does not seem as appalling as the meaning really is. The hand gestures that women use among themselves are silent but particularly expressive (e.g., the extended pinky droops). Funny I was taught Russian for 8 long years but we never learned a single curse word. Not one! I can still recite poems about Comrade Lenin though. 😀 Judit said this on November 24, 2012 at 12:10 am \| Reply Joanna said this on November 24, 2012 at 1:31 am \| Reply I feel like “buen provecho” is very useful. I don’t have the full itinerary mapped out – a colleague and I are coming over next summer – in August (she says will be I quote “hot as balls”) but it’s the only time we can both go- to map things out and get a feel for how things work. I used a tour company in Greece, but I’m not sure what we’re doing in Spain yet. It just sort of came up – along with the funding to pay for faculty participation (thanks to some creative budgeting) I definitely want to include some time in Madrid with a side trip to Segovia. I suspect that I will be in an area moving between Seville, Cordoba and Valencia…she’ll be up around Barcelona focusing on the Spanish Civil War. The idea is to book the airfare as one group and then split up based on which students want which courses – I’m running to concurrently to maximize our draw. That could be a little awkward. The best way IMO to get around Spain is by rail. Madrid connects to Sevilla by Ave, a very fast train. There’s a decent Sevilla to Cordoba run, but Valencia is probably easier to get to if you go back through Madrid, which is the country’s rail hub. You can get an idea of routes, types of trains, and prices at renfe.es. I recommend not only the side trip to Segovia, but also a day trip to Toledo. Depending on the makeup and disposition of your group, you may want to look into staying at one of the convents that offers accommodations. Leigh said this on November 24, 2012 at 12:05 am \| Reply That is the very info that I need to work out – OK if I email you periodically? Claro que si! (= yes, of course) Gracias (that’s pretty much it 😉 ) With all those languages under your belt you probably already speak Spanish without even realising it! Son is reading Latin, French and Italian at uni: he tells me that if he reads a newspaper article in Spanish he can get the gist of it at the very least. wydville said this on November 24, 2012 at 8:09 am \| Reply yeah, it’s not just the vocab but the grammatical structures are similar as well. The only thing that gets confusing is keeping the false cognates straight. One smart son you ahve! When I was prepping Italian in grad school, I had a prof who advised me to remember my Latin and squint – think that will work for Spanish? obscura said this on November 25, 2012 at 1:55 am \| Reply Spanish is way easier than Latin. I had Spanish first. Servetus said this on November 25, 2012 at 2:29 am \| Reply Fantastic service, Servetus! I was so disappointed that I couldn’t read it, but just trust the Armitage Army that someone is kimd enough to do this. Nice interview, quite to the point, very little about non-related Armitage. Clever, clever man! guylty said this on November 23, 2012 at 10:48 pm \| Reply The reason the bio isn’t here is because Ali and I both think there’s an error in it, and she’s querying the interviewer before we publish it. But that’s where the “non-related” stuff is. You seem to have a few spare degrees that you might not need, could I have one please? As agzy said its just so casually mentioned! It’s a good article, thoughtful questions with RA answering them thoroughly. I look forward to reading more of them. I think there are some coming from Outer Mongolia and Latvia so I am assuming you will be doing the translation for those as well. Rosiepig said this on November 23, 2012 at 11:00 pm \| Reply I think I only have one “extra,” but I’d be happy to give it to you. It’s not very useful, though. There are readers on this site from some Baltic countries, not sure about Latvia, so we can rope them into it if it comes out. Outer Mongolia?? I shall look out for very obscure ones! Where is outer Mongolia, exactly? (I see a graph of page views based on a world map with the basic political lines drawn on it). It’s not a state, is it? http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Outer_Mongolia Rosiepig said this on November 24, 2012 at 12:23 am \| Reply OK — thanks for the clarification! No, I don’t get hits from there (neither from the state of Mongolia, nor, apparently from China — although I suspect that maybe this site is not visible in China). Also, I can’t read any of those scripts except I can pronounce the Cyrillic (another youthful folly — ah, the language courses we will take a semester of for love). So, Rosiepig, I am pretty sure you will have to take this over when it arises. I’ll be in touch. Servetus said this on November 24, 2012 at 12:37 am \| Reply Maybe I should start doing a Mongolian A Level? Who needs English Literature! Rosiepig said this on November 24, 2012 at 2:12 pm \| Reply Anything to do with China is useful these days 🙂 I keep telling my son that…he has an interest in the east anyway – might as well make himself marketable 🙂 Thanks for this Serv.. didn’t know about your BA in Spanish sandwiched between Maths and Nuclear Engineering LOL (sorry! Joking!) Anyway YOU ROCK!!! Should there be an Italian article I’ll have a go at that. 🙂 Judit said this on November 23, 2012 at 11:01 pm \| Reply nuclear engineering would Mr. Armitage’s father (also joking). I mean I’ll have a go at translating it. I’m completely knackered should be in bed really. if we put our heads together, we can do almost anything. Yes, Judit, you should be in bed; you need to beat this infection so you’ll be strong for the London premiere. And if you think I nag, wait ’til you hear what Guy will have to say… All right Mom, I’m going, I’m going! 🙂 Thank you Servetus khandy30 said this on November 23, 2012 at 11:29 pm \| Reply Oh, terrific! Thanks so much for translating this article, Servetus–I saw a small picture of it online and loved the photo but the words were too blurry to read when I enlarged it. I loved hearing more about his audition! That description was the best yet. I knew all the candidates had read for Thorin, but I wondered what else went into the decisionmaking process. So he was injured in the shoulder during that Spooks stunt…I wonder when all that happened. Wow, a BA in Spanish, too? Lovely. saraleee said this on November 23, 2012 at 11:34 pm \| Reply he hurt his shoulder during Robin Hood as well (ask Jane for reference), so it seems like a vulnerable point. I thought it was interesting that he read for Bard. That piece of information will make mulubinba very happy, as she was regularly lobbying all over the place on the Internet on behalf of that. Thanks for the translation. I was also thinking of Mulibinba when I read about him auditioning for Bard. All her early work may well have contributed to get him the audition. I miss her blog and hope that she gets to enjoy all the hobbity madness that are now escalating by the minute L said this on November 24, 2012 at 6:12 am \| Reply She may come back. She’s hidden her blog before and come back. I hope so, too. I think she was going to Wellington for this. LOL, I used to be a much better walking RA archive than I am now! I think he mentioned should and neck problems, thought I don’t recall an injury. During RH the press always said he was responsible for injuries Keith Allen and Jonas Armstrong got during filming, though at least in the first case that isn’t necessarily true. Jane said this on November 24, 2012 at 8:14 am \| Reply I thought you told me he had had physical therapy for an injured shoulder. Ensayo rodado… to translate as ‘extended take’? Thank you for your swift translation, Servetus. VioletsTFB violetsframework said this on November 24, 2012 at 12:05 am \| Reply Super — thanks for the suggestion. I don’t know anything about filmmaking but I guess I am about to learn. You. Rock. Simplegirl said this on November 24, 2012 at 12:11 am \| Reply Thank you, this was really interesting. And so he did audition for Bard as well, this was a role that many RA fangirls wanted him to get – and they were much closer to the mark than many gave them credit for a the time it seems!! kaprekar said this on November 24, 2012 at 12:19 am \| Reply Yes. It’s interesting (note above), isn’t it? I freely admit that I did put down anyone who mentioned a hope that RA could be cast as Bard because I was convinced it would be totally out of his league. I also freely admit that I was wrong and apologize. My feeling is always that these fan campaigns don’t influence anything — they merely serve to get fans excited about spending money. However, it looks like in this case they were paying more attention than we realized. Servetus, thank you! Snoozie said this on November 24, 2012 at 1:37 am \| Reply Many thanks,Servetus! 🙂 It’s amazing how fast any RA news is made accessible worldwide! Thank you so much Servetus! 😊 Suse (@suseng3) said this on November 24, 2012 at 2:09 am \| Reply Yes, thank you for the translation and for being so giving. RA is such an eloquent and expressive person. I especially liked that he talked about acts of faith and being blessed. Oh well, back to the Pride and Prejudice marathon — Darcy’s just about to dive into the lake. sloan said this on November 24, 2012 at 6:05 am \| Reply Thank you very much for the translation! Thank you also for your great blog! mariana said this on November 24, 2012 at 3:02 pm \| Reply Thanks for all the kind comments! […] 2) Richard Armitage’s interview with Jesus Usero is in Accion Cine at http://www.accioncine.net/contenidos-revista/1745-revista-accion-no-1212-mes-diciembre-de-2012.html; the RANet link for the English translation provided by Me + Richard Armitage blogger Michaela Servetus was found at http://www.richardarmitagenet.com/images/articlescans/Hobbit/AccionCine-23Nov2012.pdf, the pdf starts with an RA biography which Servetus says she translated falthfully, but she has a question or two about the facts contained in that bio. For my money it is, RA wanted to be an architect? Here is Servetus’ blog post with the translation in it, https://meandrichard.wordpress.com/2012/11/23/translation-of-accion-piece/ […] Fun Day Sunday: I had Richard Armitage for my Birthday! 11/25/12 Gratiana Lovelace (Post #312) \| Something About Love (A) said this on November 25, 2012 at 7:06 am \| Reply Thank you so much for doing this, it was a great read. 🙂 Traxy said this on November 26, 2012 at 3:36 pm \| Reply Many thanks for the translation Servetus. 🙂 april73 said this on November 27, 2012 at 2:33 pm \| Reply A reblogué ceci sur April's violet and commented: Translation in English of Richard Armitage’s interview published in the Spanish magazine “Accion Cine” by Servetus. 🙂	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0038.json.gz/line3448
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Its customers include the NHS, for which it has developed an instant messaging product to complement a custom-app development platform and services. CommonTime has worked with Highland Marketing since it commissioned its sales acceleration service to help it to build a sales pipeline of qualified leads for its app development products. The success of first a trial and then a full sales acceleration campaign in 2017 encouraged CommonTime to ask Highland Marketing to help it with PR activity. Initially, this meant writing press releases and case studies to showcase its work with NHS customers. For example, Highland Marketing was able to highlight work by Hillingdon Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust to combine some of its core patient and clinical systems into a mobile app. The trust used the CommonTime Infinity low-code development platform to integrate its Silverlink patient administration system, its document management system, and more than 40 clinical applications into the Hillingdon Care Record. It’s launch and take-up by clinical staff were well-covered by healthcare IT publications; including industry-leading website digitalhealth.net, which sent a reporter to see it in action. ‘Ten per cent of the world’s pagers in use in the NHS’ Dan McCarthy, marketing manager at CommonTime, says the case study approach generated a good level of interest. But the company wanted to follow-up with industry research that would have a longer shelf-life and more directly support sales efforts for its Clinical Messaging product. “We decided to undertake some research on pagers,” he says. “We used secondary data, from NHS Digital and other organisations, on the extent to which they are still being used in the NHS. Then we wrote a report in-house, after which we engaged Highland Marketing.” Highland Marketing reviewed the findings, helped to structure the report and press release, and then handled distribution. The work brought out some striking statistics. The final report estimated that 130,000 pagers – or one in ten of all the pagers still in use around the world – are being used by the NHS. It calculated that these devices are costing the NHS £6.6 million a year; when replacing them with mobile software could save it £2.7 million a year. This proved to be a compelling story for journalists. Highland Marketing’s press release secured well over 130 pieces of coverage, in publications ranging from national newspapers to major regional publications, and from specialist health tech websites to political journals. The story was also covered by broadcasters, including the BBC, and eventually acquired a momentum of its own; even US magazines picked up on the story. McCarthy says: “Highland Marketing was able to place this in some great channels for us. That first piece of research and PR support exceeded all our expectations.” ‘Doctors turn to commercial messaging apps’ CommonTime decided to follow-up with a second piece of research, looking at the work-arounds that clinicians have put in place to try and overcome the limitations of this old pager technology. “There were reports that staff were using commercial messaging apps for clinical tasks, such as handover, or to discuss the treatment of patients,” McCarthy says. “We decided to do some research to find out if that was the case. We found it was not possible to use secondary data because, for obvious reasons, the NHS doesn’t collect figures on whether clinicians are using apps like WhatsApp or Facebook Messenger. “Instead, we went to a third-party research company, which took a survey to NHS staff.” Highland Marketing helped to formulate the questions for the survey, bringing in clinical expertise from its partner Abed Graham. It helped to analyse the results, pick out key themes, and work them up into another strong release. The findings of this research were also notable. It not only confirmed that commercial, unauthorised messaging platforms are being used in the NHS, but that as many as 500,000 health service staff – or 43% of the total – are using them. Also, that 29,000 staff – one in 50 – have faced disciplinary action for using instant messaging apps. Highland Marketing advised CommonTime that these striking – and controversial – aspects of the report should feature highly in the press release. This was widely covered by the health and tech press. Benefits of research led PR McCarthy says that taking a research led approach to content generation and PR has worked for CommonTime. “The pager research is being mentioned in reports that are still coming out now,” he says. “For example, [health and social care secretary] Jeremy Hunt recently sponsored a report from the Centre for Policy Studies on paperless technology. That report contained 30 or 40 references; but one of them was to our report. So, we are still getting that long-tail of coverage.” Indeed, references to the pager report crop up frequently. Chris Smyth, health editor of The Times, asked NHS England’s director of digital transformation about it on the stage of the 2017 Health and Care Expo. The Wikipedia page on pagers was recently updated to include that 10% figure. As McCarthy says, the report has become part of the zeitgeist; and that has put CommonTime on the front-foot. “You establish yourselves as the thought-leaders in the sector,” McCarthy says, when asked about the benefits of this kind of activity. “You establish yourselves as the experts.” Crucially, this has made it easier to take the Clinical Messaging product to market. “We have been going into hospitals, and we have found that lots of people have seen the story,” McCarthy says. “They may have left a comment on a website about it; and we have been able to discuss how our solution can help.” Why work with Highland Marketing? When CommonTime engaged Highland Marketing, McCarthy says it was looking for market knowledge. “It was important for us to engage with a PR agency that understood the health tech market, both technically and clinically,” he says. Over time, though, he came to appreciate Highland Marketing’s “personal touch”, research, writing skills and media contacts “Highland Marketing took some quite long reports and turned them into excellent summaries and press releases. In fact, we have used some of his approach internally,” he says. “The team also gave us lots of advice, and some very good recommendations. The people we worked with at Highland Marketing really went that extra mile.” CommonTime has created a low-code enterprise application development platform, Infinity, that enables users to create and deploy apps with ease. Its Development Services team provides expert consultancy. For the NHS, CommonTime has created Clinical Messaging; a secure communication channel for frontline staff. CommonTime ran a successful sales acceleration campaign with Highland Marketing in 2017, and has since worked with it on highly successful PR campaigns. Services and value: The Highland Marketing services that CommonTime used for its PR campaigns were: research, content creation, press release writing, press release distribution, media liaison and media monitoring. The PR campaign on the obsolete use of pagers in the NHS generated more than 130 pieces of coverage in national newspapers, the specialist and medical press, and broadcast outlets. This was widely referenced in conference presentations, reports, and online resources, such as Wikipedia. CommonTime has been able to use this coverage to secure the attention of influencers and potential customers, and to establish itself as the thought-leader in its sector. Highland Marketing is an integrated communications, PR and marketing consultancy supporting UK and international health tech organisations. Over 15 years we have built a reputation for being the go-to agency for vendors and their customers. 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__label__cc	0.730852	0.269148	Jason Motte doesn’t expect to be ready for the season By Aaron GleemanFeb 26, 2014, 10:15 AM EST Jason Motte is coming back from Tommy John elbow surgery, but the former Cardinals closer said yesterday that he doesn’t expect to be healthy in time for Opening Day. Motte told Derrick Goold of the St. Louis Post Dispatch that being game ready by then would be “a push” in part because of some recent shoulder issues that slowed his rehab. He’ll be about 10 months removed from Tommy John surgery when the season starts. Motte also told Goold that he’d rather test his readiness on a minor-league rehab assignment than be at less than full strength in the majors, saying he wouldn’t want to limit the Cardinals’ bullpen options by only being available every other day or not being trusted in key spots early on. In other words, don’t expect to see Motte back in St. Louis before May.	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0038.json.gz/line3454
__label__cc	0.540209	0.459791	#DesertTrip #Boomerchella Tix on Sale Monday, May 9th 10am PT It’s Happening!!! TIX this Monday! Ticket Prices range from $199 for a day pass to $1599 for 3 day Pass with Reserved Seating More about the ticket prices: Prices do not include service fees. For a full list of service fees, please click here. There is an eight show pass (2 standing pit/6 of any other) limit per order, household and customer account. Children age two and under are free, but will not receive their own seat. All sales are final. No refunds, exchanges or cancellations. No upgrades are available after ticket purchase. Purchase plans will not be available for this show. For ADA passes, please order passes by phone on Monday the 9th. DO NOT buy passes from unauthorized third parties (scalpers). We will not service, authenticate or support any passes purchased from an unauthorized third party. Scalped passes may be void. Step-by-step order instructions will be provided prior to the on-sale date. .PDF of fees here More from Fortune: …Concert promoter Goldenvoice on Tuesday announced a new music festival that will take place on the same Indio, Calif. site as the annual hipster-friendly Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival, and it has already birthed the Twitter hashtag #Boomerchella for its likely appeal to baby boomers and classic rockers. Officially named Desert Trip, the festival’s lineup is stacked with iconic rockers, led by Bob Dylan, Neil Young, Paul McCartney, Roger Waters, The Rolling Stones, and The Who… May 4, 2016. Tags: boomerchella, boomerchella tickers, Coachella for Boomers, desert trip, desert trip tickets, goldenvoice tickets, Mccartney dylan fest tickets, Paul McCartney, rock festival the stones the who dylan, rock festival tickets, Roger Waters, the rolling stones tickets, The Who. Celebrities, Entertainment, Music, Popular Culture, Uncategorized. Comments off. Mega Rock Fest ~ ‘Coachella for Boomers’: McCartney, Dylan, The Stones, The Who, Neil Young, Roger Waters How did I miss this?! I’ll tell ya how, NO ONE READS THE LA TIMES ANYMORE!! Tix not on sale yet, whew!. But hotel rooms are going fast!! Vulture: …Goldenvoice, the company that organizes the Coachella Music Festival, is planning a three-night event at the Empire Polo Field in Indio, California. The concert would feature Bob Dylan and the Rolling Stones on the first night (October 7), Neil Young and Paul McCartney on the second, and the Who and Pink Floyd’s Roger Waters on the third. … April 28, 2016. Tags: Bob Dylan, boomer coachella, indio rock concert, Neil Young, new woodstock indio california, Paul McCartney, rock coachella, rock festival the stones the who dylan, Roger Waters, The Rolling Stones, The Who, woodstock 1994. Celebrities, Entertainment, Music, Popular Culture, Uncategorized. 1 comment. Roger Waters performs ‘The Wall’ in its entirety Update: A clip from last night already on youtube ~ Comfortably Numb 11/28/10: Saw the show last night in Phoenix. THE BEST CONCERT EVER BAR NONE. If you get any chance to see this amazing, knock you on your ass show, take it. Awesome doesn’t do it justice. Roger sounds fxckin amazing, guitar solos fxckin amazing. The visuals, Jeebus they made the show I saw with Gilmour in ’88 fade away, but that’s to be expected. The teacher, mom, ‘Georgie O Keefe on acid lover’ were ginormous puppets and the Pig sailed over the crowd red eyes blazing but it’s MIC message wasn’t alone – ‘Trust Us’ was answered with a ‘No Fuckin Way’ across its giant ass. Roger updated the film with cuts of current conflict. Royal Dutch Shell’s emblem was prominent, I wish Goldman Sachs had one, you know it would have been there!!. Obama made the film with the other corruptocrat leaders, the applause was very definitely in recognition of his full of shxtness, I was hooting wildly and so were a lot of awakened Obama fans let me tell ya. Then the clips moved to our brave soldiers returning from serving to their kids. I have seen this film on AceHQ, children surprised in class by their Dads home from the war and sure enough I cried. I have never seen such pure naked emotion as on those kids faces. Then I cried knowing Roger’s Dad and so many others never make it home. Roger LIVED the performance for us, just incredible. The sound was everything every Floyd fan ever wished they could produce at home, surrounding themselves in the music. I could feel the buzz of the electricity the crowd was generating back at the stage during You Better Run and I wasn’t even trippin. Second Side of the album is my fave, and by the time the Wall was built across the stage separating the band from the audience I knew I would have followed the show to the nearest state for the next night if I still lived back East. I want to see it again. And again! BEST SHOW EVER. Thank you Roger!!! Here is a youtube from the Boston show 10/1/10, In the Flesh, Run Like Hell: I’m so excited!!! It’s finally here! Excellent review from the NYPost on the beginning of the tour: When Roger Waters finished building “The Wall” in its entirety, at Madison Square Garden on Tuesday, it was just another brick on what was the best arena concert I’ve ever been to. Period. The show, a theatrical experience that brought the great 1979 Pink Floyd album to life, was simply fantastic…. …Musically, Waters kept his 12-piece band true to the original charts — it seemed that no notes were added or changed. Even the searing guitar solo by David Gilmour delivered 30 years ago on “Comfortably Numb” was re-created with note-for-note precision — even though Gilmour and Waters parted ways 25 years ago. The concert’s structure was also faithful to the double album: Sides one and two were played before intermission, sides three and four after. After the final song, “Outside the Wall,” Waters and his band just bowed and left the stage…. Atlanta Journal loved it: Visually jaw-dropping and acoustically flawless, “The Wall” anniversary tour might be the most technically phenomenal show ever staged in an arena. The dive bomber careening over the audience and crashing in a fiery explosion. Those menacing, mammoth blow-up marionettes associated with iconic characters from the album (the schoolmaster, a wife, the pig). And of course, the wall, slowly being constructed, brick by cardboard brick, as the show progressed and used as a 240-foot-wide projection screen…. …Roger Waters claims this will be his last-ever tour. And, really, it should be, because he could never top bringing “The Wall” to life. He’s also managed to contemporize the semi-autobiographical Pink Floyd album, which, even after three decades, works as a complex study of politics and psychology…. Times Picayune reviews the Houston performance: …Because the audience knew the set list in advance – the entirety of “The Wall,” in order – it was up to the production to supply suspense, drama and surprise. The opening pyrotechnic salvo concluded with a World War II-era British fighter plane screaming in from the upper balcony to a fiery “crash.” All evening, a stellar audio mix enhanced surround-sound effects, such as the helicopter that seemed to clatter overhead in “The Happiest Days of Our Lives.”…. CAN. NOT. WAIT! November 27, 2010. 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__label__cc	0.660697	0.339303	Alpha-1 antitrypsin deficiency as a common treatable mechanism in chronic respiratory disorders and for conditions different from pulmonary emphysema? A commentary on the new European Respiratory Society statement 11 Medical and Health Sciences 1102 Cardiorespiratory Medicine and Haematology A. Gramegna, S. Aliberti, M. Confalonieri, A. Corsico, L. Richeldi, C. Vancheri, F. Blasi IRCCS Fondazione Policlinico Universitario A. Gemelli Background: The European Respiratory Society recently published an important statement reviewing available evidence on diagnosis and treatment of lung disease associated to alpha-1 antitrypsin deficiency (AATD). Several issues on this topic still remain unresolved and subject of interpretation according to different standard procedures and healthcare systems worldwide. The purpose of this commentary is to offer a critical contribution to most of these controversial issues in light of an Italian perspective for the management of this disease. Main body: The clinical spectrum of AATD lung disease might include different manifestations and the traditional paradigm of a younger emphysematous patient has been revealing insufficient. Targeting with appropriate testing only COPD patients might be considered a limited approach leading to underestimation of the real prevalence of the disease. Several reports have suggested the association between AATD and other chronic respiratory conditions, as asthma and bronchiectasis. A deeper evaluation of clinical, radiological, microbiological and functional variables is, therefore, needed in order to investigate different phenotypes in AATD patients. In addition, a new line of translational research in AATD might focus on the development of personalized therapeutic regimens taking into account the patient clinical profile and needs. Conclusions: Over the past years, AATD has been interpreted as a common mechanism of inflammatory disequilibrium and tissue damage across different conditions. Future research is gradually pointing toward this new paradigm by expanding the evidence of the role of AAT as a potent immunomodulatory and anti-inflammatory drug in conditions different from pulmonary emphysema. © 2018 The Author(s). Multidisciplinary Respiratory Medicine https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85054832597&doi=10.1186%2fs40248-018-0153-4&partnerID=40&md5=a7fd234834098239bbe114c173ac65f7 Fingerprint Dive into the research topics of 'Alpha-1 antitrypsin deficiency as a common treatable mechanism in chronic respiratory disorders and for conditions different from pulmonary emphysema? A commentary on the new European Respiratory Society statement 11 Medical and Health Sciences 1102 Cardiorespiratory Medicine and Haematology'. Together they form a unique fingerprint. alpha 1-Antitrypsin Deficiency Medicine & Life Sciences Pulmonary Emphysema Medicine & Life Sciences Hematology Medicine & Life Sciences Medicine Medicine & Life Sciences Deficiency Diseases Medicine & Life Sciences Bronchiectasis Medicine & Life Sciences Gramegna, A., Aliberti, S., Confalonieri, M., Corsico, A., Richeldi, L., Vancheri, C., & Blasi, F. (2018). Alpha-1 antitrypsin deficiency as a common treatable mechanism in chronic respiratory disorders and for conditions different from pulmonary emphysema? A commentary on the new European Respiratory Society statement 11 Medical and Health Sciences 1102 Cardiorespiratory Medicine and Haematology. Multidisciplinary Respiratory Medicine, 13(1). https://doi.org/10.1186/s40248-018-0153-4 Alpha-1 antitrypsin deficiency as a common treatable mechanism in chronic respiratory disorders and for conditions different from pulmonary emphysema? A commentary on the new European Respiratory Society statement 11 Medical and Health Sciences 1102 Cardiorespiratory Medicine and Haematology. / Gramegna, A.; Aliberti, S.; Confalonieri, M.; Corsico, A.; Richeldi, L.; Vancheri, C.; Blasi, F. In: Multidisciplinary Respiratory Medicine, Vol. 13, No. 1, 2018. Gramegna, A, Aliberti, S, Confalonieri, M, Corsico, A, Richeldi, L, Vancheri, C & Blasi, F 2018, 'Alpha-1 antitrypsin deficiency as a common treatable mechanism in chronic respiratory disorders and for conditions different from pulmonary emphysema? A commentary on the new European Respiratory Society statement 11 Medical and Health Sciences 1102 Cardiorespiratory Medicine and Haematology', Multidisciplinary Respiratory Medicine, vol. 13, no. 1. https://doi.org/10.1186/s40248-018-0153-4 Gramegna A, Aliberti S, Confalonieri M, Corsico A, Richeldi L, Vancheri C et al. Alpha-1 antitrypsin deficiency as a common treatable mechanism in chronic respiratory disorders and for conditions different from pulmonary emphysema? A commentary on the new European Respiratory Society statement 11 Medical and Health Sciences 1102 Cardiorespiratory Medicine and Haematology. Multidisciplinary Respiratory Medicine. 2018;13(1). https://doi.org/10.1186/s40248-018-0153-4 Gramegna, A. ; Aliberti, S. ; Confalonieri, M. ; Corsico, A. ; Richeldi, L. ; Vancheri, C. ; Blasi, F. / Alpha-1 antitrypsin deficiency as a common treatable mechanism in chronic respiratory disorders and for conditions different from pulmonary emphysema? 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In addition, a new line of translational research in AATD might focus on the development of personalized therapeutic regimens taking into account the patient clinical profile and needs. Conclusions: Over the past years, AATD has been interpreted as a common mechanism of inflammatory disequilibrium and tissue damage across different conditions. Future research is gradually pointing toward this new paradigm by expanding the evidence of the role of AAT as a potent immunomodulatory and anti-inflammatory drug in conditions different from pulmonary emphysema. {\textcopyright} 2018 The Author(s).", author = "A. Gramegna and S. Aliberti and M. Confalonieri and A. Corsico and L. Richeldi and C. Vancheri and F. Blasi", journal = "Multidisciplinary Respiratory Medicine", publisher = "BioMed Central Ltd.", T1 - Alpha-1 antitrypsin deficiency as a common treatable mechanism in chronic respiratory disorders and for conditions different from pulmonary emphysema? 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Main body: The clinical spectrum of AATD lung disease might include different manifestations and the traditional paradigm of a younger emphysematous patient has been revealing insufficient. Targeting with appropriate testing only COPD patients might be considered a limited approach leading to underestimation of the real prevalence of the disease. Several reports have suggested the association between AATD and other chronic respiratory conditions, as asthma and bronchiectasis. A deeper evaluation of clinical, radiological, microbiological and functional variables is, therefore, needed in order to investigate different phenotypes in AATD patients. In addition, a new line of translational research in AATD might focus on the development of personalized therapeutic regimens taking into account the patient clinical profile and needs. Conclusions: Over the past years, AATD has been interpreted as a common mechanism of inflammatory disequilibrium and tissue damage across different conditions. 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Targeting with appropriate testing only COPD patients might be considered a limited approach leading to underestimation of the real prevalence of the disease. Several reports have suggested the association between AATD and other chronic respiratory conditions, as asthma and bronchiectasis. A deeper evaluation of clinical, radiological, microbiological and functional variables is, therefore, needed in order to investigate different phenotypes in AATD patients. In addition, a new line of translational research in AATD might focus on the development of personalized therapeutic regimens taking into account the patient clinical profile and needs. Conclusions: Over the past years, AATD has been interpreted as a common mechanism of inflammatory disequilibrium and tissue damage across different conditions. 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__label__cc	0.73586	0.26414	F**ing magnets, how do they work? This is why I mount all my figures on steel magnets these days. This cheap plastic storage box has had a magnetic sheet stuck into it with double-sided tape; it holds the figures securely enough that they'll stay in place with the box up-ended. They don't rattle around against each other, chipping off all the paint applied with so much sweat and heartbreak. It won't hold the figures down against a severe jolt, but for normal handling, or for sitting in the back seat of a car for example, it's fine. I got the magnetic sheet from a signwriter. It's the same stuff used for fridge magnets, or the temporary signs used for car doors and the like, and it's pretty cheap — if I recall correctly, I paid about $20 for a square metre of the stuff. at November 30, 2010 1 comment: And that's the lot These are the last three of my old 15mm Traveller minis, all painted up and ready to go. Nearly. Now I have to give the whole lot of them a couple of coats of varnish and mount them on 15mm steel washers so that they'll stick to a magnetic mat for storage. The space-assassin on the left was problematic; I find it very difficult to paint black so that it doesn't just become a featureless blob, but also so that highlighting doesn't make it look grey. Nearly there Just three more left to paint. It was two, but then I found another one. I rather like the hugely-muscled brute on the right; he could fit into all sorts of RPG genres. And still more The next group, from various packs. The guy on the left is from the Crewmen set; crewmen clearly have no taste or colour sense when it comes to dress. at November 28, 2010 3 comments: ....and again Here's the next batch of those RAFM 15mm Traveller figures. These ones are from Infantry Pack #4, and by the looks of them they could have been modified from masters for WWII US infantry. I've painted them in more or less WWII colours, except that the weapons are in the same green as helmets etc. — I've assumed they'd be made mostly of plastics and ceramics rather than wood and steel. 15mm Traveller minis - the next batch OK, the next batch. The three on the left are robots of course, and I felt that I had to do the humanoid one in C3PO gold. I like the left-most one a lot; it's described in the RAFM catalogue as a "Security Bot" and comes in a pack of ten. I may have to get some. I don't care that much about either of the other two 'bots; they're OK but they don't really float my boat. They're from the Support Staff set. The two figures on the right would be useful PC figures; the woman in the virulent green jump-suit is one of the Space Vixens set, the armoured guy is from Infantry Pack #3. Players will move heaven and earth to get their hands on heavy combat armour, so I can see this figure being a popular one. * Seriously? Space Vixens? Good grief. Old 15mm RAFM Traveller figures RAFM 15mm Traveller miniatures — click to embiggen I've had these figures knocking around in my collection for a good long time — 20-25 years easily, though they're a little older than that. In their day, they were easily the best 15mm figures available in any genre; 15mm wargaming figures of the time tended to be pretty basic. For many years, these were the only 15mm sci-fi figures available, and I think they were originally marketed under the FASA banner. These days, 15mm figures have improved enormously, and there are plenty of manufacturers to rival RAFM in terms of sculpting quality. These guys are still right at the top of the field when it comes to character though; they're just oozing with it. RAFM have re-released them, and I'm sorely tempted to buy some more now that at long last I can. I've just got around to thinking about painting them, after all these years. My friend Joffre is planning to run a space-opera-ish sci-fi campaign in a few weeks, and I thought it might be useful to have to figures ready and waiting for the fun to start. I think 15mm is ideal for modern/sci-fi gaming; they're large enough to be identifiable, but small enough to accommodate the longer ranges at which combat tends to happen — fantasy games tend to concentrate a lot more on hand-to-hand stuff, so the larger figure scales aren't as problematic. I've tried using WH40K Epic 6mm figures in the past, but they're just too tiny to be manageable as single figures. The rest of them — undercoated, awaiting paint. Also embiggenable by clicking. New dice! They're shiny! The Lou Zocchi Gamescience dice I ordered some considerable time ago (back in the middle of August) from frpgames.com have finally arrived. Or perhaps, to be more accurate, some substitutes for some dice that I ordered from frpgames.com have finally arrived. I can't say that I'm terribly impressed with frpgames; my order was delayed and delayed because the dice I had ordered, though shown as in stock on their website, weren't actually in stock. I got a lot of messages saying that they would be "getting new stock in any day now, don't worry, everything is under control".... but the new stock of the dice I had actually ordered never turned up. After months of waiting, I eventually lost patience and got them to substitute some other dice that I didn't like nearly as much, just so that I could get the bloody order sorted out at long last. I don't think I'll be buying (or rather, trying to buy) anything from frpgames.com again. Just while I'm in the mood for bitching, let me voice my loud complaints about the US Postal Service. A fair part of the waiting time I had to put up with was due to their incredible slowness, and for that "service" they charged an arm and a leg. It cost me about $US18.00 to get a 2 ounce package from the USA to New Zealand, which is about five times what it costs me to get a similar package all the way from the UK, on the other side of the world. I thought at first it was just the vendor, racking up the purchase price with nasty hidden fees, but a quick look at the official USPS website confirmed that they are in fact a bunch of bloody pirates and charge like an angry rhino. Dice, lovely dice my Precious! Well anyway. I eventually got three sets of white dice for myself, and some coloured and transparent gem dice for my beloved, who is attracted to shiny, sparkly things. I personally don't care for the gem dice at all; they're pretty, but they're a real pain in the arse to read. The problem would be mitigated somewhat if I'd actually got the dice I originally ordered though.... grumble grumble. When I got my first Zocchi dice, back in the distant past, I had to colour the numbers with paint — which was a royal pain, let me tell you. These days, a white gel pen and a microfine Sharpie makes the job a real breeze. Hoorah for progress! Now, if only I could find somebody who stocks them in New Zealand. A13 re-paint OOP Battlefront 15mm A13 Mk.IV I have a few of Battlefront's old out-of-production early-war AFV models, from back in the distant past, courtesy of a couple of friends. One of them is this A13 Mk.IV cruiser tank, the immediate ancestor of the Covenanter (which never saw action, as far as I know) and the more numerous and famous Crusader series. I painted it some time ago, but the scholarship of Mike Starmer forced me to eventually admit to myself that I was wrong, wrong, wrong with respect to my colour scheme, so at long last I bit the bullet and re-painted it as you see here to the right. The original paint-job was more suitable to late-war British vehicles It looks a bit clean and tidy for my usual taste, but then not that many of the vehicles that went to France in 1940 lasted long enough to get very battered before they were either destroyed or abandoned. The new range of early-war vehicle models from Battlefront looks very nice indeed, and I shall certainly have to get myself some to add to the teetering skyscraper of unassembled, unpainted models that chokes up my workroom. Unfortunately, if Troy "Ritterkrieg"'s experience is anything to go by, the same can't be said for the infantry sculpts. I'll reserve judgement until I've seen some in the flesh, but it may be that the situation will redound to the benefit of companies like Peter Pig (who, by the way, have one of the ugliest websites I've seen in some time). Khaki Green #3 in Vallejo paints Swatch Board click on it for a much larger version Mike Starmer, grognard and maven par excellence of WWII British vehicle camouflage and markings, has come up with a mix for Vallejo ModelColor paints to replicate the early-war base vehicle colour, Khaki Green #3. It consists of 1 part 822 (German Camo Black Brown), 1 part 888 (Olive Grey) and 7 parts 921 (English Uniform). I've painted a swatch board with the base colours and the resulting mix, and I've included a small swatch of 887 (Brown Violet), because it's the VMC colour that Battlefront recommend to represent K.G.#3. Seen next to the K.G.#3 it's clearly too green. Mike recommends straight 888 (Olive Grey) for Dark Green #4, the primary disruptive colour used until its replacement by Norton's Tarmac Grey (in about '41, I think). So far, he hasn't made any decision on how to make Light Green #5, the secondary disruptive shade, since he doesn't have access to a sample of the original, but it seems to have been very little used so I think I can live with that for a while. Personally I trust Mike's scholarship, when it comes to WWII British vehicle colours. He works from primary sources rather than from hearsay, though he seems to be fighting an uphill battle when it comes to convincing modellers that their paint colour choices are wrong.	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0038.json.gz/line3458
__label__wiki	0.510731	0.510731	List of Software Companies Companies in Hyderabad Old Age Homes in Hyderabad Budget Hotels in Hyderabad SAP Institutes in Hyderabad Home Tutions in Hyderabad ICSE Schools in Hyderabad Placement Consultants Web Designing Companies List of Pharma Companies Biotech Companies Architects in Hyderabad Sarees in Hyderabad Movies » Avengers: Age Of Ultron Movie Review Avengers: Age Of Ultron Review Zehra Abbas / fullhyd.com Music/Soundtrack Can watch again Wait to rent it Avengers: Age of Ultron is a comic book aficionado's dream come true; it's got a huge ensemble of kick-ass superheroes, a megalomaniacal villain, thousands of evil minions, adrenaline-on-speed action and cutting-edge digital wizardry. Did we mention Scarlett Johansson in spandex? Yes, it is every comic book geek's dream come true. Its biggest disappointment is that the franchise was ripe for a paradigm shift and the makers have failed to grasp the opportunity. Writer and director Joss Whedon opens the film with a bang (literally) and drops the audience in the centre of an amazing action sequence as Iron Man (Robert Downey Jr.), Captain America (Chris Evans), The Hulk (Mark Ruffalo), Thor (Chris Hemsworth), Black Widow (Scarlett Johannson) and Hawkeye (Jeremy Renner) make paste out of a Hydra laboratory in Sokovia, an imaginary country, and retrieve Loki's sceptre. They briefly encounter two "enhanced" newbies, Quicksilver (Aaron Taylor-Johnson) and Scarlet Witch (Elizabeth Olsen) who prove to be quite a handful later on. An uncharacteristically jittery Iron Man convinces Dr. Banner to help him harness the power buried in Loki's sceptre to build the Iron Legion, an AI "iron armour" for Earth. The road to hell is paved with good intentions, and our heroes unwittingly unleash Ultron (voiced by James Spader), a sentient AI program that believes mankind's survival depends on evolution preceded by annihilation. Yes, it makes no sense, but then you realize that Ultron is "stark", raving mad - he's a Stark Industries bot possessed by a malignant, alien power. Ultron swears human extinction, and the Avengers go after him. The outstanding element of the film, straight up, is the action. The opening scene sets the bar high - it's a stunningly choreographed, pyrotechnic, 3D spectacle. Even the no-frills, brutal, Neanderthal slugfest between Iron Man and the Hulk is fantastic. In general, the grandeur of the cinematography is elevated to comic book levels of fantasy by a talented SFX team that fashions the Marvel universe convincingly and yanks you into the narrative by your 3D glasses. You'll wince at our heroes crashing into buildings, gasp at them plummeting from the sky, and cower at flying rubble. However, the unoriginal and repetitive tropes of the franchise are a downer. To quote an example; the climax is 30 minutes of epic, cataclysmic action but it is strikingly similar to that of its predecessor, The Avengers (2012) - a villain, his army, the threat of human extinction, Iron Man front and centre, and the other Avengers in containment mode. Perhaps the formula could have been tweaked a bit? Avengers: Age of Ultron boasts of a huge ensemble but you wonder if it's actually just braggadocio. After all, the actors are required to portray comic book characters who already enjoy a devoted, sometimes rabid fan base. They need to deliver to clearly defined and set expectations in a plot that doesn't have the jostling space for character arcs. So, Robert Downey Jr.'s Iron Man is irreverent, Chris Evans's Captain America is righteous, and Hemsworth's Thor is, well, godlike (in a beefy, blonde way). Jeremy Renner finally gets to act since Hawkeye is finally given a story track of his own, but the only gem in this ensemble is Mark Ruffalo as The Hulk. When he's not turning a brilliant shade of green, he gives a brilliantly shaded and nuanced portrayal of angst and guilt. The Hulk and Black Widow's romantic track endeavours to imbue the rough and tumble with emotional depth, but it ultimately peters out unsatisfactorily. Similarly, the slightly long interlude in the "bang, bang" action, when the Avengers seem to unspool and do individual soul-searching, also fails to add gravitas, and only serves to hiccup the pace of the film. The fact is that too many characters and hastily appendaged plot points seriously circumscribe the writing. The villain of the piece, Ultron, is voiced by James Spader, and it's interesting how the robot's animation mimics the actor's body language, right down to his distinctive head tilt. Ultron is articulate, snarky, and, of course, like all good villains, totally mad. He dreams of destruction of Biblical proportions, references Noah, and hides his secret weapon in a church. At one point, he actually says "Boom! The end." while imagining the fruition of his plot. You gotta love a villain like that, but be warned - he doesn't have the haunting quality of The Joker or the even the viciousness of Loki. If only Whedon had used Spader the actor and not just his voice. Humour is an important element of this franchise, and sure enough, the narrative is peppered with funny quips that have been almost democratically distributed among the many (too many?) characters. The recurring joke about Thor's hammer stands out due to its subtext about worthiness, an important theme for a superhero film. Avengers: Age of Ultron is basically a fun ride. So all it requires from you is to sit back, put your mind on autopilot (your very own Jarvis moment), and let loose a few "woo hoos" now and then. This is uncomplicated viewing and perfect weekend fare if you're not in the mood for content-heavy cinema. So go ahead, unleash your inner nerd. You know you want to. 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__label__wiki	0.748867	0.748867	John Legend describes ’emptiness’ of losing baby Jack at 20-weeks as he and Chrissy Teigen open up on grief Katie StoreyTuesday 24 Nov 2020 5:59 pm John Legend and Chrissy Teigen open up on grief after losing baby Jack (Picture: Good Morning America) John Legend and Chrissy Teigen have given their first interview since losing their third child, with the singer describing the ’emptiness’ he felt as they grieved for their son. The All Of Me hit-maker, 41, and wife Chrissy, 34, appeared on Good Morning America on Tuesday for their first live interview since losing their baby boy. Chrissy had suffered complications during her pregnancy and the couple lost their son at 20-weeks, with Chrissy and John publicly sharing their heartbreak on social media. They had posted photos of them in hospital saying goodbye to little Jack, with Chrissy later explaining her decision to take pictures and post them publicly – insisting they were to raise awareness for those in a similar situation who are ‘hurting’. She had said she ‘didn’t care’ if they caused offence, as they were pictures for her to have to remind her of her son. Appearing on US television, John said he was ‘worried’ about taking the pictures, but is glad he now has them to carry on Jack’s memory. EXCLUSIVE: @chrissyteigen and @johnlegend open up on pregnancy loss and how the experience brought them closer together. Now they have a new mission to help support families with sick children. https://t.co/SUzrfqqXrL pic.twitter.com/cGmL4ML37U — Good Morning America (@GMA) November 24, 2020 John said: ‘[Chrissy] felt like really, that one of the ways we would carry on Jack’s memory was taking pictures of that moment. I was worried, I was like, “I don’t want to like commemorate this pain.”‘ ‘But the crazy thing about having a miscarriage, is you don’t walk away with anything you have this emptiness,’ he explained. ‘And we wanted to take the photos so that we had something to remember.’ The recording artist said that their experience of pregnancy loss has only made himself and Chrissy stronger as a couple and he praised his ‘courageous’ wife for sharing their story. https://www.instagram.com/p/CFyWQLWpJ3u/ ‘I just know that I love my wife, more than ever,’ he said. ‘We’ve been through so many challenges together and they’ve made her stronger, and I know that doesn’t always happen when people go through tragedy.’ ‘I feel like the challenges we face together have made us feel even more sure about who we are together as a couple, and who we are as a family,’ John added. Opening up on the grief she is feeling, Chrissy said: ‘I definitely give myself permission to feel complete and utter grief. Every day is so different, so when people ask me how I’m doing, I always say, “I’m okay, today.”‘ https://www.instagram.com/p/CH-Ug60J7u1/ https://www.instagram.com/p/CH27U2LpuZI/ ‘Obviously it’s so painful to go through something like this, as a woman – something that was inside your body that you were nurturing and taking care of,’ Chrissy said. She revealed that the support shown towards the couple in the last few weeks has been ‘beautiful’ and she credited the couple’s kids, daughter Luna, four, and son Miles, two, for ‘helping’ herself and John get through it. John and Chrissy revealed that they have also joined forces with the Ronald McDonald House Charities to help support the families of sick and injured children. The initiative helps families to stay together and provides resources needed during treatment. More: News Nine Met Police officers fined for breaking Covid rules with breakfast in café Their appearance on GMA comes after Chrissy took to Instagram revealing she had gone through the ‘hardest four days of her life’. She promised to eventually share her story with fans, but insisted that all she wanted in that moment was a cuddle from her mum. Chrissy wrote: ‘One day I will tell you the recent story of the hardest 4 days of my life. for now, here’s me needing my mommy.’ Sands UK charity Sands UK is a stillbirth and neonatal death charity, which works to reduce the number of babies dying and to ensure that those affected by the loss of a baby receives the best possible care for as long as they need it. The charity aims to better understand the causes of baby deaths and works with governments and other organisations to raise awareness of issues surrounding baby loss. Sands provides bereavement support at a local and national level. Please visit the Sands UK website for more information and contact details. MORE : Strictly 2020: Nicola Adams spotted for first time since self-isolating following Katya Jones coronavirus diagnosis MORE : All the non-Christmassy movies hitting Netflix UK in December including classics Casper, Step Up and Bridget Jones’s Diary Chrissy TeigenJohn Legend Chrissy Teigen reminds fan she ‘lost a baby’ after criticism over tweet John Legend apologises for 'elevating' former prosecutor amid sexual assault claims Chrissy Teigen leads celebrities reacting to Donald Trump being impeached again	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0038.json.gz/line3464
__label__wiki	0.675283	0.675283	Internal Affairs - Dr-20 Martin Milner and Kent McCord appear as Officers Malloy and Reed to portray the policeman's role in society. Uncle Charley puts down a deposit on a vacation lot at beautiful Whispering Pines, only to learn he's been hoodwinked in a high-pressure real-estate operation. Thumb Fun (1952), Rock-n-rodent, We Aim To Please, What's Opera Doc (1957), All Fowled Up (1955) The Clothing Drive Beaver's school is having a clothing drive and whoever brings in the most clothes will be awarded 1,000 school points. June, Ward and Wally round up all the old clothes they can find and put them in a box. However, next to the box are three good suits of Ward's that are to be cleaned, and, of course, Beaver mistakes them as items for the clothing drive. Series finale! Family Scrapbook While cleaning, June runs across an old family scrapbook and gathers the family together to reminisce about the past six years. The Cleavers recall scenes from previous episodes including: 'Beaver Gets 'Spelled,'' 'New Neighbors,' 'My Brother's Girl,' 'The Shave,' 'Beaver Runs Away,' 'Larry Hides Out,' 'Teacher Comes to Dinner,' and 'Wally's Election.' The Case Of The Velvet Claws A photographer snaps a picture of politico Harrison Burke and a married woman, Eva Belter, as they leave a local gambling establishment. Eva goes to Mason for help and tells him that a scandal sheet called "Spicy Bits" is blackmailing her. The Psychic Matlock agrees to defend a psychic claiming to have had a premonition of a murder before it took place. A Problem Too Personal Harriet and Eugene are devastated after Gene's father is arrested for murder. Olivia is happy to learn that she is pregnant again, but John worries that having another baby will be hard for her Dry Road To Nowhere Matt investigates why a gunman is stalking a temperance preacher. Three Brides For Hoss A woman from Kentucky arrives in Virginia City and announces that she's Hoss Cartwright's mail order bride. Needless to say, Hoss is stunned at this situation. Flowers By The Door Lucas unmasks a killer posing as a door-to-door seed salesman. Long Trek Lucas and Marshal Torrance run into trouble transporting a captured killer back to face trial. The Swamp Devil "A section of the wagon train splits to attempt a crossing of a dangerous swamp. On the way they hear stories from the local Indians of a strange creatures living in the swamp. Flint has a secret worry as he leads them." Log 92 -- Tell Him He Pushed Back A Little Too Hard Malloy and Reed respond to repeated calls about an argument between two men and their wives over a boat they co-own. The feud escalates and ends with a fatal conclusion. Log 22: So This Little Guy Goes Into This Bar, And... "A fur burglary, a family fight and a loud party." Fred and Barney meet the Great Gazoo for the first time! The Great Gazoo When Fred and Barney release a little green alien from his crashed space ship, the creature pledges to serve them. Meet the Fonz's cousin Spike! Not With My Sister, You Don't When 12-year-old Joanie Cunningham is invited by Fonzie's leather-clad nephew, Spike, to go to a movie on her first real date, her parents and big brother, Richie, do what they do best...worry! Talk of a post-war reunion gives B.J. an idea—planning a present-day stateside gathering of 4077th families. He continues to obsess with the idea even under the duress of bug-out instigated by a Chinese breakthrough. Also, Klinger fears that the party will blow his cover, as his mother doesn't know he's stationed in Korea. Ed Begley Jr. guest stars! A clumsy foot soldier, "Look Out Below" Conway, finds the quickest way to the crew's heart, boosting morale at the 4077th by cooking gourmet delights. Only Colonel Potter, burdened with a personal crisis, is immune from the high spirits enveloping the hospital. Barney And Thelma Lou, Phfftt After Gomer naively tells Thelma Lou that Barney thinks "he has her in his hip pocket." Thelma Lou decides to teach Barney a lesson by flirting with Gomer. Andy, Barney and Gomer take a group of boys camping in the mountains to show them the pioneer life. Barney winds up getting himself and Gomer lost in the woods, and it's up to Andy to save the day. Gomer accidentally takes a wrong turn on his way downtown and winds up on a round-trip jet flight to Rome. The Rutabaga Story It's planting season in Hooterville, but Oliver doesn't know what to grow. After testing the soil, he discovers Hooterville is perfect for growing rutabagas. The locals are overcome with rutabega fever, going so far as to plan a "Rutabaga Bowl". To spread the word, Lisa is sent up in a hot air balloon to drop vegetables on people with the message "Eat Hooterville Rutabagas" written on them. The Missing Klink Hogan plans to kidnap Burkhalter to trade him for an underground agent but ends up with Klink. Who Stole My Copy Of Mein Kampf? Hogan plans to eliminate a beautiful allied defector who is giving Klink an award. Ham Actor, The / Oldest Man, The In The Ham Actor, Carol and Harvey try to survive an outdoor performance despite a coming storm. Then, in The Oldest Man, the Oldest Man captains a ship headed toward an iceberg. The Case Of The Lucky Legs Marjorie Cluny wins a contest for best-looking legs sponsored by Frank Patton of Stellar Productions. Her prize is a trip to Hollywood and a role in Patton's next picture. Unfortunately, there was fine print in Marjorie's contract that she didn't read. Come Wander With Me A singer searches for an authentic folk song. The Older Sister A reporter discovers the truth about the infamous Lizzie Borden murder case. Shopping For Death Two retired sales clerks test their theory that people become killers at 92 degrees. The World Between Peggy is a patient in the same hospital as the African premier, who was admitted under disguise for unknown reasons. Wedding March "Cannon is asked to find out if a judges fiancé is responsible for him being compromised." Perchance To Kill An affair leads to an accidental murder. Dan Mathews hunts a low form of killer who preys on the poor. Community Relations - Dr-17 A conference provokes old-line policemen to reassess their attitudes, particularly toward minority groups. Batman Classic TV Series 8 Inch Deluxe Figurine: Dick Grayson Harry Potter - Hufflepuff Crest Firefighter Uniform - New York (front & back) Shadows In The Moonlight	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0038.json.gz/line3465
__label__cc	0.722452	0.277548	Poetry &c Planet Narnia A selection of my articles that have appeared in various journals (print and online) ‘Always Christmas, Never Winter? Christianity in the Writings of Charles Dickens’ HBU School of Christian Thought Blog (June 2020) ‘Return to Planet Narnia’ An Unexpected Journal (Issue 4, 2018) Diary Column Catholic Herald (27th July 2018) ‘God the Father of Lights: C.S. Lewis on Christianity and Paganism’ Sacred Architecture (Vol. 33, Spring 2018) ‘Onions and Roses’ HBU School of Christian Thought blog (July 2017) ‘A Time to Scatter Stones and a Time to Gather Stones Together’ Imprimis (July/August 2017, Vol. 46, No. 7/8) ‘C.S. Lewis, Jupiter and Christmas’ HBU School of Christian Thought blog (November 2016) ‘C.S. Lewis and the Art of Disagreement’ Intercollegiate Review (November 2016) ‘The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Sanctuary’ HBU School of Christian Thought blog (March 2016) ‘C.S. Lewis on Christianity as the True Myth’ Patheos (9 March 2016) ‘Of Hills and Dales’ Imprimis (May/June 2015, Vol. 44, No. 5/6) and reprinted in Vital Speeches of the Day (August 2015, Vol. 81, Issue 8) ‘C.S. Lewis’s Wit’ HBU School of Christian Thought blog (April 2015) ‘Learning What No One Meant to Teach: The Educational Experiences of C.S. Lewis’ Christian History (Issue 113, Spring 2015) Linguaculture, International Journal of the Iaşi Linguaculture Centre (Vol. 5, No. 2, 2014) ‘A Pointless Article’ ‘Narnia’s Prospects: The Silver Chair Sixty Years On’ Sewanee Theological Review (Pentecost 2014, Vol. 57:3) ‘C.S. Lewis on Power’ The Statesman (Journal of the John Jay Institute, April 2014) ‘The Next C.S. Lewis? A Note on Austin Farrer’ Transpositions (Institute for Theology, Imagination and the Arts blog, February 2014) ‘Rendevous with Death: C.S. Lewis on Mortality and the Afterlife’ Christian Research Journal (Vol. 36, No. 5, 2013) ‘How Lewis Lit the Way: Why the path to reasonable faith begins with story and imagination’ Christianity Today (November 2013) ‘Science and Religion in the Writings of C.S. Lewis’ Science and Christian Belief (April 2013) ‘A Thief in the Night: The Christian Ethic at the Heart of The Hobbit’ ‘Quality or Quantity? A Response to Justin Barrett’s Quantitative Assessment of Planet Narnia’ Seven: An Anglo-American Literary Review (online article, 2012) ‘The Current State of C.S. Lewis Scholarship’ Sewanee Theological Review (Easter 2012, Vol. 55:2) ‘A Look at Lewis’s Poetry’ online article at C.S.Lewis.com (January 2009) ‘C.S. Lewis and the Star of Bethlehem’ Books & Culture (January 2008) ‘Narnia’s Secret: C.S. Lewis and the Seven Heavens’ Touchstone (December 2007) ‘Knights and Martyrs’ Christian History and Biography (Issue 88, Fall 2005) ‘C.S. Lewis and Philip Pullman’ The Mars Hill Review (No. 21, 2003) ‘Planet Narnia’ The Times Literary Supplement (25 April 2003) Planet Narnia: The Seven Heavens in the Imagination of Michael Ward (Oxford University Press, 2008) THE OFFICIAL WEBSITE OF MICHAEL WARD, AUTHOR OF PLANET NARNIA • MICHAEL@MICHAELWARD.NET © 2021 DR MICHAEL WARD • ALL RIGHTS RESERVED • PRIVACY POLICY • WEBDESIGN BY GRID24	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0038.json.gz/line3468
__label__wiki	0.817296	0.817296	Lucasfilm / Movies / News / Star Wars David Prowse: Vader Actor Was a Giant Gentleman by John Bishop · November 29, 2020 Fans from everywhere will miss Darth Vader Actor, David Prowse “Search your feelings. You know it to be true….” Search nothin’. I know what I am feeling and that is sad. As we posted early this morning, David Prowse, the man behind Darth Vader’s mask in the Original Trilogy — and most importantly 1977’s Star Wars — passed away. R.I.P. David Prowse, The Man Behind Darth Vader The Twitterverse Honors Vader Actor Prowse Fans around the world taken to Twitter to celebrate the unique life of an eclectic person, whose relationship with Star Wars (and its progenitor). But the relationship between Prowse and his fans, there remain no doubts about that. Even today, as fans mourn the man behind the mask, there were renewed calls for Prowse’s voice to be made the voice of Darth Vader in a special cut of the film. To commemorate the life of David Prowse, Disney should release a cut of Star Wars with his dialogue not dubbed over by James Earl Jones. — The Impossible Girl (@actuallyalice) November 29, 2020 And to be truthful, I am not certain that is a good idea. RIP David Prowse, the Bristolian bodybuilder beneath Darth Vader’s suit and by all accounts a thoroughly un-Sith-ian chap. Here’s rare footage of him saying Vader’s lines on set. pic.twitter.com/M4RHbn7nZT — Nick de Semlyen (@NickdeSemlyen) November 29, 2020 But, whether that was a tongue-in-cheek missive is not really important. Without the physical presence of Prowse, Darth Vader’s voice doesn’t matter. However, it’s clear that Mr. Prowse’s presence transcended Star Wars, and left a distinctly positive impression on just about everyone he met. Vader Actor: Personable Prowse IrishNews.com posted: [F]ans traded experiences of meeting the actor, who was also famous for being the Green Cross Code Man in a series of road safety adverts. Hayley Campbell tweeted: “When I was a kid my dad phoned from a comic convention and asked my mum if he could bring Darth Vader home for tea. “And that’s how Dave Prowse ended up in my house bitching about having his voice dubbed in Star Wars and how his wife made him keep his Vader statues in the garage.” Drake Force wrote: “He was truly a nice man, I saw and talked to him almost every weekend for 2+yrs often sat on the next signing table. “You could always tell Dave was in the room because of his huge presence. The most softly spoken person you could meet. I will miss seeing him.” Moving beyond the personal reminiscences of his fans in Great Briton, the sentiment did NOT change. Tweets About David… Check out the volume of sentiment about David Prowse: RIP… pic.twitter.com/qav1UF1oUW — Kevin Feige (@Kevfeige) November 29, 2020 Lucasfilm was saddened to learn of the passing of David Prowse, who provided the commanding presence and imposing physical performance of Darth Vader for the Original Trilogy. He will be long remembered…https://t.co/U8Yua0mmoK pic.twitter.com/m2WGGlE3r1 — Star Wars (@starwars) November 29, 2020 It's with great regret and heart-wrenching sadness for us and million of fans around the world, to announce that our client DAVE PROWSE M.B.E. has passed away at the age of 85. #DaveProwse @starwars #DarthVader #GreenCrossCodeMan #iconic #actor #bodybuilder #MBE pic.twitter.com/dL2RmdIqg8 — Bowington Management (@BowingtonM) November 29, 2020 So sad to hear David Prowse has passed. He was a kind man & much more than Darth Vader. Actor-Husband-Father-Member of the Order of the British Empire-3 time British Weightlifting Champion & Safety Icon the Green Cross Code Man. He loved his fans as much as they loved him. #RIP pic.twitter.com/VbDrGu6iBz Sad to hear of the passing of a #StarWars family member. RIP Dave Prowse. Darth Vader wouldn't be the same without you in the costume. We had many fun times & laughs at cons together over the years. Glad to have been able to call you a friend. Rest now and be one with the Force! pic.twitter.com/st28CQGckF — Daniel Logan (@Daniel_Logan) November 29, 2020 More sad news. Dave has gone. I don’t think 3PO ever faced Vader’s mighty presence on set, other than as a bag of bits on Chewie’s shoulders in the carbon freezer. But Dave’s iconic figure dominated the finished film in '77 and has done so ever since. And will continue to do so. — Anthony Daniels (@ADaniels3PO) November 29, 2020 RIP Dave Prowse. I hope you’re up there sharing a pint and a story with the boys. #DarthVader #DaveProwse #RIPDaveProwse #StarWars pic.twitter.com/XoUtq2YihW — Peter Mayhew Foundation (@TheWookieeRoars) November 29, 2020 RIP David Prowse. That stature contributed so much to Darth Vader’s legend. #BePeace https://t.co/0YWlZVolRV — Carl Weathers (@TheCarlWeathers) November 29, 2020 I met Dave Prowse a few years ago, he came up to my booth at a con, he wanted to buy my Star Wars posters. I insisted that they were a gift. He was so gracious and we had a lovely chat. He was still asking to pay me for them as he left, I think I said “Darth Vader doesn’t pay.” pic.twitter.com/kzsG0STlKD — Matt Ferguson (@Cakes_Comics) November 29, 2020 Rest In Power David Prowse. The force is with you and your loved ones. Always has been. Always will be. #TimeToShineInTheLight pic.twitter.com/rFkyAJnZnW — Rosario Dawson (@rosariodawson) November 29, 2020 Saddened to wake up to the news that my Twitter friend David Prowse passed away. David, a literal giant among men, played many roles in his career. His most famous role was being the misunderstood father who tried to give the universe to his very disobedient twins. #DarthVader — William Shatner (@WilliamShatner) November 29, 2020 This photo fills me with such sadness today, after the death of David Prowse. What feels like a long time is actually so fleeting… pic.twitter.com/MZNwZTx1U5 — Anthony Breznican (@Breznican) November 29, 2020 This will be a thread of tribute to #DavidProwse, who was the physical form of #DarthVader. We all have celebrated the brilliance of @jamesearljones’ vocal performance as Vader—& rightfully so ❤️—but we must never forget the physical swag Mr. Prowse brought to the role. #Respect! https://t.co/YJwAnk1X6A — yvette nicole brown (@YNB) November 29, 2020 Sad to learn about the passing of David Prowse. @starwars was such a gigantic part of my childhood, all the actors were heroes to me. From Porkins to Vader. All heroes. Rest in power, Lord Vader. “David Prowse IS Darth Vader!” pic.twitter.com/C04nECTELl — player/coach (@CMPunk) November 29, 2020 And The Maker himself, George Lucas — with whom Prowse had publically feuded — said: Geroge Lucas on the passing of Darth Vader actor David Prowse. pic.twitter.com/AJGebTsCHG — Clayton Sandell (@Clayton_Sandell) November 29, 2020 May the Force be with you, Mr. Prowse. Thank you for all the fun. Meanwhile, be sure to email, click for a FREE quote on your next Disney vacation, or you can fill out the form below. And one of the agents from MickeyTravels, a Platinum level Authorized Disney Vacation Planner, will be in touch soon. Tags: Darth VaderDavid ProwseStar Wars A graduate of Boston and Northeastern universities, John Bishop, became the beat reporter for BostonBruins.com before the B’s 2006-07 hockey season. While with the Bruins, “Bish” traveled North America and Europe to cover the Black & Gold’s every move via laptop, blog, and smartphone. The co-author of two books, Bygone Boston and Full 60 to History: The Inside Story of the 2011 Stanley Cup Champion Boston Bruins, John covered the XXI Olympic Winter Games in Vancouver in 2010 and the B’s 2011 championship run and banner raising before taking a faculty/communications position at a prep school outside Boston in 2013. He lives with his wife Andrea, and sons Jack, Scott, and Luke, in central Massachusetts. 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__label__wiki	0.541617	0.541617	Feeling the Black Friday FOMO? A behavioral scientist breaks down why this Thanksgiving tradition means so much to shoppers Erin Donnelly Many shoppers are sitting out Black Friday this year due to the pandemic. (Photo: Getty Creative stock photo) The alarm going off in the middle of the night. The crush of parka-clad shoppers waiting out in the cold, elbows extended to ward off line-cutters. The frenzy, the door-buster deals, the shopping cart collisions and sweet satisfaction as the cashier rings up your total and you calculate your savings while congratulating yourself on having plowed through your holiday shopping list before a single window on the advent calendar’s been cracked open. For countless shoppers, Black Friday is as much of a Thanksgiving tradition as the turkey itself. But with the United States in the midst of an intensifying coronavirus crisis and new restrictions being announced daily, many people will be sitting out those in-person sales, whether because their go-to stores have been shuttered, or because they’re prioritizing their health over rock-bottom prices. And even with retailers offering steep savings online, missing out on this annual event can feel like a significant loss. Scott Rick, a behavioral scientist and associate professor of marketing at the University of Michigan’s Ross School of Business, tells Yahoo Life that for many people, Black Friday is much more than a mad dash to save some money on Smart TVs or electric toothbrushes. “The deals part is the most overrated part of it,” Rick says. “The quality of the deals is probably not that much better than other sales during the year.” But what is valuable is the tradition itself — whether with friends or family members similarly committed to early rises, or solo — which has shaped how many spend their holiday year after year. “It’s kind of a ritual for a lot of people, and disrupting a ritual can be very disorienting,” Rick notes. One of those people is Jagdish Khubchandani, a professor at New Mexico State University who has been a regular early-morning Black Friday shopper since immigrating to the U.S. from India in 2005. While the lure of Black Friday deals initially appealed to him as a graduate student, over time the pleasure he got from going out to the stores with friends and soaking up the energy of the crowds became the real draw. “While I can try and get the stuff I need online, it was more about the tradition, memories and social activity,” Khubchandani tells Yahoo Life. “It gave me a sense of belonging with a sea of people from all creeds, religions, colors and ideologies enjoying the tradition together,” says Khubchandani, who will stay home and “be responsible” this year given the pandemic and New Mexico’s new heightened restrictions limiting occupancy at essential retail spaces. “Asking strangers, ‘Hey, where did you get this from’ and them telling me, ‘Let me show you’ ... we transcended boundaries and our day-to-day differences and prejudices to mingle with people from all walks of life.” Black Friday is a sacred "ritual" to many shoppers. (Photo: Getty Creative stock photo) It’s common to get a psychological or social benefit from shopping, Rick says. Someone who is lonely or feeling down, for instance, might “feel less isolated” while surrounded by other customers or interacting with salespeople. Even introverts may get a buzz from being around other people in a mall without having to engage directly. And Black Friday in particular may be the ideal refuge for someone who wants to escape from the tension of a drama-filled family Thanksgiving gathering and spend some time in the company of salespeople, who, Rick notes, are “paid to be nice to you.” In a year in which those social connections have largely slipped away, missing out on Black Friday can feel overwhelming. “There’s also the retail therapy component that is taken away, [the idea] that we can heal some of our bad feelings via shopping,” Rick adds. “We can get that through some extent [shopping] online, but it’s certainly not the same as being able to take the shopping home today.” Some Black Friday regulars may be happy to hit the snooze button or soak up extra family time in lieu of their usual trek to Target. Those looking to fill that social retail void, meanwhile, can “get creative with Zoom co-shopping,” Rick suggests —assuming your shopping buddy is tech-savvy enough to scour the internet for deals with you over phone or video chat. Another option is to plan some “safe shopping,” Rick adds, such as researching brick-and-mortar stores offering curbside service or enforcing strict COVID-19 protocols. But, he cautions, “you don’t want to just fling yourself into a situation that could be dangerous.” A Black Friday sale is “definitely not worth your health,” he says. “Don’t risk it for any of these deals. I know we’re losing all of these psychological benefits, but it’s not worth the risk, health-wise.” For the latest coronavirus news and updates, follow along at https://news.yahoo.com/coronavirus. According to experts, people over 60 and those who are immunocompromised continue to be the most at risk. If you have questions, please reference the CDC’s and WHO’s resource guides. What to do if you think you have the coronavirus What are the symptoms of coronavirus? Glossary of public health terms to stay informed The most common ways the coronavirus is transmitted How to maintain your physical and mental health during the pandemic Taking care of a loved one with COVID-19? Here’s how to stay healthy COVID-19 and pregnancy: What we know so far How to find a job, unemployment insurance Q&A with Dr. Kavita Patel: How to keep your family safe and maintain your mental health Opening and cleaning delivery packages Tips for grocery shopping How to deal with potentially contaminated money How to do your laundry safely Read more from Yahoo Life: 'Chopped' judge Maneet Chauhan's Thanksgiving dinner hacks that will save you time and money Everything you need to host your family’s first Thanksgiving at home The 2020 guide to Thanksgiving etiquette, from dealing with COVID-19 rule-breakers to keeping debates civil Want lifestyle and wellness news delivered to your inbox? 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__label__cc	0.723562	0.276438	Electric Vehicle Adoption to Overtake Conventional Vehicles by 2040 and Unlock a US$2 Trillion Opportunity for Utilities, Accenture Finds Electric Vehicle Adoption to Overtake Conventional Vehicles by 2040 and Unlock a US$2 Trillion Opportunity for Utilities, Accenture Finds With 10 million EVs forecast to hit the roads by 2025, utilities must act now to create new eMobility experiences to boost competitive agility NEW YORK; April 2, 2019 – Poised to grow to 10 million in 2025 and surpass conventional vehicles by 2040, electric vehicles (EVs) will create a US$2 trillion eMobility opportunity for utility companies, according to new research from Accenture (NYSE: ACN). The Utilities: Lead the Charge in eMobility report from Accenture Strategy found that utilities stand to make significant competitive gains by bundling services for EV owners. Besides a US$1.7 trillion opportunity from providing low-margin electricity for EVs, utilities can add US$250 billion of higher-margin new eMobility services such as remote charging apps, integrated home-EV energy management, payment processing and even financing for EV purchases. By combining these services on a single platform, utilities can optimize system performance and help improve the overall EV customer experience. “Companies that can help make EV ownership easy and affordable for consumers will accelerate adoption and improve competitiveness across their industries. This is particularly important as consumers increasingly make purchasing decisions based on a company’s purpose and their commitment to important principles such as improving the environment,” said Bruno Berthon, senior managing director and global utilities lead for Accenture Strategy. “Utilities are uniquely positioned to play a significant role in the eMobility market by providing differentiated and meaningful customer experiences, while making critical ecosystem partnerships.” Growing electric vehicle adoption will unlock US$2T opportunity for utilities by 2040, new @AccentureStrat study finds #eMobility #EV According to companion research conducted by Accenture Strategy with 6,000 consumers around the world, environmental reasons are the main purchasing driver of EVs today, followed by the cost-saving opportunities they offer. Nearly two-thirds (63 percent) of future EV owners would switch to an EV to save money in the long term. However, while battery technology continues to advance and new leasing options arise, purchasing costs of EVs and access to charging – such as domestic energy systems or public charging stations — remain a barrier to ownership. For example, more than 80 percent of consumers who intend to be future EV owners plan to charge their vehicles primarily from their homes, but only 55 percent have their own garage. Utilities can capitalize on this opportunity if they take key actions that will accelerate EV adoption and claim their industry role as the market driver, including: Help Customers Make Right Choices: With the trust of their customers and the trove of customer insights they have access to – from consumption patterns to payment preferences and home-charging abilities – utilities are well placed to help customers make the right choices as they switch to EV ownership. Create hyper-relevance through ecosystems: Creating ecosystem partnerships will be critical to establishing a platform approach for bundling highly relevant offerings that will enhance the customer experience. Utilities can select complementary partners that will boost the customer value proposition – from car manufacturers and dealers to fleet operators, charge point operators, ride-sharing companies and parking space owners. With the right incentives, joint offerings will benefit EV owners and multiply value to all ecosystem partners. Outpace the competition: Leveraging real-time customer insights to rapidly improve or iterate customer services and experiences will be key to outmaneuvering the competition. Utilities should strategically invest in a portfolio of services aimed at simplifying ownership experiences and removing barriers to adoption. “There is tremendous value potential in the eMobility market, but utilities need to act now. Armed with a deep understanding of the energy market and its rules and regulations, and trusted customer and supplier relationships, utilities that invest smartly and deliver targeted offerings will thrive in this market,” said Greg Bolino, a managing director for Accenture Strategy. For more information about the report, visit: https://www.accenture.com/eMobility. The Accenture Strategy Utilities: Lead the Charge in eMobility report is based on geographic level value scenario modeling and a survey of 6,000 consumers, conducted between August and October of 2018, in France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Norway, Spain, Sweden, the United Kingdom and the United States. Accenture is a leading global professional services company, providing a broad range of services and solutions in strategy, consulting, digital, technology and operations. Combining unmatched experience and specialized skills across more than 40 industries and all business functions — underpinned by the world’s largest delivery network — Accenture works at the intersection of business and technology to help clients improve their performance and create sustainable value for their stakeholders. With 477,000 people serving clients in more than 120 countries, Accenture drives innovation to improve the way the world works and lives. Visit us at www.accenture.com. Accenture Strategy combines deep industry expertise, advanced analytics capabilities and human-led design methodologies that enable clients to act with speed and confidence. By identifying clear, actionable paths to accelerate competitive agility, Accenture Strategy helps leaders in the C-suite envision and execute strategies that drive growth in the face of digital transformation. For more information, follow @AccentureStrat or visit www.accenture.com/strategy. Maggie Nolan Accenture Strategy Media Relations margaret.d.nolan@accenture.com Guy Cantwell Accenture Resources Media Relations guy.cantwell@accenture.com Matt Corser matthew.corser@accenture.com Copyright © 2019 Accenture. All rights reserved. Accenture, its logo, and High Performance Delivered are trademarks of Accenture.	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0038.json.gz/line3480
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__label__cc	0.697775	0.302225	General Practice Forward View April 21, 2016 by NAPC chat_bubble_outline 0 comment(s) NAPC has always identified Primary Care in both form, a level in a health system and function, a strategy for organising approaches to care. Primary Care remains the first point of contact for health needs which must be patient, not disease led. Dr Nav Chana, NAPC Chairman said today “We welcome the additional funding for the NHS, with investment targeted to primary care leading to the development of new models of primary and community care as set out in the FYFV. New models of care, for example the Primary Care Home, focused on improving outcomes that matter to people could go a long way to providing the solutions we need for a sustainable NHS.” Dr Chana went on to say “Primary care organised around general practice has a pivotal role to play but it must be transformed to face challenges. We encourage this transformation to recognise the wider primary care workforce to support general practice to meet the health and social care needs of its population.” NAPC welcomes the changes to help practices with workforce and care redesign to alleviate workload pressure, in particular, the statements in the General Practice Forward View on expanding and supporting GPs and the wider primary care staffing. Never has the need been greater for more sophisticated, practical and workable approaches to recruitment and retention, as well as encouraging strong endeavours to collaborative working, building partnerships and developing the primary care skills mix. “Self care, patient activation and promoting practice and pharmacy based care navigation has been a strong focus for the NAPC and we are encouraged that these and others have been identified as part of the solution to a sustainable primary and community health care system. “In order to really make a difference to the health of our communities, we have to have the will and the means to build collaborative networks, embracing technology better and recognising and developing a different skill mix within and across primary care teams.“ Dr Chana said. NAPC also welcomes the continued approach to bureaucracy reduction and plans to streamline CQC inspections. Dr James Kingsland, President of NAPC said “We welcome NHS England’s commitment to reducing bureaucracy and support technological innovations that will enable professionals to spend more time with their patients. Clinicians must be liberated from over burdensome administrative work which deflects from patient care.” As an organisation at the forefront of defining and testing new models of working through its Primary Care Innovation Network (PIN), National Association of Provider Organisations (NAPO), National Primary Care Network (NPCN) and Nurses Voice, NAPC will continue to encourage and empower primary care to try new things to improve the health and wellbeing of local people. Previous PostNAPC comment on 6% reduced funding for pharmacy Next PostNew Primary Care model yielding early results	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0038.json.gz/line3491
__label__cc	0.676884	0.323116	Director of storytellers AEDA APP/APK Viernes de los Cuentos 2020/21 Fri Jan 22 @17:30 - 06:30PM BIZKAIA. Ana Apika Sun Jan 24 @18:00 - 07:00PM Bizkaia. Sorgina Txirulina Tue Jan 26 @17:00 - 06:00PM SEVILLA. Diego Magdaleno. El Aedo Stay up to date with AEDA Tweets by @_AEDA_ Ultimate Social Widgets IGP Seal Reflect Upon Storytelling Links to resources Files with resources Earth Story tellers: Stars in the Darkness It is said to be a dark moment for the planet, as the earth is heating up as global warming becomes a reality. Forests are burning down and as they turn to ash, they take with them stories of ancient trees and of all the flora y fauna that live in these ecosystems. And the voice of the icebergs ring out with an urgent tone; they are melting away and as they do so countless stories that have been locked within the frozen ice, since remote times, are released. And, I ask myself, is there anyone out there willing to tell these stories? Is there a public out there, ready to listen to these stories? Who is listening to the obituaries of the people in the cultures that are disappearing before our eyes? Where are the people to assist the funerals of the extinct species who disappear off the face of the earth every day? If there is no one to tell and listen to these stories, then it is indeed, a dark moment for the planet. It is also said that we need the darkness to see the stars and at this very moment, two lovely initiatives are shining brightly in this darkness: The Earth Stories Collection and the global network of The Earth Story Tellers. But, first of all, let me tell you how it all started … To do so, we need to travel in time and space to a dark, dark night and enter into a dream that Grian Cutanda, creator of the NGO the Avalon Project, had. It was a strange dream and initially the message was unclear. Little by little, the symbology of the dream started to reveal itself and transform into a real live dream: The Earth Story Collection project. The aims are to create a global bank of stories for the good of planet Earth and her inhabitants. It was inspired in a seed bank, but instead of plants seeds, the Earth Story Collection would collect “cultural seeds”, of myths, legends, fables, stories and other traditional tales from all around the world. The Stary Night of Fairy Tales As far as we can discern, the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light in the darkness of mere being. The species of Humanity comes from darkness, when night covered the earth, everything became threatening. Humans, sensitive beings, felt the cold on their naked bodies, and were afraid of the howls of wolfs and the snarls of beasts that wandered nearby their primitive shelters. As the first humans mastered the art of hunting to defend themselves and to feed off the animals they began to wear their skins to protect themselves from the cold. It was a treacherous and arduous time as they were at the mercy of the elements, and survival was a constant challenge with death always just around the corner. These fragile beings were able to succeed thanks to their superior intelligence. In the dawn of human civilization there was an urge and desire to symbolize. Human beings discovered fire and created art, leaving behind works of great beauty in caves like Altamira. In those times, they would sit around the fire and tell stories, sharing their feelings and hopes. That eagerness to communicate, to talk about ourselves, and confide to another is one of the most powerful instincts of being human. Talking about oneself requires the ability to imagine and symbolize. Thus, from this urge to tell, human beings started to design and develop fictional stories, under the splendorous stars that shone at night, guiding them as they walked blindly to their destination, in an uncertain fight for survival. Share to Connect: storytelling and visual language as a tool for system intervention Storytelling as a tool for system intervention within the PICS project. What is this PICS project? Well - in brief - it’s a project in which we, the partners, have developed a method which aims at the behavioural change of young people in order to establish more respectful, resilient and peaceful communities. In this method we make use of storytelling techniques and picture language. In other words: PICS aims to change the system by means of storytelling techniques supported by picture language. The next speaker will shed a light on the ‘picture language’ part; I would like to introduce you to storytelling; in general and focused on the use in this project. But before doing so, I’d like to say something about ‘the system’ we aim to change. In our urban society - as in almost all urban societies in Europe - youth from various backgrounds - religious, ethnic or cultural - live together. And let's not forget to mention the differences in economic terms; the haves and the have nots. This kind of society is referred to as a heterogeneous society. And without wanting to be too negative, these kind of societies are at risk of conflict. Let me explain this ... I am not referring to conflict as in war zones, but to conflict that endangers the peace in a society like the one we are living in. Not all conflicts endanger this peace; conflicts are actually part of our society. As a former drama-student I am fully aware that my vocation would not exist without it and I even dare to say that life does not exist without conflict, whether inner and outer. But conflict becomes a danger when we do not know how to handle it. Or, as Bart Brandsma states in his publication Inside Polarisation: Peace is not the absence of conflict, it is the way we deal with a series of conflicts in a constructive way. STORYTELLERS' MANIFESTO download pdf Spanish – Catalan – Galician – Basque – Asturian Those of us who dedicate our lives to storytelling are united in sending a message of support and solidarity to the whole of society with respect to the crisis resulting from illness due to the COVID-19 coronavirus. Just like the characters in the best tales, we find ourselves in the middle of a dense forest, with a feeling that the wolf is lurking in the darkness. But we know we are not alone, because someone always appears to help us out of the forest or the wolf's stomach! In this story we all count, and our collective solidarity, effort and care are our spells against the virus and its effects. So the storytellers are asking you to tell, make up, read and listen to stories, anecdotes or happenings in order to cheat time, in order to take a trip without leaving home, in order to smile or tremble through the most incredible adventures, in order to remember the elderly and all the stories they have told us, in order to recognise ourselves in joy, pain or fear, in order to let the world spin for a moment in which nothing matters except being together at that very moment. For our part, we will continue to make up and tell stories in our homes and through social media. We do not yet know the end of this story, or whether we will all live happily ever after, but what we do know is that the fear we are feeling is shared and does not make us less brave, but makes us more human and fragile. Just like the characters in the best tales, some day, when all this is over, we will have been transformed, and we will have new stories to tell. Because storytelling is a balsam for days of confinement with thousands of years of proven effectiveness behind it and which once again must bring humanity together around the fire, until the night is through. This manifesto was written in March 2020 by representatives of all the storytelling associations in Spain: AEDA, Spanish Professional Oral Tradition Association – ANIN, Storytelling Association (Catalonia) – GNOA, Andalusian Oral Tradition Guild – MANO, Madrid Oral Tradition Association – NANO, Storytellers' Organisation (Community of Valencia) – NOGA, Galician Oral Tradition Collective – TAGORAL, Canaries Association of the Oral Tradition. AEDA RENOUNCES TO CONTINUE BEING A MEMBER OF FEST (Federation of European Storytelling). AEDA is an entity that has always shown its support and interest in the project of an European federation of storytelling. Since FEST beginnings, we have considered AEDA part of the federation and we have contributed and collaborated in different areas. Nevertheless, we have been noticing that the FEST organization and its internal functioning are not in accordance with the principles that we understand belong to an entity like this in matters like the internal administration or the transmission of information to all its members. That is why we renounce to continue being a member of FEST. We are sorry to have made such a drastic decision, but we trust that in a not too distant future the situation can revert. AEDA STATEMENT Inuit Journey European Storytelling Places. Starting point for crafting a european storytelling map AEDA APP DECALOGUE. STORYTELLING CONDITIONS ABOUT STORYTELLER TRAINING ©2021 AEDA \| Web design: Joby Pérez	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0038.json.gz/line3492
__label__cc	0.647099	0.352901	Find Nonprofit Jobs Advocacy / Lobbying (3) Apply Advocacy / Lobbying filter Program / Project Management (3) Apply Program / Project Management filter Membership Programs (1) Apply Membership Programs filter Research & Public Policy Analysis (1) Apply Research & Public Policy Analysis filter Technology / Data Management (1) Apply Technology / Data Management filter Full-time (3) Apply Full-time filter Notification interval * - Select -DailyWeekly Save N COMMUNITY ORGANIZER / IMMIGRANT JUSTICE New Virginia Majority Full-timeQuickApply3 weeks ago Deputy Organizing Director Nonprofit Job Board Director of Federal Policy Chiefs for Change To Apply: Please submit your resume and a cover letter to [email protected]. As we are a small team, we are not able to directly respond to each inquiry. We will reach out directly to those candidates that we select to move forward in the interview process. We believe diversity is a source of strength and welcome applicants of all races, religions, genders, sexual orientations, ethnic and cultural backgrounds. Chiefs for Change (CFC) is a nonprofit, bipartisan network of diverse state and district education chiefs. With approximately 35 members, our work is focused on advocacy, leadership development, and member supports. We are positioned to rapidly spread bold policies and practices as we have: National reach: Our members lead education systems with more than 7 million students, 435,000 teachers, and 14,000 schools. Diverse contexts: Our network is diverse in terms of race, gender, political affiliation, and geography. A model for disseminating promising ideas: We work with our members, excellent technical assistance providers, and top-tier research institutions to scale innovative approaches designed to improve student learning. 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__label__cc	0.675521	0.324479	Do You Know Events History Legend Rewind Personalities 13 August : The story of ‘Stainless steel’ Stainless steel was produced for the first time today in 1913. Credit goes to English metallurgist Harry Brearley. He discovered that adding chromium to molten iron produced a metal that did not rust. This gave new life to the steel industry. The efforts behind the discovery : Basic problem encountered by an arms manufacturer was erosion of internal diameter of rifle barrels. This was due to heating and discharge gases. When Brearley was told about this he started looking for a steel better resistance to erosion than corrosion. After a series of experiments, he finally found the way out. Using first the crucible process, and then more successfully an electric furnace, a number of different melts of 6 to 15% chromium with varying carbon contents were made. The first true stainless steel was finally melted. It contained 0.24% carbon and 12.8% chromium. At that time, the steel was called ‘rustless steel’. Later, a local cutlery manufacturer Ernest Stuart gave the name ‘stainless steel’. 1913 में आज ब्रिटिश धातु विज्ञानी Harry Brearley ने पहली बार stainless steel को बनाया था. उस समय इस खास मिश्रित धातु यानी alloy को “rustless steel” यानी ज़ंग ना लगने वाले steel के नाम से जाना जाता था. बाद में इसे stainless Steel कहने का सुझाव उस समय के एक local cutlery manufacturer, Ernest Stuart ने दिया था. TagsHarry Brearley • metallurgy • rustless steel • stainless steel	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0038.json.gz/line3501
__label__cc	0.576053	0.423947	Nervana From the Middle East to the British Isles Egypt’s weekly diary Short Comments ← Egyptian Aak 2016 – Week 34 ( Aug 22-29) Egyptian Aak 2016 – Week 35 ( Aug 29 – Sept 4) → Essentializing Islam will not stop Islamophobia Posted on September 4, 2016 by nervana111 ( A woman wearing Niqab in France- Via AFP) The cynical glee with which the Western media publicly flaunts — and generalizes — the practice of Islamic customs has become a disturbing pattern. The Hijab, Nigab, and Burkini have now become synonymous with Muslims, a perception that not just narrows the much more diverse reality of Muslims in Western countries, but reinforces a dangerous perception that all Muslims are a homogenous community; that they are all conservative; that all of them are Hijabi, Niqabi, or pro-Burkini. Such media misrepresentation is a dangerous farce that will only encourage Islamophobia, not defeat it, in non-Muslim societies. The toxic debate about the Burkini ban on some French beaches was painful to watch — a zero-sum narrative on an empty stage that served only to deepen the divide between supporters and opponents of the ban. Meanwhile, as the simmering outrage over France’s Burkini ban continues, history has been made in Denmark, where two female imams, including a non-Hijabi Danish woman, Sherin Khankan, led Friday prayers for the first time recently. This news from Denmark, however, has not attracted much attention, compared to the global fury unleashed by France’s Burkini ban, which the country’s highest administrative court subsequently suspended. In America, Ibtihaj Muhammad, a Muslim woman from New Jersey, won a bronze Olympic medal in fencing. Ibtihaj was not the only Muslim woman to win an Olympic medal. Another black Muslim American woman, Dalilah Muhammad, won the gold medal in the women’s 400 m hurdles, albeit with a rather muted celebration of her achievement. Ibitihaj’s achievement was celebrated roundly, and hailed by politicians and commentators globally, not only for the sporting honors she gained for her country, but also because she became the first American to compete in the Olympics wearing an Islamic headscarf (Hijab). Dalilah Muhammad’s gold medal was another superb achievement from a black Muslim woman. However, the media — and some members of the public at large — did not consider her achievement, as newsworthy as that of her Olympic colleague because she is a non-Hijabi woman. Another sportswoman, Egyptian Doaa Elghobashi, made more headlines than Egypt’s synchronized swimming team by wearing a Hijab during the Olympic beach volleyball contest, while most of the other girls on the team are also Muslims. One cannot help notice how Muslims have become the frontline for public scrutiny in a subtle, albeit intense fight in an increasingly divided Western world. A closer look at the political landscape in Europe and America makes it easy to spot two major opposite camps: the red and the blue camps. While the red one is raising the alarm about radical Islam and the lack of integration within some in Muslim communities, the blue camp plays the cool progressive by courting conservative Islamist Muslims and portraying them as mainstream Islam. Within this battle, there are other skirmishes: there’s the one mentioned above to ban Burkinis on some French beaches and another to ban the Niqab in a part of Switzerland. And while Olympic bronze medals in general are now a thing of the past, people are still talking about the Hijabi bronze. Muslims’ attitudes towards divisive trends have also been disturbing. In fact, Muslims are divided between those who immediately adopt a reflexive defensive attitude in justifying practices such as wearing the Niqab, even if they do not agree with it on a personal level. On the other hand, other Muslims quietly agree with the bans on the Niqab and Burkini, but refrain from saying it loudly for fear of looking as if they are betraying their community. As a result, slowly, but surely, Islam has been essentialized into a religion that is at best benignly conservative, and at worse, rigidly radical. Both the red and blue camp are using the Hijab, Niqab, and Burkini as weapons in their battles, enforcing consciously or sub-consciously the narrative of political Islam, which wrongly portrays itself as the most authentic model of Islam. Yes, the ban on the Burkini has been suspended, but it has left behind an unhealed and divided landscape. That is neither healthy for the Western world nor for the Muslim communities in the West. In fact, it is profoundly disturbing. It is indeed great to see Hijabi Muslim women celebrated for their achievements, and Burkini-wearing Muslims defended against an unjust ban, but we should also accept the right of others, including many Muslims, to voice disdain about the Niqab or Burkini. Freedom of expression goes both ways. Expecting that conservative Islam will be loved and embraced by all native Europeans is simply naïve; forcing respect for regressive Islamic patterns on traditional Western communities can be perceived as provocative. Moreover, while defending freedom, it is crucial not to be an advocate of illiberal multiculturalism, in which Islamist Muslims can demand respect and understanding for their conservative, often illiberal attitudes, while non-Muslims’ illiberalism is damned as sick and unacceptable. It is infantilizing and reductive to portray Muslims as a collective bunch of victims who need more protection and less scrutiny. The notion that Islam is exceptional, and not necessarily liberal, has gained a sympathetic ear from the same people who were outraged at France for its illiberal ban on the Burkini. This hypocritical notion is not just untrue, it will ignite more resentment and anger among many non-Muslims. The Western world needs a centrist approach to its Muslim communities that acknowledges and highlights their diversity, maintains the rights of conservative Muslims, and addresses the fears (even irrational ones) of local communities. The best way to fight Islamophobia is to show sympathy for local anxieties, celebrate and support Islamic diversity, and encourage liberal Muslims’ voices. Reductive emotional outrage, however, will never be part of the solution. About nervana111 Doctor, blogger and Commentator on Middle East issues. The only practising doctor who write in Middle Eastern politics in UK. View all posts by nervana111 → This entry was posted in Islam, Middle East, Politics, women rights and tagged Burkini, Egypt, France, Hijab, Islam, Islamism, Islamophobia, Niqab. Bookmark the permalink. 21 Responses to Essentializing Islam will not stop Islamophobia Islam is exceptional among world religions, just as you are exceptional among Muslims. That’s just reality. Refusal to accept that reality does not make you liberal; it makes you delusional. nervana111 says: Why the “you”? It is not me who advocated Islam exceptionalism, I am totally against it that is why I wrote this piece! What I mean is this: There are so few liberal Muslims like you, thus you are exceptional, and by “exceptional” I mean both in the essential and numerical senses. Just as you are different — and thus, exceptional — from the vast majority of Muslims, so too is Islam different — and thus, exceptional — from other world religions. The fact is, Islam is structurally resistant to change. It’s not as if we hadn’t given it enough time to modernise. It’s been at least two centuries since it was exposed to the Enlightenment and yet here we are, in 2016, still wrangling over the veil (http://www.cambridge.org/us/academic/subjects/history/history-ideas-and-intellectual-history/arabic-thought-liberal-age-17981939). Needless to say, I do not like it, either. But that does not give me the right to ignore the reality that with regard to virtually everything there is, the conservative Muslim position is the mainstream position throughout history. The veil, for instance, has never been disputed with regard to its obligation until late modernity. And that, whether we like it or not — and I really, really do not like it — is just fact. With respect, i completely disagree. There millions of Iranian women who resist veil on daily basis. The veil was not accepted for the first 70 years of the 20th century. I have photos of Azhar scholars with their wives not wearing veils, despite there was no formal ban of veil in Egypt ( unlike Turkey). It is not that simple. You are believing the Islamist propaganda. In the piece, I cited 3 major examples from Denmark, America and Egypt, of liberal Muslims, but you clearly opt to ignore them! I fail to see how that invalidates my point. You are aware that late modernity began in the mid-18th century, right? In any case, one century of resistance proves my point about exceptionalism: the other thirteen centuries = rule. You insist that I am exceptional while ignoring other glaring examples. Then you link resistance with exceptionalism as if they are synonymous. they are NOT. It is oversimplification. You are acting as a propaganda machine to both radicals and Islamophobe, enjoy.. Goodness gracious, when did I do that? Add all those “glaring examples” together and still, all of you make only a tiny minority compared with the hundreds of millions of Muslim women who wear the veil. Resistance IS exceptionalism. Black Lives Matter, for instance, IS exceptional because the rule is they don’t matter. GET IT YET? I will not dignify that nonsense with a response. You responded to my piece and I published yours. ” Get it Yet” is really hilariously sad.. Well, that’s funny. I teach a class of two hundred college students, and I’ll be sure to use this exchange of ours in my very next lecture. It’s always fun to have a real life morality tale at hand, especially when you’re teaching Islamic studies. Have a lovely day! I feel sorry for your “200” students. Enjoy telling them about your exchange with this inferior dumb Muslim who failed to “get your supreme divine views” and prepare an exceptional song to sing on how blurring the difference between exceptional and resistance is so sexy these days.. Why tell when you can show? Page saved. 🙂 yaamatullah says: Isn’t referring to a Muslim woman as a non-Hijabi doing exactly what you’re preaching against? Off course, highlighting the difference against a wave of media bias is not the same. Don Weingarten says: Missing from your account of the accomplishment of hijab wearing Ibtihaj Muhammad is that she used her time in the spotlight to display her anti American, anti Israel and anti Jewish prejudices. This was her choice, not the choice of news reporters. On the other hand,the view of Islam as monolithic is propagated most in the US by defenders such as Kerry, who apparently knows exactly zero about Muslim jurisprudence, and informs us that Islam is a religion of peace with which ISIS has no connection. If anyone were to mention to him ISIS roots in Hanibali tradition he clearly would have no idea what is being said. I have boundless respect for you Nervana. But in my opinion this article of yours leaves out much. Many thanks Don for your comment. I think you are missing the context of this article, which is about media coverage, not individual opinions. The choice of reporters, in my views, is to link an achievement in sports with hijab, as if covering hair can make someone a better player or a unique player. That is my point. As for kerry, I completely agree. Pingback: Essentializing Islam will not stop Islamophobia \| Nervana \| Ned Hamson's Second Line View of the News nedhamson says: Reblogged this on Ned Hamson's Second Line View of the News and commented: Amir Atiya says: Excellent article. 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__label__wiki	0.793143	0.793143	[Review] WWII Nailbiter SHADOW IN THE CLOUDS Has Its Own Gremlins Gumming Up The Works Posted by Jonathan Dehaan \| Jan 1, 2021 \| Reviews \| The gremlin-infested WWII thriller Shadow in The Clouds kicks the new year into high gear with a harrowing, oo-rah thrill ride from 20,000 feet. It’s a movie that, first and foremost, has a great monster (a really great monster!) but also a MacGuffin that feels a little out of place in the story. Almost at war with itself, the monster and a mysterious but all-important satchel fight each other for screen time without ever finding a proper balance. Both stories are suspenseful and adrenaline-injected but demand more attention then they’re afforded. Directed by Roseanne Liang, from a screenplay by herself and Max Landis (Chronicle), Shadow in The Clouds stars Chloë Grace Moretz (Carrie, 2013), Nick Robinson, Beulah Koale, Taylor John Smith, Callan Mulvey, Benedict Wall, Joe Witkowski, and Byron Coll. “….a harrowing, oo-rah thrill ride from 20,000 feet.” It’s the late 1940s. The entire world is at war and in the midst of all that chaos, Captain Maude Garrett (Moretz) boards a bomber plane with nothing but a small satchel and Top Secret orders to protect the contents of the case at all costs. To say that the all-male crew isn’t too happy about taking on a female passenger just seconds before take-off is an understatement. They talk down to her, force her into a tiny, freezing gunner seat in the belly of the plane, and harass her over the radio at every opportunity. So it should come as no surprise that no one believes Captain Garrett when she reports seeing a monster on the wing of the plane. Nearly half of the film takes place inside Captain Garrett’s claustrophobic gunner seat and it’s a real shame when we leave because there is a lot of great tension and story building in those early sections of the film, like a single setting radio play. There is a limit to the action you can have in such a small space but action is exactly what you get when she is forced to trade one incredibly dangerous position for another. Sadly, it’s all layed out in front of you like a recipe full of unbalanced ingredients. The gremlin-fight portion of the film and the mysterious, top-secret package portion of the film smash against each other like oil & water. They’re both thrown together and shaken thoroughly but they never really blend. Instead, over time they separate and become two elements of the same story that oppose each other, never fully blending. The monster mayhem of Shadow in The Clouds is what’s getting butts in the seats, but that really isn’t what this movie is about. Granted, any monster activity is better than no monster activity even if it does take a bit of a backseat now and then to deal with “the real story” now and then. Which is always a surprise, but sadly never a shock. It’s rare to see a monster movie that’s just about a monster, or a ghost movie that isn’t also about grief, or a slasher movie that isn’t about [insert popular sociological gripe]. When Shadow in The Clouds drops everything it holds precious to roll up its sleeves and fight, it’s firing on all cylinders. It’s even got an incredible synthwave score for you to fist pump with while Moretz kicks the everliving shit out of some gremlins! Despite its distracted focus to inject more mayhem into its mystery, or to add a layer of humanity to its monster moments, it’s a nailbiter that knows how to throw a punch. “…a nailbiter that knows how to throw a punch.” Roseanne Liang’s Shadow in The Clouds, released by Vertical Entertainment and Redbox Entertainment, hits select theatres & VOD January 1, 2021. Let us know what you thought of the harrowing WWII thriller over on Twitter, Reddit, Facebook, and in the official Nightmare on Film Street Discord. Not a social. media fan? Get more horror delivered straight to your inbox by joining the Neighbourhood Watch Newsletter. Review: SHADOW IN THE CLOUDS (2021) TLDR When Shadow in The Clouds drops everything it holds precious to roll up its sleeves and fight, it's firing on all cylinders. It's even got an incredible synthwave score for you to fist pump with while Moretz kicks the everliving shit out of some gremlins! Despite its distracted focus to inject more mayhem into its mystery, or to add a layer of humanity to its monster moments, it's a nailbiter that knows how to throw a punch. Action Sequences Jonathan Dehaan Jonathan is Co-Host and Co-Creator of Nightmare on Film Street. He's also a coffee grinding, craft beer drinking, bearded lady in disguise. His favorite horror movies are Evil Dead 2, The Thing, & Videodrome.	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0038.json.gz/line3506
__label__wiki	0.506833	0.506833	Buy on Manga Store English: The Quintessential Quintuplets Synonyms: Gotoubun no Hanayome, The Five Wedded Brides Japanese: 五等分の花嫁 Volumes: 14 Published: Aug 9, 2017 to Feb 19, 2020 Genres: ComedyComedy, RomanceRomance, SchoolSchool, ShounenShounen, HaremHarem Authors: Haruba, Negi (Story & Art) Serialization: Shounen Magazine (Weekly) Score: 7.951 (scored by 4516745,167 users) Ranked: #7902 Popularity: #80 Favorites: 6,189 Ranked #790Popularity #80Members 83,010 MangaShounen Magazine (Weekly)Haruba, Negi (Story & Art) Volumes: /14 Chapters: /122 Available on Manga Store Considered a genius, high schooler Fuutarou Uesugi excels at studying and obtains a perfect score on every test. Due to his intense focus on that regard, he is a reclusive person with no friends. Additionally, he lives in a tight financial state as a result of family debts. Fuutarou's mundane lifestyle is interrupted when Itsuki Nakano, a new transfer student, contests him for his usual lunch seat. After a short altercation, Fuutarou emerges victorious by insulting Itsuki's eating habits, which angers her enough to leave. However, when Fuutarou learns that he has been offered the private tutor position of a wealthy family's academically hopeless daughters, he immediately regrets his prior encounter. It turns out that the beneficiaries of his tutoring are none other than Itsuki and her four identical siblings: the shy Miku, the cheerful Yotsuba, the devious Nino, and the mature Ichika! Teaching these quintuplets may prove more difficult for Fuutarou than he initially expected, as the last thing they want to do is seriously study. Now, Fuutarou must face the various challenges of tutoring five beautiful yet eccentric girls. [Written by MAL Rewrite] 5-toubun no Hanayome has been published in English as The Quintessential Quintuplets by Kodansha Comic USA since June 26, 2018. Preview Manga Adaptation: 5-toubun no Hanayome, 5-toubun no Hanayome ∬ Nakano, Itsuki Nakano, Miku Nakano, Nino Nakano, Yotsuba Nakano, Ichika Uesugi, Fuutarou Uesugi, Raiha Uesugi, Isanari Nakano, Maruo 122 of 122 chapters read Pipe (All reviews) 207 people found this review helpful Overall 5 Enjoyment 0 I'm living a deja-vu, another great manga with a controversial ending. A conclusion that has several mixed feelings. The ending lacks the charisma and emotion of the entire series. 5-toubun no Hanayome and the 4 broken hearts. 1- I want to get married and the twilight zone where dreams can give us the wrong impression. First, I want to clarify this; we could have a manga with the "What if" ending. Some will complain and try to indicate that it is not valid. However, Negi said it in an interview where he points that he wants to write an ending that would make everyone happy, and we need to accept the reality, this is a total disaster. Following that order of ideas, I think that we are mistaken, and we are right, Negi made a colossal mistake, yes. He buried the work of 85 - 90 chapters. Negi had a good idea, yes. However, he didn't conclude it in a good way. We have the right to criticize an ending that feels rushed, incomplete, and that's what I am going to do in this creepy review. Let's begin with art and panel dynamics. It is outstanding. Overall, the mangaka delivered a beautiful and clean manga with excellent character design, a well-developed environment that flows correctly from panel to panel. Ironically as it seems, the art, in the end, is wasted because the author could not explain his decisions in a controversial story where the status quo was affected. The nonsense and the pressure to finish the story as soon as possible buried it in a hole. The last arc is misplaced and unconcluded. On the other hand, the story was terrific. I want to underline the word was. We have a group of five sisters (Quintuplets to be precise) that could have particular love interest or feelings towards their tutor, a student from the same school, the annoying and insolent, Fuutarou Usegi. The question that all the readers have in mind was who will end with Usegi? As the story progresses, each character showed a magnificent development. However, one of them froze in an endless loop that kept memories of the past and avoided any desire for the sake of her sisters. That character decided to be a shadow, and it was a shadow to the point that some readers thought it was close to a supporting role. That's where the real problem begins. This character never showed a significant development, and in the end, Negi, the author, could not give an adequate conclusion creating an inexplicable incoherent plot. If we compare the background that the author provides for the rest of the cast, this character never grew. Furthermore, this shadow eclipsed the whole story without any proper explanation and ended as the most central character in the story. Does a kiss entitle you to destroy the entire background of the rest of the characters? The answer is a big NO. Where does the fight end, the desire that all the other "quints" showed throughout the story until the end? Albeit this nonsense, the author tried to twist the plot, and he added an ending that plays with the readers and mocks with them with a big question mark "What happens if" Usegi ends with this sister? Everything could be accepted because it was a mere illusion. From my perspective, it's a horrible joke. Negi is playing with the reader's feelings. Furthermore, if the author has a preference for a particular "quint," then he shouldn't write a useless ending as he did. He should give the audience the tools to understand his decisions. Still, in this particular case, he couldn't even explain those insignificant reasons leaving the fans with a weird look in their face wondering if all was a silly joke. Also, the ending impales the heart of the other sisters. If I were in their shoes, I wouldn't be planning the honeymoon trip, and I will be upset at my home. Lastly, I am sad. I was not a fan of any quint, I could accept any of them, but this conclusion is a mere joke that affects the background of all the characters. Usegi, cold, calculator, the guy that never showed big emotions, appeared in the last chapters as Romeo saying, "will you marry me?" Are you kidding me? Are the other quints not going to fight for their beloved? We are more complicated than what was shown in the end. Changing the subject, this could explain why an average studio is the one adapting the second season. It is understandable that a good studio with vast experience avoids encouraging a conclusion that will have some disapproval and mixed feelings. This was something that was not a top-secret within the animators and the VA circle. The decision was made a few months ago when the spooky ending began to be published, why do you think Azur Lane episodes were delayed to improve quality? permalink \| report Rirakkusu (All reviews) Calling Gotoubun a finished manga is like calling Fuutarou’s lunch a proper meal. It isn’t. It needed at least two more volumes to be finished, and much more to be entertaining. Once held in the highest regard as a romance/harem manga, its journey was cut short, and with it comes a bitter taste—a taste of overwhelming amounts of salt. From screaming fans nonetheless. It flopped because Negi tried too hard subverting tropes. The ending shouts "haha she won you never saw it coming did ya" when in reality it lacked any substance. I started reading the manga when the first season aired, it was like 70 to 80 chapters long. And was a strong 7 to 8 for a while, until seeing the last 25 to 30 chapters. It went from something interesting and unique into something like any other. The last festival arcs were especially dreadful, carrying a huge tonal shift that felt abrupt and out of place. But out of the five, Itsuki no doubt got the worst end of the stick. She was thrown into a corner until Negi was like "shit totally forgot about her" in the last arc. The biological dad, which had no impact in the story until then, felt like a convenient plot tool. It ended with melodrama trash, which was a distaste. The sharp writing was nowhere to be seen from then on. With that, let's talk about the other four. Ichika, she had no chance after the school trip, but at least an interesting character. I cheered for her all the way, and I would say I am satisfied with how she ended up. Definitely has the best resolve out of the four. Nino, the confession scene was great, her blunt nature while still loving her sisters goes the same. Though by far with the most development under her belt, her change of heart can be seen as quite shallow. For reasons I can't mention because of spoilers. Miku, the most generic. She later became Nino's ally and brought the two biggest ships together. Hot take, but she ended up being a more boring Nino. Nothing much to say. And finally Yotsuba. Her story ended five years ago. The beginning teased about something great happening in the past but did not deliver. She has no resolve, and nothing of her felt finished once all the trouble was over. Worst character out of the five. The art was good, Negi clearly got better the course of these two years as well. But nothing could make up for this mess of an ending. There are times when you regret what you choose, and I regret being invested in Gotoubun. I remember the last time I became this disappointed in a series was when I finished watching Charlotte. Gotoubun lacked an explanation, and Negi's tricks to balance the chances of the five meant the story lack direction, there will certainly be outrage no matter who won with how it closed out. It wasn't like any other harem, but it certainly ended like one. Rylston (All reviews) 58 people found this review helpful "Devoting time... Getting to know their behaviours, voices, unconscious habits, would you not say that is love?" -Quintuplets' Grandfather This has been a ride. Gotoubun no Hanayome, a.k.a The Quintessential Quintuplets, has and is an truly unique take on the harem romance genre. Does it revolutionise the harem genre? Probably not, but it sure does bring some breath of fresh air into this stacked genre. The very first chapter I've read this manga, I knew it was going to be something, and with this review, I'll tell you my thoughts as to why, I think this is a manga series that YOU, should not pass out on, albeit with a small caveat that I'll talk about in the finishing thoughts. Story / Character -9- The absolute reason why Gotoubun no Hanayome is this fantastic. Full of turns and twist, the story revolve around our male protagonist, Fuutarou tutoring the newly acquainted quintuplets, and as the story goes on, each quint starts to fall in love with Fuutarou. Unlike most harem, we have been told in the very start that the MC will choose one quint as the bride, and us readers are to figure out the identity of the bride. And the fun part of the story? Each quint is so well developed that you will find yourself scratching your head, constantly figuring out who might she be, and with the subtle hints Haruba Negi brilliantly put around the story as the icing on top of the cake. As for the characters, they're also what contributes to such a dynamic story. Fuutarou, whom seems dense, actually picks up on things considerably well, he pays attention to the smallest details even though he doesn't show them, pours his heart out to help out the quints even though it may mean that his grades will worsen. Now to the quints, Ichika, the eldest sister is your 'Ara Ara' nee-san who constantly teases Fuutarou, which often times brings us the most interactive and engaging conversations. Nino, your classic yet unique tsundere, she is bold, she is always in your face, whatever she wants she will go out her way and get it. Miku, she's shy, she's subtle, she's also one of the best. The silent killer, she doesn't do much on the outside, but she puts all her efforts in the background that makes you uncontrollably cherish her hard work. Yotsuba, your 'Genki' outgoing girl, all she wants is everyone to be happy, and that includes you too, her action throughout the manga can never fail to make you 'aww'. Itsuki, the youngest sister, but she acts as though she is the most mature, and she is! As one who looks to become a teacher in the future, she does pour in extra effort to ensure she becomes one. Art - 9.5- Haruba Negi’s art is nothing less than phenomenal, and in Gotoubun, it very much shows. Each quint is drawn distinctly beautiful with an unique accessory to help us readers identify them. All characters look clean, the flow of the panels are well drawn out and are very easy to your eyes. Nothing much to say about the art honestly, the work proves itself. I’ve given the series a 8.5/10 as a whole, and most of the points come from the start of the manga till the very end of it, which is the last arc. (Mild spoilers ahead so do beware) The choosing of the quint and basically the entire arc felt very lackluster, as compared to the previous arcs. Where the previous arcs thoroughly developed all quints equally, this arc essentially destroyed the development and foundation of each quint to give way for the winner. What does that mean in one word? Rushed. The ending was inevitably rushed, despite the fact that the last 100 chapters were so well done I would’ve rated it a perfect 10/10 score, the ending arc was a hit in the gut. Not to mention the very last chapter of the series as well, nothing in the chapter was coherent, the ideas were painfully obvious that it was all over the place. Had this series been given another volume, it could’ve gone down as IMO the best harem series of all time, but as the fact stays, this ending is nothing but disappointing. For someone who has literally followed the series from the very beginning, it has been one hell of a ride. Every week I would look forward to the release of the new chapter and keep thinking of different theories on who would be the winner, discussing it with friends and stuff. This manga had me so invested into the series that I could feel in on a personal level, and I’m sure many will feel that way when reading this manga, and that unfortunately will also mean that many will too, be disappointed in the series when it comes to the ending. Here comes the question, do I recommend this for people looking to read a Harem/ Romance manga? By all means yes, the development of this story for the grand scheme of things has been fantastic, terrific even. I do want to emphasize that, despite the lackluster ending, the reason I still think it's worthy of a 8.5/10 is because a few bad chapters does not and should not overshadow the great work that is the majority of the manga. It has been such a great read, and I will wholeheartedly recommend this series to anyone looking for a good manga to watch. the9thone (All reviews) Well, I didn't cry to this one like I have in the past. This manga had an amazing story. It put a unique twist on a "harem" story. Some arcs were pretty boring having to show every main character's prospective, but that doesn't really take away from the story. The ending though was kinda off putting. I wasn't really sure what had actually happened. I still loved this manga and feel like reading it from start to end again. Everything about this was amazing, however I found another manga with the same concept where the MC is a tutor to a group of girls. I accept this manga and its ending. It could have been longer and maybe a bit different. I would highly recommend this to anyone who is looking for a funny love story. 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__label__wiki	0.509657	0.509657	Divine Ndhlukula Biography - Age, Husband, Family, Children, Networth \| MyBioHub February / General / Zimbabwe Divine Ndhlukula Biography – Age, Husband, Family, Children, Networth Dr Divine Ndhlukula is a Zimbabwean businesswoman, founder and Managing Director of DDNS Security Operations (Pvt) Ltd which is the holding company for Securio Security Services. She was married to Stanely Ndhlukula (late) and has one son – David Simbi and two grandchildren. She was born on February 5, 1960 in rural Gutu to Mary and Piniel Simbi. She grew up in Gutu, and had her Secondary education at Makumbe Mission. She holds an Executive Masters in Business Administration (MBA) at Midlands State University and another MBA from Women’s University in Africa and a PhD in Business Leadership from the Women’s University which was conferred in recognition of her business leadership and gender equality initiatives. Divine worked for Zimbabwe Broadcasting Corporation and Old Mutual for six years as an Accounting Officer and then joined Intermarket Life Assurance as a Marketing Executive where she worked for 16 years. In 1998, she founded a security company Securico, the first Zimbabwean manned security company to be certified to the internationally acclaimed ISO9001:2008 Quality Management System. READ: Natasha Ndlovu Biography She has received various awards and accolades. Dr Divine Ndhlukula was named one of the Most Successful Women in Africa by Forbes. She also founded Zvikomborero Farms, an agricultural company involved in a variety of farming activities. In 2011, she won the National Quality Awards Company of the Year. In 2016, she was given the Zimbabwe Northern Region Leadership Excellence Awards Private Sector. She has headed various organizations and parastatals like Security Association Zimbabwe, Chamber of Mines where she served as a Chairperson, Zimbabwe National Chamber of Commerce (ZNCC), Professional Executives & Businesswomen Forum (PROWEB) and a host others. TaggedYear1960s Destiny Chanel Biography Temitope Solaja Biography – Age, Movies, Instagram Anouk Samuel Biography – Age, Wiki Previous Article Deola Sagoe Biography – Age, Collections, Websites, Fashion School, Dresses Next Article Adenike Oyetunde Biography – Age, OAP, Story, Nigeria Info, Instagram	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0038.json.gz/line3510
__label__cc	0.669568	0.330432	Album Review – Rhonda Vincent and The Rage – ‘Ragin’ Live’ Leave a comment Posted by Jonathan Pappalardo on July 25, 2012 Recorded at the Sheldon Concert Hall in St. Louis, MO, Ragin’ Live marks Rhonda Vincent’s first live album and first time she’s used her band The Rage on a recording. Released in the spring of 2005, it’s a “greatest hits” album of sorts as she and the band run down their most popular tunes with a palpable fiery energy and immaculate musicianship that comes from performing in front of a crowd. The set opens with an introduction by Hank Janney, a Bluegrass DJ from Gettysburg, PA before the band rips into a spirited version of “Kentucky Borderline.” Excellent cover tunes follow, such as “Drivin’ Nails In My Coffin,” and their versions of Dolly Parton’s “Jolene,” Jimmie Rogers’ “Muleskinner Blues,” Flatt and Scruggs “So Happy I’ll Be,” and Bobby Osborne’s “Bluegrass Express.” Each bring something new to the respective tune and because of their consistently high quality, it’s difficult to pick a favorite. As with her studio recordings, Vincent (and this time the band) shines brightest on the up-tempo material. Lyrical tunes such as “One Step Ahead of the Blues” and “Martha White Theme” are great, but the full breathe of their prowess as a band is best displayed on the incredible instrumental tracks. Hunter Berry’s fantastic fiddle lick at the start of the old-time country “Me Too” gives way to a fabulous mix of fiddle, mandolin and dobro while “Road Rage” makes excellent use of Kenny Ingram’s superb abilities with the banjo. “Son Drop In” is another fine showcase of Barry’s fiddling, and “Frankie Bell” makes sufficient use of Vincent’s other talent as a first rate mandolin picker. I always felt the decision to pack the seat full of high-energy numbers works well because it gives the recording a sunny and upbeat disposition even if the lyrical content is decidedly somber. The record beams with the band’s enjoyment of playing and singing together and that combination bring a welcomed relaxation to the proceedings. But it also works in favor of the slower numbers, which stand out against the rip-roaring backdrop. It’s been well documented that Vincent is one of the greatest country and bluegrass vocalists to ever live, and she shows that here. The mournful “You Can’t Take It With You When You Go” is even more pensive in a live setting as it was on One Step Ahead while “Ghost of a Chance” may be Vincent’s most chilling vocal to date. Equally stunning is “Last Best Place,” the quieter of the concert’s two spiritual numbers and an irresistible concoction of Barry’s fiddle behind Vincent’s vocal. My favorite, though, are two of the album’s standout moments. “Missouri Moon,” an original tune from One Step Ahead, is a beautiful love gone wrong story famed beneath the Missouri Moon that saw it all: There’s a full moon out tonight all the stars are shining bright the same way that they used to do And it reminds me of the night we fell in love Beneath that old Missouri moon Who’d have ever thought we’d end this way As I watch you go the tears are rolling down my face Who’d have ever thought I’d be so blue As I cry beneath that old Missouri moon The other is Carl Jackson’s “Homecoming,” which closes the concert. Framed by the light strumming of acoustic guitar, it perfectly showcases the band’s tight harmonies and brings new meaning to the lyrics of reuniting with family in heaven. It also showcases just how much Vincent’s grown as a vocalist since 1991, when she first recorded the tune on Timeless and True Love. As a whole, Ragin’ Love is as close to a masterpiece as any album, a perfect showcase for Vincent and The Rage. The fullness of their abilities – from wild abandon to beautifully constrain – is on display here in stunning fashion. Sure, the talking bits were rudely edited and translate horribly to CD (they should’ve been isolated in their own tracks) but it doesn’t matter because the exceptional quality of the music is what takes center stage and rightfully so. And that alone makes Ragin’ Live essential listening for anyone who’s a fan of high quality music. Album Reviews, Retro Reviews, Spotlight Artist Bobby Osborne, Carl Jackson, Dolly Parton, Flatt and Scruggs, Hank Janney, Hunter Berry, Jimmie Rodgers, Kenny Ingram, Rhonda Vincent, The Rage ← Classic Rewind: Rhonda Vincent and Gene Watson – ‘It Ain’t Nothin’ New’ Classic Rewind – Rhonda Vincent – ‘At The Corner of Walk and Don’t Walk’ →	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0038.json.gz/line3514
__label__cc	0.733741	0.266259	Ex-Witch: Satanists, Occultists Have Infiltrated the Christian Church 9:00AM EST 11/12/2017 Jessilyn Lancaster Ex-witch Beth Eckert says satanists and occultists have overrun the Christian church, corrupting it on nearly every level. Believers in this day and age have turned a blind eye to sin, she says, and gone against Paul's appeal in Romans 16. "Upon closer examination of these churches, I think anyone can find one fault or another," Eckert says. "There is no one church that is perfect for everyone. Church is an institution of man, and man is full of sin. There is no such thing as a perfect church, just a church that strives its best to follow Jesus Christ and spread the gospel message." But some churches have strayed away from this central message. Watch the video to see if your church is one of them, and what you can do to help reverse course. RELATED TOPICS: Satan \| Supernatural \| witchcraft	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0038.json.gz/line3522
__label__cc	0.695228	0.304772	PAID SEARCH & DISPLAY If At First, You Don't Succeed, Remarket Many people ask “What is remarketing and how can it help my business”. Put simply, remarketing is the practice of showing display ads to someone who has previously visited your website. These ads can be shown on websites, social media, mobile apps, and more. Remarketing when done correctly, can hugely increase the likelihood of converting a website visitor into a customer. Remarketing Techniques The best thing with remarketing campaigns is that you can build numerous remarketing lists for your campaigns and then, show a tailored ad that is more specific to what was viewed on your website. Take an example of an online shop that sells clothing running remarketing campaigns. On the first visit to an online shop, most people will browse then click away. The percentage of people that then buy on subsequent visits increases dramatically and this is where remarketing comes in. You could build remarketing lists for: All visitors that didn’t reach the checkout page Visitors of 3 pages or more Visitors in the last 24 hours, 7 days, 30 days, etc Visitors who left products in their cart Visitors to the kids clothing section Visitors to the women’s shoes section Visitors to the men’s Nike sweatshirt page Each of these lists could then run a remarketing campaign with very specific ads to encourage people back to your website to finish their purchase. These ads could also contain a specific offer or incentive. The more tailored and targeted the ad, the more likely you get another loyal returning customer. This is just one example, remarketing has numerous benefits for your business and should definitely be included as part of any online marketing campaign. You also have the option to create “Similar to” audiences. This is where your reach can be increased to include people whose interests and characteristics are similar to those on your remarketing lists. Remarketing Lists For Search Ads (RLSA) RLSA can be a game-changer for your Google search campaigns. You can basically build up a more detailed picture of the people who are clicking your ads and then modify bids for those lists up or down as appropriate, thus making your campaigns perform better. With RLSA you can target not only people who have visited your website before or similar to lists but also people who fit into what’s called “In-Market” categories. In-Market Audiences Using the power of machine learning, put your search ads in front of people that are in the market to buy. People showing more than just an interest, they are display signals in their online behaviour that shows more research, planning and intent. By applying in-market audiences, you can increase bids when a searcher appears on this list so that you automatically bid more competitively because you know from your historical data, people who are in market are more likely to convert. Using a mix of remarketing and RLSA, we have seen a sizeable increase in campaign performance across the board. RLSA in particular, offers so much insight and value to Google search campaigns, that we roll it out onto everything we do. If you’re already running Google Ads but not taking full advantage of remarketing and RLSA, get in touch with us today and let us help you get more returns without increasing your ad spend. Get in touch for a chat We are happy to chat to businesses small, medium or large about how our services can benefit you. Naturally, it’s no obligation. We can meet at your office, at ours, on the phone or on a video call, whichever you prefer.	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0038.json.gz/line3524
__label__cc	0.743695	0.256305	Priests and the message of Opus Dei Key elements of the spirit of Opus Dei St. Josemaría and Opus Dei: Serving the Church Members and cooperators Requirements and incorporation In the U.S. On the Catholic faith On the priesthood Search Search text... A HELP FOR PRIESTS The Priestly Society of the Holy Cross is an association of clergy intrinsically united to Opus Dei. On 14 February 1943, Saint Josemaria found the solution he was seeking for priests to form part of Opus Dei. Fr. Robert Gendreau: Priestly Society of the Holy Cross Fr. Gendreau is a parish priest in the archdiocese of Montreal and a priest of the Priestly Society of the Holy Cross. He explains the harmonious balance between obedience to his archbishop and the help he receives from Opus Dei in spiritual and doctrinal matters. Finding My Vocation on the Streets of London Cardinal Parolin: "A priest is always another Christ" Slovak Violinist Will Be Ordained On 5 September An African Challenge 5 September 2020: Priestly Ordinations in Rome "For a deacon, serving is like breathing" "I have been saving up for the past five years" Helping Busy People Pray Letters From the Prelate Christmas Greeting from the Prelate (2020) "The Child Jesus calls us to live with a free heart, a heart detached from the goods of this world and able to discern what is truly important." My dear children: may Jesus watch over my daughters and sons for me! This year the celebration of Christmas acquires a special tone because of the world-wide health emergency we are experiencing. Perhaps we may want to bring to Bethlehem a special concern or suffering of ours, in order to place it before the Holy Family. Contemplating the Child Jesus in the crib or in the arms of his Mother ... Letter from the Prelate (22 November 2020) Letter from the Prelate (28 October 2020) Letter from the Prelate (10 September 2020) Letter from the Prelate (12 August 2020) "Sanctity is made up of heroic acts. Therefore, in our work we are asked for the heroism of finishing properly the tasks committed to us, day after day, even though they are the same tasks.” SAINT JOSEMARÍA, Founder of Opus Dei US Conference of Catholic Bishops 3. Get to Know and Love Saint Joseph 5. The Prayer of Praise 6. Letter from the Prelate (28 October 2020) 7. Meditation for Saint Josemaria's Birthday 9. To Know Him and To Know Yourself (XII): Souls of Liturgical Prayer 10. Year of Saint Joseph Begins: "With a Father's Heart"	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0038.json.gz/line3525
__label__cc	0.651925	0.348075	thrill me Harvey William Harvey took out a patent for a Therapeutic Apparatus for Relieving Sexual Frustrations in Women without Sex Partners. It is the object of the present invention to provide a therapeutic apparatus which utilizes a continuously erect, yet resiliently pliable artificial penis for simulated sexual intercourse wherein the penis has both the look and feel of a real male’s penis. It is still a further object of the present invention to provide a therapeutic apparatus which provides a rapid cam-operated thrust at the end of each stroke. It is yet another object of this invention to provide a pad encircling the base of the penis to simulate the look and feel of male pubic hair. Furthermore, any number of positions can be enjoyed with the apparatus of the present invention by using a little imagination and practice. I’m more than a little disturbed at the thought of an encircling pad that simulates pubic hair but I suppose that woud be the least of my worries if I ever came across Willy’s invention. Nowadays the TAforRSFinWWSP has been well and truly superseded by Allen Stein’s ingenious Thrillhammer. “The latest in their luxury line of sex machines features accessories only found in high end recliners. It’s a fashionable 6 foot round sofa with a sex machine hidden covertly in its base. Users of the new machine can enjoy a Shiatsu Massage while being surrounded with music and supplied with instant lubrication though its custom “Wet Platinum Auto Lube-R”. on May 21, 2009 at 8:13 am Comments (36) The URI to TrackBack this entry is: https://nursemyra.wordpress.com/2009/05/21/thrill-me-harvey/trackback/ On May 21, 2009 at 8:31 am inkspot said: So how was it for you? On May 21, 2009 at 8:34 am nursemyra said: I’m still waiting on someone to send me a sample On May 21, 2009 at 8:54 am Daddy Papersurfer said: You’re waiting for someone to send you a sample!!! – oh dear, I can imagine the comments from some people …. On May 21, 2009 at 11:01 am daisyfae said: wishing like hell i’d done my graduatuate research in the field of ‘Teledildonics’. fucking machines… geez… On May 21, 2009 at 11:30 am bearmancartoons said: What is that guy sitting on? On May 21, 2009 at 11:42 am nursemyra said: Physio equipment he stole from the Gimcrack On May 21, 2009 at 12:50 pm Chippy said: Hows about something for us single guys, I’m getting fed up sitting on my right hand for half an hour so it goes numb and feels like somebody elses hand! On May 21, 2009 at 1:03 pm sledpress said: From Russiam the economny version: http://www.exalte.com/for-sex-toy-newbie/metamorphadildo On May 21, 2009 at 1:09 pm nursemyra said: oh dear me….. Sorry about the mistypes, I’m full of allergy drugs. Are they fun drugs? Do they go better with alcohol 😉 No, they don’t. 😦 I made the mistake of drinking something twelve hours after I took the time-release tab, and it was apparently still releasing and I felt like I was on a really undesirable fairground ride. Plus they create terminal desiccation. But my eyes stop burning enough that I can see the screen… On May 21, 2009 at 9:49 pm anaglyph said: Of course, now we have The Tesla… On May 21, 2009 at 10:05 pm nursemyra said: Yes indeed… how could I forget the tesla…. On May 21, 2009 at 10:25 pm 70steen said: I am yet to see that in the DFS (sofa and suite manufacturers in the UK) adverts over here as an added advantage to 4 years interest free when you buy a sofa .. they tend to send out flyers and have really naff adverts) by heck they are missing out on a huge publicity push here ….. It’s heartening to know that man with the nice voice is thinking about me and my furniture choices On May 21, 2009 at 11:37 pm silverstar98121 said: The teakettle scares me. On May 22, 2009 at 4:37 am renalfailure said: I hope the sex sofa is scotch-guarded so that cleaning is a breeze. On May 22, 2009 at 5:59 am fundamentaljelly said: The perfect kettle for teabagging. On May 22, 2009 at 7:33 am duncanr said: [William Harvey took out a patent for a Therapeutic Apparatus for Relieving Sexual Frustrations in Women without Sex Partners.] I thought men invented housework to serve that purpose 😉 cheeky 😉 On May 22, 2009 at 9:47 am cdv1971 said: I wonder if it’s a whistling kettle. On May 22, 2009 at 11:00 am Alex L. said: ‘Users of the new machine can enjoy a Shiatsu Massage while being surrounded with music and supplied with instant lubrication though its custom “Wet Platinum Auto Lube-R”.’ Jeez, finally! On May 22, 2009 at 2:57 pm healingmagichands said: that bicycle was a hoot. I just don’t see how you focus on staying upright and pedalling forward. . . I tend to lose my abilities to do anything else when I am fully involved in sex. LOVE the teapot! I can just see my client’s faces while they are making new appointments if that was on my stove. . . Oh I lose that ability too HMH. That’s why I’m not a fan of the 69er….. On May 23, 2009 at 2:24 pm barelyknittogether said: I feel the same. I’ve always said, “When I’m doing that, I just want to be doing it. When I’m having that done – I just want to be having it done.” Lovely, informative post, Nurse Myra. Can’t wait to read more. 😉 On May 23, 2009 at 12:43 am Ram Venkatararam said: Very romantic, A nice ad tag line might be somethin like “with technologiy like the Wet Platinum Auto Lube-R you’re sure to sit up straight and pay attention.” On May 23, 2009 at 4:00 am cbullitt said: Now, instead of my hand, I can be blinded by SCIENCE. Thanks, myra. And I should also add that I thought the idea of science and invention was to improve upon nature. A pad of hair? Really?? Not that I’d want a hairless man, but it seems kind of superfluous in a toy. Yeah, I love a hairy chest but I like my sex toys smooth and easy to clean 😉 I just cut my hair and trimmed my pubes…. will I do? On May 24, 2009 at 5:02 pm Anita Marie said: Wow and here I thought house hold appliances were boring…I am so slow. On May 25, 2009 at 11:27 pm ZIRGAR said: I once converted a log splitter into a sex machine by super gluing a huge dildo to the piston head and a bicycle seat opposite. It and my ex-girlfriend are now living happily together in Costa Rica. Technology, damn you! lol very funny Zirgar. And welcome to the Gimcrack too. On May 26, 2009 at 4:39 pm Fragrant Liar said: I’m having a hard time (heh,heh) seeing myself doing it with a teapot hidden in the couch, especially one that needs to be plugged in. To the electrical socket. In the wall, people! Yeah you certainly don’t need another trip to hospital. And definitely not while attached to a teapot	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0038.json.gz/line3533
__label__cc	0.714009	0.285991	World War I - porcoapush.com World War I Learning Objectives Students will analyze the factors that led to the outbreak of war in Europe. Students will analyze the factors that led to U.S. involvement in World War I. Students will analyze how the war impacted the U.S. home front. I. Causes Nationalism Imperialism Alliance System Assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand by Bosnian nationalists Allied Powers vs. Central Powers France Russia Great Britain Germany AustriaHungary Italy II. American Response Wilson proclaimed neutrality. The U.S. hoped to trade with both sides. By 1916, trade with the Central Powers was near zero. Trade with the Allied powers had increased 400% III. Increasing American Support for the War Impact of German UBoats Sinking of the Lusitania-British passenger ship, 128 Americans died. The ship was also carrying weapons. IV. America Moves Towards War Jan. 31, 1917, Germany announcement February 3 Wilson broke off diplomatic relations Zimmerman Telegram After more American ships were sunk, Wilson declared war. V. The Home Front During WWI Americans were encouraged to buy Liberty Bonds The government began to regulate food consumption. The Espionage Act (1917) The Sedition Act (1918) Opportunities for African Americans During the Great Migration, nearly 600,000 African Americans moved North Chapter 4, Socialization - Cengage Aspect of Narrative Intro to the Anglo-Saxon Period - Long Branch Publ... PROFESSOR AVERIL MANSFIELD Chairman of the Board o... Spill Prevention Control & Countermeasure January N12 - origin.cpc.ncep.noaa.gov Methods of Experimental Particle Physics Alexei Sa... Monday, June 5, 2017 Objective: Final exam informa... Picture Storybooks - NKFUST Picture Storybooks A combination of the art of storytelling and the art of illustration Dr. Chi-Fen Emily Chen National Kaohsiung First University of Science & Technology, Taiwan faculty.wiu.edu Alumni table. REPORTS AND QUERIES. List of students who graduated. List of students currently enrolled & their majors. List of students on hold. List of students who started in the current semester. ... What is a synonym for an attribute?... YOUR HEALTH TRIANGLE - Sault Schools evaluating your results. what is the strongest side of your triangle? what is the weakest side of your triangle? write a few sentences about one thing that you can work on to better yourself. Electric Energy and Circuits Chapter 15 Potential Difference is non-linear (non-ohmic). Do Sample Problem on Page 713. Do Practice Problems on Page 714 #s 21 - 26. Series and Parallel CircuitsSection 15.4. ... It is equal to the devices rate of consumption (J/s or W) multiplied by the... WARM-UP 1. What were the causes of the Abraham Lincoln's wife, Mary Todd Lincoln, was from Lexington, Kentucky. She was one of the best-educated women of her era, and her support, encouragement, and vast political knowledge helped Lincoln become our nation's sixteenth president. ME321 - Kinematics and Dynamics of Machines Design Process Notes ME321 Kinematics and Dynamics of Machines ... Equations Application to Four-Bar Linkages Graphical Solution Velocity Image Vector Component Solution Instant Centres Kennedy's Theorem Kennedy's Theorem Instant Centre Velocity Analysis ME321 Kinematics and Dynamics of Machines Steve Lambert ... CHAPTER 1 STRATEGIC LEADERSHIP: MANAGING THE STRATEGYMAKING PROCESS Strategy implementation and feedback loop. Strategy implementation . Taking action at the functional, business, and corporate levels to execute a strategic plan. Designing the best organization structure, culture, and control systems to put a chosen strategy into action. Feedback loop...	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0038.json.gz/line3540
__label__cc	0.647982	0.352018	Home > Sports News > Pacific MMI PNG Pepes move up world ranking Pacific MMI PNG Pepes move up world ranking Saturday, July 12, 2014 Sports News The Pacific MMI PEPES has moved up to 17th position of the World Netball Rankings which was recently released by the International Netball Federation. The last 18 months have been a good period for the Pepes as they have moved from the 20th position at the beginning of 2013 and moving up 3 rankings in a short time is a great improvement for PNG Netball. At a regional perspective, PNG is in 3rd spot 17th ranking, with Samoa on 2nd spot 13th ranking and Fiji leading at 7th position in world ranking. Cook Islands have dropped to 23rd position on the ranking after losing two matches to PNG at the recent Pacific Netball Series. President of PNG Netball Julianne Leka Maliaki said she was happy with this outcome, although she believed the Team could have been in the top 15 should the team had won a few key games over the last 10 months. However one thing for sure is that the team has come away with experiences and more game knowledge particularly with the new players and the team is aware of the expectations for 2015 and the need to rise up to the occasion. A lot of effort has been put into the last 18 months to restore credibility to our international performance and ranking and our coaching team headed by Annie Iamo and Mona-lisa Leka and international high performance experts have worked hard to achieve these results during this period. PNG Netball is currently revisiting its High Performance Program and the train-on squad is expected to commence training in the month of July in preparations for its international commitments later this year.	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0038.json.gz/line3541
__label__cc	0.699738	0.300262	Duress 12.8 October 28, 2014 12.08wildbow Time to be the monster from the monster movies, I thought. Dozens of practitioners, each and every one capable of binding me, or calling in help. The advantage, conversely, was that they thought I was trapped in the mirror. At least, they did until Johanes elected to share that pertinent detail, or at least until one of the Others or Witch Hunters we’d just dealt with reported in. The advantage of surprise. With luck, the fire would suggest that they had won. With better luck, they’d be misled into thinking they’d won by too much. That someone had made a mistake and now the house burned, threatening to let a demon loose. As I looked back over my shoulder, Hillsglade House was backed by a pitch black sky, the overcast sky blocking out even the moon and the stars. The smoke, the snow on the ground and the clouds nearest the house on the hill were lit up by the orange glow of the two fires. It was hard to ignore. Evan’s underbelly was pale as he relocated to the roof of a nearby house. Green Eyes crawled through the snow, blending into the pale snow. Then there was me. When I resumed walking, the house to my back, the branches of my arms, legs, neck and body all snapped and cracked, more like I was a man moving through a thick tangle of branches than a man made of branches. Once I found my momentum, though, my body remained pliable. Only movements that broke from the flow elicited the noises of breaking and creaking wood, or scrapes of wood against bone. My feet were bare, and the snow muffled my footsteps further. I was virtually silent as I moved between houses, avoiding the open streets where practitioners were gathering in clusters. I headed between two houses, along a shoveled path that led to two gates, each opening into backyards. I was approaching the group that had been nearest the house. A fence enclosed the backyard, separating me from them. “-did it?” a woman was saying. “I’m suspicious it was the Behaims. Every time the topic of demons has come up, the Behaim leadership are so blasé. You don’t act that way around demons unless you’re very confident you’re safe or you’re stupid,” another woman suggested. A man spoke, “Couldn’t it be stupidity? The stories I’ve heard of their misadventures here and in Toronto… I’m not sure how to put it politely.” “It’s easier to let yourself make mistakes when a fix is often a turn of the clock away,” another man said. “They’ve been doing more,” the woman said. A Duchamp, had to be. “They went to Toronto and made a play there. They dealt with the Thorburns on several occasions here.” “Saying they failed only because they tried more doesn’t elevate them in my eyes.” “I’m not trying to elevate them, dear,” the woman replied, making it the least affectionate ‘dear’ I’d ever heard. “But they’re stubborn, and in our little spars in past decades, they’ve managed to hold their own.” “Big guns,” another man said. “Chronomancy, you’re tampering with one of the fundamental aspects of reality. Put up a fight, scrap, trade blows, and wait until you have an opportunity to deliver the knockout blow.” “Essentially,” the woman said. “What if it’s the Sorcerer?” “Johannes?” I hurdled the fence, using my empty hand on the top of the fence to make it possible, enjoying just how light my body was. The action required ‘muscles’ I hadn’t exercised, and the resulting crack of wood made their fear spike. I could feel it. Alarm, attention. A small bird flew across the street. They relaxed. I could feel the fear fading. “If the Thorburns have dropped out of the running-” “Rose is at the hospital, she might not have heirs, but we have to kill her to end the line.” “We should get our bearings first. The moment she dies, we have no reason to play nice with the Behaims or Johannes.” “More importantly, they have no reason to play nice with us.” I drew closer to the corner behind them. Five people were gathered together, two women and three men. I avoided looking at them. Safety in numbers? The other member of the group was a distance away, talking on the phone. I could hear her, too. “-inside. I already talked to her about the snowballs she put in the freezer last night. She went to get them after dark, and if the lecture- yes. Snowballs. I don’t know why. Either she wants them to become ice balls or she’s saving them until spring. Yes. No, I don’t care what the reasons are. I don’t want your cousin going out tonight, for any reason. It’s dangerous.” The group of five were facing the house, allowing me to approach the Duchamp woman that was on the phone. Standing just far enough away that she wouldn’t be heard. My eyes and thoughts remained elsewhere, as I approached. No use giving her a cue. If she was looking for connections and saw one appear with great haste, it would be a giveaway. My footsteps were silent. I didn’t breathe or have a heartbeat. I pressed the Hyena to her throat. I heard her breath catch. One finger touched her lips, shushing her. She nodded slowly. I was close enough that my ribs touched her shoulderblades. I could make out the artificial voice on the phone. “It’s two in the morning and she’s still up. She doesn’t listen to me, mom. I can tell her and it makes things worse. It’s like every time I tell her to do something and she doesn’t listen, there isn’t anything I can do to punish her, so she gets more bold…” I moved my finger away, but I held it up as a warning. She started to turn her head toward the group, but the Hyena’s blade pressed tighter against her throat, my hand moving over her mouth, arresting the movement. I could feel the blood that was drawn as the rougher and sharper bits of my wooden fingers dug into skin. I wouldn’t let her force a connection, even one as simple as eye contact. “I want to be out there with you. Helping,” the voice on the phone said. “You’re helping right now,” the Duchamp woman said. “I want to help more.” “Please believe me, Lola, it’s better you’re not out here right now.” “Mom, I’m not some kid anymore, and if things are serious enough, I should be there. I’m engaged, which you okayed.” “Lola, I really don’t want to fight-” “Mom. I’m not picking a fight. I’m saying if you think I’m mature enough to get married, I’m mature enough to participate. You might need my eyes…” The voice on the phone trailed off. “Lola?” I used gentle pressure to urge her to retreat, until she’d retreated to the corner I’d peered past. Almost leaning against the fence, with me obscured by the surrounding shadows and the fence. “Your thread looks wonky.” “You shouldn’t be able to see my thread from the house, sweetie.” “Your voice sounds funny too. Tight.” “Lola, please.” “What’s- what’s going on?” “There… there are some treats in the cupboard with the pots, toward the back. I was planning on sharing them with you two later, if you were up. If you want to bribe your cousin into obedience, so tonight is easier, you can. Whatever makes tonight easier.” “Mom?” “It’s…” her voice cracked a little. “…Not looking like it’s going to be a good night. That’s all. Don’t worry. I don’t think you’re in any danger?” I shook my head slowly. The woman watched me out of the corner of her eye. After a moment, she nodded. “You sound different, mom.” “I love you, Lola. Whatever our differences have been, I love you.” I pressed the Hyena against her throat, with just a little more force. “I love you too, mom?” Lola made it sound like a question. I wasn’t sure if it was that she wasn’t sure about the love, or if she was just unsure in general, given circumstances she didn’t totally grasp. “I need to look after the situation here. I’m going to say goodbye now.” “Bye, mom.” Reaching across her chest, I pressed one fingertip to the phone she still held up with one hand, touching the red button on the smartphone’s screen. Call ended. I heard her sigh, long, but silent. Something wet touched my hand, and for a second, I thought I’d cut her. Looking across the street, I could see Evan, perched on a car. Green Eyes was lurking in the snowbank, much as a crocodile might lurk beneath water, only the upper half of her head and face visible. Her eyes reflected a green light, as if they glowed from within. I saw Evan move, cocking his head. “What’s your name?” I asked. “Joyce,” she said, barely audible. “Joyce,” I said. The name hung in the air. “I-” she started. “What are you planning?” “Shh,” I interrupted. “I’m disposing of the rot. Culling.” I could feel the effect that last word had on her. More silence. “Your family attacked me and mine. This is wholly within my rights,” I said. She only nodded. “Swear me an oath,” I said. “If I have any doubts, any suspicion at all…” I left the latter half of the sentence unfinished. Phone still held to one ear, she let out a shuddering breath, inhaled, and then spoke, her voice a near-whisper. “I, Joyce Anne Duchamp, swear… I will return straight home, I will sit on my hands and refrain from practicing until sunrise. I will not intentionally communicate with anyone until sunrise, unless I would be unquestionably assisting you, or if the words, sentence and intent are neutral. I- I swear I will not act or interfere against you or yours in any way from here on out. I hereby pronounce myself removed as a threat to you and your allies.” “That’s a damn good oath,” I whispered, “But you need to give it weight.” “I swear all this- on my name, on my blood, on my daughter… for my daughter,” she said. I wasn’t sure I liked that she’d sworn on her daughter. That didn’t sit comfortably, considering just how affected I’d been by Grandmother Rose throwing around her metaphysical weight to use and abuse her grandchildren for her own gain. But maybe Joyce was only listing the things that sprung to mind, things she valued. She was doing it for her daughter. She was spooked. I moved the Hyena, and I gave her a push forward. “Joyce?” One of the guys in the group had focused on her, as she stumbled a bit, back into the light. Under the streetlamp, the tracks of tears on her cheeks glistened. “What’s wrong?” one of the women asked. “Gail…” Joyce said, opening her mouth. By the terms of the oath, she wasn’t supposed to speak except to help me. “What’s wrong? Is it Jessie? Lola?” Joyce was frozen. What the hell was she doing? “Come, Gail,” Joyce said. I’d thought the Duchamps were good actresses, natural manipulators, trained to lie from a young age. Joyce was proving the exception, unless I was missing something. “Joyce, I’m not-” “Come,” Joyce said. Gail went. I retreated further into the shadows as the woman crossed the distance from the group to Joyce. Joyce seized her hand like someone grasping at a life preserver. “Do you need help?” the other woman in the group asked. “Did something happen to one of your girls? What’s going on?” I could see Joyce hesitate. “Just Gail. You… stay where you are, Jan. We’ll come back this way later.” “You’re not making any sense,” one of the men said, sounding particularly annoyed. “I know,” Joyce said. That said, tugging on Gail’s hand, she strode away. “It’s that damn bell,” one of the other men said. “Makes everyone batty. I’m surprised they haven’t shut it down, yet.” The bell? I could barely hear it. I watched as Joyce and Gail disappeared out of sight. What was the logic there? Why did I have a vague feeling that Joyce had just played me? No, not played, I realized, as I saw the situation. The oath was real, the terms were real, but before she’d even finished speaking, she had decided that things would play out like this. She’d told me she wouldn’t interfere. I’d told her that I was cutting out the rot. Did this mean that, in her estimation, Gail didn’t constitute rot? That the ones who remained did? I looked at the four who remained, my eyes averted from the blonde woman who was almost definitely a Duchamp and almost certainly an enchantress. All the same, she might have sensed something, because she turned back to look over her shoulder twice as I examined the other members of the group. I was forced to step silently back. No, that was it. One member of the group. He wore a wedding ring. He was connected to her. Once I knew the rules, I could take a closer look, avoiding looking at the husband and wife pair. Off to the side was one man, not fat but solidly built, with a leather jacket that made him look even bulkier, and a dark, wiry beard that didn’t go with the close-cropped hair on his scalp. He resembled the husband in the pair. A brother, perhaps. The other man looked out of place compared to the two guys, who looked very much like bikers who had cleaned themselves up but couldn’t give up the general trappings. He had neatly parted brown hair, sharp eyes, and a cleft chin that might have been attractive if it wasn’t so pointed. He wore a scarf and a stylish, form-fitting jacket with four brass buttons arranged in a square, his pants cut to a slim fit, and he carried… I saw his implement. A crystal ball with a skull in the center, tucked in the crook of his arm. Looking at it, I was immediately reminded of the Bane. The undead thing with scythe-arms. A tormented soul. Gail’s husband. Joyce had separated wife from husband. She’d done it very deliberately. It was a leap in logic, but it somehow felt right. “The tree looks like it’s going out. Something’s cutting down branches,” one of the large, bearded men said. “The fire in the back, though,” Jan commented. I hoped the fire hadn’t raged out of control. It shouldn’t have, but stranger things had happened. My eye passed over Jan as she spoke. Once more, she looked back over her shoulder. “Janice?” “Something’s there.” “Sandra said the Apple of Discord would concentrate attention on the house.” “She did,” Janice said. “But the hairs on the back of my neck keep standing up. Something is there.” Collectively, they turned. “Was it something that affected Joyce?” “Maybe,” Jan said, peering, as if she could make me out. “Maybe you were right. If the Thorburn situation is resolved…” “The Sorcerer?” her husband asked. I stepped further back into shadow. Still, as the men fanned out in front, they kept moving in my general direction. I’d hopped the fence into a little bike path or a narrow road that was only a car’s length wide, and short of hopping over the fence, which would certainly get me spotted, I had nowhere to go but back, further down the unlit path. I saw Jan draw an athame. Hers wasn’t wavy like Mags’ was, but curved like a crescent, the blade on the wrong side. Images of faces flickered between the orb-encased skull and the necromancer’s fingertips, as he caressed his implement. The two bearded men simply looked as though they might be able to kick my ass without the benefit of being practitioners. As they shifted position to enter the alley, I saw Green Eyes behind them, crawling across the street. Jan’s keen awareness alerted her. She turned. I switched immediately from retreat to attack, striding forward. They stopped in their tracks as they saw me. The two bearded brothers broke into grins, the one in the lead first, then the one just behind his left shoulder. Before I’d even finished thinking out the word ‘ominous’, Green Eyes had lunged. Jan caught her before the mermaid could bite, hands on Green Eyes’ upper arms, pulling her head back before the mermaid opened her mouth impossibly wide and then slammed her teeth together, a matter of an inch or two from her face. Jan’s husband, beaded guy number one, was distracted by the noise, looking back. Just in time to see Green Eyes bring her tail up and around Jan’s waist, encircling most of it, pushing shirt and jacket up, tail touching skin. There was a term for what happened next. Working as a handyman, learning my trade, I’d heard the stories. Wear a ring while operating a lathe, or wear a watch when you miss a step on a ladder and get it hooked on a surface, well, sometimes you wound up degloving yourself. The angle and hardness of the ring or the watch trumped the tensile strength of skin, and the skin just… slid right off. I’d never, however, heard of someone having most of their midsection degloved. The tail was strong, the hooked scales barbed, and Jan simply fell over, like she couldn’t process what had happened. The necromancer reached out, and the images of faces danced out, much like a flash of electricity. Green Eyes took one to the collarbone, reeled, and then disentangled herself, ducking under a fence, a canvas of bloody skin still hooked to her tail. The two black-bearded men were still caught off guard by what had happened. The one in the lead headed back to rescue his wife, while the one behind him focused on me. They almost collided with each other, in their attempt to deal with the issue. My new opponent shouted something guttural, almost musical in single syllables, bringing his hand back as if he was going to swing a punch. “Moc, zlo, bru!” I stepped back, expecting him to fling something my way. I didn’t expect an actual punch. His fist accelerated, and he covered far more ground than I would have expected, slamming his hand into the middle of my chest. “Zlo, bru, ohenn!” I hadn’t yet caught my balance when flame appeared, a roiling explosion a screaming face at the front of the forefront of it. Rather than get burned, I let myself fall. The flame passed overhead. “Ohenn, dolhu!” The fire seemed to slow in the air, as if the explosion was suddenly happening in slow motion. The dark parts and the bright parts seemed to become more distinct. The flame dropped, almost liquid, congealed. Napalm-like. Burning oil. I rolled to one side. It splashed into the ice and snow where I’d been lying a moment before. But in rolling, I found myself lying between fire and fence, my heels almost touching the wing-tipped toes of the Necromancer’s boots. He hit me with distilled echoes, every single one of them a dying memory. What I experienced was very similar to having my vision go dark, darkness creeping in around the edges, the vision that remained getting spotty. Thing was, it happened all at once. I might as well have been hurled into a deep, dark well, with only meager light at the top. I could hear the Drains, the wind whistling out of sync with the creaking of unstable architecture in the Tenements, distant howling and screaming, the gnashing of machinery, faint songs or tunes that might have been a carnival. Disconnected from it all, I was aware of the existence of some monstrous bird-bat-thing, only partially formed of a dozen fluttering spirit-hearts. A shadow of a very dark thing, making itself known. I didn’t deal with demons when it would have been a hundred times fucking easier. I didn’t deal with the lawyers. Why do you think I’d deal with you? I had to claw my way back to reality. Out of the well, past the darkness that creeped in around the edges of my vision. I was out and up for about one second before the Necromancer hit me again. Back into the well, now with visions and sensations to go with all the fleeting images. A small village, desolate, in the midst of a dense forest, with a screen door attached by only one hinge, caught by the wind so it slammed incessantly against the doorframe. Every sensation was raw, as if the place laid every last nerve bare. Something, I was pretty sure, lurked in the woods. A festival. A crowd of Others and lost souls, bumping and jostling, leering, cheering, screaming. Here and there, the screams were real, as someone failed to keep up, lost strength and showed vulnerability near the wrong partygoer. The buildings that framed the narrow street had no windows, entrances or exits, more like tombstones than any place people lived. I fought my way free. My fingers caught the wire fence, and I heaved myself forward and to one side, almost bouncing off the fence in my haste to move to one side before he could hit me again. Not the sort of movement I might have been able to do if my strength wasn’t disproportionate to how light my body was. Not that I was that strong, but moving around was easier than when I had first arrived. The benefit of causing fear? Feeding, for lack of a better word? I stepped close, faster than he might have expected. He stuck his implement out, trying to touch me with the crystal-encased skull, and I thrust the Hyena at him. I was just a little more adroit than he was. The Hyena went into his chin, stabbing upward, through the bottom of his mouth. I grabbed his wrist before he could stick the ball in my direction again. Using the leverage of the broken sword through his chin, I twisted him around, forcing him to stumble to my right, acting as a living shield between me and Bearded Guy Two. Leaning closer, I murmured, “I wonder why Joyce thought you deserved to die?” I saw his eyes widen a bit. “Did you say or do something, that she needed to save Gail from you? She was willing to betray her family to get rid of you.” The eyes widened further. I twisted the weapon, then dragged it out of his neck, not pulling it free, but cutting out to one side, off to the corner of his chin. As he staggered, I kicked him. “Dolhu, vbreg!” As the Necromancer went down, something caught him, and he was thrust in my direction, through the flames that still burned atop ice, clothes igniting on contact, carrying the fire forward. I hopped up and back, my thighs resting on top of the fence. In the doing, I just barely avoided having a burning body fly through my kneecaps. The bleeding Necromancer crashed into the fence, instead. I went backward, put my feet under me, and ran, putting a shed between me and him before I went over a fence and into another backyard. That damned beard guy. He was chaining effects, there was a rhythm there. Something like something-fist, fist-fire, fire-something, something-fling. I didn’t know the language, and I didn’t know the rules. There were particulars, but I didn’t know how to exploit them or combat it. Almost like a dance, one step leading to the next. I could imagine that practice and care were making each word act like a rune, invoking spirits. Speaking a private language they shared with spirits, utilizing momentum. With the cover of a wood-slat fence, I was able to circle around. They were standing shoulder to shoulder, one facing in my general direction, the other facing the other side of the narrow alley-street, where Green Eyes lurked. If we pounced, I had little doubt they would catch us in the air. Strike us down. They’d known I was weak to fire. Or they’d guessed. I suppose it was a pretty easy conclusion to draw. Couldn’t close the distance before they could blurt out two syllables or so. I stood, appearing on one side of the fence, and I threw the Hyena at the one with his back turned to me. It turned over, pommel over blade, spinning through the air. The guard hit him, not the blade, but the spin brought the blade into the back of his head. Not hard enough to pierce skull to brain, but enough to stay in place. “Vbreg, b-” Seeing his brother with what seemed to be a sword embedded in his head gave him a half-second’s pause. Evan descended, taking advantage of the delay. A lone sparrow, going for the eyes, giving the man more than a half-second’s pause. Green Eyes, for her part, came over the fence, taking advantage of the chaos, right for the face of the other brother, biting, her teeth scraping more than they severed. Her tail swung around, bludgeoning the one Evan was attacking. Almost casually, I hopped the fence. “Tell me,” I said. “Would an impartial observer call you monsters?” “Fuck you!” the one said, clawing Evan away from his face. He flung the sparrow to one side. Not quite a confirmation. Mr. Rogers might have been a little flustered, in such circumstances. He looked like he was about to do something, until I pressed the blade too his brother’s side, careful to avoid Green Eyes. “Have you hurt innocents? Have you struck your wife or child? Taken pleasure in the pain of others?” “Tell her to leave my brother be. You already took his wife from him. She’s taken his face.” “Tell me, first. Would I see you as monsters, if I got to know the two of you? By standard Canadian values?” “We follow traditions and practices handed down through our family. Given to us by the ogre shamans of the cold mountains.” “That’s not a no,” I said. “All you have to do is say no, and I’ll leave you be, with apologies.” He didn’t answer. Instead, he started another short chant, “Vbreg, Jisk, R-“ From the moment he’d opened his mouth, I was already turning. The Hyena pierced his solar plexus, and it was like the air had gone out of his lungs. The ‘r’ sound became a growl, then a moan. Belatedly, the one Green Eyes was fighting fell clumsily to the ground. She scrunched up her bloody face, then worked to pull her tail out from beneath the man’s mass, before she resumed eating, biting into the softer meat at the front of the neck. “Let’s not be so hasty next time,” I said. “I wasn’t sure Jan over there deserved that. We need to be careful, moving forward.” Green Eyes had to gulp three or four times to get the full mouthful down, her gills flaring with each gulp. “Smelling her brought back memories,” Green Eyes said. “Bad ones.” I approached Jan’s degloved body. She’d already bled out, and her eyes stared skyward. Bending down, I sniffed. I didn’t have superhuman senses, but even beyond the reek of blood and other bodily fluids that came with a grisly end, I could smell the distinct reek of alcohol. “Being a drinker isn’t grounds for executing someone,” I said. “No,” Green Eyes agreed. She looked a little sullen. “But she wasn’t a someone anymore.” “I’m not sure that-” “She wasn’t,” Green Eyes said. “I promised I’d be good and I was good here. I followed the rules you gave me. I smelled it on her.” I looked at Evan, who gave me his best bird shrug. I dragged the bodies together, and as I reached the Necromancer, he fought me, weak. He had what appeared to be a doll in one hand, fashioned of some soft material. It wore another man’s face, hyper-realistic, distorted in agony. In moving the necromancer, I’d broken a black ribbon that stretched from his neck to the doll’s. I watched as he struggled to wind the ribbon around his own neck with hands that grew steadily weaker and clumsier. Once the connection was formed, he touched his thumb to his bloody wound, running it along the ribbon, from himself to the doll. A hyper-realistic wound started to open on the doll’s throat. His own wound started to close. He stopped, his hands trembling, and the transfer reversed. The Hyena’s effect taking hold? I watched him try and fail again. Using ghosts as some sort of repository or sympathetic replica, to take his pain. No, a ghost wouldn’t be enough. Just like with the Bane, something like this might well require a soul. Very gently, I pulled the doll from his grip. The ribbon came undone again. Weak hands reached for and failed to grab the doll. “Be free, soul,” I said, before cracking the doll down the middle. The agonized face separated, and a moment later, the doll’s face was only two depressions for eyes, a bump for the nose, and a line for the mouth. I put the halves of the doll on the ground. There was enough blood on hand. I couldn’t see the spirits, but I could imagine the same rules held true. Blood had power. Right now, we had to be discreet. Using the available blood, I drew a circle around the four bodies. Hopefully breaking connections. I left the Necromancer behind, bleeding out in the circle, and hoped there was karma in that. “Come on, Green,” I said, “It might be better to be a little hungry, as we keep this up. There’s more troublemakers around.” She nodded, grinning. “There are Behaims,” Evan said. “Just a block over. I think they heard stuff, but they decided not to come.” We moved as a group, much as we had before. Green Eyes was bloody enough that she didn’t quite blend in, but that was negligible at best. Behaims. I didn’t expect what I saw. They’d called back their Others. Clockwork men, children and old men shrouded in rags that hid their faces. A giant surrounded by sand. A bogeyman that aged with every step, before giving birth to herself in about two seconds flat, her placenta becoming a red dress by then time she’d aged to five. I saw another technicolor Other, too. “We’ll need to do readings,” a man was saying. He had an abrasive tone to his voice, vaguely irritating. “Figure out where Johannes and the Duchamps stand. This is going to get very messy, very quickly.” “Especially when they see what we just did,” one of the youngest Behaims present spoke up. I wasn’t sure, given the winter clothes he was swaddled in, but he might have been Owen, one of the Behaims to show up in Toronto. The abrasive-voiced guy spoke again, “It’s not the right way to do this.” “No,” Alister said, “Probably not.” I’d heard the abrasive voiced guy before. He was one of the ones who had argued on behalf of Alister. Against peace. Good enough. The Behaims were dispersing, moving in groups. I saw the guy with the voice rounding up his Others. Clockwork men. There was a power to be had in attacking the unassailable. Strike, then run. “Green Eyes, head back the way we came, ambush anyone who comes after, that’s older than twenty,” I whispered. “Evan, give me my escape route.” “Will do, chief,” Evan said, wing-saluting me. Easy enough, as the Behaims split up. They were individually vulnerable, but they felt like they were safe. I could strike and I could run. I knew how the time magic worked. Barring some major intervention, they wouldn’t catch me. And if they were doing readings on the other major players… they wouldn’t be doing readings on me, necessarily. I slipped close to the clockwork-man wrangler. Again, I put the blade to his throat. I cut. Blood showered onto the snow. I turned to slip away, ready to attack another group from another angle. Reality wrenched. I was back where I’d started. The clockwork wrangler was unhurt. I noticed that Ben, the decent-ish guy, was now staring me down, a few paces away. Had he done it? No, that wasn’t a perception trick. Something bigger. I frowned, ready to back away. Something barred my path, the broad side of a lance. A suit of armor, clockwork. A knight, about eight feet tall. But unlike any of the other things, it was inlaid with gold. It vibrated with power, as if an immense heat came off it. I felt a little bit like I had around the djinn. “Blake,” Alister said, behind me. I turned. I saw Alister. “Meet my new weapon,” he said. The weapon barely concerned me. If he was even talking about the suit of armor. The thing the Behaims had said would put them back on the map. A secondary issue at best. Alister had company, standing next to him. Rose. Holding his hand. They almost matched in height and sheer pretentiousness, standing side by side. Rose wearing grandmother’s old clothes, Alister being just a little too stylish and fashionably dressed for a guy in his late teens or early twenties, hanging around Jacob’s Bell. She’d had a plan, apparently. Obvious enough. She’d wanted an opportunity to chat with certain people. The plan, as it turned out, involved an engagement ring on her finger.	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0038.json.gz/line3543
__label__wiki	0.558936	0.558936	Judgment 16.8 February 17, 2015 16.08wildbow My turn. The steering controls were handed over. Considering that the vehicle in question was still moving, it made for something of a stumble. Green Eyes was far enough ahead in the tunnel that she’d had to stop to let others catch up, just out of reach of Paige’s light. Her eyes glowed in the gloom. Though her eyelids were functionally useless, her facial structure suggested a widening of the eyes. Her teeth flashed whiter in the gloom, in part because the lips were pulling back in a smile, in part because Paige and the rest of us were drawing closer. I could feel a stab of pain. I stumbled. My hand touched a wall, and made contact with rough earth. Not soft enough to crumble, but dirty, gritty. Not really my hand. Not my body. Rose was smaller than I had been, back when I’d been flesh. She was heavier than I’d been when I’d been sticks and bones. It was an awkward middle ground, and in the midst of it, buried inside, was Rose’s metaphorical heart. She was scared, and in occupying her body, I experienced that fear. There were Others who did the possession schtick that liked the fact that they could experience raw human emotion and use it to educate themselves on what worked and what didn’t. I didn’t like it at all. It wasn’t the fear that had gripped me, once, being afraid of being bound down, or having someone get close enough to manipulate me, forcing me to back away and keep moving to avoid either of the two things from happening. Rose’s fears were something else altogether. A fear of the outside world, of people. A fear that permeated everything to some degree. Suspicion and paranoia. I could see how our progenitor might have functioned before. With this, and with everything I’d experienced, he would have been left with no place that felt comfortable, nobody to turn to. Only a few patches of safety where he could operate on a more normal level. Toronto. Friends from Toronto. It was too easy to think that the Barber had made us more functional, portioning out the crippling fears. But recognizing that that just wasn’t possible meant facing facts. If I’d done what I wanted to do, just escaping, traveling, I probably wouldn’t have looked after myself in the long run. I’d have resented having to stay somewhere to work to get gas for my bike, food to eat, and I would have been afraid of roots setting in too deep, or getting sick. There was no way for that future to be as free as I’d wanted it to be. Rose was due another kind of misery. She was meant to survive. To outlast the rest of us. Was it a kind of mercy to others that made grandmother isolate her? Dooming Rose to a relatively quiet, lonely life? Oh, right there. I felt it, and I knew Rose felt it too, looking outward from within, as I’d done with her. Anger. The anger was mine. With the anger came more changes, and more pain. Tattoos crawled over skin, and where they surfaced, they pierced the skin, reaching out and over. A covering, like a second skin. I lost control of my movements again, as branches came out of skin at the legs. This time, I bumped into Mags. To give her credit, she didn’t really freak out. Beyond the initial surprise at being blindsided by a staggering branch-woman, she was fast enough to reach out and offer a steadying hand, her fingers finding leverage in the mesh of overlapping branches. Paige saw, though. She made an incoherent noise and backed off, eyes wide. The light in the tunnel flailed wildly for a moment as she dropped her hand. “Oh, look at that,” Peter said, smiling. He seemed to be taking far too much joy in being able to keep his cool while his sister was shocked. With the movement of Paige’s light, the entire group had come to a stop. Green Eyes and the vestige children had stopped, further ahead. “Is she okay?” one of the children asked. “She’s bleeding,” Paige said. I looked down at my hand. The branches were rippling beneath gloves, and I worked to pull the gloves off before they could tear, tucking Rose’s machete under one arm. In places where the branches and extra bones were punching through the flesh, the flesh was red and raw. In other places, the flesh had been scraped or cut, and trails of blood were leaking out, coloring flesh crimson where the branches had yet to emerge. I flexed my hand, very aware of how the branches were heavier in some spots than others. It was more like my hand than Rose’s, if I squinted, looking past the fact that portions were dark, dry wood and portions were blood-slick skin. “I am,” I said, and my voice sounded like a jarring hybrid of Rose’s voice and my own. “You being… Rose?” Ainsley asked. “Or Blake?” “Blake,” I said it at the same time Mags did. “Blake!” Evan said, bouncing in place at a point behind the group. “Oh man! I’d give you a hug if I had arms and if I wasn’t on fire and if you weren’t so gross and bloody and is Rose okay?” Finding Rose was difficult, given how every building block of this body had ‘Rose’ stamped onto it. Or, more specifically, the building blocks had ‘Rus-‘ stamped on them, and the smudges and damage made it look enough like Rose that it sort of worked. I felt her, and I felt how she was hurt. My surfacing had put holes in her body and it had done a degree of damage to her being. I felt raw, I felt strange, having given up whole pieces of myself, and I knew that I’d been damaged by my close interactions with Rose. Now she was within me, and the dynamic had been inverted. “Rose is… she wanted to do this,” I said. “I get the body and the fear and she gets to operate free and clear and pull together the things we need to.” “But is she okay?” Ainsley asked. “She was supposed to be my future sister in law. I’m kind of obligated to ask.” “No,” I said, “she’s not okay.” Ainsley was very still. I left the second part of my sentence unsaid. And what will you do about it? Maybe someone was about to say something. It was hard to tell, but I hunched over and convulsed. More branches pierced the flesh to embrace my torso. Before they could fully emerge, I grabbed and tore away the jacket and part of the sweater-blouse combo. The reaching branches destroyed what I couldn’t remove in time. I tried to catch my balance, but even with support from Mags, I still dropped to one knee. More blood and blood loss. “This might not have been wise,” Ainsley said, belaboring the obvious. “Rule of thumb,” I said. I managed to get to my feet. “If I’m involved, wise isn’t the word you’re looking for.” “Blake,” Paige said. She was pale. “We’ve met,” I said. “You don’t remember, but we’ve met.” “I’ve pieced things together from what Isadora told me and what’s been said, but meeting you is another thing altogether,” Paige said. She seemed to center herself, and she focused on positioning and providing the light, though she didn’t take her eyes off me. I looked at her too, and it was chilling to realize I felt nothing. Paige and Molly and I had once been close. I knew it, objectively, and I now knew that the memories were unbalanced. But they were memories were more Rose’s than mine. Playing dress-up or going to the playground down the street from Uncle Charles’ house or any of the other stuff, it was all largely meaningless. Looking at the human faces around me, very few meant anything at all. People. Only Mags stood out, and even that was tenuous. Still, I felt the need to say something. “Aren’t you glad our grandmother put you dead last for succession?” I asked Paige. My voice was still broken. Partly mine, partly Rose’s. “Probably the nicest thing she ever did for you,” Peter commented. “Don’t think I don’t remember what you said, back then,” Paige said. “You’re right! Nicest thing I’ve done for you, too.” The changes were still ongoing. Getting me to the point where I’d been after my epiphany down in the Drains. I twisted my neck as the branches climbed it, trying to stay more limber. But where I’d been empty, before, now I was a cage that housed a largely paralyzed, terrified body. Branches crawled in and throughout the body and formed the exterior covering, which I had more control over. Rose didn’t house the body, but her emotions did. “Are you good to keep moving?” Lola asked, without an iota of sympathy in her voice. “Because our best advantage right now is that the lawyer that’s chasing us is on foot above ground, and there is stuff in the way, and our way here is mostly clear. If we can get ahead of him, that has to count for something. I don’t think we will, but I’d like to at least try.” I started forward, and my footsteps were lurching ones. I stopped and pulled off the first of Rose’s boots, and felt the wood grow from the softer, more sensitive parts of the foot, reaching for the ground. When I set my foot down, the branches splintered, broke, and bent, and were fixed in place by yet more pieces of wood and shards of bone. I did the same with the other foot. This time, as I ran, I was faster. The strength was mine, an unnatural sort. I could have done with being lighter, but I was more mobile, all the same. As we progressed, the humans naturally fell behind. I found myself in the company of Green Eyes, the vestige kids, and the goblins. Somewhere in the midst of it, Evan caught up with us. He was about four feet tall, and he still burned, but the trail of fire behind him was intermittent, only really appearing when he pushed himself to catch up. “Our goal is to clear the way,” I said. “Vestige kids, show us the path, help the others, but whatever happens, stay away from the sorcerer. His pipes pull you under his control. Evan? It’s very possible that includes you too.” “Be awesome. Stay on the perimeter. Hold back the threats. There will be work to be done here.” “I tackle the biggest threat. Green Eyes? Cover my back and flanks.” “Goblins,” I said… I paused. “Be goblins.” “Can-” one goblin started. He hesitated, “Can I have… that?” He was pointing. Oh. Ugh. I pulled the article of clothing away from my shoulder, where it had caught on a length of wood. A bra. “No,” I said. “No you cannot.” I felt something stir within me. It felt like the birds had, moving within, but considerably larger. Rose was trying to push me to say or do something. Did she want me to give the goblin her bra? “It’s for morale,” the goblin said. “If-” “No,” I said, ignoring Rose’s stir protest. It hurt, in much the same way the branches poking through the skin had hurt both skin and branch. “You’re going to kill the monsters the Barber made because that’s what you do best. You are made for this. Be violent, be vicious, be wanton, you’ll probably never get an occasion quite like this where you’ll be encouraged to cut loose like this. Those creatures up there have been carved up by a demon, and they’re weaker, in many respects. Other stuff was highlighted as stuff was carved away, but Rose thinks of them as wretches. They’re weak, you pick on the weak. Be thorough, cut them down and put them down.” One or two goblins grinned at me. Hard to tell in the dark. “You know you’re dealing with goblins when a good pre-battle speech for the goblins demoralizes everyone else,” Mags said. “What are we doing?” Ainsley asked. “Get into the practitioner’s tower,” I said. “Run interference if you can do it without dying, but focus on getting to a place where you can be practitioners and work your mojo. If it looks like you’re going to die, try to take a few of them down with you, or slow them down.” “You’re a hell of a lot more vocal than Rose,” Peter observed. “It’s almost reassuring, except for the ‘going to die’ part.” I frowned, my eyes facing forward, at the endless darkness of the tunnel. Rose’s bundled clothes were tucked under one arm, the machete was in the other. I didn’t plan on keeping the clothes, but I wasn’t ignoring the possibility that I could throw them at someone or something. I answered Peter’s comment, “She’s been busy thinking. Like this, she’s mostly free to piece things together, without outside distractions. I’ve just spent far too long being forced to sit and wait, wanting to help and being unable to. I’m ready.” “I asked Rose, but she didn’t give me an answer before you showed up,” Lola said. “Is there a plan?” “Remember that we can do this,” I said. “That’s not an answer,” she said. “She’s putting it together,” I said. “I was there in the background, watching her work at it. It’s predicated on a few simple ideas.” “Do tell,” Lola said, sounding less than pleased. I suspected the pressure was getting to her. “I did,” I said. “Remember that we can do this. That’s the basis behind the plan. The demons are essentially Faerie. Everything is Faerie.” Our running footsteps marked the silence that followed. There was a screeching roar from above us, the sound of metal tearing. “I am super duper sorry, I really am,” Evan said. “But you’ve got crazy, Blake. Really crazy.” “Evan-” “I’m sorry that I said it,” he said, raising his voice to be heard over my protest, the words tremulous where the alcohol affected them, “But it’s got to be said! You’ve lost it!” “I’m not crazy,” I said. “We challenge them the same way we challenge glamour. This is about belief. It’s about breaking from the conventions that shackle us. Humans and practitioners have a massive amount of power, and this is why the lawyers are doing what they’re doing. Rose and I caught on, but we didn’t buy into their deal and jump on board with them. Johannes caught on, and Faysal and the lawyers both went after him to take advantage of it. Humans are architects of change, and this threatens them to the point that they have to respond. They’re worried, and what we need to do is make those worries justified.” “Oh,” Evan said. “What?” “Easier said than done,” Mags said. “Hell of a lot easier said than done,” I said. “Push forward, do what you can. Keep an eye out and your mind open for possible chinks in the armor.” “And some of us will even do it while wearing bras on our heads!” the small goblin cried out. Rose nudged me. Fuck it. I hooked the bra strap from the bundle of torn clothes I had under one arm and tossed it to the goblin, who cackled merrily. “We’re close,” Noah said. I could see what he saw. A shaft of light leaked through a gap in the tunnel roof. I could hear noises too, feel the tunnel vibrating slightly with the footsteps overhead. Rose reshuffled memories. The memory she gave me was a heavy one, the sort of memory that burdened. Her, inside Conquest’s tower, trapped. The tower? I thought. She was better at manipulating the memories than I was. The image shifted, an emphasis. A scrap of cloth on the edge of the tower, billowing in the wind. White. Surrender? No reaction. No, white was Conquest’s color. Not surrender. A flag? The vision stayed. Rose, alone at the top of the tower, no exit, no good surface to scale. Even if she’d tried, there was no point in it. It was Conquest’s territory. I see it. What am I supposed to do with it? The image she showed me was one of the first I’d seen out of her eyes. Johannes, emerging from the hole in the world that had swallowed up Hillsglade House and formed the Library. Not him. He held the pipes and the shears. The memory came with the realization. He was the Barber. “Here,” Noah said, interrupting my thoughts. Rose had hated those interruptions. I was more willing to go with the flow. “Here,” Noah said, again. “It was supposed to be here.” We’d reached the end of the tunnel. It simply stopped. There was a barrier, with eroded concrete blocks worked into the soil. “It’s his demesne,” Lola said. “He gets to decide the layout. That we got this close and got stopped… it’s…” “A massive cockblock,” Peter threw in. “I was going to say deliberate,” Lola clarified. “It’s both,” I said. “We need up and out,” Noah said. “It’s supposed to go up and into a church. This isn’t it.” “The nearest church is a bit away,” Paige said. “Oh, the demon doesn’t want a church so close to home? Who’d’ve thunk it?” Peter asked. Ainsley elbowed him, and he shot her an annoyed look. “Stop doing that. Seriously. I’m not good for much more than joking around and offering very basic observations to you jerks, in case you lose sight of the forest for the trees or the trees for the forest or however it goes. Until you come up with something better for me to do, let me have this.” “If Blake is right,” Paige said, “Then you’re an important tool here. You’re more human than any of the rest of us. That counts for something.” He opened his mouth, and she cut him off. “And yes, I did call you a tool. Grow the fuck up. I’m not in the mood for it.” I looked around, and I stabbed the machete into dirt to try and see if anything could be uncovered. It was fairly thorough. “Well?” Evan asked me. I looked back at the group. Ainsley was already stepping forward. “Our job, right?” Her candle was already lit, joining Evan and Paige in lighting up the area, and she advanced to the tunnel’s end, stepping carefully past Green Eyes and the goblins. She stabbed the wall with the candle, and drew a circle with the softer wax. She shook the candle, hard, and it returned to its full length. With her other hand, she pressed a pocketwatch to the center of the circle. I could hear the rapid ticking sound that went hand in hand with chronomancy. “Let’s see if we can get it the way it was,” she said. “Preferably leading up into where we need to be, not into the church.” The wall distorted, the circle twisting, opening ever wider, like a gate. “Shit!” Ainsley said. “He’s aware!” That word, coupled with the fact that we were in a tunnel, proved to be warning enough. We scrambled back, but the dirt above us was already coming down, billowing into choking thick clouds as it touched the floor of the tunnel. It seemed to take five minutes before the dirt was done falling. It wasn’t actually five minutes, but time yawned on forever when one was being rapidly buried alive. The dirt and dust still came down in clumps and trickles as I raised my head. I’d stooped over, and I’d done it with Green Eyes beneath me. She was curled up, contorted into as small a shape as she could manage beneath my shoulders, head and chest. In the oppressive darkness, her eyes seemed especially bright. Looking past green Eyes, I could see Ainsley lying limp in the midst of the fallen dirt. A hole had opened above her, and the hole was ringed with figures. Many of their eyes glowed too. Countless figures there were broken as the four vestige children had been, but the damage was far more severe. The Barber had carved them into pieces, and spirits had flowed in to fill the gaps, making them more like rodents, more like mangy dogs, more like children, in places. Features were distorted and warped. I forced myself to straighten, a hundred pounds of dirt sliding off my back and shoulders, and Green Eyes lunged, crawling readily and easily over and through dirt. Evan was right after her. He knows. Johannes did, the Barber did. I shot a look behind me, as goblins worked their way free of dirt that ranged from knee to hip depth, using my own body to gauge. For them, it had completely and utterly buried them. Some goblins were bleeding from fallen stones. The group behind hadn’t been hit as hard. The further back they were, the less dirt there was. I knew that Green Eyes and Evan were engaging in the fight, but I still let the bundle of clothes fall and reached for Ainsley. I hated to move her, but I knew that if I didn’t, there would be no way to save her. I pulled her free by the most direct means I could, then turned to place her behind me, so she wasn’t right beneath the opening and eager attackers. Machete in hand, I threw myself forward. The little warrior. Reckless, savage, built to destroy myself in battle, and take Rose’s enemies down with her. A viking berserker, without the viking, the anger a much different sort. Buried. The wretches, whatever I’d said, weren’t weak. The Barber, by vice of being a demon, was capable of breaking rules, and one rule was apparently that he could carve away weakness. One half left feeble, the other half left strong. One half left cunning, the other half left dimwitted. I wasn’t used to this body. How it moved, where the strength lay. How to fight when I wasn’t lightweight, or when I couldn’t practice in between the exchanges of blows. I would have liked to say I put up a good fight. I didn’t. From the outset, it was an uphill battle. I went after the biggest threat, which was a vestige of a large, heavyset man. His face had broken, and the spirit that lay within him was that of a screaming infant, streaked with mucus, scaled to size. Twisted, oddly proportioned, entirely out of place on his frame, peering past a face that had shattered like porcelain yet still proved capable of bleeding when I nicked it with the machete. He swung, and I tried to get out of the way. A fraction too slow. With an overlarge fist, he clubbed me. I felt branches break, and fell to one side, landing amid dirt and shattered pavement, just beside where the tunnel had caved in. Within moments, I was set upon by two smaller wretches. They grabbed for my weapon and the clothes that I had that still remained, and they inadvertently held me down while the overlarge baby-faced man approached. He brought a meaty fist down, striking me clean in the chest, breaking more branches and bones, then another. Evan flew past, and the flames and sparks streaked the wretch’s face. The thing screamed, howling in pain. I hauled the machete closer to me, bringing a scrawny wretch closer with the gesture, then smashed my forehead into the wretch’s face. I stabbed the other wretch before it could scramble back. I tried to climb to my feet and I failed to do it before the other wretches tackled me. I had a disorienting moment where the fear that ran through Rose’s body slowed me down even more, before I found the simultaneous adrenaline surge to pull free. I twisted around and swung the machete. Not as clean or pretty as it was in the movies. It cut deep for the first two I struck, and left only a graze on the third. Another wretch was already behind me, grabbing at the elbow of my swinging arm. The larger baby-faced wretch was holding one meaty hand to its face, glaring at me with a disproportionately large, rheumy eye. Green Eyes was in much the same situation I had been in, but she was more effective like that. Her scales and skin were slick, she did damage just through contact, and she had fangs and claws. She didn’t need the reach or space to swing her arm like I did. Evan strafed the crowd, still just large enough to fight off any wretch that grabbed him, burning on contact, even though he wasn’t leaving a trail of flame behind him. The goblins were here and there, doing just what I’d ordered them to. Where some of us struggled in the chaos, the goblins reveled in it. They were completely and utterly at home in the midst of all this. They cut and butchered, found weak points and went after them with no hesitation. Just the opposite. With eagerness. But our enemies were seemingly endless. We were in the middle of a street, not forty paces from the tower, and the bodies had emptied out of every building, as if there were a festival going on. I couldn’t find a gap any wider than an armspan in the midst of the crowd. Worse than I’d anticipated. Worse, going by the stirring inside, than Rose had anticipated. It had looked more manageable from a distance. Or maybe the Barber was drawing them all closer to him. It wasn’t like the Abyss, I noted. Where the Abyss had been almost eager to destroy and wear away, this was utterly nihilistic. Bleak, more than savage. The wretches destroyed themselves as much as we destroyed them, and it didn’t matter in the slightest, because they covered the streets around us, as far as I could make them out. I stabbed the great baby-faced wretch in the general vicinity of the heart, swung low to cut at the side of the knee, more a vertical cut than a horizontal one, then spun to shake off others and carve blindly into the crowd. I was separated enough from the others that I didn’t have to worry about accidentally cutting one of them. One slash of the machete proved too slow. A wretch closed in, and I hit him with my forearm rather than the blade. More closed in, swamping me. Among them was a goblin, biting at a wretch’s spine, pulling free with a bit of bone and strings of flesh clamped in its bulldog jaws. Not a goblin that I’d seen in the group below. Mags had called it up or called it out or done something, I had little doubt. Even with the help, we were drowning. This wasn’t water, but we were still drowning. Light shone, and I knew it was Paige. A beacon, directed to blind the wretches more than it blinded the rest of us. I wasn’t sure it helped, because even if it only affected me one tenth of the amount it affected everything else, I was left blind, dealing with five or six blind wretches who were trying to pull me to pieces. Still, if I squinted, it was an avenue for the practitioners to come to the fore, emerging from below. Peter had Ainsley. I fought free of the weaker wretches, and rather than try to establish space around myself to swing the machete, stabbed the back of a larger one that looked like it was readying to pounce on Green Eyes. It had once been part cat, part woman, it looked like. The others were saying something, forming battle ranks. Lines drawn out, a perimeter that forced the wretches back. But for every one I cut down, there was another to replace it. I was locked in place. The lawyer with the hound was there. Fighting Evan. No, I thought. I’m too slow, I thought. Sorry, Rose, I thought. There was no reply. I’d changed, my self coming in enough to fill in the spaces around Rose which weren’t enough like me. But I’d stopped there. I could push for more. I had Rose in the center. I knew that there was no way to take strength for myself without drawing from her. Just as she’d drawn power from me. Different types of well. I pushed. As a bogeyman, I’d been hollow. There had been spaces in me one could see through. Now, as I focused on the matter, I established similar spaces. Much like how birds had hollow bones. I was a shell with Rose inside, and now there were points that one could see through both the shell and Rose. Almost from the point I made the decision, the dynamic changed. Where one enemy had stepped up to replace every one I cut down, I was now making fractional headway. For every sixth or seventh wretch I struck at, I could make a gap. With a gap, and a few more spaces made within, I could make headway. The lawyer reached out and grabbed Evan. The man’s eyes were deep yellow, his hair wild, scruff on his chin, and he seemed immune to the pain as his hands boiled and burned with Evan’s flames. I was too far away. Come on, come on. With headway, I could build momentum. I pushed past a lesser wretch, hit a wall of the big ones. I barreled into them, cutting to drive them to either side. I reached the lawyer, and I didn’t get a chance to swing at him, nor the hellhound he was trying to offer Evan up to. I swung for the chain. He knew in an instant, what I’d done. A gesture, and the hound was gone, midway through opening its jaws to take a piece out of its one-time master. Held in only one hand, Evan was freed. I stabbed the lawyer. I stared him in the eye, oblivious to the wretches around me who were clawing at me, trying to drag me down. He wouldn’t go down with just that. Not with a cut. I twisted and broke the machete’s blade. I stabbed him with the broken remainder. Spikes impaled my hand. The machete changed. I’d left the Hyena back in the Abyss, a symbolic gesture, almost. Now it was back. As much a denizen of the Abyss as I was. I pulled away, leaving the lawyer a wound he couldn’t recuperate from. I cut him again, and turned to fight once more against the tide. Others were shouting, pointing. In the distance, blades were piercing the earth. The same scissor blades as before. Striking the people furthest away, then the next line, then the next. The Barber altering his demesne. Blood roaring in ears that weren’t mine, surrounding by screams and utter death, I fought my way for the tower. We have to remember we can do this, I thought. The others were there, ready to enter the building, but in the instant they got that far, blades appeared to block the door, like crossed spears to wall the others off. The Barber was going to do everything it could to dissuade us of that notion.	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0038.json.gz/line3544
__label__cc	0.521375	0.478625	Tax Competition: A Literature Review Socio-Economic Review, (2011) 9, 339–370 32 Pages Posted: 3 Sep 2014 See all articles by Philipp Genschel Philipp Genschel Jacobs University Bremen - School of Humanities and Social Sciences Date Written: September 2, 2011 This article reviews the social science literature on tax competition in three steps. The first step is to look at the baseline model of tax competition on which most of the literature implicitly or explicitly builds. The key feature is that governments in a context of open borders will engage in wasteful competition for mobile economic assets and activities through tax reductions. The second step is to focus more closely on tax-induced cross-border mobility. Do tax payers actually shift assets and activities across borders in response to differences in taxation? The main message of the literature is that the scope for tax arbitrage depends crucially on the legal rules governing the taxation of cross-border activities and that the intensity of tax arbitrage varies greatly across different taxes. The final step is to analyze government reactions to tax arbitrage. Do they engage in competitive tax cutting as predicted by the baseline model? The literature discusses various strategies of tax competition and demonstrates that different governments use them to different degrees across different taxes. It also shows, however, that governments increasingly engage in tax cooperation to reign in tax arbitrage and competition. While off to a slow start in the 1960s, tax cooperation has gained momentum in recent years, especially after the financial crisis in 2008. Keywords: economic integration, taxation, tax harmonization, tax competition, multinational firms, equity and efficiency JEL Classification: H2, F36, F42, H87 Genschel, Philipp and Schwarz, Peter, Tax Competition: A Literature Review (September 2, 2011). Socio-Economic Review, (2011) 9, 339–370, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=2490529 Philipp Genschel (Contact Author) European University Institute ( email ) Villa Schifanoia 133 via Bocaccio Firenze (Florence), Tuscany 50014 +39 055 4685 735 (Phone) Jacobs University Bremen - School of Humanities and Social Sciences ( email ) Bremen, D-28725	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0038.json.gz/line3546
__label__cc	0.575677	0.424323	Last edited by Shakashura Thursday, April 9, 2020 \| History 3 edition of Quaker education in Baltimore and Virginia Yearly meetings found in the catalog. Quaker education in Baltimore and Virginia Yearly meetings William C. Dunlap with an account of certain meeting of Delaware and the Eastern shore affiliated with Philadelphia by William C. Dunlap Published 1936 in Philadelphia, Pa . Society of Friends -- Education, Society of Friends -- United States, Education -- United States -- History, Indians of North America -- Education, Statement based on the manuscript sources, by William C. Dunlap Pagination xi, 574 p. Splits[ edit ] Around the time of the American Revolutionary Warsome American Quakers split from the main Society of Friends over issues such as support for the war, forming groups such as the Free Quakers and the Universal Friends. He also worked in the abolition movement. Hicksites viewed the Bible as secondary to the individual cultivation of God's light within. Jolliffe, Jr. When it is clear that there is agreement, the sense of the meeting is recorded in the minute. Woolman was a farmer, retailer, and tailor from New Jersey who became convinced that slavery was wrong. New York: W. For various reasons, this meeting was not held every year, although there has been a national annual meeting of some sort in Britain every year since As controversy increased, Fox did not fully adhere to this agenda; for example, he established the London Six Weeks Meeting inas a regulatory body, led by 35 women and 49 men. Alexander Ross again on a committee - with John Gartrill Inthe Association of Evangelical Friends was formed, with triennial meetings until Immediately north of the Mason-Dixon linethe Quaker settlement of Chester County, Pennsylvania—one of the early hubs of the Underground Railroad—was considered a "hotbed of abolition". James, Sydney V. 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Here is message from the Quakers who attended Western Half-Yearly Meeting (WHYM), a twice-yearly gathering for Quakers in Western Canada. October 12–14, To Friends everywhere: We were blessed with beautiful crisp, sunny weath. Pacific Yearly Meeting consisting of more than 1, members plus many more attenders of Quaker meetings in California, Hawai’i, and Nevada, as well as meetings in Mexico City and Antigua, Guatemala. Philadelphia Yearly Meeting consisting of 11, members in Delaware, Maryland, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania. News from Catoctin 2nd Session It’s almost impossible to believe, but we’re already halfway through our summer season at Catoctin Quaker Camp. Being halfway means we only have three Register for Camp starting January 15th!Baltimore Yearly Meeting, Sandy Spring, MD. likes pdf talking about this 20 were here. Bringing together Friends in DC, Maryland, Virginia, and parts of Pennsylvania and West Virginia for /5(13).There are Quakers of all ages, races, education, classes, religious backgrounds, sexual orientation and gender identities. Beginning on March 22 and until further notice, Meetings for Worship and all other Meeting activities will not be held inside the meetinghouse.The committee was concerned with the higher education ebook Quaker children and the preparation of teachers. InMartha invited thirty concerned Friends from Baltimore, Philadelphia, and New York Yearly Meetings to her home at Madison Avenue in Baltimore after the sessions of Baltimore Yearly Meeting. libraryonding.com - Quaker education in Baltimore and Virginia Yearly meetings book © 2020	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0038.json.gz/line3549
__label__wiki	0.651128	0.651128	Posts Tagged ‘norwegian pop’ Let’s stick around Norway for a moment and bask in the glacial beauty of Ina Wroldsen’s Sea, a taste from the singer songwriter’s new four track EP HEX, to be released on June 15th. The EP is described as deeply personal, and it features collaborations with some of today’s most forward-thinking producers, too, including Jesse Shatkin (Sia, Charli XCX), Edvard Erfjord (Little Mix), newcomer Olav Tronsmoen and George Reid (of AlunaGeorge). Her willowy, lithesome voice is utterly enchanting on the dark atmospheric, snowy ethereal song, which re-envisions The Nøkken, a Norwegian folklore tale about a lethal immortal water spirit who makes deadly contact with unsuspecting humans who can cross its path. If I were sailing the seas and heard Ina Wroldsen, I’d be drawn to her like sailors drawn to a siren. I might even face lethal immortal water spirits to get there, after all, the reward would be well worth the danger. Ina Wroldsen is also responsible for some of the biggest pop songs of the past two decades, including smash hits from Calvin Harris and Clean Bandit, as well as recent chart topping track Breathe, with Jax Jones. She’s already a huge star back home in Norway, and she’s poised to conquer the world with her exquisite voice and mystical pop. The video for Sea is a riveting visual treat that complements the song’s frosty grace and elegance. You can find the single on all major platforms, here. (Source: https://www.youtube.com/) Tags:atmospheric pop, dark pop, electro, electro pop, electronic pop, ethereal pop, folk pop, icy pop, Ina Wroldsen, music, music video, norwegian pop, pop, Scandi pop, sea, song A “high five” is definitely in order after the epic night I just had last night. I’ve been waiting a very long time to see Norwegian pop sensation Sigrid live. The fast rising singer songwriter is was named BBC Sound of 2018 earlier this year, which made me kick myself even harder for having to miss out on her few performances at SXSW back in 2017 (most of them were before I’d arrived into Austin). I didn’t expect to have a chance to see her at the Independent in San Francisco, considering how easily she could have sold out an even bigger venue, but that’s exactly where I found myself last night, thoroughly captivated by the songbird’s pristine voice, sassy dance moves, and glorious pop songs. It’s only proper that we indulge in the Scandinavian starlet’s latest single High Five today, while I’m still aglow from the show. Her crisp sonorous voice and the melodious song’s ravishing drumwork bring me right back to last night’s exultant bliss. Will we get a debut album announcement soon? I sure hope so! If you’re not on I Heart Moosiq’s Instagram yet, make sure you follow along with some of our live music adventures, here! Check it out our footage from Sigrid’s sold out show for a taste of how amazing she is live. Stream High Five and some of Sigrid’s other recent singles on Spotify, here. Tags:concert, High Five, independent, music, norwegian pop, pop, Scandi pop, SF, show, Sigrid, song, starlet	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0038.json.gz/line3556
__label__wiki	0.630164	0.630164	KZN has enough beds in public hospitals: Health HoD NSFAS applications won’t reopen: Minister Blade Nzimande There is growing concern about KwaZulu-Natal’s COVID-19 infection rate as the province has almost 93,000 active cases. The National Institute for Communicable Diseases said it’s becoming more difficult to deal with the virus there but the KwaZulu-Natal Health Department insists that lack of beds is a private hospital matter. Dr Sandile Tshabalala, the KZN Health Department HoD says that public health services have adequate space and resources to fight the COVID-19 pandemic. He encouraged patients to be moved to where there is space. Dr Tshabalala said, “that is happening in the private sector, I have checked it. I have not had it happening in the public sector. “I have said and the MEC has said: if a person can’t find a bed in one institution let that person be taken to another hospital within the public sector. “What we’ve also experienced is when a person in the private sector calls us and wants a bed and when they don’t get a bed they choose to go and find somewhere else. With us our ambulance service knows if there’s no bed in hospital A there will be a bed in hospital B so there is no way that patients will be moving around simply because there are beds. Lindiwe Ndlovu has sadly passed away causing so much heartbreak and agony to the beloved family. We are yet to notice the deceased obituary details, all further details concerning this news will be updated upon confirmation. Learn more Source: eNCA In other news – Lockdown actress Lindiwe Ndlovu has died #RIPLindiweNdlovu Tags: Covid-19 KwaZulu-Natal's COVID-19 infection rate	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0038.json.gz/line3557
__label__cc	0.59486	0.40514	SAIF Code of Practice The SAIF Code of Practice exist to ensure that any Funeral Director who is a member of SAIF will always deliver a very high level of service to their clients. If you have any concerns about the level of service you have received from ourselves, then please contact us on 0121 476 9111 in the first instance and we will do our best to resolve any problems. If, however we are unable to resolve the matter to your satisfaction,  you will be put in touch with SAIF’s Independent Arbitration Service who will then investigate your complaint or concerns. 1. General Conduct and Presentation 1.1 Members must conduct themselves in a totally professional manner, and behave sensitively, with courtesy and complete dignity at all times, both privately and professionally. 1.2 Members shall provide the highest professional standards in all elements of the service they provide to each individual client(s). 1.3 Members shall treat as confidential all information obtained in relation to their clients and carry out their duties with total regard for the laws of privacy and data protection. 1.4 Members must establish and interpret client needs without exploiting their vulnerability or exerting any pressure on them. 1.5 Members will be responsible for all the decisions and actions taken by their staff in relation to the provision of funeral services and the ancillary services they offer. 1.6 Members shall conduct themselves in a courteous and professional manner in all dealings with clients, taking into account their religious and cultural needs. 1.7 Members shall not try to persuade clients to choose an expensive or elaborate funeral when a less expensive funeral is more appropriate to their circumstances. 1.8 No member shall act in any way whereby a conflict of interest may arise with the Society or its objects. 1.9 No members shall do anything that might prejudice the good name and reputation of the Society. 1.10 Members must adhere to an abide by the Society’s Quality Assurance Programme at all times 1.11 Members must comply with all current government legislation, including EHS, Laws and Privacy and Data Protection Requirements. 2. Marketing of Funeral and Associated Services. 2.1 Advertising and Promotions. All advertising and promotional activities must comply with the following Codes of Practice at all times: The British Code of Advertising Practice. The British Code of Sales Promotion Practice. Ofcom – Office of Communications. The Independent regulator and competition authority for the UK communications industries. Any other relevant Codes or Legislation. 2.2 Soliciting for Business. Members shall not solicit or offer any inducement of any nature for instructions for funeral services or any other associated services (i.e: pre-paid funeral plans, memorials etc); nor shall they engage or reward any other party – whether an individual, a partnership, a company or other formal or informal association or group – to do so on their behalf. 2.3 Public Image. Members must ensure they convey a wholly professional image to the general public both through the delivery of the services they offer and by ensuring that all public relations activities are appropriate and sensitive in regard to their professional responsibilities. 2.4 Transparency of Ownership. Members must prominently display details of the ultimate ownership of their business both outside and inside each premises and on all literature, business stationery and on all advertising and promotional material. 2.5 Displaying the Society’s Logo Members must prominently display at all of their branches and on their stationary and website, the Society’s logo to indicate to the public adherence to the Code of Practice. Copies of the Code must also be available at all of their premises for clients to inspect and/or take away. 3. Communication on Funeral Matters Relevant to 3rd Parties 3.1 Members should ensure that all literature and information relevant to other related services such as the local Registrar and bereavement associations are readily available to their clients. 3.2 Members should communicate and co-operate with the relevant authorities, institutions, professions and voluntary organisations so they themselves can advise their own contacts/clients or patients on funeral matters. 4. Information and Choice. 4.1 Members will provide a choice of at least four coffins at varying prices, one of which will be an inexpensive and plain type, which must be shown in a brochure and displayed in a showroom wherever practicable. 4.2 Members must explain their full range of services relevant to the particular client, including the availability of a simple funeral before giving them a written estimate. 4.3 Clients must receive full advice on all the actions, including registration, they need to take in relation to the death and the funeral. 5. Prices and Price Lists. 5.1 Prices must be fair and reasonable in relation to the particular goods or services supplied, thereby ensuring clients receive fair value at all times. Price lists, detailing all the services offered must be prominently displayed, so they can easily be seen by all visitors to the premises. 5.2 Such price lists must also be available for clients to take away with them or to be presented and left with them when a home visit is made. 6. Provision of Estimates and Invoices 6.1 Terms and Conditions Members shall make clients aware of their Terms and Conditions of Trading, which ideally should be printed on the estimate given to them. Alternatively, copies should be sent to clients or made available for clients to inspect. 6.2 Provision of the Estimate. 6.21 Clients must be provided with a detailed written estimate at the time of arranging the funeral or, if that is not achievable then as soon as practicable afterwards. Where a consumer requests an estimate, in writing or otherwise, at an earlier stage (e.g. during an initial meeting or over the telephone), members should provide this as far as is practicable to do so. Members should make sure that clients confirm their acceptance of the estimate formally, as long as possible before the funeral takes place. 6.2.2 All estimates must at least give the following details of the Funeral Director’s charges: Professional fees. Removal of the deceased. Coffin or Casket (including fittings and interior). Embalming/Hygienic Preparation. Hearse(s). Limousine(s). Where only an approximate cost can be given, it must be made clear that this may vary. The ‘confirmed’ cost must be supplied to the client as soon as possible. 6.2.3 All estimates must also itemise each disbursement cost, including: Cemetery/Crematorium fees. Doctors’ fees. Minister of Religion or Officiant. Church and associated fees. 6.2.4 Any additional items, which arise or are instructed after the estimate has been issued, must be authorised by the client prior to them being charged to their account. 6.2.5 A revised estimate, showing the changes made and the alterations to costs must be issued wherever practicable, where the client varies their original instructions, and again the client should formally confirm their acceptance of such changes. 6.3 Issuing the Invoice. 6.3.1 A fully itemised invoice, which should mirror the estimate whenever practicable, is to be provided to the client either after carrying out the funeral services as specified or as agreed with the client, before the funeral. The total amount charged should be as per the original or revised estimate as agreed with the client. Where approximate costs were given for disbursement items then the final cost, together with the reason for any variation should be shown. 6.3.2 If it is part of the member’s Terms and Conditions that interest be charged for late payment of the account, then this must be explained, together with details of the prevailing rates, to the client, both when arranging the funeral (and before a contract is entered into) and when the invoice is issued. 7. Premises 7.1 Premises must be acceptable, in all respects for the provision and delivery of funeral services. 7.2 Members must fully comply with all health and safety regulations, related legislation and Codes of Practice and shall display the appropriate certificates as required by law. 7.3 Members must provide adequate facilities for clients, in terms of reception areas, arranging rooms and toilet facilities. 7.4 There must be well-appointed and well-maintained areas and facilities for the preparation of the deceased and the holding of bodies. 7.5 A Chapel of Rest and/or suitable viewing rooms must be available, so family and friends can see the deceased and pay their respects in suitably tranquil and private surroundings. 7.6 The deceased must be treated with the utmost respect at all times. 8. Vehicles and Equipment 8.1 All vehicles must comply with all relevant legislation and be maintained and presented to the highest practical standards at all times. 8.2 All equipment associated with the preparation and provision of funeral services must be properly maintained to the standards specified by the manufacturer and/or supplier. 9. Other Services Members should offer and provide either directly or through suitable agents or sub-contractors, floral, catering, monumental and pre-paid funeral planning services. Members shall ensure that such agents and sub-contractors are bound by all the relevant provisions of this Code while providing such services for the member’s clients. 10.1 Members shall properly train all staff employed, taking full account of the sensitive nature of the service provided. 10.2 Members should take every opportunity to encourage their staff to develop through all relevant forms of training and to obtain formal qualifications where appropriate. 10.3 All employees should be fully aware of and comply with the contents of this Code of Practice, including the complaints and redress provisions, throughout the performance of their duties. 10.4 Staff conduct must always reflect the sensitive nature of their employment. 11. Complaints and their Redress 11.1 Members must have an internal written complaint procedure formally in place. 11.2 All recommendations and decisions relating to complaints must be approved and sanctioned by a director or senior manager. 11.3 Members, should within their literature and correspondence, make it clear to clients to whom they should complain and the address to which complaints should be sent together with the procedure for handling complaints. 11.4 Initially all complaints should be put in writing by the complainant to the member, who must acknowledge its receipt promptly, investigate it and give a written response and where appropriate, an apology and/or offer of compensation and/or other form of redress as soon as practically possible to the complainant. 11.5 If the complainant is dissatisfied with the response, then the member must make them aware of the following options and procedures. The matter can be referred either to: a) the Chairman of the Society’s Standards Committee for investigation and an amicable resolution between the parties; or b) the Centre for Effective Dispute Resolution (CEDR). A completed signed application for arbitration is required for each case. c) All correspondence should be addressed to either the Standards Chairman or the Centre for Effective Dispute Resolution (CEDR), as appropriate, at SAIF Business Centre, 3 Bullfields, Sawbridgeworth, Hertfordshire. CM21 9DB d) CEDR consists of two stages, conciliation and arbitration. The first stage, which consists of an informal process of conciliation, can be bypassed if one or both of the parties expressly opt to proceed directly to arbitration. e) If the parties have previously attempted to resolve their dispute using conciliation and the customer wishes to refer the dispute to arbitration, they must submit an application to the administrator within 28 days of the end of the conciliation proceedings. lf at any stage the Conciliator considers conciliation inappropriate the matter may be referred to arbitration under the rules of the scheme. f) The award of the Arbitrator will be generally final and legally binding on both parties. If however, either Party considers the Award is one that no reasonable Arbitrator should have reached on the basis of the documents presented, any payment ordered should still be made, but they may write requesting that the matter be referred to review. g) An application for Review by the Appellant will only be considered if: 1) CEDR receives it within 21 days of the date that the Award was dispatched to the Parties by CEDR. 2) It is accompanied by a copy of the Arbitrator’s Award together with a statement setting out the reasons why the Award is one that no reasonable arbitrator should have reached on the basis of the documents presented. 3) A fee, known as the “CEDR Fee,” is sent with the respective paperwork to “CEDR.” (For current day fee contact SAIF office.) h) Once the Review Procedure has been completed, no further steps can be taken by any Party under these Rules. Any Party considering the possibility of an appeal to the courts, if indeed such an appeal is legally possible, is strongly advised to seek legal advice. A complete copy of CEDR scheme rules, is freely available from the Society at the address referred to above. 12.1 ‘Client’ means a client or potential client. 12.2 ‘Coffin’ includes a casket, unless the latter is specifically referred to. 12.3 ‘Estimate’ includes a quotation and means an offer by the member to provide the specified services for the price specified. 12.4 An ‘Estimate’ shall include details of all the funeral directors charges (see 6.2.2) and disbursement costs (see 6.2.3) that is practical to give at the time the estimate is given. It might be practicable to give an approximate cost or a range of prices even where it is not possible to give a confirmed cost. 12.4 ‘Member’ means a member of the National Society of Allied and Independent Funeral Directors. 12.5 A ‘Simple (basic) funeral’ comprises: Making all necessary funeral arrangements and providing professional advice. Removal of the deceased to a suitable resting place allowing 10 running miles within normal working hours. Provision of a simple, veneered coffin and conveyance by hearse direct to a local cemetery or crematorium. Providing the funeral director and all necessary staff. All necessary disbursements.	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0038.json.gz/line3558
__label__wiki	0.663536	0.663536	Willy De Ville Miracle (1987) (Due To) Gun Control/Could You Would You/Heart And Soul/Assassin Of Love/Spanish Jack/Miracle/Angel Eyes/Nightfalls/Southern Politician/Storybook Love Miracle was Willy “Mink” De Ville’s first solo album away from the Mink De Ville band, which released its last album in 1985. This was released in 1987 and was produced by Dire Straits’ guitarist/singer Mark Knopfler, who also contributed instrumentally. The album was one of the first completely digital “DDD” CDs and you can tell, the sound is crystal clear and virtually perfect. It is a pretty impressive, underrated album too. The hard-hitting, gritty rock of (Due To) Gun Control starts things off on a powerful note before we get a rhythmic, soulful cover of Them’s Could You Would You and you remember just what a great, yearning voice Willy De Ville had. A notion that is reiterated on the next track - the simply beautiful Heart And Soul where Willy treads familiar Latin lover territory - “and the choir sings Ave Maria…”. Romantic old Willy at his best. Assassin Of Love is a very Knopfler-influenced track - laid-back and evocative with some typically vibrant guitar parts. Spanish Jack continues in the same mode, but is more menacing and atmospheric. I love the line “like a pimp on Easter morning…” Miracle is another entrancing, mid-paced and beautiful number with Willy’s voice on top heartbreaking form over Knopfler’s understated but melodic guitar backing. Angel Eyes has Willy back with a rose for his backstreet señorita - upbeat, Latin and an affecting doo-wop a cappella style vocal backing. Just uplifting and enjoyable. Nightfalls is a return to the low-key romance of Miracle, while the pulsating Southern Politician is a delight - an extended piece of swamp blues condemnation of a corrupt racist Southern States governor. A wonderful, atmospheric, captivating track. Storybook Love is just sumptuous. Beautiful and effortlessly moving. De Ville’s voice again taking centre stage over a sparse but totally infectious backing. Thus ends a great first solo album. Many more would follow from a much-missed artist. De Ville speaks about the album thus, rather touchingly:- "...It was Mark (Knopfler’s) wife Lourdes who came up with the idea (to record Miracle). She said to him that you don't sing like Willy and he doesn't play guitar like you, but you really like his stuff so why don't you do an album together? So I went over to London to do this album. It wasn't easy because we didn't want it to sound like a Dire Straits album, and his guitar playing is so unique that it was hard to do. But nothing good is going to be easy. I know that I spent the whole time really trying to impress Mark, I wanted it to be good..." It was good, Willy. Victory Mixture (1990) Hello My Lover/It Do Me Good/Key To My Heart/Beating Like A Tom-Tom/Every Dog Has Its Day/Big Blue Diamonds/Teasin' You/Ruler Of My Heart/Who Shot The La-La/Junkers Blues After the success of the impressive Miracle, from 1987, Willy De Ville returned in 1990 for his second solo album. In this he covered songs from his beloved New Orleans R'n'B artists. It was something of a labour of love. Apparently the material was recorded with minimal modern technology, thus giving them an authenticity. Modern studios, have, however, meant that the sound is full and punchy. It also helped that among the musicians playing on the album is Dr. John, Eddie Bo, Allen Toussaint and various members of 70s/80s funk band The Meters. The backing is of the highest quality throughout. The opener, Hello My Lover, has horns, rocking piano and De Ville's instantly recognisable voice making us feel we are in good hands for this journey to the hot, steamy crescent city. It Do Me Good is a bass-heavy, full-on blues rocker, while Key To My Heart has a fifties rock'n'roll doo-wop ballad feel to it, with De Ville's voice in full "yesterday, today, tomorrow" mode (as Doc Pomus once said of it). Very few singers could handle a slow number as wonderfully as De Ville with those yearning, nasal tones. My goodness, I miss him. The organ swirls in at the end and Willy takes us to heaven. Beating Like A Tom Tom sees his voice on great fifties soul form again and the backing is full, rich but pleasantly sparse too, if you get my drift. It sounds like a late fifties song recorded under slightly better conditions. This is New Orleans blues influenced rock'n'roll of the highest order. Every Dog Has Its Day is a lively, rhythmic groove with an early Motown-influenced horn section and a stunning saxophone solo over a syncopated, heady Money-style drumbeat. I had overlooked this album in favour of most of Willy's other material. God knows why. It's fantastic. Big Blue Diamonds is proper New Orleans-influenced blues, with that insistent slow rock'n'roll piano underpinning everything. Teasin' You is a slice of Cajun-style, upbeat fun with a few hints of The Temptations' The Way You Do The Things You Do. Ruler Of My Heart is a jazzy, sparsely-backed soulful number with De Ville once again on top vocal form. Who Shot The La-La would not have sounded out of place on Southside Johnny's first album, in that whisky-soaked grizzly blues voice way. Junkers Blues is a bona fide, chugging blues closer with De Ville sounding eighty years old and black. This really is an unjustly overlooked pearl of an album. As Steely Dan said of a girl from New Orleans - a "pearl of the quarter". Backstreets Of Desire (1992) Empty Heart/All In The Name Of Love/Lonely Hunter/Even When I Sleep/Voodoo Charm/Come To Poppa/Chemical Warfare/Hey Joe/I Call Your Name/I Can Give You Everything/Jump City/Bamboo Road/All In The Name Of Love This is possibly Willy De Ville's finest solo album, one in which he merges that archetypal Latin-tinged West Side Story meets the Drifters street-soul sound that so characterised his days with Mink De Ville with his love his New Orleans blues and jazz-influenced rock. There other influences in there too - Mexican mariachi, Cuban salsa, Deep South swamp rock, Cajun music, New Wave and fifties doo-wop. For a long-time fan of De Ville since first hearing him in 1977, this is manna from De Ville Heaven (which is a place full of addictive Latin rhythms, bluesy rock riffs and that hard-as-nails but simultaneously tender voice). The album starts well, with the typical soulful backstreet heartbreaker of Empty Heart and then we get a true De Ville classic in the uplifting majesty of All In The Name Of Love. Willy's voice is just superb on this. A melodic fiddle riff is all over the sumptuous Lonely Hunter. Lyrically, good old Willy never changed - his songs are full of lonely hunters, backstreet heroes and openly-expressed desires, hearts on sleeves, girls with angel eyes and the feel of a barrio street on a hot, sultry Saturday evening. Willy always liked a bit of Cajun influence and next up is Even When I Sleep, a pulsating rocker with an intoxicating Cajun accordion driving the song along. Willy's distinctive, nasal twang rides high over this pounding, good-time rhythm, but it never loses its soul. Willy never lost his soul. Willy leaves his romantic side behind him for the next batch of songs as he goes off the main drag to the darker streets for a while. Voodoo Charm is a mysterious, swampy number of the kind De Ville does so well, taking us to the darkest corners of greater New Orleans. The grinding Come To Poppa continues the bluesy groove. Chemical Warfare is a unique De Ville track - a rhythmic, politically-motivated beguiling number. Now, it must be time for a bit of Latin party again, and this arrives with the Mexican-influenced and winning cover of Jimi Hendrix's Hey Joe, played as if sung by a Mariachi band in Guadalajara. It works superbly well. I love it. "Hey Joe, where you goin' with that gun in your hand....." suits de Ville so well. Check out that trumpet solo in the middle. Superb. The old street romance is back with the Latin acoustic guitar and sweeping strings of I Call Your Name. I Can Only Give You Everything is a muscular, riffy rocker. Jump City is a lively, rhythmic New Orleans-style number and Bamboo Road is an evocative, atmospheric Cajun-soul song about cane sugar workers toiling in the heat. This excellent album ends with a New Orleans-funeral style Salvation Army version of All In The Name Of Love. When I heard of his passing in August 2009, this was the first song of his I played. Obviously I never knew Willy De Ville, but with regard to his music, I miss him dearly. Loup Garou (1995) No Such Pain As Love/Runnin' Through The Jungle - Shootin' The Blues/When You're Away From Me/Angels Don't Lie/Still - I Love You Still/White Trash Girl/You'll Never Know/The Ballad Of The Hoodlum Priest/Heart Of A Fool/Asi Te Amo/Loup Garou/Time Has Come Today/My One Desire (Vampyr's Lullaby) Willy De Ville's albums with his band Mink De Ville were very much New York City albums. For his solo albums, De Ville went down South - to New Orleans and to the Cajun areas of Louisiana. While 1992's Backstreets Of Desire explored the music of that area somewhat, this album does it even more. It is by far his most Louisiana album thus far. It is a good one too. No Such Pain As Love is a lovely opener, with a delicious bass line and a sort of Cajun rock meets The Eagles melody to it, with a bit of Byrds guitar. Willy's voice is right on the money as usual. The Cajun rhythm is continued on the upbeat, swampy rock of Runnin' Through The Jungle - Shootin' The Blues. It has a great guitar solo in it too. When You're Away From Me is a gorgeous, slow pace soulful groove with one of Willy's timeless nasal, but yearningly romantic vocals. Angels Don't Lie has Willy at his most romantic. The song has a winningly soulful vocal, delivered over a gentle acoustic backing with haunting Celtic airs and Uilleann pipes. Still - I Love You Still is beautifully catchy in a typical De Ville Latin style, full of castanets, Mexican guitars and some killer lead guitar riffs too. Of course, his beguiling voice is superb on this too, as it always is. I can never get enough of it. The track ends with some Mexican mariachi horns. Now, Willy could always cook up a veritable gumbo of swamp blues and he does so here on the bluesy, rocking White Trash Girl. Willy is joined by fifties singer Brenda Lee on You'll Never Know, she sounds like Ronnie Spector and the duet is most fetching. The Ballad Of The Hoodlum Priest is a very typical piece of De Ville urban rock, with street character lyrics, a pounding beat and catchy chorus. Great stuff. Heart Of A Fool is also in that riffy De Ville style that I love so much. I fell in love with this guy's music in 1978 and that still burns in me today. I miss him a lot. Asi Te Amo is a delightful Spanish version of Still - I Love You Still. The album's spooky Cajun/Creole voodoo highlight is the atmospheric Loup Garou. Time Has Come Today is a solid slice of De Ville bluesy rock in the Cadillac Walk mould. It is actually a Chambers Brothers cover from the sixties, however. Cadillac Walk was also a cover, of course. De Ville makes these tracks his own. The final track, My One Desire (Vampyr's Lullaby) is a unique number, sombrely brooding and totally different to anything else on the album. Overall, this a most enjoyable album and well worth checking out. If you like Mink/Willy De Ville's work then I guess you have it already. Crow Jane Alley (2004) Chieva/Right There, Right Then/Downside Of Town/My Forever Came Today/Crow Jane Alley/Muddy Waters Rose Out Of The Mississippi Mud/Come A Little Bit Closer/Slave To Love/(Don't Have A) Change Of Heart/Trouble Comin' Every Day In A World Gone Wrong This was Willy De Ville's first studio album for a while, and it is a comparatively unsung one. It is a reasonable album, although I have to say I prefer Backstreets Of Desire and Loup Garou from the previous decade. It is not a huge matter but the sound quality is slightly better on those two and the same applies to the songs, just a bit. There is something about those two albums, for me, that this one doesn't quite have. The cover is a strange one, showing De Ville in native Mexican/Central American(?) get-up. Chieva kicks off with some New Orleans brass and Spanish guitar before a shuffling, jazzy beat comes in. De Ville's voice is older now and, although still bearing that trademark nasal tone, is a bit croakier and gruffer. The lyrics deal with De Ville's heroin addiction which would ultimately, I'm sure, play a part in his premature passing. Right There, Right Then has a Byrds/Searchers-inspired guitar riff and a typical De Ville yearning vocal. This is the sort of track you just expect from Willy. Here could do this sort of thing in his sleep. I can never get too much of these type of songs. Downside Of Town is backed by castanets, accordion and Spanish guitar and has a heartfelt vocal. More classic De Ville fare. My Forever Came Today is a slow burning, accordion-backed track in the same style of the two before it. Crow Jane Alley, however, is a shuffling, bluesy slow, New Orleans-influenced number, full of atmosphere. Muddy Waters Rose Out Of The Mississippi Mud is one of those deep, swampy blues that De Ville does so well. Come A Little Bit Closer is a cover of a sixties hit for a group called Jay & The Americans (I was not familiar with them or the song). However, it sounds just like it could be a De Ville original, with its Latin syncopation, La Bamba hints and mariachi backing. It is a great choice for a cover. Another inspired choice for a cover is up next - Bryan Ferry's Slave To Love. Ferry's delivery and songs are so unique to him so you would imagine this may not work, but it does, suiting De Ville's voice perfectly. The album concludes in full New Orleans funeral mode for (Don't Have A) Change Of Heart and the bluesy slow stomp of Trouble Comin' Every Day In A World Gone Wrong. Willy rails against modern life over a retrospective classic swamp blues rock beat. Don't get me wrong, there are hidden gems on this album. I still prefer the others I mentioned, but this is worth a listen too. Mink De Ville	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0038.json.gz/line3565
__label__cc	0.739481	0.260519	Cavalier King Charles Spaniel Club of NSW Clubs, Groups, Orgs, Associations Dogs - Cavalier King Charles Spaniel; Location: 44 Luddenham Road, Erskine Park, Sydney, NSW The Cavalier King Charles Spaniel Club of NSW is a non profit organisation focused on promoting the Cavalier King Charles Spaniel (CKCS) breed. This includes education on the breed, minimising the incidence of hereditary disease and highlighting activities such as Conformation Showing, Obedience and Agility/Jumping Trialing. The aim of the Clubs to promote and encourage the breeding, standard and exhibition, of pure bred Cavaliers and to maintain their welfare at all times. We do not support the commercial breeding of Cavaliers or breeding from pet quality dogs. The Club conducts three specialty shows a year; two Championship Shows, one at Easter, the other in September, and an Open Show in June. These three shows provide the winners of our Point Score competition which determines the most consistent Junior and Senior dogs and the Brood Bitch and Stud Dog of the Year. The Point Score competition is only open to Club Members. Please see shows and events on our website for more information. In addition to the newsletter, the Club publishes an annual Year Book which is not only a pictorial history of the breed but also a source of information for all members. It is not only a book for show dogs, people with pet Cavaliers are encouraged to advertise their well-loved companions. The Club sells a number of Cavalier items, such as highly recommended authoritative books about Cavaliers, Cavalier statues and other memorabilia. Cavailer Rescue Service: We have a Rescue Service for lost, found or unwanted Cavaliers and if you find one or have lost yours the Rescue Officer, Mrs Rhonda Callaghan, can be contacted on 42962022. This service aims to reunite Cavaliers with their owners or rehouse them if necessary. We regularly undertake fund raising towards the maintenance of this service as often veterinary costs or boarding fees are involved. Puppy Contact Service: The Club also offers a Puppy Contact Service which is to help put the public into contact with reputable breeders. This service is only available to Club Members with over twelve months membership and only the Member's pet quality puppies are able to be placed on this register. Most of our members place their pet quality puppies on the limited register to discourage the new owners breeding from dogs not of a suitable standard. Details of the Puppy Contact Service can be found in the Club newsletter and on the Club website. Breed Clubs, Groups, Organisations, Associations in 44 Luddenham Road, Erskine Park, Sydney, NSW	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0038.json.gz/line3575
__label__wiki	0.677006	0.677006	Volunteer for PFS Volunteer for Fest PFS History, Mission & Vision PFS Team PFS Board of Directors PFS Online Store PFS Coloring Pages Contact PFS PFS Digital Folk School Early Childhood Music Education Youth Instrument Classes Adult Instrument Classes Concerts & Monthly Member Concerts Open Mic at PFS Odyssey of Odyssey Program Request Music Co-op Co-op Artists Book Co-op Artists Co-op Guidelines Learn More / Apply Folk Festival PFF59 Tickets 59th Annual Philadelphia Folk Festival Lineup “Camping” at PFF59 Fest Is Where The Heart Is: An Oral History of PFF PFF59 T-Shirt Design Contest 2020 Fest in Place: Best Campsite Contest! 2020 PFF Sponsor & Advertising Opportunities Philadelphia Folk Festival Book PFF59 Scholarship Application Contact Philadelphia Folk Festival Fall Fling The Young’uns Home folkies The Young’uns Teesside trio The Young’uns have always had the human touch. In the space of little more than a decade - and just five years after giving up their day jobs - they have become one of UK folk music’s hottest properties and best loved acts. Stockton Folk Club’s star graduates clinched the BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards ‘Best Group’ title two years running (2015 and 2016) and the last years have seen them spreading the net, taking their unique act and instant audience rapport to Canada, America and Australia. With their strong songs, spellbinding harmonies and rapid fire humour, they have achieved one of the trickiest balancing acts – an ability to truly ‘make them laugh and make them cry’, while cutting straight to the heart of some of our most topical issues. In 2017, they unveiled their fourth studio album Strangers – playing their strongest suit to date. Bold, profound and resonant it showcased the growing talents of Sean Cooney, fast becoming one of folk’s finest songwriters. Together with Michael Hughes and David Eagle, Cooney has come up with a collection of folk songs for our time, all sensitively arranged by the 30-something trio - looking back at wartime heroes here, offering a news report for the 21st century there, turning the spotlight on injustice and ultimately celebrating the indomitable human spirit. In 2018, Strangers was crowned ‘Best Album’ at the BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards. In the same year, The Young’uns produced and presented a new and unique piece of modern folk theatre. The Ballad Of Johnny Longstaff is the story of one man’s adventure from begging on the streets in the north of England to fighting against fascism in the Spanish Civil War, taking in The Hunger Marches and The Cable Street Riots. It’s a timely, touching and often hilarious musical adventure following in the footsteps of one working class hero who witnessed some of the momentous events of the 1930s. With their trademark harmony, honesty and humour the Teesside trio bring together 16 specially composed songs, spoken word, striking imagery and the real recorded voice of Johnny himself to tell a remarkable human story oozing with modern relevance. www.theyounguns.co.uk Philadelphia Folksong Society \| 6156 Ridge Ave., Philadelphia, PA 19128 (215) 247-1300 © 2017 All Rights Reserved	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0038.json.gz/line3577
__label__wiki	0.514791	0.514791	Sting 26.1 Posted on July 18, 2013 by wildbow One of Rachel’s dogs growled, long and loud, an alien, unsure sound. She shushed it, setting her hand on the side of its head. “Ugh,” Cozen mumbled, “The smell.” The smell. Summer heat, the mingled scent of blood, shit and overripe bodies, with traces of other things in the wind. Caustic chemicals, ozone, smoke, burned flesh and plastic. It wasn’t unfamiliar. Not an exact combination of smells I’d smelled before, but it put me in mind of Brockton Bay in the days soon after Leviathan had attacked. I looked up at the man who’d been strung up overhead, spread-eagled. Chains stretched from his wrists to buildings on opposite sides of the street, and more chains extended from his ankles to the bases of the same buildings. A number was carved on his chest. One-seventeen. Beneath him, the sign from outside the town limits had been slammed down onto the hoods of two cars so it stood upright. Welcome to Killington. Heart of the Green Mountains. They probably thought it was funny. Especially with the bloody handprint on the word ‘heart’. “They got the children too,” Cozen whispered, as she averted her eyes from a mother who had died holding her child, both burned black. The only parts of their body that hadn’t burned were patches of skin in the shapes of numbers. Two-fifty-four. Two-fifty-five. Two of the Red Hands, Getaway and Rifle, had come along for the ride. They were sticking close by her, and formed a small contingent with Grue as a consequence. Getaway wore a cowl with a hood that peaked in the front, to the center of his mask. His costume had straight, clean lines, as though he’d modeled it after a car. Rifle, by contrast, didn’t look like he wore a costume. He was dressed like a special ops agent, complete with a complicated night-vision mount around his eyes, a number of scopes with lenses glowing in hues ranging from blue to red. Violet scopes were currently fixed over his real eyes. He carried a weapon, a modified gun that wasn’t, as far as I could figure it, an actual rifle. It looked like it was set to fire specialized loads from canisters. Of course they got children, I thought. I had to bite back a retort. Why was she here, if she wasn’t ready for this? But she wasn’t a fighter. None of the Red Hands were, really. They were professional thieves. Break in, get out, sell the goods. They were, maybe, what the Undersiders might have been with a little more luck, slightly different personalities, and a quieter existence. Without me, even. The Undersiders had made it for a year and a few months with their original strategy, avoiding fights, slipping away, staying off the radar. They would fight when they had to, but they didn’t make it a thing. The fact that they didn’t have firepower meant they couldn’t make it a thing. If anyone got into trouble, it was the dogs. And then I joined. Starting with the bank robbery, I pushed them to switch up tactics, catch the enemy off guard. If I’d never joined, what would have happened? Maybe the bank robbery wouldn’t have worked out, and one of them would have been picked off and arrested. Maybe they would have taken a different direction with the robbery. Bakuda might have killed them, Coil might have pushed them to be more aggressive as he scaled up his plans. Or they could have found a way, could have continued going the way they did, less violent in general. Some good, some bad. Rachel might never have reached the point she was at now. Grue wouldn’t necessarily have gone through what he did. Regent might be alive. I glanced again at Cozen, saw her looking at me in turn. Catching me looking, really. “What?” she asked. You don’t need to be here. You’ll be happier in the long run if you aren’t. “Nothing,” I responded. She looked annoyed, but she didn’t say anything. There was a kind of art to the setup. No doubt at all that it was a display, a showpiece. Trails of blood, ash and other substances marked where bodies had been moved. They were spaced out just enough that we would run into a fresh one just as we left the last behind. I might have missed it if not for my swarm-sense. The bodies were placed at positions high and low, the methods of death differing here and there, but there was a pattern to their distribution. The kind of pattern that might become clear if one were to set up a map and note the location of each body on it. A spiral. I pointed the way to the central point of the spiral. I could see a plume of smoke in that general direction. Not the middle of Killington. Skewed off-center. “Weaver, report,” Revel’s voice. “I’m here,” I responded. I kept a finger at my ear to make it clear that I wasn’t talking to myself. “Killington?” “Yes. Progress is slow. I’m sweeping the area for traps and potential ambush, and I’m marking a path to travel for when the others get here.” “We saw the two traps at the outset. There are more confirmed?” “Yeah. I’m not touching anything. Pass on word that any capes entering the area should be hands off. I activated one and it was only a decoy, a prelude to a gas attack. One of Bonesaw’s, I think. Grue warded it off. No casualties.” “I’ll make doubly sure to pass on word about the traps and about the route you’ve cleared. I would have warned them anyways. The initial casualties were enough, with the helicopter and first responders. Give me a second.” I led the way as our group rounded a corner, and saw the smouldering wreckage of the helicopter, smoke still streaming skyward. The collision apparently hadn’t been enough to topple the corpse that stood upright in the middle of the intersection, desiccated. A number was drawn on the mummy’s chest in blood. Number thirty-six. I could make out a tripwire strung between him and another corpse, a woman. She had apparently been shot execution style, propped upright on her knees. A number, again, had been drawn out in the midst of the blood spatter from the original wound. Number two-sixty-five. The tripwire was almost obvious, coated in congealed blood. Red string, I thought. In Japanese superstition, it was the string that bound lovers. The pieces suggested Crimson and Winter. Neither was Japanese, but the idea of mingling romantic imagery with violence in that way fit them. The red knight and the soldier. “I’ve got the feed open now,” Revel said, “Seeing what you’re seeing.” “Only part of it. The way the bodies are laid out, it’s a spiral. I think it all points to something. Making our way in.” “Technically you aren’t. You’ve stopped.” “Tripwires,” I said. “Being very, very careful.” “I like being careful,” Imp commented. She’d only be hearing one side of the conversation. “Careful is good. Keeps us alive.” “Being too careful gets you killed,” Rachel commented. Of everyone present, she seemed least concerned with the amount of death that surrounded us. Then again, that didn’t surprise me. “Have to act when you see the chance.” “You want to hop on your dog’s back and charge ahead?” Imp asked. “Go activate every trap between here and wherever?” Rachel frowned. “No.” “I like careful,” Imp restated, for the record. “Let’s be careful.” “Yeah. Fine.” I pointed to indicate. “Obvious tripwire here. Covered in blood. Connects to the two bodies and… I think claymores, at the base of that building over there. There are other tripwires around it. Look too hard at it, miss the others. I think there’s a pressure plate, too. I’m not sure what to call that.” “I don’t see anything that could be a pressure plate,” Grue observed. I pointed at a pane of glass at the base of a pile of rubble. It was broken, with a narrow thread of wood still attached along the one edge that was straight and unbroken. “Maybe. Kind of hard to believe,” he said. Because we could see through it? Yeah. But it was situated beside a pile of rubble, and the balance of the glass with the surrounding brick and concrete seemed too convenient. Was there something attached to the edge of the glass where we couldn’t see? If the glass was broken, would the wood weigh the remaining fragment down and pull something? “Let’s play it safe. We avoid the tripwires, we avoid the glass.” “Whatever you say. I’m all for playing safe,” he responded. I led the way around the trap. I left a trail of dead bugs behind us as we made our way to the center, murdering them with larger bugs and mashing them into the ground. A path. I wondered about Grue. Couldn’t read his expression, couldn’t note his tone either. Was he thinking about the same thing I was thinking? We’d already fallen for one trap. Not here, but back in Brockton Bay. Back then, when he’d had his second trigger event. It had been the Nine, back then, and though he wasn’t giving me any clues there was something wrong, he wasn’t indicating that he was his old self, from back in the good old days. I suspected he hadn’t fully bounced back, even after all this time, might never. We circled around eight teenage girls, sitting in a circle, crowns of splintered wood nailed through their skulls. One had fallen over in response to the wind, but the others were still upright, propped up with wooden planks nailed into their spines. Less blood than the head wounds, I noted. Some pre-death, others post? The numbers were on the pieces of wood, registration numbers or something from the crate that had been smashed for materials. One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, nine. I looked up. Number eight sat on the bulb of a street light, a long dress blowing in the wind, directly above the circle. Her crown was the tallest, and for her to be so rigid, there had to be a whole assortment of planks nailed to her. “Nine Kings,” I said. “A woman king?” Imp asked. “She’s the victim,” I said. The killer is her… husband, for lack of a better word.” “They’ve resurrected all of the old members. Cloned them,” Revel said. Clones, I mused, agreeing. My suspicions were confirmed, and I wasn’t surprised. I’d hoped for different, but the reality of what we faced had been hinted at early on, when it had been revealed that the Nine had hit a tinker’s laboratory and made off with materials that could be used to mass produce lifeforms. King. The leader, the founder of the group. Were the numbers in an order corresponding to when they had joined, then? Would the second member of the Nine be ten through eighteen? “Got a live one!” Imp called out, interrupting my thoughts. “…Kind of alive.” I turned to look. A fat man was shifting in a restless way, his chest rising and falling quickly in unsteady movements. One arm jerked. “Leave him,” I said. “Don’t touch.” “He could be a witness,” Rifle said. “Or a trap,” I responded. “I doubt he’s in a state to fill us in on anything. We’ll move on, wait for heroes to follow the path I’m marking. They’ll handle medical care for wounded.” “That’s fucked up,” Rifle said. “We could at least put him out of his misery, then.” “I’m not willing to get close enough to check,” I said. “And I’m not willing for you to get close either.” “I-” Parian started. Then she stopped. The fat man deflated in an instant as a small collection of what looked like trilobites found their way out of his rear end. Slick with gore, they darted forward a short distance on their hundreds of little legs, then turned our way, bristling with spines. Tails trailed behind each of them, twice as long as the foot-long creatures, narrow, with stingers on the ends. I could hear a hissing, but I wasn’t sure if it was from the creatures or the way the spines rubbed against one another. “Oh… god,” she said. She took a step back, with Foil stepping forward, as if to defend her. “Breed’s power,” I said. “They’re mostly harmless, for now.” “For now?” Rifle asked. I watched as they made their way up the side of a building to a corpse that was hung there. The corpse had been cut into sections, the arms and legs each severed at the joints and reconnected with lengths of chain. Breed’s creatures found their way into the body through the holes in the neck, mouth and rear end. It jerked a little as they worked bodies the size of footballs into apertures only a fraction of that size, then went still. “For now,” I answered Rifle. “They start off the size of a lemon, lurk in spots where they can get access to orifices or sites of injury, or like you see here, corpses. Inside beer bottles, in toilet bowls, bedcovers, on the underside of kitchen tables, even inside food. Then they burrow inside, wait until the target is still and quiet for an hour or two, paralyze the target, and emit pheromones to call others of their kind to them. They devour the target from the inside out, molt once or twice as they digest the fats and proteins they ate, then find a new target. It’s a process that takes a week to two weeks, depending on the availability of food sources.” I could see Getaway shift position, folding his hands behind his back, as if he could shield his rear end. His mouth had shut into a firm line. His nose was still unprotected, I noted. Even Rachel seemed a little concerned. She glanced at her dog. “They aren’t a danger to us,” I said. “Probably. They choose easier targets over harder ones, and there are enough corpses around here that we aren’t worth the trouble. What we should worry about is the later stages. When they’re about the size of a full-grown human being, they’ll do two or three major molts with big physical changes, gaining some natural weapons, including a pellet-spit that kind of acts like a shotgun blast with fragments that dissolve into flesh-melting acid.” “Um.” Rifle said. “You know this how?” Imp asked. “Read his file,” I answered. “Shouldn’t we kill them before they get big?” Foil asked. “Not worth the time it would take to track them down,” I said. “We don’t have any strong offensive powers, they’re durable against stuff like conventional ammunition and physical blows, and he generally produces about nine or ten per day.” “That was ten,” Getaway said. “Even assuming it’s only been one day since Breed woke up,” I said, “The scenes they’ve left behind suggest there are nine clones of each copy of the Nine. Going by the numbers-” “Twenty-nine copies, at least,” Revel said. “Twenty-nine copies,” I said. “Two-hundred-and-fifty-plus members of the Nine currently active. Nine Breeds among them, meaning there’re probably nine other clusters around here, taking advantage of abundant food.” “Breed’s creatures. Can you control them?” this from Revel, taking advantage of the stunned silence. I glanced up at the body the things had invaded. I tailored my response so both Revel and the Undersiders could make sense of it. “I can’t control those things, and I can’t sense them either.” “A shame. That would simplify things just a little.” It would. I wouldn’t have minded the firepower, either, even with their particular diet. “Let’s keep moving,” I said. “If we stop for every horror show, we might be stuck here a while. My gut’s telling me time is of the essence.” “I’m feeling a little out of my depth,” Getaway said, his voice quiet, as he fell into step to keep up. “That’s a good instinct,” I replied without looking at him. “Trust it.” “You’re telling me to leave?” “I can’t make you do anything,” I said. “But you think I should leave?” “If you feel like you should, yeah.” “And does that extend to me and Rifle?” Cozen asked, her tone cold. “I don’t know. Yeah, if your instincts tell you to go, then get going now,” I said. I pointed at the ground around a hose. There was a puddle that had spread beneath the hose’s opening. My bugs had died on contact with it. “Acid, not water. Don’t walk in it. Rachel, watch your dogs.” Rachel grunted acknowledgement. “Don’t change the subject. You want us gone,” Cozen said. “No. All the help we can get is appreciated,” I said. I glanced at her. “At the same time, if push comes to shove and you can’t hold it together, it’s going to hurt us all.” “You don’t think we can hold it together?” Cozen asked. “You’re an unknown quantity. Anyone else that’s here, I can trust them to hold their own because I know how they operate. I don’t know you. I don’t know how you react in a crisis, how you’ll respond if you’re pushed to the edge, one way or another. Grue and the others are vouching for you, so I’m shelving those concerns and trusting they have a good sense of your abilities. I’ll maintain that trust until you give me an indication I shouldn’t. Getaway saying he’s spooked is an indication.” “I’m spooked,” Imp said. “Can I go home and sit on the couch in my underwear, eating cake? I’ll cross my fingers for you guys, if you want.” “You’re talking like you’re in charge,” Cozen said. “Grue leads the Undersiders.” “I’m not an Undersider,” I said. “It doesn’t matter. I’m in charge anyways.” And Grue can speak for himself, I thought, but I didn’t say it aloud. I could see her reacting to that, even without the extra quip. I watched expressions cross her face: irritation, anger, indignation, and a trace of fear. “Grue is a good leader,” I said, “But this is my project. Something I’ve been working towards and thinking about for the last two years. Leaving the Undersiders, making contacts, helping hold things together, maintaining the peace and eliminating possible issues. Everything I did, it’s been to prepare for this in some fashion.” “A little unilateral, don’t you think?” “It’s her project,” Grue said. “My orders are to follow her orders.” I could see how little she liked that. But she maintained a professional demeanor. “Accepted. You realize we don’t have to follow your orders?” Grue nodded, silent. Cozen seemed to come to a decision. “We will anyways. As Weaver pointed out, this is unfamiliar ground for us. We’ll defer to your experience.” “Thank you,” Grue and I said, almost in sync. I turned away to hide my smile, in case it could be made out beneath the fabric of my mask. Progress was slow. The traps seemed to accrue in number as we drew closer to the center, as did the corpses. More than once, we were forced to take the long way around, as traps or pools of acid barred our paths. We passed an area with rows of identical looking cabins, then ran into the Protectorate. Chevalier, Exalt, and others, examining the area, a block and a half away. I got their attention, then pointed in the direction we were headed. It wasn’t much more effort to mark out traps around them as well. I made sure to mark each with a cluster of bugs, and bug-letters spelling out the nature of the danger. Less trouble to move in parallel directions than reunite. The center of the spiral wasn’t the center of the town in a geographic sense, but in a sense of where the town’s heart and focus were. We closed in on the front steps of what looked to be a town hall. Empty ski racks stood to our right, two draped with corpses that had been flung and broken over them. By the time we were halfway through the plaza, navigating a maze where we tried to find a path that didn’t force us to tread on potential traps or corpses, Tecton and the others had caught up, reaching the edge of the area. “Thoughts?” Revel asked. “Before you reach the center of the display?” “He wanted to present this for effect,” I said. “It’s why he set up Pyrotechnical’s stuff to blow any aircraft out of the sky. The traps are to force us to take our time, force us to savor it.” “Savor?” Grue asked. “Everything Jack does is for effect. The same way a dog sort of raises its hackles to look bigger, tougher, or the way we used our reputation to seem more unstoppable than we were, Jack keys his actions for psychological effect. All of this is to scare, to drive us to hesitate when it comes to confronting him, push us to think of ways to avoid dealing with him instead of ways to catch up to him and beat his face in. Or, conversely, some personality types might get pushed to be reckless, to deal with him so he couldn’t bother them anymore.” I glanced at Rachel as I said that last bit. She’d instructed her dogs to stay, so they wouldn’t trip any of the traps in our way. I made my way over a hump of bodies. The members of the Nine who’d spilled acid all over the place had melted nine police officers and left them in a heap. Crawler? Only one that fit. Our destination was the kind of spot, like a courthouse’s steps, where someone could give a speech. There were two objects covered in tarps, a man who was in a reclining position at the far end of the stairs, and ten dead bodies arrayed in a star shape, limbs bent to mark the direction of the spiral. I checked under the tarps, then bit my lip. I turned around and gave Golem instructions as he made his way past the traps. He created platforms to step over to serve as a shortcut. Grace, Tecton, Wanton and Cuff hung back, looking grim. They were joined by Chevalier and the others. Golem joined me at the top of the stairs. “How’s your headspace?” I asked. “Terrified.” “In a way that’s going to impact our job here?” “No. No. You told me what to expect. Kind of. I didn’t imagine this.” I shook my head. “No.” There was a voice from beneath the other tarp. A strangled scream. “A recording,” I lied. Then I elaborated. “It’s a trap. Two tarps, have to guess the right one. Guess the wrong one and you blow up. This one. Move the tarp.” He hesitated. “Trust me,” I said. Even as I lie for everyone’s benefit. Rachel and Golem worked together to move the tarp aside. A television. “The tape’s already in the machine, you can hit play to start it,” the man sitting at the edge of the stairs said. “Wait, Weaver, stop. Who was that?” Revel asked. “Who?” I asked. “What do you mean?” “Look to your right.” I did. The other tarp, more corpses, the man who was now standing at the edge of the stairs, the little crenelation at the top of the stair’s railing, then beyond that, cabins, restaurants, hotels and motels, the rest of the town, and mountains in the background. “Not sure I get what you’re saying,” I said. “What’s wrong?” Grue asked. “I don’t know. I’m getting communications from Revel, and she’s acting funny.” “Here,” the man said. “Let me get that for you.” The others stepped out of the way as he approached me, Golem, and the television set. He reached for the play button. I caught his wrist. “He’s dangerous,” Revel said. “I beg your pardon?” the man asked. “Attack.” Attack? I shook my head a little, releasing the man’s wrist. “I appreciate the offer, sir, but let’s be safe and make sure this isn’t a trap.” “Can’t argue with that,” he said, smiling. “This is what hell is like,” Revel said. “Listen to me.” “Tattletale, are you there?” I asked. “Tattletale?” Revel asked. “Damn all of you. It doesn’t matter. Listen, Taylor, Master and Stranger protocols are in effect. Your perceptions are altered, understand?” I felt my heart quicken a little at that. “I understand.” “There is a person to your right. Not a teammate, former or current. I need you to kill that person, don’t ask why, don’t think too much about it. Draw your knife.” I drew my knife. “Look. I’ll tell you who to attack.” I glanced to my right, my eyes falling on Rachel. It was a bit presumptuous to say she wasn’t a teammate. Not a team player, but she’d done her share. “No, to her right.” I looked past the man and set my eyes on Golem. “I’m more inclined to think you’re a voice in my head that’s fucking with me, than to suspect Golem’s up to something, but-” “Oh hell,” Revel said. “I got this. Taylor, do me a favor, give the order to ‘go dark’.” “Go dark,” I said. To my left, Grue surrounded himself in thick darkness. Nothing happened. “It didn’t work.” A spray of blood leaped from the man’s throat. We each stepped away, and I hurried forward to stop Rachel from backing into the other tarp. We watched in stunned silence as blood poured from the wound. “Hey,” a female voice said, “Do me a favor, let me know if there are any traps at the bottom of the stairs?” “Who-” Golem started. “Just tell me.” “Acid,” I said, raising my knife so I could defend myself if I had to. Imp appeared as she booted the bleeding man in the small of the back. He rolled down the stairs, leaving spatters and sprays of blood as he made his way down, and then collapsed in a pile of bodies. He started screaming, a gurgling sound. I could see Chevalier and the others staring in shock, adopting fighting stances, unsure of how to proceed. It looked like Chevalier was talking to someone, gesturing with his free hand. Was it Revel, on the comms? “My schtick,” Imp spat the words at the dying man. I could mark the moment he died, because the blanks in my perception began to fill in. Nice Guy, I thought. I’d badly underestimated the severity of his power. I’d known he would be in their roster, had kept it in mind throughout, even told myself to be ready for him, and then the moment we ran into him, well, he was another face in the crowd. The connection wasn’t possible. I watched as the acid ate away at him, burns creeping upward and spreading across his flesh, bubbling as it reached the cartilage of his nose and ears. “Thank you, Tattletale,” Revel said. “I… think I can tolerate your presence on this channel for the moment. Provided you don’t cause any trouble that makes me regret it.” “I’d do that anyways. So. One more trap down. Keep in mind there are eight more of him.” “What was he going to do?” Golem asked. “Probably ask you all to stand there and stay still while he murdered each of you in turn,” Tattletale said. “Tattletale,” I said. “Call my phone, and I’ll put you on speaker.” “Okay. Let’s see.” “Six-three-zero-five-five-” Revel started. My phone rang. I picked up and put Tattletale on speaker, as Revel sighed audibly in my ear. “Is the video player safe?” I asked. I turned my head towards the television. “Yeah. All the rest of this, it’s to scare. It’s also meant to delay. Jack probably expected the heroes to take a little while to find this, to get by the traps. The spiral you mentioned, it would have been maybe a day or two before they put the pieces together, then another three to six hours before they navigated it to the center.” “Yay us,” Imp said. She got more powerful, I thought. She’d been able to speak while using her power. Nuances. “Press play.” I hit the button. It was Jack, here, in the center of the plaza. The camera wobbled as someone followed him, recording. I could see shadows of the other Slaughterhouse Nine in the background. Hookwolf. Skinslip. Night Hag. “This message is intended for Theodore Anders. Kaiser’s son. Stop the video here and go find him. Time is of the essence, I should say. How much essence and time you have available depends on how incompetent you heroes are. Hurry now, I’ll wait.” “No need to wait,” Tattletale commented. “He’s standing right here.” There were a few looks of surprise at that. Eyes fell on Golem. There was a pause, then Jack started speaking. “You missed the deadline, Theodore. Simple game of hide and seek, and you had two years to do it, to find and kill me. You failed.” Golem’s gloves made a small creaking sound as he clenched his fists. “You remember the deal, right? Two years to find me. Two years, you fight past my minions, you look me in the eye, and then you kill me. And if you fail? A thousand people die. Your sister joins them, and you’re the last on the list.” “Golem,” Revel said. She started to say something else, but Jack cut her off. “That pain you feel, that self loathing? The fear and dawning realization of what you’ve done? Capture that, Theodore Anders. Hold on to that feeling and use it, because I’m pulling your leg.” Golem startled as if he’d been slapped. His eyes had lowered, and now they returned to the screen. “Circumstances beyond my control delayed me. So I’m going to do you the favor of extending the deadline, and you’re going to do me the favor of forgiving my lateness. Agreed? Agreed.” “Can we not agree?” Imp asked, uselessly. Jack continued. “This is a prelude. See, all of these guys just woke up, and they needed a chance to stretch, flex their abilities and make sure everything works right. Turn the camera around, Bonesaw dear.” The camera panned around. There were other members of the Slaughterhouse Nine present, standing in a loose half-circle. Hundreds of them. Nine of each. Thirty groups. I recognized most, could guess as to the others, who didn’t have their powers or full transformations going. In the middle of that semicircle, lying on the ground, civilians had their hands folded on the backs of their heads. In many cases they’d been stacked like cordwood. Many bound, others too terrified to move. “Oh god,” Golem said. Jack spoke, his voice calm, clearly relishing this. The camera returned to him, focusing on his face. “I promised a thousand bodies. A thousand kills, if you failed to meet the challenge we set in our bargain. Except there’s a bit of a problem. See, things have changed. The Endbringers have apparently doubled down. Terror is a fact of life. As commodities go, this one has depreciated quite a bit in the time I’ve been gone. We’ve really got to step up my game if I’m going to pass muster and get on the front page of the paper, don’t you agree?” “No,” Golem said. Silent, I took his hand, holding it. My eyes didn’t leave the screen as I studied it for details, matching members of the Slaughterhouse Nine to the files I’d studied in recent months. “Now, I’m still a man of my word,” Jack said. “The original deal stands, of course. That’s why each member of my army here is going to walk away with three or four of the locals here. We’ve whittled down the number to an even nine hundred and ninety-nine. Let’s say you have… hmm. Until the twenty-fourth. Five days.” We watched in silence. What’s the rub, the trick? “If you fail to kill me, I disband the Nine.” “What?” Imp asked. “What?” I frowned. Not what I expected. “That’s not an enticement to leave me alive,” Jack purred the words, sounding pleased with himself. “See, Bonesaw did a very good job of putting my army together. Each is in the prime of their life, fit, in fighting shape.” “Aw shucks,” a girl’s voice said, offscreen. “Their psychologies are close to what they should be, all things considered. Except for tweaks, here and there. I’m good when it comes to wrangling the wicked, but Bonesaw apparently felt two hundred and eighty would be too many, even for me. She’s made them loyal. They’ll listen better. The most unpredictable and dangerous have been touched up, the edges rounded off. While interacting with me, anyways. I won’t sully your experience on that front. “No. They’re obedient and servile only when I require them to be. If you fail in your task, then I’ll give them one last task, to kill the one thousand people we agreed to in the terms of our wager, and then I’ll disband the group. They’ll be free to run rampant, to do as they see fit. Wreak chaos. I’ll take a vacation, sit back with a Mai Tai and watch the show.” “Fuck me,” Tattletale said. “Fuck,” I echoed her, agreeing. Golem, for his part, had gone stone-still. “I’ll be leaving members of the Slaughterhouse Nine behind at regular intervals as I beat a not-so-hasty retreat. Your choice if you deal with them or leave them be. But if I get one report from them that you’re getting help, one report that you’re using others as a crutch, then that’s it. Order goes out, hostages die, Nine go off leash, and you get to watch the body count rise.” “Five days, Theodore. Noon on the twenty-fourth. I look forward to meeting you.” The video cut out. “Tattletale?” I asked. “Already on it. Word’s going out to all the major players.” I noted Chevalier’s approach. He had used Golem’s platform to reach the base of the stairs, stepping around Nice Guy. “Major players?” Grue asked. “Everyone Tattletale’s been meeting with,” I said. “I heard through the feed,” Chevalier said. “The restrictions stand.” “The restrictions stand,” I agreed. I explained for the benefit of the others. “We treat this as a Simurgh situation. Control feedback, control exposure. Anyone and everyone that potentially comes in contact with Jack could be a factor in Dinah’s end of the world scenario. Powerful individuals are especially important in this. The more powerful they are, the more important it is to minimize or prevent contact.” “Um. I probably sound dumb as I ask this,” Imp said, raising a hand as if she were asking a question in class, “But what about the nearly-three-hundred lunatic psycho people with crazy powers that he’s threatening to unleash on the world?” “We’ll deal with them,” I said. “With your okay, Chevalier?” He fell silent. “Chevalier, I thought-” “Yes. You proposed your strike squad. You’ve shown their ability to deal with different situations. Fine. But I’m assigning two tertiary squads to you.” “Chicago and Brockton Bay teams.” “I was going to say-” “They’re teams I’m familiar with,” I said. “Please.” He fell silent again. “Work with me here, and if we’re all standing at the end, I’m yours. Whatever you want to use me for, however, it doesn’t matter. If this blows over and the end of the world doesn’t happen, like some think it won’t, then the deal stands.” “I’ll get in contact with Miss Militia and Crucible.” “If it’s alright, can we have Clockblocker take control of the Wards for this excursion?” “Whatever you need,” Chevalier said. “You realize we’re pinning a lot on you?” “On Golem more than me,” I said. “We’re going to cheat our way through this, bend every rule, but it all hinges on Golem being able to hold his own.” “Jack’s going to try to set Golem up with a long chain of lose-lose situations,” Tattletale said. “Force him to either let the innocents die and maintain the chase, or let Jack pull away. We already got one big advantage by getting to this tape as fast as we did. Let’s not show our hand. Dragon’s on the line. We’ve got Dragon’s Teeth and Azazel models moving to the front.” “Close in the net, then act decisively,” I said. “Coordinated strikes. If the Thanda are willing, a meteor strike in the right time and place could do wonders.” There were nods of agreement from around the group. Golem turned around and walked away. “Golem,” I said. He was already halfway down the stairs. He used the panels at his waist to form an even footpath, with hands turned at right angles, positioned where he could put his feet on them. “Golem!” I called out. I handed my phone to Grue, then hurried after him. He stopped as he set his foot on the first outstretched hand of pavement, but he didn’t turn around. His voice was low, barely a whisper. “Stop, Taylor. Leave me alone. Please.” “You’re running?” “I’m… no. I’m definitely in. I have to be, don’t I?” “But this is a lot to take in. Jack, he talked to me about ripples. About stuff extending outward, the lives that are affected.” “I remember. You told me that.” “Right here, in this dinky little ski resort, he murdered a few hundred people, just as a warm up. How many people on the periphery of it all are affected? How many people across America, across the world, know people in Killington? Or know the people who know people in this town?” “You can’t think about things on that scale.” “I have to. Jack does, and I have to understand him. If I don’t pay attention to it, if I ignore it all, pursuing only the end result, the target, then I’m acting like my dad. Kind of. Either way, I lose.” “You care about the people who died, and you’re thinking about them that way for a good reason. That’s not putting you on a path to being like either of them.” “But that kind of consideration, letting it really sink in, it eats away at you, doesn’t it? Shouldn’t it?” “It should,” I said. “There’s a reason we go numb, and I get that, but I don’t want to go down that road, not so quickly. Not knowing just how easy it would be to revel in it, or to stop caring about the dead. I’m there, and I’m…” The stoic face on his helm stared down at the ground. “Theo?” “I hear you guys talking about it, and you’re right there, in your element. This is something that you’ve been working on for a long time, and there’s almost an excitement to you. Like you’ve been in a kind of stasis for the entire time I’ve known you, and only now are you really coming back to life.” “It’s not like that,” I said. “No. I mean, I’m not blaming you, or saying you’re a bad person. You’re good at this, at taking a challenge head on, finding workarounds, manipulating the system to our advantage. You’re doing it for good reasons, to help, to stop bad people. I saw glimmers of that excitement, of the real Weaver, while you were dealing with our bosses, and making connections, offering deals to the bad guys you thought you could bring to our side. But I’ve spent a long time thinking about Jack and watching old footage of him, and figuring out my enemy, my nemesis, and it’s like… that’s you.” “You’re his nemesis, Weaver. I’m the reason he’s here, the reason these people died like this. But you’re his counterpart, his mirror. You’ve got that same excitement Jack has, you think along the same lines, in strategy and counter-strategy. You thrive on conflict, just like he does. And I… I’m not like that.” I couldn’t muster a response. “So right now? You should go back. Forget I said this, because it’s… I’m regretting opening my mouth already. Work on formatting the strategies you already worked out to fit around the rules of Jack’s game, because that’s a good thing. It’s what we need. But let me have half an hour or an hour or however long I need to myself. Until we stop waiting and stop letting Jack think we haven’t found the tape yet. Let me take a moment and think about these people.” “You’re not to blame for them,” I said. “The Nine would have killed anyways.” “I know. I get that. But I played a part in the sequence of events, and maybe these people wouldn’t have been the ones to die if I hadn’t made that wager with Jack… and I guess I think everyone else that cares has better things to do. You trained me, the others trained me. I- I guess I’m as ready as I could ever be. I’ll fight when the time comes, wade through the gauntlet he sets in his wake and I’ll succeed or fail. But I’m not a strategist, and these people need someone to mourn them. Let me be useful in my own way, right here, right now.” I opened my mouth to voice a reply, then shut it. A moment passed, and Golem set about walking on the hands he’d raised from the ground, just two or so feet above the bodies and the streets that were painted with blood. I stood where I was, watching as he steadily made his way to the safe zone I’d drawn out on the ground. He stopped only to gesture for Tecton and Grace not to follow, then walked on, out of sight. It’s not that I don’t care, I thought. But- But what? I couldn’t articulate my thoughts. But… we need a strategist, we need a plan, before all hell breaks loose, I thought. Developing that, coming up with answers, fighting, it’s going to do a lot more good in the long run than compassion all on its own. I looked down at Nice Guy, at the foot of the stairs, a fleshy mess that was slowly dissolving into the acid pile, which only spread and served as more acid to melt flesh. I realized I was still holding my knife, from the time of the brief skirmish. I sheathed it. Then, as Golem had told me to, I pushed him, the dead, the maimed and the lost out of mind and turned back to the core group, to offer my services, to coordinate and administrate. This entry was posted in 26.01 and tagged Bastard, Bitch, Chevalier, Cozen, Cuff, Grace, Grue, Imp, Jack Slash, Nice Guy, Revel, Tattletale, Taylor, Tecton, Theo, Wanton by wildbow. Bookmark the permalink. 432 thoughts on “Sting 26.1” Charles Borner on July 18, 2013 at 00:04 said: Typo thread! USE EET! Or Skitter shall come for THEE! randomsoul2 on July 18, 2013 at 00:15 said: “He wanted to present this for effect” I said. “It’s why he set up Pyrotechnical’s stuff to blow any aircraft out of the sky. The traps are to force us to take our time, force us to savor it.” Missing punctuation after effect. mremaknu on July 18, 2013 at 00:26 said: Grue never wouldn’t necessarily have gone through what he did. <– double negative Her crown was the tallest, and for her to be so rigid. <– sentence fragment Cloned them,” Revel said. <– extended italics put the pieces together, then another three to six hours before they navigated “ <– missing period, possibly more words? I’m a good when it comes to wrangling the wicked <– a good what? Pinkhair on July 18, 2013 at 00:58 said: “I’m a good when ” Good, or a god? It’s already fixed. Removed ‘a’. Rika Covenant on July 18, 2013 at 00:27 said: Grue never wouldn’t necessarily have gone through what he did. << Oddly written. I could make out a tripwire strung betw << doublespace Her crown was the tallest, and for her to be so rigid. << Doesn't make sense? Clones, I agreed, my suspicions confirmed. << No quotes “He wanted to present this for effect” I said. << Missing punctuation ther three to six hours before they navigated “ << Missing punctuation “If it’s alright, can we have Clockblocker take control of the Wards for this excursion?” << shouldn't he be Protectorate by now? Or is it like a Protectorate team member leading a Wards team like has happened before? Dinstow on July 18, 2013 at 00:49 said: Clockblocker leading the Wards is just part of Taylor’s plan. I’m sure a member of the Protectorate has assumed control of the Wards before, but even if they haven’t, the S9K situation sort of calls for non-standard actions. Reveen on July 18, 2013 at 00:52 said: Clockie better have kept those line launcher gauntlets or Weaver’s gonna slap the shit out of him. Keno Black on July 19, 2013 at 22:43 said: She’ll feed him a continuous stream of fire hands while reminding him that going against her BRILLIANT ideas is a bad career move. ants. I meant ants… MrVoid on July 18, 2013 at 00:53 said: Not sure where this belongs but Cozen is not listed in the tags. Unmaker on July 18, 2013 at 00:56 said: “I’m a good when it comes to wrangling the wicked …” Perhaps either “I’m good when it comes to wrangling the wicked” or “I’m a god when it comes to wrangling the wicked” JN on July 18, 2013 at 02:41 said: a man who was in a reclining position at the far end of the stars, Should be stairs, I think. Dis on July 21, 2013 at 02:45 said: Dunno, sounds like a sudden poetic aside to me. UPOTN on July 18, 2013 at 03:11 said: “Of course they got children,” Should probably be: Of course they got the children, Missing the opening quote after “I said.” “We each stepped away, and I hurried forward to stop Rachel from backing into the other tarp.” Should that actually be “tarp” (as in tarpaulin)? Or should it be “trap”? wash17 on July 19, 2013 at 00:52 said: Ask not for whom the cricket chirp tolls……It tolls for THEE! This is why I have iPass! So I don’t have to stop and dig around for change! Scipio on July 18, 2013 at 00:10 said: Yay Clockblocker lives. Also, thretening to disband the S9 is an interesting threat. imsomeone on July 18, 2013 at 07:01 said: Talk about loss/loss scenarios. Jack wins, he disbands the nine and won’t be there to keep them in check. Jack loses, dies and he won’t be there to keep the nine in check anymore. negadarkwing on July 18, 2013 at 08:07 said: Yes! Clocky is alive! For now. Damnit Jack this is why nobody wants to play with you. You totally skew the damn thing, then unbalance it more. Competitive balance man, competitive balance. See you want them not to cheat, you need to not be a cheater when you make the rules dude. Matt Davis on June 1, 2018 at 12:21 said: I thought I was the only one who thought the old CockBlocker was dead. and I’m 5 years late Jerden on July 18, 2013 at 08:07 said: When you look at it that way, there’s no real reason to play by the rules he’s set out… Heh heh heh. Weaver, other sideline characters, it’s time to cheat. Psycho Gecko on July 18, 2013 at 16:45 said: Playing fair is the act of a desperate person with no other options. That really sounds like our protagonists right now. Quoting the Empire of Man series, “If you’re not cheating, you’re not trying hard enough.” Especially if lives are on the line. Willy (@Willy591) on July 18, 2013 at 00:17 said: Wow, Nice Guy was an interesting inversion of Imp and reminds me of the little kid in Vegas. Prince or something like that. I guess his power was that he appears as someone you don’t want to attack. Which is quite powerful. Pandemonious Ivy on July 18, 2013 at 00:42 said: August Prince. And yes. Wonder if Jack “terminated his involvement” with the nine because he always finished last in their games. Packbat on July 18, 2013 at 00:53 said: Given Imp’s apparent ability to circumvent his power, it was probably possible for Jack to take him out via an ambush — I could imagine that was how he ended up leaving the Nine. Also, I see what you did there. And the Stranger Theme: youtube.com/watch?v=eTviNc52igI The Nine were probably the worst choice of group for Nice Guy to change. He has a power that makes him seem like a team-mate, someone that nobody wants to kill, and who does he hang out with? People who have absolutely no compunctions about killing their own teammates. for Nice Guy to join Toma Gwyn (@Tomagwyn) on October 31, 2018 at 15:25 said: It probably doesn’t quite work that way. I’m thinking its different for each person he effects regardless of how they view their teammates. xdrngy on July 18, 2013 at 12:36 said: Seems he gets people to do what he asks too. I’d say he’s alternately a voice in the crowd and a trusted friend/teammate/professional/not someone you know very well personally but you respect and trust them Well, he just seemed like such a nice guy. Reminds me of a concept for a super that a friend of mine had. He called him Dead Ringer. You know his face from somewhere…. Oh yeah we met at the company christmas party didn’t we? Forgot your keys, sure I’ll let you in. So hows your wife? Oh yeah I did owe you money… Because this is the first comment to draw the comparison, I’m going to go ahead and leave this here: in the comments to Aisha’s interlude back in Arc 13, Wildbow mentioned that the original inspiration for Imp’s powers was a member of the earliest draft version of the Slaughterhouse Nine called “Nice Guy”. Her schtick, indeed. Yeah. It was kind of an in-joke, actually (authorial in-joke? Personal joke?), that Imp took him down, given where her power was drawn from. I think the TV Tropes term is “Mythology Gag”. At least, that’s the page I added it to. 😉 Landis963 on July 19, 2013 at 02:02 said: I think Development Gag might work better. IMO. checks Good call — I’ll move it over. Jack’s “games” never cease to terrify/awe me, I have to say. The powers of the two Nine members shown this chapter are interesting…Breed’s reminds me of Nilbog’s. Nice Guy’s seems halfway between August Prince and Imp. The Sandman on July 18, 2013 at 12:31 said: Breed’s shouldn’t remind you of Nilbog. It should remind you of XCOM. Because Breed’s power is “can spawn vast numbers of chryssalids”. More or less. soulpelt on July 18, 2013 at 00:19 said: Well then……FUCK. Awesome chapter Wildbow. theant87 on July 18, 2013 at 00:21 said: Glad to see they are looking into just bombing them with a meteor. Theo was right, and trickster said it as well. She seems to thrive the more dangerous the fight. Glad to see old Clockie is still around. The red hands only have two members? Well its Jack vs. Weaver, with Cauldron having some kind of plan. Place your bets people. “I say we take off and nuke the entire site from orbit. … It’s the only way to be sure.” mc2rpg on July 18, 2013 at 00:28 said: Unfortunately nuking the site from orbit doesn’t actually confirm anything when dealing with the S9. There are quite a few of them that would laugh off the actual explosion from a nuke, and then Bonesaw would deal with the radiation, which would be the real killer for most people. I don’t think that many could survive. I like the nuke idea. If in doubt, unleash a radioactive fireball of death. Crawler probably could, anyone inside a container Manton was protecting could, I will laugh in the face of anyone that thinks Bonesaw is dying to a nuke, and Grey Boy could probably also walk it off. There are plenty of them you probably wouldn’t actually catch with a nuke as well. Nukes just don’t cut it at the higher ends of power in Worm. AMR on July 18, 2013 at 08:16 said: Crawler is probably more vulnerable to nukes than, say, Mannequin. As I’ve said in another post, he was ridiculously though but no Siberian. The Siberians can shield them but I don’t think they can come with a practical solution that brings them all under their power. So most would probably survive, but not all of them. We have no idea what Grey Boy can do. If his unfair power is solely people-based (something I doubt, by the way) then a nuke can kill him. But they’re not all at the higher ends of power, so a bomb could kill quite a few. At this point, it’s a lose/lose situation. A fireball of death is unlikely to make things worse. On TV Tropes we refer to this as the Godzilla Threshold. It’s not the first time that it’s been crossed in Worm, of course. Ah yes, the Godzilla Threshold. It was said somewhere that they have tried nuking Endbringers. Still, it might work for most of the Slaughterhouse. I say Cauldron pushes that button Bonesaw gave them. Then they send in Contessa to kill the rest. Why can’t it ever be that easy 😦 I slowly begin to understand how Cauldron operates. Contessas power, ‘The Path To Certain Victory’ is addictive. Althalus on July 18, 2013 at 00:28 said: Nuke them from orbit, it’s the only way to be sure. That’s why I support Endbringering the world from orbit. Lets wait until we find out why they are trying to end the world before deciding that, okay? Fake Name on July 18, 2013 at 00:23 said: YES! God damn I waited too long to hear that he’s still alive. zoetewey on July 18, 2013 at 00:36 said: I’d been assuming he was dead. It’s cool to know otherwise. Trusting on July 18, 2013 at 00:40 said: thirded , so glad he is alive !! I’m guessing the “death moment” was when one of his frozen lines impacted behemoth’s core, and the power was canceled out like Chevalier’s was. Good call. The threads collapsed after Behemoth had already pulled himself free, when he clapped. My guess is that they weren’t actually his lines — that Kid Win or Defiant or some other tinker had made a time-freeze device that Behemoth’s clap destroyed. It surprised me a lot, actually — I thought if he was alive it would have been mentioned in passing somewhere in the wake of Behemoth. Well, he was, before Khonzu, or h/e you spell that one’s name. He was mentioned — his being alive wasn’t. Although perhaps Taylor wouldn’t have mentioned him if he were dead. Now all Clocky has to do is survive the Slaughterhouse, and whatever else Wildbow has left to throw at the world. I think we’re about due for giant purple gorillas. Maybe armed with lasers. I made reference to the glib way she offhandedly names him as being evidece that he wasn’t dead and no one believed me! Feels so good. Yog on July 18, 2013 at 00:23 said: This is not directly related to the chapter itself (which is glorious and to which I’ll leave a review later, when I reread it), but something I have to say. One thing I would LOVE to see (as a fanfic / omake/ etc) is an alternative heroic S9 (from a parallel world). Because heroic Crawler? It’s a stuff epic tales are made from. A hero that loses his humanity each time he fights. That has to suffer to get power to stop others from suffering. That becomes more and more monstrous in appearance with each day he tries to make a difference. And mr Nice Guy is just made for non-lethal takedowns. You do realize that would make that world’s premier villain… …actually, that makes me want to read the AU-fic more. Wait, that would make Panacea a true villain, too, with Bonesaw frantically tinkering to try to keep up with the biological horrors she warps people, creatures, and germs into. Plus, she would have teamed up with Skitter to produce relay bugs and relay shrimp that can eat and reproduce enough to cover the whole world by now. Now I want to figure out the AU-S9. I guess Taylor would be the alternate Jack Slash, and Panacea the alternate Bonesaw.. would Regent be the alternate for Cherish? Or would it be more appropriate to count in old members like King and Grey Boy rather than shorter-lived ones like Cherish and Burnscar? I’d nominate Defiant for the alter-Mannequin, though. Taylor doesn’t work as an alternative Jack Slash – too young; Jack was one of the first parahumans ever. I think that just going straight for reverse is not really a good idea. Too simple and,at the same time, convoluted (in how situation has to twist). You could do it this way: Flip Jack Slash with Harbringer, thus making Number Man the leader of the evil team, Grey Boy with Eidolon and Alexandria with Manton. This leaves you with the Triumvirate of Syberian, Grey Boy and Legend. Keep Mannequin evil (because Simurgh). Keep most of S9 evil. Replace Crawler with… Hmm, I’m not sure. Weld maybe? Ages don’t fit, but still. Perhaps flip Panacea with Bonesaw. This could indeed work. But keep “no epidemics” rule to stop large scale deaths. Skitter remains the same, I think, only now she’s against Number Man / Harbinger, not Jack. And I can see her being one of the few to actively volunteer to be Bonesaw’s test subject. I assumed the ages would be reversed as well. You know, with Siberian and Lung as heroes, they could probably combine to give Leviathan a more than interesting fight. Problem with Manton/Siberian as a hero is that they’re too strong. Granted the projection would go away once it came into contact with an Endbringer’s core, but until then he/she would be free to literally shred any Endbringer foolish enough to come within reach. Great Greedy Guts on July 18, 2013 at 02:23 said: Keep the turnover rate. They keep being betrayed and taken down by enemy fire. Heck, keep some portion of their recruitment – they’re notoriously harsh, always pushing each other to the limits (and beyond) in order to deal with threats beyond the scope of most other teams. Treat them not so much as the Protectorate but a vigilante group outside that, and I think it could work. Flip Grey boy with Eidolon and Jack with Harbinger for a beginning of alternative horror team, I think. You get a triumvirate of Grey Boy, Syberian and… You could probably leave Alexandria where she is. I don’t think (dearly hope) that Panacea isn’t a member of the alternative analogue of S9. Too young to be one (well, bad logic, given Bonesaw, but still). I like Panacea never having left her father Marquis. The ultimate honorable villain duo. Well, depending on how far we extend the parallel, Amelia might not be a member of the AUS9 very long — presumably being taken down at Riley’s hands, if I may insert a time-reversal into that plotline. My instinct might be to use the analogues New Wave members and the Brockton Bay Wards and Protectorate as ‘ordinary’ supervillain gangs, a la the E88 and the ABB. On which subject: given the greyish nature of Glory Girl and Kayden Anders’ heroic self-conception, I think swapping the Pure with New Wave would be poetically apt (heck, she’s even got an adopted child who ends up joining the opposing team!); that would put the rest of the E88 in the Wards, including Kayden’s on-and-off-boyfriend Max. The ABB I would turn into the Protectorate — Kenta is certainly as ambitious as Colin, and his power as deadly as Hannah’s — possibly folding in analogues of Circus, Uber, and Leet to fill out the numbers. …this is fun! Don’t forget the Oriental Dragon, the biggest, baddest hero of them all (if the fight goes on long enough) Lung. So Undersiders would be the ward team in this parallel? Well, that could be very fun indeed. I had the Undersiders being exchanged with the Nine, actually. I don’t think this actually works. Canon undersiders are a bunch of teenagers who are local villains working for a larger organisation. MIrror!Undersiders would be a bunch of teenagers who are local heroes working for a larger organisation. On that note, Alexandria could actually work as Mirror!Coil. At least partially, I think. EDIT of the previous post. Actually, no, Alexandria would work best as Syberian analogue. Manton being the director of PRT and Syberian the member of truimvirate is something that can be easily pulled off in-story. SIBERIAN. twitch twitch IT IS AN I NOT A Y. twitch twitch AUGH! Ooh, Manton/Siberian as replacing Director Costa Brown/Alexandria is just perfect. The ultimate cover identity is actually being a projection; Manton wouldn’t even need a body double. paradoxius on March 26, 2014 at 02:30 said: It was late 2011 when Taylor Hebert, then alias Weaver, left the vigilante group, the Oversiders. The deeply disturbed youth had made a game of infiltrating the hero team, one of several funded by parahuman philanthropist Equilibrium (whom it was later discovered she murdered), only to defect to the villainous Destructorate. In what she termed a “going away present”, Hebert used her powers to badly poison her former teammates: Oracle, Sanctum, Copilot, Alpha, and Sprite, along with new additions to the team, rogue-turned-hero Parian, and newly reformed villain Foil (now calling herself “Fletchette”. Upon joining the Destructorate, Hebert, now calling herself “Overqueen”, possibly as a reference to her former team, quickly rose up the ranks, eventually killing Barbaria, the otherwise indestructible leader of the super-villain team. Taking Barbaria’s position, Overqueen assembled a team of the most powerful young villains in the Destructorate and set to work establishing control over large swaths of land. Her small strike-squad consisted of Blight (not originally a member of the Destructorate), Shaanxi, Deadstop, Artifice, and Doom-Ringer (formerly an employee of Equilibrium corrupted by “Weaver”). She wanted to include Dread Vision, but the perception-warping villain had been rendered permanently incapacitated by her adopted sister Blight earlier that year. Cunningly using Doom-Ringer’s precognition to guide her to victory, Overqueen used ‘relay bugs’, dragonflies and shrimp made by Blight to resonate with her power, to control all protostomes in the northeastern United States. Using Shaanxi and Artifice as shock-troopers, taking advantage of their powers to manipulate terrain and quickly erect structures, she cut a path of destruction across the eastern seaboard. Deadstop, leading a contingent of monstrosities created by blight, established her power by tactically eliminating all dissidents. When it seemed all hope was lost, what might have been the only power capable of taking on such a menace arose from the ashes. The Sanctuary 9, previously disbanded after the tragic deaths of half of their members (Phoenix, Invincible, Sweetheart (a sister of copilot), and Cathedral), was called back into action to face Overqueen’s thread. Note: at the time of their tragic disbandment the Nine was looking for a ninth after the death of Paladin during a Scion attack. The surviving former members of the Nine, Suture, Preserver (formerly the villain Dr. Extinction, turned good by the Olympian Hera), Archangel, and their leader, Jack of Spades, reunited and set about recruiting five new members. They first found Vitalis, a tinker specializing in creating life. He and Suture began trying to find a way to make arthropod, mollusk, and annelid populations immune to Overqueen’s power, and to undo Blight’s monstrosities. In the meantime, Jack recruited Iron Cross, former member of the parahuman social advocacy group, Colony Thirty-Three. C.T.T. fell apart after it’s leader, Missionary (father of Artifice), was assassinated by Destructorate villain Arms-Race. He also recruited Safety-First, a hero who manipulated reality to prevent injury within a selected range of herself. Two founding members of the Nine, First Citizen and Technicolor, came out of retirement to join the cause. The amassed forces moved for Overqueen’s lair. By sheer power they managed to overcome some of her forces, making their way towards her “capital” in Brockton Bay. Most of her forces were incapacitated, that is, the bulk of the Destructorate and all of her personal strike team except for Blight and new additions Hydra and Hateful (formerly Arms-Race). When it seemed Overqueen’s reign of terror would finally come to an end, the one element that could stop the Nine came into play: Scion! -Interlude- “What the fuck are you even doing? You think you’re gonna save humanity or some shit?”, shouted the most powerful man in the world. “Well let me tell you something, goldy-boy. Humanity is fuckin’ awful, and is so fucked anyway you couldn’t do nothin’.” He took another swig from the brown bottle and turned away from the resplendent figure before him. “Th’fuck are you doin’ mutt?”, he shouted at his dog who was presently relieving itself on a very expensive armchair. He kicked the dog. “Hey, get away from there. Fucking stupid animal. You know what?” He turned back to the golden man. “Why don’t you just fuck people up some? Why come into my house and bother me, when you can just ruin someone else’s day? Or week? Or life?” He imagined that the golden man, who clearly had no regard for common decency, naked as he was, perked up at the idea of wreaking havoc on the people of the Earth. “You like that, huh? Well get out of my house and fuck some people up, son!” He may have slurred the last word a bit. The most powerful man watched in awe as the television flicked between clips of the golden man pushing cars off bridges, knocking down buildings with golden beam attacks, and lightly rapping people with their own arms while whispering “stop hitting yourself” barely loud enough to hear. At some point or another, he had repeated “fuck some people up, son”, but was so quite that the cameras had only caught the last word, and had misheard it as “Scion”. “Great work, you shiny asshole, but there’s one more thing. When one of those “Olympian” motherfuckers shows up, get in their way. Don’t let them do-gooders go around helping people.” -End of Interlude- Scion, being the asshole that his is, brought the Hoover Dam to Brockton Bay and flew around with it to get in the way of the Sanctuary Nine going to apprehend Overqueen. While that was happening, Overqueen had Blight use her power to give Overqueen the ability to control any animal, just like she could with bugs. Then, she started combining members of the Destructorate into one individual with all of the powers of every member (save Hydra) with Overqueen at the head. All seemed lost until the Olympians showed up. Zeus, with his dynakinesis, Poseidon with his hydrokinesis, Hera with her mind-games and telekinesis, Hades with his time-warping columns, Demeter with here ability to warp entire landscapes, and Hestia with her ability to take on the powers of three parahumans at once pooled their forces into the first ever six-way Olympian effort. The six Olympians were easily able to defeat the Destructorate-Overqueen. After a time, the Travelers headed the cleanup effort, lead by Gaia, who used her power to revive all of the people killed in the fight. Cunningly using Doom-Ringer’s precognition to guide her to victory, Overqueen used ‘relay bugs’, dragonflies and shrimp made by Blight to resonate with her power, to control all protostomes in the northeastern United States. Using Shaanxi and Artifice as shock-troopers, taking advantage of their respective powers to manipulate terrain and quickly erect structures, she cut a path of destruction across the eastern seaboard. Deadstop, leading a contingent of monstrosities created by blight, established her power by tactically eliminating all dissidents. In the meantime, Jack recruited Iron Cross, former member of the parahuman social justice advocacy group, Colony Thirty-Three. C33 fell apart after it’s leader, Missionary (the father of Artifice), was assassinated by Destructorate villain Arms-Race. He also recruited Safety-First, a hero who manipulated reality to prevent injury within a selected range of herself. Two founding members of the Nine, First Citizen and Technicolor, came out of retirement to join the cause. The amassed forces moved for Overqueen’s lair. By sheer power they managed to overcome some of her forces, making their way towards her “capital” in Chicago. Most of her forces were incapacitated, that is, the bulk of the Destructorate and all of her personal strike team except for Blight and new additions Hydra and Hateful (formerly Arms-Race). When it seemed Overqueen’s reign of terror would finally come to an end, the one element that could stop the Nine came into play: Scion! After a time, the Travelers headed the cleanup effort, lead by Gaia, who used her power to revive all of the people killed in the fight as a more perfect version of themselves. This has actually been discussed a long time ago. I think the subject was heroic villains with powers that simply don’t work as heroes. I mean a heroic nilbog raises all kinds of moral/philosophical question with his goblin army. A heroic breed might work if you gave him dead bodies from the morgue to do his thing. Bonesaw would save who knows how many lives from finding cures to diseases. Indeed. Consider this hypothetical Heroic!Crawler’s (I really like the image) relationship with other heroes. In order to become more powerful and more effective, he has to be hurt, and hurt badly. The most efficient way to develop defences against powers is to let those with powers hurt him. And not “smack around” hurt him, but “carve his flesh open and boil his insides with lasers” hurt him. So he’ll have to ask his teammates to do the deed. Heroes may have problems with interpersonal communication due to their trigger events, but I’m pretty sure this would make for a nice moral dilemma. Oh, and if he got powers when he was still below 18, i.e. when he would have been a ward… And P.R. Oh god, P.R. Well, I mean it could be spun as an ultimate “monster with a heart of gold” thing, “a martyr suffering for your sins” kind of a deal, but still, especially when the transformation truly takes off (tentacles, slime, additional eyes, etc). Or Nice Guy. How do you grade him properly to promote him in any organisation? He’s a nice guy. Or, hell, Bonesaw. She’s a tinker. A ward tinker. A very young ward tinker. Whose speciality is body modifications. She has to practice. She needs test subjects. Do you let other wards volunteer? Other heroes only? Normal people? Do you let her practice on herself? What about mandated psychotherapy sessions? >Indeed. Consider this hypothetical Heroic!Crawler’s (I really like the image) relationship with other heroes. In order to become more powerful and more effective, he has to be hurt, and hurt badly. The most efficient way to develop defences against powers is to let those with powers hurt him. And not “smack around” hurt him, but “carve his flesh open and boil his insides with lasers” hurt him. So he’ll have to ask his teammates to do the deed. Not necessarily. He could what Crawler does in the serial. Just throw himself at his enemies. To make him lees creepy you could have him as a Leeroy Jenkins type instead of a Combat Sadomasochistic, always running ahead of his teammates to have a chance at taking the villain by himself. Such strategy should help him develop the Nigh Invulnerability Worm’s Crawler eventually got. It still runs into the problem of him becoming more and more inhuman every time he is damaged. As a sidenote, how about “Comeback” as a heroic name for Crawler? I think he could even be more powerful. Imagine someone who threw limself at every Endbringer, every time he could, and somehow survived and adapted. If he did: From Behmoth, he’d gain an increadible resistance to heat and radiation. From Leviathan, he’d gain a great resistance to water pressure and probably water breathing. From Khonshu, he’d become immortal and capable of hibernating in status to survive, or something like that. Maybe start to grip on to follow Khonshu around. Not so sure on the others. Maybe flight to survive Simurg, and probably a ranged attack so that he could stay away from her madness thing. Or just an immunity to it. The others are a little too new to tell, but general durability would help. Of course, this assumes that the Endbringers don’t kill him, but it does make you wonder why Crawler didn’t become a hero if all he wanted was a challenge. In Worm, the heroic characters face the greater challenges. Presumably he only decided that he wanted a challenge after he’d killed a lot of people. An adaptable hero is a really interesting idea, now that I think about it. Remember Crawler, especially at the start of the S9 arc, is ridiculously though, but he’s not Siberian. Bakuda bombs managed to off him. An eEndbringer may be too much for him, especially we are imagining a heroic Crawler who is still at the start of his career and relatively human. Behemoth would kill him early on to prevent all this, if Crawler gets into his “insta-kill” range. Unless Crawler spends lots of time being shot by Flechete and torn apart by Siberian to develop immunity to reality-breaking attacks. I can actually see him being held back from Endbringer fights, at least until he gets into ridiculously tough levels. >I can actually see him being held back from Endbringer fights, at least until he gets into ridiculously tough levels. Which could actually tie with PR problems you were talking about. “You’re always telling monster boy is a good guy and that he’s helping us but how come we never see him at Endbringers attack if he’s as though as you say he is? What, he doesn’t want to hurt his monsters pals?” >Which could actually tie with PR problems you were talking about. Indeed. One has to remember, Crawler’s power is primarily defensive in nature. Any offensive powers he develops (superstrength, tentacles, some sort of corrosive spit, etc) are just side-effects of his biology altering itself to withstand extreme conditions and powerful attacks. So, he would definitely be held back against Simurgh, and probably against Behemoth (at least until he gets really, really monstrous). It’s a good strategic and tactical decision, but PR would be a nightmare. I think Marvel may have done something like that with Beast (of the X-men) at one point. Not exactly the same though. Actually, I think he may just have gotten stupider and more animal like the more he used his abilities. X-Man named Darwin had a slightly different take on his power. He automatically changed in order to best meet the situation he was put into. This wasn’t necessarily a consistent thing. While he might have become stronger or more durable against the Hulk in World War Hulk, his power finally just teleported him away. Didn’t he start emitting gamma rays, or anti-gamma rays, or something in an effort to take Hulk down? I approve of this AUfic. endgame on July 18, 2013 at 01:44 said: NOTE TO ALL PEOPLE TALKING ABOUT THIS AU-FIC IDEA. PLEASE READ. I would like to make a possible suggestion. I say that we set up some sort of list (possibly on the Fanfiction page of this website) of potential fanfics that we’d like to see (such as this one, or the weird fantasy setting one from a couple of chapters back). That way, any fanfiction writers that can/want/are able to/are interested in writing any Worm-based fanfic will have ample ideas to choose from to start out. Kind of like those challenge things that fanfiction.net seems to have every so often. What does anyone else think? Good way of getting potentially interesting fanfics written, possibly by multiple authors with different takes on the topic? Or does this sound stupid/time-consuming/[insert adjective of choice here]? We could really use a forum to discuss such things. Wildbow, any preferences / suggestions? Because all I can suggest is relocating this discussion to spacebattles forum, which is far from the optimal decision. The Knight in Furs, a NSFW retelling of The Knight in Rusty Armor. I haven’t read the original story to know if it counts as this though. http://www.gogetaroomie.com/index.php?id=345 I haven’t read all of The Knight in Rusty Armor, but I know that the knight’s metamorphosis was a facet Lillian introduced. In the original story, he was stuck in a suit of full-plate that he could not remove, until over the course of the story each piece corroded and fell off. Better throw the other half on here too. WyldCard4 on July 18, 2013 at 01:57 said: Okay, we have a lot of good ideas here. My take on it would be this world’s Dragon as the main villain. I’d probably call her Worm, because I think I’m clever. I would go with a considerably more authoritarian world. The heroes are rogues who fight the system, the villains are servants of Worm who enforce the AI’s control over the world. People like the Undersiders are outlaws who are no better than the authoritarian faction. Seems like it would be easier to transfer group dynamics and histories that way. I think the “protagonist” of the series, if I were writing it, would be this world’s heroic Bakuda. She fits the Nine given she was in Taylor’s dream sequence version of the Slaughterhouse Nine. She has enough traits defined to be interesting, but not quite so many as to make it hard to stay true to the character. She even comes to Brockton Bay at around the same time as Worm begins, so anti-Worm could easily cover the same time period. That’s assuming we aren’t reversing time, which is interesting but I think is a bit too complex for my tastes. Wyrm? Off-topic: Back when I was playing Magic: the Gathering, I once made a green-and-white deck purely to fit a punnish title that was suggested to me: “Gummy Wurms”. It ended up being the best deck I ever constructed. I was never very good at MtG. Goos and Wurms, roundabout the original Selesnya? I can see that working. Especially if you had a nice Saproling engine to fuel Convoke. Not Goos – it was a simple fast-large-creature deck with lots of search-the-deck-for-land-and-put-it-directly-in-play. The white was mostly because I didn’t have green flying creatures. Also, looking at the dates on Wikipedia of the Magic: the Gathering sets I recognize and don’t recognize, I got out of MtG late-1997 to early-1998 — I played from around the time of Unlimited and Arabian Nights until Tempest. I’d be tempted to leave it as an O for the reference, but yes. I like it for a number of reasons. 1. Wyrm is a term for dragon. 2. It’s also a computing reference, being a kind of malware. 3. Obviously, a reference to the original work. 4. The way I’m thinking of taking it, Worm is basically a secret ruler of the world. Worm has connotations of a parasite hiding in a gut. Dragon is a large and notable force in the world, while Worm would be a more secret and subtle creature. More Daemon than Dragon? johnwedd on July 18, 2013 at 04:07 said: Marvel has a Oneshot series called “What If..?” and it does ok. its fun and it would provide an awesome way to have fanfic that doesn’t need to meet canon standards. I was talking about this in the IRC, but one possibility, if the next story I write doesn’t lend itself to interludes, would be to write side stories and what ifs for the Wormverse as donation incentives. I think, at the time, the topic of discussion was on “What if Taylor joined the Wards” (with the ensuing scrap between her and Sophia) That’s an interesting idea. When I was thinking about writing a What-If of that kind, my favorite point of divergence was in Gestation 1.6: instead of trying to maneuver Taylor into giving him full credit for the Lung takedown (a plan which would never have worked in the long-term anyway), let Armsmaster offer Taylor a ride back to the PRT headquarters to see Lung placed in custody, where she both warns the doctors of the venoms Lung has been injected with and meets one or more of the friendlier Wards. I am all for this idea. Especially Packbat’s idea below. By the way, i’m curious to know how Emma and Sophia are these days. sun dog on July 18, 2013 at 08:45 said: So, like Worm if everyone stopped pretending? Phoenix on July 18, 2013 at 02:58 said: I may just have to write this. Thanks for the idea. Always glad to help. Hope you’ll provide links if (or, better, when) you do this. Heh, I’ve been thinking for a while the names for members of an AU good Slaughterhouse 9. Or as I call them the Saviourhouse 9! They rotate members because not only to they only take the best, but the are under heavy stress due to the threats they face and most need the downtime. The core three are… John Slice- Because slice rymes with nice. Bonegraft- A medical tinker who perfoms miraculous surguries. The Bengel- A mysterious silent women who never engages their foes in violence, but rather uses her powers to save others. Other noteworthy members include… Sphere- A former mad scientist who found love and now seeks to make the cities of the future, and save the world. Glass Dove- Who fears to use the full extent of her powers for fear of the destruction it would cause. Creeper- Dispite the monsterous apperence his powers have given him, he’s one of the most human members. Bonfire- Who needs to end fights fast as she gets more empathic the more fire she makes, and won’t want to hurt anyone after a while. Woodsman- He only uses that ax on trees, Honest! The President- Founder and duly elected leader until he hit his term limit, at witch point he stepped down. Rainbow Boy- Legendary member who’s example John Slice strives to live up to. Please don’t take it the wrong way, but those names were hilarious! I especially love The President 🙂 . Sphere the mad scientist who reformed after finding love as Mannequin’s counterpart is brilliant. They were supposed to be. I wanted them to be as cheesy as possible after a while. The first few were just alternates like Siberian/Bengal or Bonesaw/Bonegraft, but then when I was trying to think of Jacks I thought “Okay, slash, what’s sort of like slash? Stab? No… Slice? Wait, slice ryemes with nice!” and I went from there. Call it the Cat’s Cradle. Keep the Vonnegut theme going. For heroic!Crawler – Comeback. It describes his power very well. I’d go with Revenant. Comes back from the dead with a purpose. Adam on July 18, 2013 at 00:26 said: Jesus Christ. Slaughterhouse 9 came out of stasis not two hours from where I live. I’ve been to that ski resort, or at least one in the same town. That felt a little close to home, there. Who’s that behind you? Oh fff… as long as they stay out of Florida 😛 I almost wish I was in that dimension just to hunt a few of them down. I get the feeling Moai would act like he was laughing at me if I missed one of them though. He doesn’t really seem to speak, but he’d know I’d know. PG verses S9, i would so pay to see that. get a hold of a portal device, show those monsters how villains roll! also, pay respect to taylor while your there, you know she could hand you your ass. nanotech and armor wouldn’t matter Oh, thanks for the reminder. Nice Guy: Meh, I could take her. >Nice Guy: Meh, I could take her And he was right,too. Just saying… What he should have been saying instead was, “I can take who?” Jack: Okay! Lock us away now! 270-something simultaneous nods Jack: I know we’re all a bunch of sick twists, but that guy’s CRAZY! 270-something VIGOROUS nods That sounds very likely. I’ve read of Gecko’s exploits. The main difference between them are that the Slaughterhouse are just insane, but Gecko makes the world around him almost as insane as he is. So long as Florida Man remains on the job, I guarantee that no other parahumans, whether hero, villain or rogue, will want to go anywhere near the place. Yes, but how good is Florida Man against hurricanes? Ajoxer on July 20, 2013 at 00:07 said: When you’re in a Jaeger, suddenly, it feels like you can fight the hurricane. You can win. Reading this at midnight was not the best idea, I think. Veloren on July 18, 2013 at 02:28 said: AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA No. No it was not. WILDBOW!! shakes fist Also, did anyone else think when Revel mentioned the man that no one else saw that it was going to be Chuckles? eeeep For a moment I thought that the still-living fat man was going to be Chuckles,actually. Man that must have been creepy. Of course they would start with a town named Killington. I don’t know, Truth or Consequences, New Mexico has a nice ring to it too. Somehow I missed that the first time around. Whiteagle808 on July 20, 2013 at 05:50 said: And this is why I love living in Iowa razorsmile on July 18, 2013 at 00:27 said: – man, their monstrosity is starting to get almost passé at this point. Come on, Riley, step up already. Contessa, what the fuck? Get on this shit, you fedora-wearing shitbird – didn’t expect the Red Hands to be master thieves. Expected something closer to The Teeth but with more smarts and sophistication – Skitter is there now, isn’t she. The violence, the lethality, the scariness, this is where she lives now. Theo gets it. I suspect Grue does too. Hence, Cozen. She’s a romance of happier times – Clockblocker’s alive. Fuck. Yes. – it’s all good. One way or another, this means the end of the Nine and Jack. It will be glorious. – didn’t expect the Red Hands to be master thieves. Given the name, I have to wonder how many times they’ve been caught. Not as often as the Sticky Fingers. They couldn’t take as much punishment as the Wet Bandits, though. Got to hand it to them, those guys had some super durability. I wonder if one of them eventually became Crawler. Time for the Queen Administrator to take the lead. Tom_D on July 18, 2013 at 01:02 said: I think Wildbow agrees with you. And ‘Queen Administrator’ makes a hell of a lot of sense. ThePagemaster on July 18, 2013 at 00:31 said: When I first started reading worm, I thought that the best part of this serial were the unique powers, and how the capes use them. I look forward to being introduced to a whole new slew of powers. So Nice Guy is a stranger in the same vein as Imp. Ouch, yeah Taylor is really the one whose Jack’s good opposite, may not have been the best way to say it. And the Protectorate in general doesn’t know about Theo’s dad? The chase is on, just like the original S9 arc, with everyone cheating like a bad gambler down to his last dollar. Remember the Undersiders, Cozen, and two of the Red Hands were there as well. They probably didn’t know. Also, I’m fairly sure Taylor spent the last two years training Theo not to pull his punches. And it’s not like she can’t roll with the punches, be they physical or emotional. Ouch, yeah Taylor is really the one whose Jack’s good opposite, may not have been the best way to say it. Does anyone else get the feeling that the “Jack’s good opposite” thing never really occurred to Taylor before this point? Why would it? For all that she took a page from Jack’s book when it came to using her reputation as a circumstantial bonus on Intimidate checks, she never had any real reason to spend much time contemplating the parallels between herself and him. The major traits she shares with him — that she’s cunning, bright, charismatic, perceptive, and possessed of a power that’s a lot more powerful than it sounds at first glance — she acquired independently. boballab on July 18, 2013 at 02:48 said: I bet after Jack had a chance to catch up on the news since he went to sleep he really wishes he picked the Bug Girl to be his nomination for the nine. “WTF she set up an Endbringer to get that hammered, bumped off 2 heads of the PRT and suspected of taking out Alexandria and I went with Oni Lee! Actually at one point, don’t exactly remember where, she needs to manipulate someone and explicitly says she’s learning from Jack. Fortunately, she’s suitably disturbed. Taylor’s been really good about learning something from everyone. If she wasn’t acting like Jack, she’d be acting like Lisa or Coil. But I think the way they’re most alike is how damn adaptable they are. Or Grue. 20.5. One of the quotes I stole for TV Tropes, actually. I shrugged. Image, confidence, reputation. I hated myself for doing it, but I was thinking of Jack Slash. He didn’t wear a mask or a costume. His power didn’t make people shit their pants. What he had was his presence, an atmosphere of confidence. Weeks or months ago, I might have had a hard time wearing that confidence the way Jack did. The history, the long sequence of events and conflicts where we’d come out ahead in our respective teams, it could just as easily be a burden, the accumulated weight of the various precedents we’d set, but we’d made it into our armor, something to make our enemies hesitate at a critical juncture. She also draws inspiration from Bakuda in that chapter, as long as we’re on the subject. That was when she got outed as a villain. Her inner monologue specifically noted wearing her rep like Jack does. Wooooo Queen Administrator! notes on July 18, 2013 at 00:39 said: Brockton bay S9 encounter writ VERY LARGE. Jack has his rules, and everyone else is going to play by them right up to the moment where they go for the kill. Sure looks like each of the (then) S278 made a kill in their own unique style. I’d bet that there was someone ‘living’ under the second tarp, either a Bonesaw experiment or a Grey Boy victim. Could go either way – Grue would definitely have PTSD issues that Taylor might want to spare him… and Grey Boy is being kept an ominous absence as much as possible. Assuming that the bodies were placed in order of joining… has to be Grey Boy victim. Oh, and Clockblocker clearly survived New Delhi. Someday, when or if you’re feeling it, you could do 2-3 books on the Ward years. Book 1: Prison to New Delhi (currently 153k words. Plenty). Book 2: Protectorate combat doctrine gets rewritten by Weaver demonstration of how to go hunting. Book 3: The new Endbringers cometh… and the CUI goes to war. No idea what Jack’s game is, but as long as he keeps the S277 concentrated, there’s a swift route to victory via replicating Tunguska. Assuming that you can kill 277 parahumans rapidly without triggering the end of the world accidentally. Remember how Glaistig Uaine thought she needed a lot of simultaneous deaths? Alternately, ever wonder what Crawler would look like after something like that? And who knows what other powers are not yet known to the reader? As long as Jack’s alive, if anyone’s got a trick like Valefor, he’s also a single point of failure: get him to ask everyone to suicide. The Nice Guy left in ambush could have reported to Jack about Theo having assistance already… if he’d had a mind to do so. Dragon might be able to jam all electronic communications, but unless she genuinely fuzzes the whole spectrum, that Stranger can probably still make a call somehow… and that issue will persist for anything within line of sight to any engagement with the S277. If Jack’s willing to let his Harbingers run some strategy, this could be nightmarish. That is, more nightmarish. The problem with playing by Jack’s rules is Jack cheats. He makes the game very one sided, so if you play by the rules you will lose. Then he gets all pissy when the other side decides to fuck that shit, and play to win. Man Jack is so childish. That’s why I say bomb them. The options are kill Jack, presumably disbanding the group and allowing them to do whatever they want, or let him live so that he can… still disband the group. Jack doesn’t play fair, as you said. Just bomb them, and kill most of them. It might not work, but at this stage there’s nothing to lose. Remeber Bonesaw telling Defiant that if he killed her he’d unleash a dangerous plague on the world? Maybe that’s how the end of the world happens. The good guys nuke the bad guys and all those dangerous biochemical weapons Bonesaw implanted in the clones are let loose. Which would explain why Cauldron’s trying to turn her! Unless they’re still trying to get the world to end that is Also Contessa’s going to have a remote, don’t forget that What!? You mean a fireball of death will make things worse? Ignore me. I need to go away and reassess my philosophy. “The options are kill Jack….” immediately racing through my mind Sup, sucka? It’s Tina. I wrote you a poem and it goes a little somethin’ like this BREAK IT DOWN. Ahem. Kill Jack. Kill Jack kill Jack kill Jack KIIIILL JAAAAACK! (beat.) Kill Jack. A poem by Tiny Tina. That’s my joke! I’ll kill you! Kill Rika. Kill Rika kill Rika kill Rika KIIIILL RIIIIIKA!…Kill Rika. I almost made it this morning, but decided not to. Not sure how many verses of Kill Jack there were. Shadell on July 19, 2013 at 01:43 said: I think that cheating is the point of the game. Jack’s all about the psychological angle. Putting people in situations where they are ‘responsible’ if they fail or if they use tactics he doesn’t approve of. Part of Jack’s goal here then is implicitly to push them to escalate that far. Being smart Jack realizes they’ll cheat as much as they can get away with. The goal here is not “don’t cheat” but “Don’t let me catch you cheating”. Unless Jack is a lot less canny than I’d imagine. In another sense Jack makes his ability to abide by restrictions he sets into a survival strategy. If he was too capricious to hold to those rules, they’d simply ignore the wagers and games he sets at him directly with overwhelming force from the outset. But because they know Jack plays by the rules, and more generally, because they know Jack is always holding some mass destruction trump close to his chest, it makes it less prudent to corner Jack, given what he (via, say, Bonesaw) might unleash. It’s a psychological tactic that works to Jack’s advantage. Moreover, if Jack ever does decide to ‘cheat’ against the rules he sets, it will come as a complete sucker punch to all involved. On the other hand Jack’s ‘game’ is only using options he could have played at the start if he didn’t voluntarily limit himself. He could have started BB with the gas that Bonesaw used or he could have immediately set everyone off the chain when they woke up. Not doing so to ‘play by the rules’ reduces the damage he’d cause. It’s a straight up advantage to the heroes regardless. Just one that applies psychological pressure to an intense degree, reinforces the image and idea of the S9 in people’s heads and creates an opening if Jack ever decides to ‘cheat’ against the rules he sets. Irregular on July 18, 2013 at 00:48 said: Huh, so Gray Boy didn’t just off Riley first chance he got? For a guy who supposedly has poor impulse control, he sure is being patient with somebody he knows to be a traitor. If the theory about him retaining his original consciousness is true, he might be gearing up to usurp Jack and take over the Nine, exposing Riley so soon wouldn’t be the best idea. He knows she has killswitches installed, as well as the loyalty to Jack thing. You’d be surprised how well people with poor impulse control can scheme. For instance, have you ever heard of Memphis, Tenne- oooh, shiny. That’s odd, I hadn’t planned on hitting Memphis with Lusterifying Rays until next week. Stephen R. Marsh on July 18, 2013 at 08:56 said: He doesn’t know she was a traitor, just that something is up, or may be. But with everyone in the 9, that is almost always the case anyway. I don’t think he has poor impulse control – he’s very controlled, he just makes very controlled decisions on the extremely bloody side. I think he’s setting her up for something like what S9 were going to do with Cherish. That, or just going to watch it play out, laugh lots, and kill anyone left at the end Kessler on July 18, 2013 at 00:52 said: Sting: When Jack Met Weaver True Jack met Skitter before, but Weaver is a new breed by this time. I really, really, really want to see an S278 (or so) fight against an Endbringer, initiated by the control placed into Contessa’s hands. ^like. Bonesaw kind of wanted to do that earlier anyway, they might do it on their own just because the Endbringers are stealing their thunder Even if it happened by sheer the sheer coincidence of an Endbringer chance to hit a city at the same time the S278ish are attacking the results would be epically awesome and horrifying, so situation normal for Worm. They’d probably kill everyone in in the area, including the Endbringer, just so that the next three or so would be their fault. The they’d be able to claim all the devestation as technically Slaughterhouse kills. Re: Jack and Gray Boy knowing about Bonesaw’s treachery It is unlikely they know for a fact, unless that is part of Gray Boy’s power set, but they woke in a situation that was not as expected and Jack is notably good at spotting and dealing with in-team treachery. The first evidence of treachery is rarely attack – it is something happening that is not quite right. So, both Jack and Gray Boy are probably aware that the unusual circumstances around Bonesaw’s handling of the resurrection raise the possibility of treachery, and Jack in particular didn’t stay alive by ignoring such evidence. Jack will position himself so that he can kill Bonesaw if needed, but in the meantime he will use her abilities to the fullest. Plus, he likes to let them think they are going to get away with it, then bring their plans down around them just when they thought they’d won. Remember, he almost killed Tattletale for spilling the beans on Cherish’s plans early and ruining his fun. Well, Bonesaw hasn’t betrayed them yet, so they’re probably waiting for her to make her move, and then they’ll foil her plan and punish her. Like they planned with Cherish. DasNiveau on July 18, 2013 at 01:23 said: So it’s Taylor vs Jacob The path here was epic … from scared little bullied girl to an strategic mastermind that could rival Jack Slash …. i did see that coming. Well, looks like two years in stasis hasn’t changed Jack one bit. The only thing new he’s got going is numbers now, which is damn good for the heroes, since they have been changing. ALOT. New tactics, more experience, lessons from past fights to draw on. Weaver’s leveled up to shit and then this mid level boss comes around thinking he’s hot shit because he’s got a few more mooks? I smell the rude awakening coming. A shitnami tidal wave that will engulf Jack Slash and extinguish his shit flames forever, and with any luck he’ll die in the undershit of that wave. Or things can go horribly wrong and everyone dies and Weaver misses the apocalypse. That might happen too. But I’ve seen no reason to not be optimistic so far. Kick his ass Weaver! He’s just a ghost from the past, and bustin’ll make you feel good! And not to say Theo’s off the mark or what he said isn’t interesting, but I’d be totally cool with it if Weaver just starting punching people out when they try to armchair psychoanalyze her. She already has a therapist for that, and Yamada doesn’t bug her during scary-ass combat missions. Hope I’m not repeating someone else, but I liked the bit with Taylor wondering how much effect she had on the metamorphosis of the Undersiders. Without her, the driving forces of the team would be Grue and Tattletale, neither of whom has her killer instinct. Fellwenner on July 18, 2013 at 01:53 said: I don’t like that Golem walked out of sight of the others like that. Two bits says he gets separated for the duration. He’d better watch out for that guy in the hockey mask. Nah, it’s the guy with the clawed glove he really has to look out for. Or the guy with the hatchet. Or a Nice Guy. Guysguysguys. Can we all just take a moment and appreciate that CLOCKBLOCKER IS ALIVE!! 😀 Okay. Moment over. AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHH! Congratulations, Breed. Your bugs have successfully squicked me out, something that a setting containing a child mass murderer, hellhounds, eldritch abominations, a sociopath with emotion control and bad parenting skills, body horror, unfortunate lockers, body horror, an evil clown, more body horror, and a gecko had not yet managed. Urgh. Also Nice Guy freaking terrifies me, even though I knew what his powers were going to be. I don’t know why everyone else assumed he was dead. Take it from the supervillain here: we never saw the body. Yep. They’re not dead until you see the body. And even then, as Alexandria and the New Slaughterhouse have just showed us, that’s still no certainty that they won’t come back from the dead in some form. CLOCKBLOCKER LIVES!!!! Ehm ehm. Let us now return to our scheduled programming. Good to see that Jack is a s trollish and monstrous as ever. (Seriously having fun by telling Theo he missed the deadline was cheap even for him.) He is however not genre savy enough to know that you never boast on how you have mindcontrolled an army of dangerous madmen. He has pretty much signed his death sentence. Also,wildbow you tease. We have scores of new powers in town and you show us just two. And we already knew what Nice Guy could do. Loki-L on July 18, 2013 at 02:24 said: The good news is taht Clockblocker is still alive. The bad news is everything. To make matters worse I think Jack is not nearly as important as he thinks he is. The slaughterhouse nine might not really be connected to the end of the world as closely as everyone assumes. The number of people Jack plans to kill is a fraction of what the ‘good guys’ were willing to sacrifice to the African warlord for help against the Endbringers. even unleashed the new slaughterhouse nine is not nearl as dangerous as the end of the world that Jack might trigger or might already have triggered, someone should ask Dinah if killing him at this point would make a difference towards the end of the world. Probably no. Dinah’s prophecy said the important thing was that Jack got out of Brockton Bay alive. He could have died in the next town and it wouldn’t have mad a difference. I had thought of that. It could’ve been guaranteed everything would happen as it has if he escaped, but seems off… Let’s see, consequences of him leaving the city intact: -miasma -Skitter getting all obsess-y -Coil… some stuff with Coil. -Panacea went to the Birdcage (this seems most likely issue to me, though might not have been a direct consequence of his escaping with his life) -Theo got powers (I thought this would be it, but he seems kinda weak for an apocalypse-bringer) -Jack’s game proceeds on-schedule. This one could also be it, but as you said Dinah didn’t require he live any longer than to escape BB. As such, none of S278 are a good explanation either. He did wreck up Boston immediately afterward though, causing -Accord to go to BB and -Blasto to get his shiny new lab. The lab-thing could make any of S278 viable actually, but not as a whole, unlikely Blasto would’ve cloned all of them en masse like that. Gnarker on July 18, 2013 at 18:25 said: Taylor is always going to be present, right? So if Jack escaping influenced her psychologically, what are the odds that Taylor causes the end of the world? I was genuinely surprised Clockblocker was still alive. Glad he is though. Now that you pointed out the ratio of Cauldron’s to Jack’s promised kills, I seriously don’t even know what to say. For every one person Jack kills, Cauldron has five killed. Sure is one way to combat overpopulation, geez. Well, in total, throughout the Slaughterhouse’s entire career… yeah, Cauldron’s killed way more people, both directly and indirectly (by not bothing to save people sooner). However, if the Slaughterhouse disband, that may change. Think of the chaos! Still not entirely sure how what I think about Cauldron, especially with the human experimentation, imprisonment, and execution. I’m kind of hoping the bastards will have to clean up after the S9 for fear that it will interfere with their goal. I must say though, I am definitely looking forward to a good dose of chaos. This just shows Lawful Evil is more efficient evil than Chaotic Evil. Do remember that these are people taken from battlefields and the like in other existances that would have died anyways if not for Cauldron’s intervention. So while they’re being callously disposed of…. Well, they were already dead before Cauldron came along in the first place. Slightly ameliorates their death count, though doesn’t excuse it at all- That’d be like trying to excuse the Nazi war campaign because of the breakthroughs in medical science that occured because of their doctors and torture and such. shudders I wanted to say it wasn’t any better, but they did agree to be taken and experimented on. It doesn’t quite hold up that they agreed to be potentially held captive for the rest of their lives or made to do horrible actions, but they did choose to be Case 53s. Taylor’s To-do list: Mannequins on display: 0 Cherishes locked away in a hope chest: 0 Siberians reassigned to Antarctica: 0 Shatterbirds eaten by gluecats: 0 Crawlers run over by a mad, wheelchair-bound granny: 0 Burnscars put on ice: 0 Hatchet Faces that have to wait for the sequel: 0 Murder Rats cheesing it: 0 Kings that have left the building: 0 Screamers run over by a hoarse: 0 Harbingers assuming a direct dirtnap: 0 Breeds slain by Dark Templar: 0 Crimsons clovered, over and over: 0 Nyxes nixed: 0 Psychosomas treated by a Frontier Psychiatrist: 0 Damsels of Distress in another castle: 0 Winters in Death Valley: 0 Chuckles’s hit in the faces with pies: 0 Hookwolves arrested for hooking: 0 Skinslips given a pinkslip on life: 0 Night Hags coyote uglied when the guy woke up: 0 Nice Guys finished last: 1 Bonus Round: Snowmenn snowballed: 0 Nighty Nights bitten by bed bugs: 0 Laughjobs had it handed to them: 0 Tyrants stabbed in the ass: 0 Spawners violated: 0 Bonesaws boned: 0 Grey Boys whited out: 0 Jacks knifed: 0 List is missing some names, I think, but it’ll do for now. Kudos to you, man. That made me laugh. Are you going to keep updating this every chapter? Oh, please don’t, once is enough. The puns! Dear God above help me, the puns! I dare you to keep this updated. I’ve decided to change my mind. Gecko, I double dare you to keep updating! It might be challenging if unknown numbers are killed, but it’ll be entertaining. Please keep this updated! Please! Also, I dare you to make new puns for each member that appears in a chapter, whether they die or not. Nymphrena on July 19, 2013 at 01:18 said: Keep this updated, please. This is entertaining, and it would be nice to see how it tallies up after each issue. Yeah, if Gecko doesn’t, I will. This is too awesome not to do. Someone’s been playing some Fallout. Halceon on December 1, 2013 at 09:01 said: I feel like it should be Spawners camped. God, I’m looking forward to this. The conflict between not only Weaver and Co. with the Nine, but also when Bonesaw ends up fulfilling the prediction and how that turns out. Meeting the past members of the Nine is going to be interesting or at least getting an idea of their full scope of power. Grey Boy so far seems to be the most interesting. Question about the clones: Are they guaranteed their old power? Because I’ve gathered that it’s one passenger per individual, but I don’t know if that’s right. Can the passengers have reign over several people with the same programmed memories and traumas or will they have the powers that they had previously regardless? Kind of confused. I can see mentally why they would enjoy setting up the display like they do. It’s fairly macabre, but an art in its own sense, making sure they are positioned just so for maximum psychological effect. Rather gruesome, but an enjoyable subject to muse over. What sights and mishaps cause the most mental distress upon humans, and how can that distress be expounded upon with other sequential creations? Both the physical and mental stressors play significant role in the way the Nine work. Be constantly aware of your surroundings; if you aren’t, you will die. Don’t get distracted; if you do, you will die. Pick the correct answer; if you don’t, you will die. Don’t trust anything; if you do, you will die, etc. Mental games are the best games. Their reputation has been justly earned. Sidenote comment from last chapter. Is it bad that I like Bonesaw? Not just in the “holy cow you’re a creepily adorable mastermind” way, but the “I’m starting to feel bad for you and hope everything works out, but you’re still a danger to society” way. Her character is fantastic. Wildbow has stated that the clones all get the same powers at the same full-ratio strength as the originals. He used the Echidna clones as a precedent for this. And no I don’t think you should feel bad for how you feel about Bonesaw. I think that “I feel bad for her but she’s still incredibly dangerous” was what the last chapter was aiming for. But Echidna’s clones still had variances in power. They were altered slightly from the original. Their powers followed along the same veign as the cape being copied, but still had nuisances to them like the cloned Vista that created radioactive things whenever she warped them. That’s good to know, actually. Now I don’t feel so conflicted. meant nuance not nuisance Although unintentional radioactivity is a nuisance. I missed where he said that. Do you have a link so I can read the whole thread? Thanks. Sorry. Don’t know how to link to specific posts, but it’s in the comment sections of the previous chapter. Plus Bonesaw had to scrap the first two batches of clones for either not being physically/psychologically close enough to the original to get their passenger, or being mentally overwhelmed by the passenger. It makes a number of things more interesting about the passengers if they can link to multiple hosts at full power. The “How could the clones get their powers replicated” question bugs me quite a while now. Does one Passenger grants different powers to different Individuals? From what i gathered, the unique brain structure is not genetic and caused later in life through the trigger event. And “normal” genetic Clone should be just a mere Human. But thats the point when Blastos tinker-tech comes into play. It’s a big deus ex machina moment. Hence why Bonesaw was implanting memories and psychological issues that would have brought the same trigger event to the fore. And it was still a very “trial and error” thing. I thought trigger event could not be forced? The memory thing was more of a “family” thing. Apparently they can, because she’s Bonesaw and can do anything. Thats the deus ex machina moment. Ether we live with that (no problem here) or it will be explained later. I thought Blasto’s interlude made it clear that it was his deus ex machina, not Bonesaw’s — she just borrowed his equipment. Trigger events can’t be forced; you’re right. Neither party can even entertain the idea for someone to trigger. It’s the same for second triggers. The while mind thing I think was more toward programming their behaviours and personalities more than anything. There’s practically nothing worse than having 200 psychopaths with lethal powers made without having a clue to how they operate under stress and function with others. I think it was more so that they would “remember” Jack and act like they used to so they could be managed. If Bonesaw hadn’t programmed the memories, they would have no idea of enemies or allies and could pose as a detriment to Jack’s plans. En on July 18, 2013 at 06:40 said: Not really, Bonesaw always studies passengers and triggers. She even have a trigger event monitored iirc. If Cauldron can rig the trigger game so can she. Patrick (@patbrry) on July 18, 2013 at 08:16 said: My understanding of it is the passengers ARE bound into the cape’s genetic code. After a trigger event that person’s biology is rewritten ( up to variants like Weld or Newt). Bonesaw had trouble with the clones, because they were growing with the passenger (which seems to be genetically just another organ) dominating their brain from a very young age, no trigger event required. This goes someway to explain the way 2nd gen capes trigger more easily and younger (since they inherit a mix of the genes for their parent’s passengers). The implanted memories were more about creating the disturbed individual personalities of the originals, not their trigger events. Quick note: according to Piggot, the second-generation effect is environmental, not genetic. As Packbat noted, the 2nd-gen cape triggers are environmental, not genetic (I would point to Panacea+New Wave for this, but you would then point to Marquis). I think it’s a matter of what the specific passenger has an eye on at the time. A Passenger finds a person they like, trauma making them much more visible for some reason, and decides to help them out for vague reasons. After that, they travel around in the Corona Whateveris and recommend the cape’s immediate family to other passengers (“Hey, my cape’s sister’s kind of a hothead, I think you’d like her.”). At that point, other passengers will be keeping an eye on the linked passenger’s friends and family, and will need less of a trigger excuse to jump in and grant powers. It all depends on what the passenger can see through its cape’s eyes. (Second trigger events, meanwhile, are the passenger crying out for help from daddy, and daddy choosing to humor them, judging from Grue’s second trigger vision). Just realized my point got lost en route. Once a cape dies, their passenger would be set adrift. Once it found a cape with a similar mind and a Corona gland, it would jump right back in. Hence why Bonesaw’s clones (at least the first copies, anyway) would get the original powers. The main problem with my theory is this: how did copies 2-9 get the same powers while copy 1 was still around? irrevenant on July 16, 2014 at 08:06 said: It should be noted that Panacea’s powers DO take more after Marquis than New Wave. Reshaping the living body was his thing whereas New Wave tended more to flight and forcefield. That still doesn’t mean it’s genetic, of course – could just be that she was exposed to Marquis’s passenger first. From my understanding, the Corona Pollentia doesn’t even exist in most people, it grows as part of the trigger event. So, because she’s growing them with the Corona in the first few iterations, they are getting their powers far too soon. But, that’s just my take on things. eduardo on July 18, 2013 at 20:54 said: Nope, Bonesaw explainedit last chapter. The Passenger can reconect if it finds a human with the exact characteritics of its former host. So, the clones made by Echidna where different since they connected in a more random way to the same passenger. Bonesaw used a semi scientific method to guarantee reproductivity. Not really though? I mean, the whole thing started out as something to do over the two years when everyone was in stasis. She wanted to program them as close as she could to where they were emotionally when they joined the S9. It was never specifically geared toward their power set in mind, I don’t believe. Granted, we also don’t really know the specifics of the cape that set up the incubation tubes to begin with. At least not the nitty-gritty specifics. Maybe acquiring the exact same powers had something to do with the way his power worked? But that goes against everything we know about trigger events. Neither party can hope for powers in the process. I’m so confused how it worked. It is possible for the being-things to control several parahumans’ powers at once, considering that we really know nothing about them, but the statistics that the clones would have the exact same powers is just impossible. Maybe it’s more to do with the way the Corona Pollentis developed when they triggered. That could possibly explain the same powers among the clones, but there is no guarantee that they would acquire the same exact powers as the original member they were modeled after. Sorry if this seems run-on. I’m thinking while I type, and I think I’m thinking a little too much into it. The trigger event has already happened, in the former host. The trick is “deceiving” the passenger so that it will come and connect to this new host as if it was the former. So, make this host as close to the former as you can. But again, how do clones 2-9 get the powers while clone 1 is still around? The same way clone one does. I think you’re applying some rule or rules to this that don’t apply. Is there any reason why a passenger can`t connect to two or more hosts? Not as far as I´ve seen. So, this eldrich abomination finds a suitable host and uses a traumatic event to help connecting to it. Then another host, identical to the first appears in its radar (or whatever) and suffers a suitable trauma that helps things along. So, why not? Two hosts are better than one. Besides, who is to say that the being from beyond the universe sees any difference between one and many? I assumed that the passenger physically latched onto the Corona Potentia or whatever it’s called, and couldn’t “ride” on two people at once (as implied by the term “passenger”). Looks like that’s not the case. Presumably the passengers, being Incomprehensible Cosmic Beings, don’t really understand or care for things like bodies and so when they sense that there is another someone perfectly identical to their host they simply spread themselves. If you think about this explains Fenja and Menja: they are identical twins with the exact same power, whereas other relatives, even other siblings, usually have some variation. April on December 20, 2017 at 17:11 said: remembering Fenja & Menja’s has made the S9k make a lot more sense to me. holy, forshadowing, Wildbow! Why should it be bad that you like Bonsaw? She’s a smart, intelligent, adorable kid. What’s not to like? Ok, the insanity is not to like. But if you post on the comments long enough you learn to let it slide. I guess Bonesaw’s been Rescued from the Scrappy Heap by the Author’s Saving Throw. Perhaps Rescued from the Scrappy Heap, but not Author’s Saving Throw — I don’t think Interlude 25 retconned anything. The Secret Origins of Hatchet Face! You know what I found very interesting? Revel gave Taylor the order to murder a man on her word, and not only did Taylor not have a problem with the idea, Revel fully expected her to follow through without any real problems. I can’t help but wonder just how bloody the raids Taylor has been organizing have been. I think a fair few of the nastier villains probably never made it into a cell. If Wildbow ends up making this into a series of books he will really need to show a bit more of that timeskip, because this is kind of a big change. TomPliss on July 18, 2013 at 03:37 said: Meh, they are a Class S threat, with “kill on sight” order on them, so … Yes they are, but it is still a very interesting change in her character. It isn’t a problem or anything. I just wonder what happened during her campaign that made her not have any issues with killing, and for everyone around her to know and be able to rely on that fact. Revel knows you don’t fuck with the S9. They’re like the Wu-Tang Clan of Worm supervillains. peter o on July 18, 2013 at 03:50 said: No, I saw that as part of the slaughterhouse 9/ s-class stranger protocol. When minds and perceptions might be affected, you automatically are supposed to obey the orders of those outside the area affected. They’ve been preparing for the S9 rerun, so the master/stranger protocols would have been briefed and rehearsed. Actually, looking over her past, i.e. Tagg, Alexandria, Enchenida, where did you get the impression that she is NOT perfectly ok with killing, when she feels someone needs to die. For Coil there was a pretty massive buildup, and for Tagg and Alexandria she admits she killed them out of rage and revenge. She was opposed to killing Echidna when it was first brought up. I also wouldn’t think the Protectorate would normally be quite so cavalier about having a Ward member killing people. Are you seriously saying you don’t see a difference between pre timeskip Taylor and a Taylor ready and willing to stab someone to death when Revel tells her to? The difference is that killing Coil was pretty much an execution. He was kneeling, disarmed and got a bullet in his head. Of course Taylor felt disturbed. Not to mention it was the first time she ever killed anybody. This is a war. It might not have been the original idea but the protectorate and the Wards are now an army. Revel is Taylor’s commanding officer. The S9 are the enemies, are dangerous and are trying to kill you. Besides we know that the PRT trains their people on how to fight Strangers. For us it looked as if Taylor took Revel word for it and was ready to kill some random guy. Probably Taylor’s training told her instead that Revel was warning her of someone nobody else can see: wait a minute Revel isn’t here which means powers probably don’t affect her, which means…oh crap. To be fair, Weaver is only technically a Ward any more. She was about to be sworn into the Protectorate when they got the S275 call. This is a far different situation than the run of the mill villains Taylor has been encountering. She’s going to kill on another’s say-so because this is an extremely dangerous environment, she knows what a master/stranger can do and she trusts her objective teammates. She is also chomping at the bit to be let of her leash and allowed to take her hand-picked team of super powerd lunatics on a hunter/killer mission targeting the opposition. This is not exactly an example of the sort of “do not kill” rule that superheroes like Superman and Batman have. I expect that once we see her team in action we will see some parallels to how the Slaugtherhouse 9 operate. That’s because wildbow isn’t the kind of author that creates contrived nigh impossible scenarios so that his heroes can always retain the moral ground. Besides even Batman realised that his hatred of guns wasn’t a good reason to not stop Darkseid from destroying the universe. Also,what? Superpowered lunatics? Both the Chicago and the BB Wards seem to be perfectly normal and of the Undersiders the only one I’d call a lunatic is Imp (and maybe Rachel). Because she’s totally like a vicious dog?… and the Undersiders/Wards/Red Hand and lunatic hunter killers? Because they’re hunting down serial killers? What precisely do you expect, and at what odds? What I anticipate is a mixture of the styles we saw with the Chicago Wards vs. Topsy, Chicago+Undersiders vs. Echidna, and Undersiders+Travelers versus Brockton Bay S9 (~75% probability). No, Glenn. I’m sure her team will use butterflies to capture and contain the horde of mass mayhem just released. (sarc off) Kruller on July 18, 2013 at 04:25 said: Amazing as always. Jack never ceases to surprise. A real class villain. Gonna miss him when he finally goes down. It’s interesting watching Taylor slowly change over time. She’s become more and more emotionally cut off and goal-focused. Years of stress have turned her from a talented amateur to a brilliant tactician, but she doesn’t seem able to turn it off any more. No life, no time for anything but the war that needs to be won. She reminds me a lot of Armsmaster now. Not Defiant, but the man he was before it all came crashing down. I wonder what she would say if someone pointed it out to her. She still worries about Grue being broken by his experiences, but isn’t very self aware. Kind of too early to make judgements on Taylor’s mindset. I’m going to go ahead and give everyone going for the “she’s becoming a broken hards and/or psychopath/sociopath” interpretation the side-eye until we get more information. I don’t mean that she’s a sociopath. Far from it. I just think she is getting increasingly unable to express her emotions and focused exclusively on getting the job done. It’s not that she’s somehow become a bad person, she’s just gotten used to setting her own feelings aside for the greater good. Consider this train of thought from Taylor: She makes a strong point, but would the Taylor who negotiated with Pher Se have agreed? Back then, she argued that caring for and trusting others was vital, even if it made things riskier and more painful. I may be seeing things that aren’t there, but I’m not talking about a change since the time skip, but one that has been ongoing since she first crouched on a rooftop eavesdropping on Lung. In the face of terrible trauma, she has had to learn to toughen herself so she can bear up and keep going. It’s not a bad thing, considering the world she lives in. It’s kept her and many of her friends alive. I feel bad that she doesn’t seem to have room for a life outside of work any more. It could be a sign of growing maturity, or getting more in sync with her passenger, but she keeps choosing to deny herself happiness for the sake of helping others. It’s one of the tings that makes her a hero, but it’s a pretty crappy deal for her. I spent a while to come up with a response to this — even looking up an article about people dying in hospitals someone linked to on Twitter earlier today, and which I would have festooned with trigger warnings for graphic content were I posting it on any other website — but in the end I found myself agreeing with almost everything you said. It says terrible things about the world that Taylor has reached a point where she can look horror in the face without reacting, but it doesn’t say terrible things about Taylor. The only caveat to my agreement is that I’m fairly sure this chapter’s Weaver still stands by everything that the Weaver of 24.4. I suspect she is less afraid of herself, less afraid of her passenger, and less afraid of taking charge and making the hard calls, but I get the sense that she still believes in humanity and she still believes that working together. reminds me a lot of Armsmaster now. Not Defiant, but the man he was before it all came crashing down. I wonder what she would say if someone pointed it out to her. She still worries about Grue being broken by his experiences, but isn’t very self aware. I think she’d say she already recognized it in herself when she was talking to Mockshow. Weaver is still Skitter is still Taylor, underneath and merged with the badassery. She held Theo’s hand in a moment of distress and she couldn’t stop herself from smiling when she and Grue showed they were still in sync despite everything. If you’re able to be harmlessly petty, you’re still human. Besides, she has a nobler goal now than Armsmaster ever did. And I think she knows that. It should be noted though that Armsmaster had a great drive for personal* victory. Taylor probably doesn’t, since she’s repeatedly shown willingness to forgo personal credit so long as the job gets done. It’s a subtle but important distinction. Primemountain on July 18, 2013 at 04:41 said: I think this is that moment. When Jack causes the end. Dinah said he would cause it by affecting someone. And watch the ripples spread. To Theo, and from there to Weaver. In that short talk she decided that her plans are more important the compassion. As Dinah said: You will be there, and you will be different. Her plans have helped a lot of people, but it is the human part of her that guides the plans, chooses direction. And letting go of compassion, that makes her a little but more reliant on her passenger, a little less human, After 2 years of actively hunting people, 2 years effectively at war, how much of her humanity is left? How much of her desire to help people after killing and harming and hunting for so long? Try and check, when is the last time you see Taylor feel good, loved or safe? At peace, even of a couple of minutes. There are 200+ bodies there in various forms of mutilation, and she is acting as if this is a day at the office. Not letting emotion get in the way is important, but that does not mean that you do not let yourself feet it after the fight. Do you think she will morn any of these people once this is over? Or just move on to the next task? Like a Queen Administrator? Instead of a human being? She might stop the end of the world. But answer me this? If the end-bringers suddenly disappeared, and the End of the World was called of, what exactly would she do? If suddenly she was no longer needed as Queen Administrator could she live as a human? Or is she so far into that role that lacking external threats she would decide that she is a good fit for Administrating a government or world? There are plenty of cape threats in the world without the Endbringers. She is, as you say, in a war, but she’s also making strides. She’s less vicious that she used to be, she’s introspective and aware of the role she’s playing in the lives of those around her, she’s still in therapy, etc. I think that’s its both good and smart of her to compartmentalize the horrors in this town while she’s there in the middle of it and leading multiple teams. That’s alot of cold reading based on her being focused and cautious after a timeskip of two years. Compassion is all well and good, but it’s not going to stop Jack from killing people. I don’t see the problem with any of this. > I. AM. NOT. ASKING. PERMISSION. I. AM. DOING. IT. Usually no permission is required if someone inspires you. 😛 You could add thanks to your Hogmuse in the credits of your work I guess? So: Who or what is under the other tarp? Nice job writing strangers as usual Wildbow, you’re getting really good at this. Nice Boy narrative was seamless. Maybe part of that is because of his power, but I think you’ve improved a lot since the first Imp appearances. As a side note of the timeskips we can now be surprised by both the bad guys and by whataver Taylor cooked up. That’s good, we were getting a little too much omniscience lately, and this makes room for more surprises. Taylor as Jack’s nemesis? Maybe more like they’re competing for the same environmental niche, but I guess Theo is way too kind to say that to her. With all the Cherish around Jack is going to be -really- pissed he did not chose Taylor after all. Or maybe not, he’ll probably enjoy “sparring” with her… he might try and recruit her anyway. Or, dunno, Bonesaw has technology to alter someone’s appearance and their tells. He could probably go kill Danny and wear his face. Yeah the way Nice Guy just disappears in the background, with everyone taking him for granted, was very well written. Talking about the Imp/Nice Guy scene, am I the only one who is a bit worried? Imp and Nice Guy have pretty similar powers and we have just been shown that the best way to off a Stranger is to have another Stranger do it. I know not every scene holds a Chechov’s Gun or some foreshadowing, but I’m a little scared for Imp,now. Scolopendra on July 18, 2013 at 11:00 said: I get the feeling that Nice Guy’s powers require him to be aware of someone in order to affect them. It seems like Imp is a natural trump against him in this manner. And now that she knows his face, I imagine she’ll just start murdering his clones on sight without any hesitation. Also, I love the fact that it seems more like she killed him not because he was a member of the S9, but because she was annoyed that he was infringing on her style. Regarding a Chekhov’s Gun, I’d say the existence of 9 clones of Cherish would be a bigger issue, seeing as she was able to locate Imp without much problem. Masters seem to trump Strangers. Valefor, for all that he was touted as a Stranger, is most definitely a Master and he caught Imp just fine. Same goes for Othello who would more accurately described as a Master-Stranger hybrid anyway, no? Cherish too. he could use it to achieve Stranger-type effcts but it was still ultimately mind-control Bear in mind that Taylor is a Master as well, but she tends to have consistent issues with Strangers. Parian is also a Master as well, but I doubt she’d be able to accomplish much against a Stranger either. I wouldn’t say one class trumps another, because as we’ve seen, they are just labels and don’t really account for the powers at hand. I believe the moment I realised that the classification system made no sense is when we found out that Parian’s power isn’t to animate puppets or something similar as her Master classification would make you think but is actually simple low-level telekinesis. Seriously. How the heck can that be considered a Master power!? It seems that the PRT isn’t incompetent only in trying to stop villains but also in assigning labels. The classification is based on the nature of the end result, not the source. You could have telepathy that creates illusions that can harm people, but it’d be a master power, not a thinker power. >The classification is based on the nature of the end result, not the source. You could have telepathy that creates illusions that can harm people, but it’d be a master power, not a thinker power. Oh, I understand that. Still, a classification system based on the results instead of the actual power seems, at least IMHO, not only counterintuitive but fairly dangerous. It just calls for a clever villain to use his more general powers in a more specifically/limited way, so that when the heroes come geared for a fight against,for example, a Brute he kicks their asses by revealing his actual Breaker powers. (i hope I picked two power sets that make sense.) I suppose I meant human-controlling Masters. Also, I love the fact that it seems more like she killed him not because he was a member of the S9, but because she was annoyed that he was infringing on her style. Not to rain on your parade, but I think that was just her continuing the ancient tradition of the Bond One-Liner. …just a second, I need to edit TV Tropes. The same niche, maybe, but different environments — even as a villain, Taylor was never playing the mass-murderer game. They’re no more competing than Jeff Gordon is competing with Michael Schumacher. The ends are different but the more she goes on the more she looks like Jack 2.0 I know that things like mass murder do not seem unimportant for character analysis, but given the setting more often than not is just a case of having the right (or wrong) experiences influence you. Except for the fact that she: -Is not killing tons of people. -Does not manipulate and play her team members against each other to get them to work together. -Does not set up elaborate conditions and games to fuck with her enemies and turn everything into a lose-lose situation. -Does not actively try to convince people to become psychopaths. -Is demonstrably not a psychopath. I mean, the parallels are there. But calling her “Jack 2.0” is really reaching. Some of the reactions to this chapter are really weird and overblown imo. If this were any other fight I’d be raising eyebrows too, but given the current situation she really hasn’t done anything inappropriate or that disturbing. Kytin on July 18, 2013 at 23:39 said: Agree with most of your points but… I’m sorry? Did you not read the arc where she took down Topsy’s team? Yeah, the use of harrying fear tactics is one of the parallels that rings true. But I had Jack’s MO of treating things of treating things like an actual game and setting up arbitrary rules to fuck with people. The more I think about it, the more Weaver and Jack Slash look like Batman and the Joker. First, like I said to Jerden, my specific objection was to the word “competing” — to compete is to seek the same end. Second, I agree with Reveen that “Jack 2.0” doesn’t make sense — Jack is using mayhem and mass murder as a tool to seek glory and fame, and Weaver is out to protect people from mayhem and mass murder and gives exactly zero shits about glory and fame. A Taylor without moral compunctions would probably be a fanatical idealist along the lines of Purity or Crusader (or Alexandria), not a serial-killer performance artist. Third? Weaver and Jack Slash really are similar in a lot of ways. Theo wasn’t off base with the comparison. All I’m saying is that there are some pretty obvious bounds to their resemblance. I’d say that the lack of mass murder shows that they are competing. At the moment, their goals are completely the opposite. I’d say a nemesis is the perfect description of Jack to Weaver. Opposite goals, similar tactics and personality, only the sides are different really. Therefore, a nemesis relationship. I think there’s a confusion of language going on — to be “competing” is to seek the same goal at the expense of your rival’s (or rivals’) success. When I made the metaphor of Jeff Gordon and Michael Schumacher, I was emphasizing that despite both men being famously-successful race car drivers, they are not competing with each other because Jeff Gordon drives NASCAR and Schumacher drives Formula One. Similarly, while Weaver and Jack Slash are both famously-successful and famously-badass capes, Weaver isn’t trying to beat Jack Slash in the world’s-most-famous-murderer competition, and Jack isn’t trying to beat Weaver in the world’s-most-famous-antihero competition. That said, if you said they were antagonists instead of saying they were competing, I’d agree with you almost across the board. (To say that only the sides are different is a bit hyperbolic.) Sorry if I reply to you all in one go. I intended “competition” as what you got from two different species of animal vying for the same spot in the foodchain. (e.g.: lions and sabertooths. Lions won) That’s one of the fiercest competition in nature, because by being successful you automatically damage the other tribe. Yes, it is a meta-analysis issue somewhat, and someone inside the universe is less likely to draw the same parallel. (unless he has, e.g. spent the last two years studying the one and crushing on the other) So, in the end, it cames down to: – Deeply in synch with their passenger: check – Feared by their own allies: check – Have a weird “familiar” relationship to a pre-teen brain-powerhouse: check – Lie, cheat and steal: check – Even to their own allies: check – Have the full attention of Theo: check – Have “rules of conduct” but are otherwise morally lacking: check – Command a vast horde of scary things: check – Have morally slapped Mannequin: check – Several times: check – Have tried to kill the other one: check – Have hugged the other one: check – Have a knife on hand: check – “Using” Theo for their own end: check – Prone to killing/maiming people without any kind of prior notice: check (I’ll remind you that Jack has had way more time on his hands to up the bodycount, and thse thing tend to snowball) – Have betrayed a paternal figure: check – Deeply driven in what they do: check – Able to work around and with extremely dangerous people: check – Have the end of the world as planned endgame: check Versus: – Mass murderer: different – Likes vanilla ice cream: different – A series of traumatic experiences has them snap: different… so far Those are all very tangential and pretty meaningless things that have nothing to do with what they fundamentally are as people. And I’d just like to add: -Weaver has the capacity to form relationships not based on manipulation. Jack does not. -Jack is concerned with fame and show first and foremost. Weaver is not. -Weaver is fundamentally motivated by helping people, despite questionable methods. Jack is not. -Jack takes a heavy interest in molding the psyches of his teammates to his ends. Weaver does not. That’s not even half of it. They have completely different attitudes and motivations even when they have similar tactics, a talent at deception, and a excitement for combat. Again, I’m really wondering whether some dudes have gotten hung up on Weaver’s post S9-Echidna-Surrender self and haven’t been paying attention to the progress she’s made as a hero. Perhaps all the comments of this nature are exposing some of what needs to be added to Arc 25; evidence of Taylor’s growth as a person while in the Wards. I’d just like to clarify that I’m not challenging the nemesis thing. But the concept of a nemesis as often use in fiction describes characters that are not only similar, but also very different in opposite respects. Batman and the Joker, both are very smart, very driven to their goals. But one is stoic and wants justice, and the other is crazed and wants chaos. Putting too much emphasis on what makes Jack and Taylor similar without also acknowledging the fundamental differences kinda warps what Theo was saying. And yeah, it’s probably just the lack of detail on her Ward career, but I don’t know how in the hell that leads people to assume she’s just the same as she was when she joined the heroes. That’s just really odd to me. I’m not sure why people keep saying a person’s nemesis tends to be similar to them. I generally think of a Nemesis as being their opposite in most ways. Physically-powerful Superman has mentally-powerful Lex Luther. The world’s greatest detective Batman has the incomprehensible Joker. The powerful Thor has the scheming Loki. Tech-hero Iron Man has the Mandarin with his magical rings. etc. etc. There are definitely some nemeses who are similar : Holmes/Moriarty, Green Lantern/Sinestro, etc. but… That’s exactly what I thought you meant, and exactly what I was disagreeing with. Hell, if it weren’t for the end-of-the-world thing, Jack and Weaver could both have dominated in their respective niches without ever running into each other. Indigo on July 18, 2013 at 09:13 said: Glad to know Clock’s still ticking…But the Nine with out Jack is way scarier than them with him. I’m not so sure about that. The S9k would be harder to run to ground if they split up but they’d have a lot less raw power than as one massive group. Jack is the linchpin holding the S9 together. Without him they’d fragment into individuals and small groups that could be picked off one at a time in coordinated strikes like the one that took down Topsy and Co. I’m also a bit of a Bitch fan. And Taylor’s relationship with Rachel has been awesome from the start — it’s definitely worthwhile trying to capture some of that magic. Two years after being betrayed, living in the wilderness, fighting oxen, living without toilets or shoes (a nasty combination to step in), and her first instinct is to hug Taylor. Oxen? Don’t you mean fucked up bull things? Deepbluediver on July 18, 2013 at 09:28 said: I’m glad we’re back to this; despite all the death and destruction, I found the last chapter to be far more depressing. Something about the description of what Jack and the rest put pre-Bonesaw Riley through really hit a nerve. It is too much to hope he dies a slow and painful death? He just made the mistake of claiming that he has perfect control over the Slaughterhouse Nine Unlimited. Of course he’s going to die a slow and painful death. I don’t think that’s practical. Much as I’d love that, a slow death gives him time to do one last Fuck You. Fast and painful. Yeah, I know. Revenge 101: Gloat only AFTER they’re dead, and preferably from a safe distance. Still, I can dream, can’t I? Cockblocker & Wiener, next Worm couple ? Weaver. I Hope you meant. And we the comments section have been calling for Clockblocker/Weaver since they met. It’s a (bad) joke. You may have missed that Clockblocker is called COCKblocker. Bad jokes are my specialty … And yeah, now that her name changed, I want Imp to joke about it … …I thought that was a typo. -_-\/ – I really like Winter despite her never appearing on-screen – I’ve said it before: Strangers get the coolest powers. That said, Nice Guy is a nightmare. Fucking villain Strangers brrr* – interesting. You have no weatherbenders so far. I assume a meteorokinetic would be a Shaker? – yeah, bring on the Thanda and the Dragon’s Teeth (whatever they are.) The more surprises they can throw at Jack, the better. Despite Bonesaw discussing it at great length in the previous chapter I still don’t understand what Winter’s power is. Yeah Nice guy is pretty scary. Forget Jack not being able to control Grey Boy. If Nice Guy didn’t want to play along with Jack how the heck can he be controlled. (Unless Bonesaw implanted some Stranger-tracking device. Ohhh boy.) I believe Dragon’s Teeth is another of Dragon’s suits or ships. It was mentioned along the Azazel. Winter slows things down. This is either a molecular slowdown, resulting in cold, or an emotional slowdown, leading to depression, depending on what Winter is focusing on at the moment. Or maybe it’s an AoE thing, I don’t remember. Dragon’s Teeth huh? -Combat robots and drones with less advanced AI that act as Dragon’s “children”? -Wounded and crippled capes given cyborg enhancements that fight with Dragon? -A new combat system controlled by Dragon that uses several smaller units rather than one biig suit? -Defiant’s new identity after he did something really fucked up again? I notice how he wasn’t mentioned. Or maybe he ended up turning himself into a non-centralized AI like a goddamn moron? I was thinking self-replicating raktabija-type constructs but I like wounded cyborg capes waaaay better. If I had to venture a guess, I would think the Dragon’s Teeth are the drones that Dragon deployed to try to capture the Undersiders at the same time she deployed the Azazel suit. And let’s hope that Dragon has worked out the bugs with the AI in the Azazel model this time around. On the plus side, I really don’t think someone like Nice Guy would have any chance against an Azazel, a drone, or even Dragon herself. As I recall, Imp’s powers had no effect on Dragon whatsoever. It makes me wonder if Cherish would be able to affect Dragon either. The name Dragon’s Teeth is from the myth of Cadimus. He sowed the teeth of a dragon he slew and they grew into an army. So my guess is that they are a self replicating drone. Really it’s just an advancement of that suit that kept repairing itself. Eh, I just like the idea of her having built her own team and/or army to be way cooler than getting her hands on a new toy. Well if they are Von Nuemann machines, she’ll have an army. Alternatively, Dragon hired the Teeth (as in, Vexx, Hemorrhagia, Spree etc.) as her personal strike team 😀 I immediately thought of the same reference. I was more imagining a combination of Armsmaster’s miniaturisation with Dragon’s technology so you can have a portable army. They may or may not grow once ‘sown’. Dragon could actually use some smaller drones. You can escape the current ones just by crawling into a narrow space. In Greek Myth (Jason and the Argonauts) you sow the earth with a dragon’s teeth to make a powerful army rise from the ground. I’m thinking a Legion of lesser Dragon bots. Let’s hope they aren’t defeated simply by throwing a rock at them. Asmora on July 18, 2013 at 11:11 said: I feel like Wildbow is standing over a forge, bringing down a hammer on the keys. Sparks fly again and again in a steady rhythm. One after the next, heavy metal tablets fall from the forge, inscribed with the chapters that reveal to us the end. We can do nothing to hasten or delay the coming of the story, only wait in terrified anticipation for the next moment when the latest tablet will be quenched in our tears. That’s a good summary. Big thank you goes out to William and Stephen for their donations. Author’s Notes: As I upload the donation counter image, the Captcha continues to appear self aware. ‘Better Half’ this time. An eerie reference to the concluding paragraph in the latest chapter. Stephen M (Ethesis) on July 18, 2013 at 14:07 said: You are welcome. I wanted to make a statement about how I felt about the time skip. So I doubled my usual monthly donation. You do not have a way to let us set up a subscription payment do you? I would like to just send you five dollars a month automatically. I could look into it this weekend. Stuff on my list includes: Looking into a possible forum. Subscription options. Doing editing for a book for someone in my writer’s circle. Catching up on chores. Just one thing: While I would probably like a subscription option (otherwise I plainly forget to bring up paypal), most of the nice people I met on IRC so far are quite young and unlikely to be able to pay for one. Since subscriptions usually mean bonus material, I would not want to get on a discussion with a fan, only to discover midway that s/he does not know what I’m talking about because s/he’s still young and does not have ready access to a credit card to pay for the bonus content. If I may offer an alternative suggestion, for the next thing you want to publish: Offer an ebook “draft” collection of posted chapter each month, or each arc. With maybe a similar “draft” version of worm (say, 5 or 6 arcs each) as a bonus or something. (by draft I mean: fix the typos and the hypens, and just copy the chapters as they are) Maybe offer the final edited ebook for free if someone subscribes for a certain number of months or something like that. How does it sound? I wasn’t looking for a bonus for subscribing. Just realized that Wildbow massively overperforms in terms of value and volume. Thanks William & Stephen! sarah penguin on July 18, 2013 at 11:27 said: This was creepy. The Slaughterhouse Nine are the most disturbingly realized villain group I’ve ever encountered. And area code 630? Weaver’s a burb-girl? Chicago Proper: 312 Greater Chicago: 773 Chicago Suburbs: 708 for south suburbs, 847 (with a 224 overlay) for north and northwest surburbs, 630 (with a 331 overlay) for southwest suburbs Upstate Illinois: 815 (with a 779 overlay) If the Wards gave her a new cell once she joined the Chicago team, then sure. Alathon on July 19, 2013 at 01:36 said: Chicago has been hit by at least one Endbringer; it could be that in the wake of that, they found they no longer needed one of their area codes and it was later reassigned. Jeeze. Abrasive? Much? And I’m not just asking permission to call you abrasive. I.AM.DOING.IT! Darn. Too bad Weaver could not control the spawn. One of these days. http://www.treehugger.com/natural-sciences/cthulhus-pet-giant-isopod-25-feet-found-attached-to-underwater-robot.html I want to see this sort of thing linked with “skitter” — imagine an air breathing version. We know she can control bugs big enough to ride. With the right bio-tinker it is only a matter of time. You know what? The shells of those things would make an awesome hat. Everyone around you would be freaking out. Truth. They are two and a half feet long. Get you some all black contacts, make some face makeup, or even just some fake dried blood streams down your head too if you do it that way. Unless you just want to be the guy walking around all normal with the giant isopod hat. “Hey Martha, how’s Jerry doing? You stay fit, girl.” Jerden appears on the popular British TV show, Dragons’ Den. Jerden enters wearing a giant bug on his head. Jerden: “I’d like 30,000 Pounds to develop my business, which will sell gigantic isopod shells as headgear. Collection of businessperson so rich and successful they literally have stacks of cash piles up beside their chairs: “What!?” Jerden: “There’s a definite target market in lunatics wanting to freak people out. Plus, it’s organic. And creepy.” These seem within the parameters of what she should be able to control. Just imagine them as air breathers. 😉 Truthseeker on July 18, 2013 at 15:48 said: Ahhhh, Worm. The setting where things are bad enough that Skynet is one of the good guys and a fully functional cousin to the xenomorph of Alien(s) is casually dismissed as “not dangerous enough yet, not our priority right now.” 😀 I can’t help but agree. When the heroine of our story consists of a swarm of deadly insects surrounding a knife wielding school girl something very special has been created. In a world where a heroine overdose can turn you into Godzilla and the girl who brings a knife to school gets attacked by cyborgs… In a world where cybernetics eating your soul actually make you a better person… It’s certainly unique. Oooh…well, thanks to Imp, we have confirmed that these members of the S9 don’t have all the same advantages of the originals. Imp has tried to throat slash an Niner before to no effect. You know, subdermal sheathes and other protective implants that individually made them much harder to kill. However her control method is, it’s most likely something biological and possibly even psychological, because it looks like the Slaughterhouse Army didn’t get themselves some upgrades installed. Oh, and while it’s been on my mind, my guess is that Spawner is a mix of Breed and Crawler. Fortunately for our protagonist, Bonesaw presumably lacked the time and equipment to do her upgrades. At least, that’s my theory. I agree. to an extent. I think that Jack wanted to get his show on the road. I also think that the cloned members are considered ‘expendable’ for the moment. It seems like she only used the knife to disbale the Nice guy and ended up dispatching him with the acid trap that Taylor helpfully pointed out to her. Chances are he might have lived if all she did was use her knife to try and cut his throat. There is also the fact thta because of his power the Nice Guys’ improvement might not be focused as much on defense since they think nobody will be able to hurt him anyway. Imp throwing Nice Guy in the acid may simply have been her knowing that even for perfectly normal people a slashed throat is not as fatal as most people think. After all, even Tattletale survived it, and physically she’s an ordinary human. Tattletale didn’t get a throat slashing, did she? I only remember a cut to the cheek and a windpipe crushing, which is alot more survivable than losing a jugular. Well, it’s similar enough for me to be confused. Forgive my ignorance, oh greater one who remembers details that evade my feeble recall. I’ll shut up now. I think the Undersiders’ protocol for dealing with the S9 is that there is no such thing as overkill when it comes to them. It’s also pretty well-known at this point that Bonesaw is able to reanimate corpses to a certain extent, so even leaving a somewhat intact corpse is not advised. I would not be surprised if burning/dissolving/disintegrating the corpses of any S9 member were the established standard procedure on the books at the Protectorate. Shoot them, stab them, cut their throats, draw and quarter them, drown them, steamroll them, work them over with a sledge hammer, burn them to a crisp, throw whats left into a food processor and hit ‘puree’, pour the mix into a liquid nitrogen cooled container and launch it into the sun. I think that may just do the trick. From Interlude 13.5: Bonesaw screamed, shrill and loud, which caught Aisha off guard. With a knife in her throat, the girl was screaming? Reacting more on instinct than wit, Aisha pulled the knife out and then slashed it horizontally across Bonesaw’s throat. She’d expected a spray of blood or gurgling. Neither happened. Bonesaw screamed again. So she pulled the knife free and stabbed Bonesaw in one eye. The blade scraped against the bone of Bonesaw’s eye socket. Flame erupted and pieces of glass came to life around Aisha. She backed away quickly as a wall of flame rolled over Jonathan on the table and divided her from Bonesaw. There was a rumble and the sound of falling furniture as Crawler stood. “Ow, ow, ow, ow!” Bonesaw shrieked. ”It hurts!” Why isn’t she dead? So, no significant bleeding, and still able to talk. Now from this update: I was thinking that she just didn’t want to wait for him to bleed out. That and destroying the body makes it harder for Bonesaw to reanimate them. What I would like to see is the SH9< look up from their work to see where that blasted buzzing is coming from to, to see the sky darken as a huge swarm of locusts, all carrying venomous spiders and assorted other bugs, all infected with parasitic worms for good measure, descends upon them. On another note. I wonder if Golem can use his power on bone. Using his power on bone or even flesh would be creepy, disturbing and probably very effective. Hopefully he (or Weaver) have thought of trying it. The Manton Effect probably won’t allow it. Imp likes being careful now? And can talk to people while using her power? Nice way to really make us feel the timeskip. Indeed. Wildbow really has great consistency in things like this. Notice that it catches Taylor the same way it catches the audience. Very well executed. Well, Clockie should definitely have graduated to the Protectorate by now, maybe most of the BB Wards have. Except for Vista, of course. But that’s a great thing because if you think of the Protectorate Northwest-North at the start of the series: Armsmaster was arrested, almost killed and became Defiant. Battery was killed by Bonesaw’s spider-bot. Dauntless is in the time bubble. The other speedster (Velocity?) was killed by Levithan. So unless htey shipped in permanent reinforcements from elsewhere, (quite likely) the BB Protectorate would look like Miss Militia, Assault, and Triumph. Reasonably formidable, but not exactly the thing to make evil-doers crap themselves. I’m thinking this tem will be largely the grown-up Wards and I can’t wait to see how Kid Win in particular has grown. Jim Lee on July 19, 2013 at 10:13 said: Kid Win was what, fourteen? So, he’s now in his late teens, and probably still in the Wards. Ditto Vista, except even younger. The BB Wards are currently under the leadership of, get this, Crucible. Clockblocker (who’s ALIVE! FUCKING AWESOME!) should be nineteen, turning twenty at the end of the summer. How the time flies. Think anyone can tell Crucible anything yet? About Echidna? He doesn’t need to know. About the end of the world? I expect they have. Vista was thirteen — don’t know Kid Win’s age (at least fourteen circa Leviathan, seeing as he was allowed to patrol alone, but younger than Gallant, and Gallant was younger than Clockblocker). The other Brockton Bay Wards circa Arc 3 were Aegis (dead), Clockblocker (nineteen-almost-twenty, as you said), Shadow Stalker (may or may not be out of juvie), Gallant (dead), and Browbeat (moved away) … so assuming Kid Win is still in the Wards, it’d be him, Vista, Crucible, and whoever else got added during the last two years. Emma! Stranger with ability “not getting noticed by Taylor”! ShawnMorgan on July 19, 2013 at 22:05 said: or bug destruction powers like Defiant’s zapper. Someguy on July 19, 2013 at 18:23 said: I’m surprised that Taylor didn’t get the meaning behind Rifle’s name with her mom being an English teacher and the Red Hands being thieves so Rifle does not refer to:- a. A firearm with a rifled bore, designed to be fired from the shoulder. b. An artillery piece or naval gun with such spiral grooves. But refers to:- 1. To search with intent to steal. 2. To ransack or plunder; pillage. 3. To rob: rifle a safe. Did Taylor lose the ability to make such mental connections over the years as she gained more power and a deeper connection with her passenger without realising it? three rights make a left. on July 19, 2013 at 19:14 said: So in a situation where hundreds of dead people are all around you, your on high alert for traps from some of the most dangerous people in the world, your focused on protecting people against a move thats supposed to end the world and you dont make a connection that may or may not exist between “Rifle” and her group and what it means. I dont think not making connection (that may or may not exist) really means anything beyond the fact that she’s focused on the extremely important mission. Aharon on February 27, 2014 at 06:35 said: This is an interesting observation to make. Bobby on July 19, 2013 at 21:57 said: Tecton, Tecton… Do you still doubt that Taylor is more powerful as a member of the Protectorate than as a criminal warlord? katrikah on July 19, 2013 at 23:49 said: Hey, Wildbow, you should update the ‘Updates Tuesdays and Saturdays’ tagline. I’ve been only checking back those two days, and have been really confused at all the ‘extra’ chapters. mdman1 on August 13, 2013 at 05:03 said: Yay, Clockblocker is alive! And the Thanda are badass as usual. Didn’t expect them to be mentioned further. Yes! Clockblocker is alive! 🙂 Queen Administrator indeed. I like the Thanda. It’s impressive that the 9 (maybe they should be called the 272?) were able to get all that done without word getting out and the hammer being dropped on them. Eli Bell on September 24, 2013 at 21:01 said: I lol’d That’s Jack Slash. Hobbies: Mass murder, Domestic Terrorism, Stand-Up Comedy. Without Coil, more likely. drachefly on January 8, 2014 at 19:07 said: “Like you’ve been in a kind of stasis for the entire time I’ve known you, and only now are you really coming back to life.” Fourth wall breach!! bundle on February 2, 2014 at 04:24 said: about Breed. i feel his power should have been mentioned a little more in the past. his name is mentioned, but the effect of his power could have used some time to sink in and generate fear before Taylor became so hardcore. nothing concrete, something like “i felt empty, hollowed out, like one of Breed’s victims” would make me SCARED, wondering what kind of messed up power can hollow out a guy. as is the effect of his power is only mentioned twice and i feel you missed an opportunity for an impact. Typo: “Nine clones of each copy of the Nine” should be “Nine clones of each member of the Nine”. (Oh FUCK.) hedelex on April 15, 2014 at 18:52 said: YAAAAY CLOCKBLOCKER!!!! THOUGHT HE WAS DEAD!!!! YEAAAAAHHH Em… sorry, I’ll just go back to reading. Yup all that pity and almost sympathy I had for Riley last chapter is gone now. She may be playing a mask for rooting for the good guys now but she could’ve stopped all this with a simple pulled cord. Fuck her, I may not wish Cherish’s fate on her anymore but she should still die. Cozen is annoying. She’s having a pissing contest with her husband’s old flame in the middle of the S9000’s killing fest? This girl is rapidly approaching the Too Dumb to Live category. Ah Imp, I’ve missed you! Leave it to the little one (though not so little anymore) to come up with wildly inappropriate comments in the middle of a highly stressful location and relieve some tension. LOVE how Weaver is in charge here and everyone is defaulting to her! Also I really love Revel. That woman is awesome. Soooo glad that BEHEMOTH didn’t end up getting her. YAY CLOCKBLOCKER LIVES!!! Love that guy. Okay so I know Taylor had been compared to Jack from a while back but Theo really hit the nail on the head there. It’s scary to think about things from that perspective. Imagine if their roles had been swapped? Scary. I saw mention of a fanfic where Taylor was the leader of the S9 and Jack was essentially her but both their core personalities were intact. I think I’m going to go search out that one after I finish this serial. Plus…wow she has gotten so pragmatic it’s…a little disturbing. Breed reminds me of the shit-weasels from Dreamcatcher. Creepy bastard. Shame that Taylor can’t control the Critters. Nice Guy on the other hand is hilarious. Imp is soooo going to decimate him and he will be sitting there with a stupid look on his face unable to understand why he keeps losing. …Aren’t you asking too much from a brainwashed traumatized little girl? slider214 on April 20, 2015 at 19:54 said: My reasoning from the last chapter comments still holds I think. She is traumatized and brainwashed with the Passenger in the driver’s seat for the most part but she had been turned into enough of a monster for long enough that I feel justified in wondering why she couldn’t stop this tragedy before it happened by just killing the pocket dimension with the sleeping pyschos who she knows are going to kill her anyway. Stockholm Syndrome excuse only goes so far. If she wanted to be redeemed that was the spot. Getting her friend out was nice and a spot of hope and all but a killing spree that wiped a town off the map almost more scarily than an Endbringer attack takes the sympathy out of my sails. Again I don’t hate her anymore. I’m more of disappointed I guess. Generally speaking,changing happens in small steps-she hasn’t progressed enough yet On that subject see also:Zuko from AtLA Except that her change happened during a timeskip of two years during which she was largely alone and not influenced by poison from Jack. Zuko is a good example but his change only took a few months. damn bugs (no pun intended):I wanted to say:yes,but Zuko had more experiences on these few months.I count time on quantity,not quality,so it fits.Also,Contessa could have convinced her that giving her the remone eventually was the only way because clairvoyance,its not like its hard to switch her from one brainwashing to another with Contessa’s powers. irrevenant on April 20, 2015 at 20:22 said: Stockholm syndrome isn’t an excuse, it’s a mental disorder. Saying “Stockholm syndrome excuse only goes so far in explaining why they don’t turn on their captors” is like saying “severe agoraphobia excuse only goes so far in explaining why they don’t just leave the house to get milk”. It doesn’t only go so far, it goes all the way. Okay you have a point. But she doesn’t really have it to begin with since she’s mentioned how she hates him and how she knows it’s only a matter of time before he kills her especially now that she isn’t entirely insane anymore. Thanatos on January 5, 2015 at 20:36 said: I’m gonna be honest here, wildbow. You’re an amazingly talented and prolific writer, and Worm is an incredible story. But after the time skip of Scarab I’ve lost the ability to identify with Taylor completely. We all know how much she changed with the Undersiders in three months, and we followed the day-to-day progression of that. And now we’re supposed to believe that she barely changed at all in almost two years? I’m also a bit sad that we never got to know more about the Chicago Wards, as I really like them. In the end, I can’t identify with anyone anymore, and I’ve started to feel like a bystander looking at everything instead of feeling like we really are in Taylor’s head. Okay, I’m ranting and I’m stressed because of exams, but I needed this off my chest. Good luck. irrevenant on January 5, 2015 at 20:57 said: Quite a few people have had similar concerns about this time skip, and Wildbow has said that addressing it will be a major priority when he revises and edits Worm for publication. Personally, I can buy Taylor keeping the Wards at arms-length to focus on her mission but we do need to see that happening. And I totally agree it’d be awesome to see more of the Wards… slider214 on January 6, 2015 at 01:27 said: While I also agree that it was slightly jarring and that it would be cool to see more of the Chicago Wards I didn’t have much problem identifying with her still afterwards. Maybe it was harder to emphasize but not so much to identify. One thing that it seemed to me was that for the entirety of the time skip Taylor was operating almost on autopilot. She came across as just doing holding action after holding action trying to be proactive without being proactive. A lot of her time with the Undersiders was moving from one crisis to the next always staying on the defensive offense. Now she is stuck waiting two years for Jack to set off the apocalypse and she has defaulted to safe mode so that she can reboot as soon as shit happens and she can start playing to her strengths again with the hard hitting offense. That was my impression at least. Arkh Cthuul on August 21, 2015 at 16:55 said: Killington Commuter on August 31, 2015 at 19:54 said: Damn it! I have to drive by that sign every day! I was wondering if this was real. Thank you for confirming it in the funniest possible way. You trained me, the others trained me. I- I guess I’m as ready as I could ever be. I’ll fight when the time comes, wade through the gauntlet he sets in his wake and I’ll succeed or fail. But I’m not a strategist, and these people need someone to mourn them. Let me be useful in my own way, right here, right now. Theo is a good kid. ImfromKillington on April 21, 2016 at 03:24 said: I live like a 10 minute walk from killington in the town next over. Count to 10 on August 24, 2016 at 20:50 said: Acid can’t actually do that, it doesn’t matter how strong. Watching the strongest acid attack something is like watching the paint dry or grass grow. I’m a terrible person. “Some pre-death, others post?” Referring to pieces of of wood sticking out of them into the ground? Chris on January 8, 2018 at 19:36 said: Missing an opening quotation marks before “The killer is her…” TheAnomaly on February 15, 2018 at 22:23 said: Obviously I have the advantages of an archive binge but the number 999(people Jack would kill) seems wrong. Shouldn’t it be 998, then Aster, then Theo? Or at least shouldn’t he mention altering that particular part of the agreement since he’s usually so meticulous about those things? Or maybe that number was deliberate to make him think he was running away when he actually has to find Aster to fulfill the original agreement. I am still missing physical changes from Taylor after those two years. Leave a Reply to bundle Cancel reply	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0038.json.gz/line3578
__label__wiki	0.526994	0.526994	Justia Patents US Patent Application for Electrophotographic image forming apparatus and method Patent Application (Application #20070014593) Electrophotographic image forming apparatus and method May 24, 2006 - An electrophotographic image forming apparatus includes: an image receptor on which an electrostatic latent image is formed; a magnetic roller for forming a magnetic brush having a non-magnetic toner and a magnetic carrier by magnetic force; a donor roller facing the image receptor and receiving a toner from the magnetic roller to form a toner layer on an outer circumference thereof; bias applying device for applying a bias voltage to the donor roller to develop the electrostatic latent image by supplying the toner from the toner layer; and toner removing device which contacts the donor roller and removes at least a portion of the toner layer from a surface of the donor roller after developing. A method of developing the latent image on the image receptor is provided by the apparatus. Latest Patents: Solid beverage for conditioning blood stasis constitution and method for producing the same Methods of constrained intra block copy for reducing worst case bandwidth in video coding Decoding device, encoding device, and decoding method System and method for improved video operations Enhanced intra-prediction coding using planar representations CROSS-REFERENCE TO RELATED PATENT APPLICATION This application claims the benefit of Korean Patent Application No. 10-2005-0063760, filed on Jul. 14, 2005, in the Korean Intellectual Property Office, the disclosure of which is hereby incorporated by reference in its entirety. The present invention relates to an image forming apparatus and to a method of developing an image. More particularly, the invention is directed to an electrophotographic image forming apparatus using a magnetic carrier and a non-magnetic toner and a method of developing an image using the magnetic carrier and the non-magnetic toner. Development methods for an image forming apparatus using an electrophotographic technique such as a copy machine, a printer, a facsimile, or a multifunction machine are roughly classified into two-component development methods wherein a toner and a magnetic carrier are used. A one-component method of developing an image uses an insulating toner or a conductive toner. A hybrid development method uses a two-component development material for charging a non-magnetic toner using a magnetic carrier, wherein only charged toners are attached onto a development roller, and the toners are moved to an electrostatic latent image formed on a photoconductive body to develop the electrostatic latent image. The two-development method has advantages of having good charging properties of the toner. In addition, the lifetime of the toner can be extended, and at the same time, a beta image can be uniformly obtained. On the other hand, an apparatus for developing the image using this method is large and complex, and there are problems of dispersion of a toner, attachment of a carrier onto a latent image, and durability deterioration of the carrier. In the one component method of developing an image, the development apparatus is compact and the dot-reproducibility is excellent. However, there are disadvantages in that durability is low due to deterioration in the quality of a development roller and a charging roller, the price of consumable parts is high because the entire development apparatus must be replaced when the toner is used up, and a selective development is carried out. During the selective development, a toner having a predetermined weight and electric charge is attached from the development roller to the electrostatic latent image. If the selective development is continuously carried out, a toner having less than the predetermined weight and electric charge is not used in the development process, which leads to a decrease in a toner usage rate. In the hybrid development method, the dot-reproducibility is excellent, the lifetime can be extended, and a high speed image forming is possible, but development ghosts easily occur. The development ghost is a phenomenon where a latent image of a previously developed image remains on a developed image. A portion of the toner supplied onto a donor roller by a magnetic roller is developed onto a photosensitive material in response to a development bias. In the next development, the magnetic roller supplies the toner to the donor roller, so that the toner consumed in the previous development process is supplemented. In the toner layer on the donor roller, there is a thickness difference between a developed portion and a non-developed portion. Such a disproportion of the toner layer causes the development of ghosts. The present invention provides an electrophotographic image forming apparatus that prevents a development ghost from being generated and prevents the occurrence of an image disproportion even when a printing operation is continuously carried out. The image forming apparatus is thereby able to produce a stable image quality for a long time. The invention is also directed to a method of producing an image using the image forming apparatus. According to an aspect of the present invention, an electrophotographic image forming apparatus comprises: an image receptor on which an electrostatic latent image is formed; a magnetic roller for forming a magnetic brush by a magnetic force where the magnetic brush is formed from a non-magnetic toner and a magnetic carrier; a donor roller facing the image receptor and receiving toner from the magnetic roller to form a toner layer on an outer circumference of the donor roller; bias applying device for applying a bias voltage to the donor roller to develop the electrostatic latent image on the image receptor by supplying the toner of the toner layer to the image receptor; and toner removing device which contacts the donor roller and removes at least a portion of the toner layer from a surface of the donor roller after developing the latent image. In the aforementioned electrophotographic image forming apparatus, the toner removing device is positioned on a rotation path parallel to a rotation direction of the donor roller between the closest position between the donor roller and the image receptor and the closest position between the magnetic roller and the donor roller. In addition, the toner removing device may comprise a wire electrode that is able to contact the donor roller. In addition, a bias voltage applied to the wire electrode may have a bias voltage with a polarity opposite that of the bias voltage applied to the donor roller. In addition, the wire electrode may be grounded. In addition, the distance between the wire electrode and the donor roller may be 10 to 1,000 μm. In one embodiment, the wire electrode may be covered with an insulating material. An outer diameter of the wire electrode may be 10 to 1,000 μm. According to another aspect of the present invention, a method of developing an image forms a toner layer on an outer circumference of a donor roller by supplying a toner to the donor roller from a magnetic roller by a magnetic force to form a magnetic brush having a non-magnetic toner and a magnetic carrier, and to apply a bias voltage between the donor roller and a image receptor on which an electrostatic latent image is formed to develop the electrostatic latent image, wherein, after the development of the image is carried out, at least a portion of the toner layer on the donor roller is removed so that a thickness of the toner layer on the outer circumference surface of the donor roller is uniform, and then the toner is supplied again from the magnetic roller to the donor roller. In the aforementioned aspect of the development method, the wire electrode may be contacted with the donor roller, so that at least a portion of the toner layer on the donor roller can be removed. In other embodiments, the wire electrode may be spaced from the surface of the donor roller a distance of 10 to 1,000 μm, and a bias voltage having a polarity opposite that of the bias voltage applied to the donor roller is applied to the wire electrode, so that the wire electrode contacts the donor roller. In addition, the wire electrode may be spaced from the surface of the donor roller a distance of about 10 to 1,000 μm, and, by grounding the wire electrode, a bias voltage having a polarity opposite to that of the bias voltage applied to the donor roller is applied to the wire electrode, so that the wire electrode contacts the donor roller. In addition, an outer diameter of the wire electrode may be 10 to 1,000 μm and the wire electrode may be covered with an insulating material. These and other aspects of the invention will become apparent from the following detailed description of the invention which disclose various embodiments of the invention. The above and other features and advantages of the present invention will become more apparent by describing in detail exemplary embodiments thereof with reference to the attached drawings in which: FIG. 1 is a side view of an electrophotographic image forming according to an embodiment of the present invention; FIG. 2 is a view illustrating a magnetic brush of the apparatus of FIG. 1; FIG. 3 is a schematic view illustrating a displacement of toner removing assembly of the apparatus of FIG. 1; FIGS. 4a and 4b are schematic views illustrating the development of a ghost generating process in a conventional development process; FIG. 5 is a schematic view of the toner removing device according to an embodiment of the present invention; FIG. 6 is a schematic view of the toner removing device according to another embodiment of the present invention; and FIG. 7 is a schematic view illustrating the operation of the toner removing device. Hereinafter, exemplary embodiments of the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the accompanying drawings. FIG. 1 is a schematic view of a structure of an electrophotographic image forming apparatus according to an embodiment of the present invention. Referring to FIG. 1, the apparatus includes an image receptor 10, a donor roller 1, a magnetic roller 3, and a stirrer 4. In the present embodiment, an organic photosensitive conductor is used as the image receptor 10. Alternatively, an amorphous silicon photosensitive conductor may be used as the image receptor 10. An electrostatic latent image is formed on the image receptor 10, by a charging unit 21 and an exposure unit 22. A corona charger or a charging roller may be used as the charging unit 21. A laser scanning unit (LSU) for illuminating a laser beam may be used as the exposure unit 22. In addition, an electrostatic drum (not shown) may be used as the image receptor 10. In this case, an electrostatic recording head (not shown) may be used instead of the exposure unit 22 to form the electrostatic latent image. A developer 6 receives a non-magnetic toner and a magnetic carrier. The carrier is not particularly limited except that a magnetic powder type is used. The stirrer 4 stirs the carrier and the toner to frictionally charge the toner. The toner is not particularly limited, and either a negative or positive charged toner is acceptable. The carrier is attached to the outer circumference of the magnetic roller 3 by the magnetic force of the magnetic roller 3, while the toner is attached to the carrier by the electrostatic force. Then, as shown in FIG. 2, a magnetic brush having the carrier and the toner is formed on the outer circumference of the magnetic roller 3. A trimmer 5 forms the magnetic brush to a uniform thickness. The distance between the trimmer 5 and the magnetic roller 3 is preferably 0.3 to 1.5 mm. The donor roller 1 is disposed between the image receptor 10 and the magnetic roller 3. A gap (development gap G) at the closest point or nearest position between the donor roller 1 and the image receptor 10 is approximately 150 to 400 μm, and preferably 200 to 300 μm. When the development gap G is less than 150 μm, image fading occurs. When the development gap G is greater than 400 μm, it is difficult to move the toner to the image receptor 10 and a sufficient image density is not obtained, which leads to a selective development. The distance at the closest point between the magnetic roller 3 and the donor roller 1 is approximately 0.2 to 1.0 mm, and preferably 0.3 to 0.4 mm. The donor roller 1 has a cylindrical shape and is made of a conductive aluminum or a stainless steel having an intrinsic volume resistance approximately less than 106Ω·cm3. Alternatively, the outer circumference of the donor roller 1 is covered with a conductive resin having the same intrinsic volume resistance. Bias applying device 30 applies a development bias voltage V1 and a supply bias voltage V2 to the donor roller 1 and the magnetic roller 3, respectively. The supply bias voltage V2 generates an electric field to transfer the toner from the magnetic roller 3 to the donor roller 1, between the magnetic roller 3 and the donor roller 1, and is a bias voltage having a direct current or a combined current of direct and alternating currents. A toner layer is formed on an outer circumference of the donor roller 1 in response to the supply bias voltage V2. The development bias voltage V1 must separate the toner from the toner layer formed on the outer circumference of the donor roller 1 to make the toner pass across the development gap G to develop the electrostatic latent image on the image receptor 10. To this end, the development bias voltage V1 includes a direct current or a combined current of direct and alternating currents. In the present embodiment, the DC development bias voltage V1 is applied to the donor roller 1. According to the embodiment of FIG. 1, the charging unit 21 equipotentailly charges the surface of the image receptor 10, which is a photosensitive conductor. The exposure unit 22 illuminates light corresponding to image data onto the image receptor 10. In this manner, an electrostatic latent image having an image portion and a non-image portion having electric potentials are different from each other is formed on the surface of the image receptor 10. In response to the supply bias voltage V2 applied to the magnetic roller 3, the toner is separated from the magnetic brush to be supplied to the donor roller 1. A toner layer is uniformly formed on the outer circumference of the donor roller 1. If the toner layer formed on the donor roller 1 faces the image portion of the electrostatic latent image while passing through the development gap G, the toner is separated from the toner layer on the donor roller 1 based on the development bias voltage V1 and attached to the image portion so as to develop the electrostatic latent image into a visible toner image. The toner image is transferred to a recording medium P by a transfer electric field generated by a transfer unit 23. A fuser 25 fuses the toner image onto the recording medium P by heat and pressure, and a cleaning blade 24 removes toner remained on the surface of the image receptor 10. Referring to FIG. 4a, the toner layer formed on the surface of the donor roller 1 passes through the development gap G, and a portion or all of the toner layer in the area Ai facing with the image portion of the image receptor 10 is developed onto the image receptor 10 based on the development bias voltage V1. The toner layer in the area Ab facing the non-image portion of the image receptor 10 is not developed but remains on the surface of the donor roller 1. In the electrostatic latent image formed on the image receptor 10, the image portion and the non-image portion respectively represent an area where the toner is attached and a background area where the toner is not attached. The amount of the toner developed from the area Ai to the image receptor 10 is referred to as Ma. For a next development cycle, the magnetic roller 3 supplies the toner onto the area Ai. Where the image is continuously printed or the amount of the toner remaining in the developer 6 is not sufficient to produce an image, the amount of the toner supplied from the magnetic roller 3 to the donor roller 1 may be less than Ma. Then, as shown in FIG. 4(b), the thickness of the toner layer formed on the surface of the donor roller 1 is not uniform, which leads to a development ghost since a latent image of the previous development remains in the next development process cycle. The image forming apparatus according to the present invention includes toner removing device for removing at least a portion of the toner layer from the donor roller 1 after a development cycle. The toner removing device removes a portion or all of the toner layer of the donor roller 1 after the toner layer on the surface of the donor roller 1 passes through the development gap G and before the toner is supplied from the magnetic roller 3. Referring to FIGS. 1 and 3, a wire electrode 2 is oriented parallel to the axis of rotation of the donor roller 1 between the closest point or nearest position between the donor roller 1 and the image receptor 10 and the closest point or nearest position between the magnetic roller 3 and the donor roller 1. The definitions of the nearest position between the magnetic roller 3 and the donor roller 1 and the nearest position between the donor roller 1 and the image receptor 10 are shown in FIG. 3. The wire electrode 2 is oriented with respect to the donor roller 1 to remove the toner layer from the surface of the donor roller 1 while the donor roller surface passes through the development gap G. The wire electrode 2 may be disposed to contact the surface of the donor roller 1. In another example, as shown in FIG. 5, the wire electrode 2 is positioned to be separated from the surface of the donor roller 1 by a predetermined distance, and a bias voltage V3 having a polarity opposite to that of the bias voltage V1 applied to the donor roller 1 is applied to the wire electrode 2. The bias voltage V3 is applied, for example, by the bias applying device 30. When the toner is positively charged, for example, the bias voltage V1 having a positive polarity like the charged toner, is applied to the donor roller 1. The bias voltage V3 having a negative polarity is applied to the wire electrode 2. Then, the wire electrode 2 deflects and contacts the donor roller 1 by the electrostatic attraction force between the wire electrode 2 and the donor roller 1. In an alternative embodiment, as shown in FIG. 6, the wire electrode 2 may be separated from the surface of the donor roller 1 by a predetermined distance, and the electrode wire is grounded. A charge having an opposite polarity with respect to the bias voltage V1 applied to the donor roller 1 is induced into the grounded wire electrode 2 so that the wire electrode 2 contacts the donor roller 1 by the electrostatic attraction force. In this manner, by grounding the wire electrode 2, the degree of freedom in selecting the bias voltage V1 increases. Springs 30 apply biasing force to the wire electrode 2. The springs 30 may be positioned at each end of the wire electrode 2 or at one end as shown in FIGS. 5 and 6. The distance between the wire electrode 2 and the surface of the donor roller 1 is preferably 10 to 1,000 μm. If the distance is less than 10 μm, it becomes difficult to maintain a uniform distance between the wire electrode 2 and the surface of the donor roller 1 along the donor roller 1. If the distance is greater than 1,000 μm, it becomes difficult to contact the wire electrode 2 with the donor roller 1. A distance in the range of 10 to 1,000 μm, therefore, is the most suitable to remove the toner layer from the surface of the donor roller 1. The thickness of the wire electrode 2 is preferably in the range of the 10 to 1,000 μm. If the thickness of the wire electrode 2 is less than 10 μm, the rigidity and strength of the electrode is not sufficient, and if the thickness of the wire electrode 2 is greater 1,000 μm, the rigidity thereof becomes too high and the wire electrode 2 cannot flex and contact the donor roller 1. In the embodiments shown, the wire electrode 2 extends substantially parallel to the axis of rotation of the donor roller 1 and extends the entire length of the donor roller 1. As shown, the wire electrode 2 is positioned downstream of the closest point between the donor roller 1 and the image receptor 10 with respect to the direction of rotation of the donor roller and upstream of the closest point between the donor roller and the magnetic roller 3. In order to prevent the wire electrode 2 from being electrically short-circuited when contacting the donor roller 1, the wire electrode 2 is preferably covered with an insulating material such as a vinyl chloride. When the wire electrode 2 contacts the surface of the donor roller 1 after surface of the donor roller 1 has passed through the development gap G, as shown in FIG. 7, a portion of the non-image area Ab is removed from the surface of the donor roller 1, and another portion thereof is moved to the image area Ai, so that a thickness of the toner layer on the surface of the donor roller 1 becomes uniform. Of course, the toner layer on the surface of the donor roller 1 may be entirely removed. Accordingly, in the method of developing an image of the present invention, before the toner is supplied from the magnetic roller 3 to the donor roller 1, a portion or all of the toner layer on the donor roller 1 is removed or redistributed, so that a thickness of the toner layer on the donor roller 1 becomes more uniform. Therefore, a latent image of the previous development is removed from the donor roller 1. Next, the toner is supplied from the magnetic roller 3 to the donor roller 1, so that the toner layer having a uniform thickness is formed on the surface of the donor roller 1 which then passes through a development gap G. Thus, not only where an image is developed on a single-time base, but also in a case where the image is continuously developed, the thickness of the toner layer can be uniformly formed on the donor roller 1, so that formation of a development ghost can be prevented. In particular, the method of the present invention is remarkably efficient in preventing the formation of the development ghost when an image of high density is continuously developed, so that a stable image quality can be obtained. Although in the above description, a monochrome image forming apparatus and a development method therefor have been described, the image forming apparatus and the development method therefor according to the present invention can be applied to a single-pass type color image forming apparatus having a tandem configuration and a multi-pass type color image forming apparatus in which a single image receptor is repeatedly developed and developed images are sequentially transferred to a intermediary transfer unit. While the present invention has been particularly shown and described with reference to exemplary embodiments thereof, it is not limited thereto, and various changes in form and details may be made therein within the spirit and scope of the present invention as defined by the appended claims. 1. An electrophotographic image forming apparatus comprising: an image receptor on which an electrostatic latent image is formed; a magnetic roller for forming a magnetic brush by magnetic force, wherein the magnetic brush is formed from a non-magnetic toner and a magnetic carrier; a donor roller facing the image receptor and receiving a toner from the magnetic roller to form a toner layer on an outer circumference of the donor roller; bias applying device for applying a bias voltage to the donor roller to develop the electrostatic latent image on the image receptor by supplying the toner from the toner layer on the donor roller; and toner removing device for contacting the donor roller and removing at least a portion of the toner layer from a surface of the donor roller after supplying the toner to the image receptor to develop the image. 2. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein the toner removing device is positioned along an axis parallel to the rotation direction of the donor roller and positioned between the closest point between the donor roller and the image receptor and the closest point between the magnetic roller and the donor roller. 3. The apparatus of claim 2, wherein the toner removing device comprises a wire electrode that can contact the donor roller. 4. The apparatus of claim 3, wherein a bias voltage is applied to the wire electrode having a polarity opposite to the bias voltage applied to the donor roller. 5. The apparatus of claim 4, wherein the wire electrode is spaced from the donor roller a distance of 10 to 1,000 μm. 6. The apparatus of claim 5, wherein the wire electrode is covered with an insulating material. 7. The apparatus of claim 6, wherein an outer diameter of the wire electrode is 10 to 1,000 μm. 8. The apparatus of claim 3, wherein the wire electrode is grounded. 10. The apparatus of claim 9, wherein the wire electrode is covered with an insulating material. 11. The apparatus of claim 10, wherein an outer diameter of the wire electrode is 10 to 1,000 μm. 12. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein the toner removing device is a flexible wire electrode spaced from the donor roller and oriented along an axis parallel to an axis of rotation of the donor roller, and wherein a bias voltage is applied to the donor roller and to the electrode wire to produce an attracting force whereby the electrode wire contacts the surface of the donor roller. 13. The apparatus of claim 12, wherein said electrode wire is coupled to a spring whereby the electrode wire can be deflected toward the donor roller. 14. The apparatus of claim 12, wherein the electrode wire positioned downstream of a closest point between the donor roller and the image receptor with respect to the direction of rotation of the donor roller, and upstream of a closest point between the donor roller and the magnetic roller. 15. A method of developing a toner image on an electrostatic latent image on an image receptor comprising forming a toner layer on an outer circumference of a donor roller by supplying a toner to the donor roller from a magnetic roller, the magnetic roller forming a magnetic brush from a non-magnetic toner and a magnetic carrier by a magnetic force, applying a bias voltage between the donor roller and the image receptor to develop the electrostatic latent image, and after the electrostatic latent image is developed, at least a portion of the toner layer on the donor roller is removed to form a toner layer on the outer circumference surface of the donor roller having uniform thickness, and thereafter supplying toner from the magnetic roller to the donor roller. 16. The method of claim 15, wherein a wire electrode contacts the donor roller to remove at least a portion of the toner layer on the donor roller after the latent image is developed. 17. The method of claim 15, wherein the wire electrode is spaced from the surface of the donor roller a distance of 10 to 1,000 μm, and a bias voltage is applied to the wire electrode having a polarity opposite to that of the bias voltage applied to the donor roller, so that the wire electrode is deflected and contacts the donor roller. 18. The method of claim 17, wherein the wire electrode is covered with an insulating material. 19. The method of claim 18, wherein the wire electrode has an outer diameter of 10 to 1,000 μm. 20. The method of claim 16, wherein the wire electrode is spaced from the surface of the donor roller a distance of 10 to 1,000 μm, and wherein the wire electrode is grounded and a bias voltage is applied to the wire electrode having a bias voltage with polarity opposite the bias voltage applied to the donor roller so that the wire electrode is deflected and contacts the donor roller. 23. The method of claim 16, wherein the wire electrode is oriented along an axis parallel to an axis of rotation of the donor roller and where a bias voltage is applied to the wire electrode that is opposite to the bias voltage applied to the donor roller, whereby the electrode wire is deflected and contacts the donor roller. Applicant: Inventors: Naonori Kurogawa (Suwon-si), Masahiko Itaya (Suwon-si), Kyu-cheol Shin (Seoul), Tsutomu Teraoka (Seongnam-si), Tsutomu Sasaki (Suwon-si), Myung-kook Ahn (Suwon-si) Current U.S. Class: 399/281.000; 399/283.000; 399/285.000 International Classification: G03G 15/08 (20060101);	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0038.json.gz/line3579
__label__cc	0.711941	0.288059	The Chambers let's chat... Beware of the Fine Print when a Trust gives a Guarantee! Home » The Chambers » Beware of the Fine Print when a Trust gives a Guarantee! We recently dealt with a guarantee that was being given by our client’s in their capacity as trustees of a discretionary trust. There is a small clause in the guarantee that makes them personally liable under the guarantee, not just the trust: “You declare that you are not signing this guarantee and indemnity as a trustee of any trust or settlement, unless you have told us otherwise in writing. If you do enter into this guarantee and indemnity as a trustee of a trust, this guarantee and indemnity binds you personally and in your capacity as trustee of the trust.” If there is a default, the Bank can sue them personally, and any mortgage held by the bank over property held in their own names would be further security for their obligations as guarantors. While the bank needs to pursue the borrower first, under the National Credit Code, after that, the trustees are fair game, and the bank may go after them before any of the other guarantors, if they appeared to have more readily available funds, or realisable assets. Secondly, the terms were misleading because they did not confirm that the guarantees could withdraw the guarantee at any time prior to the credit being provided, which they could do in this situation, pursuant to section 58 of the National Credit Code: Guarantor may withdraw before credit is provided (1) Although a guarantee has been made, the guarantor may nevertheless, by written notice to the credit provider: (a) withdraw from the guarantee at any time before credit is first provided under the credit contact; or (b) withdraw from the guarantee after credit is first provided under the contract if the credit contract made differs in some material respect from the proposed credit contract given to the guarantor before the guarantee is signed. (2) The guarantor may withdraw from a guarantee under this section to the extent only that it guarantees obligations under the credit contract. (3) This section is subject to section 61. The client was considering options to withdraw from the sale contract. When we were consulted, the loan money had not been advance to the borrower. One option was to withdraw the guarantee, on the basis that they had not been told that they were going to be personally liable, and then seek a letter from the bank stating that it is not prepared to lend the money without that personal guarantee. This would have been a Non Approval Notice for the purpose of the standard REIWA/Law Society Joint Form Terms and Conditions of Sale, which is used in most land sales in WA. They could then truthfully advise the seller that: their bank would only grant the loan if they both provided personal guarantees; it was a trust, not them personally that was named as the guarantor; their personal liability was in the fine print; they thought it was only two trusts that would be liable; and in the current climate of uncertainty, they were not prepared to provide personal guarantees. They could then negotiate with the bank and the seller for a better deal, or pull out altogether. While it may still have been possible for the seller to argue that the trustees are personally liable for the sale falling over, we could not think of any good arguments to make them liable, if we were acting for the seller. We also noted that, if the seller threatened to take action, our clients could then negotiate a settlement of the dispute, after hearing the seller’s arguments, and the seller would almost certainly agree to let the sale proceed, so they should be in no worse a position, except perhaps in relation to some default interest. With a $1.5m property in issue, that interest might be high, but a waiver could probably have been negotiated. In the end, the client decided to proceed with the purchase anyway, so it all became academic. 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__label__cc	0.713777	0.286223	Petronas Primax 97 with Pro-Race launched – world’s first Advanced Dual Friction Modifier for more power In Local News / By Anthony Lim / 21 December 2020 4:36 pm / 25 comments Petronas Dagangan has officially introduced its new Petronas Primax 97 with Pro-Race, its best ever fuel. The new Euro 4M RON 97 petrol is now available nationwide, priced at the current rate of RM2.08 per litre for December 19 to 25 under the weekly fuel pricing format. The new RON 97 fuel replaces Primax 97 with improved Advanced Energy Formula, which has been on the market since August 2015. The company says the updated fuel has been engineered to meet the demands of present-day high technology engines by offering users with a more powerful, responsive and efficient performance. At the heart of the formulation is a new additive package that includes the world’s first Advanced Dual Friction Modifier, which the company says is 25% more efficient in reducing friction, and it also enhances the fuel and oil interaction to improve fuel efficiency for better mileage, resulting in lower carbon emissions. The company says the new fuel also removes 99.9% of deposits from key areas in the engine. “The new Petronas Primax 97 with Pro-Race is our best fuel, as the new formulation was designed to cater to advanced engine technologies and meet the high-performance driving needs of our customers today. Having translated our fluid technology from track to road, we are very excited to finally let our customers experience an effortless drive, achievable through the three-in-one benefit comprising power, responsiveness and efficiency,” said PDB MD and CEO Azrul Osman Rani. The new fuel leverages on Petronas’ experience in developing fluid technology for the Mercedes-AMG Petronas F1 team, which won its seventh consecutive FIA F1 World Constructors Championship in 2020. “The competitiveness on the racetrack is intense. I need a fuel that gives me the power to move beyond – when I accelerate, when I take corners and when I need to get ahead of the pack. Petronas Primax 97 with Pro-Race is the fuel that gives your car the power as and when it needs most. I know what power means. You should too, ” said Lewis Hamilton, the reigning F1 world champion. Ahead of its official introduction, the performance of the new fuel was evaluated by customers through a series of blind tests. Carried out under real world condtions, the tests revealed that two out of three participants in the programme experienced better performance from Petronas Primax 97 with Pro-Race compared to other premium fuels that they are currently using. Specifically, 69% of the participants said the new fuel delivers more power, while 66% agreed that it felt more responsive. As for efficiency, 73% of those who took part in the tests confirmed that their vehicles recorded better mileage with the new Petronas fuel. “The results of the blind tests and feedback from the drivers were truly encouraging. As a leading energy and solutions partner, we continuously seek out avenues to refine and improve our offerings to remain as customers’ brand of choice. We are confident that the new Petronas Primax 97 with Pro-Race will surpass customers’ expectations and delight their driving experience,” Azrul said. Anthony Lim believes that nothing is better than a good smoke and a car with character, with good handling aspects being top of the prize heap. Having spent more than a decade and a half with an English tabloid daily never being able to grasp the meaning of brevity or being succinct, he wags his tail furiously at the idea of waffling - in greater detail - about cars and all their intrinsic peculiarities here. Tan on Dec 21, 2020 at 4:40 pm Pay extra 30sents (Ron 95 $1.78/L and 97 $2.08 about 17% extra)get extra fuel 25% more efficient , value for money , but do you believe ? Optimus on Dec 22, 2020 at 4:24 pm Not only more efficient but cleaner engine. Brian on Dec 21, 2020 at 5:30 pm This is Malaysian innovation, bringing you a championship winning fuel for your car. Feel the power, feel the glory, feel the victory every time you ignite your passion. hantu raya on Dec 22, 2020 at 11:49 am sadly Malaysians still plagued with “foreign is best” syndrome. many will belittle/play down/undermine the efforts and successes of our intelligent and hardworking guys and gals, and there are those who will never even give this product a fair and honest try to see the results for them selves. from PETRONAS Lubricants Internasional :- “As Title partner, PETRONAS co-engineered PETRONAS Fluid Technology Solutions™ which includes PETRONAS Primax fuel, PETRONAS Syntium engine oil and PETRONAS Tutela functional fluids, in close collaboration with the technical team at Mercedes AMG High Performance Powertrains (HPP). The fuel and lubricants development programme that PETRONAS has undertaken since 2010 has brought unrivalled success to the Mercedes-AMG PETRONAS Formula One Team and created one of the most dominant eras in the history of Formula 1®.” also note that from wiki (i know wiki is not the most reliable, but its quick)- “The fuel used in F1 cars is fairly similar to ordinary (premium) petrol, albeit with a far more tightly controlled mix. Formula One fuel would fall under high octane premium road fuel with octane thresholds of 95 to 102. F1 Blends are tuned for maximum performance in given weather conditions or different circuits.” all that innovation trickled down to regular folks, but sadly there are those who still say, after 7 world titles, this 0r that is waaayyy better… 25% more hardworking employee means 25% cost savings for Petronas? on Dec 21, 2020 at 6:08 pm ‘25% more efficient in reducing friction’ means very differently at the dyno when compared with the official picture’s comments of ‘Reduces friction by 25% more’. Any legal experts here could advice if this could be interpreted as misleading claims? sam123 on Dec 22, 2020 at 8:53 am mr1031 on Dec 22, 2020 at 10:15 am poyo You don’t measure friction thru dyno testing friend. There are independent labs that does it. Bieight on Dec 21, 2020 at 7:29 pm If direct injection still the intake valve wouldn’t be clean… GenZ on Dec 21, 2020 at 10:31 pm yes, even with RON100 Euro6 Petron, self cleaning fuel – GDI still get reasonably dirty, as per thier report comparing to EN228 standards. Justice on Dec 21, 2020 at 9:00 pm Caltex fuel a lot better Like or Dislike: 22 19 Bleh on Dec 22, 2020 at 8:24 am caltex win any f1 championship no??? Justice on Dec 25, 2020 at 11:40 pm u driving f1 car is it? Foreigners are always better innit? Even after 7 world titles… Caltex here not managed by Malaysian franchise holders?? enough of your stupid sentiments, go for quality instead of foolish nationalism pride Caltex station like can find only 1 in entire KL. How much better that I need to waste petrol driving there to refuel? bhp will the hest 2nd alternative, if not go for shell Top4 on Dec 21, 2020 at 10:27 pm how long does it take to clean 99.99% deposits? even a PETRON RON 100 Euro6 requires 60hours to clean 70% of the deposits, on a PFI engines. on a GDI engines, dirt magnet – still accumulate more dirt compared to PFI, though much less compared to standard requirements: While using Petron Ron 100 Euro6. There is lack of transparency of laboraty Testing report. A leaders should be educate followers with technical write ups, not just marketting with some random figures. Rizall on Dec 22, 2020 at 1:13 am I don’t agree with the advertisement the last tag line “develop by malaysians for malaysians”should be “develop by malaysians for the world.”i think that sounds better. Unfortunately Petronas fuels is selling only in M’sia. Pity but many countries have their own establish national brands so entering such markets is a cutthroat affair. Dong gor on Dec 22, 2020 at 6:28 pm If Ron 97 has no clear advantage over Ron 95 as conducted by PT crew.. So we don’t expect same class of fuel can offer anything that the drivers can feel. This is pure marketing! Truth on Dec 25, 2020 at 11:09 am petronas fuel additives are crap, poor quality Zack on Dec 25, 2020 at 8:32 pm Oh really? I wonder how they manage to win 7 F1 world titles in a row then. This proves that you are crap, haha AAAA on Jan 06, 2021 at 12:57 pm Nah man….BHP the worst….u can even see their marketing team everywhere stating BHP and Caltex the best. Shell and Petronas the worst. I encountered alot of BHP marketing team every website. Don’t bullsh*t la Previous Post: Nissan Magnite dilancarkan di Indonesia – bermula RM60k, 1.0L turbo, pilihan kotak gear manual dan CVT Next Post: Petronas Primax 97 dengan Pro-Race dilancar – pertama di dunia guna Advanced Dual Friction Modifier	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0038.json.gz/line3584
__label__cc	0.709913	0.290087	Ray6 Comments Massachusetts: The Canary in the Coal Mine for ObamaCare — By Doctor Paul Hsieh Dr. Paul Hsieh Doctor Paul Hsieh, an MD who practices in the south Denver metro area, has a deep grasp of the philosophical roots of freedom, both political and economic, and for this reason he despises the left almost as much as he despises the right. Almost. Which is why he infuriated so many of us in 2008 with his outrageous equivocations — equivocations that he’s dearly paying for now. His equivocations, however, do not preclude him from writing with great limpidity about the subject of healthcare — about which he, being a doctor, is an expert. The following passage is a must-read for anyone who wants to understand the healthcare crisis that we’re now in — and have been in for many decades — and which ObamaCare will only exacerbate a thousandfold. Massachusetts: The Canary in the Coal Mine for ObamaCare The ongoing failure of the “universal health care” plan in Massachusetts serves as a clear warning to the rest of America Five years ago, Massachusetts adopted its “universal health care” plan, which served as the template for President Obama’s subsequent national health care legislation. However, Massachusetts’ problems of rising health costs and worsening access foreshadow similar problems for the rest of America — as well as how to avoid them. The Massachusetts Medical Society recently reported that the state law has resulted in “longer patient wait times [and] continued difficult access to primary care physicians.” The average wait time in Massachusetts to see an internal medicine physician is now 48 days — double the national average. Over half of primary care practices are no longer accepting new patients. Fewer physicians are accepting the state-run Commonwealth Care and Commonwealth Choice insurance plans. So although Massachusetts politicians frequently boast that they have increased “coverage,” many patients cannot find doctors to provide them with actual medical care. Meanwhile health costs continue to skyrocket out of control, both for the state government and for privately insured patients. In a recent Forbes article, Sally Pipes notes that over the next 10 years, the plan will cost the state government $2 billion more than predicted. Similarly, prior to the new law insurance prices in Massachusetts increased at a rate 3.7% slower than the national average; after the “reform,” they’re increasing 5.8% faster. To cut costs, Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick has proposed replacing the standard payment system with draconian “global budgets” where doctors and hospitals would be given a fixed amount to care for the patients assigned to them. The providers would then keep a portion of the savings if they came under budget (or suffer penalties if they ran over budget) — thus creating morally perverse incentives to deny care to their patients. The access problems have gotten so bad that the state legislature even considered forcing doctors to accept government-controlled insurance rates as a condition of retaining their state medical licenses (regardless of whether or not the doctors lost money on each patient). As Massachusetts-based health policy analyst Jared Rhoads describes it, this would be responding to the failures created by the government’s insurance mandate by imposing a new “physician mandate.” Given this hostile practice climate, it is no wonder that many Massachusetts physicians are considering opting out of the government-run system into “concierge practices” — or leaving the state altogether. Dr. Lorraine Schratz, a Massachusetts pediatric cardiologist, noted that half of physicians trained in the state are leaving due to the poor practice environment and poor reimbursements. Because the ObamaCare national health plan is closely modeled after the Massachusetts plan, we are beginning to see early signs of similar problems developing nationally. One of the ways ObamaCare will attempt to expand “coverage” will be via dramatically expanding the Medicaid program. But as Medicaid patient Nicole Dardeau recently told the New York Times, “My Medicaid card is useless for me right now…. It’s a useless piece of plastic. I can’t find an orthopedic surgeon or a pain management doctor who will accept Medicaid.” New Orleans ER physician James Aiken similarly noted, “Having a Medicaid card in no way assures access to care.” Once again, politicians can promise theoretical “coverage,” but this is not the same as actual medical care. Please read the rest of the article here. Read this to better understand how to truly reform healthcare. Dave Cochrane, UK I’m just thankful that my own country hasn’t adopted anything so ill conceived. D’OH. Thanks, Homer, I needed a good laugh. ScummyD The (average) people I’ve talked to about this issue that support increased government regulation and control 1. Are totally clueless about the implications if not logical ends to that which they advocate or 2. Don’t care about such abstractions, as they wallow in some sort of inebriated state dreaming of utopian perfection or 3. Both. They lament the fact that not everybody (poor and rich)has equal access to the system while advocating government reforms that ensure limited access for everybody. And they don’t even understand this or are totally oblivious. “The access problems have gotten so bad that the state legislature even considered forcing doctors to accept government-controlled insurance rates as a condition of retaining their state medical licenses (regardless of whether or not the doctors lost money on each patient).” I’ve always just naturally thought that this very sort of thing was the statists’ intention. Implement reforms under the guise of bettering the system and then exploit the negative repercussions from their reforms to agitate for further government control and a complete take over. That seems to be the way they work in general. Identify a perceived problem, grow government to supposedly fix the problem and then repeat the process, but use the problems their own policies have created as justification for even more power and control. Nice article pluck from the Web, Ray. Thanks. My grandparents recently moved from CA to TX. I was there visiting in early April and asked them about their healthcare plan. Because of the move, they had to find new doctors. They told me that it was nearly impossible to find a Medicare doctor. Can you blame the doctors? They are essentially being forced into a new line of work by the government: charity. Who the hell would ever go into a line of work where the government dictates what they may charge for their services forcing them to loss money? Just one of the many inclusions in the fool’s gold of state run healthcare. And yet half the nations seems to be panning the river as fast as they can looking to cash in on their share. Thank you, ScummyD. I always enjoy hearing from you, and I apologize for taking this long to respond. I’ve been balls-deep in Bloody Marys and martinis for four days straight. But it’s all behind me now.	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0038.json.gz/line3590
__label__wiki	0.637929	0.637929	Spectroscopic use of a novel blue diode laser in a wavelength region around 450 nm I.S. Burns, J. Hult, C.F. Kaminski This paper reports on the first spectroscopic application of a novel type of GaN blue diode laser emitting around 450 nm, which has recently become available. The diode was characterised and then implemented in an extended cavity, to achieve mode-hop free tuning over a frequency range exceeding 105 GHz. The spectroscopic utility of the device was demonstrated by probing the 5(2)P(3/2) to 6(2)S(1/2) transition of atomic indium seeded to an atmospheric pressure flame. Single scans over the pressure broadened hyperfine structure were recorded with high signal-to-noise ratios and profiles of the indium LIF distribution through the flame were acquired, at a high spatial resolution. Potential applications of diodes emitting in this spectral region range from industrial sensing to atomic cooling experiments. Applied Physics B: Lasers and Optics spectroscopic novel blue diode laser Burns, I. S., Hult, J., & Kaminski, C. F. (2004). Spectroscopic use of a novel blue diode laser in a wavelength region around 450 nm. Applied Physics B: Lasers and Optics, 79(4), 491-495. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00340-004-1580-9 Burns, I.S. ; Hult, J. ; Kaminski, C.F. / Spectroscopic use of a novel blue diode laser in a wavelength region around 450 nm. In: Applied Physics B: Lasers and Optics. 2004 ; Vol. 79, No. 4. pp. 491-495. @article{d4c4006cd7b042089112c326324d0161, title = "Spectroscopic use of a novel blue diode laser in a wavelength region around 450 nm", abstract = "This paper reports on the first spectroscopic application of a novel type of GaN blue diode laser emitting around 450 nm, which has recently become available. The diode was characterised and then implemented in an extended cavity, to achieve mode-hop free tuning over a frequency range exceeding 105 GHz. 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Kaminski", journal = "Applied Physics B: Lasers and Optics", Burns, IS, Hult, J & Kaminski, CF 2004, 'Spectroscopic use of a novel blue diode laser in a wavelength region around 450 nm', Applied Physics B: Lasers and Optics, vol. 79, no. 4, pp. 491-495. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00340-004-1580-9 Spectroscopic use of a novel blue diode laser in a wavelength region around 450 nm. / Burns, I.S.; Hult, J.; Kaminski, C.F. In: Applied Physics B: Lasers and Optics, Vol. 79, No. 4, 09.2004, p. 491-495. T1 - Spectroscopic use of a novel blue diode laser in a wavelength region around 450 nm AU - Burns, I.S. AU - Hult, J. AU - Kaminski, C.F. N2 - This paper reports on the first spectroscopic application of a novel type of GaN blue diode laser emitting around 450 nm, which has recently become available. The diode was characterised and then implemented in an extended cavity, to achieve mode-hop free tuning over a frequency range exceeding 105 GHz. The spectroscopic utility of the device was demonstrated by probing the 5(2)P(3/2) to 6(2)S(1/2) transition of atomic indium seeded to an atmospheric pressure flame. Single scans over the pressure broadened hyperfine structure were recorded with high signal-to-noise ratios and profiles of the indium LIF distribution through the flame were acquired, at a high spatial resolution. Potential applications of diodes emitting in this spectral region range from industrial sensing to atomic cooling experiments. AB - This paper reports on the first spectroscopic application of a novel type of GaN blue diode laser emitting around 450 nm, which has recently become available. The diode was characterised and then implemented in an extended cavity, to achieve mode-hop free tuning over a frequency range exceeding 105 GHz. The spectroscopic utility of the device was demonstrated by probing the 5(2)P(3/2) to 6(2)S(1/2) transition of atomic indium seeded to an atmospheric pressure flame. Single scans over the pressure broadened hyperfine structure were recorded with high signal-to-noise ratios and profiles of the indium LIF distribution through the flame were acquired, at a high spatial resolution. Potential applications of diodes emitting in this spectral region range from industrial sensing to atomic cooling experiments. KW - spectroscopic KW - novel blue diode laser KW - wavelength JO - Applied Physics B: Lasers and Optics JF - Applied Physics B: Lasers and Optics Burns IS, Hult J, Kaminski CF. Spectroscopic use of a novel blue diode laser in a wavelength region around 450 nm. Applied Physics B: Lasers and Optics. 2004 Sep;79(4):491-495. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00340-004-1580-9	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0038.json.gz/line3595
__label__wiki	0.964957	0.964957	State Govt secures Suncorp Super Netball season for Queensland Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk has announced every team and the entire Suncorp Super Netball season will relocate to Queensland for the duration of 2020. As part of a deal being finalised by the government, all six interstate teams will start to arrive in Queensland from today and will play up to 60 games including finals at locations throughout Queensland over a condensed season. “This is another way Queensland can help in the COVID crisis,” the Premier said. “It can only happen with strict protocols protecting the health of Queenslanders. “With thousands of fans throughout Australia and New Zealand, hosting the Suncorp Super Netball season in Queensland will pump thousands of dollars back into local businesses and give our tourism industry some great exposure at a time they need it most.” Plans to relocate teams to Queensland had been approved by Chief Health Officer Jeanette Young. All Victorian players and staff will be tested on Day 4 and Day 10 of their quarantine. “My number one priority remains keeping Queenslanders safe during this pandemic,” the Premier said. “All Victorian players and support staff will have to quarantine for 14 days before they’re allowed to play in Queensland.” Teams include: Melbourne Vixens Adelaide Thunderbirds Giants Netball (Sydney) New South Wales Swifts West Coast Fever (Perth) in addition to Queensland teams Queensland Firebirds and Sunshine Coast Lightning Tourism Minister Kate Jones said the government would provide $2.2 million to support Netball Australia to move players and teams to Queensland. Ms Jones said the draw for the rest of the season was still being drawn up. However, Brisbane, Cairns, Townsville and the Gold and Sunshine Coasts were expected to host teams and games in coming weeks. “This is a dream come true for all Queensland netball fans,” Ms Jones said. “Because Queenslanders have done such a great job fighting COVID-19, we can now start to reap the benefits. “We’ve seen firsthand with the success of the Firebirds and the Lightning the strong following that netball has in Queensland. “Bringing more players and more teams to Queensland isn’t just great for fans, it’s great for local businesses.” Suncorp Super Netball CEO Chris Symington said teams would begin to arrive in Queensland from today (Sunday July 19). “We know that Queenslanders are huge sports fans and fanatical about their netball,” he said. “Given the way that the Queensland Government has managed the state’s health response to this pandemic, it was the best decision for our league to relocate to the Sunshine State for 2020 and we’re looking forward to getting the season underway,” he said.	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0038.json.gz/line3597
__label__wiki	0.967884	0.967884	Queen’s Wharf Brisbane 1300 988 887 Enquire Now 08 Dec 2020 \| Brisbane Times High rollers make way for luxury tourists as Queen’s Wharf unveils George Street entrance Brisbane’s new Queen’s Wharf casino and entertainment complex will market itself more towards the luxury tourism market than so-called “high rollers” when it opens in 2022, its CEO revealed during his first visit to the site after a COVID-enforced hiatus. Star Entertainment Group chief executive Matt Bekier said the international impact of COVID-19 forced the company to rethink its appeal to attract guests to the luxury hotel accommodation in Brisbane. “COVID-19 obviously has been hugely disruptive to a lot of people, including us, but I am really pleased to see that this project has progressed according to plan and to budget,” he said. Mr Bekier said the pandemic had changed Star’s thinking when it came to the international VIP market — the high rollers who flocked to gambling hubs such as the Chinese city of Macau. “That high roller market that built Macau is not going to come back,” he said. “What is going to come back is the affluent, sophisticated traveller who wants to explore the world by themselves. “They love big hotel rooms. They love experiences and that is growing very quickly and that will absorb all of the slack capacity. “If you look at Macau, traditionally you had a small number of very, very affluent players driving the business. “That is not the business we are building here. We are building a business with a much broader base, with a tourism base, from a wider range of markets.” The main commercial push will be “four days in Brisbane, plus three days on the Gold Coast”, with the updated Brisbane Airport providing the similar levels of access as Singapore. Star also owns the casino complex on the Gold Coast. “The idea is to sell all of south-east Queensland,” Mr Bekier said. “This is the only integrated resort that is currently being built in the world, so when we open up in 2022 onwards we will have five years of free air. “With the new [Brisbane] airport runway, with the airlines back in business, this is going to be the hottest ticket to go and visit.” During his visit to Brisbane, which Star will call home once the $3.6 billion project is completed, Mr Bekier released new imagery that gave a taste of the George Street entrance to the complex. It shows an open-air atrium allowing views across to South Bank from George Street. Project director Simon Crooks said George Street would be the main entry to the integrated resort. “Right up on the left will be the event centre and ballroom. In front are steps going up to level four, which is the bridge connection across the river,” he said. The first 45-metre long span of the new Neville Bonner Bridge will be lifted over the Riverside Expressway about Easter 2021, Mr Crooks said. Newly appointed State Development Minister Steven Miles said Star had re-employed 3500 Queenslanders stood down at the height of the pandemic and almost returned to its pre-COVID revenue levels. “Nowhere else in the world has tourism, retail and hospitality recovered in the same way as we have been able to here in Queensland,” he said. Enquire or book an appointment with one of the Queen's Wharf team. Request A Call Enquire Now 40 George Street, (Cnr George St and Alice St) Queen's Wharf Brisbane © Far East Consortium 2021	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0038.json.gz/line3600
__label__cc	0.683143	0.316857	Salesian Missions letter shop, circa 1995 Mailing services is a business term encompassing a wide range of functions related to the production of commercial mail. Businesses in this industry segment can perform all related functions, or specialize in one or two; some may also provide printing, fulfillment, or marketing services. Today, a mailing service company can receive rolls of paper, print the material that will be mailed, manage data and apply addresses, produce and sort the finished mailpieces, and submit them to the US Postal Service. Today’s sophisticated printer/mailer or mailing service provider is the modern example of what was once a very simple, but labor-intensive, business. Technology Transforms the Office The beginnings of mailing services as a separate business starts with the increased use of the typewriter in the 1870’s. Typewritten correspondence could be produced much faster than handwritten letters, but making multiple copies required the use of carbon paper, which could only create a limited number of copies, usually of poor quality. Armies of typists seated in large rooms filled with desks worked away, typing commercial letters in bulk quantities for mailing. New copying machines were welcomed replacements. In 1887, Thomas Edison patented the Mimeograph, a device that made copies of a typewritten document. The patent was licensed to the A.B. Dick Company, which improved it and sold it for years. In 1902, Harry C. Gammeter and Henry C. Osborn opened the American Multigraph Company, producing a Multigraph press to mass produce form letters. It had a drum with parallel horizontal slots into which were inserted metal relief type that matched a typewriter’s font. As the drum turned it picked up ink from a carbon ribbon (later an ink roller), and transferred it to the paper. The form letter was then customized using a typewriter to fill in the variable information. These machines were used by businesses that made mailings for their clients. Originally, such companies were called letter shops because they primarily produced sales letters – reproducing the same letter over and over, inserting them into envelopes, and mailing them. Many printers continued to provide basic mailing services, but as mailings became more complex and required greater expertise in fields other than printing, letter shops and mailing services performed specialized functions. These firms were quicker to adopt new technologies in this field, and worked more closely with the Post Office. Addressing Technology and New Postal Processes Split the Industry The industry shifted as changes in list management practices appeared. Many firms began to regard their lists as proprietary and developed the ability to manage lists internally. Others sought specialists in address management for assistance. Many letter shop and mail service providers continued to provide these services, but the industry began to split between the management of address information and the printing of addresses combined with other mail-related operational services. From 1960 to 1975, First-Class letter mail volume grew from about 33 billion to 51 billion pieces. During the same period, the number of postal employees grew from 408,000 to about 559,000.1 The Postal Service’s workload was threatening to overtake its ability to develop new automated processes and install new equipment to handle ever-increasing volumes of mail. In the 1970’s, the USPS introduced the concept of work sharing. This was a discount for mailers who could perform certain processing and transportation functions less expensively than the Postal Service. Firms began to offer presort services to mailers, often comingling mail from multiple customers to make up the volume requirements necessary for the discounts. It did not take long for businesses to introduce more sophisticated sorting machines – similar to those used by the Postal Service – and build an industry around sorting and transporting mail. Critical Partnership between the Mailing Industry and the Postal Service For most major mailers, mail is a business tool and the Postal Service one of many channels they use to communicate with others and to deliver their goods to customers. They expect it to work, and be cost-effective. They often rely on a letter shops, mail service firms, and presort bureaus to manage their mailing operations. The partnership can be difficult, even contentious, but all participants invest a significant amount of attention to resolving issues, developing strategies for improvement, and in ensuring that mail is relevant for businesses and their customers. 1) Postal employment would peak in 1988 at more than three quarters of a million workers. ‹ OSM Worldwide up BrightKey ›	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0038.json.gz/line3601
__label__cc	0.638474	0.361526	About Amazon Press Center AWS Announces Four New Container Capabilities AWS Announces Four New Container Capabilities Amazon ECS Anywhere enables customers to run Amazon ECS in their own data centers Amazon EKS Anywhere provides customers the ability to run Amazon EKS in their own data centers AWS Proton provides customers with a new service to automate container and serverless application development and deployment Amazon Elastic Container Registry (Amazon ECR) Public provides developers an easy and highly-available way to share and deploy container software publicly SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Dec. 1, 2020-- Today at AWS re:Invent, Amazon Web Services, Inc. (AWS), an Amazon.com company (NASDAQ: AMZN), announced four new container innovations to help customers develop, deploy, and scale modern applications. Containers provide a standard way for developers to package and run applications quickly and reliably in any environment, while also improving resource utilization and reducing cost. AWS is now making it even easier to provision, deploy, and manage container applications. It is doing this by enabling customers to run Amazon Elastic Container Service (ECS) or Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS) in their own data centers, adding a new service for automated container and serverless application development and deployment, and providing a new container registry that gives developers an easy and highly available way to share and deploy container software publicly. Most companies offer customers a single managed Kubernetes container offering. This is limiting because different developers prioritize different needs. For developers who most prioritize using the open source Kubernetes orchestration engine, AWS offers Amazon EKS. For developers who most prioritize the deepest integration with the rest of AWS and the comfort of AWS-style APIs and streamlined configurations for cluster management, scheduling, and monitoring, AWS offers Amazon ECS. And, for those customers who prefer to run containers without having to think about servers or clusters at all (i.e. serverless), AWS offers AWS Fargate. No other provider has either a serverless container offering or this selection of container offerings overall to meet the diverse needs of developers. All three of these services continue to grow at a rapid rate, and often, customers use all three container services at the same time for different workloads. Amazon ECS Anywhere and Amazon EKS Anywhere enable customers to run Amazon ECS and Amazon EKS in their own data centers Today, customers that want to run their applications in containers have to deal with different deployment and management processes for on-premises applications and cloud applications. In these cases, customers have to manually install, operate, and manage container orchestration software on-premises. Because these customers have to use disparate tooling across their AWS and on-premises environments, they also have to stay current with multiple specialized knowledge domains and skillsets. This situation not only leads to operational overhead, but it also slows down the pace of delivering new business capabilities. What customers want instead is a fully-managed solution that works in their own data centers and in AWS with the same monitoring, cluster management, and deployment pipelines they use in Amazon ECS and Amazon EKS today. Amazon ECS Anywhere gives customers the ability to run Amazon ECS in their own data centers using the same cloud-based, fully-managed, and highly-scalable container orchestration service they use in AWS today. Amazon ECS Anywhere provides customers with consistent tooling and APIs for all container-based applications, and the same Amazon ECS experience for cluster management, workload scheduling, and monitoring both in the cloud and in their own data centers. With Amazon ECS Anywhere, customers no longer need to run, update, or maintain their own container orchestrators on-premises, making it easier to move their containers to the cloud and manage their hybrid environment. Amazon ECS Anywhere will be available in the first half of 2021. To learn more, visit https://aws.amazon.com/ecs With Amazon EKS Anywhere, customers can now run Kubernetes in their own data centers and in the cloud using the same consistent Amazon EKS experience. Amazon EKS Anywhere works on any infrastructure (bare metal, VMware vSphere, or cloud virtual machines) and provides customers with consistent Kubernetes management tooling optimized to simplify cluster installation with default configurations for OS, container registry, logging, monitoring, networking, and storage. Amazon EKS Anywhere uses Amazon EKS Distro, the same Kubernetes distribution deployed by Amazon EKS, allowing customers to easily create clusters consistent with Amazon EKS best practices like the latest software updates and extended security patches. Amazon EKS Anywhere eliminates the fragmented collection of vendor support agreements and tools required to install and operate Kubernetes clusters on-premises. Amazon EKS Anywhere will be available in the first half of 2021. To learn more, visit aws.amazon.com/eks/eks-anywhere AWS Proton provides developers with a new service to automate container and serverless application development and deployment Container and serverless applications provide obvious operational benefits, but they also change the way customers develop and deploy their code. Today, when developers build traditional applications on Amazon EC2 instances, the applications are often built as a single block of code, and there are well-established tools that help them develop and deploy their code like AWS CloudFormation templates (to provision the infrastructure), AWS CodePipeline (to set up the CI/CD process), and Amazon CloudWatch (to monitor the deployments). In reality, once customers get an application up and running on EC2, the components of the application don’t change very much. Typically, the code is maintained in a single release, so keeping it coordinated is relatively easy. By contrast, container and serverless applications are assembled from smaller chunks of code that are often developed and maintained independently and then stitched together to build and scale an application. Each chunk of code has its own separate infrastructure that has to be updated and maintained. Often, these smaller pieces of code are developed and operated by different teams, so those teams have the freedom to update the components at their own pace. This results in changes happening more frequently than with traditional applications. As customers have naturally gravitated to container and serverless application development, they’ve also found that trying to coordinate all of the changes across their infrastructure provisioning, code deployments, and monitoring tools can be a challenge. Customers lack an integrated solution that ties together all the tasks, including resource provisioning, code deployments, and monitoring. Central infrastructure teams try to provide guidance to the developers, and some even have built their own custom tools to help developers implement best practices, but the intricacies of container and serverless application development and deployment remain a challenge that slows down application development at many organizations. AWS Proton is a new application management service that makes it radically simpler to provision, deploy, and monitor applications when the unit of compute is small and dynamic, like with container and serverless. AWS Proton allows customers to define application components as “stacks” (i.e. the different combinations of chunks of code used in an application). AWS Proton also comes with a set of curated application stacks with built-in AWS best practices (for security, architecture, and tools), allowing infrastructure teams to distribute trusted stacks to development teams quickly and easily. AWS Proton enables infrastructure teams to make the stacks available to development teams for different use cases, and ensures that the stacks stay standardized and up-to-date even as multiple teams deploy stacks simultaneously. AWS Proton gives developers the ability to store and reuse these application stacks, provides an environment to deploy container and serverless applications, monitors the applications in production, and automatically updates the applications with the latest components of the stacks. AWS Proton automates the deployment of infrastructure as code, CI/CD pipelines, and monitoring for container and serverless applications. With AWS Proton, Infrastructure teams can empower their developers to use serverless and container technologies in a consistent way for their applications without having to worry about manually managing the application’s development process. AWS Proton is available in preview today. To get started with AWS Proton, visit aws.amazon.com/proton Amazon Elastic Container Registry (ECR) Public allows developers to share and deploy container software publicly Most developers building container-based applications leverage common software packages (e.g. operating systems, databases, and application components) that are publicly distributed as container images. Developers manage their container images privately within their organization using container registry services like Amazon ECR. Today, Amazon ECR customers download over three billion images each week, enabling developers to deploy containers for use in their own applications. However, when developers want to publish popular software as images publicly (e.g. language libraries, web servers, databases, etc.), they can’t download it from Amazon ECR today. Instead, they must download these images from public websites and registries like Docker Hub, which limits the image pull rate under their anonymous and free plans and does not offer availability commitments. This results in inefficient and unreliable software delivery. To work around this dependency, developers are forced to duplicate and manage these common images locally. This makes it difficult to stay in sync with the latest versions of the images, adds operational complexity, and limits the ability to scale applications quickly. AWS customers who run containers from public images in multiple regions (to log events or manage network policies) face additional difficulties in getting images to download quickly and reliably, because they have to replicate their local image copy to each region. To solve this challenge, Amazon ECR has now added a public registry for developers to store, manage, share, and deploy container images for anyone to discover and download. Customers can use Amazon ECR Public to host both their private and public container images, eliminating the need to use public websites and registries. Customers no longer need to operate their own container repositories or worry about scaling the underlying infrastructure and can quickly publish public container images with a single command. These images are geo-replicated for reliable availability around the world and offer faster downloads to quickly serve up images on-demand. Amazon ECR Public provides a highly available service that customers can use to distribute public container images as well as related files like policy configurations for use by any developer. Additionally, a new website called Amazon ECR Public Gallery will allow anyone to browse and search for public container images, view developer-provided details, and see pull commands – all without needing to sign in to AWS. Amazon ECR Public will also notify customers when a new release of a public image becomes available. Amazon ECR Public is available today. To learn more about Amazon ECR Public, visit aws.amazon.com/ecr “Customers want to run their workloads in containers for greater portability, more efficient resource utilization, and lower costs, but even with these significant advantages, customers have asked AWS to make containers easier to manage, deploy, and share,” said Deepak Singh, VP of Compute Services, AWS. “The innovations announced today further expand AWS’s leading container functionality by giving customers a consistent Amazon ECS and Amazon EKS experience in the cloud and in their own data centers, making it radically simpler to develop and deploy container and serverless applications, and providing a fully managed public container registry to more easily store, manage, and share container images.” The Volkswagen Group manufactures 12 of the world's most iconic automotive brands, including Volkswagen passenger cars, Audi, Bentley, Bugatti, Lamborghini, Porsche, and Ducati motorcycles. The group also includes TRATON, a leading manufacturer of light-duty commercial vehicles, trucks, and buses. "We need our Software Development teams to solve business problems without worrying too much about infrastructure architecture and compliance," said Peter Garzarella, Head of Group Software Development, Volkswagen AG. "AWS Proton enables us to provide compliant, easily consumable, and evolvable cloud infrastructure to our teams at the press of a button." BuzzFeed is the world’s leading independent digital media company, which leverages data and innovation to reach hundreds of millions of people globally. “Rig, our deployment platform, helps us manage a microservice ecosystem of over 600 apps including HTTP APIs & User Interfaces, queue readers, one-off jobs, and more,” said Clément Huyghebaert, Director of Engineering, BuzzFeed. “It is critical for us to ensure that development teams can quickly get the infrastructure they need while meeting our architectural standards and not having to slow down. We're excited to explore AWS Proton’s feature set and see how it can help BuzzFeed provide an even smoother developer experience.” SmugMug + Flickr is the world’s largest and most influential photographer-centric platform. “We constantly spin up new services, and need to keep track of what is running in our infrastructure, including what is still in use and what has to be upgraded,” said Shane Meyers, Principal Architect, SmugMug. “Today, our infrastructure team is involved in provisioning infrastructure for all projects and monitoring the services in use. We are looking forward to using AWS Proton, which will free up our developers to move fast while we keep all infrastructure updated to the latest standards.” Canonical is the publisher of Ubuntu, the OS for most public cloud workloads as well as IoT, smart devices, self-driving cars, and advanced robots. “With enterprises increasingly adopting open source applications across their cloud infrastructure, they are facing more security issues,” said Mark Lewis, VP of Application Services, Canonical. “While discovering vulnerabilities in container images is easier than ever, fixing them requires an ever increasing set of specialized skills and infrastructure. The Canonical LTS Docker image portfolio on Amazon ECR Public provides compliant, secure images for a growing range of applications, with a long term maintenance commitment that enterprises can rely on.” Wish is a leading mobile-shopping app that sells a huge variety of affordable products to shoppers around the world. "We run most of our customer-facing apps on Kubernetes clusters in AWS, and use public containers for application builds and standalone add ons," said Tomas Virgl, Tech Lead, Core Infrastructure, Wish. "We pull our container images from Amazon ECR and are delighted with its uptime, as well as breadth of its features such as security scanning, multi-arch support, and ease of use. Amazon ECR Public will now let us leverage the same great features for public container images. It simplifies our registry tooling in hybrid environments and increases our confidence when apps build from a parent public image, or when we pull a public image to run." For 14 years, Amazon Web Services has been the world’s most comprehensive and broadly adopted cloud platform. AWS offers over 175 fully featured services for compute, storage, databases, networking, analytics, robotics, machine learning and artificial intelligence (AI), Internet of Things (IoT), mobile, security, hybrid, virtual and augmented reality (VR and AR), media, and application development, deployment, and management from 77 Availability Zones (AZs) within 24 geographic regions, with announced plans for 15 more Availability Zones and five more AWS Regions in India, Indonesia, Japan, Spain, and Switzerland. Millions of customers—including the fastest-growing startups, largest enterprises, and leading government agencies—trust AWS to power their infrastructure, become more agile, and lower costs. To learn more about AWS, visit aws.amazon.com Amazon is guided by four principles: customer obsession rather than competitor focus, passion for invention, commitment to operational excellence, and long-term thinking. 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__label__wiki	0.941096	0.941096	Home India Naeem Akhtar found unconscious in sub-jail room, hospitalised Naeem Akhtar found unconscious in sub-jail room, hospitalised Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) leader and former minister Naeem Akhtar, 68, was found unconscious in a sub-jail room in Srinagar and was shifted to a hospital. His family has accused the administration of “maltreatment” and “prolonged detention without any case”. “A senior police officer was kind enough to inform me around midnight that my father was in hospital after he was found unconscious for 40 minutes. He was saved by a whisker. I am grateful to his fellow detainees,” Mr. Akhtar’s daughter Shehryar Khanum told The Hindu. She said it’s shocking there was no doctor available to attend to him in the sub-jail of MLA Hostel. “What if it was a heart attack? Earlier, my father was kept in solitary confinement in a 45-room building, just to intimidate,” she added. Mr. Akhtar, close to PDP president Mehbooba Mufti, was first detained in August 2019 and later booked under the Public Safety Act (PSA), and released in June last year after 10 months of detention. He was again arrested in December last year under Sections 107 and 151, with the authorities fearing “breach of public order”, just ahead of counting of votes for the District Development Council. RELATED: European nations tighten virus curbs as Christmas surge fears grow RELATED: Javed Akhtar appears before the court in Mumbai in defamation case against Kangana Ranaut : Bollywood News - Bollywood Hungama The family claimed Mr. Akhtar, who has a heart condition, was detained without them being handed over any order till date. “Every doctor with a degree and experience that I spoke to about my father’s condition is baffled at the need to keep a 68-year-old man with acute cardiac history in sub zero temperatures in a place that is not home,” Ms. Khanum said. Sources said Mr. Akhtar was shifted to the Khyber Hospital. “He was admitted in the ICU and is under observation, but stable,” a doctor said. The family said it is facing “ill treatment” and “humiliation” at the hands of administration. Sources said the family wrote a formal application to Deputy Commissioner, Srinagar, Dr. Shahid Iqbal Choudhary, last week and sought his help to allow Mr. Akhtar to meet his ailing wife in the hospital but the same was denied. “I did approach the district magistrate to allow my father to meet his wife, who was also admitted under serious conditions but the same was denied. It seems the administration is working above law and my father is being treated as a hardened criminal,” Mr. Akhtar’s daughter said. RELATED: Free coronavirus vaccine, 20 lakh jobs for people in Bihar as Nitish govt approves proposal Meanwhile, hospital sources said the Srinagar administration had launched an inquiry to find out if Mr. Akhtar’s wife was ill or feigning it. Find mobile-friendly version of articles from the day’s newspaper in one easy-to-read list. This article is auto-generated by Algorithm Source: www.thehindu.com Akhtar subjail Team India won the Gabba Test because of the investment they made... Sports admin - January 20, 2021 Shoaib Akhtar believes one of the main reasons behind Team India's emhpatic... FIR filed against Ritesh Sidhwani, Farhan Akhtar and Bhaumik Gondaliya for defaming... Amazon Prime Video’s original content seems to... 29-year-old woman health worker hospitalised after vaccine reaction in Telangana <!-- --> According to the hospital superintendent Dr Raja Rao, the condition... NBA Trade Rumors: Cleveland Cavaliers could move Kevin Porter Jr. after his... One of the major highlights of the 2020-21 NBA season was been... CPL 2021: Match Report- Bhosale Academy Vs Goldenstar Cricket Academy Angelina Jolie Doing The Best She Can To Bring About Normalcy In Kids’ Lives Amid Brad Pitt Legal Battle? Hollywood admin - January 20, 2021 Sawant Rules Out Possibility of Mid-term Polls in Goa	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0038.json.gz/line3603
__label__wiki	0.869718	0.869718	autos buying buying What Was the Last 3-On-the-Floor Manual Car Americans Could Buy? 19:11 03 december 2020 Source: autoweek.com The Trade: Selling one car to buy another, with no regrets (OK, some) Rob SiegelLast week, I wrote about the two biggest enabling factors in buying and owning more cars than I should—inexpensive insurance and ample storage space. I left out the most obvious one—money. But there’s a reason. For the most part, being the bottom-feeder that I am, I’m generally looking in the $4000 range for the “whim-able” […] The post The Trade: Selling one car to buy another, with no regrets (OK, some) appeared first on Hagerty Media. You could buy three - on - the - floor manual transmissions in Detroit cars after 1979, but that's a tale we'll tell a bit later. However, anyone willing to buy the Pontiac- or Olds-badged Nova probably felt able to spring for the automatic or at least the three- or four-speed floor-shifted manual transmission We've seen, in recent weeks, that tried-and-true transmission types take quite a while to disappear from new vehicles, even long after their supposed obsolescence. Americans could buy new cars with three-speed automatics until 2002 and with four-on-the-floor manuals until 1996. The three-speed column-shift manual transmission survived here through 1987 in new trucks and 1979 in new cars, but what about the floor-shifted three-speed manual? After much digging through reference books, factory brochures, EPA documents, et freakin' cetera, I have found the answer to that question. © Murilee Martin What was the final model year for North American-market new cars with three-speed manual transmissions? © Chevrolet Division, General Motors 1981 Chevrolet Malibu brochure Since General Motors was the last holdout to sell new US-market cars with three-on-the-tree manual transmissions, it comes as no surprise that GM also sold the last three-on-the-floor cars here (we're talking about cars, not trucks, remember; GM, Ford and Chrysler each sold trucks so equipped deeper into the 1980s). Those cars were built on the A (then in the process of being renamed the G) and F platforms for the 1981 model year, the best-known of which were the Chevrolet Malibu and Chevrolet Camaro. The 12 Cheapest Cars With 300 Horsepower, 2020 Edition Few things in life are as thrilling as cheap speed.But if you think 300 horsepower equals driving excitement, well, think again. Some of these cars are far better suited to grocery store runs than they are track days. Still, with even the most expensive car on this list ringing in at under $38,000, that's something to celebrate. If you're looking for even more horsepower, don't miss our breakdowns of the most affordable cars with 400-plus-horsepower and the 500-plus-horsepower kings and queens of the road. I can see the second hand market for older vehicles being very buoyant before that date, and the lack of new car sales will force the Government to re-think its strategy. What is the most efficient way to drive uphill with an automatic transmission car equipped with a manual mode, let it downshift on it's This determined the shape of the American car where the idea of a compact and even a subcompact was all but absent. For the upmarket brands, there was the external overdrive unit, which acted as an automatic transmission in the way that it would incorporate a planetary gearset, manually engage © Murilee Martin Ford Ranchero floor shifter As automatics became cheaper during the 1960s and 1970s, an ever-larger proportion of American drivers ditched the three-pedal setup; those who preferred to work the gears themselves tended to be willing to pay a bit extra for four or five forward speeds by the dawn of the 1980s. The three-on-the-floor was an anachronism that remained available just for serious penny-pinchers, the gimlet-eyed ones who would skip the radio, floor mats, passenger-side mirror, and every other possible feature that might add a few bucks to the out-the-door price. © Chevrolet Division, General Motors 1981 Chevrolet Malibu Powertrain Specifications For the Malibu and Camaro plus their Buick/Oldsmobile/Pontiac siblings, you had to buy the basest of base-model cars to get the three-speed manual. In the case of the Malibu and Camaro, that meant the Chevrolet 3.8-liter aka 229-cubic-inch V6 (not to be confused with the 3.8-liter Buick V6 of the same era), rated at 110 horsepower for 1981. Essentially three-quarters of the 5.0-liter/305ci small-block Chevy V8, this engine got more displacement for 1985, becoming the better-known 4.3 V6. Junkyard Gem: 1987 Ford Escort GL Station Wagon Junkyard Gem: 1987 Ford Escort GL Station Wagon originally appeared on Autoblog on Sun, 25 Oct 2020 09:00:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds. Have you seen the notice on the notice board / on the door? You'll find details of TV programmes on page seven (of the newspaper). There were a lot of people in the shop. It was very crowded. Go along this road, then turn left at Where is the car waiting? _. We used the Mini all the time. Last month we came back to England to visit our families and of course, we came in the Mini. We drove via Kuala Lumpur Ответьте на вопросы: Can you drive? Do you like driving? What is your favourite car ? Согласитесь или не согласитесь. 1 John Pollard bought a VW. © Chevrolet Division, General Motors 1981 Chevrolet Camaro Berlinetta brochure Buyers who were willing to pay more to get away from a three-on-the-floor manual also tended to purchase other upgrades as well. Getting the Berlinetta package on your '81 Camaro, for example, or the Yellow Bird Esprit Appearance Package on your Firebird, made it likely that you'd opt for the four-speed manual or an automatic. You couldn't get a four-on-the-floor manual in the 1981 A-Bodies, so the automatic was your only escape hatch from three-on-the-floor commuting in those cars. © Pontiac Division, General Motors 1981 Pontiac LeMans catalog Many will already know the '81 Malibu was among the last of the three-on-the-floor cars because of the famous Iraqi Taxis aka "Iraqabus" of 1981, all of which were equipped with that very cheap transmission. Less well-known is the fact that American new-car shoppers in 1981 could also get the three-on-the-floor in the absolute cheapest Pontiac LeMans, Oldsmobile Cutlass and Buick Century models. These cars were mechanically nearly identical to their Malibu brethren, of course. Used car prices jump 10%, thanks to new-car coronavirus crunch Inventory shortages mean you're paying a lot more for a used car compared to last year, especially if you want a pickup truck.But for those moving to the used car market, it's a tough pill to swallow, too. Data shows used car prices are up a whopping 9.5% from this time last year. In dollars, the percentage increase translates to an average price hike of $2,193. The narrative remains the same, however. As more buyers can't find a new car they want due to inventory constraints, they're looking at a comparable used car. Supply and demand shows as more buyers want a used car, prices increase. was arrested last September on the Kenyan-Ethiopian border. On the plus side however, she is more determined than most to get the best from life. She’s also been taking singing lessons, as arthritis doesn’t affect the voice, and as a result has achieved a higher standard in singing. 1. What was the reaction of the people after the invention of the steam engine? In Washington the story is told of a director of the Patent Office who in the early thirties of the last century suggested that the Office be closed because “everything that could possibly be invented had been invented”. © Oldsmobile Division, General Motors 1981 Olds Cutlass brochure The main difference between the three-on-the-floor '81 Malibu and the three-on-the-floor Century, Cutlass and LeMans appeared in the engine compartments of those cars. The bargain-basement engine in the Buick, Olds and Pontiac versions of the Malibu was the Buick 3.8-liter V6 (which had 231 cubes of displacement versus the Chevy 3.8's 229). Both "3.8" engines made 110 horses, but the Buick generated 190 lb-feet of torque versus the Chevy's 170. The Skinflint Edition Firebird also got the Buick 3.8 that year. We must assume that anybody willing to pay more for Buick, Oldsmobile or Pontiac badges on a Malibu would also be willing to open up the wallet for a more modern transmission, so three-on-the-floor '81 Cutlasses and LeManses must be rare if not nonexistent. As for the '81 Buick Century, sightings of three-on-the-floor manual transmissions in these cars should be categorized along with those of the Loch Ness Monster (the Regal was slushbox-only that year). Please let us know if you've spotted one of these cars. © Chevrolet Division, General Motors 1981 Chevrolet Camaro brochure What's next in the Final Year of That Transmission series? Two-speed automatics, of course, and that one will come with a theologically hair-splitting debate about whether the early Accord's Hondamatic counts as a true automatic, or even as a two-speed. Prepare your arguments! How to Test Drive a Used Car . One of the most important steps when you buy a used car is taking a test drive. 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__label__cc	0.517859	0.482141	PrivacySurfer IPVanish vs ExpressVPN – Review, Comparison & Test Results 1 IPVanish and ExpressVPN Pricing and Plans 1.1 ExpressVPN’s price: 1.2 IPVanish VPN’s price: 2 IPVanish vs ExpressVPN Overall Performance 3 IPVanish and ExpressVPN Speed Test 3.1 IPVanish VPN Speed: 3.2 NordVPN Speed: 4 IPVanish and ExpressVPN Features and Benefits 4.1 Customer Support 5 Conclusion & Editors Opinion IPVanish and ExpressVPN are two forerunners in the VPN industry with widely recognized brands and reputable services. In today's article, we dive deep into each product to answer one simple question: “Which is the best VPN, IPVanish or ExpressVPN”. While ExpressVPN and IPVanish may look like any other leading service, we’re going to take a deeper look at each service to see if there are any risks associated with either service to discover which one suits you best. After all, signing up with the wrong service could be disastrous. Sure, it’s always tedious reclaiming your payment from a money back guarantee or signing up for a service that’s far too slow. But these risks pale in comparison to the risk of a data breach. In this day and age, it pays to look before you leap, and any online cloud or security service should be heavily vetted before trusting it with your information. To that end, let’s get a big picture of the core components of each service to see how well they stack up against each other. Monthly Price $5.00 $12.95 Jurisdiction United States British Virgin Islands Encryption Methods AES-256 AES-256 Global Connection Options Servers in 60+ countries Servers in 90+ countries Protocols PPTP, L2TP/IPsec, OpenVPN (TCP/UDP) PPTP, L2TP/IPsec, SSTP, OpenVPN (TCP/UDP) Logs No user activity logs No user activity logs Refund Period 7-day money back guarantee 30-day money back guarantee Support 24/7 customer support 24/7 live chat Supported Platforms Windows, Mac, iOS, Android, Linux, Capable Routers Windows, Mac, iOS, Android, Linux, Routers Click For IPVanish Click For ExpressVPN Overall Winner = ExpressVPN IPVanish and ExpressVPN Pricing and Plans Now let’s take a moment to discuss the respective pricing models of each competitor. On the whole, ExpressVPN tends to be on the pricier end of the spectrum, while IPVanish has mid-market prices. Whether you want a monthly plan, six-month subscription, or annual payment terms, IPVanish VPN offers reduced pricing when compared with ExpressVPN. ExpressVPN’s price: Monthly subscription – $12.95 Six-month subscription – $9.99 Annual subscription – $8.32 IPVanish VPN’s price: Monthly subscription – $5.00 Three-year subscription – $3.25 Unfortunately, neither provider offers a free trial or a free version of their services like TunnelBear or Windscribe. Instead, these two providers make do with a money back guarantee. ExpressVPN offers 30-days risk-free, while IPVanish VPN has a much shorter, yet still adequate, seven-day money back guarantee. IPVanish vs ExpressVPN Overall Performance IPVanish and ExpressVPN DNS, IPv6 and WebRTC tests: With regards to security performance, I was delighted to see that both providers passed all the security tests, including a DNS leak test, a WebRTC test, and IPv6 leak tests as well. As for the speed tests, they mostly ran smoothly, with exception to one deplorable connection. Before we dig into the results of the speed test, I wanted to define a few parameters of the test. I tested each provider’s connections via VPN servers located in New York and Hong Kong from an Internet connection in the central United States. Furthermore, while the speed test was running, there was no other network activity on my connection. For example, there were no file downloads running or any cloud storage uploads. The entirety of the connection was reserved for the speed test, so let’s see how each provider ranked. IPVanish and ExpressVPN Speed Test IPVanish VPN Speed: New York – Latency: 66ms Download: 2.97Mbps Upload: 0.92Mbps Hong Kong – Latency: 208ms Download: 0.37Mbps Upload: 0.45Mbps NordVPN Speed: Why did the speed tests perform as they did? Well, I can honestly say that the speed tests aren’t necessarily fully attributable to the VPN service providers. There are a thousand factors at play, including physical distance (which affects latency), server load, intermediary ISP and Internet backbone performance, autonomous routing decisions, and QoS policies (Quality of Service), to name a few – reasons that are outside the control of a VPN service provider. Countries employ numerous network connectivity policies derived from laws and the shifting sands of international relations. For example, country A might choose to impose bandwidth throttling on connections from country B. The reasons for limitations could be matters of national security, foreign policy, licensing and trade agreements, and other similar reasons. Both providers performed admirably when connected to a server from the same country in which the speed tests were initiated. Nevertheless, my connection to Hong Kong with IPVanish VPN was downright abysmal. And ExpressVPN outperformed IPVanish VPN in both tests, despite each provider claiming they have the “fastest VPN.” With that said, I must award ExpressVPN the victory in the speed test comparison, since all other things were equal with regards to DNS leaks, IPv6 leaks, and WebRTC tests. IPVanish and ExpressVPN Features and Benefits Both have long lists of advanced features and are extremely competitive. Let’s first take a look at ExpressVPN’s features before taking a look at IPVanish VPN. First off, note that ExpressVPN offers four VPN protocols: PPTP, SSTP, L2TP/IPsec, and OpenVPN. The three most common protocols offered by any provider are PPTP, L2TP, and OpenVPN, though I would caution you to use OpenVPN as your default connection protocol because it offers the greatest security. Additionally, I would caution you against using PPTP at all, since the protocol was cracked years ago and the protocol is now essentially worthless. Hackers can break PPTP encryption to see your personal data. However, OpenVPN will provide AES-256 encryption, which is still so strong it’s frequently used in mission-critical applications and highly demanding environments, such as numerous countries’ militaries. And as one would expect, ExpressVPN does not impose irksome encumbrances like monthly data caps, server switching limitations or bandwidth throttling. But having said that, note that no other quality service imposes such limitations on paid users, so it’s really nothing special. Also, ExpressVPN is available on all the major platforms, including Windows, Mac OSX, iOS, Android, and Linux. One thing that sets ExpressVPN apart from the competition, however, is that it has an incredibly handy router setup app which simplifies the process of connecting your router to a VPN tunnel. I also appreciated that ExpressVPN created browser extensions for Chrome, Firefox, and Safari, so a user can conveniently control VPN tunnel operation from a web browser. Next up, we need to discuss the relative size of ExpressVPN’s network of service with that of the average provider. ExpressVPN offers global connection options in over 90 countries, which is actually pretty darn good. Currently, the average provider seems to host servers in 40-50 countries, and every quality provider hosts servers in the most popular geographic areas. Given that ExpressVPN hosts servers in approximately 40 more countries than the average provider, some of the locations seem a little obscure. Nevertheless, with over 90 countries to choose from, I would never have a practical reason to connect to every locale. Also, note that it’s uncommon to see a provider hosting servers in more than 100 countries. HMA VPN is the only exception that comes to mind, which hosts servers in approximately 200 countries, and is subject to fluctuation over time as new servers come online. So kudos to ExpressVPN for having an expansive network loaded with tons of connection options. Additionally, I was impressed that the client had both a kill-switch feature as well as split-tunneling. Split tunneling allows a user to selectively route traffic out different network interfaces, thus allowing a user to be connected to two different VPNs simultaneously. For instance, a user could route personal data through ExpressVPN, while sending specified traffic through a VPN tunnel to connect to work or business resources. The kill-switch, on the other hand, will automatically halt VPN traffic if the tunnel should disconnect for any reason. This feature is especially useful for torrent downloads since your downloads could be seen by governmental institutions and ISPs if the download persisted without encryption after a tunnel failure. The last noteworthy feature of ExpressVPN is its allowance for three simultaneous connections per account, which isn’t terrible, but not the best either. It’s becoming more common for providers to offer at least five simultaneous connections. The following provides an outline of ExpressVPN’s main features: PPTP, SSTP, L2TP/IPsec, and OpenVPN AES-256-bit encryption Available on Linux, Windows, Mac OSX, Android, iOS, and capable routers 2000+ servers located in 145+ cities in 90+ countries Unlimited server switching, and no bandwidth throttling or monthly data caps Kill-switch and split-tunneling capabilities Browser extensions for Chrome, Firefox, and Safari Three simultaneous connections per account Allows P2P and BitTorrent traffic IPVanish VPN also has a robust set of features, and although it provides military-grade encryption using AES-256, it offers one fewer connection protocol than ExpressVPN. IPVanish VPN lacks SSTP, which is a bit of a moot point when considering that OpenVPN is available. And like ExpressVPN, IPVanish has a kill-switch feature built into its client, although there is no native split-tunneling feature. The lack of a split-tunneling feature can, however, be remedied with third-party software or advanced routing configurations that aren’t for the faint of heart. Also, IPVanish is disadvantaged with regards to the size of its network, since it hosts servers in almost 30 fewer countries than ExpressVPN. Currently, IPVanish has about 40,000 shared IP addresses, and 1000+ servers distributed throughout 60+ countries. I don’t think the size of its network is anything to scoff at, however, for two reasons. Firstly, it hosts servers in all the major hotspots of VPN activity, including the US, Hong Kong, Switzerland, UK, Australia, Brazil, and more. Secondly, it has more servers and countries to choose from than the average provider. It seems that IPVanish chooses to distribute the majority of its servers in Europe (402 servers) and North America (469 servers). I was impressed with IPVanish VPN’s European coverage, which is very thorough. Of course, like every other quality VPN provider, you can switch servers as many times as you would like, and there are no monthly data caps or bandwidth limitations. There is, however, one significant improvement over ExpressVPN’s features. IPVanish VPN allows up to five simultaneous connections per account, which is two more than ExprsesVPN. Lastly, one final feature of IPVanish VPN is its inclusion of SOCKS5 web proxy server connections. SOCKS5 does not, by itself, provide encryption, but as a proxy server, it has much less overhead than encrypted connections which allows for a swifter connection. The following outlines IPVanish VPN’s features and benefits: OpenVPN, PPTP, and L2TP/IPsec connections Military grade AES-256-bit encryption Over 40,000 shared IP addresses hosted on 1000+ servers in 60+ countries Unlimited server switching, bandwidth, and data Kill-switch (no split-tunneling features) User-friendly apps for all the major OS platforms (Windows, Mac OSX, iOS, Android) and OpenVPN functionality on Linux Five simultaneous connections per account “Fastest” VPN service available BitTorrent friendly, unlimited P2P traffic SOCKS5 web proxy (encryption not provided by SOCKS5)Privacy Both ExpressVPN and IPVanish VPN abstain from logging their users’ online browsing activities. After all, doing so would completely defeat the purpose of using a VPN in the first place. That is not to say, however, that they don’t log any data at all. Some data is necessary to log, such as aggregate (and anonymous) bandwidth statistics to monitor server load. Both providers also record your email address and payment card data for billing purposes. Recording these types of data is actually commonplace among VPN competitors. In fact, I don’t think I’ve ever seen a consumer grade VPN service that doesn’t log a single iota of data. The key takeaway here is that neither provider tracks what you do online. Nevertheless, that’s not the same as saying that each provider offers the same level of privacy. IPVanish VPN is at a massive disadvantage to ExpressVPN in one key regard: IPVanish VPN is based in the United States, while ExpressVPN is based in the British Virgin Islands. Company headquarters is a crucial factor to consider in the wake of scandalous wiretapping initiatives such as the NSA’s ludicrous wiretapping scandal called PRISM, which was revealed by Edward Snowden. Unbeknown to US citizens prior to Edward Snowden’s jaw-dropping revelations, the NSA had been collecting unfathomably large amounts of citizens’, including personal photos, emails, phone call data, and other forms of sensitive information by installing backdoors into popular domestic technology services like Google, Yahoo, Windows, and loads of other technology firms. Naturally, prudent security and privacy purists want to avoid using a US-based service to avoid being victimized by the US government. For that matter, many even want to avoid using a VPN service in a FiveEyes country (US, Canada, UK, New Zealand, and Australia). Fortunately, ExpressVPN is based in the British Virgin Islands, which does have significant autonomy from the UK, and its data retention laws are favorable for privacy. So if you plan on sending any data through a VPN tunnel that you wouldn’t want winding up on a governmental server (selfies, wedding photos, complete backups of your hard drive, etc.), I would recommend using a service that is not based in the US. Customer support, while perhaps not the sexiest of a VPN service’s qualities, must still be examined. After all, if you run into technical difficulties or seek a refund, you’re going to need to contact customer support…whether you want to or not! The good news is that both IPVanish VPN and ExpressVPN offer 24/7 customer service and additional support options, though not in the same manner. IPVanish VPN only offers one contact method to open a ticket with the support department, and that’s email. I usually don’t like email (though it’s preferable to the heinous and antiquated phone queue support systems) because you don’t know when you’ll get a response. The support department often quotes an average response time based on load, but the support department’s load fluctuates. I would have much preferred a live chat system since you can get nearly instantaneous answers to simple questions. That said, I was impressed with IPVanish VPN’s online help articles, setup guides, and troubleshooting guides. The guides are high enough quality that even a technical novice wouldn’t have any problem following the steps. They’re chock full of high-quality images that have been highlighted for the sake of simplicity. However, I think that ExpressVPN has a superior support department. ExpressVPN can match IPVanish VPN’s setup guides in both quantity and quality. But ExpressVPN beats IPVanish since it has a live chat feature. I pinged the support department with a question regarding PPTP’s lack of security and got a response in approximately 11 seconds, which isn’t too bad at all. Conclusion & Editors Opinion So, which VPN provider takes the cake? After analyzing each component of both services, I have to award ExpressVPN the victory, despite the fact that it’s more expensive. Hats off to IPVanish VPN for having so many great features and an affordable price. However, ExpressVPN is certainly a higher quality option because the software has more features and it’s more secure. The fact that its based in the British Virgin Islands, far from US soil, was a significant factor in this decision. I also like the fact it has more connection protocols (e.g. SSTP) and has a superior support department too. On the whole, I thought IPVanish VPN had great software features and low prices, but I personally can’t get over the fact it’s based in the US. Every time I connected to a server, I would wonder whether or not the NSA was looking over my shoulder. If that’s not a problem for you, then IPVanish might be a suitable alternative. After all, some people use VPN tunnels exclusively for the task of unblocking geo-restricted streaming content like music and videos. If you’re transmitting sensitive personal information, however, you will want to opt for ExpressVPN instead. Protecting Your Privacy Online © 2021 privacysurfer.com	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0038.json.gz/line3606
__label__wiki	0.621615	0.621615	Isolation of [Ru(IPr)2(CO)H]+ (IPr = 1,3-Bis(2,6-diisopropylphenyl)imidazol-2-ylidene) and Reactivity toward EH (E = H, B) Bonds Ian Riddlestone, David McKay, Matthias J. Gutmann, Stuart Alan Macgregor, Mary F. Mahon, Hazel A. Sparkes, Michael K. Whittlesey Institute of Chemical Sciences Halide abstraction from the ruthenium N-heterocyclic carbene complex Ru(IPr)2(CO)HCl (IPr = 1,3-bis(2,6-diisopropylphenyl)imidazol-2-ylidene) with NaBAr4F (BAr4F = B{C6H3(3,5-CF3)2}4) gave the salt [Ru(IPr)2(CO)H]BAr4F (2), which was shown through a combined X-ray/neutron structure refinement and quantum theory of atoms in molecules (QTAIM) study to contain a bifurcated Ru···η3-H2C ξ-agostic interaction involving one iPr substituent of the IPr ligand. This system complements the previously reported [Ru(IMes)2(CO)H]+ cation (IMes =1,3-bis(2,4,6-trimethylphenyl)imidazol-2-ylidene), where a non-agostic form is favored. Treatment of 2 with CO, H2, and the amine–boranes H3B·NR2H (R = Me, H) gave [Ru(IPr)2(CO)3H]BAr4F (3), [Ru(IPr)2(CO)(η2-H2)H]BAr4F (4), and [Ru(IPr)2(CO)(κ2-H2BH·NR2H)H]BAr4F (R = Me, 5; R = H, 6), respectively. Heating 5 in the presence of Me3SiCH═CH2 led to alkene hydroboration and formation of the C–H activated product [Ru(IPr)(IPr)′(CO)]BAr4F (7). X-ray characterization of 3 and 5–7 was complemented by DFT calculations, and the mechanism of H2/H exchange in 4 was also elucidated. Treatment of 2 with HBcat resulted in Ru–H abstraction to form the boryl complex [Ru(IPr)2(CO)(Bcat)] BAr4F (8), which proved to be competent in the catalytic hydroboration of 1-hexene. In 8, a combined X-ray/neutron structure refinement and QTAIM analysis suggested the presence of a single Ru···η2-HC ξ-agostic interaction. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.organomet.6b00173 10.1021/acs.organomet.6b00173 Download pdfAccepted author manuscript, 2.32 MBLicence: Copyright Publisher Fingerprint Dive into the research topics of 'Isolation of [Ru(IPr)2(CO)H]+ (IPr = 1,3-Bis(2,6-diisopropylphenyl)imidazol-2-ylidene) and Reactivity toward EH (E = H, B) Bonds'. Together they form a unique fingerprint. 1,3-bis(2,6-diisopropylphenyl)imidazol-2-ylidene Chemical Compounds Carbon Monoxide Chemical Compounds Quantum theory Chemical Compounds X rays Chemical Compounds Neutrons Chemical Compounds Atoms Chemical Compounds 1-hexene Chemical Compounds Supporting information for publication "Isolation of [Ru(IPr)2(CO)H]+ (IPr = 1,3-Bis(2,6-diisopropylphenyl)imidazol-2-ylidene) and Reactivity toward EH (E = H, B) Bonds" Macgregor, S. A. (Creator), American Chemical Society, 28 Apr 2016 DOI: 10.1021/acs.organomet.6b00173 Riddlestone, I., McKay, D., Gutmann, M. J., Macgregor, S. A., Mahon, M. F., Sparkes, H. A., & Whittlesey, M. K. (2016). Isolation of [Ru(IPr)2(CO)H]+ (IPr = 1,3-Bis(2,6-diisopropylphenyl)imidazol-2-ylidene) and Reactivity toward EH (E = H, B) Bonds. Organometallics, 35(9), 1301–1312. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.organomet.6b00173 Riddlestone, Ian ; McKay, David ; Gutmann, Matthias J. ; Macgregor, Stuart Alan ; Mahon, Mary F. ; Sparkes, Hazel A. ; Whittlesey, Michael K. / Isolation of [Ru(IPr)2(CO)H]+ (IPr = 1,3-Bis(2,6-diisopropylphenyl)imidazol-2-ylidene) and Reactivity toward EH (E = H, B) Bonds. In: Organometallics. 2016 ; Vol. 35, No. 9. pp. 1301–1312. @article{ba86190acf664848942d3b07d0d5e33e, title = "Isolation of [Ru(IPr)2(CO)H]+ (IPr = 1,3-Bis(2,6-diisopropylphenyl)imidazol-2-ylidene) and Reactivity toward EH (E = H, B) Bonds", abstract = "Halide abstraction from the ruthenium N-heterocyclic carbene complex Ru(IPr)2(CO)HCl (IPr = 1,3-bis(2,6-diisopropylphenyl)imidazol-2-ylidene) with NaBAr4F (BAr4F = B{C6H3(3,5-CF3)2}4) gave the salt [Ru(IPr)2(CO)H]BAr4F (2), which was shown through a combined X-ray/neutron structure refinement and quantum theory of atoms in molecules (QTAIM) study to contain a bifurcated Ru···η3-H2C ξ-agostic interaction involving one iPr substituent of the IPr ligand. This system complements the previously reported [Ru(IMes)2(CO)H]+ cation (IMes =1,3-bis(2,4,6-trimethylphenyl)imidazol-2-ylidene), where a non-agostic form is favored. Treatment of 2 with CO, H2, and the amine–boranes H3B·NR2H (R = Me, H) gave [Ru(IPr)2(CO)3H]BAr4F (3), [Ru(IPr)2(CO)(η2-H2)H]BAr4F (4), and [Ru(IPr)2(CO)(κ2-H2BH·NR2H)H]BAr4F (R = Me, 5; R = H, 6), respectively. Heating 5 in the presence of Me3SiCH═CH2 led to alkene hydroboration and formation of the C–H activated product [Ru(IPr)(IPr)′(CO)]BAr4F (7). X-ray characterization of 3 and 5–7 was complemented by DFT calculations, and the mechanism of H2/H exchange in 4 was also elucidated. Treatment of 2 with HBcat resulted in Ru–H abstraction to form the boryl complex [Ru(IPr)2(CO)(Bcat)] BAr4F (8), which proved to be competent in the catalytic hydroboration of 1-hexene. In 8, a combined X-ray/neutron structure refinement and QTAIM analysis suggested the presence of a single Ru···η2-HC ξ-agostic interaction.", author = "Ian Riddlestone and David McKay and Gutmann, {Matthias J.} and Macgregor, {Stuart Alan} and Mahon, {Mary F.} and Sparkes, {Hazel A.} and Whittlesey, {Michael K.}", doi = "10.1021/acs.organomet.6b00173", journal = "Organometallics", Riddlestone, I, McKay, D, Gutmann, MJ, Macgregor, SA, Mahon, MF, Sparkes, HA & Whittlesey, MK 2016, 'Isolation of [Ru(IPr)2(CO)H]+ (IPr = 1,3-Bis(2,6-diisopropylphenyl)imidazol-2-ylidene) and Reactivity toward EH (E = H, B) Bonds', Organometallics, vol. 35, no. 9, pp. 1301–1312. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.organomet.6b00173 Isolation of [Ru(IPr)2(CO)H]+ (IPr = 1,3-Bis(2,6-diisopropylphenyl)imidazol-2-ylidene) and Reactivity toward EH (E = H, B) Bonds. / Riddlestone, Ian; McKay, David; Gutmann, Matthias J.; Macgregor, Stuart Alan; Mahon, Mary F.; Sparkes, Hazel A.; Whittlesey, Michael K. In: Organometallics, Vol. 35, No. 9, 09.05.2016, p. 1301–1312. T1 - Isolation of [Ru(IPr)2(CO)H]+ (IPr = 1,3-Bis(2,6-diisopropylphenyl)imidazol-2-ylidene) and Reactivity toward EH (E = H, B) Bonds AU - Riddlestone, Ian AU - McKay, David AU - Gutmann, Matthias J. AU - Macgregor, Stuart Alan AU - Mahon, Mary F. AU - Sparkes, Hazel A. AU - Whittlesey, Michael K. N2 - Halide abstraction from the ruthenium N-heterocyclic carbene complex Ru(IPr)2(CO)HCl (IPr = 1,3-bis(2,6-diisopropylphenyl)imidazol-2-ylidene) with NaBAr4F (BAr4F = B{C6H3(3,5-CF3)2}4) gave the salt [Ru(IPr)2(CO)H]BAr4F (2), which was shown through a combined X-ray/neutron structure refinement and quantum theory of atoms in molecules (QTAIM) study to contain a bifurcated Ru···η3-H2C ξ-agostic interaction involving one iPr substituent of the IPr ligand. This system complements the previously reported [Ru(IMes)2(CO)H]+ cation (IMes =1,3-bis(2,4,6-trimethylphenyl)imidazol-2-ylidene), where a non-agostic form is favored. Treatment of 2 with CO, H2, and the amine–boranes H3B·NR2H (R = Me, H) gave [Ru(IPr)2(CO)3H]BAr4F (3), [Ru(IPr)2(CO)(η2-H2)H]BAr4F (4), and [Ru(IPr)2(CO)(κ2-H2BH·NR2H)H]BAr4F (R = Me, 5; R = H, 6), respectively. Heating 5 in the presence of Me3SiCH═CH2 led to alkene hydroboration and formation of the C–H activated product [Ru(IPr)(IPr)′(CO)]BAr4F (7). X-ray characterization of 3 and 5–7 was complemented by DFT calculations, and the mechanism of H2/H exchange in 4 was also elucidated. Treatment of 2 with HBcat resulted in Ru–H abstraction to form the boryl complex [Ru(IPr)2(CO)(Bcat)] BAr4F (8), which proved to be competent in the catalytic hydroboration of 1-hexene. In 8, a combined X-ray/neutron structure refinement and QTAIM analysis suggested the presence of a single Ru···η2-HC ξ-agostic interaction. AB - Halide abstraction from the ruthenium N-heterocyclic carbene complex Ru(IPr)2(CO)HCl (IPr = 1,3-bis(2,6-diisopropylphenyl)imidazol-2-ylidene) with NaBAr4F (BAr4F = B{C6H3(3,5-CF3)2}4) gave the salt [Ru(IPr)2(CO)H]BAr4F (2), which was shown through a combined X-ray/neutron structure refinement and quantum theory of atoms in molecules (QTAIM) study to contain a bifurcated Ru···η3-H2C ξ-agostic interaction involving one iPr substituent of the IPr ligand. This system complements the previously reported [Ru(IMes)2(CO)H]+ cation (IMes =1,3-bis(2,4,6-trimethylphenyl)imidazol-2-ylidene), where a non-agostic form is favored. Treatment of 2 with CO, H2, and the amine–boranes H3B·NR2H (R = Me, H) gave [Ru(IPr)2(CO)3H]BAr4F (3), [Ru(IPr)2(CO)(η2-H2)H]BAr4F (4), and [Ru(IPr)2(CO)(κ2-H2BH·NR2H)H]BAr4F (R = Me, 5; R = H, 6), respectively. Heating 5 in the presence of Me3SiCH═CH2 led to alkene hydroboration and formation of the C–H activated product [Ru(IPr)(IPr)′(CO)]BAr4F (7). X-ray characterization of 3 and 5–7 was complemented by DFT calculations, and the mechanism of H2/H exchange in 4 was also elucidated. Treatment of 2 with HBcat resulted in Ru–H abstraction to form the boryl complex [Ru(IPr)2(CO)(Bcat)] BAr4F (8), which proved to be competent in the catalytic hydroboration of 1-hexene. In 8, a combined X-ray/neutron structure refinement and QTAIM analysis suggested the presence of a single Ru···η2-HC ξ-agostic interaction. U2 - 10.1021/acs.organomet.6b00173 DO - 10.1021/acs.organomet.6b00173 JO - Organometallics JF - Organometallics Riddlestone I, McKay D, Gutmann MJ, Macgregor SA, Mahon MF, Sparkes HA et al. Isolation of [Ru(IPr)2(CO)H]+ (IPr = 1,3-Bis(2,6-diisopropylphenyl)imidazol-2-ylidene) and Reactivity toward EH (E = H, B) Bonds. Organometallics. 2016 May 9;35(9):1301–1312. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.organomet.6b00173	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0038.json.gz/line3613
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__label__cc	0.726141	0.273859	Tag Archives: Book review Why Harry Potter has an edge over A Song of Ice and Fire (Game of Thrones) I loved the Harry Potter (HP) books and movies. I have just started reading the books in ‘A song of Ice and Fire’ (ASOIAF) series but I have watched every episode of the TV show Game of Thrones and am very familiar with the world created by George RR Martin – in short I am entitled to an opinion. True that the worlds are so different that’s its quite unfair to do so. But such comparisons have crept up. In some ways they were unavoidable because of the cultural phenomenon both have become in the last 15 years. My comparisons are more of a response to people who proclaim ASOIAF is better with funny arguments and I will try and debunk each of them. 1. ASOIAF is a complex world, HP is not. 2. HP Characters are black and white, while ASOIAF are gray. 3. HP is too comfy and feel good…and never gets gory like ASOIAF. 4. HP is predictive. But with ASOIAF You don’t know what to expect next. 5. The HP books are just a great escape. That’s why everyone likes them. The first is true but HP world is fantastically complex. Where else before did we see so much magic in a world. Where newspapers spring to life; where a sorting hat decides where students go; where wizards have their own sport! Hogwarts was the creation of a genius. There is magic…so much magic. The story has so many arcs to it: friendship, coming of age, struggle, fighting against the dark forces, mysteries, riddles, ghosts…there really is SO MUCH and yet nothing feels out of place. There are stories like ASOIAF and the Stormlight Archive that seem because of the narration as more complex than HP – perhaps they are – but I attribute that to the number of elements involved. HP is not just complex, it’s bloody complex. One common complaint is that the characters are not very gray. ASOIAF has made characters gray. HP starts when eleven year old Harry and his friends enter Hogwarts. Just how gray do you expect eleven year olds to be? They ended up breaking half the rules themselves (in spite of Hermione) and they each have conflicted emotions as the series progresses. Ex : Hermione stuns somebody so Ron could enter the Quidditch team. There is friction between their friendships at times. Everything is not hunky-dory. What did you want them to do – go cut somebody with a knife over dinner in the great hall? Would that make it realistic? I don’t think so. While we are still talking about the kids, Draco Malfoy is the classic gray character among the school mates. He is always bad-ass and yet when those moments came when he could have made himself a monster (before Dumbledore’s death for example), he quivered. He had some sanity deep down. What about Snape? And Dumbledore himself turned out to be a quirky character no? It’s a classic good versus bad tale. That’s just the way it is. That doesn’t make the characters black and white. There is a difference. All characters have their own degrees of flaws. Just don’t assume that the definition of gray means to slit somebody’s throat every now and then. 3. HP is too soft and never gets gory like ASOIAF. Yes it is feel good but don’t you want to feel good ? The feel good is very genuine and not forced by people trying to look cute. You like them because of the friendships, the adventures , magic, puzzles and Hogwarts! HP is primarily targeted toward a younger audience (observe here that it was equally well received by parents and grand parents alike). That is the genre it is in. ASOIAF sticks to what it is and never tries to mellow things down which is good for the spirit of the series and perhaps you like this feature. It is a good basis for liking one series but not for belittling the other. It is like going to a vegetarian restaurant and expecting a good chicken meal! 4. HP is predictive. But in ASOIAF you don’t know what to expect next. Yep we don’t know when the next book in the ASOIAF is coming out do we 😉 On a serious note, what rubbish. It had become an obsession to predict how HP would end in the final book. Hundreds of critics gave their opinions and predictions using hints and their own intuition. But how many could predict Snape’s true story ? Or Dumbledore’s past ? Or frankly who even expected Dumbledore to die in book 6? Or Sirius in book 5 ? Or that Ron’s rat was actually wormtail ? Or Crouch’s secret ? To call it predictable is insulting how intelligent the books actually are. 5. The HP books are just a great escape, that’s why everyone likes them. Firstly I dislike the word escape for any fantasy, ASOIAF or HP. Both are fantasy works. They are meant to take you to different worlds. But why are there no other better escapes in other works? If the story was shallow, a smart reader would not feel they were escapes…he would feel foolish. If it is a great escape, it is a bloody good one. So what does work for the HP series? Here is what I think: 1. JK is a better storyteller than Martin. There is consistency in the HP series. Last I heard A Dance with the Dragons was heavily criticized for not moving the plot too forward. Martin’s style is to be descriptive but sometimes he tends to be over romantic about either the sex or the killing at the cost of the story. There was no such catastrophic mistakes in HP books…ever. Even if it got a bit slow (book 6) there was still so much happening and so many loose ends being tied and it was more racy than ASOIAF. Seriously so much build about Winter and it hasn’t even come. Update: It seems winter has finally come 🙂 2. Harry Potter blew everyone’s mind. The world was something new, something fresh and so exciting and magical (agreed that while the concept of dark lords and wizards itself was not, the creation of an entire parallel universe and the incorporation of all these concepts definitely was). One which you could touch and feel and almost live in. 3. It is feel good. I remember being in a poor state of mind when I read Order of the Phoenix and it was so comforting and a great relief not because there is cute happiness all around but because the story was always moving forward, puzzles were exciting, the interaction between the characters was fun – these kept me gripped. I am not sure ASOIAF would have the same effect with its dragging and often morbid theme. 4. Harry Potter brought the magic back to books. It quite simply changed the entire book world on it’s head. Hundreds of Thousands of copies booked even before the release date (mine included ). People from other languages learning English just to be able to read those books. It was not just a great book series that was widely acclaimed , it was an unprecedented phenomenon. It was not a small series, mind. It was not just a couple of books that did well. Each one of them did. Even after the hype. 5. Book for all Ages. It is sad to classify it as a children’s book and that is what I feel when see Eragon, HP in the bookshelves of children. Fantasy is a better word. It appealed more in fact to the people in 20s and 30s not to mention the 40s and 50s…and yeah basically everyone! This is rare for any series. Any world with magic etc. can be shunned by a more adult audience but HP was loved. It was endearing but it was also very intriguing, adventurous and exciting! 6. Characters are Personal and their relationships are dynamic. Any good story is about characters. I think every one of them, the students, the professors, the death eaters was so developed and all their lives well knitted together. 7. HP has so much of everything. There is adventure, there is thrill, there is elements of intrigue expected of a fantasy, there is love, there is poetry, there is comedy and it also has it’s share of whodunnits. And each of these is spectacularly implemented. I hope my tone in this article is not mistaken. HP is not flawless and I really like ASOIAF. It is another step in being a more rounded reader. The world is pretty original and killing was actually quite common in the worlds similar to the ones in which it is set in (medieval times for example). What I don’t like is the perversion that come with these books. Gore and deaths are one thing. They add a necessary dimension which makes them believable but the perversion in the books at times makes me want to quit them. If Tyrion dies, I pull the plug on this series. This entry was posted in Book Reviews, Books and tagged black and white, Book review, Fantasy, Game of thrones, george rr martin, gray, Harry Potter, HP v/s goT, JK Rowling, movie, Song of Ice and Fire on May 27, 2015 by iluvryuzaki. Book Review: Kane and Abel I was surprised to find that I had not read a single Jeffrey Archer. Since I no longer save the best for the last I decided to dive into his most well-known supposedly earth-shattering novel : Kane and Abel. Archer’s story telling has a very classic characteristic to it; simple and yet gripping. As he volleys between Kane and Abel (the two protagonists) my bias towards either kept swinging. Both are very likable characters even if they could not have been from more different worlds. Kane comes from a world where he is born with the proverbial golden spoon while Abel is from a poverty stricken family. Yet they have a lot in common: Both have a drive to be outstanding, their own battles to fight and both always take them head on. Abel’s early life is marred by a lot of suffering, a lot more than Kane. But I found myself rooting for Kane (if I had to pick one). Perhaps the name change from Wladek to Abel was off putting too. What I liked is that we are told of their stories from their birth all the way till the end and it was interesting to see their dreams evolve and how they try to achieve them, never ceasing in effort. Neither of them rarely do anything repulsive yet they both commit mistakes, some peccadillos, others worse. Both of them could have ruined their life with what they were given – Kane with his richness and Abel with his suffering and yet they don’t. Neither has an easy life. I had to feel for Kane, nothing he does ever seems enough. Things are always expected of him and to his credit he does achieve them. For me he becomes a better man than his perhaps cold father. I loved the parallel between the two and I was waiting for their worlds to clash. Things really heat up in the second half. Now to the writing itself. The narration in ‘Kane and Abel’ is strong and the plot is always ticking. What I found is that Archer blatantly violates the golden ‘rule’ of writing i.e, ‘Show, don’t tell’. The novel is basically a telling, a narration, but it is a good telling. On the downside I expected there to be more face-offs between the two given the title but there weren’t. I expected the book to be better than what it was. When you hear so much about a book and read the book’s description that says it sold millions of copies etc. etc. you really go in with great expectations. If I had just picked ‘Kane and Abel’ without knowing anything about its history it would without doubt have been a memorable novel and it still is but I don’t see what the fuss is about. However I am extremely glad I read it. This entry was posted in Books and tagged Book review, Jeffrey Archer, Kane and Abel on June 9, 2014 by iluvryuzaki.	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0038.json.gz/line3618
__label__wiki	0.582286	0.582286	Human health risk assessment for the occurrence of enteric viruses in drinking water from wells: Role of flood runoff injections We demonstrated that floods can induce severe microbiological contamination of drinking water from wells and suggest strategies to better address water safety plans for groundwater drinking supplies. Since 2002, the Italian Water Research Institute (IRSA) has detected hepatitis A virus, adenovirus, rotavirus, norovirus, and enterovirus in water samples from wells in the Salento peninsula, southern Italy. Perturbations in the ionic strength in water flow can initiate strong virus detachments from terra rossa sediments in karst fractures. This study therefore explored the potential health impacts of prolonged runoff injections in Salento groundwater caused by severe flooding during October 2018. A mathematical model for virus fate and transport in fractures was applied to determine the impact of floodwater injection on groundwater quality by incorporating mechanisms that affect virus attachment/detachment and survival in flowing water at microscale. This model predicted target concentrations of enteric viruses that can occur unexpectedly in wells at considerable distances (5-8 km) from the runoff injection site (sinkhole). Subsequently, the health impact of viruses in drinking water supplied from contaminated wells was estimated during the summer on the Salento coast. Specific unpublished dose response model coefficients were proposed to determine the infection probabilities for Echo-11 and Polio 1 enteroviruses through ingestion. The median (50%) risk of infection was estimated at 6.3 . 10(-3) with an uncertainty of 23%. The predicted burden of diseases was 4.89 disability adjusted life years per year, i.e., twice the maximum tolerable disease burden. The results highlight the requirement for additional water disinfection treatments in Salento prior to the distribution of drinking water. Moreover, monthly controls of enteric virus occurrence in water from wells should be imposed by a new water framework directive in semiarid regions because of the vulnerability of karst carbonate aquifers to prolonged floodwater injections and enteric virus contamination. (C) 2019 Elsevier BM. All rights reserved. We demonstrated that floods can induce severe microbiological contamination of drinking water from wells and suggest strategies to better address water safety plans for groundwater drinking supplies. Since 2002, the Italian Water Research Institute (IRSA) has detected hepatitis A virus, adenovirus, rotavirus, norovirus, and enterovirus in water samples from wells in the Salento peninsula, southern Italy. Perturbations in the ionic strength in water flow can initiate strong virus detachments from terra rossa sediments in karst fractures. This study therefore explored the potential health impacts of prolonged runoff injections in Salento groundwater caused by severe flooding during October 2018. A mathematical model for virus fate and transport in fractures was applied to determine the impact of floodwater injection on groundwater quality by incorporating mechanisms that affect virus attachment/detachment and survival in flowing water at microscale. This model predicted target concentrations of enteric viruses that can occur unexpectedly in wells at considerable distances (5–8 km) from the runoff injection site (sinkhole). Subsequently, the health impact of viruses in drinking water supplied from contaminated wells was estimated during the summer on the Salento coast. Specific unpublished dose-response model coefficients were proposed to determine the infection probabilities for Echo-11 and Polio 1 enteroviruses through ingestion. The median (50%) risk of infection was estimated at 6.3 · 10 −3 with an uncertainty of 23%. The predicted burden of diseases was 4.89 disability adjusted life years per year, i.e., twice the maximum tolerable disease burden. The results highlight the requirement for additional water disinfection treatments in Salento prior to the distribution of drinking water. Moreover, monthly controls of enteric virus occurrence in water from wells should be imposed by a new water framework directive in semiarid regions because of the vulnerability of karst carbonate aquifers to prolonged floodwater injections and enteric virus contamination. Titolo: Human health risk assessment for the occurrence of enteric viruses in drinking water from wells: Role of flood runoff injections Masciopinto, Costantino (Corresponding) DE GIGLIO, OSVALDA SCRASCIA, MARIA Fortunato, Francesca La Rosa, Giuseppina Suffredini, Elisabetta PAZZANI, Carlo Prato, Rosa MONTAGNA, Maria Teresa Masciopinto et al. 2019.pdf Documento in Versione Editoriale NON PUBBLICO - Accesso privato/ristretto Administrator Richiedi una copia	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0038.json.gz/line3622
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In addition, the Ricochet Audio Network offers over 50 original podcasts with new episodes released every day. Get Your First Month Free Listen to Our Free Podcasts Contributor Post Created with Sketch. Lost Without A Trace — Of Interest I’ve managed to watch exactly zero minutes and zero seconds of LOST, the supposedly gripping series which has, apparently, now come to an end. Lest I seem anti-TV, let me emphasize that I’ve made time in my life for The X-Files, Deadwood, Project Runway, and many other shows great and small. I’m susceptible to hype. I’m inclined to trust my friends’ judgments. But I never felt even a shiver of longing to dip into Lost. And with reactions like this coming in from trusted sources, I’m feeling certain of my final verdict on the end of Lost: no big loss. There are 17 comments. Become a member to join the conversation. Or sign in if you're already a member. My sentiments exactly. I love TV, but I was never able to gin up any interest in Lost. https://ricochet.com/211888/archives/lost-without-a-trace-of-interest/#comment-2542103 May 24, 2010, at 4:04 AM PDT JP Freire If you start from the beginning, you’d feel differently. Patrick Hudson seeing all of the mindless fools gathering around in the break room last week talking about “i can wait until sunday for the finale” – made me laugh, seeing them again today makes me laugh too There is enough “suspension of disbelief” going on in real life. This one buffaloed me, I admit. I watched the series finale, even though I hadn’t watched a minute of the show before last night. Pretty much everything I knew of the show came from the commercials or bits of conversation overheard from fans. If I were watching the show for the characters, especially if I treated it like a soap opera, I’d be pretty happy with the ending. All the good guys and a couple of the bad guyes got their happy shiny moment. A villain was vanquished. A hero died heroically, and happy. Tears were shed. Heartstrings were tugged. Huzzah! However, if I had been watching the show for the plot, I’d be ticked off (to paraphrase the late Robin Harris) to the highest level of tickedicity. The finale resolved no real questions. Actually, it created a couple more (such as, how did the island get the only jumbo jet with a reverse gear and a stoney patch of just the right length and hardness to work as a runway). JP Freire: If you start from the beginning, you’d feel differently. Paradox: I need to feel differently in order to start from the beginning. And, alas, the conceit of a jumbo jet that can be thrown into reverse makes me feel more of the same. If there’s something great about Lost hiding in plain sight, I really do want to see it… Adam Freedman I was hoping that the series would end with Jack waking up next to Suzanne Pleshette, realizing that it was all a dream. I am certainly in league with Jimmie in regards to the lack of questions answered. While watching the finale of Lost last evening, I simultaneously compared it to the final episode of the NBC reboot of Battlestar Galactica, a much anticipated event with (arguably) much more closure. The biggest issue I have with last night was the tremendous amount of faith it demanded from the viewing audience. Whether this is a thematic choice or a little bit of insurance for another genre (graphic novels, etc.) it is disappointing that the creators wanted us to celebrate the heroism and relationships of individuals who struggled to overcome…well don’t worry about what they actually overcame, just believe that it was all magical. Well put Eric. My basic thoughts were that it was an emotionally satisfying finale but not an intellectually satisfying one. The only thing more confusing then the show Lost is the amount of people who decided to watch the finale only…and then complain about it afterwards. I wonder if these people read the last chapter of a book before opening the first page and offer criticism. I understand just not being interested, but with this show more than any other there seems to be a great deal of people looking to validate the fact that they didn’t watch Lost. They tell us what a waste of time it was while wasting their time telling Lost fans something that will go in one ear and out the other. I really don’t understand this, but then again I am one of the lowly suckers who was bothered to be entertained. May 24, 2010, at 10:46 AM PDT Adam Freedman:: I was hoping that the series would end with Jack waking up next to Suzanne Pleshette, realizing that it was all a dream. · May. 24 at 7:28am Never watched Lost, but this makes me pine for Bob Newhart. I never watch anything unless it’s a rerun. I can’t waste half an hour or a whole hour once per week only to find two months into a show that it is terrible. I wait until the whole series is over and then watch it from the beginning. Then you can do it on your time on your terms. That’s the only way to watch TV. Neal I am certainly with you on your eloquent point, thanks for it. To a certain extent I appreciate the development of the show from including literary/cultural staples (one fun game is to go back and see all the books they read on the island) into the mythological/religious archetypes (Jacob vs. Esau anyone?). My frustration hinges upon the fundamental question that is left unanswered regarding the island’s true power. But yes, as you put so well, such is life. Neal Pierson:: The entire show of Lost is a metaphor for faith, and unlike so much of the culture, Lost does not say that faith is a bad thing or a fool’s exercise. The show clearly imparts the wisdom that faith is a good thing, and that by having faith good things will happen… The show, put simply, is about the human experience, and while it isn’t always fulfilling, good things happen that make everything worth it. · May. 24 at 12:04pm Generally I agree. The emphasis on faith was refreshing, but I wonder if it was meant to hide the postmodern bent of the show? After all, the object of faith was purposely vague, and the religious conflation, while intriguing, was overly naive. Also, I agree that the show was not fulfilling; reincarnation is just depressing compared to heaven. Still, it was a good attempt. To add to my earlier point, I think that Lost’s apparent theme that some parts of life are just impossible to explain is a profoundly conservative message. The creators of the show could have easily made it so that Jack had to protect the Island from evil industrialists. They even included a sinister British corporate magnate (Charles Widmore) that could have been the main villain. But it turns out that Widmore’s quest to prevent the Black Smoke from leaving the Island was, in fact, the right thing to do. In fact, the inclusion of a Satan-esque antagonist like the Man in Black clearly demonstrates to all that the battle is between good and evil, and no matter how much we’re made to empathize with the Black Smoke, it is certain that he must be destroyed or the world will end. That’s refreshing. Jonathan Lanctot There are so many themes and threads throughout Lost that it’s hard to pin down just one reason why I followed it to the end. It’s the most detailed character drama ever televised, a gripping morality tale, a fantastic fight between good and evil, a mythological sci-fi adventure, and a story told darn well. There’s plenty of criticism out there about the show’s approach, but one things’ for sure: it did something different. I loved how the show avoided spelling things out: there was never “the expository speech” which gives it all away; the viewer is left to wade through the story and decide things for themselves. For some, this is too much work to enjoy a show, which is completely understandable; for myself, it was the kind of smart, intelligent television I doubt I’ll ever experience again. I agree wholeheartedly with Mr. Lanctot. The best shows on television (the Sopranos, the Wire, Lost) don’t conclude with a detective entering the room, removing the mask from the bad guy, and explaining exactly how and why everything happened. Sometimes, the audience should have to think about what they know and then form a conclusion about what they just saw. That is a vital part of experiencing culture. The makers of the best shows on television realize that it’s what you leave out–not what you tell the audience explicitly–that really determine the quality of a story. The entire show of Lost is a metaphor for faith, and unlike so much of the culture, Lost does not say that faith is a bad thing or a fool’s exercise. The show clearly imparts the wisdom that faith is a good thing, and that by having faith good things will happen. Lost incorporates several religious themes into its six-year run. Those themes include redemption, forgiveness, suffering, and the frustrations that we all have with faith. Some questions are left unanswered, just as in real life. But at the end, the protagonist achieves the one thing he was supposed to do all along (protect the Island), representing the quest we all have to find purpose in our lives. The show, put simply, is about the human experience, and while it isn’t always fulfilling, good things happen that make everything worth it. May 25, 2010, at 12:04 PM PDT I’d like to add that I just found this clip on Youtube. 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__label__wiki	0.661206	0.661206	OpTic acquire PowerOfEvil, zig, and LemonNation Daniil Volkov OpTic finalize their roster by signing PowerOfEvil, zig, and LemonNation! Can this lineup take over the NA LCS? The news that Tristan "PowerOfEvil" Schrage, Derek "zig" Shao, and Daerek "LemonNation" Hart joined OpTic Gaming came up in an investigative ESPN article. The trio will join Matthew "Akaadian" Higginbotham and Noh "Arrow" Dong-hyeon in the 2018 NA LCS season. And let’s be honest, we’re not holding our hopes high for this roster. Haphazard changes OpTic entered the League of Legends scene with a lot of fanfare. Signing Arrow and Akaadian seemed like a great first step to building a very solid roster, however, everything went out of the window with this announcement. Of course, PowerOfEvil is an amazing prospect. Previously a member of Misfits, POE had a strong domestic showing, making it all the way to the finals before falling 0-3 to G2 Esports. But the real kicker is his 2017 World Championship performance where PowerOfEvil went toe-to-toe with some of the best mid laners in the scene. Naturally, fielding a player like this would be a good sign for most teams. But not for OpTic. This is mainly because of the other additions to their roster. For one, zig has been nothing short of mediocre on the Phoenix1 lineup. Of course, a part of it was because his team didn’t give him a lot of resources and often sacrificed top lane in favor of other positions. But even then, zig’s 2.2 KDA and 7.8 CS per minute over the 2017 Summer Split aren’t exactly making the best impression, and it’s rare to see him pull off carry performances on anything other than Kled or Renekton. Still, the real point of contention is OpTic’s other recruit, LemonNation. After seeing his play on FlyQuest, it’s clear that the legendary support player is past his prime. His laning is riddled with holes, his roaming isn’t as sharp as it used to be, and his playmaking is almost non-existent. Not only that, but his 2.3 KDA and 67.1% kill participation in the summer puts him at the very bottom of support rankings. The only hope is that Arrow will be able to salvage the bottom lane. After all, he did receive an MVP title in the 2017 Spring Split. But we’ve already seen what happens when Arrow is paired with a mediocre support on P1, and we don’t expect things to change much now. With these moves, the NA LCS newcomers are very likely to end up with two losing side lanes, and even a player of PowerOfEvil’s caliber won’t be enough to save them. What do you think about OpTic Gaming signing PowerOfEvil, zig, and LemonNation? Share your opinion in the comments below! LoL Patch 11.2 Patch Notes Reveal Upcoming Buffs and Nerfs Everything we know about the LoL 11.2 Update	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0038.json.gz/line3631
__label__wiki	0.602862	0.602862	Five things we learned from the Birmingham game Date: 24th January 2011 at 11:45am Written by: Jay Yet another lacklustre display from the Bulgarian United’s 5-0 destruction of a sub-standard Birmingham team was exactly the performance you’d expect from an unbeaten side on top of the Premier League. At times it seemed like a practice match for Sir Alex’s men as they out-passed, out-played, out-muscled and generally out-classed a team that looked as though they were counting the minutes till full-time right from the off. Birmingham’s capitulation came as no real surprise as it was obvious from the starting line-ups of both teams only one side had any real chance of winning. In fact you have to wonder what poor little Jordon Mutch had done to Alex McCleish to make the Brum boss throw the youngster in at the very deep end for his Premier League debut. With Wayne Rooney and Dimitar Berbatov leading the United attack, not to mention the likes of Nani, Ryan Giggs and Anderson all starting for United, it was destined to be a very long day for the Birmingham defence. The game was hardly full of revelations for United fans, the only real surprise arguably being how United had failed to score more than one goal in any of their previous EPL meetings with the Midlanders. To be fair to Birmingham though, with Scott Dann recently injured and Alex McCleish having one eye on the looming Carling Cup semi-final with West Ham, there’s hardly going to be an inquest into why they were so poor. Let’s not take anything away from United though, this season has shown there are no more ‘bankers’ -as my accumulator often reminds me- so a drubbing of any opponent should be treated with the praise it deserves. So what exactly can we discern from such a one-sided rout, other than Keith Fahey has just booked his place on the latest football bloopers DVD? 1. Berbatov is the new Ronaldo. Before you start screaming the obvious -many- differences between the two, allow me to elucidate. When Ronnie was at his best it was more often than not against the lesser teams -where there was no one better at destroying a mediocre defence. This season Berbatov has proven that if he’s up against opposition that aren’t at the top of their game- he’ll give them an afternoon to ensure they won’t be sky plussing MOTD. Berbatov’s hat-tick against the Brummies underlined how the Bulgarian can almost score at will against the lesser teams. The likes of Birmingham, Blackburn and the worst Liverpool team in recent memory have all seen how deadly Berbatov can be. Of Berbatov’s 17 League goals this season, most of them have come against the so-called ‘lesser’ teams. This isn’t a criticism of Berba, after all United are yet to play Chelsea, he was on the bench for the Arsenal game, and forced to plough a lone furrow upfront at Eastlands. It’s just reminiscent of a certain CR7 -as his mum used to call him- the way Berbatov annihilates certain teams- it almost evokes a modicum of sympathy for them. Almost. 2. Chris Smalling is looking like a bargain. I’ve mentioned Smalling in these articles before and I’ve no doubt I will again as the former Fulham man is beginning to look like the biggest steal since, well United bought Chicharito. Having dealt with the lacklustre Birmingham attack, Smalling was also able to showcase his passing ability and without meaning to sound over-excited it was nothing short of a master class. Whether it was short or long range Smalling picked out his team mates with the confidence of Paul Scholes and gave me the hope that United’s long-term future is far from the problem-filled test some members of the media have suggested. It may have been against a poor side but let’s not take anything for granted, if Smalling continues on his current trajectory, then we may well be looking at Rio’s heir for both club and country. 3. United’s squad is by far the Premiership’s best. People may lament Sir Alex’s failure to pursue a Van Der Vaart or an Ozil, there may even be those still pining after a Benzema. However, when your team is missing the likes of Rafael, Ferdinand, Scholes, Fletcher, Chicharito and Valencia and can still win 5-0 then something’s got to be right. If United can find a way to rest or miss, the same important players and still beat the lesser teams away from home, then the title race could well be over regardless of the efforts of City, Chelsea and Arsenal. 4. He’s Luis Carlos Almeida da Cunha- he’ll do what he wants. Mere mortals would arguably change tact after sending over umpteen shots into row Z, however Nani is no mere mortal. Some of Nani’s shots may have been bad enough to make Anderson blush but that didn’t stop the Premier League’s most useful wideman from remembering the old ‘if at first you don’t succeed…’ adage. While many may have been getting fed up of watching the winger’s wild shots visit every corner of the stadium, personally I found his persistence both admirable and indicative of just how important he is to the team. He wanted a goal, no matter what. He got one. The game was wrapped up as soon as Berbatov opened the scoring, everyone- including the Birmingham players knew that. Nani’s decision to use the game as a bit of shooting practice wasn’t going to cost United any points and ultimately proved fruitful. Nani may be a livewire he may be a bit mental, but he’s also one of the most naturally gifted players in the world and I for one am prepared to accept his idiosyncratic tendencies. 5. As long as the goals are going in, who cares? While Mr. Da Cunha was setting a new record for the most shots in a game – previously held by Frank Lampard at either of the last two World Cups -Wayne Rooney was chasing Nani’s assist record. Just as he did against Blackburn our Wazza was instrumental in most of United’s goals. He may have wished for a goal- and by rights really should have scored with a second half header that was a shocking miss- but as long as the team are scoring and United are winning- just like in 2008 then does it really matter who scores? No. Last season Berbatov was United Marmite while Rooney couldn’t stop scoring yet we ultimately failed to win that coveted 19th title. This time round Berbatov’s leading the way while Rooney’s having his most barren season ever- yet the fundamental point is, United are sitting on top of the table and both strikers are playing well. We want our trophy back and who scores the goals to get it us, is irrelevant. 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__label__cc	0.56987	0.43013	Man Of The Match: Manchester United vs Basel Date: 9th December 2011 at 12:53pm Written by: Tom Daniel Mr Da Cunha - one of the few players to emerge with any credit from Basel In what was a bad night for the Manchester clubs Manchester United crashed out of the Champions League at the last hurdle of the group stage. United went into the match against FC Basel needing a win or a draw to qualify from their group, a feat which was deemed easily achievable when the groups were drawn. However qualification looked more of a challenge in the 9th minute when following a very sloppy defensive mishap, involving Smalling and Vidic clashing in the air, Streller was gifted an open chance at goal and finished well. United were quiet after the Basel goal but did get into their stride eventually as they started to look more creative. They created chances and gave the Basel defence a few scares but failed to capitalise on their moments in control. Sommer in the Basel goal also thwarted a few of United’s attempts to pull a goal back. United’s night got worse though when they lost Vidic to a knee injury shortly before half time. A horrible injury for the skipper added to the woes on the night and an already lengthy list of injuries for the next few weeks. Phil Jones gave United a very late glimmer of hope when he stumbled the ball past the line after a messy goalmouth tussle as Basel tried to cling onto their own qualification. Hopes of qualification for United became very distant in the 85th minute when a very shaky defence let a Basel cross slip through for Frei to head low past De Gea. United were unlucky with a few chances and Sommer denied them on a few occasions. They were almost gifted a lifeline when Steinhöfer headed against his own bar only for the ball to bounce clear. However generally United were poor and could not beat Basel on the night and advance past the group stages. Despite a generally bad performance one player who looked decent for United was Nani. United’s attacking performances have been improving in the past couple of league games and they looked energetic in the attack against Basel, albeit at the sacrifice of defending. United managed a decent attacking performance with Nani at the helm of it, it was unfortunate that a mixture of bad luck and poor finishing meant United did not turn their attacks into goals. Nani looked alive as he created an excellent chance for United as his low cross should have been finished by Rooney or Park, both of whom squandered an easy chance gifted to them by the winger. Nani always made himself available for the pass as he attempted to be the inspiration for United to get the result they needed. Nani was United’s danger-man throughout looking very bright, it was just unfortunate he was the only one and could not win the match alone. United’s early exit will be regarded as very disappointing and the side will now be competing in the Europa League.	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0038.json.gz/line3635
__label__wiki	0.805369	0.805369	General Literature Resources General Literature Resources: Home A subject guide for people interested in accessing information about literature, drama, and poetry. On Literature by Umberto Eco; Martin McLaughlin (Translator) Call Number: 809 EC The Norton Anthology of Latino Literature by Ilan Stavans; Edna Acosta-Belén (Editor); Harold Augenbraum (Editor); Maria Herrera-Sobek (Editor); Rolando Hinojosa (Editor); Gustavo Peacute;rez-Firmat (Editor) Call Number: 810.8 NO The Complete Idiot's Guide to English Literature by Jay Stevenson Call Number: 820 ST Backpack Literature : an introduction to fiction, poetry, and drama by X. J. Kennedy; Dana Gioia Call Number: 808 BA Crash Course Literature : How & Why We Read Bloom's Literary Reference Online Based on Facts On File's extensive print literature collection, Literary Reference Online examines the lives and works of great writers throughout history. Unlike many resources, this database not only contains information on thousands of authors and their major and minor works, but also an archive of 35,000 characters, as well as extensive glossary and subject entries featuring historical events and their impact on literature. As diverse as it is authoritative, Literary Reference Online includes hyperlinked entries on world writers, literary criticism, minor and major characters, and literary genres and movements. Access from Home - Use library barcode Provides complete biographical and bibliographical information and references on more than 120,000 U.S. and international authors. (Provided by the New Jersey State Library). Lit Finder Essay Finder is a unique database of full-text essays and discursive writing based on books published in the 20th century which have been analyzed in standard library indexes. The essays focus on the humanities and social sciences, and include biographies and literary criticism. Subjects include literature, history, economics, sociology, art and architecture, philosophy, psychology, science and drama. The controlled vocabulary subject access provides for precise searching. Full bibliographic information and Library of Congress subject classifications are provided for source books. Literature Resource Center Access biographies, bibliographies, and critical analyses of more than 120,000 authors from every age and literary discipline. Scribner Writer's Series includes 15-20 page signed essays on more than 1,600 authors and literary genres drawn from 13 acclaimed Scribner print series. Twayne World, US, and English Authors each contains the full text of 200 frequently used Twayne Literary Masters books on individual World, US, or English authors, for a total of 600 full-text titles. (This service was partially funded by the South Jersey Regional Library Cooperative.) Including Scriber, Twayne's U.S. and World Authors. Literary Reference Center (LRC) is a comprehensive literary reference database, which provides users with a broad spectrum of reference information from antiquity to the present day. LRC is a completely full-text database that combines information from over 1,000 books and monographs, major literary encyclopedias and reference works, hundreds of literary journals, and unique sources not available anywhere else. LRC contains detailed information on the most studied authors and their works and is an essential resource for public, academic and high school libraries. Electronic reader's advisory resource which assists fiction readers in finding new authors and titles. Novelist allows readers to use a favorite author or title as a template to locate other authors and titles of interest. Contains materials for all ages. Provided by the New Jersey State Library. Reader's Guide- Full Text Readers’ Guide Full Text, Select Edition is a 100% full-text database containing comprehensive indexing, abstracting, and full text of the most popular general-interest periodicals published in the United States and Canada. Novels for Students by Sara Constantakis, ed. Call Number: Gale Virtual Reference Library Reference Guide to World Literature 3 by Sara Pendergast; Tom Pendergast Contemporary Poets by Harold Bloom Call Number: Infobase Ebooks Shakespeare for Students by Anne Marie Hacht, ed. Reference Guide to Holocaust Literature by Thomas Riggs How to Read Literature Like a Professor by Thomas C. Foster Call Number: Overdrive Media Black Literature Criticism Classic Reader Read, search, and annotate great works of literature by authors such as Dickens, Tolstoy, Shakespeare, and many others. URL: https://reference.oceancitylibrary.org/literature Subjects: Literature & Fun Reading Tags: literature	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0038.json.gz/line3637
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__label__wiki	0.808267	0.808267	Foundation Branches Grant Provision Statutes Russian Centers Russian Centers News What is a Russian Center? What is a Russkiy Mir Cabinet? / Главная / Russkiy Mir Foundation / News More than 1.2 million Russians joined divine services at Epiphany Photo credit: foma.ru The number of Orthodox believers in Russia who celebrated Epiphany exceeded 1.2 million people. They came to churches for services and joined the Epiphany bathing, TASS reports. ... Rubric: Russian world news Centenary of Orthodox church abroad will be celebrated with conference Photo credit: mosds.mos.ru The centenary of the Russian Orthodox Church abroad (ROCOR) will be celebrated with a large-scale international conference, according to the website of the Moscow Compatriot House. The forum is scheduled for January 28. Its topic will be the history of the... 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__label__cc	0.733577	0.266423	Discover more about Registrar Lock and see how you can employ it to avoid unwanted domain transfers. Transferring an already registered domain entails switching the registrar that handles the domain registration service, so after the transfer itself, you will have to manage things like renewal fees or DNS entry updates through the new registrar company. The transfer procedure itself is standard with most generic and country-code TLD extensions. Certain country-code extensions are more specific and involve different procedures, but in the general case transferring a domain name involves a few necessary steps and one of them is unlocking the domain. The domain lock is a safety feature, which is being embraced by more and more domain name registry operators. It’s a default feature supported by all gTLDs. If a domain is locked, it won’t be possible to start a transfer procedure, so no one can even try to steal your domain. The lock can be removed only through the account where the domain name is registered and all new domains that support this functionality are locked by default when they are registered. Registrar Lock in Cloud Website Hosting The Hepsia hosting Control Panel, which is included with each and every cloud website hosting plan that we offer, will grant you full authority over your domains. You’ll see all domains registered through our company conveniently displayed in alphabetical order in a separate section of the Control Panel. Those whose extensions support the registrar lock option will have a mini padlock icon next to them. By clicking on the icon, you can see if the particular domain is locked or unlocked and you can alter the current status by clicking once more – the process is as simple as that. You will not have to wait for the update to take effect or for our company to do anything, as the status change takes effect immediately, even if you notice something different on WHOIS lookup websites. After all, it takes time for such sites to update the details that they display. Registrar Lock in Semi-dedicated Hosting If you have registered a domain name through us and you wish to transfer it away, you can easily unlock it via the same Hepsia Control Panel, which you use to administer your semi-dedicated server account. All registrations will be listed in alphabetical order in your account and you’ll notice a mini padlock icon on the right side of each domain there, on the condition that its extension supports the registrar lock option. You can find out if the domain name is locked or not by clicking on this icon and modify the present status by clicking on it once more. You can then go ahead and start the domain transfer right away without the need to wait for the status to be changed on WHOIS lookup sites, as the change will take effect immediately without you or us having to do anything else.	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0038.json.gz/line3652
__label__wiki	0.518706	0.518706	Rockstar Culture TV Until the Next Time, Dropkick Murphys Posted on March 24, 2017 by Rockstar Culture in Concert Reviews, Team Picks // 0 Comments ▣House of Blues \| Boston, MA ▣Friday, March 17th 2017 Sometimes a band comes along that not only wins the hearts of the city they’re from, but the whole country as well; staying true to where they came from at all times and never allowing anything to change who they are. Giving back to their city through their music, they are granted the highest honor of being called Boston’s own-Dropkick Murphys. Founded in 1996 in Quincy, Massachusetts by Ken Casey and former members, The Dropkick Murphys have stayed loyal to their celtic-punk roots. Their folk-Americana songs have represented the city of Boston for over 10 years. Hits like Tessie, I’m Shipping Up to Boston, and the State of Massachusetts have become the anthems of major sporting events. The Dropkick Murphys have helped shape today’s punk scene, not just here in their hometown, but all over the world. With their new album 11 Short Stories of Pain & Glory currently out and their supporting tour, the band has never looked stronger. Which bring us to tonight March 17, 2017 at the House of Blues Boston for the Dropkick Murphys St. Patrick’s Day concert-part of their Hometown Shows, which have become an annual Boston tradition for their fans. Since 2013, the Hometown Shows consist of five days during which the Dropkick Murphys change up their song showcase for their fans from night to night with their biggest night on St. Patrick’s Day. To their loyal fans, there is no better place to celebrate the holiday. And as the lights shut off at the House of Blues, the Foggy Dew song played. Just past 9 o’clock, the Dropkicks opened their set with the opening from their new album 11 Short Stories of Pain & Glory with The Lonesome Boatman. They continued with The State of Massachusetts, as the crowd began to crowd surf to the stage. The mosh-pit started early and went hard all night. From up above it looked like a green sea of people. The Irish were well represented here tonight, as flags were raised from the pit. Dropkicks then played the Irish Rover and Worker’s Song, as the singing from the crowd became louder. Before their next one, Ken would approach the audience -“At this Hometown show we like to do a little experiment -the Masspike side versus the Landsdown St side. And I gotta tell ya, so far that the Landsdown side has destroyed you, every night Masspike, every night! So lets clear it up, make it happen, take it away! Al Bar lead vocals added, if you want it, step it up people, step it up.” The band started to play Johny, I hardly knew ya.., a fan favorite from their 2007 release The Meanest of Times. The crowd sang along with fists in the air. They went on to play another new one; Rebels with a Cause. Then, from their 3rd studio album Sing it Loud, Sing it Proud –Heros From Our Past. The shenanigans continued… Dropkicks would go on to play twenty more songs -a showcase that would bring every emotion out of their fans. Sweat, blood, tears were all present here, exactly what was expected from a Dropkicks show on St. Patrick’s Day. People were looking to have fun and push the boundaries, but also kept the Boston camaraderie alive. The crowd was full of friendly people, new friendships and lots of hands helping their fellow brothers off the floor in the mosh pit. After all, that’s what Dropkicks music is about -respect, pride, staying true to yourself, giving back to their people and of course, having a lot of fun. Dropkicks would close their set with The Boys Are Back and I’m Shipping Up To Boston, as Bar let the front row sing with him. Finally closing with Until the Next Time off their new album and even thought it was a new song, the crowd sang right along with them. Casey would thank the crowd as the lights went out for the second time during their set. Chants of ‘Dropkick Murphys! Dropkick Murphys! Dropkick Murphys! Dropkick Murphys!’ filled the venue. Shortly after, Dropkicks would come out for their encore -closing the night with Dirty Water, the Standells cover that has become a favorite here in Boston. For the last three, Casey would invite the girls from the audience to join them on stage. And, a sea of woman would rushed the stage to get the opportunity to sing with the Dropkicks. The band serenaded them with Kiss Me, I’m Shitfaced, as the girls sang along. They would continue with Skinhead on MBTA and finally closing with Alcohol, as we all sang and danced for the last time. What an emotional but fun night Dropkicks put on for their native fans. There is a reason why this is an annual event -the intensity and passion they bring is unrivaled. There is a reason why people insist you see the Dropkick’s live show, why it’s on every Bostonians bucket list. We are positive that once you see them, you will fall in love. Hats off to you Dropkicks -for your music, love and memories that you have created with your Boston fans. Until the Next time! Review & Photos: Carlos Londono Check out the band website for more info! Boston2017 CarlosLondono DropkickMurphys HouseofBluesBoston StPatricksDay2017 NEW MUSIC OUT NOW NewVideo Boston NewAlbum LennyKravitz Anthrax Palladium NewMusic XfinityCenter HouseofBluesBoston Worcester Tour2020 Slipknot ConcertReview BlueHillsBankPavilion NewRelease HighlySuspect Avatar Tour AlbumReview CarlosLondono APRIL UPCOMING EVENTS ALL EVENTS ARE CANCELLED UNTIL FURTHER NOTICE DUE TO THE CORONAVIRUS PANDEMIC. STAY IN & STAY SAFE. 2016-2020 © RockstarCulture.com \| All Rights Reserved.	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0038.json.gz/line3659
__label__cc	0.647678	0.352322	Associate Degrees in Health Related Occupations as Predictors of Success in Physician Assistant Programs David E. Kotun, University of South FloridaFollow Ed.D. William H. Young Admissions, Completion, Healthcare, PACKRAT, PANCE The primary purpose of this study was to determine if applicants who had an associate degree in the health sciences prior to acceptance to a physician assistant program would do better than those applicants without an associate degree in the health sciences on three measures of success of physician assistant education. The three measures of success used were graduation rates, scores on the Physician Assistant Knowledge Rating and Assessment Tool (PACKRAT), and performance on the national certifying exam, the Physician Assistant National Certification Examination (PANCE). Data used for this dissertation were taken from original source documents and raw data sent to Nova Southeastern University by the PACKRAT and PANCE testing services. The study population was the three classes graduating in 2007 to 2009. Correlations between the groups and their measures of success showed that there were no statistically significant difference in the graduation rates or PACKRAT scores (p-value was 0.328 and 0.095 respectively). The variable having a statistical significance was PANCE scores. The mean scores between the groups were significantly different (p-value 0.012) with the group without an associate degree in the health sciences having higher mean scores. Coincidental findings showed that older students and students with higher graduate records examination (GRE) scores did better on the PANCE. Following this, further data analysis showed that the group with an associate degree in the health sciences were older (p-value 0.06) and scored statistically lower on the GRE (p-value 0.012). Findings showed that many of the considerations used to select students for physician assistant programs did not make a difference in outcomes. The two that did were age and GRE scores. The study group with associate degrees in the health sciences was, on average, older, had lower mean GRE scores and demonstrated the most gender and ethnic diversity. Programs using admission data to select students for the best chance of success should consider student educational experience and GRE scores, especially when some schools are looking to increase diversity in the students entering their programs. Kotun, David E., "Associate Degrees in Health Related Occupations as Predictors of Success in Physician Assistant Programs" (2011). Graduate Theses and Dissertations. American Studies Commons, Medicine and Health Sciences Commons, Other Education Commons	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0038.json.gz/line3667
__label__wiki	0.923186	0.923186	Genocide Studies and Prevention: An International Journal Scholar Commons > USF Libraries > Open Access Journals > GSP > Vol. 12 (2018) > Iss. 2 (2018) Volume 12, Issue 2 (2018) Images And Collective Violence: Function, Use And Memory Full Issue 12.2 Reflections on the Significance of Images in Genocide Studies: Some Methodological Considerations Lior Zylberman and Vicente Sánchez-Biosca “You Could See Rage”: Visual Testimony in Post-Genocide Guatemala Lacey M. Schauwecker Nineteen Minutes of Horror: Insights from the Scorpions Execution Video Iva Vukušić Bonding Images: Photography and Film as Acts of Perpetration Christophe Busch The Unbribable Witness: Image, Word, and Testimony of Crimes against Humanity in Mark Twain’s King Leopold’s Soliloquy (1905) Nora Nunn El Mocito: A Study of Cruelty at the Intersection of Chile’s Military and Civil Society Ana Laura Ros Memory and Distance: On Nobuhiro Suwa's A Letter from Hiroshima Jessica Fernanda Conejo Muñoz Challenging Old and New Images Representing the Cambodian Genocide: The Missing Picture (Rithy Panh, 2013) Vicente Sánchez-Biosca Cockroaches, Cows and "Canines of the Hebrew Faith": Exploring Animal Imagery in Graphic Novels about Genocide Deborah Mayersen Book Review: Prosecuting Corporations for Genocide Sarah Federman Book Review: Landscape, Memory and Post-Violence in Cambodia Theresa de Langis Book Review: Rwanda before the Genocide: Catholic Politics and Ethnic Discourse in the Late Colonial Era Randall Fegley Book Review: Genocide: A World History Renato S. Bahia Book Review: Rwanda Genocide Stories: Fiction After 1994 Rafiki Ubaldo Book Review: To Kill a People: Genocide in the Twentieth Century Caroline Bennett Book Review: Probing the Ethics of Holocaust Culture Nanar Khamo Film Review: L’Insulte (The Insult) Renee Michelle Ragin Ethics Guidelines Former Editors Citation Quick Guide All Issues Vol. 14, Iss. 3 Vol. 14, Iss. 2 Vol. 14, Iss. 1 Vol. 13, Iss. 3 Vol. 13, Iss. 2 Vol. 13, Iss. 1 Vol. 12, Iss. 3 Vol. 12, Iss. 2 Vol. 12, Iss. 1 Vol. 11, Iss. 3 Vol. 11, Iss. 2 Vol. 11, Iss. 1 Vol. 10, Iss. 3 Vol. 10, Iss. 2 Vol. 10, Iss. 1 Vol. 9, Iss. 3 Vol. 9, Iss. 2 Vol. 9, Iss. 1 Vol. 8, Iss. 3 Vol. 8, Iss. 2 Vol. 8, Iss. 1 Vol. 7, Iss. 2 Vol. 7, Iss. 1 Vol. 6, Iss. 3 Vol. 6, Iss. 2 Vol. 6, Iss. 1 Vol. 5, Iss. 3 Vol. 5, Iss. 2 Vol. 5, Iss. 1 Vol. 4, Iss. 3 Vol. 4, Iss. 2 Vol. 4, Iss. 1 Vol. 3, Iss. 3 Vol. 3, Iss. 2 Vol. 3, Iss. 1 Vol. 2, Iss. 3 Vol. 2, Iss. 2 Vol. 2, Iss. 1 Vol. 1, Iss. 3 Vol. 1, Iss. 2 Vol. 1, Iss. 1 Follow GSP on: Facebook Twitter LinkedIn RSS Tweets by @GenocideStudies	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0038.json.gz/line3668
__label__wiki	0.74606	0.74606	Are businesses spoiled for choice when it comes to their security options? The amount of options for IT and network security now available to businesses and organisations may not be such a good thing, with Fortinet distributor Wavelink saying businesses are 'spoiled for choice'. The company says that while there are many different options out there for IT and network security, this doesn’t necessarily mean that they’re getting the right solutions or the best protection, especially given the growing complexity of networks and increasing sophistication of cybercriminals. Ilan Rubin, managing director, Wavelink, says part of the problem, is a lack of universal standards or a way to verify the claims made by security vendors. Businesses need to understand which of the myriad available solutions will deliver real results as opposed to those that cost money without delivering tangible benefits. “While the security and threat landscapes are constantly changing, one thing remains constant; security breaches can be catastrophic to the organisation under attack," Rubin says. "Security decision-makers need to see through the hype created by security vendors so they can choose the right solution for their business." Rubin says it is important to change the thinking from a granular approach to solving individual problems to an overarching approach that secures the entire network. "Any tool that works in isolation is unlikely to deliver strong value to the organisation. Instead, businesses should look for tools based on open standards and interoperability, and tools that offer broad coverage," he explains. "The fewer tools an organisation uses, the less complex and hard-to-manage their security will be.” Wavelink recommends that businesses rely on third-party tests and recommendations instead of vendor data sheets. "Furthermore, it’s important to recognise that the solutions that work for one organisation won’t necessarily deliver the same benefits for another organisation, so understanding how the proposed tools work in organisations in a similar industry or with similar operating challenges is critical," adds Rubin. “Just as a new car buyer would insist on test-driving a vehicle instead of just believing the manufacturer’s marketing hype, so IT security professionals must test the tools they’re considering using to ensure they work as advertised and will deliver the promised benefits," he says. "Just because a vendor says a tool is powered by artificial intelligence or was purpose-built for cloud doesn’t mean it’s strictly true. And, it doesn’t mean that solution is right for the organisation anyway, even if all the claims are correct," Rubin explains. “The most effective solution is likely to be one that takes an integrated and holistic approach, and delivers visibility into every device, application, and network connection.” With literally hundreds of security solutions, platforms, and tools available, Rubin says it is practically impossible for organisations to thoroughly consider each one on its merits and create a unified, strategic security fabric for the business. "To save time and money, and increase the chance of getting the best solution for the organisation’s budget, businesses should partner with a security provider that can offer third-party-verified solutions and tailored, expert advice," he says. “Working with a security partner takes the burden of choice and management off the IT team’s shoulders, freeing IT professionals up to focus on innovation and proactive growth-related activities," explains Rubin. "It can help the business move faster while reducing costs, safe in the knowledge that the organisation is as protected as it can be.” Cybersecurity Fortinet Wavelink	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0038.json.gz/line3675
__label__wiki	0.506097	0.506097	Chinese-made routers, sold on Amazon and eBay, contain hidden backdoor and are being exploited by Mirai malware and other methods CyberNews.com’s Investigations team today announced that they have identified hidden backdoors in Chinese-manufactured routers that share common firmware, with evidence that the routers are being exploited by the Mirai malware. In a collaboration between CyberNews.com Senior Information Security Researcher Mantas Sasnauskas and researchers James Clee and Roni Carta, the team found that routers sold by Amazon, eBay and Walmart are all affected, and vulnerabilities are already being exploited. The two brands identified are, Wavlink routers that are available on eBay and also highlighted as an Amazon Choice Router, and Jetstream routers which are sold exclusively at Walmart. These critical vulnerabilities allow attackers to remotely control the routers as well as any device connected to that network and monitor all the traffic coming through that router. It's akin to constant surveillance on your personal network, with someone watching all your activity and stealing all your information. Additionally, the Wavlink routers contain a script that lists nearby wifi and has the capability to compromise those networks. CyberNews has already detected multiple malicious attempts from a Chinese IP address, which is trying to upload and execute a harmful script on the routers. After investigating the suspicious file, the investigation team has identified that is part of the infamous Mirai botnet. The Mirai botnet has been responsible for multiple major attacks, including a large-scale DDoS attack in 2016 that left much of the internet inaccessible on the US East coast. “After my initial findings on the first router I purchased, I bought two more repeaters off Amazon,” said Clee. “Although they are very different physically and slightly different technically, all three had almost the exact same exploit chain. It's hard to make sweeping, definitive statements, but given that all three had the same flaws I’d suspect that many more Wavlink devices are the same.” When CyberNews.com attempted to find information on the companies behind these routers, it appears that both Jetstream and Wavlink are subsidiaries of a Shenzhen-based company known as Winstars Technology Ltd, which reportedly exports 1-2M pieces per month. To date, none of the retailers or manufacturers involved have responded to the findings. Researchers Clee and Carta are in agreement that the backdoors found are intentional. “This is not a mistake,” Carta asserts. “Someone had to take the decision to make the password client-side. A human conceived this code knowing that this would be accessible from an unauthenticated user. Now, the question is why?” “The fact that there’s a GUI for RCE, and the fact that a page was established to validate a password outside of the existing authentication mechanisms, leads me to believe that neither were an accident, Clee said.” Mantas Sasnauskas, a Senior Researcher on CyberNews.com’s Investigations team, said “We are working hard to see if we can identify any active exploitation, as the investigation has revealed the vulnerabilities of these routers are being exploited by the Mirai malware. Such vulnerabilities in Chinese hardware or software can’t be discussed without acknowledging the Chinese government’s position on national and international surveillance. Chinese data retention laws force Chinese companies, or companies operating in China, to keep data on servers located inside the country – and to provide practically unrestricted access to that data to law enforcement. This includes even encrypted data, with the Chinese government requiring access to decryption keys.” He continued, “This type of undocumented backdoor access is a major reason that the United States, Germany, and other governments around the world banned Huawei when they found that the Chinese company could secretly access sensitive information for devices that it sold.” Existing customers are advised to stop using Jetstream and Wavlink routers, temporarily shut down the network, clean computers, and reset computer passwords and logins for online accounts to protect themselves, their families and their neighbors.	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0038.json.gz/line3676
__label__wiki	0.917609	0.917609	Antifa says critics of Muslim leader who said Australian women need Muslims to fertilize them are “bigots” July 31, 2017 sheikyermami 5 Comments Antifa — that is, anti-fascists. But they aren’t really anti-fascist at all. They’re quintessentially fascist themselves, advocating violence against those whom they hate, and siding with Islamic supremacists such as Mohamed Elmouelhy in their shared goal of eliminating and destroying Western civilization from within. “With friends like these … Left-wing extremist group DEFENDS halal boss’ claims Australian women need Muslim men to fertilise them – calling critics ‘racist,’” by Stephen Johnson, Daily Mail Australia, July 31, 2017 (thanks to The Religion of Peace): A violent, left-wing extremist group has defended a leading Islamic businessman’s claim Australian women need Muslim men to fertilise them, calling his critics ‘bigots’ and ‘racists’. Halal Certification Authority president Mohamed Elmouelhy told his Facebook followers Australia’s white race would die out within 40 years. He added that with Australian men a ‘dying breed’, local women needed Muslim men to ‘fertilise them’ and ‘keep them surrounded by Muslim babies’. Despite the outcry on social media last week, left-wing extremist group Antifa has described Mr Elmouelhy’s critics as ‘bigots’, even though he had called for ‘bigots’ to commit suicide. ‘Racists attacking Mohamed Elmouelhy – more Muslim babies is a good thing. Bigots,’ it said on Facebook. This is the same group which claimed responsibility in June for spraying conservative Sky News commentator Andrew Bolt with glitter at a book launch in Melbourne. Less than eight weeks later, they are weighing into more controversy by defending Mr Elmouelhy, who was commenting on Hebrew University in Jerusalem publishing research which showed sperm counts in men from Australia, New Zealand, North America and Europe had declined by more than 50 per cent in less than 40 years. ‘Your men are a dying breed, Australian women need us to fertilise them and keep them surrounded by Muslim babies while beer swilling, cigarette smoking, drug injecting can only dream of what Muslim men are capable of,’ he said. ‘Muslims have a duty to make your women happy.’ Mr Elmouelhy, who is the president of Halal Certification Authority, said Australia’s white race ‘will be extinct in another 40 years’ if the country is ‘left to bigots’. … Australian Terror Suspects Named July 31, 2017 sheikyermami 1 Comment Australian Terror Suspects Named, May Have Already Tried to Down International Flight by SIMON KENT, 31 Jul 2017 Authorities in Sydney, Australia on Monday named four men arrested on suspicion of planning to down an international flight with a home made bomb. The alleged instigator of the plot is Khaled Khayat, whose brother is believed to be a senior fighter with Islamic State in Syria. Khaled Khayat’s son, Mahmoud Kayat, is also being held by NSW state police, according to ABC News. The other two men arrested, Abdul El Karim and Khaled Merhi, are related to Ahmed Merhi, who travelled to Syria in 2014 and is fighting for Islamic State. As Breitbart Jerusalem reported, the four were arrested on Saturday night when Australian police foiled what they claim was an ‘Islamic-inspired’ terror plot designed to destroy an aeroplane bound for the Middle East. The group of men reportedly tried to board an international flight previously and failed, according to one report in the Australian newspaper. In custody: Mahmoud Khayat left, and right, Khaled Khayat. The conspiracy to smuggle the bomb, disguised as a meat mincer, onto a flight was only uncovered when a foreign intelligence agency intercepted communications to the conspirators from Syria. Meanwhile air travel in Australia remains under strict security controls with more intense screening of luggage for passengers as they enter terminal buildings. Border Protection Minister Peter Dutton urged travelers to arrive at Australian airports two hours before domestic flights and three hours before international flights to allow time for more screening. Passengers were also told luggage should be kept to a minimum and those accompanying travelers should not enter secured parts of terminals. Dutton declined to detail the threat that the security staff were searching for. “There’ll be lots of speculation around what the intent was … but I don’t want to add to that,” Dutton told Nine Network television. “Our focus now really is making sure that people who are planning a terrorist attack are thwarted,” he added. A total of 12 attacks, before the latest one, have been prevented in the past few years, while 70 people have been charged. Several terror attacks have taken place in Australia in recent years, including a Sydney cafe siege in 2014 that saw two hostages killed. AP contributed to this report. Daily Mail: “Butt was preaching his twisted version of Islam, justifying violence and hatred towards non-believers” July 31, 2017 sheikyermami These Daily Mail journo’s must be twisting like Chubby Checker way back in the days. They wouldn’t dream of reading the Qur’an in a thousand years. London Bridge terrorist worked as a teacher at an Islamic primary school where he ‘radicalised children as young as four’ Khuram Butt was a teacher at a primary school in Eton Community School, Ilford The 27-year-old taught after school Koran classes as a unpaid volunteer Butt, Rachid Redouane and Youssef Zaghba drove a van into pedestrians and jumped out of a van in London Bridge wearing fake suicide vests The ringleader of the London Bridge terrorist attack was a teacher at a primary school where he is feared to have radicalised children as young as four, The Mail on Sunday can reveal. Khuram Butt, 27, taught Koran classes at Eton Community School in Ilford, East London, an independent Islamic school for children aged three to 11. It is suspected that he used the classes to expose pupils to his extremist beliefs. Just two months before the terror attack, the school was inspected by Ofsted and given a glowing report, which even commended how teachers had fulfilled their obligation to spot and halt extremism in pupils. Khuram Butt, 27, taught Koran classes at Eton Community School in Ilford, East London, an independent Islamic school for children aged three to 11 This was the very time when Butt was preaching his twisted version of Islam, justifying violence and hatred towards non-believers. Butt taught in after-school classes as an unpaid volunteer. The school had previously been known as Ad-Deen Primary School and was exposed by The Mail on Sunday in 2014 as having been set up by an extremist called Sajeel Shahid, 41, who trained the ringleader of the 7/7 attacks at a jihadi camp in Pakistan. Shahid also set up Ilford’s Ummah Fitness Centre – a stone’s-throw from Eton – where Butt also worked as a trainer and is feared to have radicalised other young Muslims. Continue reading Daily Mail: “Butt was preaching his twisted version of Islam, justifying violence and hatred towards non-believers” → Sydney: “family of alleged extremists” planned ‘chilling ISIS-inspired plot’ TWO Lebanese-Australian father and son teams planned ‘chilling ISIS-inspired plot to kill passengers on plane with deadly GAS released from a bomb disguised as a meat-mincer’ Lebanese-Australian father and son duos were reportedly the men arrested Fresh details have emerged about an alleged terrorist plot to blow up a plane Islamist cell allegedly planned to bring down international flight with explosive Police raided homes in Sydney’s Surry Hills, Lakemba, Punchbowl and Wiley Park Malcolm Turnbull said extra security measures taken at airports across Australia A family of alleged extremists are accused of planning an ISIS-inspired plot to bring down a commercial plane by gassing passengers before detonating a bomb made out of a meat mincer. Two Lebanese-Australian father and son teams were reportedly the four men arrested after dramatic raids across Sydney on Saturday afternoon. While the full extent of the alleged conspiracy is not yet known, the men may have planned to detonate a homemade bomb on a flight from Sydney to the Middle East, possibly Dubai, according to Seven News. Continue reading Sydney: “family of alleged extremists” planned ‘chilling ISIS-inspired plot’ → ‘Far Right’ Activists Defend Europe, Send Migrants Back To Africa Its not much, but its a start. The problem is of course that the Soros manipulated apparatchiks of the EUSSR under the OIC controlled UN are forcing this on the peoples of Europe. Activist group Defend Europe raised over $100,000 from a Crowdfunding campaign to charter a ship to the Mediterranean sea to stop migrants entering Europe and end the Richard CoudenHove-Kalergi plan to displace and replace the European peoples. – ‘Far Right’ Activists Defend Europe Send Migrants Back To Africa! – Defend Europe – The Identitarian Movement 4 Lebanese plotted to bring down Australian commercial jet by gassing passengers WHO LET THEM IN? Andrew Bolt, Herald Sun, July 31, 2017 Two thirds of the terrorists jailed in Australia were born in Lebanon or had parents born there. Now the Muslim Lebanese community produces fresh reason to believe our immigration and refugee programs have put us in grave danger: A family of suspected Islamist extremists allegedly plotted to bring down an Australian commercial jet by gassing the passengers, in what authorities believe was a major terrorist attack plan orchestrated by Islamic State militants from within Syria. Travellers were warned last night to expect major delays at the nation’s airports as authorities rolled out extra security measures to counter what sources said was a fast-moving, still unfolding terror conspiracy, the full extent of which was not yet known. Four Lebanese Australians — two fathers and two sons — were in custody after police swooped on the cell and thwarted what they will allege was a sophisticated attempt to kill hundreds of people by crashing a civilian plane. We need to slash immigration and freeze refugee programs until we have an honest and frank inquiry into the links between immigration and terrorism, crime, welfarism and unemployment. We must work out whether we are importing more danger than good. If you say we can’t even discuss this for fear of the world thinking us racist, ask yourself: how often do you hear people complain that Japan is racist for taking in virtually no refugees and few immigrants? How often do in fact hear how safe Japan is? Police in Surry Hills SYDNEY TERROR ARRESTS Tim Blair, The Daily Telegraph Several people are in custody tonight following police investigations into “a bomb plot involving aircraft”. The NSW Joint Counter Terrorism Team raided properties in Surry Hills, Lakemba, Wiley Park and Punchbowl: Four men have been taken into custody and are assisting police with their inquiries, according to a joint AFP and NSW Police statement. The Seven Network reports 40 riot squad officers stormed a Surry Hills terrace before the explosives team found a suspicious device. Fairfax Media reports the raids were in relation to a terrorist cell “and a bomb plot involving aircraft”. Police have confirmed the raids relate to an alleged plot to bring down an aircraft using a “device” … In Goodlet Lane, Surry Hills, witnesses spotted a man with a heavily bandaged head and a woman with cable tied wrists being treated by paramedics. Neighbour Kate Harrison said she heard a man yelling from a nearby yard, pleading for someone to call the police. It’s a wild time in the old town tonight. Update via Vlad Tepes: Continue reading 4 Lebanese plotted to bring down Australian commercial jet by gassing passengers → Germany: Muslim “known to police” opens fire in nightclub, murdering two, cops say “no indications” of terrorism Kleine Zeitung reports that two people were killed, and that the shooter was “known to police.” But the police insist that this was not a jihad terror attack, since after all, hardly anything ever really is. Just coincidentally, the believers in a religion that calls for the murder of those who do not believe the same way, and/or who behave in a manner that the religion forbids, keep killing people who are among those the religion calls them to kill, but the killings never have anything to do with that religion. Only greasy Islamophobes would not buy this. “Nightclub shooting – one dead and three seriously injured as gunman opens fire,” by Sofia Petkar, Express, July 30, 2017 (thanks to Othmar): ONE person has been killed and three people are seriously injured after a shooting at a nightclub in Germany. Germany: Muslim migrant screaming “Allahu akbar” who stabbed shoppers “known as an Islamist but not a jihadist” The BBC doesn’t see fit to mention the fact, but he was screaming “Allahu akbar” as he stabbed the shoppers. “‘He was known as an Islamist but not a jihadist,’ police spokesman Andy Grote said, noting that the suspect also suffered from ‘psychological’ issues.” So here again we have jihad being ignored as a motive, and the incident ascribed to mental illness. Authorities have yet to explain why there is this global outbreak of mental illness among Muslims. “He was known as an Islamist but not a jihadist”? Non-Muslims throw these words around without any idea of their provenance or of the contents of Islamic theology and law. “Islamist” is actually a Western coinage that has no meaning or validity in Islamic texts or teachings. Continue reading Germany: Muslim “known to police” opens fire in nightclub, murdering two, cops say “no indications” of terrorism → Four “German Women” Arrested In Iraq Worked As ‘Morality Police’ For Islamic State Four German women who travelled to Iraq to join the Islamic State and were recently captured in Mosul are said to have worked for the terror group as “morality police” enforcing strict Shariah law. The report comes from the German security services who told German magazine Der Spiegel that the four women, including 16-year-old Linda Wurzel, worked as Shariah enforcers in Mosul in the so-called Al-Khansaa Brigade. The women are said to have enforced the strict dress codes and social codes of Shariah and had the ability to physically beat women who disobeyed the laws, Die Presse reports. At least two of the women were also involved in recruitment propaganda for the terror group, according to the report. The German government has been in talks with the Iraqi government regarding the four women, and has so far confirmed that none of the four will face the death penalty for their actions on behalf of the Islamic State. So far there is no evidence that any of the women were involved in killing or fighting, though according to some reports members of the Al-Khansaa Brigade had special privileges other women did not within Islamic State territory, which included being able to take up arms and drive vehicles. Continue reading Four “German Women” Arrested In Iraq Worked As ‘Morality Police’ For Islamic State → Top U.S. Watchdog: ‘We’re Drowning Afghans in Money’ by EDWIN MORA30 Jul 2017 WASHINGTON, D.C. — Hanging from John Sopko’s office in a building outside the Pentagon is a plaque that states, “Never underestimate the power of stupid people in large groups.” Sopko told Breitbart News that is a motto he lives by, noting that it “could apply to most bureaucracies.” As the U.S Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction (SIGAR), Sopko is the steward of nearly $120 billion in taxpayer funds. His devotion to oversight has rendered him both a respected U.S. watchdog and a “four letter word” among the segments of the government he supervises. During an exclusive interview with Breitbart News, Sopko said the United States “overwhelmed” Afghanistan with too much money at the beginning of the war in October 2001. “You can drown somebody in goodness. It’s the comedy of the absurd when it comes down to [U.S.] assistance [to Afghanistan] and we are just drowning Afghans in money. And when you drown somebody in money, you can’t be surprised that some of it gets wasted,” Sopko told Breitbart News. “The American people should demand accountability,” he said later, adding that people in the United States should care about the Afghanistan war “because is a national security issue for the U.S. government. We are also spending billions of dollars there and we have a lot of American lives at risk.” Continue reading Top U.S. Watchdog: ‘We’re Drowning Afghans in Money’ → Victorian Hizbollah supporter MP Eideh whines after being denied entry to U.S. ‘A victim of Trumpism’: Victorian MP Eideh livid after being denied US entry Victorian Labor MP Khalil Eideh doesn’t believe his dual Syrian and Australian citizenship or his recent trips to Syria influenced a US decision to refuse him entry while on official parliamentary business. Mr Eideh returned to Melbourne on Saturday after he was stopped from boarding a flight to the US from Canada 48 hours earlier. “I’ve been discriminated against,” the upper house MP told reporters at Melbourne airport. “I’m very, very disappointed and frustrated.” WHY IS THIS MAN IN PARLIAMENT? The question isn’t why Eideh was banned from the US. It’s why he wasn’t banned from Victoria’s Parliament. A Lebanon-born Victorian MP who was denied entry to the United States is expected to land back in Australia on Saturday after his study trip came to an abrupt end. Lebanon-born Khalil Eideh, who was on an official study tour with other MPs, was split from the group in Vancouver after a United Airlines staffer told him he was not allowed to board a flight to Denver. The US Embassy wouldn’t comment on the reasons behind the decision, but Mr Eideh signed a letter in 2002 professing loyalty to Syrian dictator Bashar Al-Assad. It’s understood Mr Eideh has also visited Syria, the homeland of his parents. But I have long wondered why this man is in Parliament here. From 2006: Khalil Eideh came to Australia as a teenager in 1970, and is now the millionaire boss of Blue Star Transport and head of the Alawi Islamic Association of Victoria. In February, Labor’s national executive decided he was just what it wanted in State Parliament… But just who will he represent there: Victorian voters or the Syrian regime? Continue reading Victorian Hizbollah supporter MP Eideh whines after being denied entry to U.S. → And just like that, America turned into a socialist sh*thole…	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0038.json.gz/line3684
__label__wiki	0.745538	0.745538	Jennifer Hudson’s Diaper Ditty on “GMA”0 comments Waking up early to join the morning talk show crew, Jennifer Hudson was spotted greeting fans outside ABC studios before sitting down to dish about her latest song on “GMA” in New York City on Wednesday (June 27). \| by Celebuzz\| 2012 \| The 30-year-old “Spotlight” singer shined in a sheer blue polka-dot blouse with black skinny jeans and flats while opening up to Robin Roberts about teaming up with Pampers to record a lullaby she gets to sing to her son, David Jr., every night. “I got to record like my own special rendition of the classic lullaby,” Miss Hudson explained, adding, “It’s like a mommy thing that I wanted to, you know, have for my baby and to share with other mothers through Pampers.” During her time recording the song, the 30-year-old noted, “That’s the most memorable thing is that you have as a mom and as a child to be able to have that moment when you’re putting your baby to sleep at night and you sing them a sweet little lullaby,” hitching her voice with excitement, “I got to recreate that I’m so excited about it”. When asked if her two-year-old son has a case of “terrible two’s”, Jennifer replied, “He’s such a good little boy I can’t call him my baby anymore but he’s really good and he behaves really well so I can’t complain. It’s supposed to be terrible but it’s not that bad.” The “American Idol” alum also has another exciting project to look forward to after announcing that she’s landed a multi-episode gig on NBC’s “Smash” starting with the second-season premiere, of which she tweeted to her fans last Friday (June 22), “So excited to be doing @NBCSmash TV series. Going to be super fun! Great show!” Taylor Swift Scores February 2016 Cover Of Cosmopolitan Australia Emily Ratajkowski Covers InStyle October 2015: I Love French Style! \| Tagged with: Jennifer Hudson Time limit is exhausted. Please reload CAPTCHA. three × = 6 Top 10 Beach Body Exercises With beach season right around the corner, many of you are going to be considering what you... Study: Simultaneous Orgasm More Likely With Hot Men A new study finds that sex with an attractive man ups the likelihood of simultaneous orgasm. \|... 4 Steps to a Successful “Man List” Is it OK to make a list of qualities you want in a partner? Find out how... The Relationship Killers: 8 Things you Should Never Say We are all going to fight in our relationships, but whether we fight fair is another story.... 10 Things Men Love About Women So what do men love about women, really? \| by Melissa Noble \| We asked a handful... Signs He Wants You Back Relationships are bonded together by threads of love, care, affection, trust, belief and responsibility. \| by beloved...	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0038.json.gz/line3690
__label__wiki	0.674402	0.674402	Cover Story for Inyo-Mono and 395 By News Staff on June 2, 2009 in Past Posts Talk about a cover girl. The Eastern Sierra made stardom this month on the cover of Westways Magazine, the chief publication of the Auto Club. Described as the back road of California, the writer takes us on a road trip from dLone Pine to Bridgeport. James Dannenberg wrote that “Highway 395 runs from western San Bernardino County to the Canadian border and is one of the greatest drives on earth.” Wow. That’s just the start of the four pages of publicity that give our towns the nomination of vacationland. Dannenberg takes us on a trip that stops in Bridgeport to look at the old courthouse, continues to the Bodie ghost town and hits Lee Vining and Mono Lake where he credits Nicely’s with the best fried chicken in the world.” The article seems most taken with the views off 395, from Mammoth on south, with a major stop in Bishop at Schat’s Bakkery and Mountain Light Gallery. The Manzanar National Historical Site captures a large part of the article. The writer says he’s been to concentration camps in Europe where “cold history refuses to die. This, too,” he writes, “is the case with Manzanar.” The writer loved his stop in Lone Pine with a look at the Alabama Hills and Mount Whitney. He takes a trip up Movie Road and remembers films from Gladiator to Tremors, shot in southern Inyo. Mammoth Man Arrested for Allegedly Pulling a Knife During Altercation Heavy Budget Talks Ahead in Mammoth	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0038.json.gz/line3693
__label__cc	0.665768	0.334232	Fatal Fall on Matterhorn Peak and Other Recent Mono SAR Missions By News Staff on October 13, 2009 in Past Posts The Mono County Search and Rescue team has been busy over the previous month, with seven call outs including a lost hunter, lost and stranded hikers, and a fatal climbing accident. On September 15, SAR volunteers assisted a 39-year-old woman from LA who was stuck in steep terrain above Sky Meadows. The team was able to find the woman and set up a series of roped relays to help the woman to easier terrain. On September 20, the SAR team was called out to a report of an injured climber on Matterhorn Peak near Bridgeport. Yosemite Search and Rescue members were flown into the area and determined that 20 year-old Austin Plummer of Santa Cruz had died after a 200 foot fall down a snowfield on the northeast side of the mountain. Mono SAR assisted in the recovery operation. On September 25, Mono County SAR teamed up with Inyo SAR and the CHP helicopter to search for an overdue day hiker, a 44-year-old woman from Hawaii. The woman had tried to hike from the June Lake loop to Thousand Island Lake. She ended up walking out to the June Lake Loop the next day after descending from Clark Lakes, essentially falling and scrambling down the difficult terrain on Carson Peak. On September 18, the SAR team responded to Crystal Crag in the Lakes Basin for a report of rock fall and shouting. No victims were found, but trail interviews located a climber who triggered a rock fall. The SAR team helped find an overdue hiker near June Lake on September 24th. Mono team members assisted with a search for a missing hunter in Calaveras County. The hunter was reported missing the 28th of September and turned up alive on October 1. Public Health Officer Says the Flu Surge is On Tioga Pass Expected to Re-open This Season	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0038.json.gz/line3694
__label__wiki	0.904652	0.904652	Mono Sheriff’s Deputies handled tense standoff in Mono City By News Staff on May 11, 2011 in Past Posts Mono Sheriff’s officers and other police faced a tough situation at Mono City Tuesday afternoon. A local woman had Photos by Jonah Matthewson reportedly been drinking for several days, had taken a gun from a man who said she might be suicidal. Officers maneuvered the delicate balance of trying to save the woman’s life but also deal with the fact that she may have committed crimes. Mono County Undersheriff Ralph Obenberger talked to Jonah Matthewson who was on scene for Sierra Wave. He said that at about 2pm Tuesday a man called deputies to say that a female had possibly committed suicide. He said the reporting party stated he was missing a .45 caliber handgun and believed the female had taken the weapon. Undersheriff Obenberger said that the reporting party searched for the suspect female’s vehicle and it was ultimately located at a residence in Mono City where the reporting party believed the female may have committed suicide. Deputies rushed to the home in Mono City. We talked more with Undersheriff Obenberger after the incident. He said that the woman had broken into the house through a back door. He said that after deputies tried to talk to the woman and she responded with yelling and expletives, officers tried to contact her by cell phone and blow horn. There was no response. The MONET Tactical Team came to the scene with AR -15s and handguns. They came up with a plan, used a percussion device, known as a flash bang distraction device, to divert the suspect’s attention and went in through the back door. The Undersheriff said the woman as lying on the couch with a loaded .45 within her reach. He said she apparently resisted arrest and hurt her shoulder. Officers took the woman to Mammoth Hospital. Obenberger said her blood alcohol was “very high”. Her identity is being withheld pending a mental health evaluation. If the woman is determined not to be a mental health case, she will face possible criminal charges of burglary and grand theft. At the scene in Mono City were numerous Mono County Sheriff’s deputies, Mammoth Lakes Police, California Highway Patrol and Mono County Paramedics. Mammoth Airport will pay back loan to Town Reserve for Economic Uncertainty Senator Boxer introduces bill to name mountain after Andrea Lawrence	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0038.json.gz/line3695
__label__wiki	0.795451	0.795451	Tour to ABB Malaysia Tour to ABB Malaysia June… EventsPast It was a sunny Tuesday afternoon when members of SMBA and their guests gathered in one of the conference rooms located at ABB Malaysia Sdn. Bhd., Subang Jaya. After 10 minutes of personal introductions, the attendees took their seats as they were briefed on the safety regulations around the factory and evacuation precautions to take in case of an emergency. After the briefing, the speakers for the day were warmly greeted by SMBA Board Member, Ms. Pauline Goh of Invest KL. Mr Laurent Maillefer, Vice President of Business Unit in ABB, and Mr Jukka Poutanen, Managing Director of ABB Malaysia, were both welcoming and friendly as they gave short introductions of themselves and ABB’s presence in Switzerland and Malaysia. Mr Laurent got the ball rolling by giving the attendees a slide presentation about the background of ABB Switzerland. ABB, the product of merging ASEA, Brown and Boveri, was founded in 1883 and has been making electrical engineering history ever since. Known to many as a global leader in power and automation technologies, ABB aims to improve the efficiency, productivity and quality of their customers’ operations while minimizing environmental impact. Mr Laurent then played a video created in honour of celebrating 125 years of innovation at ABB Switzerland. The video also showcased some of ABB’s projects such as its role in creating the world’s longest and deepest railway tunnel through the Swiss Alps. One of the most impressive projects that ABB Switzerland is currently working on involves Solar Impulse, a zero-fuel ambassador for sustainable transport. The solar powered plane, made with ABB’s software and technology, took on a mission to fly across the Atlantic, from New York to Seville, Spain in 2016. The project was presented with many challenges during flight – such as unaccommodating weather and the risk of not storing enough solar energy to fly across those countries. Deemed as ABB’s most successful development yet, the project showcases the company’s skill in producing life-changing innovations. Mr Jukka then took the floor to explain the development of ABB Malaysia through their high-level software and data tracking systems. He further explained that by using data and gaining pertinent information, the company is able to create better processes for their customers other advancement of ABB comprises of a next-generation, two-handed robot named YuMi, which is programmed to help assemble and participate in collaborative work. “Studies show that when you put two humans together, you get 75% productivity. When you put two robots together, you get 100%. But when you combine robots and people, you will get 150% productivity,” said Mr Jukka with a smile. The growth of ABB Malaysia during the past decade has been tremendous, expanding to Penang, Johor and Miri with nearly 700 employees. The company has also managed to secure high-profile clients around the country such as Petronas, Shell, Tenaga Nasional Berhad and Sime Darby. The company’s advanced technology has also helped it gain customers across various industries such as Proton, a Malaysian heavyweight in the automotive industry, as well as Mattel, the popular producer of children’s dolls. In closing, Mr Jukka shared that ABB Malaysia has the potential to save up to USD$ 1 billion worth of fuel consumption and aims to drive the digital revolution with its products. Once both speakers had concluded, both Mr Laurent and Mr Jukka were presented with tokens of appreciation by Ms Pauline Goh on behalf of SMBA for their enlightening presentations. The attendees and speakers then proceeded to the foyer for a group photo session. Later, ABB’s personnel team hosted a short tour of the factory where guests were given a behind-the- scenes preview to the company’s inventions and innovations. One of the most interesting prototypes was a single-handed robot that could sketch any photograph or image which was imported into its system. Attendees gathered closely as they listened to the factory’s supervisors explain the functions of certain machinery. It was evident that ABB highly prioritized efficiency by adopting Swiss and Japanese storage systems in order to allow continuous production and maximum productivity. The tour ended around an hour later, as attendees grouped around the lounge area for light refreshments including delicious sandwiches, cheesecake and spaghetti. Friendly chatter ensued as the event came to a close and everyone resumed networking over the delicious servings. PreviousPrevious post:Health & Nutrition at Roche Malaysia May 24, 2016NextNext post:Economic Outlook Post Brexit B-5-8 Plaza Mont Kiara, 50480 Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia Receive the latest news and updates from SMCC.	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0038.json.gz/line3700
__label__wiki	0.646024	0.646024	Fresh #EndSARS protest needless, we’re not part of it — Osun activists in EndSars A group of #EndSARS activists in Osun have described the renewed protest in the state as needless and unnecessary. The group in a letter addressed to the Department of State Service, DSS, in Osun, a copy of which was made available to reporters on Friday, distanced themselves from the protest that took place in Osogbo on Monday. The letter was jointly signed by Ismaheel Abdulazeez, State Chairman of Nigerian Youth Council and, Teslim Salawudeen, President, National Association of Osun State Students, NAOSS. Other activists who were signatories to the letter were Queen Fisayo Aderemi, Ayo Ologun, Rauf Sadiq Success, Oluwasegun Idowu and Babawale Popoola. They described the attempted fresh protest as self-serving, needless, ill-conceived, unnecessary and capable of compromising the peace and progress of the state. Recall that some youths, led by one Emmanuel Adebayo, had on Monday staged a protest to the House of Assembly, Osogbo, demanding among others, the disbandment of the state EndSARS panel over alleged non-inclusion of EndSARS activists in the panel. The activists, however, said the fresh protest was needless and unnecessary, considering the recent quantum of destruction and looting that characterised the recent protest in the state and the ongoing proceedings of the Judiciary Panel of Inquiry. The letter reads in part: “We are compelled by prevailing circumstances as EndSARS stakeholders in Osun to alert your good office and other security agents on the recent development which is capable of compromising the peace and progress of the state. ” It is before the public knowledge that fresh EndSARS protest resonated in Osun on Monday, December 7, 2020, led by one Emmanuel Adebayo, demanding among others, disbandment of Osun Judicial Panel Inquiry on Police Brutality, claiming non-inclusion of EndSARS activists in the State. “Emmanuel is impersonating the EndSARS movement in Osun to make it look like his personal estate and anything that does not benefit him personally is the anti-EndSARS movement. “It is on record that when the state government constituted the panel, it was agreed that the panel should be expanded to accommodate more members of EndSARS movement which was acceded to by the government “It was against this development and other prevailing circumstances that all of us in the EndSARS movement decided to suspend the protest on Oct. 27, 2020, and Emmanuel Adebayo was among the four signatories to the position paper to suspend the protest. “How and what informed the new protest without recourse to others who are stakeholders is still amazing. Also Read: APC Blames PDP for #EndSARS Protests “As responsible youths with a high stake in the progress and development of Osun, we are under obligation to intimate the security agencies of this ulterior motive and completely dissociate ourselves and our organisations from such protest “We also urge our youths to desist from being a willing tool in the hands of those who are hell-bent to use EndSARS protest as a cover to promote personal interest at the detriment of the security of the state.” Tags: endsarsEndSARS protestsNAOSSOsun activists Buhari shuns national assembly summons, goes to Daura on holiday instead	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0038.json.gz/line3703
__label__wiki	0.565606	0.565606	Kuno Raeber KUNO RAEBER (1922-1992) This Swiss writer’s considerable body of work---whose spare poems weigh tons, whose novels & stories, radio plays, essays, translations and reviews have left an indelible mark on European literature that is just becoming clearer & clearer – is now getting the attention it deserves thanks to a seven-volume edition recently published, magnificently edited by Christiane Wyrwa & Matthias Klein. A devoted “student” of philosophy, history, literature, mythology, and theology, Raeber turned to a writing life after a deep spiritual crisis undermined his Catholic faith, as Wyrwa has written. Initially spurned shortly after being inducted into the Gruppe 47, Raeber needed some time to recover from the shock of sudden rejection before emerging with commanding poems and prose that couldn’t and wouldn’t, finally, be ignored much longer. (Full disclosure: Raeber was Oberlin College’s first Max Kade Writer-in-Residence, and replaced Friebert, on sabbatical, from 1967-68, which led to a working relationship resulting eventually in two collections.) Special thanks to Carl Hanser Verlag/Munich for permission to publish these poems. Raeber photo: Courtesy of scaneg Verlag Munich Germany Kuno Raeber has contributed the following content: Poetry: Three Poems	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0038.json.gz/line3705
__label__wiki	0.731823	0.731823	Sortiwa Portal We Pretend To Know Everything Corona virus (COVID -19) World statistics Researchers develop a mathematical model to explain the complex architecture of termite mounds — ScienceDaily Phil Neville is about to discover that Inter Miami will be no beach holiday \| Phil Neville MediaTek launches 6nm Dimensity 1200, Dimensity 1100 5G chipsets ‘I can handle the pressure,’ says Lampard after Chelsea lose again at Leicester \| Chelsea How to train a robot (using AI and supercomputers) — ScienceDaily New cobalt-free lithium-ion battery reduces costs without sacrificing performance — ScienceDaily by sortiwa 1.3k Views For decades, researchers have looked for ways to eliminate cobalt from the high-energy batteries that power electronic devices, due to its high cost and the human rights ramifications of its mining. But past attempts haven’t lived up to the performance standards of batteries with cobalt. Researchers from the Cockrell School of Engineering at The University of Texas at Austin say they’ve cracked the code to a cobalt-free high-energy lithium-ion battery, eliminating the cobalt and opening the door to reducing the costs of producing batteries while boosting performance in some ways. The team reported a new class of cathodes — the electrode in a battery where all the cobalt typically resides — anchored by high nickel content. The cathode in their study is 89% nickel. Manganese and aluminum make up the other key elements. More nickel in a battery means it can store more energy. That increased energy density can lead to longer battery life for a phone or greater range for an electric vehicle with each charge. The findings appeared this month in the journal Advanced Materials. The paper was written by Arumugam Manthiram, a professor in the Walker Department of Mechanical Engineering and director of the Texas Materials Institute, Ph.D. student Steven Lee and Ph.D. graduate Wangda Li. Typically, increased energy density leads to trade-offs, such as a shorter cycle life — the number of times a battery can be charged and discharged before it loses efficiency and can no longer be fully charged. Eliminating cobalt usually slows down the kinetic response of a battery and leads to lower rate capability — how quickly the cathode can be charged or discharged. However, the researchers said they’ve overcome the short cycle life and poor rate capability problems through finding an optimal combination of metals and ensuring an even distribution of their ions. Most cathodes for lithium-ion batteries use combinations of metal ions, such as nickel-manganese-cobalt (NMC) or nickel-cobalt-aluminum (NCA). Cathodes can make up roughly half of the materials costs for the entire battery, with cobalt being the priciest element. At a price of approximately $28,500 per ton, it is more expensive than nickel, manganese and aluminum combined, and it makes up 10% to 30% of most lithium-ion battery cathodes. “Cobalt is the least abundant and most expensive component in battery cathodes,” Manthiram said. “And we are completely eliminating it.” The key to the researchers’ breakthrough can be found at the atomic level. During synthesis, they were able to ensure the ions of the various metals remained evenly distributed across the crystal structure in the cathode. When these ions bunch up, performance degrades, and that problem has plagued previous cobalt-free, high-energy batteries, Manthiram said. By keeping the ions evenly distributed, the researchers were able to avoid performance loss. “Our goal is to use only abundant and affordable metals to replace cobalt while maintaining the performance and safety,” Li said, “and to leverage industrial synthesis processes that are immediately scalable.” Manthiram, Li and former postdoctoral researcher Evan Erickson worked with UT’s Office of Technology Commercialization to form a startup called TexPower to bring the technology to market. The researchers have received grants from the U.S. Department of Energy, which has sought to decrease dependency on imports for key battery materials. Industry has jumped on the cobalt-free push — most notably an effort from Tesla to eliminate the material from the batteries that power its electric vehicles. With large government organizations and private companies focused on reducing dependence on cobalt, it’s no surprise that this pursuit has become competitive. The researchers said they have avoided problems that hindered other attempts at cobalt-free, high-energy batteries with innovations on the right combination of materials and the precise control of their distribution. “We are increasing the energy density and lowering the cost without sacrificing cycle life,” Manthiram said. “This means longer driving distances for electric vehicles and better battery life for laptops and cellphones.” Materials provided by University of Texas at Austin. Note: Content may be edited for style and length. Previous article Researchers design and mount tiny livestreaming camera on the back of beetles Next article Mi Band 5 to Mi TV Stick: Here’s everything Xiaomi launched at smart home event Following a series of studies on termite mound physiology and morphogenesis over the past decade, researchers at the Harvard John A. 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__label__wiki	0.601615	0.601615	Trust and Identity Trust and Identity Document Stewardship Created by David Walker (internet2.edu), last modified by Jessica Fink on Oct 22, 2020 The Trust and Identity Document Repository is found here. Internet2 Trust and Identity's document stewardship process formalizes the management of documents as they are drafted, proposed, vetted, and approved for use, and published for open access. It is intended to address any documents that are products of work sponsored by Trust and Identity or one of its community advisory groups. Examples of such products include: Recommendations and guidelines Note that any software documentation for developers and end users that is related to a specific release of the software, and is distributed with software, is vetted as part of the quality assurance process for the software release and is out of scope for Trust and Identity Document Stewardship. 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__label__wiki	0.508595	0.508595	Open in Our App Get the best experience and stay connected to your community with our Spectrum News app. Learn More Open in Spectrum News App Continue in Browser LA - East State Government Guide LA - West LA - East/Inland Empire San Fernando Valley/Ventura One SoCal This Is Community Your Story: Send Us Video Beyond the Sport In Focus SoCal LA Stories LA Times Today Music Diaries Owning a Piece of America SoCal in 17 Podcast The SoCal Scene This Month With the Mayor Program Helps Students Whip Up Culinary Careers By Tara Lynn Wagner Pacoima PUBLISHED 12:40 PM ET Nov. 30, 2018 PUBLISHED November 30, 2018 @12:40 PM Miguel Martinez is not a professional chef but he's no stranger to the kitchen. “I've always cooked for my family,” he says. “Last year for Thanksgiving, we made lobster. It was a first time and it turned out pretty good.” Not that he necessarily wants a culinary career. The 18 year old plans to study environmental science. Unfortunately, his college dreams had to be put on the back burner. “I got the financial aid but it wasn’t enough to pay for my dorming and my tuition,” Miguel explains. “So I ended up having to drop that and right now I'm trying to get into LA Mission College.” In the meantime, he's keeping very busy. Miguel is one of a handful of students learning cooking skills at El Nido’s Family Source Center in Pacoima and he has a job working in the kitchen of a fast food restaurant. He says he’s earning money to help his parents pay the bills and putting some away for future tuition costs. Chef Wendy Senteno helped him get that job. When she started the class, which is free for students from low income, underserved families, she taught it over a camping stove. Now thanks to donations, she has a new state of the art kitchen in what was once an empty room at the Pacoima Community Center. “I just want them to be independent,” she says. “I want them to be able to go off to college or when they live on their own, and they don't have to depend on anybody else other than themselves to be able to prepare healthy sustainable foods.” In fact, cookies aside, most of the recipes she teaches are vegetarian, if not vegan, a healthy alternative diet and a growing food trend that she'd like to see more members of her community embrace. At the moment, the food prepared by the students can only be served within the program and the cookies prove pretty popular but El Nido has a long-term vision of launching a community cafe, which would be open to the public and give kids in the job training program valuable real-world kitchen experience. For now though, their training helps them build confidence, teaches them how to work as a team and in some cases helps get their minds off their problems, like having to put a future on hold for a little while.	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0038.json.gz/line3712
__label__cc	0.738998	0.261002	sponsorsoftomorrow.com LG Smart Inverter, what is this technology and how the microwave has evolved LG's Smart Inverter technology has been a before and after in the world of microwaves. And it is that thanks to this invention it is already possible to cook faster and with greater power than other conventional ovens (up to 1,200W). All this without losing nutrients and with a uniform result. That is, they defrost, cook and heat any type of food in its entirety, without altering the flavor at any time. But the key to this technology lies in the way to control the temperature when cooking. While microwaves so far work by emission at intervals or heat peaks that in turn produce ups and downs in electricity consumption, LG Smart Inverter is able to achieve more precise temperature control thanks to the constant power supply ( and not with ups and downs). The advantages of this new system are several. To begin with, the result of cooking the food is that it cooks evenly , avoiding the typical case that the food is hot at the ends, but raw inside. In addition, this formula expands the number of dishes that can be prepared in these microwaves, compared to conventional ones. For example, a model with LG Smart Inverter is capable of making yogurt, something unthinkable until now. Another of the key points of this way of working is that it allows saving up to 36% in energy consumption , which is always something to take into account for the environment. But also, why not, for our pocket. Smart Inverter also allows you to cook faster. Specifically, up to 1.6 times faster than a traditional microwave. By operating with a direct current flow that can reach up to 1,200 W of power , more precise and powerful control is achieved without causing temperature deviations during cooking. On the other hand, its exclusive charcoal grill helps heat penetrate food more quickly and precisely. This achieves a result that is juicy on the inside and crispy on the outside. With LG Smart Inverter technology, cooking is also much healthier, reducing fat in food by up to 72 percent. It prevents overheating and the destruction of food cells, which preserves its flavor and nutrients. Another advantage of microwaves with Smart Inverter is that their interior is protected by the EasyClean system. Therefore, they are up to two times easier to clean than conventional ones. The interior has a coating that, due to its densest structure, prevents grease from penetrating and eliminates 99.99% of bacteria. Other advantages of microwaves that have this technology are: 10-year warranty on the magnetron part, a fundamental tube that makes a microwave work. High capacity, as large containers with up to 39 liters capacity can be placed inside. Inside it uses a rotating ring with a hexagonal shape, designed to provide greater stability to the containers that are placed on top and to avoid overturning or spillage. Among the functions, there are various modes for many needs: steaming, roasting, gratin, frying (in this case with the minimum dose of oil). The LG Smart Inverter range can currently be found in 5 models: 2 microwave ovens (MJ3965ACS and MJ3965BPS) and 3 microwave ovens with grill (MH7265DPS, MH6535GDS and MH6535GDH). Is it worth buying PS4 Pro in 2019? SinAzucar.org, find out how many sugar cubes are in what you eat Portable North Pole, create personalized messages from Santa Claus for your children How to install Android on an old PC 38 Excel functions and formulas to get the most out of it The weirdest things you can see on Google Earth How to know if I have debts with the Treasury through the web How to watch YouTube videos blocked in Spain or when traveling abroad The 7 Most Frequent Wallapop Scams of 2020 A review of the Hisense U7A 4K TV range USB-C adapters, buying guide to choose the best one 7 tricks to take better photos with the iPhone 7 Sign in to Hotmail: how to sign in to your Outlook account in 2019 Consumer Associations: Charge First, Help Later ili Wearable Translator, the portable travel translator arrives in Europe How to rename a Windows 10 user account How to move applications to the SD card from the internal memory of the mobile Apple Care +, what does and does not cover iPhone insurance Differences Between DVI, HDMI, and DisplayPort Video Connections How to find the nearest gas station with Google Maps Copyright sponsorsoftomorrow.com 2021	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0038.json.gz/line3714
__label__wiki	0.788858	0.788858	Frey: Lexus to Challenge Larger Teams at Spa After Recent Win Lorenz Frey aiming to take the fight to more experienced rivals after recent win… Jake Kilshaw Photo: Patrick Hecq/SRO Lorenz Frey believes Emil Frey Lexus Racing can be a major player in this weekend’s Total 24 Hours of Spa after scoring its first overall Blancpain GT Series win at Circuit Paul Ricard last month. Team principal Frey is relishing the underdog status of his pair of Lexus RC F GT3s, which have recently outperformed a number of larger, more experienced teams in Blancpain GT Endurance Cup rounds. Following a difficult start to the season, the Lexus came to life with a podium finish at Silverstone before Marco Seefried, Christian Klien and Albert Costa secured the Paul Ricard 1000km victory with a daring last-lap pass. Frey says the team is well-prepared for the challenge of Spa and reckons it has a chance of giving the Lexus RC F GT3 its first 24-hour race win. “Winning Spa would be like winning the world championship,” he said. “It is the toughest test in GT racing. “With so many GT3 cars on the grid, the driver lineups, and on such a special track, winning means a lot. We’re working day and night to hopefully achieve it. “Like all races, Spa is about preparation, and we try to run through the processes. “We have trained for a lot of procedures: installing the lights, changing the brakes when they’re very hot, running through pit stops. “It’s important for the whole group to simulate the conditions we’ll experience at the 24 hours. For sure it’s not like the real race, but it’s really good to have this opportunity. “We’re a private team and a 24-hour test is really costly, so we can’t do it all the time. When we have the chance, we have to make sure it pays off.” From a drivers’ perspective, Seefried is pleased with the progress made during the official Test Day earlier this month, especially with the chance to log some wet running. “I think we are well sorted after being able to run in mixed conditions and to see how the car handles on a very wet track and on a drying track,” he said. “Spa is well known for this and it was good to find these changing conditions during the test, because we do not have that much experience with the Lexus in the wet yet. “The track and the overall package plays in our hands and without suffering any major incidents we should be there with the top guys.” Frey hasn’t become complacent after a run of promising results and is instead cautious about his chances against some of the series’ powerhouses but still believes a win is a serious possibility. “We have to learn a lot,” he explained. “Our target is to constantly improve and not fall back and this is a big challenge for us. “The teams with experience are the experts at 24-hour races. We’re a really young team, but we have experienced drivers who have done this race many times and won it, so this helps us. “We’ll try to provide them with the right car so that they can do it again.” Related Topicsfeaturedspablancpain GTIGTC Jake Kilshaw is a UK-based journalist. He is a graduate of Politics and International Relations. More in Intercontinental GT Challenge Audi to Produce Evo Kit for GT3 Car in 2022; Eyeing Electric GT Audi to follow Lamborghini in planning update to existing GT3 car for new regulations... Honda “Incredibly Unlucky” to Miss Out on Kyalami Victory Honda left ruing wet weather's impact at Kyalami after dominating first eight hours... Watch Highlights of Dramatic, Rain-Soaked Kyalami 9H Watch highlights of Intercontinental GT Challenge powered by Pirelli season finale... Catsburg, Farfus Champions as Walkenhorst Wins Kyalami 9H BMW pair clinches IGTC title after rain causes late shift in fortunes at Kyalami... Ram Leads Mercedes 1-2 in Bronze Test Bentley, Lexus Hit with BoP Changes	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0038.json.gz/line3715
__label__wiki	0.847551	0.847551	Collecting 101 Collector Shows Collector Stories Fraud Issues Odd Collectibles What Sells Best? Grading Cards Tobacco Cards Vintage Card Sets Autograph News Antique Trader Military Trader Which MLB prospects should collectors be chasing after this year? Sports Collectors Digest contributor Greg Bates takes a look at the top MLB prospects for baseball card collectors to chase after. Bert Lehman By Greg Bates In the early 1990s, the New York Yankees bolstered a remarkable farm system that produced Derek Jeter, Mariano Rivera, Jorge Posada and Andy Pettitte. Fast forward a quarter century and the Yankees, who had been accustomed to bringing in wily old veterans, are back to their youthful ways. The team has seven players – Gleyber Torres, Clint Frazier, Blake Rutherford, Jorge Mateo, James Kaprielian, Aaron Judge and Justus Sheffield – ranked in Baseball America’s Top 100. Dealing Aroldis Chapman, Andrew Miller and Carlos Beltran last year stocked the Yankees’ minor league clubs. New York picked up top prospects Torres, rated No. 5, from the Chicago Cubs and Frazier, No. 39, from the Cleveland Indians.Yoa Card prospectors are finally looking at Yankees youngsters again and hoping to strike gold with cards like they did when Jeter popped onto the major league scene in 1995. After Gary Sanchez’s rise to stardom last season, the Yankees have many more hot prospects to come. “The Yankees have a pretty nice farm right now,” said Onyx Authenticated President Lance Fischer. “Some publications rank them as high as No. 2, maybe even No. 1, along with the Braves. They’ve got pitching, they’ve got hitting. They’ve got Judge, Frazier. I know (Greg) Bird was up there even though he didn’t have a full season a year ago. You’ve got Torres.” If there’s one team prospectors should keep an eye on this year, it’s the Yankees. Fischer is very high on Rutherford. The 19-year-old outfielder was a first-round pick of New York last year who can hit for power as well as average. Torres, the youngest MVP in Arizona Fall League history, is just 19 and might be a few years away from making it to the majors. But his 2015 Bowman Chrome color refractor autographed cards are going for multiple hundreds of dollars on eBay. Fischer believes Jason Montgomery and Chance Adams will be very solid pitchers in the future for the Yankees. The Yankees’ main rival the Boston Red Sox also have a couple big-name players still in their farm system. The team unloaded second-ranked prospect Yoan Moncada and Michael Kopech, ranked No. 32, in the Chris Sale trade to the White Sox. “There are a few guys that are under the radar,” Fischer said. “They got rid of Anderson Espinoza. Another is Roniel Raudes, a pitcher, to keep an eye on.” Moncada could start in the minors, but if he keeps his strikeouts low and can hit the ball, he might get called up to the big leagues, Adam and Dave’s Card World product manager Pat Blest said. Changing teams is a great move for Moncada, added Blest. “I think it definitely helped him, because it seemed like in Boston they were giving him some starts at third, trying to get some at-bats for him,” Blest said. “I think it will be a lot less pressure with the White Sox.” There is quite a bit of product on the market for Moncada, including 2015 Elite Extra Edition Panini and 2016 Bowman Chrome. His first White Sox card is in 2017 Topps Series I. “That stifles a little sales on him,” said Kendall Loyd, owner of Orlando Sports Cards South. “Unless he can come up and do what (Jose) Abreu did. He came out of nowhere and card sales were huge.” Another former Red Sox top prospect Manuel Margot is on the rise for the Padres. “He’s going to be a table-setter for San Diego,” Blest said. “Solid defensively in center field. Above average hitter. Really good speed.” Even though they have dealt some top prospects, the cupboard isn’t bare in Boston. The Red Sox still have the No. 1-rated prospect in all of baseball, Andrew Benintendi. The outfielder played well in the majors last season as an August call-up. “Benintendi’s the real deal,” Fischer said. “I know a lot of publications have him forecast to win AL Rookie of the Year. I’m with them. The kid is good all around.” The Red Sox also have third baseman Rafael Devers, rated No. 19, and pitcher Jason Groome. A while back, Loyd remembers opening some packs of 2015 Leaf Perfect Game in his store and pulling a Groome 1/1 card. Loyd didn’t know anything about Groome, and gave the card to a friend to see how much he could get for it. It was posted online and nabbed $400. “Never even heard of the guy,” Loyd said. “Hasn’t even pitched yet. I later find out he’s a Red Sox high draft pick, and then it made sense.” On the West Coast, a name that’s on every prospector’s list is Los Angeles Dodgers power hitter Cody Bellinger. “That’s a guy that a lot of people are high on right now,” said Ryan Bannister, who owns RbiCru7 Sports Cards & Collectibles in Florissant, Mo. “He was a fly under the radar as far as prospecting goes value-wise, especially a year ago. His stuff has just exploded.” Bellinger – who follows in a solid line of Dodgers prospects who have been called up and produced in the last couple of years, including Corey Seager, Julio Urias and Joc Peterson – is a potential 30-homer guy. “I think they’re going to find at-bats for him,” Blest said. “He’s kind of stuck behind Adrian Gonzalez. They’re going to put him at all three outfield positions in the spring, and if he hits they’re going to find somewhere to put him. He could be a perennial Gold Glover-type guy.” Fischer, who discovers under-the-radar prospects to highlight in his Onyx products, raves about Atlanta Braves phenom Kevin Maitan. The top international player available last year is rated No. 77 in Baseball America’s Top 100. “Definitely a guy you want to watch,” Fischer said. “If you’re a card collector, he probably won’t be cheap off the bat. But he may be somebody who’s well worth investing in. He’s definitely at the top of our list.” Maitan doesn’t have any Topps or Bowman cards on the market. Fischer noted Maitan just signed an exclusive memorabilia deal, so some items will become available this spring. Another youngster Fischer thinks can be a superstar is Washington Nationals outfielder Juan Soto. The 18-year-old doesn’t have much available for cards besides a 2016 Bowman Chrome. “Totally off the radar; he had a good season in the Gulf Coast League,” Fischer said. “He is very focused. His parents, in fact, don’t want him to do much memorabilia for card deals right now, at least for signatures. They want to make sure his attention is solely on baseball. A lot of potential.” Fischer and Blest agree that Milwaukee Brewers outfielder Lewis Brinson could make an impact this season. The centerpiece for the Brewers when they sent Jonathan Lucroy to the Rangers could become a big bat in the Brewers’ lineup. Fischer even calls Brinson a potential leading candidate for NL Rookie of the Year. The top two picks of the 2015 Draft, Braves shortstop Dansby Swanson and Houston Astros shortstop Alex Bregman, are also two guys to watch for this season. The Washington Nationals are banking on Victor Robles to come up this season and make some noise in the outfield. The Nationals traded their top pitching prospect, Lucas Giolito, to the White Sox last season. “I think this will be his opportunity this year to stick,” said Blest about Giolito. “Got really good stuff. Plus fastball. Really high ceiling. Once he puts it all together, I think he’ll probably be a No. 2 starter.” The world champion Cubs still have a plethora of talented youngsters in their system, including second baseman Ian Happ and outfielder Eloy Jimenez. Loyd, whose card shop is less than 20 miles from the Braves’ spring training facility, has had a lot of customers come in looking for Swanson and Ozzie Albies. The Pittsburgh Pirates’ spring camp is within 100 miles of Loyd’s store where fans are in search of cards of outfielder Austin Meadows, pitcher Tyler Glasnow and first baseman Josh Bell. Another hot prospect at Bannister’s shop is the Philadelphia Phillies’ top young outfielder. “Mickey Moniak, the No. 1 pick last year,” Bannister said. “Everyone’s trying to pull his Chrome autos and Bowman’s Best autos. I know he’s a popular one.” Quicker return on investments For the majority of the aforementioned prospects, there’s quite a bit of product on the market. That gives prospectors plenty of options to pick up autographed cards, parallel cards or common rookie cards. Prospects and rookies continue to keep products on the rise. “That’s what drives my wax boxes,” Loyd said. “All the Bowman Draft, Bowman Chrome, Bowman’s Best. A lot of those are all rookies. I need that bad.” Blest said 2016 Bowman Chrome sold well over the winter and 2017 Topps Series I has been flying off the shelf. “It really does drive a lot of these products just because they’ll give these products long shelf life,” Blest said. “It’s not just one year and done. You have guys that will come along that come out of the blue. Once they make it to the majors, it renews interest in products that might be two, three years old.” With all the products available for prospects, are collectors and prospectors snatching up as many different cards of a certain player or are they sticking to their true rookie card? “Some collectors will look at that first Bowman Draft card or first Bowman Chrome card that they get,” Blest said. “They look at that as the card they want to seek out. Others, they look for that first rookie card. So for Moncada this year, they’re going after the Series I rookie cards. Some of these guys that will get called up this year and stick, you may be seeing them in Series II, and they’ll look for those cards.” Bannister, whose store is located just outside of St. Louis, always has prospectors come in searching for the next young talent. “You never know who could be the next big star, who could have been a nobody,” Bannister said. “Example, Trevor Story was highly touted back in 2011, fell off the face of the world. Chrome autos next thing you know are five bucks, then he comes up and he’s tearing it up and they’re over $100. Obviously, everyone’s looking for that guy who was a common or a cheap guy to explode.” One major change from even a decade ago is MLB teams are moving top players through their farm systems at a quicker rate and getting them to the big leagues at a younger age. “For collectors, it’s a good thing. For prospectors, it’s definitely a good thing,” Fischer said. “You’re going to see return on an investment a lot quicker.” Said Blest: “Where you may have had a three- or four-year lag with some players from their first Bowman Draft or Bowman Chrome cards, now it might only be a year or two years before they go from that to making the major league club.” But even if teams aren’t calling up their top prospects to the big leagues when they are 20 or 21 years old, the young guys have plenty of time to make a name for themselves. “Some guys are worth the wait,” Fischer said. “I think a lot of people gave up on Gary Sanchez, and we saw what he did last year.” Greg Bates is a freelance contributor to Sports Collectors Digest and can be contacted at gregbates@gmail.com. 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__label__wiki	0.972794	0.972794	PCB has received apology for PSL live streaming controversy: source According to a PCB source, the Board has received a formal apology from the media rights company for the controversy surrounding the live streaming of PSL. Karachi 05 April, 2020 20:01 IST Aerial view of the Gaddafi Stadium in Lahore, one of the venues of the Pakistan Super League. (Representative Image) - AP The Pakistan Cricket Board on Sunday said it has received a formal apology from its media rights partner for subletting live streaming of PSL-5 to a UK based betting company, which had kicked up a controversy, according to sources. A source well-informed about the developments on this issue told PTI that the high profile media company had sent an apology after the PCB raised the issue of the rights being sold to the betting company ‘Bet 365’ without its knowledge. The issue became a cause of embarrassment for the PCB as betting or gambling in any form is illegal in the country. “The fact is that PCB became aware that the PSL matches were being live streamed by Bet 365 on its website as soon as the league started on 20th February,” the source said. He said on February 23 or 24, the PCB sent an email to its media rights partner pointing out that it had breached the contract between them by subletting the live streaming rights without informing or getting clearance from the Board as was required in the agreement. READ: Statistics of watching Test cricket “Later on, the media rights partner also sent an email to the PCB apologising for their mistake and admitted they were at fault in the entire issue.” He said the Board also wrote directly to the betting company on March 1 or 2 to inform that the PCB would be taking legal action against it (Bet365) if it did not stop the live streaming of matches immediately. “The PCB informed the betting company that it was given live streaming rights without its (PCB’s) knowledge which was a must under the contract they had with their media rights partner,” the source added. He said immediately after getting the PCB’s mail, the betting company stopped live streaming of the matches around March 3. The source said the impression created in the media that the PCB was unaware about the live streaming of matches on the website of a betting company until the PSL was coming to an end was incorrect. Pakistan Cricket Board	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0038.json.gz/line3717
__label__wiki	0.511251	0.511251	Local Authorities Elections SUNDAY POLITICS ‘Govt. refutes tax fraud in sugar imports’ The Government today refuted charges levelled by the opposition claiming tax ... Ashantha de Mel to quit as Sri Lanka cricket team manager Sri Lanka Cricket Team Manager Ashantha de Mel will be resigning ... Hotel Show Colombo 2018 announced (Pics / Video) Celebrating its 20th anniversary, the forthcoming ‘Hotel Show Colombo 2018’ organized by the Ceylon Hotel School Graduates Association (CHSGA) together with its professional event partner CDC Events will be held from July 20 – 22, 2018 at the BMICH, Colombo. Hotel Show Colombo, South Asia’s largest trade show for hotels, restaurants, cafes and catering services, takes place in order to meet the demand of both the buyers who are the entrepreneurs in the industry and sellers who manufacture and supply an array of raw materials, as well as providers of design, marketing service, and management. It also provides hotels the opportunity to showcase the talents of their staff at various competitions under the purview of international judges. Key areas of hospitality such as National Barista Championship, National Tabletop Cooking, National Room Stylist Challenge, Culinary Master Class, Ceylon Tea Masters’ Cup and the Colombo Food Fest will be held concurrently. A media briefing was held on this regard last evening (19) in Colombo. Speaking at the event, chairman of the Sri Lanka Tourism Development Authority - Kavan Ratnayake said that tourism and hospitality is now Sri Lanka's most important business. He also said : Adding his voice, chairman of the organizing committee - Trevine Gomez said, "The Hotel Show Colombo has really stepped up another gear this year and we're looking forward once again to cater to the industry's needs and highlight its' talent. Each year, we aim to bring to bear the latest trends in the industry to ensure decision makers of all businesses involved in food and drink are well equipped to attract customers. This year's show will be no exception, making it a must- attend event. Samantha Gunaratne, Chairman of the CHSGA states : "Over the past years, the Hotel Show Colombo has established itself as a major force in the hospitality industry, it's the ultimate diary date for anyone in the sector." Last modified on Thursday, 21 June 2018 08:52 More in this category: « Singer Sri Lanka achieves largest Intel NUC sale in SL Uswatte opens state-of-the-art biscuit factory in Millaniya » Opposition accuses Speaker of being biased Police to arrest Dhammika Bandara for attacking doctor 'State ministry not closed due to Covid-19' Kiriella Divisional Secretary arrested for sexual harassment Govt. to appoint separate commission to penalize opposition strongmen! Copyright © 2021 Sri Lanka Mirror. All Rights Reserved	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0038.json.gz/line3718
__label__cc	0.705914	0.294086	Home › Immigrance [MP3 Download] Immigrance [MP3 Download] Immigrance, the new Snarky Puppy studio album, is all about movement. “The idea here is that everything is fluid, that everything is always moving and that we’re all in a constant state of immigration,” explains Michael League. “Obviously the album’s title is not without political undertones.” Like Culcha Vulcha, Immigrance is a studio project, and it features most of the same musicians. And though it shares that project’s ace musicianship and dynamic, kinetic spirit, it is also more raw and moodier than its predecessor. Several of the compositions put a newfound emphasis on delivering simpler, streamlined impact. With Immigrance, Snarky Puppy is essentially practicing what it’s preached all along: People from different places can bring their various strengths and experiences, and that can be beautiful and cohesive. The band itself is a representation of that musical expression. Chonks Bigly Strictness While We’re Young Bad Kids To The Back Even Us	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0038.json.gz/line3722
__label__wiki	0.781103	0.781103	Synonyms for borre_mound or Related words with borre_mound gravlund chauchilla warsaw_powązki powązki_military cwgc_communal okopowa_street_jewish evergreen_washelli borrehaugene kyrkogård hřbitovy łyczakowski kisseln forestvale kirkegård novodevichye washelli kalmistu powazki ingelside gårdby stavne mukhatgverdi leikvin kyrkogården vestre_gravlund møllendal stora_tuna sparkman_hillcrest_memorial metsakalmistu lawnview santa_ifigenia errancis vår_frelsers_gravlund locksbrook toshimagaoka köpingsvik gårdstånga thornrose sjonhem gettlinge colestown søndermark rahumäe donghuishan piskarevskoye montrepose asferg tulocay ikedas horten_vestfold Examples of "borre_mound" Borre mound cemetery (Norwegian: "Borrehaugene" from the "Old Norse" words "borró" and "haugr" meaning mound) forms part of the Borre National Park in Horten, Vestfold, Norway. The Borre mound cemetery at Borre National Park contains graves of kings dating back to the Migration Period. The park covers and has the largest collection of kings' graves in Scandinavia. These burial mounds may represent North Europe’s most extensive collection of graves of the old Scandinavian Yngling dynasty. From 1989 to 1991, new excavations were undertaken both in and around the national park. The Viking Ship Museum (Norwegian: "Vikingskipshuset på Bygdøy") is located at Bygdøy in Oslo, Norway. It is part of the Museum of Cultural History of the University of Oslo, and houses archaeological finds from Tune, Gokstad (Sandefjord), Oseberg (Tønsberg) and the Borre mound cemetery. In 1852, Nicolaysen led the first investigations at the Borre mound cemetery in Horten, Vestfold. The excavations uncovered an extensive selection of craft work of a stylistic form which has subsequently become known as the Borre style. Many of the artefacts recovered during these excavations are presently on display at the Viking Ship Museum in Oslo. Throughout Scandinavia, there are many remaining tumuli in honour of Viking kings and chieftains, in addition to runestones and other memorials. Some of the most notable of them are at the Borre mound cemetery, in Norway, at Birka in Sweden and Lindholm Høje, and Jelling in Denmark. A Viking funeral could be a considerable expense, but the barrow and the grave goods were not considered to have been wasted. In addition to being a homage to the deceased, the barrow remained as a monument to the social position of the descendants. Especially powerful Norse clans could demonstrate their position through monumental grave fields. The Borre mound cemetery in Vestfold is for instance connected to the Yngling dynasty, and it had large tumuli that contained stone ships. Borre Style embraces a range of geometric interlace / knot patterns and zoomorphic (single animal) motifs, first recognised in a group of gilt-bronze harness mounts recovered from a ship grave in Borre mound cemetery near the village of Borre, Vestfold, Norway, and from which the name of the style derives. Borre Style prevailed in Scandinavia from the late 9th through to the late 10th century, a timeframe supported by dendrochronological data supplied from sites with characteristically Borre Style artefacts A 7 August 2012 article in the local newspaper "Gjengangeren", where Tore Tvedt described how Vigrid uses the heritage site Borre mound cemetery in Vestfold for their initiation ceremonies, caused an uproar among local politicians, including the mayor of Horten. The municipal presidency () unanimously decided to issue a declaration condemning Vigrid's use of the site. Vigrid is accused of abusing the park and the document demands that the organization ceases to use the area. The politicians argue that "Vigrid's racial theories and political profile are completely at variance with the heritage values we believe the park to represent." The declaration also promised that the presidency will coordinate measures between the proprietor and the administration of the area as well as other public authorities to prevent future political misuse. Labour Party politician Nils Henning Hontvedt, who initiated the declaration, told "Gjengangeren" in a 21 August article titled "Declaring war on Vigrid" that were it not for the events of 22 July 2011 they would possibly have let the matter slide. Hontvedt also conceded that freedom of expression considerations and the absence of clear legislation may make it difficult to prevent Vigrid from using the park in the future.	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0038.json.gz/line3724
__label__cc	0.500681	0.499319	New Online Ebola Alert Tool is Anything But Posted: October 27, 2014 by Jovi Umawing Malwarebytes finds a domain claiming to offer an early warning system tool that can alert the user of any Ebola outbreaks near their area. Update [10/30/2014 1:06PM GMT]: We found the website called ebola(dot)events, which appears similar to ebolawarnings(dot)com. Upon visiting the dot events site, however, it plays a warning siren. Testing shows that the executable file hosted on the said site doesn’t install the same way the previous sample we saw and tested had: For one thing, the file only installs properly on systems located in the US. It also no longer exhibited the symptoms we’ve observed and documented in the original post below. What it does is access a site registered to an ad monetizing company before it auto-downloads the file for the user. Once the file is executed, the below interface appears, which allows the users to also specify their location (US states only) and ZIP code. Users can also choose to hide this interface by pressing “Hide” at the top-left side. Doing so minimizes the window at the bottom-left side of the desktop, showing only the title of the program. Craig Spencer, a doctor from New York City, is the fourth and latest person diagnosed with Ebola in the U.S after arriving from Guinea. More news of infection outside Africa such as this could further fuel the ever-increasing fear and anxiety for one’s own life and well-being, especially in terms of how one interacts with the outside world. People are trying to be more careful in their dealings than usual, always wanting to be on the know about the latest happenings. This is why web threats banking on perennial hot topics like Ebola could be effective lures against users, especially in the long run. Not so long ago, spam posing as an email from the World Health Organization (WHO), discovered by our friends at Trustwave, to carry a document containing information on how one can be safe from the deadly disease, which turns out to be a DarkComet RAT malware. Recently, we found ebolawarnings(dot)com, a domain claiming to offer an early warning system tool that can alert the user of any Ebola outbreaks near their area. Upon initial visit to the page, users are presented with the following prompt at the top-middle part of the screen: Download the Ebola Early Warning System Toolbar to know immediate when a threat is in your area. Below is a screenshot of the downloaded file with an overview of its details: EbolaEarlyWarningSystem.exe has a low detection rate as of this writing—four vendors detect it out of 53. Thankfully, Malwarebytes Anti-Malware users are protected from this file, which we detect as Trojan.MSIL. Upon execution, however, it displays a user interface prompting users to install the ONLY Search toolbar with links to its EULA and Privacy Policy pages. Once users click the “Agree” button, they are again presented with other offers to download, such as a program called Block-n-Surf (a supposed tool used to protect children from adult-related content, System Optimizer Pro (a tool that purportedly optimizes the user’s system), oneSOFTperday (a tool that gives users access to free apps), and a remote access tool among others: Once programs are installed, the following have been observed from affected systems: All browser default search pages are changed to ONLY Search Once users open a new browser tab, affiliate sites are loaded up (e.g. a site offering insurance) Browser windows open to prompt user to install more programs System Optimizer Pro executes Affected machine slows down Shortcut files are created on the desktop During testing, we haven’t seen any installation of the Ebola Early Warning System toolbar or evidence of warning alerts. We implore users not to be easily swayed with software solutions banking on the Ebola scare. They may be more about enticing internet users into downloading programs that may potentially do harm on their systems, instead of helping them be aware of the current situation.	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0038.json.gz/line3726
__label__cc	0.748485	0.251515	St. Andrew Church 724 Mulberry St. Murphysboro, IL 62966 St. Ann Church 101 Raddle Lane Jacob, IL 62950 Saturday - Mass at 5:30 pm Confessions - 4:30 pm - 5:00 pm Sunday - Mass at 8:00 am Sunday - Mass at 11:00 am Join us at St. Andrew on Saturdays at 5:30 pm and on Sundays at 11:00 am Join us at St. Ann at 8:00 am on Sundays St. Andrew Church \| Murphysboro, IL St. Ann Church \| Jacob, IL Pastoral Council Minutes Finance Council Minutes St. Andrew Altar Society meets the 2nd Tuesday of each month. Refreshments are served at 5:45 p.m. The rosary is recited at 6:00 p.m. with the meeting following. Meetings are held in the Knights of Columbus Hall. St. Andrew Altar Society purchases the hosts and wine used during Mass. The Society also sets up before Mass and cleans up after Mass. As part of this service the Society cares for the robes of the servers and the linens used at Mass. The Altar Society coordinates funeral luncheons. On the first Sunday of each month desserts for the chicken dinner served by the Knights of Columbus are provided by members of the Altar Society. During the holiday season the Altar Society hosts the Giving Tree of the parish at Christmas and provides Christmas gifts for rehab and assisted living residents of the parish. President Donna Rosenthal 521-7780 First Vice-president Sandy Schwartz 579-8664 Second Vice-president Secretary Chris Crabtree 534-0940 Treasurer Chris Crabtree 534-0940 FAMILY • CHURCH • EDUCATION • COMMUNITY Altar SocietyAltar Society Knights of ColumbusKnights of Columbus St. Andrew QuiltersSt. Andrew Quilters St Ann SodalitySt Ann Sodality For information: Copyright 2016, St. Andrew Church \| Murphysboro, IL	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0038.json.gz/line3728
__label__wiki	0.530158	0.530158	Before the 90 Days My 600-lb Life THE OTHER WAY Yazan defines good & bad girls, bad girl Brittany responds Asa Hawks July 23, 2020 90 Day Fiance The Other Way, Brittany Banks On the current season of 90 Day Fiance: The Other Way, Brittany and Yazan have been fighting non-stop since the moment she stepped off the airplane in Jordan. That hostility has continued months later on social media as the two continue to call each other out via Instagram. The latest exchange between the two was sparked by Yazan’s post explaining the difference between good girls and bad girls, which is essentially that “bad girls” try to be sexy and have sex while “good girls” are only sexy when its unintentional, and they don’t do the boom boom. Here are Yazan’s insights into gender morality in regards to women: Have you ever wondered what is the difference between a good girl and a bad girl? Well, let me tell you about my thoughts. First of all, a good girl will loosen her shirt button when it’s hot but a bad girl will loosen her shirt button to make a situation hot. Secondly, a good girl wears underwear and a bad girl don’t use underwear. Thirdly, a good girl says no and a bad girl says when? Lastly, a good girl goes to a party then go home then go to bed but a bad girl goes to a party then go to bed then goes home. At the end of his post, Yazan broadened his judgement to all people. “That’s my personal point of view and a good person will definitely agree with what I said,” he wrote, before adding a seemingly contradictory message: “Spread positivity and love.” He followed up with a message about Muslim women not being “cheap” in regards to who can afford them: The Jordanian reality star would later clarify in another Instagram story text post that his insights weren’t directed at anyone (*COUGH* Brittany *COUGH) in particular. “I want to clarify something. My previous stories is not about any specific person,” he wrote. “I was just talking about something in general.” Brittany caught wind of Yazan’s preachings, and of course she had a few things to say about them. She shared a screen cap of his initial post on her Instagram account and added the following commentary: This is what misogynistic men say. First of all there is no such thing as a good and bad girl only a judgmental man who ain’t GOOD for sht but trying to control a girl ON her sht. Let’s be clear PROPHET MUHAMMAD DOES NOT APPROVE HIS MESSAGES OF TEARING WOMEN DOWN. Period. Stop being weak and trying to dim a woman’s light as a man and get YOUR responsibilities in order and maybe you won’t feel threatened by women minding their business & getting money. F*k wrong w you posting this. Brittany continued with two additional messages: Let me apologize to all women on behalf of the statement Yazan just made. ❗️❗️ I don’t support that message at all. That is a dangerous message to put out especially in a time where woman are fighting for our safety, protection against sexual assault, and equal rights. 🛑 Women DO WHAT YOU WANT. A man cannot tell you if you’re good or bad only you and God knows your heart. And we are so much more complex than good and bad. We are 7 layer cakes! A good man holds a job and provides for his woman. A bad man sits at home with his hand out to everybody, trying to demand respect and control over a woman who WORKS for hers. If I let you control me we’d be homeless cus lord knows you will not work or pay one bill with all that mouth. Sit this one out boo. #90DayFiance #TheOtherWay Brittany says "Yazan's favorite drink is Jack Daniels. Yazan loves hashish, Tramadol, and gaslighting women," and more in deleted Instagram post, then claims: "I was hacked or whatever." 🤨 https://t.co/QJySlCIvPj — Starcasm (@starcasm) June 25, 2020 I think most everyone will agree that Brittany clearly won this round. But was this even a real fight, or just Yazan and Brittany playing up the drama for attention? Many viewers have been reacting to Yazan and Brittany’s story line on the show with disbelief, and that includes myself. There’s so much about their relationship that isn’t believable, and just as Brittany said in her reactions above, she is all about working for hers and getting money. She has been pushing hard for exposure as an “influencer, model, actress, rapper” for years, so it seems obvious that she would be willing to go on a popular reality show that required her to stretch the truth a bit. Speaking of Brittany working for hers, none of Yazan’s drama about her being a “bad girl” makes ANY sense whatsoever. He met her online because she was basically twerking in a thong for followers. I agree with Brittany in that if a woman wants to literally shake her moneymakers, then more power to her! (Or him for that matter.) But why the heck is Yazan clutching his Misbaha about Brittany?! It wasn’t like he met her on a “Good Girls Who Wear Panties” dating website. And if she actually did visit him in Jordan before, I do not believe for one second that there was no bad girl boom boom going on. #90DayFiance #TheOtherWay Brittany Banks may be familiar to some fans already. The self-described "social media influencer, model, actress, rapper" has 320k IG followers and 2 OnlyFans accounts! We've got links, videos, and even a rap song sample for you! https://t.co/AkAIB30AQN — Starcasm (@starcasm) June 7, 2020 Personally, I don’t buy their story at all. I think Brittany is very smart as far as knowing what producers wanted, and she pitched a story that they simply could not resist. A young black woman from Florida who twerks on Instagram and raps who is flying to Jordan to be with her Muslim fiance. She was also willing to go on camera wearing braces and talk about having 70-something-year-old sugar daddies. Then, she added the irresistible “big secret” cherry on top of still being married to a guy that was deported! (In case you missed it, Brittany filed for divorce in September and it actually went through in February.) As far as their recent online drama (including Brittany previously trashing Yazan for being his definition of a bad boy), that could be a continuance of their on-screen volatility, or it could actually be legit. Even if they conspired to fake their relationship for the show, they could have still had a falling out. It seems like a mixture of both to me. We did a deep dive on #90DayFiance #TheOtherWay star Brittany Banks and got details on her first marriage (to the guy who was deported to Haiti) and their divorce. Plus, did Brittany convert to Islam? #Spoiler https://t.co/Uk1R8V1XGT pic.twitter.com/b1K3zggKyB The 90 Day Fiance franchise has a history of stretching the truth a bit, and despite my aversion to the fakeness, I’m still a fan of the shows. However, there are times when the apparent fakeness makes it difficult to enjoy watching, and that is certainly the case with Yazan and Brittany for me. Their conflicts just don’t make any sense and seem VERY heavy handed. Brittany did a series of YouTube videos with skit comedian TPindell in which they role played different cultures, and her story line with Yazan this season kind of reminds me of those — just a little less ridiculous. To be honest, when I’m watching them on the show I can’t help but think I’m watching a Sacha Baron Cohen prank. Am I the only one? Asa Hawks is a writer and editor for Starcasm. You can contact Asa via Twitter, Facebook, or email at starcasmtips(at)yahoo.com THE OTHER WAY Laura & Aladin divorce is final, she’s open to dating Geoffrey Paschel THE OTHER WAY Jihoon and Deavan miscarriage announcement: ‘We are heart broken and focusing on healing’ 90 Day Fiance: The Other Way to premiere in June Asa Hawks starcasm.net Copyright © 2021.	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0038.json.gz/line3730
__label__wiki	0.557161	0.557161	Beyond Starch A crucial link between Farm and Fork The European Starch Industry The European starch industryadmin2020-11-10T09:56:41+00:00 From 75 starch production facilities in 19 EU Member States, the European Starch Industry today produces 10,7 million tonnes of starch and starch-derivatives, and more than 5 million tonnes of proteins and fibres each year. This is primarily extracted from 24 million tonnes of EU grown wheat, maize and potatoes, but also from barley, rice and peas. Starch Europe members constitute more than 95% of EU starch production The 28 Starch Europe member companies process starch in 75 plants in 19 EU Member States. They process about 24 million tonnes of agricultural raw materials into 10,7 million tonnes of starch derivatives and 5 million tonnes of proteins & fibres. EU starch production has increased from 8.7 million tonnes 2004 to 10,7 million tonnes in 2019. The EU consumes 9,2 million tonnes of starch (excluding proteins and fibres totalling around 5 million tonnes), of which 56% in food, 3% in feed and 41% in non-food applications, primarily paper making. Of the 9,2 million tonnes of starch and starch derivatives consumed in the EU, 30% are native starches, 18% modified starches and 52% starch sweeteners. The 28 Starch Europe member companies process starch in 75 plants in 19 of the 27 EU Member States. The EU consumes 9,3 million tonnes of starch (excluding proteins and fibres totalling around 5 million tonnes), of which 58% in food, 2% in feed and 40% in non food applications, primarily paper making. OUR 5 KEY MESSAGES Our thoughts on the role, impact, and responsibilities of the Starch Industry 1. Innovation The European starch industry is built on constant innovation The European starch industry is a long-established part of the agri-food value chain, built on constant innovation to meet societal demands and consumer expectations. 2. Rural Strength We strengthen rural areas with essential sources of income and employment We strengthen rural areas by providing an essential source of income and employment, both directly and to the farmers who supply the raw materials used to make our ingredients. 3. Plant-based We offer a vast range of plant-based ingredients improving food and drink. We offer a vast range of plant-based ingredients, including carbohydrates, proteins and fibres, to make food and drink taste better, last longer, and be more sustainable and nutritious. 4. Bioeconomy We develop bio-based materials and alternatives to fossil-based products We develop bio-based materials and alternatives to fossil-based products in industrial applications from renewable resources, offering functional properties and CO2 emission reductions. The EU starch industry is a pillar of the sustainable food system. By valorising the entire crop to serve food, feed and industrial customers, while reducing our environmental footprint, the EU starch industry is a pillar of the sustainable food system. EU Starch Market Data Although the early history of starch use is mainly unrecorded, some very early examples of its industrial use are documented. Reference to strips of Egyptian papyrus being stuck together with a starchy adhesive date back to 4000 BC. In 170 BC Cato described a process used by Romans for separating starch from grain and around 312 AD starch was shown to provide resistance to ink penetration in Chinese paper. By the 16th Century starch was being widely used in Western Europe, primarily in the textile industry as a stiffener. In 1804, Bouillon-Lagrange first reported the production of dextrin, and in 1811, Kirchoff discovered that sugar could be produced from potato starch by hydrolysis with acid, thus bringing into being the first modified starches and starch sweeteners. In Europe, starch was until the 18th century made primarily from wheat. From then however, potato became an increasingly important raw material for European starch. 50 years later the first maize starch was also being produced in Europe. Today Europe remains the world’s leading producer of potato starch, with European potato starch being exported to all corners of the globe. Over the years European potato starch farmers grouped together to form agricultural cooperatives and the majority of the EU potato starch producing companies which exist today are still agricultural cooperatives. Until the 1970s most of the EU starch which was not made from potatoes was made from imported maize (primarily) and wheat from the United States. With the advent of the EU’s Common Agricultural Policy however, the EU became largely self sufficient in wheat and maize and EU starch today is produced almost exclusively from EU agricultural raw materials. Whilst some wheat and maize starch companies are also agricultural cooperatives, the majority are privately owned. Avenue des Arts, 43, B-1040 Brussels, Belgium info@starch.eu StarchEurope All content provided on this website is for informational purposes only. Starch Europe makes no representations as to the accuracy or completeness of any information on this site or found by following any link on this site. EXTRANET MEMBERS About Starch Europe Copyright Starch Europe \| All Rights Reserved \| Webdesign by Adwell	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0038.json.gz/line3731
__label__wiki	0.635377	0.635377	By sfeinberg ads for recession, branding, financial crisis Is there any place advertising shouldn’t go? New York, April 14, 2023: Exactly 20 years after the successful decoding of the complete human genome, advertisers have found a way to encode their own messages onto our DNA. Nike, always an innovator, went the molecular-branding route, arranging “non-working” chromosomes to spell out the famous sports gear manufacturer’s name when viewed under a microscope. “We felt that macro-level branding—billboards, shopping bags, and so forth—was no longer news. DNA represents a whole new opportunity for us” said Nike spokesperson Wan-Li Shiu-Greenberg. Guinness’s “Be your Guiness” app isn’t quite as subtle. Capitalizing on the fanatical loyalty of its customers, the famous brewery offers a “simple, low-cost, low-risk” genetic modification that lets them proudly display their beer of choice—on their forehead. The genetic tweak triggers capillary action that spells out “Guinness” across the forehead when the subject has consumed a pint of Guinness. Will other beers produce the same result? No, says company CMO Alec “Rugger” Cowins. “The same unique properties that make Guinness Stout impossible to imitate, are necessary to make the DNA modification work.” Says Shiu-Greenberg: “We used to think of the human genome as a blueprint. Now we think of it as a medium for branding.” How do you feel about this dispatch from the future? Scandalized? Resigned? Psyched? All legitimate reactions. But if your reaction is skepticism, be careful. The history of modern advertising is a steady encroachment of the commercial world into areas we once saw as sacrosanct. Hospitals. Schools. Amateur sports. Public transportation. PBS, for chrissakes. And if you don’t think the human body is already fair game for advertisers, you haven’t heard Harley-Davidson’s marketing people talk about the many ways they facilitate tattooing their brand onto the pasty skin under all that black leather. What has powered this encroachment? (A prejudicial term, I agree, but “expansion” really doesn’t capture what’s happening.) I think it’s a combination of 3 forces: Message Saturation Technology is the most obvious culprit. Radio, TV, internet, mobile, p2p, social sharing, cloud—as soon as a new communications technology is created, new ways to “support” it via advertising soon follow. And as technological innovation bends communication towards the hyper-personal—think cookies and Facebook data-mining—so advertising slipstreams behind it and finds new ways to get past our personal firewalls. Message Saturation is just arithmetic: you can’t, as a gnarly old art director once told me, put 10 pounds of shit in a 5-lb. box. Advertisers used to sell 8 minutes out of every hour of programming for commercials. Now it’s as high as 26 minutes. So each message has more competition. Content—the reason people engage in the 1st place—becomes less appealing. Viewers get more fatigued and, if they’re tech-savvy, more motivated to find ad-free workarounds. Eventually, you just run out of room, literally and psychologically. “White space”—an uncluttered advertising environment– becomes a Holy Grail. Sometimes that white space is geographic, like emerging global markets. But mostly, it’s cultural—whatever parts of society and daily life that are still pristinely uncommercial. What determines which of these increasingly rare ad-free zones will remain that way? Money. Which brings us to… Income Inequality. In case you haven’t noticed, the rich are getting richer and the poor are getting poorer. This is happening not only to individuals, but to institutions and governments. Stockton and Palo Alto are both in California but might as well be in different galaxies, such is the disparity in their wealth and their prospects for the future. Palo Alto doesn’t need to pimp its hospitals, schools and infrastructure to advertisers, so it doesn’t. Stockton would sell its kindergarten classrooms to Phillip Morris if it could, which it probably can’t because there aren’t enough people left in Stockton who can afford premium-brand cigarettes. But in between Stockton and Palo Alto there are hundreds of American towns, cities and institutions who are looking hard at their budget shortfalls and their white-space assets ands wondering where, if anywhere, they can afford to draw the line. Tagged ad clutter, DNA, Guinness, human genome, Nike	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0038.json.gz/line3734
__label__wiki	0.79854	0.79854	The Seattle Public Library Foundation The Seattle Public Library Foundation helps the Library build its collection and resources, offer programs for patrons of all ages, and better serve the needs of our community. Grants to the Library Stim Bullitt Civic Courage Scholarship Report to Donors Legacy and Planned Giving Donor Benefits Library Legacy Society Business & Foundation Partners Why I give: Sara Miller Donor Sara Miller and her 7-year-old daughter, Hazel, show their love of the Library outside their home branch at NewHolly. (Photo courtesy Sara Miller) Sara Miller’s home library—the NewHolly Branch—may be closed for now, but she and her family are using the Library as much as ever. She and her 7-year-old daughter, Hazel, check out e-books using the Libby app and have used the Curbside Services at the Rainier Beach Branch. “It’s amazing,” says Sara, a social worker at Casey Family Programs. “We’ve been really happy with the Library.” Sara also, with the encouragement of a friend, participated in Summer Book Bingo, reading about 25 books between July and September. Hazel completed the kids’ version. “It definitely made me stretch and I discovered some really cool authors,” says Sara, who has also explored new titles using the “Your Next 5 Books” service. For these reasons and more, Sara has become a Page Turner for The Seattle Public Library Foundation, giving a designated amount every month to maintain a continuous contribution to the Library her family relies on. She has also joined the Legacy Society, designating the Foundation as a beneficiary in her will. “This is a place that most folks can access and it’s a public service that we definitely love supporting,” Sara says. Both Sara and her husband grew up going to the library and they’ve come to find a sense of community at the NewHolly Branch, running into neighbors there and getting to know Library staff. With NewHolly temporarily closed for COVID-19 safety measures, she has since explored the greater world of e-books and has found an emotional lifeline through reading. “I’m so thankful to be doing a lot of reading now, especially in these times when things are so stressful,” Sara says. Sara and her husband have passed that passion on to Hazel, who will sometimes fall asleep amid a pile of books. Hazel enjoys the “Ordinary People Change the World” series of books by Brad Meltzer and has recently read about strong women such as Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Malala Yousafzai. “I really want her to grow up with a critical mind,” Sara says. Reading is something that not only the family can enjoy together—but that they can also share with their entire community. “The Library is part of our community and there are so many services and so many resources out there that are hard for folks to access,” Sara says. “But the Library (has) a lot of locations and even during COVID, they’re working really hard to ensure they’re able to reach the community.” To become a Page Turner yourself, visit give.supportspl.org/pageturner. To learn more about joining the Legacy Society, contact Kara McDonald, director of major and planned gifts, at kara@supportspl.org or 206-413-7177. This story appears in the Fall 2020 edition of our newsletter, “The Next Chapter.” Find the full edition here. Previous Previous post: LEAP head begins new chapter after 30 years of service Next Next post: Take advantage of this one-time charitable tax deduction before the year’s end! SUPPORT YOUR LIBRARYDONATE NOW Short-story dispenser gives a shot of literature with your latte Customers of The Station coffee shop on Beacon Hill can now grab a free story to read with their cup …Read More » Volunteer spotlight: Jody Crow Growing up in Tracyton, Wash. on the Kitsap Peninsula, going to the library was a way of life for Jody …Read More » Make a year-end gift today to see your donation doubled! Now is the time that people step up to support their neighbors – about 12 percent of annual giving occurs …Read More » The Seattle Public Library Donations: PO Box 3951, Seattle, WA 98124 Office: 1000 Fourth Ave., Seattle, WA 98104 foundation@supportspl.org © 2021 The Seattle Public Library Foundation. All rights reserved. Wordpress site by Bear Group	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0038.json.gz/line3737
__label__wiki	0.587888	0.587888	Orville Bulman C – H Walton Ford Jack Lorimer Gray Reggie Burrows Hodges Scott Kelley Julio Larraz O – W Montoya & Ortiz Dale Nichols William Paxton Jane Peterson Maurice Prendergast Pat Steir Anthony Thieme W – Z Neil Welliver John Whalley Guy Wiggins Stephen Scott Young The Works of Alex Katz and David Hockney at Surovek Gallery Alex Katz is a consummate New Yorker, and much of his work reflects the style and sensibility of a sophisticated city dweller…but not all of it. In 1949, after he graduated from Cooper Union, Katz received a scholarship to spend the summer at the Skowhegan School for Painting and Sculpture in Maine, where he was introduced to plein air painting. Until that summer, Katz had studied modern art and was taught to paint from drawings. Katz credits that summer, and the next (which he also spent at the Skowhegan School) with giving him “a reason to devote my life to painting.” Sunset, Lake Wesserumett ll, 1972 Screenprint in grays on paper Signed: Alex Katz in pencil (l.r.) Numbered: 4160 in pencil (l.l.) For sale at Surovek Gallery Katz has spent every summer, since 1954, at his summer home in Lincolnville, Maine, painting en plein air. His most recent paintings have been of flowers, specifically irises, which he has shown at several venues in the US. Iris 4, 2019. Katz imbues his paintings of flowers with the same bold and intense colors that he uses for his portraits and figurative works. Purple Hat (Ada), 2017 Archival pigment inks Edition: 83/125 Signed: Alex Katz 83/125 (l.l.) Available at Surovek Gallery Alex Katz will have a solo exhibit at the Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac Pantin in Paris from February 19 through March 19, 2021. David Hockney settled down in his 17th-century traditional, half-timbered Normandy cottage and began painting his surroundings in March 2019. David Hockney at his house in Normandy with his dog, Ruby in April 2019. The views that he captured are on exhibit at Galerie Lelong & Co. in Paris. Ma Normandie, consisting of a dozen paintings as well as a series of inkjet prints on paper, will be on exhibit until December 23, 2020. The Entrance, 2019 Hockney also continues to do iPad drawings of his surroundings, a skill that he has honed for more than a decade. Early Morning, 2009 iPhone drawing printed on paper 37 x 25 1/2 inches Edition 8 of 25 Hockney’s iPad works are so unique, and so uniquely Hockney, that London’s Royal Academy of Arts has announced an upcoming exhibit of 116 of Hockney’s iPad works. Called David Hockney: The Arrival of Spring, Normandy, 2020, The Academy calls the works a reminder of the constant renewal and wonder of the natural world – and the beauty of spring. The works will be on display from March 27 through August 22, 2021. Hockney himself said, “The only real things in life are food and love in that order, just like our little dog Ruby. I really believe this and the source of art is love. I love life.” Alfred Mac Adam. (Nothing but) Flowers. The Brooklyn Rail. September 2020. Katy Cowan. Oil paintings of brightly coloured Irises by celebrated artist Alex Katz. Creative Boom. April 12, 2019. Eddy Frankel. David Hockney’s doing a whole exhibition of iPad drawings next year. TimeOut. October 20, 2020. Adam Bennett. Hockney from Home: David Hockney is in lockdown at his house in Normandy where he is churning out artwork. April 1, 2020. Mechteld Jungerius. David Hockney: Ma Normandie. TL mag. October 18, 2020. Asa Shatkin 2020-11-10T09:30:10-05:00 Kudos to Derrick Adams, Julio Larraz and Montoya and Ortiz Looking Ahead with Alex Katz, Reggie Burrows Hodges & David Hockney Roy Lichtenstein: Recent Acquisitions Celebrating with Colors Alex Katz, Reggie Burrows Hodges and Jonas Wood The Works of Pat Steir and Alex Katz at Surovek Gallery Katz in New York, Woods in LA Picasso and Other Greats Want to learn more about a particular artist or work? Contact us. © 2020 Surovek Gallery \| 349 Worth Avenue, 8 Via Parigi, Palm Beach, FL 33480 561.832.0422 \| 561.655.2665 \| clay@surovekgallery.com	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0038.json.gz/line3738
__label__wiki	0.920155	0.920155	Reliance Jio brings new cash back offers to take on Airtel, Vodafone Jio’s offers are for their Prime members—those who avail the membership for a one-time annual membership fee of Rs.99. Updated: November 10, 2017, 09:09 IST Mumbai: Reliance Jio Infocomm (Jio) has rolled out a slew of cashback offers and discount coupons for its prepaid subscribers in an aggressive move to retain and attract users, dampening hopes of an early return to pricing stability in the telecom industry. After triggering a massive price war last year, the Mukesh Ambani-owned company had in October reduced the tenure of its popular 399 prepaid plan from 84 days to 70 days. This had led analysts to hope that the blood-letting in the industry was over and was one of the reasons why the shares of Bharti Airtel, India's largest telco, rose to a ten-year-high recently. But Reliance Jio struck again on Thursday. The company unveiled cashback offers on every recharge of 399, which include eight vouchers of 50 each that will be credited to the 'MyJio' digital wallet of all Jio Prime members. These vouchers can be used to get discounts of 50 each on any subsequent recharge, or data topup, bringing down the effective tariff. In addition, subscribers will get vouchers worth 300 credited into Jio's partner mobile wallets such as AmazonPay, AxisPay, FreeCharge, Mobikwik, Paytm and PhonePe. 'Setback for Industry' Moreover, subscribers will get vouchers of up to Rs 1,899 for shopping on e-commerce platforms and for discounts on flight tickets on specific portals. The offers are valid from November 10 to November 25. Analysts and experts say these schemes are likely to compel Airtel, Idea Cellular and Vodafone India to respond. "This is a discount and not a freebie but will again be a setback for the industry who now will try to catch up," said an analyst at a global brokerage, who did not want to be named. Cellular Operators Association of India (COAI) director general Rajan Mathews said since this was a promotional offer limited to a class of people within its customer base, it didn't violate Trai regulations and predicted that more such plans could be expected going forward as telcos seek to retain customers. "Jio's entry tariff plans had forced competition to match. Competition doesn't always match, it does better. And then the new player goes one-up," said Mathews. Shares of Bharti Airtel closed at Rs 503.90, up 1.77%, while those of Idea Cellular closed at Rs 96.65 a piece, down 1.88% on the BSE on Thursday. The new offers are also designed to protect Jio's July-September monthly average revenue per user (ARPU) of Rs 154. "The company has to maintain its ARPU, retain Prime customers and keep cash coming in. These offers will help them achieve that," said Sanjiv Bhasin, executive VP, markets and corporate affairs, at brokerage IIFL. Prashant Singhal of EY said that the move was a good way to acquire more customers. "It also opens doors for more partnerships within the digital ecosystem, which can propel people to use data-rich services and e-payment platforms," he added. Jio's cashback offers comes days after incumbents Airtel and Vodafone launched their own offers for their customers. Bharti Airtel launched Rs 499 per month 'Infinity' plan with unlimited free outgoing calls on national roaming and unlimited local and STD calls, bundled with 20 GB 4G/3G data, while Vodafone launched a host of data rollover options among others for its subscribers on Tuesday. Jio had nearly 138. 6 million users till September end. It posted a net loss of Rs 270.59 crore and revenue of Rs 6,147 crore for the September ended quarter. ALSO READ: Vodafone launches data carry forward facility, free Netflix with new Red plans ALSO READ: Airtel ups data benefits on select postpaid and prepaid plans Jio Infocomm	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0038.json.gz/line3754
__label__wiki	0.690176	0.690176	Termites in West Virginia Termite Activity in West Virginia There are active termites across the state, from Huntington to Charleston and from Bluefield to Morgantown, West Virginia. What Types of Termites Are in West Virginia? Subterranean termites are famous for causing great damage to homes in West Virginia. Drywood termits do not belong to the state. Are Formosan Termites in West Virginia? Formosan termites are yet to be discovered in West Virginia. The nearest Formosan termite infestations has been identified in southern and western North Carolina. When Do Termites Swarm in West Virginia? Collectively, On a warm day after a rainfall termites swarm. Swarms may likely occur in heated buildings during the winter. The most common species swarming habits in West Virginia are described below. From March to May the Eastern subterranean termites are known to swarm during the day. In daylight between March and June is when the dark Southeastern subterranean termites swarm. The light southeastern subterranean termite from August to October often swarm in daylight. More Information about Termites in West Virginia According to Termite Infestation Probability Zones (TIP Zones), West Virginia is located in TIP Zone #2 (moderate to heavy), meaning the significance for termite damage is noticed. Areas with high likelihood of termite activities demand more termite control actions to meet International Residential Code building standards for new homes than areas with less regular activities. Irrespective of the fact that drywood termites are not established in West Virginia, termites have the possiblity to travel in wooden objects, such as furniture and wine crates, and establish colonies in the state. There has been discovery of Drywoo termites in areas far from their original habitats. Species that are not native habitats to the state can be easily identified by a licensed termite inspector. Some states like West Virginia where termites are not fully active and without colonies, Maintaining an effective termite prevention and control program is necessary. Incase you own a home in West Virginia, endeavour to speak to your termite control expert about methods that will assist in protecting your home from termite infestations and damage.	cc/2021-04/en_middle_0038.json.gz/line3756
__label__cc	0.646401	0.353599	Vespers (2) - This Is The Beat! (File, MP3) Editor Daniel Van Gilst. Editor Hans Ferdinand Redlich Vienna: Universal Edition , Plate U. Arranger Luigi Torri This file is part of the Sibley Mirroring Project. Arranger Michael Stenov. Arranger Jaap Wiebes. Monteverdi, Claudio. Pope Paul V Camillo Borghese, — These cookies will be stored in your browser only with your consent. You also have the option to opt-out of these cookies. But opting out of some of these cookies may have an effect on your browsing experience. Necessary Always Enabled. Cassian says the Office was recited towards five or six o'clock and that all the lights were lit. The use of incense, candles, and other lights would seem to suggest the Jewish rites which accompanied the evening sacrifice Exodus ; Numbers ; Psalm ; Daniel ; 1 Chronicles It may thus be seen that the Lucernarium was, together with Vigil, the most important part of the Offices of the day, being composed of almost the same elements as the latter, at least in certain regions. Its existence in the fourth century is also confirmed by St. Augustine , St. Ambrose , St. Basil , St. Ephraem , and, a little later, by several councils in Gaul and Spain , and by the various monastic rules. In the sixth century the Office of Vespers in the Latin Church was almost the same as it has been throughout the Middle Ages and up to the present day. In a document of unquestionable authority of that period the Office is described as follows: The evening hour, or vespertina synaxis , is composed of four psalms , a capitulum , a response, a hymn , a versicle, a canticle from the Gospel , litany Kyrie eleison, Christe eleison , Pater with the ordinary finale, oratio , or prayer, and dismissal Regula Sancti Benedicti , xvii. The psalms recited are taken from the series of psalms from Pss. This disposition is almost the same as that of the " Ordo Romanus ", except that the number of psalms recited is five instead of four. They are taken, however, from the series to Here, too, we find the capitulum , versicle, and canticle of the " Magnificat ". The hymn is a more recent introduction in the Roman Vespers; the finale litanies, Pater , versicles, prayers seems all to have existed from this epoch as in the Benedictine cursus. Vesper time varied according to the season between the tenth hour 4 p. As a matter of fact it was no longer the evening hour, but the sunset hour, so that it was celebrated before the day had departed and consequently before there was any necessity for artificial light Regula S. Benedicti , xli. This is a point to be noted, as it was an innovation. Before this epoch this evening synaxis was celebrated with all the torches alight. The reason of this is that St Benedict introduced in the cursus, another hour—that of Compline —which was prescribed to be celebrated in the evening, and which might be considered as a kind of doubling of the Office of Lucernarium. As has already been remarked, the institution of the office of compline transformed the lucernarium by taking from it something of its importance and symbolism, the latter at the same time losing its original sense. Benedict called it only Vespera , the name which has prevailed over that of lucernarium cf. Ducange, " Glossarium med. The Gallican liturgy , the Mozarabic Liturgy , and, to a certain extent, the Milanese , have preserved the lucernarium cf. The Eastern Orthodox Church retains the " Lumen hilare " and some other traces of the ancient lucernarium in the offices of vespers and compline cf. Smith, "Dict. Office, Divine. In the Rule of St. Columbanus , dated about , Vespers still has twelve psalms, amongst which are Pss. Celtique , The " Antiphonary of Bangor ", a document of Irish origin, gives for vespers Ps. For modifications since the 12th century, cf. The decree " Divino afflatu " November 1, involves important changes in the old Roman Rite office. There is an entire rearrangement of the psalms see Reform of the Roman Breviary by Pope Pius X with new ones appointed for each day of the week. On feasts which are doubles of the second class and a fortiori of the first class, as well as on feasts of the Blessed Virgin Mary , the Holy Angels, and Apostles , the psalms are proper to the feast as heretofore. On all feasts, of whatever rite, the second part of vespers, that is, the capitulum , hymn , antiphon of the " Magnificat ", is taken from the Sanctorale. The office of Vespers in general use before continues to be used today by those adhering to the Roman Rite as in or to earlier versions. The structure of Vespers prior to is as follows:. Notwithstanding the changes brought about in the course of time, Vespers still remains the great and important Office of the evening. As already pointed out, it recalls the sacrificium vespertinum of the Old Law. Files are protected with bit SSL encryption and automatically deleted after 2 hours. It is compatible with a wide range of devices and operating systems, using a codec to compress file size, resulting in a file that is easy to manage and store. It is also a popular video format for streaming over the Internet, such as on YouTube. Many consider MP4 to be one of the best video formats available today. MP4 files open in the operating system's default video player. Simply double-clicking the file opens it. December 12th: Our Lady of Guadalupe: AT THE HOURS: Matins, Lauds, Sext, Vespers: December 3rd: First Week of Advent: Thursday: AT VESPERS. Celebration of the Year of the Priest for the Diocese of Tulsa: Baptism of the Lord: AT II VESPERS: Psalm and antiphon: Baptism of the Lord: Sunday: at II VESPERS: for the Cathedral Church of St. Michael. About : Kazil 8 thoughts on “Vespers (2) - This Is The Beat! (File, MP3)” Negal says: Vespers as a Reader's Service - MP3 Download. $ Quantity. This recording of vespers is designed for those who are unable to be in church for the vigil on Saturday evening, whether due to illness, young children, distance, or travel. Download instructions: Upon purchasing this product you will have the option to download the files. Vigor says: Listen to This Is The Beat on Spotify. Vespers · Single · · 3 songs. Faek says: Vesper Two, also known as The Shield, is a member of the Vesper Council of Six. The most recent Vesper Two is Isabel Kabra. Vesper Two first appeared in A King's Ransom, and was the first one to figure out that Dan Cahill was gathering all 39 Clues by bribing chemical supplies. To oversee all Vesper activities on Vesper One. Vesper One's identity must be kept a secret to those outside the. Jugore says: Sonata sopra 'Sancta Maria ora pro nobis' (No) For Voice and Piano Quintet (Torri) Ave maris stella (No) For 2 Mixed Choruses, 4 Trumpets, 4 Trombones and Double Bass (Stenov) For 8 Recorders (Wiebes) 3 General Information; 4 Misc. CommentsComposer: Monteverdi, Claudio. Bashicage says: Sep 05, · Using APKPure App to upgrade BEAT MP3 , fast, free and save your internet data. The description of BEAT MP3 Including MP3 file, moreover whole of extension of music file can be supported. You can enjoyed this awesome rhythm game with your OWN music library in your smartphone. Hit the notes at the correct time to get the highest score /10(12). Dainris says: 1) Select a file to send by clicking the "Browse" button. You can then select photos, audio, video, documents or anything else you want to send. The maximum file size is MB. 2) Click the "Start Upload" button to start uploading the file. You will see the progress of the file talsgolddopobanfarb.trepinsitaworkntillyenepmyowicriti.cog: Vespers. Kerisar says: DOWNLOADED TIMES File Name: DJ ACE SA - Nothing but the Beat (Slow Jam).mp3 MB It will only get better! Free ANSWERS and CHEATS to GAMES and APPSMissing: Vespers. What is an MP3 (MPEG-1 Audio Layer III or MPEG-2 Audio Layer III) file? MPEG-1 Audio Layer III or MPEG-2 Audio Layer III (MP3) is a digital, audio-coding format used to compress a sound sequence into a very small file to enable digital storage and transmission. MP3 files are the most widely-used audio file Missing: Vespers. Attention Les Parents Ecoutent - Ecoutez La Chanson (Vinyl) Allemaal Kabaal - Kinderen voor Kinderen - Alle Liedjes Van 1980 T/m 2006 (CD) Tuesday In New York - Jon Mark / Mark-Almond - Tuesday In New York (Vinyl, LP, Album) La Trilogie - Dj B.Loo - Blunted Dog (Cassette) Los Locos - Mitsuruggy - En Paz (CD, Album) Faektilar on Vespers (2) - This Is The Beat! 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