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Inmar, a data-driven technology-enabled services company, today announced that it has acquired ownerIQ, a leading media technology company that provides 1st and 2nd party data solutions to brands, retailers, and manufacturers. Together, Inmar and ownerIQ will enable retailers to unlock the power of their first party data for effective and measurable marketing campaigns thus accelerating commerce for CPG clients. The companies will offer retailers fully integrated technology to power their digital media network, and provide brands broader access to the leading retail purchase data marketplace, with over $10B in transactions recorded monthly, both online and offline.
David Mounts Chairman & CEO
“When an everyday-spend retailer is looking for a trusted partner to manage the distribution of their valuable shopper data, they think of Inmar first,” said David Mounts, Chairman and CEO of Inmar. “We are thrilled to announce the acquisition of ownerIQ to our continuously growing technology stack. This news is about much more than just the acquisition. It marks another key milestone in the growth and momentum of Inmar’s recently launched Innovator Ecosystem and fits perfectly into our broader tech strategy and vision. The ownerIQ division of Inmar will expand the services and solutions Inmar provides for retailers and brands looking for the control and security needed to activate purchase data for media, build sales attribution capabilities, and access to second-party data within the retail ecosystem unlike any other in the market.”
Retail media is one of the fastest growing categories within digital advertising, reaching between $15-$25B in 2019, with retailers and grocers launching media programming powered by their highly valuable 1st party customer data. With the acquisition of ownerIQ, retailer partners will have access to the industry’s richest set of data and promotions management tools to service and support these new retail ad businesses at scale. Simultaneously, Inmar plans to continue to grow and foster ownerIQ’s second-party data marketplace, which is the largest environment of transparent retail shopping and purchasing data.
“Since our inception, ownerIQ’s mission has always been to provide retailers and brands with a best-in-class technology and service solution to support the first and second-party data strategies that are critical to their marketing agenda,” said Jay Habegger, CEO at ownerIQ. “Today, thousands of customers use our CoEx platform to power their media network, data monetization program, ecommerce & in-store sales attribution and second-party data sharing. Now as a part of the Inmar family we have access to the resources of an incredible organization and a built-in network of retail partners that will allow us to continue our mission and set up Inmar as the leading provider in each of these categories.”
OwnerIQ was advised by JEGI on this transaction.
Dataxu to provide features and capabilities that strengthen Roku’s plans to build stronger relationships with advertisers and also support the company’s proprietary data management capabilities. Founded in 2009...
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Reform Property Taxes to Keep WA Growing: Election
The property industry is calling on all major parties contesting the WA State election to commit to no further increases in property taxes, reforms to stamp duty and land tax systems and a broader state tax review.
“The WA economy cannot withstand any further increases in property taxes which negatively impact investment and stifle growth,” Property Council WA Executive Director Lino Iacomella said.
“In the last four years, land tax rates have risen by 50% and final land tax assessments have escalated by over 100% because of aggregated land valuations. Stamp duty has risen to represent around four percent of the purchase prices of a home in WA, which is more than the deposit for most home-buyers.
“Significant tax increases have left the property industry carrying a disproportionate load of the State’s budget repair process. State land tax revenue for example, has risen by 75% since the 2012/13 budget. This is compared to an increase of just 13.6% of total state taxation revenue in that same time.
“The sector is now contributing more than $9 billion in State and local property taxes, which represents 33 per cent of every dollar of State and local tax revenue raised. This heavy tax burden, and the absence of meaningful reforms, has eroded the industry’s productivity and efficiency and will lead to declining real estate activity and less property investment.”
“Ahead of next year’s election, all major parties have an opportunity to embrace an agenda of tax reform which would include:
no increases in property taxes
phasing out land tax aggregation
stamp duty equity for off-the-plan purchasers
and a stamp duty concession for seniors downsizing.
A broader state tax review.”
“This would address the structural unfairness in the tax system and aim to make taxes simpler to promote housing affordability, investment and growth,” Mr Iacomella said.
Media contact: Lino Iacomella | M 0417 501 974 | E liacomella@propertycouncil.com.au
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Flexibility, length accuracy, precision... Flexibility, length accuracy, precision...
The pull cable 278-U-04/04 from RINGSPANN RCS... The pull cable 278-U-04/04 from RINGSPANN RCS...
Alexander Balloussa: "We are able to implement tailor-made cable systems... Alexander Balloussa: "We are able to implement tailor-made cable systems...
Customer-specific push-pull cable 283-V from RINGSPANN RCS for... Customer-specific push-pull cable 283-V from RINGSPANN RCS for...
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Mechanical solution for safe operations
RINGSPANN RCS realises control cables for blood flow regulation in surgery
Venous flow clamps are a traditional and proven solution for accurate and safe blood flow regulation during surgical procedures. They allow easy adjustment of the blood flow rate with the aid of a handy rotary actuator, which is operated via a flexible and extremely smooth-running power transmission cable. The German firm RINGSPANN RCS is one of the leading manufacturers of these types of custom-made pull and push-pull cables for use in medical technology.
Oberursel, December 2020. – The mechanical cable systems from RINGSPANN RCS are extremely high quality control elements that are designed for a long service life and boast excellent gliding properties. As intrinsically safe and maintenance-free remote control systems, they prove their worth wherever forces have to be transmitted between locally separated and stationary components, but where it must always be possible to manually influence the connection between input and output force by means of a flexible control element. The cable systems from RINGSPANN RCS have proven to be extremely reliable control elements – thanks in particular to their length-preserving properties – even when the cables are installed with winding installation paths and with high precision requirements. But these are not the only reasons why many medical technology device and equipment manufacturers are opting for the German company’s pull cables and push-pull cables. “At least as important as the high quality of our remote control systems is the fact that we are able to create tailor-made cable systems for our customers that are precisely tailored to the conditions of their applications”, emphasises Alexander Balloussa, sales representative of RINGSPANN RCS.
Between rotary actuator and flow clamp
Alexander Balloussa cites a current project as an illustrative example for the realisation of application-specific solutions for medical technology: the development and production of a high-quality pull cable for use in a venous flow clamp to regulate the flow of blood during surgical procedures. “In this case, our power transmission cable serves as a mechanical remote system and establishes the connection between a rotary actuator in the hand of the surgeon – or his assistant - and the flow clamp”, explains the sales representative. Blood flow regulation is one of the indispensable fundamental tasks of many operating theatres and the technology used for this not only needs to be very easy to handle, but above all it must be absolutely reliable and fail-safe. The smooth running and functional safety of the RINGSPANN RCS pull cable are therefore two key quality features for the mechanical remote control system of the blood flow regulation unit. According to the customer, it also needed to be extremely stable, maintenance-free and easy to clean.
Sophisticated solution in detail
Based on its large selection of standard cables and the impressive number of customer solutions already implemented, RINGSPANN RCS has created a ready-to-install pull cable (type 278-U-04/04) with a stainless steel pull rod and a stainless steel connecting nipple (stainless steel 1.4305) for attachment to the clamp for the manufacturer of the venous blood flow regulator. The force is transmitted via a thin stainless steel cable, which runs in a core with a high-quality plastic sheathing. As Alexander Balloussa says, “the coated inner core in the material pairing with the flexible inner tube in which the core glides with minimal friction is one of the most important decision criteria for customers. This is because the use of special gliding plastics allows the annoying stick-slip effect to be `constructed´ out of the cable design to enable almost jerk-free and highly precise adjustment movements in practical application.” For these reasons, the cable system from RINGSPANN RCS is as convincing a solution for medical technology as it is in precision mechanics and aerospace engineering.
Bi-directional cable system helps people to walk
The cable system for the mechanical remote control system of the venous blood flow clamp is just one example of many medical technology solutions already successfully implemented by RINGSPANN RCS. While this is a control element for the transmission of traction forces, elsewhere manufacturers place their trust in the company’s bi-directional push-pull cables. One example of this is the development of a customer-specific push-pull cable (type 283-V) for use in a kinematically complex orthosis for people with walking difficulties. Here, the RINGSPANN RCS cable system is one of the constructional components of the power transmission system, which enables the disabled person to activate their remaining walking capability via the movement of their upper body. "This demanding orthopaedic application from human medicine places the highest demands on the functional safety and control precision of the push-pull cable. It also illustrates that our flexible development and production structures enable us to realise even small batch sizes for very special applications," says Alexander Balloussa. ar
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Author: Alexander Regenhardt, freelance specialist journalist, Darmstadt
Contact and company profile
Ringspann GmbH
Schaberweg 30-38
D-61348 Bad Homburg
Tel. +49 (0) 61 72/ 275-0
Fax +49 (0) 61 72/ 27 52 75
Email: info@ringspann.de
www.ringspann.com
RINGSPANN was founded in 1944 and is headquartered in Bad Homburg near Frankfurt, Germany. The group has nine production plants in Germany and abroad and employs around 480 people in 17 companies.
RINGSPANN is a leading technology manufacturer in freewheels, brakes, shaft-hub-connections overload clutches and couplings. It also leads in precision clamping fixtures and remote controls. The company has nine manufacturing facilities in Germany and abroad. RINGSPANN's service portfolio ranges from consultation and design and development, right through to the production of ready-to-install components. Customer training and aftersales support round off the RINGSPANN portfolio. RINGSPANN is considered a premium manufacturer in all product segments, and is international market leader in the area of freewheels.
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You are here: Parliament home page > Parliamentary business > Bills and legislation > Bills before Parliament > Commons Amendments
Public Bill Committee: 19th June 2008
Finance Bill, continued
Employment-related securities etc: remittance basis
This section applies if—
section 698 or 700 applies, and
part or all of the amount that counts as employment income is
foreign securities income or is likely to be foreign securities
income.
The amount of the payment treated under section 696 as made is
limited to—
the amount that, on the basis of the best estimate that can
reasonably be made, is likely to count as employment income,
the amount that, on the basis of such an estimate, is likely to
be foreign securities income.
References in this section to “foreign securities income” are to income
that is foreign securities income for the purposes of section 41A.”’.
Schedule 7, page 176, line 40, leave out ‘8(2)’ and insert ‘8’.
Schedule 7, page 176, line 41, leave out from ‘plan),’ to end of line 42 and insert
‘for sub-paragraph (2) substitute—
An employee is a UK resident taxpayer if—
the employee’s earnings from the employment by reference
to which the employee meets the employment requirement
are (or would be if there were any) general earnings to
which section 15 applies (earnings for year when employee
UK resident), and
those general earnings are (or would be if there were any)
earnings for a tax year in which the employee is ordinarily
resident in the United Kingdom.”’.
Schedule 7, page 176, line 43, leave out ‘6(2)(c)’ and insert ‘6(2)’.
Schedule 7, page 176, line 44, leave out from ‘scheme),’ to end of line 45 and insert
‘for paragraph (c) substitute—
E’s earnings from the office or employment within
paragraph (a) are (or would be if there were any) general
earnings to which section 15 applies (earnings for year
when employee UK resident),
(ca)
earnings for a tax year in which E is ordinarily resident in
the United Kingdom, and”.’.
Mr Philip Hammond
Mr Mark Hoban
Mr David Gauke
Justine Greening
Schedule 7, page 178, line 2, at end insert ‘where the source ceased after 5 April
Schedule 7, page 178, leave out lines 40 to 45 and insert—
‘(1)
Deductions are allowed from the income mentioned in section 832(2) where—
the income is from a trade, profession or vocation carried on outside the
United Kingdom; and
the income is overseas property income.
In the case of section 832B(1)(a) the same deductions are allowed as are allowed
under the Income Taxes Acts where the trade, profession or vocation is carried
out in the United Kingdom.
In the case of section 832B(1)(b) the same deductions are allowed as are allowed
under the Income Taxes Acts where the property business is carried on overseas
and taxed on the arising basis.”’.
Schedule 7, page 180, line 25, at end insert—
‘(3A)
Sections 42 and 43 of the Management Act (procedure and time limit
for making claims), except section 42(1A) of that Act, apply in
relation to an election under this section as they apply in relation to a
claim for relief.’.
‘58A
In section 119A (increase in expenditure by reference to tax charged in relation
to employment-related securities), after subsection (5) insert—
See also section 119B (unremitted foreign securities income).”
After that section insert—
Section 119A: unremitted foreign securities income
For the purposes of section 119A reduce the amount that counts as
employment income by so much of that amount (if any) as is
unremitted foreign securities income.
In this section “unremitted foreign securities income” means income
is foreign securities income for the purposes of section 41A of
ITEPA 2003 (employment income from ERS charged on
remittance basis), and
has not been remitted to the United Kingdom by the end of the
tax year in which the disposal mentioned in section 119A(1)
occurs.
The following provisions apply if any of the unremitted foreign
securities income is remitted to the United Kingdom after the end of
the tax year referred to in subsection (2)(b).
The person liable for the capital gains tax on any chargeable gains
arising on the disposal may make a claim for section 119A(2) to have
effect as if the remitted income had been remitted before the end of
that tax year.
All adjustments (by way of repayment of tax, assessment or otherwise)
are to be made which are necessary to give effect to a claim under
subsection (4).
Those adjustments may be made at any time, despite anything to the
contrary in any enactment relating to capital gains tax.”’.
Schedule 7, page 184, line 6, leave out paragraph 70.
Schedule 7, page 184, line 20, leave out paragraph 73.
Schedule 7, page 184, line 35, leave out ‘and 32’ and insert ‘to 32, 34C and 58B’.
Schedule 7, page 184, line 37, leave out ‘2008’ and insert ‘2009’.
Schedule 7, page 184, line 37, at end insert ‘(except employment-related securities
acquired pursuant to a securities option acquired before 6 April 2008).’.
Schedule 7, page 184, line 39, leave out ‘2008-09’ and insert ‘2009-10’.
Schedule 7, page 184, line 39, at end insert ‘, except for the amendment made by
paragraph 1 to insert a new section 809G in Part 14 of ITA 2007, which has effect for the
tax year 2008-09 and subsequent tax years.’.
In this paragraph “property” does not include money.
“Money” has the same meaning as in section 809U of ITA 2007.’.
Schedule 7, page 187, leave out lines 1 to 9 and insert ‘, and
before 6 April 2008 the money was received in the United Kingdom.’.
Schedule 7, page 187, leave out lines 1 to 3 and insert—
the loan was made for the purpose of enabling the individual to—
acquire an interest in residential property in the United Kingdom,
carry out a remortgaging exercise with respect to residential
property in the United Kingdom, or
furnish, decorate, repair or enhance a residential property in the
United Kingdom, and’.
Schedule 7, page 187, line 6, leave out from ‘money’ to ‘and’ in line 7 and insert
‘for any of the purposes referred to in subsection (1)(b),’.
Schedule 7, page 187, line 10, leave out ‘Relevant foreign income’ and insert
‘Foreign income gains’.
‘Foreign income and gains’.
Schedule 7, page 187, leave out lines 13 to 21.
Schedule 7, page 187, line 17, at end insert ‘or
the interest ceases to be owned by the individual,’.
before 12 March 2008, money was lent to the individual outside the
United Kingdom (“the subsequent loan”),
the subsequent loan was made for the purpose of enabling the
individual to repay—
the loan mentioned in sub-paragraph (1), or
another loan in relation to which sub-paragraphs (2) and (3)
apply (by virtue of this sub-paragraph),
and for no other purpose, and
before 6 April 2008—
the money was received in the United Kingdom,
the individual used the money to repay the loan referred to in
paragraph (b)(i) or (ii), and
repayment of the subsequent loan was secured on the interest
referred to in sub-paragraph (1)(c),
sub-paragraphs (2) and (3) apply in relation to the subsequent loan (and for this
purpose references there to the debt or the loan are to be read as references to
the subsequent loan).’.
‘86A (1)
This paragraph applies in relation to employment-related securities if—
the date of the acquisition is on or after 6 April 2008 and on or before
31 July 2008, and
Chapter 2 of Part 7 of ITEPA 2003 (restricted securities) applies in
relation to the securities by virtue only of amendments made by this
Section 431 of ITEPA 2003 (election for full or partial disapplication of
Chapter) has effect in relation to the employment-related securities as if in
subsection (5)(b) for “more than 14 days after the acquisition” there were
substituted “after 14 August 2008”.’.
In subsection (1), after paragraph (a) insert—
any reference to anything accruing is to be read as a reference
to it arising (and similar references are to be read
accordingly);”.’.
Schedule 7, page 187, line 32, leave out ‘(4)’ and insert ‘(5)’.
Schedule 7, page 187, line 33, leave out from beginning to end of line 17 on page
188 and insert—
offshore income gains arise to the trustees of a settlement in a
tax year, and
section 87 of the 1992 Act (gains of non-resident settlements)
applies to the settlement for that year,
the OIG amount for the settlement for that year is the amount of the
offshore income gains.
Sections 87, 87A, 87C to 90 and 96 to 98 of, and Schedule 4C to, the
1992 Act apply in relation to OIG amounts as if—
references to section 2(2) amounts (except those in paragraph
7B(2)(b) and (4) of Schedule 4C) were to OIG amounts,
references to chargeable gains (except the one in paragraph
1(5) of Schedule 4C) were to offshore income gains,
references to anything accruing were to it arising (and similar
references, except the one in paragraph 1(5) of Schedule 4C,
were read accordingly), and
sections 87(4), 88(2) to (5), 89(4) and 97(6) and paragraphs
1(3A), 3 to 7, 8AA, 12 and 13 of Schedule 4C were omitted.
Section 87A of the 1992 Act applies for a tax year by virtue of
subsection (3) before it applies for that year otherwise than by virtue
of that subsection.
If, by virtue of subsection (1) or (3), offshore income gains are treated
as arising to a person, for the purposes of section 761 as it applies in
relation to the offshore income gains treat the person as having made
the disposal in question.’.
Schedule 7, page 188, line 18, leave out from ‘(6)’ to end and insert ‘—
for “subsection (2) above” substitute “(3)”,
for “accrued” substitute “arisen”, and
omit “Chapter 2 of Part 13 of ITA 2007 or”.’.
Schedule 7, page 188, leave out line 20 and insert—
‘“762ZA
Offshore income gains: application of transfer of assets abroad
Chapter 2 of Part 13 of ITA 2007 (transfer of assets abroad) applies in
relation to an offshore income gain arising to a person resident or
domiciled outside the United Kingdom (and not resident or ordinarily
resident in the United Kingdom) as if the offshore income gain were
income becoming payable to the person.
Income treated as arising under that Chapter by virtue of subsection
(1) is regarded as “foreign” for the purposes of section 726, 730 or 735
of that Act.
Subsection (1) does not apply in relation to an offshore income gain if
(and to the extent that) it is treated, by virtue of section 762(1), as
arising to a person resident or ordinarily resident in the United
Kingdom.
The following provisions apply if section 762(2) applies in relation to
an offshore income gain (“the relevant offshore income gain”).
by virtue of section 762(3) an offshore income gain is treated
as arising in a tax year to a person resident or ordinarily
resident in the United Kingdom, and
it is so treated by reason of the relevant offshore income gain
(or part of it),
for that and subsequent tax years subsection (1) does not apply in
relation to the relevant offshore income gain (or that part).
If, by virtue of subsection (1) as it applies in relation to the relevant
offshore income gain, income is treated under Chapter 2 of Part 13 of
ITA 2007 as arising in a tax year, reduce (with effect from the
following tax year) the OIG amount in question by the amount of the
income.’.
762ZB
Income treated as arising under section 761(1): remittance basis’.
Treat the income as relevant foreign income of the individual.’.
Revised 19 June 2008
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"Throwing the Furniture Out of the Window: Ulster Protestant Plain Style and Cather's Aesthetic"
Willa Murphy
School of Arts & Humanities
Willa Cather’s distinctive plain style is generally understood in terms of the Modernist movement towards simplicity. Her aesthetic desire to “throw the furniture out of the window” resonates not just with Modernist aesthetics, however, but with events in Early Modern Europe: to throw the furniture out of the window is a deeply Protestant gesture, echoing the Defenestrations of Prague. While many critics have noted the presence of Catholic content and sympathies in Cather’s novels, Cather’s work can be better understood in terms of a Protestant aesthetic, and more specifically an Ulster Protestant one. Her ghostwriting of the autobiography of Ulsterman S.S. McClure offers a lens for exploring their mutual values of home, hard work, hygiene and perspicuity. Cather’s interest in print culture can be understood in terms of this Protestant aesthetic, whereby unruly physical bodies and sensations are translated into fixed typographical images. Her celebration of the Great Plains is another example of her attraction to blank spaces emptied of the pictorial. This clean well-lighted style is a stay against a disordered world. In moments of uncertainty, Cather evokes the aesthetic of her Ulster Protestant heritage, and reaches for the familiar shape of the word.
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Persistent symptoms post concussion: Are we misdiagnosing post-traumatic migraines as concussions?
During this blog, Physiotherapist Theo Farley investigates the difference between post-traumatic migraines and concussion.
Welcome again to this weeks Concussion Blog. During this blog series we’re aiming to develop a better understanding of the pathologies and structures involved following concussion and how best to approach management.
The 5th International Consensus Conference on Concussion in Sport was held in Berlin in October 2016. The statement is now thought to be written but not yet published however it’s understood that the definition of concussion has been refined to include brain injury only. This means all of the other systems that are affected following head trauma such as the vestibular and oculomotor system, the cervical spine and somatosensory system, although no less important in our management following mild traumatic brain injury, don’t fall under the definition of concussion.
With that in mind, this week we’re going to review an article by Anderson and colleagues who looked at post-traumatic migraines and how to differentiate between migraines and concussive symptoms.
Anderson K, Tinawi S, Lamoureux J, Feyz M, de Guise E. Detecting Migraine in Patients with Mild Traumatic Brain Injury Using Three Different Headache Measures. Behav Neurol. 2015;2015:693925.
Post traumatic headaches are present in up to 92% of patients following concussion(5) and can lead to persistent symptoms following initial injury with 18% to 22% of sufferers still experiencing symptoms after one year. Classification of headache is important in determining treatment options. Post traumatic headache is classified as a secondary headache, however, there are few effective ways of differentiating them with primary headaches (a headache due to the headache condition itself and not due to another cause) other than their onset following trauma.
Several headache classification tools exist that measure specific characteristics of headaches and their associated disability. A large number of post-traumatic headaches fall in to the migraine category when using the International Classification of Headache Disorders. Anderson and her team defined migraine headaches using the Primary headache criteria as ‘a moderate to severe headaches that may be accompanied by systemic problems such as nausea and vomiting, pain worsening with activity, and photosensitivity. Migraines can also disturb cognitive function, vestibular function, emotional state, and social interactions’ – Sound familiar? What this is basically telling us, is that it is very difficult to distinguish between a post-traumatic migraine and a concussion. This is in no way to say that we can pass off our concussed athletes as migraine sufferers but it does suggest that there is an undefined number of post traumatic migraines that we may be misdiagnosing as concussions. Many clinicians working in sport will have encountered first hand or heard of athletes who suffer a concussion every time they return to play and take contact. These athletes are often considered to have high susceptibility to concussion following an initial insult and in some cases forced retirement through injury is considered.
The lifetime prevalence of migraine has been found to be as high as 18%; 12% in males and 24% in females(4). The other interesting point when considering this diagnosis is that migraine with aura is only present in 20% of migraines suffered(1) so if you are expecting an aura to classify a headache as a migraine then think again.
So, how do we start classifying these headaches and can we differentiate them with concussive symptoms?
Anderson and her team assessed Forty-three patients who sustained head trauma and were diagnosed with mild TBI by a physician who used WHO Task Force Criteria for assessment. Their goal was to examine the effectiveness of the self-administered Nine-Item Screener (Nine-Item Screener-SA), the Headache Impact Test- 6 (HIT‑6), the 3‑Item Migraine Screener, and the Rivermead Post-Concussion Questionnaire (RPQ) at discriminating between mild TBI patients with and without migraines.
Headache assessment tools
Headache Disorders, 2nd Edition (ICHD-II)
This clinician administered questionnaire is based on the International Headache Society criteria and consists of nine yes or no questions that s identify and categorise headaches into a hierarchical system. The questions clarify pain, aura, nausea, light and sound sensitivity, and functional impairment. Positive answers are calculated to obtain a total score.
The Headache Impact Test (HIT‑6)
This self-report questionnaire measures changes in headache impact. It consists of six questions that are designed to measure the impact that headaches have on the patient’s normal function in social, work, home, and school situations. Items are on a rating scale of 1 – 5 that includes never, rarely, sometimes, very often, and always. Scores of 50 or higher indicate that the patient requires medical attention.
Three-Item ID Migraine Screener
A self-reported questionnaire that consists of three yes or no items that can be used as a screening tool to identify headaches, nausea, light sensitivity, and functional impairment.
The Rivermead Post-Concussion Symptoms Questionnaire
This self-reported questionnaire measures the severity of cognitive, emotional and somatic symptoms in TBI patients. It consists of 16 questions on a rating scale including 0 (not experienced at all), 1 (no more of a problem), 2 (a mild problem) 3 (a moderate problem) and 4 (a severe problem). If three or more symptoms are present at three months, the patient is considered to have Post-Concussion Syndrome.
Twenty of the forty-three mild TBI patients suffered from migraine. There was no significant difference between groups in number or severity of previous injuries.
The Nine-Item Screener demonstrated significant differences between migraine patients with and without migraine on nearly every question. Sensitivity: 0.95 and specificity: 0.65 (95% CI, 0.64 – 0.90). The HIT‑6 showed significant differences between migraine and non-migraine patients on disability and pain severity, with disability having a sensitivity of 0.70 and specificity of 0.75 (95% CI, 0.54 – 0.83). Only Question 3 of the 3‑Item ID Migraine Screener (photosensitivity) showed significant differences between migraine and no-migraine patients, sensitivity: 0.84 and specificity: 0.55 (CI, 0.52 – 0.82). The RPQ did not reveal greater symptoms in migraine patients compared with those without.
An accurate diagnosis of post-traumatic migraine is critical to the delivery of both effective migraine treatment and onward concussion management. The two pathologies are separate entities with very different management approaches but deceptively similar presentations. Diagnosis of post-traumatic migraine can lead to fast and often highly effective treatment with a variety of medications found to be effective migraine prevention, including beta-adrenergic blockers, antidepressants, anticonvulsants, calcium-channel blockers, serotonin antagonists and NSAIDs(2)
At present a large number of mild TBI patients are not receiving an accurate diagnosis for their symptoms due to the assumption in part, that all headaches are of the same etiology. The headache assessment tools reviewed above by Anderson and colleagues demonstrate clear methods to delineate between concussion symptoms (a secondary headache) and post-traumatic migraine (a primary headache). Results show that migraine sufferers report greater pain severity, disability, and photosensitivity with the most effective tool at distinguishing between migraine and concussion to be the 9‑item screener with a sensitivity of 0.95 and specificity: 0.65 (95% CI, 0.64 – 0.90).
Categorising post traumatic headaches is an easy win and can lead to a more effective treatment strategy that will at the least speed recovery and in some cases maybe even save a career.
Twitter: @Theo_Farley
Email: [email protected]concussionscreening.co.uk
Evans RW, Sheena K, Aurora SK. Migraine with persistent visual aura. Headache. 2012;52:494 – 501.
Garza and Swanson Prophylaxis of migraine. Neuropsychiatr Dis Treat. 2006 Sep; 2(3): 281 – 29.
Lew, Lin, Fuh, Wang, Clark, and Walker, “Characteristics and treatment of headache after traumatic brain injury: a focused review,” American Journal of Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation, vol. 85, no. 7, pp. 619 – 627, 2006.
Russell MB1, Rasmussen BK, Thorvaldsen P, Olesen J. Int J Epidemiol. Prevalence and sex-ratio of the subtypes of migraine 1995 Jun;24(3):612 – 8.
Zuckerman SL, Kerr ZY, Yengo-Kahn A, Wasserman E, Covassin T, Solomon GS. Epidemiology of Sports-Related Concussion in NCAA Athletes From 2009 – 2010 to 2013 – 2014: Incidence, Recurrence, and Mechanisms. Am J Sports Med. 2015 Nov;43(11):2654 – 62.
Theo Farley
Concussion, Physiotherapy
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Ted Nugent Calls Tommy Lee ‘Convicted Felon, Heroin Addict’
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Ted Nugent called Tommy Lee a “convicted felon, domestic violence heroin addict” as he recalled an argument he had with the producers of Sammy Hagar’s TV show over the Motley Crue drummer.
Lee appeared in the first season of Hagar’s Rock & Roll Road Trip. Nugent was featured in the most recent season – but only after a dispute in which he said he urged Hagar to “coldcock” the AXS TV network to ensure his appearance.
“The producers wouldn't let him near me, even though he and I go way back - we're dear friends,” Nugent said in a new interview with Blunt Force Truth. “They thought I was dangerous, that I'd come out with a machine gun or I'd slaughter an innocent fawn on television. This is stupidity!”
Nugent recalled: “I said, ‘So, your producers were afraid of me, but they did a show with Tommy Lee, who's a convicted felon, domestic violence heroin addict. They're okay with this guy, but not with the Ted Nugent Kamp for Kids charity, teaching kids to be clean and sober?’ I said, ‘Sammy, coldcock those sons of bitches and get out and let's do the show.’ So, finally, they dangerously acquiesced.”
The guitarist said Hagar asked him why he seemed so happy all the time, and that the singer didn't understand his answer at first. “My first response [was], ‘I’ve been clean and sober all my life, Sammy, so I pick up on positives, and I choose to go with positives. And positive, intelligent stuff makes you happy.’”
He noted that Hagar “finally had to admit, live on his program, yeah, there's a buoyancy to what I call ‘life radar,' that sensual stimuli appreciation of your surroundings. I talked about the bird songs that I can hear with my hearing aids — the taste-bud orgy that gives a happy culinary pursuit. … Clean and sober is the foundation of the happiest life in the world, ‘cause you can make clever choices.”
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New York region transportation agency prepares draconian cuts to service and transit jobs
By Alan Whyte and Daniel de Vries
New York’s Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) announced plans at a virtual public meeting held Wednesday to make unprecedented cuts to bus and subway service, as well as in the surrounding commuter railroads. The cuts, if carried through, will decimate public transit in the nation’s largest metropolis.
An MTA worker wearing personal protective equipment [Credit: AP Photo/Frank Franklin II, File]
According to the 2021 budget plan, which MTA board members will vote on next month, service cuts will eliminate 9,367 transit worker jobs, mostly in the city of New York. The board also stated its plan to impose a wage freeze on its entire workforce, which, when considering the rate of inflation, amounts to a wage cut.
The brutality of the current attack on transit workers was unmistakable Wednesday, despite the handwringing and crocodile tears from Governor Cuomo’s junior executives at the MTA. The massive job and wage cuts were announced shortly after the New York City Transit chief announced the death of two more workers, at least one from COVID-19. According to a tally by rank-and-file transit workers, the coronavirus death toll for active New York City transit workers is now approaching 150.
The pandemic has led to a sustained drop in fare collection, cutting off one of the MTA’s primary revenue streams. Subway ridership in November is down nearly 70 percent compared to last year, while bus passengers are down by half.
Agency and government officials have pinned any hopes of avoiding the budget apocalypse on the prospects of another federal bailout. The MTA has a shortfall of nearly $2.5 billion for the rest of this year and more than $6 billion for 2020. The requested $12 billion supplemental bailout to balance the books through 2022 remains nowhere in sight, and there is little chance it will pass the lame-duck Congress before the budget approval in December.
The response by the Democratic Party functionaries that compose the MTA board makes clear they intend to put the full burden of the budget crisis on the MTA workforce and the riding public. Under the plan, entire subway, bus, and commuter rail routes will disappear, and service on remaining routes reduced in frequency.
The cuts to the bus system are the most severe. The MTA plans to ax 5,869 jobs concurrent with a 40 percent reduction in bus service. These cuts will devastate not only bus workers and their families but also the disproportionately poor and elderly riders who rely on bus service.
These planned cuts could have a disastrous impact on the region’s livelihood. An analysis by the NYU Rudin Center for Transportation projected a reduction of $65 billion in gross domestic product leading to a loss of 450,000 jobs by 2022. “Simply put, without reliable and safe subway, bus and commuter rail services, the future of the city and region is in doubt. Students will not be able to get to school, essential workers to their jobs, and offices will remain empty,” Mitchell L. Moss, director of the Rudin Center, said last month.
While the transit agency in New York is the largest, agencies are preparing similar cuts throughout the country. The Metro in Washington D.C. is planning on buyouts to eliminate 1,400 jobs. The Regional Transportation District of Denver, Colorado, voted to cut 700 jobs and reduce worker pay. In Philadelphia, the head of the SEPTA transit agency has made it clear that service cuts, layoffs and fare hikes are on the agenda without federal relief.
In New York, the MTA also announced plans for a 4 percent fare hike and an 8 percent increase for bridge and tunnel tolls. These hikes are typical of the fare and toll changes the agency has been imposing on its riders and vehicle drivers since 2010. However, with millions of New Yorkers facing financial ruin and the city abandoning its modest reduced-fare program for low-income families, access to transit is already becoming beyond reach for many.
The wage freezes, layoffs, service reductions and fare hikes, as drastic as they are, will not come close to shoring up the MTA’s finances. Even after a projected $1.2 billion in savings from these cuts in 2021, the MTA projects it will still be short up to $3.2 billion for the year.
To balance the books, the MTA will proceed with the borrowing of $2.9 billion from the Federal Reserve bank under its Municipal Liquidity Facility (MLF) program. The agency already tapped the MLF for $450 million to cover debt payments that came due in August. To repay these loans, the MTA intends to issue bonds in 2023, adding to its runaway $46 billion bond debt.
According to the state comptroller Thomas DiNapoli, the MTA is already suffering “suffocating levels” of debt. He has projected that paying interest and principal is forecast to take up 25.7 percent of the MTA’s revenue in 2021. Between 2020 and 2024, the MTA has budgeted $16 billion in debt repayment, equivalent to the entire projected deficit over the same period.
The repayment to wealthy firms like BlackRock, the largest MTA debt holder and run by the billionaire Larry Fink, is considered untouchable. Meanwhile, thousands of MTA workers, who have already seen more than 140 colleagues sacrificed to keep the economy open during the pandemic, are considered expendable.
The national president of the Transport Workers Union, John Samuelsen, who serves Governor Cuomo as a member of the MTA board, responded with a proposal to increase borrowing further. Samuelsen’s proposal, offered as a reprieve from immediate job cuts and wage freezes, would only further consolidate control over the MTA in the hands of large bondholders.
Samuelsen’s plan follows the TWU’s collaboration with the MTA in forcing transit workers to remain on the job without protective gear throughout the first peak of the pandemic. This summer, Samuelsen joined with the MTA chairman, Pat Foye, to co-write an op-ed in the New York Times fruitlessly begging Congress for a rescue package and covering up for the Democratic Party, which serves the interests of the billionaires as much as the Republicans.
At the meeting on Wednesday, there was no discussion of the more than 600 billionaires in the United States who now have a combined wealth of around $4 trillion. Their fortunes have increased during the pandemic while working people have lost their jobs, incomes and lives.
To adequately fund vital social services like public transportation and ensure good quality jobs, it is not a question of whether the resources exist. It is a question of which class in society controls them. We urge transit workers to develop rank-and-file committees independent of the pro-corporate unions to carry forward a fight against layoffs and cuts and for the independent interests of the working class.
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Parting Glances : Whistlin’ Dixie with ‘Frank’
By BTL Staff|2018-01-15T21:31:03-05:00May 25th, 2006|Opinions|
Footnoted in the pages of Civil War history is the intriguing story of one “Mrs. Nash,” first name unrecorded. She’s reported in 1878 U.S. Army military records to have had “a succession of soldier-husbands” (a not unenviable achievement, then as now, I reckin).
Her last husband was, one infers, a naive corporal in General George Armstrong Custer’s ill-fated Seventh Cavalry. Poor Cpl. Nash blew his brains out when the bigamous “Mrs.” upped and died unexpectedly. Army undertakers discovered that she was actually a he.
Whether Cpl. Nash killed himself due to apoplexy or to anatomical malfeasance is not specified as a matter of governmental condolence. Nor is it known whether or not the Nashes, together and/or singly, died with their boots on or off. (George Armstrong got deservedly whacked in his 9 Ds at Little Big Horn.)
A chance happening exposed two other unknown Civil War Pvts. with unknown privates of their own. They may likely have been the first dykes in American wartime service. If so, they started a long and time-honored tradition. These bivouac butches get passing mention in Union General Philip Sheridan’s memoirs: “An intimacy had sprung up between them,” he comments succinctly, describing one as “masculine,” the other as “prepossessing” [an evaluation that might be aptly applied to our present U.S. Secretary of State].
This deceiving duo got drunk on moonshine one night, and managed to tumble somehow amorously interlocked into a nearby river. They nearly drowned. Resuscitated by their male counterparts, it soon became obvious to all parties concerned that there was something amiss both above and below the Mason-Dixon line.
Of the thousands of brave women who served as nurses (including Florence Nightingale), some 400 “others” – Northerners, Southerners, free, slave, and citizen – also served as combatants or spies. They close-cropped their hair, pledged honest loyalty to serve – no physical was required – polished their rifles not their nails, learned to “chaw tuhbacie,” fought like hell, and died in fields where blood ran so deeply and so richly red.
Two well-known cross dressers received high honors for valor: Dr. Mary Walker, and Flint’s neglected hero(ine), Sarah Emma Edmonds, aka Frank Thompson. Dr. Walker, a surgeon, lived in drag most of her long life, and spent four months undetected in a Confederate prison. She received a Medal of Honor from President Andrew Johnson.
Once Sarah Emma Edmonds (later Mrs. Seelye) proved – 19 years after the Civil War ended – that she was Pvt. Thompson, she was granted a Congressional honorable discharge and a handsome $12 monthly pension. She became the only female veteran of the Grand Army of the Republic.
Edmonds was born in Canada, fled a brutal father at 19, crossed the Windsor border to settle in Flint. When a call for 2nd Michigan Volunteer enlistment came, she decided to cross dress. She passed muster after four tries and became a male nurse, then a spy (once shadowing General Robert E. Lee).
“Frank” spied as “Cuff,” a black man. Silver nitrate was used to darken her skin. When an observant slave noticed she seemed to be getting lighter, Cuff quipped, “I always suspected I had a white mother.”
Other disguises were Irish peddler Bridget O’Shea and kitchen hand Aunt Sunny. It was all very Victor/Victoria, Civil War style. Unfortunately, “Frank” contracted malaria. Fearing army hospital detection, she went AWOL. Sarah Emma Edmonds (Seelye) died in Texas in 1897.
She was Michigan’ first drag king, and, with two years of distinguished Army service, a damn fine soldier to boot.
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Ferrari P4/Can-Am 350 ‘0858’…
Posted: April 2, 2015 in Features, Sports Racers
Tags: 1967 Brands Hatch 500, 1967 CanAm Championship, 1967 Le Mans 24 Hour, 1967 Monza 1000Km, 1967 Spa 1000Km, Bill Brown, Chris Amon, David McKay, Ferrari 250LM '6321', Ferrari Can Am 350 '0858', Ferrari P4 '0858', Jonathon Williams, Matich SR3 Repco, Scuderia Veloce
‘This is the prettiest car i have ever snapped’ said Dick Simpson. Hard to argue…
This is one of four Ferrari P4’s built; chassis numbers ‘0856’, ‘0858’, ‘0860’ and ‘0846’ the latter a converted P3.
At the end of the 1967 endurance season two of the cars were lightened and modified to run in the ’67 CanAm Series in the US. Chassis ‘0860’ and ‘0858’, the latter was then acquired by ‘Scuderia Veloces’ David McKay for one fabulous season in Australia. I wrote an article a while back about Scuderia Veloce, David McKay and his 250LM ‘6321’, have a read of it rather than repeat the background here.
https://primotipo.com/2014/07/03/pete-geoghegan-ferrari-250lm-6321-bathurst-easter-68/
Simpsons’ shot is of Aussie Bill Brown at the wheel on 5 May 1968, the shot taken at the left hander after Warwick Farms’ (Sydney) ‘Shell Bridge’, it captures the curvaceous beauty of the thing!
The photographers and their artistry inspired this article…acknowledgement of them all but especially Dick Simpson, John Ellacott, Roderick MacKenzie, Ellis French and Lindsay Ross.
As Mike Spence buckles up his seatbelt in the Chaparral 2F Chev, he is surrounded by FoMoCo vehicles; #1 the victorious Gurney/Foyt, #3 Bianchi/Andretti and Hulme/Ruby Mk4’s, and the #5 Gardner/McCluskey and Schlesser/Ligier Mk2’s…not a Ferrari in sight! (Unattributed)
1967 was a halcyon year of sports car racing, the high point of the ‘Unlimited Formula’…a 5 litre limit for sports cars and 3 litres for prototypes was imposed by the FIA for 1968 so Ford had 1 more year to race their 7 litre Mk 2 and 4’s.
Chaparral returned to Europe with the fabulous 2F Coupe after an exploratory endurance year with the 2D in 1966, Lola competitors struggled with engine reliability to match the excellence of the chassis and Ferrari returned with 4 litre engines but with 3 valve heads after a year of austerity in 1966. Ferrari mainly entered 1 P3 at each race also coping with widespread industrial unrest in Italy that year.
The season wasn’t all about just the big 3; Alfa raced their T33, Porsche the 907, Matra their M630 V8 BRM engined cars, but in reality the seaon was about the big outright cars, an unforgettable year of sports car racing arguably caused by Enzos’ rebuff of Fords’ desire to purchase the Italian autocrats’ company 5 years before and the Lola GT/Ford GT40 program which followed.
The Ford Mk4 incorporated all the learnings of the company, the early failures of the GT40 and Mark 2 in 1964/5 and the triumph at Le Mans in 1966, Kiwis’ Bruce McLaren and Chris Amon ‘winning’ over the Ken Miles/Denny Hulme Mark 2 in the farcical ‘Form Finish’.
The Mark 4 was of aluminium honeycomb construction and had much more advanced aerodynamics than the Mk 2 developed from extensive testing of many variations of shapes to get the appropriate mix of top speed/downforce. The mechanical package was largely carried over and incorporated a 7 litre OHV Ford V8 fed by 2 four-barrel Holley carburettors giving circa 530bhp@6200rpm. The 4 speed Kar Kraft gearbox was again used after experiments with a 2 speed auto. Weight was circa 1100Kg.
All of the major contenders suspension layouts were similar; upper and lower wishbones at front with coil spring/damper units and adjustable roll bars. And at the rear, single top link, twin radius rods, lower wishbone, coil spring/damper units and adjustable sway bars.
All 3 cars also had rack and pinion stering, and of course cast iron disc brakes at front and rear.
The Chaparral 2F Chev was the most exotic of the three cars despite its pushrod OHV 7 litre Chev V8. Fed by 4 58mm Weber down-draught carburettors, the engine developed 575 bhp@7500rpm. The chassis was made of fibre-glass, weighed 793Kg dry, the advanced specification extending to its 3 speed General Motors automatic transmission and advanced aerodynamics including distinctive high rear wing. The Texans had incorporated all they learned on their European campaign in 1966 with the 2D
The P4’s ‘Aero’ chassis had slightly wider tracks than its P3 forebear and was the result of evolution over previous seasons, Ferraris’ first mid-engined sports car was the V6 engined 246SP of 1961. Doug Nye records that chassis ‘0796’ was cut up and lengthened slightly to accomodate a 2 cam 3 litre Testa Rossa engine, the 1963 Le Mans winning 250P evolved from this successful prototype. So too did the 1965 Le Mans winning 250LM, essentially a 250P with a roof and 3.3 litre engine, making it, in the eyes of many the 275LM…
The 3.3 litre 2 cam 275P followed in 1964, 275P2 and 4 litre 4 cam 330P2 in 1965. The P2’s departed from earlier Ferrari space-frame practice by utilisation of the ‘aero’ tube-frame semi-monocoque structure whereby the frame is stiffened by rivetted sheet steel panelling. The model range is more complex than this as it also includes different engine/chassis combinations for customers, i will stick to the works cars for the purpose of this article.
The 4 litre P3 followed in 1966 with much improved suspension geometry to address inadequate camber control and to suit the latest generation of ever widening tyres. The 4 litre engine, adapted for Lucas fuel injection developed circa 420bhp@8000rpm. As outlined above, Ferrari’s 1966 season was impacted by industrial problems in Italy as well as John Surtees midseason departure which impacted both the sports car program and probably the World F1 Titles which were theirs to take with an ace at the wheel. And some luck with reliability.
The stiffness of the chassis was improved as Nye describes ‘…previous P series Ferraris had carried their engines on four simple mounts plus plus two for the gearbox, the new P4 engine featured a stiffer crankcase and could be mounted as a semi-stressed structural member, picking up on four carefully triangulated mounts at the front, two each side and four at the rear.’
The engine, the block stressed as above, featured the 3 valves per cylinder (2 inlet and 1 exhaust with the inlets between the 2 camshafts of each bank) layout developed by Franco Rocchi in late 1966, as developed for the F1 cars. There were 2 plugs per cylinder still fired by good old fashioned coils, 4 of them. Lucas fuel injection fed the fuel. The engines capacity was 3967cc and developed 450bhp @ 8000 rpm.
Also new was a 5 speed gearbox made by Ferrari to replace the earlier ZF unit, the ZF5DS25 units as used in the Ford GT’s had been unreliable in 1966. Weight was 965Kg.
Firestone replaced Dunlop as the teams tyre supplier.
And so the scene was set…the prototype completed 580 laps at Firestone tyre tests at Daytona in December 1966, Amon the quickest ahead of Parkes, Bandini and Scarfiotti, the P4 timed at 338kmh along the back straight.
Quick, but as it was to transpire, not quick enough.
1967 Endurance Season…
The Parkes/Scarfiotti P4 ‘0858’ passes the # 18 Casoni/Martini Ferrari Dino 206S, pursued by the Mike Spence/Phil Hill Chaparral 2F Chev, DNF with driveshaft failure. ‘0858’ 2nd, the win taken by Bandini/Amon in another P4 ‘0856’. (Unattributed)
In the first race of the season, at Daytona the new car was immediately successful leading the race from the 4th hour and taking the first 2 places, Amon/Bandini ahead of Scarfiotti/Parkes and a modified P3/4 entered by Luigi Chinettis’ NART . All the 7 litre Fords retired or were delayed by maladies.
The Scuderia did not enter Sebring, but Amon and Bandini won again at Monza with Scarfiotti and Parkes second, the factory Fords did not enter the race.With practice laps only three-tenths of a second apart, Bandinis’ Ferrari and Spences’ Chaparral raced wheel to wheel from the off.
Spence retired early leaving Ferrari the rest of the race. Bandini took the lead with Scarfiotti in second in ‘0858’, Rodriguez third for NART and Vaccarella in the Filipinetti car in fourth. Ferrari’s four-litre prototypes now dominated the first four positions. A failed attempt by Rodriguez at overtaking the second-place works Ferrari resulted in his retirement. ( Note that RM Auctions in their sale dossier of the car several years ago claim Bandini and Amon won driving ‘0858’, other independent sources say ‘0858’ finished 2nd)
Parkes and Scarfiotti 5th and best of the P4s at Spa in ‘0858’. Ickx won in a Mirage M1 Ford. (L’Automobile)
At Spa, ‘Rainmaster’ Ickx prevailed in John Wyers 5.7 litre Mirage Ford, Scarfiotti and Parkes could do no better than 5th in ‘0858’.
Vaccarella crashed out of the Targa lead in his P4 at Collesano, his home town…
And then came Le Mans.
As noted above this was the last Le Mans run under the unlimited formula…Ford won the previous year but at Daytona they were well and truly beaten by the P4’s.Ferrari missed the Nurburgring 1000Km to be better prepared for La Sarthe 3 P4’s were entered by the factory the 4th an Ecurie Francorchamps entry.
The big V8’s had the legs in practice as proved to be the case in the race.
The Scarfiotti/Parkes P4 ‘0858’ was never far behind. A crash eliminated 3 Fords, the Mairesse/Beurlys P4 moved into 3rd with the works cars chasing the leading Ford Mk4 of Dan Gurney and AJ Foyt. That vastly experienced pair drove a superb race taking Fords 2nd Le Mans. Nye noted ‘…the race was decided on the Mulsanne. All the 7 litre Fords topped 320kmh. The 330P4 could not better 310kmh, and the poorer breathing of the 24 valve 412P’s left them gasping, slower still’.
The works Ferrari finished 4 laps behind, the 1st Ford and 2nd and 3rd placed (Mairesse/Beurlys) Ferraris covered a distance unprecedented at Le Mans.
Mike Parkes said to journalist/Le Mans Winner Paul Frere after the race ‘Never in my life have I driven a car so hard for so long’.
‘0858’ on the way to 2nd place at Le Mans in the hands of Ludovico Scarfiotti and Mike Parkes albeit 4 laps behind the winning 7 litre Ford Mk4 of Dan Gurney and AJ Foyt. (Unattributed)
The Brands Hatch ‘BOAC International 500′ was the final race of the endurance season and was to determine the championship for the year. Jackie Stewart joined Chris Amon in the works team to bolster the Ferraris’ chances, Mike Parkes having badly injured his legs in an F1 crash at Spa.
Both chassis ‘0858’ and ‘0860’ had been converted to Spiders by the factory, removal of the roof and lightening the body saving around 40Kg in weight. (Two independent sources claim ‘0858’ was driven by Jonathon Williams and Paul Hawkins to 6th in this race, and that Amon/Stewart raced ‘0860’ to 2nd)
The race started at noon on Sunday under grey skies. John Surtees took an initial lead before Paul Hawkins replaced him in the third of the P4s. After the first hour, Stewart had Spences’ Chaparral in his sights. Scarfiotti was behind him in another P4, followed by the Swiss Jo Siffert in a Porsche 908. With regular driver changes and pit stops, the running order was continually evolving over the ensuing four hours. In the final hour, Amon was second.
With ten minutes to go, Stewart took the wheel, held the position and finished the race, securing the Manufacturers’ Championship for Ferrari, its 12th, defeating Porsche. Mike Spence won the race, the Chaparral finally taking a long promised win.
Factory CanAm 350 3/4 front . (Ferrari)
From P4 to Can Am 350…
With the Endurance Season over and regulation changes precluding the cars competition in the 1968 Endurance Championship the factory modified two of the P4’s; ‘0858’ and ‘0860’ to better compete in the Can Am Championship by lightening and modifying the cars, naming them ‘350 Can Am’ to contest the prestigious series in their most important market.
The cars were lightened considerably by becoming curvaceous Spiders instead of more curvaceous Coupes! Weight was reduced from 792Kg wet to 700Kg wet.
The engines capacity was increased to 4176cc raising the engines power to 480bhp@8500rpm, the cars mechanical specification is as described above otherwise.
Fundamentally it was not enough.
Its 1 September 1967, Brit Jonathon Williams is about to test an F1 Ferrari 312 for the first time at Modena. In the background is one of the P4/CanAm 350’s, still with headlights fitted, also on William’s menu for the day. Lucky boy. The first CanAm round was at Road America on 3 Sept, the CanAm 350’s first raced at Laguna Seca in William’s/Amon’s hands on 15 October, there was much work to be done yet! (Pete Coltrin)
Bruce McLaren had been contesting sports car races in the US since his Cooper days in the early 1960’s, his first M1 McLarens were quick cars hampered by light but not powerful enough aluminium Oldsmobile engines. For 1967, he and Robin Herd designed and built the monocoque M6 powered by 5.9 litre, circa 525bhp iron Chev V8’s and rewrote the record book in terms of dominance of this series.
‘The Bruce and Denny Show’ of the following years was underway, the Ferraris’ contested the series entered by ‘Harrahs Casino’ also Ferrari distributors, were comprehensively blown off…along with the rest of the grid.
Factory 350 CanAm ‘butt shot’. Absence of lights clear in the weight saving process. Ferrari ‘box in P4 replaced problemmatic ZF unit of P3…gorgeous if not as much so as P4 parent! (Ferrari)
McLarens’ papaya M6A Chev looms in Jim Halls’ Chaparral 2G Chev mirrors. #21 is Parnelli Jones Lola T70 Ford and Dan Gurneys’ partially obscured Lola T70Mk3b Chev, ALL DNF! Race won by Surtees Lola T70Mk3b Chev. (Unattributed)
‘0858’ From the US to Australia via Italy…
David McKay had raced his 250LM ‘6321’ in Australia since 1965 but the car was getting older and ‘she was often racing out of class and racing against pure prototypes…During a visit to Maranello I broached the subject with Mike Parkes and the factory’s General Manager Ermano Della Casa. I had seen the P4’s at Le Mans in 1967 where Mike and Scarfiotti had finished a gallant second to Fords’ 7 litre steam roller and had fallen in love with the car’.
‘To me it typified all the art, beauty and grace of the old world pitted amongst the brashness and might of the new…In due course I received word that I could buy ‘0858’ for the considerable sum of US$30000.
Riverside CanAm 1967. #12 Roger McCluskey Lola T70 Chev, #27 Williams Ferrari Can Am 350, #19 Bill Amick McLaren M1C Chev, Jerry Entin McLaren M1C Chev. (Unattributed)
The car which raced unsuccessfully in the States at Laguna Seca, Riverside and Las Vegas would be fully rebuilt and shipped to Sydney by Christmas 1967. This would be in good time for the Australian Tasman Races where Amon would conduct it and surely set a cat amongst the pigeons…’
Chris Amon raced a Ferrari 246T looked after by McKays Scuderia Veloce during the Tasman Rounds that summer and in 1969, the year in which he was Tasman Champion.
McKay ‘The less charitable said the factory wanted the car as far away as possible so that they could forget the ignominy of the CanAm venture. The car had managed a 5th at Laguna Seca, 8th at Riverside and a DNF at Las Vegas with Amon who had surely wrung everything out of it’.
Note that some sources say Jonathon Williams raced ‘0858’ and Amon ‘0860’ in the Series, another source suggests Amon raced the car twice, at Laguna Seca and Riverside and by Williams at the final round at Las Vegas. Australian ‘Sports Car World’ magazine in a feature about the car published 1985 says that who drove which car cannot be accurately determined.
Take your pick…i am inclined to either uncertainty, or, I imagine Amon would have related directly to McKay at the time which car he drove, and by the time McKay wrote his autobiography he had no vested interest in the car his financial investment in it having ended in 1968, vendors or their agents and their claims should be treated with the Caveat Emptor dictum in mind…).
The 2 350 CanAms’ at rest, Riverside paddock 1967. #23 Amon #27 Williams 8th and DNF…’0858′ and ‘0860’ or…’0860′ and ‘0858’ take your guess. (Unattributed)
Chris Amon using the big twelves horsepower to good effect at Riverside 1967, 8th. All the drivers who raced the P4 commented on how sweet the chassis was. (Unattributed)
McKay ‘This should have turned me off but I comforted myself with the thought that there were no 8 litre McLarens in Australia and certainly no Bruce or Denny to worry us.
Alas, it only required a local in his own device powered with a local 4.4 litre V8 to unravel our dream. (Frank Matich in his Matich SR3 Repco 4.4V8).’
In fact the performance of Frank Matich in his self built car should not have been a surprise to either McKay or Amon.
Matich had contested most of the 1967 Can Am season, including the 3 events in which Amon participated and was also flogged by the McLarens, Matich didn’t finish a race in fact…but the Sydney built, space-frame chassis, 400 bhp Repco 4.4 litre V8 engined Matich was slightly quicker than the 350 Can Am and ‘match fit’ after a tough season in the US.
The Ferrari was not to have it easy in Australia.
Frank Matich, wife Joan his team and Firestone technicians on the pit apron at Riverside, 1967 CanAm. Grid 20 DNF accident. Matich SR3 Repco; space-frame chassis car powered by Repco ‘620 Series’ 4.4 litre SOHC V8 400bhp@7000rpm. Surtees Lola T70Mk3B Chev behind. (Unattributed)
Again David McKay picks up the story ‘As starting money was imperative for such an expensive undertaking I sounded out all the major circuits. All were enthusiastic and all promised to pay a modest enough $350 a start. It goes without saying that when Geoff Sykes (Warwick Farm boss) set the standard, a ‘yes’ on the phone was sufficient to seal the agreement’.
‘There was great excitement at the wharf when the open crate carrying the plastic wrapped P4 was lowered over the liners side. There were a couple more huge wooden crates I hadn’t expected. These turned out to be another engine, gearbox, transaxle, suspensions, disc brakes, all manner of rose joints and sixteen wheels-in reality a second P4 apart from the simple tube-chassis and the brief, skimpy fibre-glass bodywork. That US$30000 was immediately halved in our minds and much of my initial disappointment at seeing the rather unattractive Can Am bodywork evaporated’.
‘0858’ shortly after its arrival in Sydney at SV’s workshop, Wahroonga. (WOT)
‘Engineer Bob Atkin and I were keen to get the crate and boxes home to Wahroonga to prod the beast into life. This we did and again I felt disappointment. Where was the distinctive wail I heard in the cold air at Le Mans? It was now deeper, throatier but somehow more common, less exciting.
Unfortunately I never felt any warmth for the P4, certainly not its fault for the car was out of its milieu, away from the understanding hands which cared for it and probably thinking it was back in that coarse country, America, of which it had nothing but bad dreams.
I hoped a reunion with Amon would be beneficial but Chris was more involved with his Tasman Dino and his forthcoming battle with Clark and Hill in their Lotus 49 Ford DFW’s.’
Jim Clark, Chris Amon and their respective mechanics share a joke around Chris’ Ferrari 246T at Longford, March 1968. Clark won the series in his Lotus 49 DFW, Piers Courage the race in a gutsy wet weather drive in his McLaren M4A FVA F2 car. Clark 5th and Amon 7th. Clark killed that April and Amon returned to take the 1969 Tasman Championship…the P4 by then sold. (oldracephotos)
‘Don’t pick your nails Chris!’ Amon and McKay in the cockpit of ‘0858’ at Sandown, Melbourne, February 1968. Mckay first assisted Amon in the 1963 International Series, Amon driving the SV Cooper T53 Climax. (Roderick MacKenzie)
Scuderia Veloce Team at Warwick Farm 1968; 250LM ‘6321’, Brabham BT23A ‘1’ Repco and the P4/CanAm 350 ‘0858’. This shot was taken at the 18 February Tasman Meeting, 250LM i am guessing was not raced, Greg Cusack in the Brabham DNF in the Tasman race won by Clarks’ Lotus 49 DFW, Amon raced the P4. (David McKays’ Scuderia Veloce)
Australian Race Record of ‘0858’…
Ray Bell was a journalist for ‘Racing Car News’ magazine in the 1960 and 1970’s, he wrote evocatively about the cars race record on ‘The Nostalgia Forum’ in 2002…
Amon gets the drop from Matich in the SR3, Surfers Paradise, February 1968. Ordinary crowd numbers, surf up at Main Beach maybe? (wolseley680)
‘The first race for the car in Australia was February 10 at Surfers Paradise. It was the Saturday and it was clear that there were some shocks headed for the lap record after Matich recorded 1:10.2 in practice.
Matich dudded the start, however, but scorched around to be the first to take the lap record over the 100mph mark with a 1:10.6 (101.98mph) to Amon’s 1:10.7, reeling the Ferrari in after four laps and diving under it when a slower car baulked Amon.
Two more 5-lappers were scheduled for Sunday, with Matich and his 4.4-litre tube-framed SR3 leading away and getting a full second advantage on the first lap. The record was equalled as he took another win. In the second, Amon was a non-starter.
Rod MacKenzies’ shot of the Surfers race 1 start from a different angle. ‘Spare tyre’ on Ferrari mandated by dopey Australian sports car rules of the day. The Matich carries its spare under the drivers ‘screen’. Beefy spoiler on the SR3, its ’68 the ‘Year of Wings’
Superb John Ellacott shot of Chris Amon looking as relaxed as he can be with Frank Matich ‘up his clacker’! Homestead Corner Warwick Farm, February 1968. (John Ellacott)
A week later at Warwick Farm came the race I speak of so often.
The report says Matich ‘left the Ferrari breathless…’ as he led Amon a merry chase. That they came past us side by side, with a Tojiero between them being lapped and grass clippings flying on one lap in the race shows that it wasn’t all that breathless!
Again, Matich was pressed to a new circuit record (these are outright records, faster than the Lotus 49s and the Amon Dino managed on the day) of 1:28.5 in staving off the Ferrari. Amon retired with reported ignition trouble on lap 7 or 8.(McKay advised the ignition leads were plucked off one bank of cylinders having been taped carefully out of reach of a half-shaft)
Check out the YouTube footage of this race…
WF start. Both Matich #1 Matich SR3 Repco and Niel Allen in the white Elfin 400 Chev get the jump on Amons Fazz at the start. WF a horse racing facility still, ceased as an International car race venue after the ’73 Tasman Series. (Wirra)
Amon leads Matich into Shell Corner, lap 1 , Sandown Tasman Round Sports Car race, 25 February 1968. car with white stripe down the nose at left the Bob Jane Racing Elfin 400 Repco. (Rod MacKenzie)
The opening gambit of the Sandown Park report, the next week (February 25), was ‘This was the first time the Sandown crowd has had a chance to see Frank Matich really trying. The reason was, of course, that he had Chris Amon and the P4 Ferrari to worry him.’
Matich bogged down at the start (‘nearly burned a hole in the startline with wheelspin…’) and Chris led away, but after a lap or two ‘braking late for Peters, Frank closed on Chris and went under him as they accelerated out onto Peters (the back straight).’ Matich won by four seconds, took the sports car record down to 1:07.2 (Clark nobbled the outright record in the Australian GP on the same day with a 1:07.1) and Matich bowed out of any further contests. He wasn’t happy to go to Longford.
Matich SR3 Repco in the Sandown Park paddock. (Mike Feisst Collection/The Roaring Season)
‘Longford March 1968. The wet Monday morning after Amon set off a lap down on the field after battery failure on the grid. The road was wet from the first shower of the day that turned into a deluge later for the Tasman race (won by Piers Courage in his F2 McLaren M4A FVA). The overcast conditions, wet road and river in the background combine to give perfect lighting to highlight the car. Location is coming off Kings Bridge, shot taken from the old Longford pumphouse station. The 1880’s railway bridge is in the background’ So said ‘austmcreg’ on The Nostalgia Forum, photo credit Jim and Pat Smith. Amazing shot and commentary!
There, Longford, of course, Amon had the fastest time ever through the trap on the flying mile and lapped at 2:14.4 in practice to easily take pole.
In the Saturday race Amon set a new outright lap record of 2:12.6, four tenths quicker than Clark had done in the earlier preliminary event for the Tasman cars in the 49. This was 12.2 seconds better than the previous record, held by Bob Jane.(Elfin 400 Repco 4.4)
At that stage, it was only reasonable to conclude that Amon wouldn’t hold the record over the whole weekend, but the heavens opened and deluged the circuit for Monday, his P4 suffered a battery failure (McKay wrote that mechanic Bob Atkin simply overlooked to charge the dry cell Varley battery) and didn’t even start the soggy sports car race and the openwheelers paddled round with Piers Courages’ McLaren M4A FVA 1.6 taking the win.
Longford pit counter scene with the curvaceous CanAm 350 centre stage. Both Amon and Bill Brown drove the car at this meeting. Matich did not enter, having safety concerns about the circuit in the SR3. Atmospheric shot taken by Ellis French. Little yellow stickers on Fazz rump say ‘Gatto Verde’, gifts from Alf Francis to David McKay. (Harold Ellis)
In his book, McKay (David McKays autobiography ‘Scuderia Veloce’) describes the torment of choosing a driver for the car for the ensuing year. His choice might have been big ‘Pete’ (Ian) Geoghegan, but there was pressure to give Bill Brown a go. There was also the possibility that Pete’s huge frame might not fit… he was put into the team’s 250LM for the year.
David Mckay again picks up the story ‘After the Tasman Series and Amons departure I decided to put Bill Brown behind the wheel despite certain misgivings. I liked Bill, he was a pleasant, and helpful fellow who could be faster than some but rather more accident prone than others. He damaged the LM rather too frequently through overdriving…Yet I hoped Bill would mature, the red mists would disappear and he would conduct the P4 in accordance with my instructions. I had no illusions he would run with Matich, Amon hadn’t managed to…I had chosen the easy option rather than taking a chance and putting in perhaps the only local who would have given Matich a run for it-Pete Geoghegan.
Here is Pete Geoghegan hustling McKays 250LM ‘6321’ around Bathurst at Easter 1968, in the manner the SV boss liked so much. (Dick Simpson)
Pete was already four times AustralianTouring Car Champion and was sweeping all before him in his Mustang. More important, was his driving of the ‘old red lady’ (McKays 250LM) in which, despite his big weight disadvantage (Pete was a very big lad, morbidly obese, the medicos would describe it) he was re-writing her lap times. Perhaps had I not been so occupied with other events that year, had not been out of the country so much I would have bitten the bullet, asked Bill to step aside and given Pete the hot seat-but could he have fitten into that little space? We’ll never know now but in the light of subsequent events I was wrong and I am sorry Pete…’
Pete Geoghegan in that car would have been worth travelling a very long way to see, a driver of awesome world class ability as McKay alludes to, if you go back into the early days of Petes’ career he drove the Geoghegan family Lotus single seaters and 23B but in essence most of his career was spent in Touring Cars and other cars with roofs
Another of Dick Simpsons’ stunning shots. Bill Brown, Mount Panorama, Hell Corner ,Bathurst , Easter 1968. (Dick Simpson)
Ray Bell…’Bathurst was the first outing on April 14 & 15, which I would have thought daunting enough. With wire fences, rough surface, two serious crashes injuring top drivers in the Gold Star event’s practice sessions and all, one might be a little careful in such a fast car.
But Bill was out to show his stuff. The first race was a 3-lapper mixed in with the open-wheelers. Bartlett won that in the Brabham BT23D Alfa with Bill second about 11 seconds adrift and just 1.6 seconds clear of Niel Allen in the Elfin 400 Chev after Allen had spun on the first lap. Bartlett had fastest lap in 2:19.1, Allen did 2:19.4 and Brown 2:21.6. Maybe he was being careful after all…
As the report points out, ‘The last time anyone went really fast on Mt Panorama was back in 1962, when both David McKay and Bib Stillwell equalled Bill Patterson’s flying eighth time of 169.81mph. It has been said often since that it would probably take a sporty car to better it.’
As mentioned above, Brown took the speed up to 181 mph, a big hike, but he was in pursuit of Allen at the time. The Elfin lapped in 2:18.4 but was parked at the top of the mountain when Brown scored his lucky win, with Geoghegan second in the LM, which improved its personal best time from 2:34.2 to 2:30.8 this first time the big fella got into it. Brown lapped in 2:19.6, just shy of the 100mph mark.
‘0858’ in the Warwick Farm paddock February 1968…the start of ‘wings’ on the front, added since original factory build. (WOT)
Bill Brown in the RAC Trophy, Warwick Farm, May 1968. sand in the throttle slides of the car so DNF. (Roderick MacKenzie)
Warwick Farm’s annual RAC Trophy race was on May 5.
This was a prize event on the best circuit. Matich lapped in 1:29 for pole, Allen did 1:32.9, Brown 1:33.0 for the outside of the first row. But the Ferrari managed to get ahead of the Elfin off the line and was second into the first corner and stayed there as Matich built up a lead of about ten seconds over the early laps. Sand got into the throttle slides of the V12 engine, however, and the Ferrari retired to give Allen second spot.
This was the race where Matich ‘unwound a blinder on the last lap just to prove the car was still ‘with it’, chopping 1.2 seconds off his Tasman meeting record and leaving the new time at a staggering 1:27.3′
The boss himself having a tilt during practice at Warwick Farm- David McKay in the big car, not so sure he mentioned this in his book (G Lanham)
‘0858’ sans rear bodywork, shot at SV workshop in Sydney. (WOT)
Lakeside on May 12 brought a pair of Scuderia Veloce 1 – 2s, but the opposition had died in the pre-race buildup. Matich cracked the lap record in practice with a 53.7 in his first appearance at the circuit since his crash there in 1965. Allen did a 55.3, Brown a 57.2.
The minor race came first, with Allen scoring a win and Matich fastest lap (55.2, new record anyway) with the Elfin taking the lead from the start as Matich eased away with a sick engine. Matich pitted, but continued, the Repco suffering a loose valve seat, which prevented him getting top horsepower as he nailed it to get that record in the book. Brown finished 1.5 seconds behind Allen and actually lapped two tenths faster at 56.3, both of them under Allen’s old record.
The main event was a twenty-lapper, and in the minutes before the race Matich declared himself a non-starter and Allen trickled back into the pits with a bolt out of the steering. Brown was able to walk it in (best lap 58.4) as Geoghegan showed all his abilities at the helm of the 250LM to fill second ahead of a Lotus 23B. His best lap was 59.3 and he was less than nine seconds behind at the finish.
‘0858’ cockpit shot taken at Surfers Paradise by Rod MacKenzie. ‘Momo’ steering wheel, Veglia Borletti instruments all very Ferrari ‘period’. Note venting of wheel arch to release air pressure. (Rod MacKenzie)
There was yet another race, an eight-lapper, at the end of the day, with the 2.5 open-wheelers combining with the fastest sports cars. The report doesn’t clearly explain how Allen got to be behind Phil West’s Scuderia Veloce Brabham BT23A Repco, but he was and seemingly couldn’t do anything about it. Brown won as he liked, scoring another SV 1 – 2 with West second this time.
I would say that West got away best, then the brute force of the bigger engined cars overpowered him, only Allen was stuck behind him as Brown got through to the lead. Anyway, Allen spent the rest of the race back there in a frustrated third, ‘perhaps over-flushed with determination, hounded West in the best showing of brute tactics seen for a long while, the big Elfin almost running over the Brabham into BMC lap after lap as West stopped to look at the view and Brown scampered up over BP. Allen tried to go under into KLG, avoiding disaster by a hair’s breadth, and pushed the Brabham wheel to wheel round the Eastern Loop. This excitement was too much, added to by Geoghegan who forced the 250LM to the front of Scott’s Lotus 27 to fill fourth spot.’
Des White wrote well, didn’t he? He pressed on.. ‘The big battle looked worse as the backmarkers were lapped, disaster being forever imminent as very slow cars found themselves caught up in the 140mph battle between Allen and West, the Elfin being stopped and pointed with a dexterity seldom seen these days. Allen failed to get through, perhaps through trying too hard, and it was disappointing to see him slipstream to the flag. Should the big power of the Elfin have carried it from Shell to the flag first? Maybe, and there been breathing space for the initial build up.” Best lap to Brown, 56.6, Allen did 56.7, West 55.9, winning margin less than two seconds (1.6, actually).
SV lined up on the Surfers dummy grid prior to the Surfers Paradise 6 Hour 1968. L.R; Leo and Pete Geoghegan 250LM which won, Des West/ Bill Reynolds 275 GTB 9th, and Brown/Palmer 350 Can Am DNF accident. (Rod MacKenzie)
Ray Bell, ‘Probably the event dearest to McKay’s heart was the Surfers Paradise 12-hour…
And he had Jim Palmer over from New Zealand to co-drive with Brown. But Palmer wasn’t up to it, lapping over five seconds slower than Brown in practice and wearing himself out in the process. Matich, who was racing quite a lot during this year, even entered the SR3 in this race with Glynn Scott as co-driver (only 2.3 seconds behind Frank’s times), so this car was the pace as the race got going, Brown following it through the field after both started slowly (Le Mans start). Lapping slower cars soon after the start, Brown was pushed off line and ran over some tyre markers on the edge and holed the radiator. The P4 was out…
David McKay saw the race slightly differently ‘…I had asked NZ Champion Jim Palmer to co-drive with Brown. Jim was a fast, safe driver very much in the Spencer Martin mould. I erred by not having Palmer start the race…The field as in the past, was composed of fast and slow open and closed cars and as always the onus is on the overtaking car. A second or 2 lost by backing off the throttle to make sure the tortoise knew he was about to be swamped was sensible driving…Less than 15 minutes into the race, Brown came up behind a Fiat 125 saloon, on the approach to Firestone, a fairly quick left hander. The Fiat driver, unaware Brown was diving down the inside held his line. The P4 had nowhere to go but over the grass and a white tyre marker demolishing the nose and oil cooler…Brown bought the mortally wounded P4 to a halt in front of our pit’.
Bell, ‘Matich’s Repco engine dropped its bundle very late in the race and Geoghegan and his brother Leo won the race in the Scuderia Veloce 250LM.
That was the end of the P4’s racing in Australia, as far as I can see. Matich was to debut his SR4 with its 5-litre quad-cam engine in November, cementing his position as top dog in the field and enabling him to go on and take more outright records.’
‘0858’ in cigarette company ‘Team Gunston’ colours in Bulawayo, South Africa 1969. Note the car now has lights re-fitted, installed in Australia for the Surfers 6 Hour. (Unattributed)
Sale of ‘0858’ to Paul Hawkins…
Due to an error in paperwork the car was invoiced to McKay rather than in Amons name, bringing forward the impost of import duty, the Customs Department provided extensions of time with the assistance of the Italian Chamber of Commerce who wanted the car to race in the Surfers 6 Hour and form the centre-piece of a trade show in Sydney.
Under pressure to pay the duty, close to 100% of the cars purchase price! or export it McKay put the word out ‘…dear old Paul Hawkins had heard about the car being for sale from Chris Amon at an Oulton Park meeting. I was in the workshop when ‘Hawkeyes’ call came through ‘Is the car for sale?’ ‘Yes’, ‘How much?’ ‘US$30000’. ‘If I buy it will you go me halves in a return ticket to Sydney?’. ‘Yes, ok’. ‘I’ll be there the day after tomorrow’. ‘Ill meet you Paul’
‘Simple and straightforward. Paul was making a name for himself as a successful sports car and GT racer and had been a favourite of Firestone…The car was to be shipped right after the 6 Hour for Paul would drive it in South Africa’s sports car series with tobacco sponsorship and he would win’.
350 CanAm in the East London pits, front lights now faired. car won this 500Km race. (royckdboats)
Paul raced the car in South Africa from November 1968 to January 1969 winning the Cape Town 3 Hour, GP of Bulwayo, Pietermaritzburg 3 Hour and the East London 500 Km.
As McKay mentioned above Hawkins was an Australian International plying his trade via his own team and as a ‘hired gun’ by works teams. He was racing a Lola T70 Mk3B Chev during the Tourist Trophy at Oulton Park, his car ending up in the trees, after probable suspension failure, poor Paul dying in the particularly gruesome accident and ensuing fire.
Both Hawkins and Alberto Ascari, the only 2 drivers to ‘Scuba Dive’ at Monaco both died on May 26, in an arcane bit of trivia.
Mike Hailwood raced ‘0858’ at Magny Cours, 1st and Dijon DNF in May.
Gearbox fettling?, prior to the East London event. 4.2 litre DOHC 3 valve per cylinder Lucas fuel injected V12. Ferrari 5 speed ‘box with ZF limited slip diff. Battery of coils clear to see. (royckdboats)
The car was sold in the realisation of the Hawkins Estate, through David Piper, who raced so many mid sixties Sports Ferraris’ of his own, and occasionally as a ‘works driver’ to Alastair Walker who raced the car back in South Africa in November-December 1969 with sometime GP driver Rob Widdows as his co-driver.
The car was uncharacteristacally unreliable, perhaps ‘tired’, ‘0858’ failing to finish the Kyalami 9 Hour, Cape Town and Bulawayo 3 Hour events. ‘0858’ was 2nd at the Lourenco Marques, Mozambique.
In 1971 David Piper bought the car from Walker, still with its extensive inventory of spare parts, enough as McKay states to make a second car less chassis…which is what Piper did. Ferrari provided Piper all the necessary P4 blueprints in 1974, Piper, Nye says ‘had the chassis made by the original people in Modena. Ferrari gave it the number ‘0900’, a serial number also applied to a Chinetti parts built 312P in the US’. Several ‘run-on’ cars have been built by Piper since.
David Piper sold ‘0858’ to US collector Walter Medlin in Florida in 1971, he retained the car until offered for sale via RM Auctions in 2009, the car eventually being restored by Talacrest in the UK, somewhat controversially in the eyes of some to its Spyder/Barchetta specification.
Check out this website in relation to that process which has been supervised by David Piper. http://www.talacrest.com/Latest_News/Talacrest_Ferrari_330_P4_Chassis_No._0858_-_New_Videos/101.htm
At the outset i stated that 4 P4’s were built, 3 P4’s and one converted P3 ‘0846’...
In the best traditions of historic racing there are now more P4’s than in period…there are 3 or 4 ‘run-on’ cars built by Pipers concern and ‘0846’, written off by the factory after a crash and fire at Le Mans in 1967 has been reborn, recreated or replicated depending upon your view of it.
If you like a bit of light entertainment look at this exchange between subject matter expert DC Nye and said vehicles’ owner, the fun and games start at about post # 62. http://forums.autosport.com/topic/59074-ferrari-330-p4/page-2
I’m not suggesting the ‘experts’ know it all either.
Lets go out as we came in, with a fabulous shot, this time by Ellis French of Bill Brown, the sun gleaming off ‘0858’ before blasting down the Longford public roads, big V12 howling at 180 miles per hour in February 1968…
Amon at Warwick Farm (G Paine)
Chris consulting with his crew in the Sandown pitlane (G Paine)
Bill Brown, who drove the car after Amons’ departure back to Europe also drove the P4/CanAm at Longford ’68 in both practice and a preliminary race. (David Keep)
That ‘Australian’ spare tyre. Fitted as a consequence of our local sports car regs at the time. SV solution a neat one even if the weight is well outside the cars wheelbase…where else to put it!? Yellow stickers ‘Gatto Verde’ a gift from Alf Francis to McKay, McKay makes mention of it in his autobiography but not actually what the stickers mean/represent. Ideas anyone? (Rod MacKenzie)
David McKay ‘David McKays Scuderia Veloce’, Paul Frere ‘Cars in Profile 246SP-330P4 Ferraris’, Doug Nye ‘The Potent P4…A Ferrari Fierce and Fine’ Sports Car World July/Sept 1982
Thanks to Stephen Dalton for the assistance in research material sourcing
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Dennis Arrobbio says:
Hello Mark,
I collect Ferrari model cars and having recently bought 1/18th scale models of the P4/350 CanAm cars, I was doing some internet research on these cars when I found your great blog on the racing history of 350 #0858. Your blog is so interesting and specific to this particular car that I would like a hard (print) copy for my collection. I would like to ask your kind permission to have my local commercial printer, OfficeMax, print a single copy (qty 1) for my collection. It would be approx 40 single sided 8.5x11in pages that will be spiral bound. Printing it on my small personal printer would deplete all the ink cartridges twice over and still be of rather poor quality. I didn’t see copyright notices on your blogs but I would like to ask for your permission to print a copy of the ferrari-p4canam-350-0858 blog.
markbisset says:
Sure Dennis, happy to help, just attribute to me/primotipo. If you complete an ‘0858’ model, I would love to see it and will add a photo of it to the article. Regards, mark
Fantastic! Thank You Mark! That’s great! I’ll try and send you photos of the models via a separate email. I purchased these finished models of ‘0858’ from TRL Models (www.333cars.com). Their quality is superior by far to anything that I could ever build myself.
Best Regards, Dennis
nordenwin@cox.net says:
Hello Mark, Thank You very much again for your kind permission to print out a copy of your blog. I will make sure that attribution to You/Primotipo is included. Enclosed are pictures of the two ‘0858’ TRL Model (China) (www.333cars.com) models that I have. The pictures are from their website and you might enjoy a look a some of the other 350 P4 CanAm versions that they offer. Best, Dennis
Spencer Martin: Australian ‘Gold Star’ Champion 1966/7… | Primotipo... says:
[…] , the other about his Ferrari P4/Can Am 350, an equally stunning car https://primotipo.com/2015/04/02/ferrari-p4canam-350-0858/ […]
’67 Spa 1000Km: Chaparral 2F Chev… | Primotipo... says:
[…] Phil Hill never raced again after his ’67 Brands 6 Hour victory, a great way to bow out after such a career of achievement. The 1967 Endurance Season is covered in full in this recent article on the Ferrari P4…https://primotipo.com/2015/04/02/ferrari-p4canam-350-0858/ […]
Alfa Romeo Tipo 33 ‘Periscopica': Balocco 1967… | Primotipo... says:
Alfa Romeo Tipo 33: Balocco 1967… | Primotipo... says:
Pete Geoghegan : Ferrari 250LM ‘6321’ : Bathurst Easter 1968… | Primotipo... says:
[…] In 1968 McKay had pleasure and pain; victory for the LM but defeat of his Ferrari P4/350Can Am car, acquired earlier in the year with the express aim of victory in a race he thought was by then beyond the old LM. For those interested in the P4, click on this link to an article on the full history of this car; https://primotipo.com/2015/04/02/ferrari-p4canam-350-0858/ […]
A beautiful article on a beautiful car. Well done.
It is interesting to read in the caption of the first Team Gunston photo that “the car now has lights re-fitted, installed in Australia for the Surfers 6 Hour.” The presence of headlights on the car is apparent in many of the Australian photos, all of which I believe would have been taken before the 6 Hour. Given that headlights were mandatory on Australian Group A Sports Cars of the day, I would think that the lights would have been re-fitted before it ever raced here.
Rob , you are right about the light regs in Oz, now I think of it. The only shot here which doesn’t have the lights is the one @ SV’s workshop when it first arrived. So looks like they were fitted in Sydney rather than whilst it was back in Maranello for its pre-trip rebuild. M
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Lindsay Ross says:
Hi Mark, just wanted to correct the credit of the vertical colour pit lane shot at Longford 1968. The “Ellis” in the credit is Harold Ellis rather than Ellis French. Cheers Lindsay ORP
Thanks Lindsay, fixed! As always very much appreciate your support, Mark
Matich SR4 Repco…by Nigel Tait and Mark Bisset | Primotipo... says:
Brands 6 Hour ’67… | Primotipo... says:
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One of the photos of the McKay P4 has a query about the “Gatto Verde” stickers. I have a 1959 Italian Taraschi single seater that has Gatto front drum brakes and a Gatto sticker that is not dissimilar to that on the P4. My Gatto sticker says “Freni Gatto Pordenon” and has a stylised cat within a circle.
Thanks Roger,
There was some speculation about the stickers on The Nostalgia Forum and what they meant but I don’t think there was resolution. Be interesting to know- nice things visually apart from anything else.
Chris Mellor says:
Thanks for the great memories of when my dad used to take me to Warwick Farm as a kid. Australia’s home grown Matich against the exotic enemy P-4, Pete’s Mustang and Beechey debuting his Camaro are the strongest recollections, far stonger than the open wheeler races that should have been higher profile.
Good on you Chris,
You arrived right in a a sweet spot in Australian motor racing- wish I had been taken along from about 1965- still starting in 1972 wasn’t too bad! Am a huge Matich fan too.
Bill Brown, Ferrari P4/Can-Am 350… | primotipo... says:
[…] I wrote a long feature about the P4 Ferrari, and this particular car, chassis ‘0858’, a while back, click here to read it; https://primotipo.com/2015/04/02/ferrari-p4canam-350-0858/ […]
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Don’t Damage the Trees… | primotipo... says:
[…] Click here for an article about the Ferrari P4, and P3 in passing, and towards its end a link to the TNF debate about the restoration of ‘0846’; https://primotipo.com/2015/04/02/ferrari-p4canam-350-0858/ […]
Australian Sportscar State of Play 1968… | primotipo... says:
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Bag ’em up Bobby… | primotipo... says:
[…] Jim McKeown’s Lotus Cortina Mk2 alongside the Bob Jane Racing 400 raced at this meeting by Victorian Ian Cook. The class of the field in that, final Longford year was Chris Amon who set the outright lap record in David McKay’s Scuderia Veloce Ferrari 350 Can-Am machine. Here tis; https://primotipo.com/2015/04/02/ferrari-p4canam-350-0858/ […]
Clark, Hill, Amon- Longford 1968… | primotipo... says:
[…] It wasn’t enough to compete with the McLaren M6A Chevs of Bruce and Denny, that story is told in this article about the Ferrari P4/Can-Am 350 and ‘0858’ specifically; https://primotipo.com/2015/04/02/ferrari-p4canam-350-0858/ […]
Alex Kesler says:
I am a High School student doing a research project on the Le Mans race.
I am struggling on finding sources for my project.
I was wondering if you had any Primary Sources (Sources that happened at the time)?
Best of luck with your project, all of the sources for that article are secondary- from books and online material. Primary sources are drivers, mechanics, engineers, team staff spectators and race organisation people- if you choose a recent race you should be able a team(s) which raced in the event from your own country. Contemporary newspaper or magazine reports are primary sources? Those are easy to find on the internet- Motorsport and Autosport are two examples.
No time for a Boags… | primotipo... says:
[…] There are plenty of marshals but not too many spectators in evidence on this famously soggy day- the last day of motor racing at Longford. I’ve done this topic to death really but there is no such thing as too much Amon, Ferrari or Longford. See here for the P4/Can-Am 350; https://primotipo.com/2015/04/02/ferrari-p4canam-350-0858/ […]
Hawkeye… | primotipo... says:
[…] Ferrari raced four P4s in the 1967 World Sportscar Championship, one of which was an upgraded P3, at the WSC seasons end two of the cars were lightened and modified to ‘350 Can-Am’ specification. David McKay acquired one of the cars at the end of the 1967 Can-Am Challenge Cup, ‘0858’, for Chris Amon to race in the 1968 Australian Tasman Cup round sportscar supporting events where he was beaten on every occasion he raced Frank Matich’s Matich SR3 Repco. The story of the P3/350 Can-Am is here; https://primotipo.com/2015/04/02/ferrari-p4canam-350-0858/ […]
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We discuss the main controls of coastal aeolian sand development in the research area based on the OSL chronology.
Compared with East Asian monsoon change sequence and the history of typhoon landfalls in Fujian, the result shows that the main control is the intensity of East Asian winter monsoon, but not the precipitation, typhoon landfalls and sea level change.
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The School of Geography and the Environment, in association with the RLAHA Luminescence Dating Laboratory, Research Laboratory for Archaeology and the History of Art, houses a state of the art luminescence dating facility: the Oxford Luminescence Dating Laboratory (OLD).
Quaternary Science Reviews, 2008, 27(21/22): 2076-2090.[12] D? Reconstruction of the Holocene coastal development at Fulong Beach innorth-eastern Taiwan using optically stimulated luminescence (OSL) dating. 第四纪研究, 1991, 11(2): 113-122.][37] Li Congxian, Chen Gang, Wang Xiuqiang. Research on the Holocene coastal dune sand in South China coast. Luminescence dating of fluvial and coastal red sediments in the SE coast, India,and implications for paleoenvironmental changes and dune reddening. 地理科学, 2012, 32(2): 207-212.][42] Jiang Xiuyang, Li Zhizhong, Shen Chuanzhou et al. A preliminary investigation of historical wind-drift sand along the western coast of the Taiwan Strait. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 2011, 308(3/4): 492-501.[53] Hu Fangen, Li Zhizhong, Jin Jianhui et al. A 1000-year history of typhoon landfalls in Guangdong, southern China, reconstructed from Chinese historical documentary records.Quaternary Research, 2012, 77(3): 468-481.[9] Tamura T, Mark D B. 中国沙漠, 1996, 16(3): 227-233.][41] Jiang Xiuyang, Li Zhizhong, Li Jinquan et al. 2100-590 a BP stable isotope records from Tian'e Cave and theirregional climate significance. A primary research on multiphase development pattern of "Old Red Sand"in Jingjiang coast of southeast Fujian. Annals of the Association of American Geographers, 2001, 91(3): 453-464.In this paper, quartz single aliquot regenerative optically-stimulated luminescence (OSL) dating with high resolution sampling was firstly applied to coastal aeolian sand in China for the Anshan (SHA) section (24°36′32.7″ N, 118° 39′ 20.3″ E) near the Anshan archaeological site along the Jinjiang coast, southeast Fujian.Through grain-size analysis, we assume that the SHA section demonstrates typical coastal aeolian sand characteristics, and affected by the blowout and chemical weathering after coastal sand deposited, the grain size parameter and content of different sizes of fraction have a large change, the grain size become coarser, the sorting for worse.The OLD Laboratory also provides a commercial luminescence dating service and works closely with clients in industry, archaeological organizations, environmental institutes and other academic groups. College of Geographical Science, Fujian Normal University, Fuzhou 350007, China; 2.Marine Geology &Quaternary Geology, 2006, 26(4): 99-104. A review on the research status of forming mechanism of coastaldunes. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 2010, 29: 171-179.[27] Zhang Jiafu, Mo Dowen, Xia Zhengkai et al. Optical dating of sediments from China and its implication fordepositional processes. The OSL ages of the 11 samples range from 839±132a to 108±21a show that SHA section formed in nearly 1000 years, and three periods of coastal aeolian sand activity can be divided, AD1050-1300, AD1470-1600 and AD1720-1950 respectively.Especially during the little ice age (LIA), coastal aeolian sand activity is strong, the development of coastal dunes sand is prevailing, and the OSL age shows that the coastal aeolian sand deposition represents a multiphase and episodic feature.
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In Zaina Arafat’s debut novel, You Exist Too Much—what some have called a bildungsroman, and a character study—an unnamed D.C. raised Palestinian-American narrator gets dumped by her girlfriend for her chronic infidelity and goes to rehab, then an MFA program. Across America, Europe, and The Middle East, she learns how to shape her life story into a love-story both shattering in impact and fractured in shape. Each place the narrator takes us to is tied to a person, and another manifestation of the same quest. That is, to find a mother—and in effect—a homeland. On this quest, as readers, we experience with the narrator what I can only describe as growing pains. What I got from reading YETM was the chance to bond with a character who by working out her own flaws, made me consequently realize my own. This sounds negative but it isn’t. It was a pleasant awakening. Like suddenly remembering where you know that person from, the one you saw on the bus earlier. You went to college together. Of course! Your dislike of others stems from your own insecurities. Of course!
Review: Heart Berries by Terese Marie Mailhot
Heart Berries by Terese Marie Mailhot (Counterpoint 2019)
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Heart Berries by Terese Marie Mailhot is like balloons filled with paint exploding against a white canvas — c. Heart Berries is Mailhot’s debut memoir told in a cyclical narrative touching upon her experience as a writer, mother, mental health patient, and partner all informed by her identity as a First Nations Canadian living in the U.S. It is the story of love, and loss, but most of all it is a story about storytelling. Mailhot writes:
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Review: The Wind That Lays Waste by Selva Almada
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The Wind That Lays Waste by Selva Almada, trans. by Chris Andrews (Graywolf Press, 2019)
There is an old saying that one can tell the character of a person not by how long they have known them, but based on a single gesture. These view sinuously weaves together four characters of Selva Almada’s 2012 novel The Wind That Lays Waste. Translated by Chris Andrews in 2019, both author and translator create a character study of four individuals at a roadside garage in Argentina.
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Lance and Oprah
Posted on January 16, 2013 by empressofaiken
In case you haven’t heard, and you’d have to have been living in a monastery in Tibet not to have heard, Oprah Winfrey is interviewing Lance Armstrong in a two-part presentation on Thursday and Friday. By the time this highly touted interview even airs, there won’t be a reason to watch it. Most of the details have been leaked, with both sides blaming the other for letting the cat out of the bag.
Actually, both Winfrey and Armstrong have their own reasons for promoting the interview. Oprah hasn’t seen as much success as she would have liked since she started the OWN network. While in syndication, her talk show brought in about 6 million viewers. The best numbers she’s had for the “Next Chapter” program were about 3 million, and those viewers tuned in for her sit-down with Whitney Houston’s daughter as well as her conversation with Rihanna. Advertisers are paying premium prices for commercials during the Armstrong interview, so the more noise she makes in advance, the better her revenues will be. It’s kind of sad, in a way, to see Winfrey look and act a little desperate. She left her original talk show on a high note, and maybe, just maybe, she should have let her public legacy stand right there, on its’ own merits, with no apologies and no regrets.
In fact, Oprah has been acting very un-Oprah-like since OWN began. Last year, at just about this time, she sent out a tweet that sounded a little like begging. “Every 1 who can please turn to OWN especially if u have a Neilsen box”. That tweet resulted in a very firm admonishment by the Nielsen folks who don’t take kindly to direct messages to Nielsen viewers. According to their rules, it’s sort of like jury tampering and it skews real ratings’ numbers. Winfrey then sent a follow-up out on Twitter: “I removed the tweet at the request of Nielsen, I intended no harm and apologize for the reference.” It wasn’t a smart idea. She shouldn’t have done it and I feel embarrassed for her. This doesn’t resemble the Oprah I watched and admired for decades.
So, along comes Lance Armstrong, who really needs a place to kick off his “I’m Sorry I Got Caught Doing Bad Things Tour”. In the hopes of convincing the world that he’s truly seen the error of his ways and wants to make everything better, he turns to Oprah and her television confessional. “Sources” are reporting that he finally owns up to using performance enhancing drugs during his years as the reigning king of cycling. I don’t know to what extent he “owns up”, but Oprah says that we should tune in and judge for ourselves as to his level of contriteness. But really, what’s the point? Do any of us really think that Lance is full of remorse and is speaking honestly? He’s had years to develop a conscience and tell the truth. What he chose to do was lie, then lie some more, threaten everyone who challenged him with lawsuits, then lie even more.
Armstrong’s appearance on OWN looks a whole lot like so many other fallen stars and sports figures, who test the waters in the court of public opinion to see if we still like them enough to forgive them. Sometimes it works. In Armstrong’s case, I’m not so sure. He’s got a lot on the line, here – more than just making nice with sports’ fans and reporters. Armstrong is faced with losing millions of dollars in endorsements, and his Livestrong Foundation has lost some of its’ luster, thanks to his own arrogance and repeated claims of innocence. He wants to come back – to cycling, to stardom, to riches, to glory. Talking to Oprah may make both of them feel better. It might even bring her some better ratings’ numbers and a little money. There may even be a few viewers who buy into Lance’s version of the truth, but that’s about all he’s going to get out of this interview. He’s got a very long and very difficult road ahead of him if he really wants to get back on that bike. It means that he’s going to have to really confess to the cycling world’s governing authorities. He’s have to tell them every detail of his doping, his lies, his part in any conspiracies to cover up the doping problems.
Most of all, and here’s the really tough part, he’s going to have to give up the people who conspired right along with him. If he can do that, become a witness against former teammates and officials, while taking responsibility for his part, along with the punishment he deserves, then he just might be able to rehabilitate his image. I don’t know if he has it in him, to put his ego aside and admit that he’s not all that we thought he was. On the other hand, if he does bring it to the table and lay it all out there, I can’t help but wonder what his motives truly are. It’s hard to believe anything he says, anymore, much less how he justifies his actions, and that’s the part he’ll never be able to fix. Lance wants to prove that he can still be a champion and Oprah is worried about the success of her network. They’ve got their work cut out for them.
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thedesigndiva2 says:
NOT WATCHING… THEY ALL MAKE THEIR BEDS…LET THEM LIE IN THEM…TIME TO FORGIVING AND GLORIFYING CHEATERS….
KUDOS ALSO TO BASEBALL HALL OF FAME THE PAST WEEK….
OOPS…**** TIME TO ****** STOP FORGIVING****
I WAS ALL WORKED UP…LOL
I don’t even have to make the choice – our cable provider doesn’t offer OWN.
sweetnessnbubba says:
Lance Armstrong ruined peoples lives with his lies… He had a guy who worked for him who got caught up in the beginnings of the scandal that had to move to New Zealand because Lance literally ruined his chances of having any kind of career here. he black listed him… and I am sure that wasnt the only one…
Lance cheated in pretty much every facet of his life… I didnt like him a decade ago, and I dont think him getting his comeuppance (how bout giving all that money you won and made under false pretenses Lance?) makes me like him more…
I know it’s just chump change, given that Armstrong is worth about a gajillion dollars, but he also might want to return the $1,500,000 he won in a libel suit against the London Sunday Times. Guess their story wasn’t so libelous after all.
Boobah says:
This whole thing is so sad. It sounds like many people got hurt by this.
I’m curious – Was Lance married at one point? IIRC, he was. Plus he dated Sheryl Crow. I wonder if they knew what he was doing? This had to be a factor in his break-ups. Does he have children?
Great blog, Empress!
Hey Boobah, Lance was married for 4 years, and he and his wife had 3 children. He and his girlfriend – after Sheryl Crow – have had 2 more children. None of his relationships have lasted more than 4 or 5 years, so either they knew about his misdeeds or he’s just an insufferable ass – or both.
I vote for insufferable ass. Lol.
LOL@ BB. I vote BOTH!
Thanks Empress. 5 children and relationships that can’t make it past the 5 year mark. I think that says something. I mean, What the hell? I wonder if all he cared about was power, fame, and money. Why is that the end-of-be-all to some people? Makes me shake my head.
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Kudos Lance Armstrong for having the ball to finally tell the truth… lol lol
CHEATERS NEVER WIN… AND REAL WINNERS DONT CHEAT….
Since the Rodney King riots in LA, I haven’t particularly cared for Oprah or anything she does. That’s just me though and it doesn’t matter because I’ve never been a part of her target audience. I’m having a hard time though, figuring out where the big crime is when it comes to his biking wins. For the record, I don’t particularly care about him or the races either. Sports, both pro and amateur, is full of dopers all over the world. Why is it such a huge deal when an American does it?
mth, I think it’s a huge deal because Armstrong made it one. Yep, there’s doping going on all the time, all over the world. Some of the athletes get caught, or confess and they take their lumps. Armstrong played real hardball, though. Anybody who dared to question his story was attacked, viciously. He attacked and intimidated people, including members of his team, threatened or filed lawsuits and just acted like a giant bully.
Aside from all that, what makes him different from someone like Barry Bonds or Roger Clemens is that Armstrong painted himself as a hero – a cancer survivor who made people believe that he really was a great guy who wanted to help other people live good, healthy (insert irony here) lives – you know, “Livestrong”.
One columnist suggested that Armstrong would have stood a better chance at public forgiveness and redemption if he’d gone the Michael Vick route – get caught, own it, pay your debt to society and you get a second chance.
Armstrong was the one who made this a long, dirty, drawn-out battle and he deserves to get what’s coming to him.
I’m not arguing the points of who he portrayed himself to be and what he’s done. Truthfully I haven’t followed this very close from the start. My question was coming from a curiosity of why is he making such a big deal of this and why ‘confess’ to Oprah of all people on her, likely failing, network and why now? Sorry I’m such a cynic but I’m looking at this from a follow the money aspect of it.
Apparently Lance is finally coming clean because he still wants to compete in certain triathalons and can’t do it because of the sactions against him. However, no matter what he says on Oprah, it’s not going to help him because the organizations have come out and said he will have to go through many hoops for them to consider lifting or partially lifting sactions against him. One of the hoops is for him to confess, under oath, everything, including the whens, wheres, whats and whos. I really think he thought he was above it all and could get away with it because nobody should be questioning the great Lance Armstrong.
As for Oprah, I think she, like a lot of other extremely popular public figures, started to believe the hype about herself and thought her new network would be as wildly popular as her talk show which, in my opinion, was starting to lose steam towards the end anyway. For me personally, I lost respecf for her when she started buying into all the new age phenomenom popping up all over the place. I expect talk show hosts try to be neutral and present both sides of an issue, and she got a little too biased and preachy for my taste, but that’s me. I guess she has learned that even if you put your name on something, you still have to have a quality product out there, unless you’re the Bravo network. Sorry, I just had to put that out there.
Oh, how the mightly have fallen. But they both still have plenty of money to help cushion it for them. Thing is, I think they both like the power and fame more than the money.
“I guess she has learned that even if you put your name on something, you still have to have a quality product out there, unless you’re the Bravo network.”
Hehe 😆
bb, That’s it in a nutshell. LOL at the Bravo reference. Oprah said that the 2 1/2 hour Armstrong interview was “exhausting”. I guess a Housewives’ reunion would have killed both of them. 😉
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2196836/My-life-Lance-Armstrong-Personal-assistant-tells-steroids-cyclists-bathroom-cabinet-fired-year.html
this story here, is the employee story I was talking about.. It kind of paints a picture of how the public face of Lance Armstrong was much different than the private.. and he crushed a lot of people who dared to get in his way..
http://abcnews.go.com/Sports/wireStory/ap-sources-ioc-strips-armstrong-olympic-medal-18236593
windycitywondering1 says:
Lance Armstrong did more harm than good to the sport he professed to love. Had he come clean with the very first allegation he might have been able to salvage both his reputation and his career. I lost interest in Oprah a long time ago and was surprised she was going to start a network. I watched her last show….but have never watched anything on her network. What I am finding ironic is that when “celebs” go on her show to confess, set the record straight or break big news the outcome never seems to have the results of the intended goal. I remember what an asshat Tom Cruise was when he went on her show to profess his crazy love for Katie Holmes. At the end of the day – Lance is just another doper/cheater and anything he has to say won’t change that fact. The internet has taken away the surprise value of announcements and attonements – by the time a show hits tv, we have made up our minds already.
Do you think he ever really loved cycling? The reason I ask is because it seems as if the doping went on for a good part of his career. This isn’t like aging baseball or football players who try to continue after grueling decades of injuries. I just wonder what kind of cyclist he would have been without the drugs and hormones.
Excellent question! When I look at his career and the things he did to stay at the top, I see someone who was in love with the business aspect of cycling. Maybe in the beginning there was joy in cycling and winning but I doubt there was love of the sport.
windy, Thanks for getting back to me. That’s how I see it, too. I think Lance loves: 1. Lance, 2. fame and power, and 3. money – in that order.
Kaereste says:
Ok everyone. Listen up.
Lance Armstrong and Oprah are both huge horses asses (my apologies to actual horses) but all this media coverage is just stupid.
I’m fairly sure that most people have grasped that their Idol deJour has feet of clay and speaketh with a forked tongue from both of their faces.
Since the days of Monica’s blue dress with DNA, we’ve had every heavy hitter in baseball sitting in front of congress and Tiger Woods apparently golfs best with a side of hooker and other innumerable scandals.
The people who have been injured are the associates of Live Strong charity. Everyone else was either benefiting financially from Armstrong’s cheating-winning or participating in doping’s dirt sport of cycling.
This is just a Well Duh! snooze fest to me.
LOL!!! Speaking of Tiger – looks like he may be making a different kind of comeback. 😉
http://www.businessinsider.com/tiger-woods-asked-his-ex-wife-elin-nordegren-to-re-marry-him–enquirer-2013-1
That’s cray, cray. No amount of money would make me take him back. Once a cheater, always a cheater IMO. If he loved her so much, he wouldn’t have cheated in the first place. I don’t by the sex addiction theory.
Holy sh*t – that is absolutely crazy. I hope she says NO.
http://www.naturalnews.com/038723_Lance_Armstrong_confession_sociopathic_liar.html
Here are a couple of articles about the interview, so far. One thinks that Lance hasn’t been completely honest, even to Oprah, and the second reports some not so impressive ratings for last night, even with all the hype.
http://abcnews.go.com/US/lance-armstrong-lied-oprah-cover-crimes-investigators/story?id=18245484
My adblocker isn’t allowing me in to either site even when I tell it to so I’ll just have to say that my thoughts on both Armstrong and Oprah (and her network) stand.
mth, Neither article would change most of our minds, anyway. As windy said upthread, we were pretty sure how we felt about the whole thing before they even sat down to talk 😉
I didn’t think so.. I was more curious about the ratings.
Not that great – 3.2 million.
How the mighty have fallen. That barely matches a good HWs reunion which has a very specific audience.
I confess that I was not very well informed in this Lance Armstrong bullsh*t when I first posted upthread. Although I still find it sad (as in pathetic and tragic), I am now angry. I watched the first interview and I am watching the second.
The smug looks on his face, the fact that he found himself humorous at one point, the countless looks of what appeared to be amusement, how he would not flat out say that (insert any name of a person he lambasted) told the truth while he lied….I just cannot believe what a complete and utter arrogant assh*le he is! I mean, I am not kidding….there is something so wrong with him. I find him to be very dangerous – I believe he is still very vindictive and nasty at heart. This veneer is all a ruse without a doubt. He has one goal – to get back into competitive sports. The type of person he is won’t allow anyone to say no to him and he probably can’t survive without striving to win something. I think he enjoyed crushing people because it felt like a win to him.
I am not a easily jaded person – I might actually be a bit on the idealistic side – so whenever I see this type of corruption or narcisism….I blow a gasket. I swear, my brain feels like its melting right now.
Go to hell Armstrong. I hope you NEVER get to compete in anything EVER again. That is the most fitting consequence, IMHO.
*phew* Thanks guys! I really needed to get hat out of my system.
Boobah, I’d love to hear what you think after you’ve seen both parts – that is, if you don’t implode first. As I said upthread, I’m at a disadvantage as we don’t get OWN.
LOL- I had to stick my head in the freezer to stop the pain – this type of person drives me batshitcrazy.
I dunno – maybe you have the advantage here. Haha. I will definitely let you know what I think after the 2cd part.
Well hell Boobah, Glad you got that out. I know what it feels like to believe my brain is going to melt and ooze out of my ears running down my neck burning a path like molten lava. I think OWN is gone from my cable system too, or at least it isn’t in my guide anymore so I couldn’t watch if I wanted to (which I do not) so, thanks for taking the hit for us. I’ll offer a chill pill if it’ll help you or maybe just a cold drink 🙂
I don’t know why, but something tells me that Lance shouldn’t expect a Valentine’s Day card from Boobah. I hope part 2 doesn’t do her in. 😉
LOL!! No love from me! Whatta prick. No remorse, IMO. Grrrrrr. I swear, it was touch and go there for a minute – but I made it through! LOL!
You paint a vivid picture – it’s like you were here to witness my personal destruction. I have developed a deep aversion to cheap, rubbery, yellow wristbands.
I will take both – the chill pill chased down by the cold drink. Make it two. Thanks!
Here a brief little summary of both segments of the Oprah-Lance fiasco.
First off, he says he is out of the business of calling people liars. But all he really did was change his language – now he says “that’s not the truth”. I hate manipulators like this. All semantics – Oprah called him out on this but he played the semantics game in his answer. Pissed me off.
He recognized he is a very flawed person. He goes to therapy but not consistently. He acknowledges that he is exactly the type of person who needs to be consistent with therapy though. I call bullshit. This was for the viewers benefit. Asswipe.
His first wife knew – she was aware on a need-to-know basis. He said she is very spiritual and she’s a “smart lady”. Huh? Is that weird that he would refer to his ex in such a generic way? She allowed him to return for his comeback but he had to be clean. He swears he was clean – absolutely no doping. He came in 3rd, then 23rd, iirc. He wasn’t happy. I kinda am.
He claims he is facing his demons. He said this with a quick laugh. Yeah, I believe you Lancey Boy. Jerk. He said it’s a process.
Oprah asked if the drugs contributed to his cancer.He doesn’t think so and no Doc ever suggested that. Um, what kind of Doc was that again? No sale, schmuck.
He was the leader of the team but never forced anyone else to dope. He was also part owner and had a say in who got a spot on the team and who got booted.
There was a lot of momentum behind all this debauchery. He had to continually perpetuate all this drugging and lies. He became a bully. Win at all costs. This attitude first developed when he was diagnosed with cancer with only a 50% chance of survival. Crap, now I feel a little bad. That does suck. But this attitude, he says, was good to have in order to survive but it parlayed into cycling – which is not good, he said. Cancer was much harder to deal with than this mess.
He said he is a better person after this. It’s an epic challenge. Things got too big for him.
He mentioned the cycling culture and that he didn’t have access to anything that others didn’t. He doesn’t believe winning 7 Tour de France’s is possible without the drugs. His drugging program was “smart, if you can call it that, professional but also risk adverse”. Whatever that means. You took drugs – that meets the criteria for risky behavior, fool!
He told his eldest son, 13. He son didn’t say much. What did you expect? He is 13! He will have a lot to say in therapy 10 years from now. Go and get a job, you will need to save for those bills. They are gonna be whoppers. Moron.
He mom is a wreck over this but she’s a tough “lady”. There’s that word again. It doesn’t bother me as much as when he used it with his ex-wife.He was raised to be a fighter. His whole family felt as if they had their back against the wall. They all had to fight. I might have gotten up at this point to get a ice pack for my head because I don’t remember what else he said about his childhood.
He acknowledged he was a bully. But he was very flippant about this. He couldn’t remember specific people he sued. He stated, “I don’t know…we sued so many people”. He actually chuckled a little. Dickhead Bully Bastard. The word bully definitely apples here – this isn’t HW’s make believe world.
He wasn’t worried about getting caught, he said because it was different back then. They didn’t have BioPassport. BioPassport is when they take several samples throughout the year a analyze it to look for fluctuations – these would be red flags.
He admitted to using EPO, Blood transfusions, testosterone – that was his cocktail, he said.
He feels she got the death penalty (banned from competition sports) and no one else did. He realized he should be punished but not with that. SEE! This is why he is doing this interview! Oprah asks him why he’s talking now, and he implies this.
He knows he owes a lot of people apologies and when they are ready he will give them.
The “lowest” thing that happened to him was when he was asked to step aside from his foundation. He said he was humbled and hurt by this the most. Yeah right – you just don’t like that you are not in charge of it anymore.
IMO – he was not remorseful. He just wants to compete. He was flippant and at times smug. I hated when he smiled or laughed because there is nothing laughable here – you ruined people you shit! You lied. You ENJOYED doing this. That’s what gets me – I think he enjoyed the power.
So, yeah, I got a little annoyed at this interview. I think he would do this again if given the opportunity. I wish he would just go away quietly and let his foundation continue to help people. He will ruin there credibility – although he doesn’t think so.
This is a very choppy re-cap and I am sure I left out a lot. Sorry about that. oxox
Well done Boobah… Don’t hold back, that’s what I always say when giving opinion 😀
This story reminds me a bit of Gene Simmons Family Jewels. The Jewels of course are his kids. Well, being the ultimate God Of Rock as he calls himself, he’s had more than his share of women while the one that gave him two kids, looked the other way and took care of his family. One day, she saw a photo in the media of him with a woman on each arm, and she’d had enough. At this point, he had said he had given that up. Well, we come to learn during the season, as if it was ever any real secret, that he’s had chicks on the side forever and that’s why he would never get married. Here’s the similar part.. When the family did the therapy thing with him, his kids said they respected him as a dad for providing but not as a man. Even though he’d said he was done cheating on Shannon, they claimed the only reason he was saying that was because he got caught at it. Were it not for that, he wouldn’t be attempting to change anything, and they were right.
Thank you so much, MelTH!! That means a lot. I probably should have referred to it as Highlights instead of a re-cap though. But I will tell you that I am very aware of how diffiuclt writing a re-cap is now. I was always appreciative when people such as yourself took on the task – but now I see how hard it can be. There is no way I could have been unbiased – some things just get me and this was one of ’em!
The Gene Simmons show does sound a lot like what Lance did. WTH?!? I mean, why bother with the lying if its out there in print! AND just like Lance he didn’t cop to it until he got caught?!!? I guess some people just don’t have any character.
Boobah, glad to hear that you survived and nobody had to call 911 to extract your head from the freezer!!! I have to say that it sounds like you covered the important stuff – at least with your colorful terms for Armstrong and his myriad personality defects.
Don’t worry about the objectivity part. Instead of a recap, we’ll call it an op-ed piece and then you can say whatever you want. Now I have to write a thank you note to my cable provider for not making me pay for something I probably wouldn’t have watched anyway. 😀
LOL!!!!! Nope, no 911 calls. But lots of tylenol. Haha – tell your cable compoany to call my cable company and remove OWN! 😀
Oh gosh, thanks for saying not to worry. I actually re-read what I wrote and felt a little embarrassed! It sure was an opinion piece!
You know though, as I was watching all I could think about were all the people he hurt – friends, family, teammates and especially others who are dealing with cancer. People who bought his book, invested in his words and his example while they suffered. I mean, what if right now there are some people who are dealing w/cancer and are mid-way through his book and just realized it was all lies! How do they feel?
How will his children be treated if/when they ever join a school team?
All the people he destroyed. He ruthlessly obliterated people! He got a second chance at life to do THAT?
BB posted a good article below. Everybody deserves a chance to correct a wrong. He just better be genuine. I am concerned that he is not.
Oh man, this topic really riles me up. I need to re-watch Revenge or something! 😉
Thank you Empress for all you blogs and all the hard work you put into them so that my freeloading butt can read and enjoy. I appreciate it very much!!!!!
Buttercream says:
Boobah!
Awesome re-cap – highlight … what ever you want to call it!
I laughed and laughed reading the Lines of Lies by Lance you wrote!
You captured Loser Lance’s arrogance and self centered phony baloney pony show on the BIG Oprah network! Thanks for writing and keep the ice pak handy for the next round of sports liar and cheaters blog writing!
Love the reference to Downton Abby -“We regret honesty less than we regret lies.”
Very true statement!
Speaking of frauds by those in position to inspire us…
How about this oddball scandal about the Notre Dame football star whose fake girlfriend “died” tragically of leukemia.
Here is where his inspirational story is debunked:
Manti Te’o’s Dead Girlfriend, The Most Heartbreaking And Inspirational Story Of The College Football Season, Is A Hoax
http://deadspin.com/5976517/manti-teos-dead-girlfriend-the-most-heartbreaking-and-inspirational-story-of-the-college-football-season-is-a-hoax
And here is an expert in “catfishing” who defends the player. Catfishing is posing online as someone else, typically to lure people into online dating relationships or to con people for money..
http://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/ncaaf/2013/01/17/catfish-stars-nev-schulman-max-joseph-manti-teo-saga/1843155/
I’ve been kind of following this story since I’m a Notre Dame fan. Not sure what to make of it yet.
I don’t know if this Scott Mercier is just blowing smoke (because I don’t know him), but he sounds like the true role model who should be looked up to; unfortunately nobody ever hears about these people, only the “winners” like Lance Armstrong.
http://todaynews.today.com/_news/2013/01/19/16599548-ex-teammate-lance-armstrong-is-worthy-of-redemption?lite
BB, I love this story and I hope what he says is true, too. This quote really got me : “My wife called me about four months ago and she said when this whole thing was breaking, ‘Aren’t you glad you’re not sitting down with your children tonight and telling them I had to cheat and lie to win?’’ Mercier said.
I really like this quote: “It’s bigger than cycling. It really goes to the core of (the fact that) ethics matter, (and) doing things the right way matter. It seems whether it’s business, academics, politics, I think the country is fed up. Hopefully we’re seeing a cultural shift that how you do things is more important than the result.’’ It gives me a little glimmer of hope.
Yep. Ethics and just doing the right thing – simple as that. Maybe Oprah, if she’s really trying to offer some “Life Lessons”, might want to spend a couple of nights talking to Mr. Mercier.
I’m just catching up on Season 2 of “Downton Abbey” and, Anna, one of the maids, had a great line. She said, “We regret honesty less than we regret lies.”
I just started watching Downton Abbey this season (so only two epis so far). I am definitely going to have to see Seasons 1 and 2. There is a new show on BBC premiering tonight called Ripper Street that I might check out. I’m about over “reality.” lol.
http://www.cnn.com/2013/01/18/showbiz/ripper-street-bbca/index.html?hpt=hp_bn9
Sounds interesting. Thanks for the heads up. I’ll set my DVR for it. 🙂
I guess I do have OWN according to my guide.. They moved it to replace it with the ID channel. Odd thing (or not) OWN is now in the grouping that is mostly Black channels. I have no desire to watch Dr Phil reruns though so I’ll continue to ignore the fact that I have it.
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Six Filipino Recollects among members of 55th General Chapter
Frei Bo•October 1, 2016
ROME—Fray Dionisio Selma, Prior Provincial of the St. Ezekiel Moreno Province, leads the group of Filipino Recollects who are participating in the sexennial General Chapter to be held at Casa di Esercizi Spirituali Nostra Signora Madre della Misericordia in Via di Monte Cucco, Rome, starting October 2, 2016.
The other Filipinos in the list are Fray Lauro Larlar, former prior provincial and elected delegate of the province during the 6th Provincial Chapter on February 2015; Fray Julius Marcos, vicar of the province and president of the Recoletos Educational Apostolate in the Province (REAP); Fray Raul Buhay, parish priest of the Our Lady of Mt. Carmel Parish in Brgy. Inagawan, Puerto Princesa City, Palawan; and Fray Samson Silloriquez, Fourth General Councilor, General Procurator, and General Postulator for the Causes of Saints.
Frays Marcos and Buhay were elected by the voting religious of the St. Ezekiel Moreno Province to represent this eighth youngest province of the Order.
In the light of the OAR Constitutions 335, Frays Selma and Silloriquez are “a iure” members of the said chapter while the other three are “elected” members, or properly called “delegates”.
The sixth Filipino in the roster is Fray Marlon Beof, an elected representative of the Province of St. Augustine where he is the first provincial councilor.
Highest authority
“The General Chapter is the Order’s highest authority and must be a sign of unity in charity,” says the OAR Constitutions 331.
For the incumbent Prior General, Miguel Miró, in his on-line blog: “The Chapter is a time of grace and discernment, not only for those taking part, but also for all the religious of the Order.” And he adds, “It is a call to communion, and disposing ourselves to have a plan for life and mission which stirs up hope and permits us to go forward together on the same path.”
The slogan
Considering the wind of revitalization and restructuring that has swept the entire OAR during the previous sexennium since 2010, the catchy slogan for the 55th General Chapter “springs from the heart of Augustine and touches our life and mission today,” according to Father Miró. The Spanish text reads: ‘Toda nuestra esperanza está en tu gran misericordia. Da lo que manda and manda lo que quieras.’ (‘All our hope is in your great mercy. Give us Lord what you command, and command what you will’).
The quotation is taken from St. Augustine’s Confessions 10.29.40.
The carefully chosen motto is accompanied by an ideographic representation of four religious with colors blue, orange, red and green, and whose bodies are heart-shaped. The entire figure portrays diversity united in and by charity.
Here are the other members of the historic chapter of this millennium: The General Council members—Fray Miguel Miró, Prior General; Fray José Ramón Pérez, Vicar General and President of the General Secretariat of Formation; Fray José Ma. Sánchez, Second General Councilor and President of the General Secretariat of Educational Apostolate and Youth Ministry; Fray Pablo Pandeas, Third General Councilor and President of the General Secretariat of Spirituality; Fray Jairo Alberto Gordillo, Fifth General Councilor and President of the General Secretariat of Ministerial and Mission Apostolate; and Fray Francisco Javier Tello, Sixth General Councilor and General Secretary. (Please note that Fray Silloriquez was already counted earlier.)
Pursuant to the OAR Constitutions 336, the former Prior General, Fray Desiderio Guerra, is also an “a iure” member of the chapter.
The other 7 Priors Provincial belong to the same category: Fray Sergio Sánchez (St. Nicholas), Fray Carlos Ma. Dominguez (St. Thomas de Villanueva), Fray Albeiro de Jesus Arenas (Candelaria), Fray José Ma. Aguerri (Consolation), Fray Michael Rafferty (St. Augustine), Fray Nicolás Pérez-Aradros Rubio (St. Rita), and Fray Daniel Ayala (St. Joseph).
Furthermore, the delegates elected by their respective province are: from the Province of St. Nicholas of Tolentino—Fray Rafael Mediavilla, Fray Francisco Javier Acero, Fray Angel Martinez Cuesta, and Fray Alfonso Ma. de Ligorio.
One delegate each from the following provinces: Province of Our Lady of Candelaria—Fray Jose David Niño; Province of St. Joseph—Fray Pedro Merino; Province of St. Rita of Cascia—Fray Ademir João Garcia; Province of Our Lady of Consolation—Fray Gabriel Antonio Robles; and St. Augustine Province—Fray Beof who was mentioned earlier.
Two delegates representing the Province of St. Thomas of Villanueva: Frays Miguel Angel Hernández and Julio Amezua.
Three religious brothers elected to join the assembly are Frays Enrique Gómez, Sebastián Ibañez, and Wesley Silva.
Plus, the remaining 7 more—one each from the other 7 provinces—who were elected by their respective provincial chapters, in accordance with OAR Constitutions 337. However, we are yet to get their names to complete the list.
All in all, there are 40 religious taking part in this life-changing event of the Recoletos.
Role of the Spirit
In the language of Scholastic philosophy, the abovementioned Capitulars possess “the proximate ground of possibility” for change to take place in the Order. But “the ultimate ground” lies in God’s hands.
As Father General rightly puts it: “Change is possible, given that the Spirit drives us towards a conversion that is personal, community-based, and pastoral. Only in this way will we be able to act hand-in-hand with a Church reaching out to the poor of our days: those who are poor through lacking the necessities of life, and those who are poor through having their hearts empty of love and distant from God.”
May the triune God, through the intercession of our saints and blesseds, continue to bless and guide the Order of Augustinian Recollects and the 55th General Chapter. Amen.
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Like many of the contributors to She Found It at the Movies, the intoxicating new collection of essays from female and nonbinary writers about sex, desire and cinema, I can pinpoint the exact moment I fell head over heels for cinema. One rainy Sunday, aged 16, I revelled in an accidental double-bill of Tank Girl (1995) and Gone with the Wind (1939). I’d rented the former after being lured by the pulpy swagger of the VHS cover, and the latter simply popped up on BBC2. The uncompromising punk of Rachel Talalay’s comedy action film and the sweeping majesty of Victor Fleming’s 1939 romance epic were like nothing I had seen before. I was hooked.
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Arizona studies in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance
ASMAR
Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies
Turnhout Brepols 1998-
Tempe, Ariz. ACMRS teils
Einzelne Bd. zugl. Bd. von "Medieval and Renaissance texts and studies (Tempe, Arizona : Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, 1981)"
Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies occasional publications
Sedona, Arizona: New Age pilgrim-tourist destination
by: Coats, Curtis
Arizona hispánica
by: Engstrand, Iris H.
Catastrophes and the apocalyptic in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance
The dance of death in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance
by: Clark, James Midgley 1888-1961
Reform and renewal in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance: studies in honor of Louis Pascoe, S. J.
Hebrew poetry of the Middle Ages and the Renaissance
by: Pagis, Dan 1930-1986
Friars and Jews in the Middle Ages and Renaissance
Education and society in the Middle Ages and Renaissance
Mormon settlement in Arizona: [a record of peaceful conquest of the desert]
by: MacClintock, James H.
Recent researches in the music of the Middle Ages and early Renaissance
AMS studies in the middle ages
Studies in the early Middle Ages: SEM
Italian church decoration of the Middle Ages and Early Renaissance: functions, forms and regional traditions; 10 contributions to a colloquium held at the Villa Spelman, Florence
Perspectives on Islam in Italy and Byzantium in the Middle Ages and Renaissance
by: Costigliolo, Marica 1994-
Reading The Magic Mountain in Arizona: Susan Sontag’s Reflections on Thomas Mann
by: Sina, Kai 1981-
Anthropological papers of the University of Arizona
by: Jolly, Karen Louise 1956-, et al.
Studies on the Levantine trade in the Middle-Ages
by: Ashtor, Eliyahu
Studies in the visual cultures of the Middle Ages: SVCMA
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Learning to push ‘send’ instead of ‘print’
Amar Sabih is on top of the world now that he's all but eliminated paper from his lab. / Photo: Owen Egan
Mechanical Engineering lab a paper tiger no more
Amar Sabih hates leaving a paper trail. Not that he’s doing something he wants to hide. On the contrary, the adjunct professor in the Mechanical Engineering Department and research fellow hopes that the more people hear about how he’s greened his lab, the more compelled they will be to try it for themselves.
Sabih teaches a MECH 362 (Mechanical Laboratories) lab with some 200 students. In the past, over the course of one semester, each student would print more than 200 sheets of paper including the course manual, lab reports and miscellaneous print outs. “That’s a lot of trees,” said Sabih. “I decided to do my best to eliminate paper use in our lab this semester.”
With the help of McGill’s WebCT Vista system, Sabih virtually computerized the entire course. Almost all of the material that had been printed out before now lives on the course’s website. Students submit lab reports via email and receive graded copies complete with comments from TAs the same way. The lab’s paper consumption has gone from 40,000 sheets per semester to less than 500. “Instead of hitting ‘Print’ people now push ‘Send,’” said Sabih.
“The beauty of this is that every professor can do this because we already have the necessary tools here at McGill – WebCT Vista and big servers to store files.”
As if saving our forests weren’t benefit enough, Sabih said that time, as well as trees, is being saved.
“It speeds up the process for grading reports – which are now graded and returned within a week,” he said. “And people don’t have to come to McGill to drop off and pick up their work. Less travel means less pollution.”
“It has been so easy to do this and the results have been amazing,” said Sabih. “Students were very enthusiastic about the idea right from the start and I hope that this example will push them to undertake more green initiatives in their lives.”
To learn more about how to implement WebCT Vista go to www.mcgill.ca/mycourses/
–Neale McDevitt
Law library lighting pilot project to monitor efficiency, savings
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The struggle for education in post-earthquake Haiti
It’s been a little over a year since devastation struck in Haiti. As the country slowly rebuilds its roads and buildings, what’s the situation on the ground when it comes to access to education and human rights? On Jan. 20, The Montreal Haiti Solidarity Committee (MHSC) and the Freire Project welcome tireless Haitian community activist Rea Dol to speak at a free public forum at McGill.
It’s been a little over a year since devastation struck in Haiti. As the country slowly rebuilds its roads and buildings, what’s the situation on the ground when it comes to access to education and human rights?
On Jan. 20, The Montreal Haiti Solidarity Committee (MHSC) and the Freire Project welcome tireless Haitian community activist Rea Dol to speak at a free public forum at McGill. Dol, whose determined focus is to improve the lives of the poorest members of her community, is the co-founder and director of SOPUDEP, a successful grassroots organization in Port-au-Prince that includes a K-12 school for more than 480 students, a micro-credit program for women and adult literacy training.
The struggle for education in Haiti: A public forum featuring guest speaker Rea Dol. Thursday, Jan. 20, 6 p.m. 3715 Peel St. All are welcome. Dol will be presenting in French, but the event is bilingual – whisper translators will be available. For more information please contact Travis Ross at travisross1@hotmail.com.
Sustainability symposium explores resilience and climate change
Eniethi’nikonhraiéntho’: “We’ll plant a seed in their minds”
Cows, dragons and green men in the spotlight during...
UMASS Amherst crème de la crème of Iron Chef...
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Novak Francella – Resources – Articles
Holding on to your nonprofit’s exempt status
If you think that, once your not-for-profit receives its official tax-exempt status from the IRS, you don’t have to revisit it again, think again. Whether your organization is a Section 501(c)(3), Sec. 501(c)(7) or other type, be careful. The activities you conduct, the ways you generate revenue and how you use that revenue could potentially threaten your exempt status. It’s worth reviewing the IRS’s exempt-status rules to make sure your organization is operating within them.
Hot buttons
There are many categories of tax exemption — each with its own rules. But certain hot-button issues apply to most tax-exempt entities. These include:
Lobbying. Having a Sec. 501(c)(3) status limits the amount of lobbying a charitable organization can undertake. This doesn’t mean lobbying is totally prohibited. But according to the IRS, your organization shouldn’t devote “a substantial part of its activities” trying to influence legislation.
For nonprofits that are exempt under other categories of Sec. 501(c), there are fewer restrictions on lobbying activities. Lobbying activities these groups undertake must relate to the accomplishment of the group’s purpose. For instance, an association of teachers can lobby for education reform without risking its tax exemption.
Campaign activities. The IRS considers lobbying to be different from campaign activities, which are completely off limits to Sec. 501(c)(3) organizations. This means they can’t participate or intervene in any political campaign for or against a candidate for public office. If you’re not a 501(c)(3) organization, campaign restrictions vary.
Excess profit and private inurement. The cardinal rule about profits is that a nonprofit can’t be operated to benefit private interests. If your fundraising is successful and you have extra income, you must put it back into the organization through additional services or by creating a reserve or an endowment. You can’t use extra income to reward an individual or a person’s related entities.
Unrelated revenue. If you’re generating income through a trade or business you conduct regularly and it’s outside the scope of your mission, you may be subject to unrelated business income tax (UBIT). Examples include a university that rents performance halls to nonuniversity users or a charity selling advertising in its newsletter.
Almost all nonprofits are subject to this provision of the tax code, and, if you ignore it, you could risk your exempt status. That said, losing an exempt status from unrelated business income is rare.
IRS Publication 557, Tax-Exempt Status for Your Organization, outlines the rules for all nonprofits that qualify for exempt status. We can help your nonprofit interpret and apply the information based on its specific situation.
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CARES and Families First Payroll Protection Acts - information for Benefit Funds and Labor Unions
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DOL proposes changes to Form LM-2
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Category Archives: Arc 9 (Sentinel – Interludes)
Sentinel 9.6
Posted on April 21, 2012 by wildbow
Shadow Stalker paused in her patrol when she arrived at the roof of the Hillside Mall, downtown. She’d hoped to run into some looters, had had some luck earlier in the week at this spot, but it seemed that police forces were stationed at the entrances, now. Annoyed, she walked over to the corner of the roof, so the toes of her boots were just at the brink.
She got her smartphone and dialed Emma. The phone automatically made the wireless connection to her earbud.
“Hey, superhero,” Emma answered.
“How’s Portland?”
“Good food, good shopping, boring as hell. I wish I could come back, hang out.”
“I wish you to come back, too,” Shadow Stalker admitted, “These morons are fucking pissing me off, and I’m not getting enough breaks from it. I don’t have the patience for this.”
“Which morons? The Wards?”
“The Wards,” Shadow Stalker confirmed. She sat down on the ledge. “They’re children.”
“Yeah,” Emma replied. She didn’t prod for more information or clarification. Shadow Stalker had gone over this before enough times, in one variation or another.
That didn’t stop her from returning to the subject, “Sure, some of them are older. Some have more time in the field than me. Maybe. But they’re still children, living in their comfortable, cozy little worlds. I dunno if you’ve seen what the city’s like now-”
“-I saw some on the news.” Emma interjected.
“Right. Damaged, destroyed, fucked up. This is a place those kids visit, and they’re still convinced they can fix it. I’ve lived with this all my life. Waded through this shit from the beginning. I know they’re deluding themselves. So yeah, they’re immature, new to this, and I don’t know how long I can fucking put up with them.”
“Two and a half more years, right?” Emma asked, “Then you’re off probation, free to do your thing.”
“God, don’t remind me. Makes me realize I’m not even halfway through it. I can’t believe it’s already been this long, constantly hearing them bitch about dating, or clothes, or allowances, and every time I hear it it’s like, I want to scream in their face, fuck you, you little shit, shut the fuck up. I’ve killed people, and then I washed the blood off my hands and went to school and acted normal the next day!”
Silence hung on the line for a few long moments.
“I remember,” Emma spoke, a touch subdued.
Shadow Stalker chewed on her lower lip, watched a butch policewoman pull into the parking lot, then hand out coffees to the others on duty.
“If it weren’t for all the crying and the complaining, I would almost be glad Leviathan had attacked the city. Tear away that fucking ridiculous veneer that covers everything. Get rid of those fucking fake smiles and social niceties and daily routines that everyone hides behind.”
“Yeah.” Shadow Stalker didn’t elaborate too much further on the subject. Leviathan had revealed the desperate, needy animal at the core of everyone in this city. He’d made things honest.
Most were victims, sheep huddling together for security in numbers, or rats hiding in the shadows, avoiding attention. Others were predators, going on the offensive, taking what they needed through violence or manipulation.
She didn’t care what category people fell into, so long as they didn’t get in her way, like Grue had a habit of doing. Worse yet were those who seemed intent on irritating her by being lame and depressing, like Taylor or like Vista had been this past week.
They weren’t all bad. The victim personality did have a habit of pissing her off, but she could let them be so long as the person or people in question stayed out of sight and out of mind, accepting their place without fight or fanfare. There were some ‘predators’, she could admit, that were even useful. Emma came to mind, the girl went a long way towards making life out of costume tolerable, and there was Director Piggot, who had kept her out of jail thus far, because she fit into the woman’s overarching agenda of PR and the illusion of a working system.
There was a need for that kind of person in society, someone willing to step on others to get to the top, do what was necessary, so they could keep the wheels spinning. Not all of them were so useful or tolerable, of course, but there were enough out there that she couldn’t say everyone with that kind of aggressive, manipulative psychology was a blight on society. She could respect the Piggots and Emmas of the world, if only because they served as facilitators that allowed her to do what she did best, in costume and out, respectively.
She was a ‘predator’, whether she was Shadow Stalker or Sophia. Few would deny that, even among her own teammates.
A convoy of trucks on the road below caught her attention. Each vehicle was painted dark, and two had the look of army vehicles, with gray-black mottled cloth or canvas covering the cargo or personnel at the rear. They had their headlights off to avoid drawing attention. There were two good possibilities for who they might be. The first was that it was a shipment of supplies. Food, water, first aid and tools, which would mean there was a small contingent of capes inside one of the trucks or in the immediate area. The second option was that it was Coil and his troops.
She realized she was still holding the phone, and the noise of a television or music told her Emma was still on the other line. “Something’s going on. Going to see if it leads to anything interesting.”
“Call back when you’re done, give me the recap.”
“Right.” She hung up.
Leaping into the air, she entered her shadow state, every part of her body shifting gears in the span of a half-second. Her lungs automatically stopped taking in air and her heart stopped beating. She was suddenly hyperaware of changes in the atmosphere, movements of air as it passed through her body. She had enough solidity for her body to seize the air molecules as they passed through her, and in this manner, each of her cells nourished itself.
It was strange, to feel so still. She lacked even the most basic processes and routines that normally kept the body going, things people rarely gave a second thought to. There was no near-silent roar of blood in her ears, no need to blink, no production of saliva in her mouth or movement of food and water in her gut. She just existed.
But the movement of air through her body made her feel just as alive, more alive, in a very different way. The material and gravel of the rooftop were still warm from the day’s sunlight, even submerged beneath a thin layer of water from the rain. This rising, heated air from this surface offered her an almost imperceptible added buoyance. The rest of her ascent was carried out by the momentum from her leap and the fact that she was nearly weightless. Jumping fifteen feet in the air to a rooftop one story above her was almost effortless.
She turned solid long enough to land. Changing back brought a sudden, thunderous restarting of her heart, a shudder running through her entire body as her bloodstream jerked back into motion. It only lasted the briefest of moments as she bent her knees and threw herself forward. The moment her feet left the ground, she entered the shadow state once again, sailing across the rooftop. She used one wispy foot to push herself out further as she reached the roof’s edge, so she could glide just above one rooftop without even touching ground.
In this fashion, she kept pace with the trucks, which weren’t moving slowly but weren’t going full-bore either, likely because of the condition of the roads.
It was five minutes before trouble arrived.
It was Menja that made the first move, stampeding out of a nearby alleyway, standing at a height of twenty feet tall. She drove her spear into the engine block of the lead truck, stepped in front of the vehicle and wrenched her weapon to tip the truck over and arrest its forward momentum.
The truck immediately behind tried to stop, but the flooded pavement made it impossible to get enough traction. It skidded and collided into the back of the foremost truck.
Miss Militia was climbing up out of the lead truck’s passenger door in an instant, hefting a grenade launcher to blast Menja three times in quick succession. The giantess stumbled back, raised her shield – her sister’s shield – to block a fourth shot. Hookwolf, Stormtiger, and Cricket all joined the fray, followed by their foot soldiers. On the PRT’s side, the trucks emptied of PRT troops and one more cape, Assault. They mobilized to defend, and the noise of gunfire rang through the night air.
Shadow Stalker crouched at the corner of the roof, loaded her crossbow and fired a shot at Cricket. It passed a half-foot behind the woman. Her second shot was on target, and Cricket dropped a few seconds later, tranquilized. Good – The woman’s radar might find Shadow Stalker if she wasn’t in her shadow state, and Shadow Stalker could be far more effective if the enemy didn’t see where she was attacking from.
Who else? Menja was classified as a breaker, the spatial-warping effect that surrounded her made incoming attacks smaller even as she simultaneously made herself bigger. The darts wouldn’t even be noticeable to her. Stormtiger could deflect projectiles by sensing and adjusting air currents. With the right timing, so her shots came out of the shadow state as they arrived to make contact with him? Maybe. But he was engaged in a fist fight with Assault, and she’d be risking tagging the hero. Hookwolf? No point. He was currently in the shape of a gigantic wolf made of whirring metal blades. Even if the dart did penetrate something approximating flesh, which it wouldn’t, his entire biology was so different that she doubted he would be affected.
Instead, she settled for targeting the clusters of Hookwolf’s troops. ‘Fenrir’s Chosen’. Each of the thugs had white face-paint extending from forehead to cheekbone to chin, in a crude approximation of a wolf’s face. She began dropping them at a steady rate, aiming for the biggest, the most aggressive and the ones who looked like they were in charge of lesser troops, the captains. As the troops began falling, Hookwolf’s forces became unsettled, hesitating to advance. Hookwolf reared up on two legs, pointing and howling orders, likely demanding they attack. His words were incomprehensible from the rooftop where Shadow Stalker crouched, but the tone left no mistake that he was threatening them to drive them back into the fight.
The distraction afforded Miss Militia time to prepare and fire a mortar straight into Hookwolf’s chest. As he collapsed backward, his chest cavity gaping open, her gun shimmered, split and transformed into a pair of assault rifles. She unloaded clip after clip into the enemy ranks; rubber bullets, most likely. The innate issues of the nonlethal ammunition were almost negligible in Miss Militia’s case. She could reform the gun in a second if a gun jammed.
Shadow Stalker watched a crowd of Hookwolf’s Chosen move to flank, moving along the sidewalk, where the crashed truck blocked the view of the PRT forces. Shadow Stalker raised her crossbow, hesitated. She could jump down, take them down in close quarters combat. It had been her entire reason for going out, after having to deal with the irritation of Vista. She craved that catharsis.
She holstered her crossbow, prepared to dive into their midst, and then paused as she saw the Chosen stagger back, lashing out with their hands. One shouted something, which was odd given how they had been trying to be stealthy only a moment ago.
Then another figure stepped out of the alleyway closest to them. A girl, skinny, but not in the attractive way you saw in magazines. Spindly. Was that the right word? The girl was hard to make out in the gloom – there were no lights on the street, and the only light was what filtered from the moon and through the rain clouds. The girl glanced left, around the back of the truck, then glanced right, where she might have seen Shadow Stalker if she looked up just a little. The lenses of her mask caught the moonlight, flashing a pale yellow.
Skitter.
A feral smile spread across Shadow Stalker’s face, beneath her mask.
Shadow Stalker resisted the urge to jump down, watched as the shadow of the bug girl’s swarm moved over the Chosen, almost obscuring them from view. The bug girl drew her combat stick, whipped it out to full length, and dispatched the Chosen one by one. Shadow Stalker couldn’t see the hits, between the darkness and the obscuring mass of the swarm, but she saw the splashes and movements of the Chosen as they fell to the ground, clutching their faces, knees, and hands.
Some of the bugs flowed out to pass over the PRT forces and the Chosen. The thugs started recoiling and slapping at themselves, but Shadow Stalker couldn’t see much reaction from the PRT forces. They were made of sterner stuff, in a way, and their uniforms covered them thoroughly enough that the bugs wouldn’t do nearly as much damage, if they were even attacking.
Skitter emerged from the center mass of the swarm, carrying a bag of supplies from the truck. It was green canvas, large, not dissimilar to a gym bag. Pulling the strap over one shoulder, she briskly retreated back into the alley, the bugs trailing after her like the tail of a slow moving comet, or the steady trail of smoke from a candle.
“Hungry, are you?” Shadow Stalker murmured to herself. She shifted into her shadow state, moved along the rooftop to follow the girl. Shadow Stalker was almost entirely silent in this state, virtually impossible to see, especially in this light, unless someone was actively looking for her. She was a gray shadow against a background of black and shades of gray.
You saw my face. Shadow Stalker thought, Records say you’ve got no team, now. Operating alone between the old Boardwalk and the east end of Downtown.
She leaped to the next rooftop, and the movement carried her a little ahead of her target, helped by the fact that the bug girl was moving a little slower with her burden. Shadow Stalker paused and reached up beneath her cloak and between her shoulder blades. She withdrew a cartridge for her crossbow, each bolt loaded in at a slight angle, so the aluminum ‘feathers’ at the tail of each bolt stuck out. She popped out one bolt to examine it, then turned it around so the barbed, razor sharp arrowhead caught the moonlight. As Skitter passed beneath her, she turned the bolt’s point so her perspective made it appear to be at the girl’s throat.
Operating solo means there’s nobody to miss you.
She entered her shadow state and moved further along the rooftop, only to feel a group of flying insects pass through her body. A fraction of a second later, Skitter was running, abandoning the bag, disappearing around a corner, not even turning to look Shadow Stalker’s way.
“You want to run? I don’t mind a bit of a chase,” Shadow Stalker smiled behind her mask, loading the cartridge into her right-hand crossbow. She leaped after the girl, gliding down to street level, rebounding off a wall to turn the corner and give pursuit.
Skitter had turned around, was waiting as she rounded the corner. The bug girl sent a mass of insects out to attack.
The bugs passed through Shadow Stalker’s body, slowing her momentum. She suspected that if there were enough of them, they could even carry her aloft, push her back. But there weren’t – the swarm wasn’t quite big enough. As the stream of insects passed through her, reoriented in preparation to flow through her again, she pounced.
The residual bugs threw her off, slowing down her power. Her body had to push them out of the space it wanted to occupy, delayed the change back to her normal self by a half-second. Her hand passed through Skitter’s throat, but she caught her balance, drew her rearmost foot up and back in a half-spin. Her heel collided with Skitter’s mask.
Skitter went down, and Shadow Stalker turned her crossbow on her fallen opponent. She was about to fire when the combat stick lashed out. She lifted the crossbow up just in time – had she been a second slower, the stick might have broken her weapon. Acutely aware of the bugs clustering on her, she dropped into her shadow state before they could crawl beneath her mask.
The stick passed through her head, once. She resisted the urge to snap back to her normal form and retaliate. The girl was powerless here. Shadow Stalker could afford to hound her, drive her to the brink of desperation, wear her down.
The bug girl switched to a one-handed grip on her baton, flying insects clustering around her to mask her movements as she backed away a step. She used her free hand to push the wet hair out of her face. Then she adjusted her costume, reaching to tug her shoulderpad forward a bit, then reached behind her back to do much the same with the armor there.
“You really want to fight me?” Shadow Stalker asked her opponent, a note of incredulity in her voice. She raised her right crossbow. The one with the lethal ammunition.
Skitter didn’t reply.
Whatever else Shadow Stalker might think of the bug girl, how the girl was creepy, a freak, she had to admit Skitter had demonstrated enough viciousness to date that she could almost respect the girl as a fellow predator. An idiot, for wanting to fight her, but kindred, in a fashion. “Alright, fine.”
Skitter gripped her weapon two-handed again. The grip was strange. Something in her left hand?
Shadow Stalker realized what it was. She simultaneously moved back, gripped her cloak with her left hand and shifted to her solid state to raise the fabric as a barrier. The pepper spray spattered her cloak.
When she was sure the spray had dissipated, she threw her cloak back over one shoulder and shifted to her shadow state to escape the bugs that were crawling on her, taking advantage of her solidity. She lunged after Skitter, who was running, already turning a corner at the other side of the alley.
Good runner, but I’m faster.
Shadow Stalker didn’t need to slosh through the water, but she knew she would be faster than the other girl even if she did. It wasn’t just her shadow state eliminating wind resistance, or the lightness of her body. She was a trained runner.
She bounded from one wall of the alley to the one opposite, staying above the water, pursuing her target.
Skitter was going up the steps of a fire escape. Shadow Stalker aimed and fired a bolt – the girl ducked, and the shot clipped a railing instead.
Good reflexes. Shadow Stalker brushed away at the bugs massing around her. Or do your bugs help you watch what I’m doing? Disturbing little freak.
Apparently deciding the fire escape wasn’t a great option, Skitter climbed over the railing and leaped a half-story down to the pavement, putting a chain link fence and some accumulated trash bags between herself and Shadow Stalker.
Moron. I can walk through that fence. She loaded her crossbow, aimed, and fired through the fence at the girl.
A flash and spray of sparks erupted as the shot made contact with the fence. Skitter stumbled as the bolt hit her, but Shadow Stalker couldn’t see if it had done any damage.
No, what concerned her was the flash. She ignored the fact that Skitter was disappearing, entered her solid state and touched the side of her mask.
Lenses snapped into place, showing a blurry image of the alley in shades of dark green and black. The chain link fence, however, was lit up in a very light gray. Similarly glowing, a wire was stapled to the brick of the building next to the fence, leading to a large, pale blob inside the building. A generator.
The fence was electrified.
Shadow Stalker snarled at what had almost been a grave mistake, entered her shadow state and leaped up and over the fence, being careful not to touch it.
One of the reasons she couldn’t move through walls at will, beyond the huge break in her forward momentum and the excruciating pain that came with stalling in the midst of a wall, was wiring. She remained just as vulnerable, maybe even more vulnerable, to electrocution. The people in the PRT labs couldn’t tell her if she could be killed by electrocution – traditional organs were barely present in her shadow state – but it was one of those things that couldn’t be properly tested without risking killing the subject.
End result? She had to be careful where she went, had received tinker-made lenses to help her spot such threats.
Skitter had known the fence was electrified, judging by the route she’d taken through the fire escape. The area here didn’t have any power, so the question was whether it something this area’s inhabitants had set up to protect themselves… or was it a trap Skitter had put in place well in advance? No. More likely the girl had studied this area before carrying out any crimes.
Still, it troubled her that the girl had thought to use the fence like she had. She really didn’t like the idea that the villain had not only seen her face, but that she might have figured out one of her weaknesses. Two, if she counted the pepper spray. Being permeable was a problem when she absorbed gases, vapors and aerosols directly into her body. It wouldn’t affect her if she was in her shadow state, and it would eventually filter out, but if she were forced to change back, she’d suffer as badly as anyone, if not worse.
Shadow Stalker caught up to the girl yet again, saw Skitter running with her swarm clustered tightly around her. Was the girl wanting to make herself a harder target?
Hardly mattered – Shadow Stalker loaded and fired another bolt.
At the same instant the bolt fired, the swarm parted in two. Two swarm-wreathed figures covered in bugs, each turning at a right angle to round a corner. The bolt sailed between them. One was a decoy, just a swarm in a vaguely human shape.
She checked the sides of the alley and the recessed doors. Could they both be decoys? She couldn’t see any obvious hiding spots that Skitter could have used at a moment’s notice.
Shadow Stalker closed the distance, placing herself at the intersection between the two bug-shrouded figures. Holding each crossbow out in an opposite direction, she fired at both targets at once, snapping her attention from one to the next in an attempt to see which reacted to the hit.
One slowed, began to topple. She lunged after, in pursuit, loaded her crossbow and fired two more shots into the center mass of Skitter’s body while airborne, then kicked downward with both feet as she landed, to shove the girl into the ground.
Her body weight dissolved the blurry silhouette into a mess of bugs. A trick.
Snarling, Shadow Stalker wheeled around, ran in the direction the other half of the swarm had gone Had the girl’s armor taken the bolt? Had the crossbow shot missed?
More bugs were flowing from the area to join the swarm, bolstering its number enough for it to split again. She wasn’t close enough to be sure of a hit, and she didn’t want to waste her good arrows, so she delayed, leaped forward to close the gap.
The swarm split once more, making for four vaguely human figures in total, each cloaked in a cloud of flying insects.
Shadow Stalker snarled a curse word.
One figure turned on the spot, moved as if to slide past Shadow Stalker. She lashed out, striking it in the throat, failed to hit anything solid.
She loaded her crossbows, fired at the figure on the far left and the far right of the trio. No reaction. She dove after the remaining one.
She made contact, drove the bug girl’s face down into the water. She shifted into her shadow state, straddling Skitter. The girl turned over of her own volition – easy enough, as Shadow Stalker was barely solid, but when Skitter tried to stand, Shadow Stalker resumed her normal form for a second – just long enough to force the girl back down.
Picking one of her non-tranquilizer bolts from the cartridge, she held the point of the ammunition to Skitter’s throat like a knife, “Game over, you little freak.”
Skitter cocked her head a little, as if analyzing Shadow Stalker from a different perspective.
“What are you looking at?” Shadow Stalker spat the word, “Nothing to say? No last words? No begging? No fucking apologies?”
Skitter went limp, letting her head rest against the ground, the water lapping over most of her mask. Dark curls fanned out in the water around her, swaying as the water rippled.
“Guess I don’t need to worry about the villain who saw my face, now.” Shadow Stalker went solid and drew the razor-sharp tip of her bolt across Skitter’s throat.
The fabric didn’t cut.
Skitter struggled to get free, but Shadow Stalker’s body weight was too much for her to slide free. She gripped the girl’s wrists with her hands, pinned them to the ground.
“Irritating,” she spat the word. She could always go into her shadow state, stick the arrow inside the girl and then return to normal. The problem with going that route was that it left a very characteristic imprint in the victim. She would need a way of covering up the evidence. Something she could hit Skitter with afterward that would make the wound too messy to analyze for evidence.
While she craned her head to one side to the next to search for something useful, her surroundings were plunged into darkness.
It took her only a moment to realize what that meant. She climbed off Skitter, moved to run. The darkness was oppressive, sluggish in moving through her, unlike ordinary air. She was slower, wasn’t taking in enough oxygen. Against her will, her power instinctively adjusted, shifted her into a middle ground between her regular self and her shadow state. It left her slower, heavier.
She baited me.
A massive shape tore through her, dissipated her entire body. She pulled back together, but it was hard, painful and uncomfortable on an unspecific, fundamental level. It left her breathing hard, feeling like she’d just put her body through five hours of the hardest exercise of her life. Enervating, was that the right word? Bugs were gathering inside and around her body, making it a little harder and a little more time-consuming to pull together.
Then, before she had succeeded in pulling herself all the way together, it happened again, another large form striking from another direction, passing through her lower body.
She sagged. Gasped out in pain as another shape passed through her head and shoulders. The darkness absorbed her cry so it barely reached her own ears.
It was only seconds later that the darkness dissipated. She was on her hands and knees, barely had the strength to move, let alone fight. She tried to raise her right crossbow, but her hand seized up, no longer under her own control as it bent to a pain like a bad Charlie horse. Her fingers curled back, and the crossbow tumbled from her fingers. She still had one in her left hand, but she was using the heel of that hand to prop herself up.
Her opponents were revealed as the shadows passed, arranged in a rough ring around her. Hellhound and her dogs took up half the clearing, in front of Shadow Stalker. She held a metal ring in each hand, with two chains extending out from each ring. The chains, in turn, were connected to harnesses around the heads and snouts of the ‘dogs’, each animal only a little smaller than a refrigerator. They were monstrous, with scaly, horned exteriors and exposed muscle. Not as big or ugly as they could get, Shadow Stalker knew. The smallest one was barking incessantly. Three of the four were pulling on the chains, hungry to get at Shadow Stalker, clearly intent on tearing her apart. Hellhound’s sharp pulls on the chains contracted the bindings around their snouts, which made them stop before they could get too close.
Grue stood to her left, arms folded, almost indistinguishable from the darkness behind him. After her first humiliating loss to him, she’d made it a mission to drive him out of this city. He’d stubbornly refused. A girl Shadow Stalker didn’t recognize stood just behind him, wearing a black scarf and a pale gray mask with pointed horns arching over the top of her head. The eyes of the mask had lenses that were black from corner to corner, stylized to look fierce, more animal than human.
Rounding out the group were Tattletale, Regent and Skitter. Tattletale smiled, her hands clasped behind her back, while Regent twirled his scepter in his fingers. Skitter stood between the two of them. The bug girl bent, then crouched until she was almost at eye level with Shadow Stalker.
A laugh escaped Shadow Stalker’s lips, building until she couldn’t balance her upper body on her weakened arm. She bent so one shoulder hit the ground, rolled onto her back, arms at her sides. She looked up at Skitter, “All that drama, all that fucking nonsense about allegiances, betraying your team, was it a trick, some joke?”
Skitter shook her head slowly.
Shadow Stalker tried to rise, but the growling of one of the dogs intensified. It was the only one that wasn’t pulling on its chain – the largest and most monstrous of the four, with one empty eye socket. Between the threat of the dog and the lack of strength in the arm that Regent wasn’t fucking up, Shadow Stalker gave up and let herself slump down.
“Well,” she spoke, her tone sarcastic, “How wonderfully fucking nice for you, that you guys patched things up. You even have a new member, congratulations. I guess everything’s back to normal for you freaks.”
“No…” Skitter spoke, and the bugs around her chirped, buzzed and droned to match the pitch and tone of her words. The villain hadn’t done that when the Undersiders attacked the fundraiser, she remembered. Her voice was quiet, which only made it more eerie. The girl held out her hand, and Regent passed his scepter to her.
“…Things are different now,” Skitter finished.
Skitter drove the scepter into Shadow Stalker’s body. It was everything Shadow Stalker could do to stay solid as she felt the tines of the crowned stick biting through the fabric of her costume and into her stomach. She resisted the instincts that two and a half years of exercising her powers had lent her, because she knew what came next. It’ll be worse if I’m in my shadow state, maybe lethal.
Being tased didn’t hurt as much as she’d expected. It was like being doused in ice water, her entire body seizing, straining, and refusing to cooperate, the pain almost secondary. What hurt most was the way she involuntarily clenched of her jaw. The strength with which her teeth pressed together made her worry she might crack a tooth.
It only lasted a moment, but her body wasn’t any more cooperative after the current subsided. She lay there, huffing small breaths, every limb unresponsive. A deep, furious rage grew inside her chest, but she was impotent to do anything to release it.
A pair of hands seized her, sat her up. Her arm dangled limp to her side.
Grue spoke from behind her. “Skitter, lift her legs. Regent, support her midsection. Imp? Give me a hand with her upper body, take the other shoulder. We lift on three, alright?”
“Right,” someone said.
“One, two, three!”
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“Don’t cross the yellow line,” Flechette spoke.
“Right,” Vista agreed, “I got the message the last time I came this way.”
Flechette leaned forward, found a string, beaded with water from the rain. She plucked it twice.
Parian sloshed out from a nearby alley. A nine-foot tall rabbit with an eyepatch and boxing gloves followed a few feet behind her, moving on two legs, swaggering forward like it had a chip on its shoulder.
“It’s cute!” Vista smiled.
“Hi Vista,” Parian greeted her. “Hi Flechette.”
“Hey,” Flechette smiled, “We come bearing gifts.”
Vista stepped forward and held out a shopping bag, “A dozen gallons of water, some rice, some tins of beans, multivitamins and first aid supplies. My power will wear off pretty soon, so get the bag somewhere safe before then.”
“It’s basic stuff,” Flechette said, “But it’ll hold you for a little while.”
“Thank you,” Parian spoke, reaching over the makeshift yellow line for the bag. She held it behind her back with both hands. Just over her right shoulder, cloth formed into a rough shape, a trio of needles with attached spools of thread weaving in and around it, a razor cutting at pieces of it.
“How are you managing?” Flechette asked.
“Some kids came through around noon, roughed up the mother of one of my friends.”
“I told you to call me if there was trouble!”
“I handled it. Kind of. They ran when they saw my rabbit. According to my friend’s mom, they were trying to get someone to tell them where they could get food, and she was afraid they’d take everything if she told them where we have our stuff. I think they were more hungry than dangerous. Not enough food going around.” The cloth took on a rough shape with arms and legs. “Erm, that makes it sound like I’m blaming you guys-”
“You’re right,” Flechette interrupted. “We’re not doing a good job of getting supplies to everyone. We can’t. Any time we try to distribute it, a group like Hookwolf’s gang or the Merchants try to seize it. Even if the heroes on duty fend them off, the citizens get scared away.”
“I suppose we’re lucky to have this haven, here. So far. I dunno how long before someone I can’t scare off comes through.”
“You have my number.”
Vista turned away as a third voice sounded in her ear. She stepped away from the conversation, shook her head a little to shake off the water that the steady rain was depositing on her.
Vista squeezed the earbud, “Sorry? I didn’t catch that?”
“Weld here. Kid Win has something to report, asked everyone to come in. Can you make it back here quickly?”
She hurried back to Flechette’s side and waited a few seconds for a break in the conversation. When none was forthcoming, she put a hand on Flechette’s arm.
“Weld wants us back asap.”
A look of disappointment crossed Flechette’s face.
“I’ll see you later?” Parian asked.
“I’ll stop by later, unless I’m done with patrols for the night,” Flechette shrugged.
“I’ll look forward to it,” Parian replied. She turned to Vista, “Here.”
Vista accepted her gift. A stuffed rabbit, made in the last-minute or so. It was finely detailed, wearing a fancy dress with lace trim. The fur had a softness that indicated high quality material, despite being wet. She would have been delighted with the gift, were she four years younger.
It was still a really nice gesture.
She suppressed her annoyance at the child’s gift and offered a smile instead, “Thank you, Parian.”
“Let’s go,” Flechette spoke, “Back to headquarters?”
“Back to headquarters. Come on, we’ll take my shortcut.”
They walked two blocks east to reach Lord street. Beneath the water’s surface, they could see a fissure that ran down the center of the road, zig-zagging from one lane to the other.
Vista stepped out into the middle of the road at the edge of the fissure, then concentrated. She felt her power extend to every solid object in front of her, formed a map in her head. There was nobody out there, which made it easier. Slowly, carefully, she began adjusting. She truncated the length of Lord street, then did it again, repeating the process to make the four lane road shorter and shorter. The fissure down the center of the road squeezed against itself like a compressed spring.
“This is disorienting,” Flechette spoke, as she gazed at the scene. “My power gives me a grasp of angles… and I’m worried I might have a seizure if I try to use it to get a sense of what’s happening here.”
“It’s not that complicated. Everything’s like wet clay, and I’m smudging it around.”
Vista deemed her work done, started walking forward. Flechette followed, eyeing the distorted sidewalk at the edges of the effect.
“You’re powerful, kiddo,” Flechette said.
“Kinda.”
“You could be one of the top dogs in the Protectorate, in five or six more years.”
Vista frowned, “They said the same thing about Dauntless.”
“One of the Protectorate members who got killed, if I remember right?”
Vista nodded.
Flechette frowned, “That’s… unexpectedly dark, coming from you. Where did that come from?”
“What we do is dangerous. Sometimes we die. I don’t see why I should worry about what happens five years from now when I might not even be here.”
“Are you having second thoughts about being on the team?”
Vista gave Flechette a look, “No. Not in the slightest.”
“But if you’re concerned about risking your life…”
“I didn’t say I was concerned,” Vista said, a note of exasperation in her voice, “Just that, hey, it might happen. I’m being realistic.”
“I can’t tell if you’re being amazingly mature about the topic of death or if I should be really concerned about you.”
“Amazingly mature?”
They had reached the PRT building. A trip that had taken them thirty minutes on the way out had taken them four on the way back, with the aid of Vista’s power. Flechette held the bulletproof glass door open, raised a hand in greeting to the PRT uniform who stood alert on the other side. “You know what I mean.”
Vista had to bite her tongue. Pointing out that people were being condescending had a way of making her look petulant, which only compounded the problem. Yes. Because any maturity on my part is something special. Doesn’t matter that I have nine months of seniority over Kid Win, being thirteen means everyone expects me to be squealing over Justin Beiber or the Maggie Holt books, or dressing in pink or-
Her train of thought stopped dead when her eye fell on the portraits on the wall above the front desk.
Three feet high and two feet wide, the two pictures were black and white, bordered by foot-wide black frames. The pictures themselves were head-and-shoulders shots of Aegis and Gallant, both in costume, masks on. She knew from her own experience that the pictures would have been taken in their first week on the team. Gallant looked so young. He had still been so young when the tidal wave had smashed into him and caved in his chest. Only seventeen.
She looked at her own picture. In contrast to the boys’, it was vibrant, filled with color. Her eyes, costume and the frame of the picture were a high-saturation blue-green, the background of the image a sunset orange to highlight her blonde hair. Vista was young in that picture too. Her photo had a missing fang tooth on the bottom row, which created a small, dark gap in her awkward smile. She’d been just a month shy of turning eleven, then.
She hated that picture.
She hated it all the more because she couldn’t help but wonder if the time would come when that picture would be hanging over the front desk in black and white, smiling that guileless goofy smile that was everything she didn’t want people to remember about her.
Hell, were they even doing Gallant justice? The guy who’d set out to be the literal knight in shining armor, lived his life with more chivalry than any five people you plucked off the street? All he got was a photo and a name on a memorial.
“You okay?” Flechette asked.
Vista tore her eyes from the portraits, “I’m fine. Let’s go, Weld’s waiting.”
Without waiting for Flechette, she marched for the elevator. Flechette fell in step behind her.
Everyone else was sitting in the meeting room, except for Director Piggot, who stood with her arms folded.
“Thank you for being prompt,” Piggot spoke, “Would you please have a seat?”
Vista obediently sat in the chair closest to her. Flechette found a chair beside Weld.
“Kid Win?” Piggot prompted.
“Here’s the deal, guys. I went out to talk to Chariot, and there’s a bit of a complication.” He tapped the screen of his smartphone, and the computer screen at one end of the table changed to show text from a series of emails. “Chariot hasn’t yet agreed to join the team, but there’s evidence that he fully intends to join as a mole for an unknown party.”
“This evidence was assumed using legal methods, of course,” Piggot spoke.
“Of course,” Kid Win grinned in a way that left no doubt for anyone present that he was lying through his teeth. “We believe this unknown party is Coil. There’s no other criminals in town that would really do this. Fenrir’s Chosen aren’t that subtle, and they’re too racist to work with Chariot. Purity’s group is, again, too racist. The Undersiders aren’t well-funded enough. It doesn’t fit the Travelers’ MO.”
“That,” Piggot spoke, “And there are prior cases of Coil using undercover operatives.”
“Prior cases?” Weld asked.
“This doesn’t leave this room,” Piggot spoke. Vista nodded alongside everyone else. “We know there are three agents employed in this very building who are working for Coil.”
“Seriously?” Clockblocker asked. “As in, right now?”
“Yes,” Piggot nodded, “We might have gone entirely unaware, but Dragon found that one face on our security camera footage matched up with that of a known soldier of fortune. On investigation, we found two more. Capable gunmen, each with a wide array of skills ranging from facility with computers to multiple languages. Very much the type Coil would employ. We might have arrested them, but I spoke with people with higher credentials and clearance than myself, and we came to the unanimous agreement that it would be ideal to keep those mercenaries employed here. It allows us to keep a close eye on them for knowledge we could use, and we occasionally feed them bad or misleading information, obviously with a great deal of consideration each time.
“Which brings me to the primary subject of this meeting,” Piggot informed them. “I would like to do the very same thing here, with Chariot. He would work alongside you, quite likely see you unmasked. You would socialize with him, and you would pretend not to know that he is passing on information to his employer. For that, for the risks you would be undertaking, I require your express permission.”
Kid Win whistled.
“Dealing with the relationships between team members is difficult enough to begin with,” Weld spoke, “And you want to add this into the mix?”
“I wouldn’t ask you to do it if I didn’t think you could handle it.”
“What if we say no?” Clockblocker asked.
“If only one or two of you disagreed, out of fear of your civilian identities being used against you, I would propose splitting up your team’s schedules so you did not share any shifts with Chariot. Ideally this would coincide with each of you returning to school, so your busy schedules could serve as sufficient excuse for why you do not cross paths with the boy. Given how complicated this becomes, I would much prefer that all of you were onboard.”
“I have no problem with it,” Weld spoke, “But I have no secret identity, no friends or family here to watch out for. I totally, one hundred percent understand if anyone else has objections.”
“Not a local or a long term member of the team, here,” Flechette said, “My vote probably shouldn’t count, but I’m okay with it, if it’s what the PRT needs to do.”
“Good,” Piggot spoke, “And the rest of you?”
Shadow Stalker was next to agree, followed by Kid Win, Vista and then a reluctant Clockblocker.
Piggot offered them a rare smile, “Good. For your information, the earpiece communication channel, the computers at this console, the spare laptops and the spare smartphones will all be continually monitored by a team upstairs. Your own laptops and smartphones will be free of this prying. This makes it doubly important that you do not lose these possessions or let him gain access to them.”
“He’s a tinker,” Kid Win pointed out, “He might be able to figure out he’s being watched.”
“Admittedly true, but I have assurances from Dragon that the programs and devices she has put together are sufficiently discreet.” She clasped her hands together, “Thank you, Wards, for your cooperation. Your service since the start of the Endbringer event has been exemplary. Trust me when I say I will find some way to make it up to you.”
She moved to leave, stopped, “And Kid Win? Good work.”
Kid Win smiled broadly.
The Wards watched in silence until the moment the elevator door closed.
“It’s really freaking creepy when Piggy acts human,” Clockblocker commented. There were chuckles from the rest of the group. Vista’s own titter was tinged with relief. The crack was a sign that Dennis was putting out an effort, acting more like his old self.
“Alright guys,” Weld spoke, clapping his hands together once, generating a muted clink, “We needed to be ready with a response in case Chariot replied, I’m sorry about interrupting your nights. Lily, could I have a word with you before you head out again?”
Flechette nodded and followed Weld to the far corner of the room.
Vista went to get a sports drink from the kitchen in one of the alcoves. Kid Win was sketching in a notebook. If he was feeling inspired, it would be best to leave him alone.
She stood behind him at enough of a distance to avoid distracting him, and watched the comedy on the TV, sipping her drink. She felt a hand on her shoulder, turned to see Weld.
Weld spoke quietly, “You look like you could use a shower. Go warm up, then get yourself dry and in comfortable clothes. Clockblocker is replacing you on your patrol, you can come with me in a few hours.”
“Come see me when you’re done. I want to have a chat. Nothing bad.”
She nodded again. So Flechette said something.
She headed into the bathrooms, detoured into the adjacent girl’s bathroom with accompanying showers. She kicked off her boots, removed her body armor, and hung the armor on one of the drying dummies. She removed the dress and peeled off the stockings, and hung the clothes on a second dummy, where they would be subjected to a steady, gentle flow of warm air. Her boots were placed upside down on the heating vent below the dummies, propped up against the wall. She removed her underwear last, putting it in a basket with the rabbit Parian had made, and grabbed a towel.
It felt strange, removing her costume. It was like she wasn’t herself. When had she started seeing herself more as Vista than as Missy Biron? When her parents divorced, and she started taking extra shifts to get away from the oppressive atmosphere? After one year on the team, two?
She hung the towel up and stood under the spray of hot water, rinsing off the dirt and the grime that had come with the damp, dirty water that was everywhere outside, now. It didn’t take long to soap up and rinse off, but she spent a long few minutes leaning there with her hands against one wall of the stall, letting the water run over her, not thinking about anything in particular.
She cranked the water off and walked over to the sink to look at herself in the mirror, her towel around her shoulders.
The water had removed most of it, but there was a line of dried blood flecks on her throat from where the wire had pulled against it. She had another, similar, mark on her left arm, by her elbow. She picked the flecks away with one fingernail, then rinsed her finger clean with a spray of water from the faucet. Only a pink line remained. Neither serious enough to warrant worrying about. There was bruising on one of her knees, the thigh and around the side of her pelvis where the bone was closest to the skin, from where rubble had fallen on her, green-yellow in color.
There were older injuries too. Small scars on her hands, tiny cuts on her legs, the bump of a dime-sized keloid scar on the top of one foot. The one that caught her eye was on the right side of her chest, an inch and a half down from her collarbone. An inch wide, the scar puckered inward a bit. It had been the result of an altercation with Hookwolf as the villain escaped the scene of a grisly attack on a grocer, a year ago. A blade on the villain’s arm had punctured her armor as he’d knocked her aside. She’d felt the pain of her skin being penetrated and she’d kept quiet about it out of a desperate need to shake the label of being the team baby. She didn’t want to be seen as the one always in need of help and protection. It would have been embarrassing to ask for medical attention, only for it to be a scratch.
It had only been later that she’d seen how serious it was, how much it had been bleeding into the fabric of her costume, underneath her breastplate. She’d stitched it up herself, here, in the showers. She’d done as best as she was able, worked with a kind of grim determination. Not the most competent job, in the end.
She kind of regretted that series of decisions, now. She was a late bloomer, looked younger than she was, but when she did eventually have the sort of cleavage she could show off, the scar would be there, plain as day. It might even be worse, when that time came, depending on how the scar stretched as her chest grew.
Vista might have tried asking Panacea to fix it, but hadn’t been able to summon up the courage. Now, as she thought about it, she thought maybe she didn’t really want to get rid of it. A part of her took a perverse kind of pride in the fact that she had a scar, as though it was some kind of proof to herself that she was a good soldier. It was a sort of validation of the philosophy she’d been outlining to Flechette. Why stress about a scar on her chest when some villain could kill her before it became an issue?
A toilet flushed in one of the bathroom stalls, and Vista hurried to pull her towel from around her shoulders and wrap it around herself, hiking it up to cover the scar on her chest.
Sophia strolled over to the sink next to Vista. She gave the younger girl a cool look, “Don’t freak out, midget. It’s not like you have anything worth hiding.”
Bristling at the midget comment and the crack about her chest, Vista just stared at herself in the mirror, ignoring the girl.
Sophia finished washing her hands, then got her toothbrush and brushed her teeth. She took her time, while Vista stood there, clutching the towel around herself with both hands.
Finishing, Sophia put her toothbrush away, and, as she’d been doing recently, put a hand on Vista’s head as she passed by. Only this time, she mussed up the younger girl’s hair, with more roughness than was necessary. “Carry on, kid.”
Great, Vista thought. Dennis might be acting more like his old self, but Sophia is too.
She combed out her hair, sorting out the tangles that Sophia’s attention had given her, dried off, and then went to her locker to get a change of clothes: A t-shirt, sweatshirt and flannel pyjama pants. Comfortable clothes. She pulled on slippers and went to find Weld.
Sophia was manning the console, browsing Facebook. Kid Win was testing out the armor – four guns with the size and shape of large pears were floating around the shoulders in a loose formation.
Rather than distract Chris or have to deal with Sophia again, Vista left the headquarters and headed into the elevator. Weld’s room was in the hallways one floor up, opposite Kid Win’s workshop.
The door was open, and he was there, reclining on the a heavy-duty chair of the same model as the one he had in the conference room. He had headphones on, his feet on a granite counter where his computer sat. She’d never been in his room. Looking around, she saw rack upon rack of CDs, DVDs and vinyl records. There was no bed, but he didn’t really need to sleep, so that made some sense. It was easily possible that he slept in the chair.
His head was bobbing with the music until he spotted her. He gave her a quick nod, pulled off his headphones and turned off the speaker system.
“You wanted to talk to me?” she asked.
“I sent Flechette on patrol with you because she’s got an objective perspective on the team, and I wanted to see if her thoughts on you echoed my own. True enough, you were only out for a short while, and she’s already expressed concerns.”
“Tell me straight up, are you doing okay?”
“People keep asking me that. I’m fine.”
“Flechette said you were sounding pretty fatalistic when you were on patrol, a little while ago. I know you were fond of Gallant, that you were pretty inconsolable when you were in the hospital, at his bedside.”
Vista looked away.
“And now you’re acting like nothing fazes you, even the idea of you maybe dying in the near future. I have to know, Missy. Do you have a death wish? Are you going to be putting yourself in unnecessary danger?”
“No,” she said. When his expression didn’t change, she repeated herself, louder, “No. You saw me against the Travelers. I don’t think I did anything stupid there.”
“You didn’t.”
“I just want to do a good job as a member of this team. Carry on their memory. Act like they would want me to act. I can work twice as hard, be twice as tough, twice as strong, if it means making up for them being gone.”
“That’s a pretty crazy burden to be shouldering.”
“And it could go somewhere problematic, if you get frustrated, let it consume you, alongside this blasé attitude towards death you seem to be adopting.”
“I can deal.”
Weld sighed. “Maybe. Maybe not. You know what I think?”
Vista shrugged.
“I think you should let your teammates take some of the responsibility there. Trust them to help carry on the legacy.”
She shook her head, “Nobody else seems to care as much-”
Weld raised a hand, “Stop. Let me finish. Remember that your teammates have their individual strengths to their personalities. I don’t know enough about Aegis or Gallant to say for sure, but I think maybe Clockblocker is stepping up to become more of a leader, in Aegis’s absence. It could be part of why there’s friction between him and me, even if he doesn’t fully realize it.”
“Gallant was sort of preparing to be the team leader, for when Aegis graduated,” Vista said, her voice quiet.
Weld nodded. “The impression I’ve picked up, and forgive me if I’m off target, is that Aegis was the head of the team, the leader, strategist and manager. Gallant, maybe, was the heart. The guy who tied you all together, kept the interpersonal stuff running smoothly. Would I be wrong in assuming he was the one who handled Sophia best?”
Vista shook her head. A lump was growing in her throat.
“Okay. With all this in mind, I have one suggestion and two orders. My suggestion? Stop trying to be everything they were. Be what you’re good at, a caring, sweet young woman who everyone on the team likes. My professional opinion is that you have it in you to fill some of that void Gallant left. Use that empathic nature of yours to help others with their own struggles. Be the team’s heart.”
Her eyes started watering. She blinked the tears away.
“And my orders?”
“Order number one is that you go see the PRT’s therapist. If I can clear it with Director Piggot, figure out a way to make the patrol schedules work, I’m going to try to get everyone to go. I’m honestly kind of flabbergasted that nobody higher up than me has mandated it already.”
“Okay.” In a way, she was relieved, at that instruction.
“Order number two is to let yourself cry, damn it. Stop holding it back.”
Just the mention of crying made her eyes water again. Vista wiped it away once more, “I’ve cried enough.”
“If your body wants to cry, then you should listen to it. It doesn’t make you any weaker if you let it happen. You think I’ve never cried? Looking like I do, facing the disappointments and frustrations I have? Maybe it’s self-serving to think so, but I think it takes a kind of strength to let yourself face your emotions like that.”
The tears were rolling down her cheeks, now. She let her head hang, her damp hair a curtain between her and her team leader. He stood, pulled her into a hug. She pressed her face against his shirt. It was soft, but the body beneath was hard, unyielding. It was still very gentle.
When she pulled away, a few minutes later, his shirt was damp. She sniffled, taking the offered tissue to wipe at her eyes and nose, Weld spoke, gently, “I’m always here to talk, and the therapist will be there too.”
“If you need a break from the team, just say the word. I’ll talk to Piggot.”
She shook her head, “No. I want to work. I want to help.”
“Okay. Then we’ve got patrol in… two hours and fifteen minutes. Go relax, watch some TV, maybe take a nap.”
“Alright. Don’t you dare let me sleep through patrol.”
“I wouldn’t.”
She made her way back to the elevator, noting the lights were on in Kid Win’s workshop. Heading back down to the base, she walked toward her cubicle-room.
“Holy crap, you’ve been crying again? I thought you were over that.” Sophia commented from the console. She was on her laptop, sitting just to the right of the main console. Nobody else was present in the headquarters. Again, the two of them were alone. Was Sophia’s nice act only for when others were around?
Vista turned, irritated. “I was venting a little with Weld, what’s your issue?”
“I just really hate crybabies,” Sophia turned back to the computer.
Crybaby. Whatever else someone could say about Sophia, there was no denying that she was very, very good at finding someone’s weak points, be it during a brawl or in an argument. Vista couldn’t think of an insult that would have needled her more.
“Bitch,” Vista muttered, moving toward her room.
She thought she spoke quietly enough that Sophia didn’t hear, but the girl did, because she had a response. “You annoyed him, you know.”
Vista stopped in her tracks, stayed where she was, her back to Sophia. She replied without turning around “Weld? You don’t know-”
“Gallant. Twelve year old following him around all the time, brimming with prepubescent lust and lovesick infatuation? And he can feel all of her emotions? You know how gross that would be? How disturbing and awkward?”
Vista clenched her fists.
Sophia went on, “Think about it, every time you got just a little turned on while you looked at him? Every time you crushed on him? He felt it, forced himself to smile and play nice even as you totally repulsed him, because he was that kind of guy. You know he was that kind of guy.”
“I loved him,” Vista spoke. The first time she’d spoken the words aloud. Why did it have to be to Sophia? Why couldn’t she have said it to Gallant, before he passed? “There’s nothing gross about love.”
“You don’t know what love is, little one,” Sophia’s condescending tone rang across the room, “It was a first crush, a little infatuation. Real love is what he had with Glory Girl… that long-term bond that survived through a dozen really nasty fights, and brought them back together again and again. A schoolgirl crush is easy. Real love is hard, something tempered and enduring.”
Vista turned to look at the older girl.
Sophia was reclining in her chair. She smiled a little, “I know it sucks to hear now, but it’s better to hear it straight than to look back and realize how horribly stupid you sounded, five or ten years down the road.”
“I am not going to feel stupid for how I feel now.”
Sophia shrugged, “Kids.” She turned her attention to Facebook.
Vista unclenched her fist. She could tip Sophia out of her chair, bend the computer screen, carry out any number of petty revenges. But Weld’s advice stuck in her head.
“What happened to you, Sophia?”
Sophia looked over her shoulder. “You’re still here?”
“What kind of situation led to you becoming like this? So casually cruel, so lacking in basic human decency?”
“My advice is for your own benefit, little tyke. I’m not the bad guy.”
“You’re the only one who doesn’t have any friends on the team, you keep yourself at a distance, you talk only with your friend or friends from your civilian life. Even there, you’re always in trouble. Getting suspended, picking fights. It’s like you want to break your probation and go to some juvenile detention facility for the next few years.”
“Not your business.”
“Out in costume, you’re scary. You hurt people like you’re hungry for it. I just want to know why. Where did you come from? What situation led to you being like this?”
“Drop the fucking subject. You’re irritating me.”
Vista sighed. Feeling the traces of anger and the hurt from Sophia’s words, she still tried to soften her parting words as she turned to go back to her room, “If you ever do want to talk about it, I’m willing to listen.”
“I’m not about to talk about it with you. Fix your own shit before you start worrying about me, crybaby.”
Frustrated, disappointed in herself for failing in her first genuine effort at taking Weld’s advice, trying to reach out to a team member that needed it, Vista shook her head, muttered, “I pity you.”
The sound of a laptop crashing to the ground made Vista turn. She saw Sophia in her shadow state, wispy, her skeleton visible beneath her skin, warped. The girl’s eyes were too reflective, her entire body seemed to bend and distort, not completely solid as she leaped towards Vista.
Sophia dropped out of her shadow state in time to push Vista flat onto her back, hard, one fist gripping the collar of the younger girl’s t-shirt. She shook her. “Pity?”
Feeling strangely calm despite the pain that radiated through the back of her head, where it had struck the ground, Vista spoke, “Weld said it takes a kind of strength to face your emotions. Are you really that scared, Sophia, that you’d attack me instead of talk to me?”
Sophia raised a clenched fist. Vista screwed one eye shut, anticipating the hit. It would almost be worth it if she hit me and violate the conditions of her membership on the team, to have her gone. But we need all the help we can get, right now. “The security cameras are watching us right now.”
Sophia dropped her hand, stood, and stalked over to the far side of the room. She gathered her costume in her arms. “I’m going on patrol.”
“It’s not your shift,” Vista spoke, sitting up.
“Don’t fucking care. If Weld asks, I’m doing a double shift.”
And then Sophia was gone, having used her shadow state to disappear through the elevator door.
“Okay,” Vista spoke, pulling herself to her feet. “Guess I’m manning the console.”
Posted in 9.5 | Tagged Clockblocker, Flechette, Kid Win, Parian, Piggot, Shadow Stalker, Vista, Weld | 68 Replies
I’m a tinker. I’m supposed to be smart.
So how can I have been so stupid?
Ballistic raised one hand and pointed at Kid Win. He waited until Kid Win moved before kicking at the uneven, rubble-strewn ground, sending a spray of concrete and wood fragments flying like a hail of bullets. It only grazed the teenage hero mid-leap, lacerating the side of his stomach, hip and thigh, chipping his armor. It still hit hard enough that it twisted him in midair. He landed on his back atop the rubble that covered the ground, grunted.
“Hey!” Ballistic bellowed, “Little girl!”
Kid Win saw Ballistic pointing at Vista. The villain, between his build and armor, had the frame of a football player, a dramatic contrast to the young heroine. He pointed at her, paused long enough for her to bend the ground into a semblance of cover, then launched a chunk of concrete at her.
The concrete flew at an angle that wouldn’t have hit the girl anyways, struck the barrier and shattered, sending debris careening onto and into the girl. Vista screamed and fell backwards, part of her barrier crumbling to land on top of her.
He’s telling us exactly where he’s going to attack next.
Kid Win looked up, saw Sundancer with her orb hovering a good fifteen feet off the ground, keeping it away from the walls of the building and the corpses that were hung above them. Even though it was fifteen feet up and thirty feet away, he could feel the heat of it prickle his exposed skin. He knew from the Endbringer fight that she could make it bigger, move it faster.
As the burning sphere drifted forward, staying at roughly the same height, Flechette and Glory Girl were forced to scramble away. Shadow Stalker leaped off of the top of the wall and into the alleyway next to the building to get away from the heat. Only Vista remained where she was, caught under debris that she was striving to shrink down and push away.
It dawned on Kid Win. Sundancer and Ballistic, at the very least, were holding back. Because they were strong enough that going all out would leave corpses.
The revelation didn’t make him feel any better. In fact, it was just the opposite. If these guys got desperate or panicked, they might stop being so polite about it.
Trickster and Genesis were tangling with Weld and Clockblocker – Clockblocker was putting paper in the air, freezing it to give himself footholds to go after his flying opponent. Any time Genesis moved to attack, Clockblocker set paper in her way, edge towards her, or he tried to duck in close enough to touch her. Giving up on more physical means, she exhaled a cloud of the choking smoke. Clockblocker and Weld both worked together to minimize the spread of the cloud, using paper and plywood, freezing it in place with Clockblocker’s power.
Kid Win decided they had a handle on that. It was up to him to help against Ballistic and Sundancer.
As he climbed to his feet, breaking into a run before he was even standing straight, he raised his spark pistol and fired off a series of oversized blue sparks at Ballistic.
Trickster managed to teleport him again, swapping his position with Ballistic’s. The forward momentum of his sprint was enough to get him out of the way of his own gunfire.
His spark pistol sported a small power core that used spatial warping technology to magnify and then reabsorb a steady electrical current. The barrel was wired with a helix-shaped electromagnetic rail, based on some of Armsmaster’s old data on the ‘hard’ light Purity and Dauntless created. Nanomolecular, ionically charged rifling on the barrel’s interior was arranged to guide the fired charges into a rough elliptical shape, which sustained their shape and consistency the longest.
In laymen’s terminology, it was not unlike a power bar that was plugged into itself, with a small addition that made each revolution of the current larger than the one before. An attached battery kept the current going. The shots themselves were ‘hard’ electricity condensed into balls, which meant they had a physical impact to them, due to how they carried and transferred kinetic energy. Given how the weapon charged, waiting a few seconds between shots meant the next shot hit harder, up to a limit.
I can make something like this, which is brilliant, then I go and dismantle my fricking hoverboard to get parts for a project I never even finish. Idiot.
Ballistic marched towards Vista, who was trying to climb to her feet. He was intercepted by Glory Girl, who slammed him into a wall. She punched him, drove her knee into his gut, then slammed him against the wall again, to keep him off-balance and hurting.
Ballistic slumped against her and grabbed at the collar of her costume for support. A second later, Glory Girl was a blur, disappearing into the skyline. His attacker gone, Ballistic fell onto his hands and knees with a grunt.
Flechette threw a handful of darts at Sundancer, pinning the girl against the wall. Somehow Flechette had avoided Trickster’s attention. How? Kid Win turned to look, saw that she was standing so her body blocked Trickster’s line of sight to both the darts and his teammate.
So he can only teleport what he sees?
Kid Win moved to mimic Flechette’s technique, running to a position where he would be between the injured Ballistic and Trickster. He cocked his spark pistol.
He was nearly lined up for his shot when his gun disappeared from his hand, an awkwardly sized piece of wood taking its place. A second later, his mask and visor cracked against a hard surface. He had to grip the wall to steady himself and keep from falling. He’d been teleported.
Then the wall moved beneath his hand, and he heard Clockblocker shout, “Get down, Kid!”
He let himself fall, simultaneously realizing he had been leaning against Genesis, in her gargoyle-like form. Weld slammed into the villainess, his left hand in the form of a heavy miner’s pick. It did a surprising amount of damage, but she didn’t seem to care. She gripped Weld around the face with a claw, raked his chest twice with criss-crossing slashes of her other hand, leaving deep gouges in the metal. The same noxious black smoke that she had been breathing began to billow out of the hole the pick had made in her chest.
Clockblocker charged, but Genesis shoved Weld so the two heroes stumbled into one another, delaying them long enough for her to leap into the air. She beat her wings to keep herself aloft and out of reach.
Kid Win unslung his laser rifle and fired at the villainess. His first shot grazed her, as one flap of her wings carried her higher into the air, but the next two hit the mark. One struck her in the shoulder, leaving a hole large enough to fit his hand through, the other struck her in the side of the head, doing a similar amount of damage.
Genesis dropped from the sky, exploded into a mess of dark smoke and pebbles as she struck the ground.
Feeling a moment’s panic, he checked the settings on his gun. Normal levels, no anomalies. It could heat metal and other inorganic materials, cut through more fragile materials, but against a person, it wouldn’t do more than hurt and maybe leave the mildest kind of burn.
That’s her power, he reminded himself, you didn’t kill her.
But his gun had done a surprising amount of damage. Was it some interaction with how she pulled her new shapes together? A specific wavelength, a weakness to lasers?
He wasn’t about to complain. He wheeled around, fired on the other villains.
An injured Ballistic opened fire on Vista, discharging a series of pieces of rubble at an angle. It struck the ground just in front of the girl and fallout from the impacts showered her. Each shot drove her back further, buying him a chance to limp to Sundancer’s side. He touched the darts that were fixing her to the wall, sending them flying into Weld’s face.
“Fuck!” Weld cursed, the metal spikes of the darts jutting out of his jaw, cheekbone, eyebrow and forehead, “Takes forever to get my face right after something like this!”
Trickster’s teleportations had placed the enemy’s group in the interior of the building, with the Wards surrounding them.
Surrounding one’s enemy wasn’t quite an advantage when the enemy could teleport, but for a moment, they all paused where they were, various weapons at the ready. It was the kind of momentary peace that fell when everyone was waiting to react to what the others were doing.
A wind blew past them, and Kid Win blinked as a fat droplet of water spattered against his visor. It was starting to drizzle. He glanced up at the corpses where they hung on the walls of the building.
“The water’s going to wash away the evidence if you don’t let us go and hurry to check on the bodies,” Trickster spoke.
“Crime scene techs can’t get here in time with the roads like they are,” Weld spoke. “And we’re not allowed to touch the evidence anyways. Rules.”
“Rules? You shouldn’t sweat those things so much,” Trickster chuckled, “Here, I’ll help you out.”
Weld disappeared, and the burned corpse flopped to the ground.
“Shit!” Clockblocker shouted, running forward.
Weld dropped from the wall for the second time in a matter of minutes as the restraints intended for the woman’s corpse tore free of the concrete. Vista reshaped the wall to ease his descent. Kid Win raised his laser rifle to fire at Trickster.
Dumb. He regretted it the second his finger left the trigger.
As he predicted, he found himself somewhere else in the blink of an eye, and the impact of his own gunfire slammed into his back, intensely hot. He threw himself to the ground at the base of the building, where water pooled, rolling so his back was submerged.
It’s not lethal, can’t do any permanent harm, you had it vetted, tested on pig meat.
The balance of the fight had abruptly shifted. Clockblocker, Flechette and Vista were where the three Travelers had been, and vice versa.
“Nuh uh uh, kiddo,” Trickster spoke, as the gap in the wall began closing behind his group, “Up you go.”
The flayed corpse appeared in Vista’s position.
No! Kid Win turned, saw Vista on the wall. She’d gotten tangled in the loops of wire that had been holding the corpse up. The metal wire was coiled around a shattered part of the wall, and more than one wire had caught around her neck. Another looping of wire bound her body, one of her arms caught against her side. She struggled to pull at the wire on her neck with her free hand, but it was little help. The wire pulled so tightly against her throat that Kid Win feared it would cut her skin.
“Trickster!” Sundancer cried out, horrified.
“Just run!” was the villain’s only reply. The three villains started running, leaving the building behind, their footsteps sloshing and splashing.
Kid Win raised his laser pistol, aimed carefully, then fired, landing the shot a half-foot to the right of Vista’s throat. The wires heated and split, freeing her, and she dropped a foot before catching on more wires. Nothing dangerous, this time, but it was a fair distance to fall and one slip could see her getting cut on the wire, strangled or cracking her head open as she fell.
Shadow Stalker materialized behind Trickster, catching him around the throat in a headlock. She used one foot to kick his feet out from under him, and then forced him face first into the water.
Kid Win hesitated. Help her or help Vista?
Vista. Shadow Stalker would say she could handle herself. Made a point of trying to.
He fired more shots to free Vista, missing the wires one or two times. The heroine, for her part, focused on angling the wall beneath her to allow herself to slide down instead of falling the full distance.
Ballistic shot Shadow Stalker, driving her back. The attack had left a gaping hole just below her heart, the edges wispy. The gap closed, but the attack had separated her from Trickster, and hurt her badly enough that she crumpled to the ground, a hand to her chest.
Kid Win fired a salvo at the retreating villains, grazed Ballistic. Sundancer turned, directing her orb between their groups. She dropped it into the water. Massive clouds of heated steam rose where the orb met water, obscuring the battlefield.
By the time it cleared, the villains were gone.
It took a minute to check that none of them had suffered any permanent damage. After some debate, they moved the bodies to a more secure, dry spot, inside the building. Glory Girl managed to make her way back two minutes after the Travelers were gone, helped with the last body that still hung on the wall. By the time they were done, the rain was pouring down.
Kid Win stared down at the corpses, an ugly feeling in his gut.
He was dumb, easily distracted, prone to leaving his projects unfinished, and it was moments like this that this knowledge hit him particularly hard. His dad had made him get tested, and the doctors had labeled him with ADD and dyscalculia. He held to the opinion that the ADD diagnosis was way overused – he liked to think that he was just a daydreamer, prone to getting lost in his thoughts.
The dyscalculia was something concrete that he couldn’t deny or explain away. He couldn’t keep numbers in his head, couldn’t make the most basic intuitive leaps or connections with them.
All of that had been before he got his powers. Nothing had changed, except that now he could visualize something, instinctively know how he could put it together. His disability or disabilities put him a step behind the rest. His daydreaming was worse, because his thoughts were so damn interesting, now. He couldn’t take reliable measurements without using computers to do it. Couldn’t finish half his projects without feeling compelled to move on to something else.
The PRT staff insisted he was exceptional with antigrav and guns, had it even marked in his file, but he knew it wasn’t so true. He finished his guns because they were simple, in their own way. It was easy enough to take three half-finished gun projects and mash them together. Create something with multiple settings, even. As far as he was aware, he was the only Tinker in the PRT’s records that didn’t have a defined specialty, gimmick or trick. He was increasingly worried that his special talent as a tinker was being able to occasionally make something despite his learning disability. Which would suck, if it were true.
There were exceptions. He’d finished bigger projects. His hoverboard, driven by the idea of how awesome it would be to fly. Even then, it had been a chore. Monumentally stupid of him to dismantle it. The idea and motivation driving the action had been good: he was graduating the Wards in a little while, he’d be expected to change his name and adjust his methods, because an adult calling himself Kid Win was lame. He’d had an idea about a harness with a floating array of turrets that could fire different munitions depending on what gun he holstered in the main slot. Self adjusting and adaptive the way his Alternator Cannon was. Except he’d gotten frustrated at a snag in the testing, put it down to take a break and hadn’t picked it up again in six days. His hoverboard had effectively been destroyed for no reason, when it might have made the difference in getting the Travelers into custody.
His Alternator Cannon was the real gem. It had been the result of a medication the PRT’s doctor had prescribed, which he’d been forced to stop after two weeks when he began to get increasingly dizzy, anxious and nauseous. While he’d been taking the pills, he’d been focused, had a glimpse, maybe, of what he could do if it weren’t for his distractibility and daydreaming. When Piggy had spoken of destroying the thing, the mere thought had been crushing. Then Leviathan had destroyed it for real, maybe the only truly brilliant thing he’d be able to make. He harbored fears it might even the only brilliant thing he’d ever be able to make.
He wasn’t the worst hero ever, he knew that. He had things he could do. He could let the worries and the dozens of unfinished projects alone, most days. That changed when his team got thrashed. Thoughts like that had been plaguing him since the Endbringer event a week ago. He couldn’t shake the notion that he was in the running for the weakest member of the team. The notion that he was dumb, second-rate. That this loss, here, was his fault, because he had dropped the ball. The people of this city deserve a better hero, a more focused one.
Weld spoke, disturbing him from his thoughts, “I just got a message. PRT is on their way. We head back now.”
Hearing the unenthusiastic replies of his teammates, Kid Win realized that the rest of the team wasn’t in any better of a mood than he was. Losing had a way of doing that.
Strangely comforting.
“Got word from the Protectorate. They’re handling the case with the bodies, we’re not to touch it or get involved in any way,” Weld spoke, folding his arms. He had what looked like acne – blisters of extra-shiny metal on his face where the remainder of the darts hadn’t yet been fully integrated into his ‘skin’. He reclined in an expensive, custom-made office chair, capable of supporting his dense, heavy body. Everyone else had found seats in the central room of their headquarters. Everyone, that was, except for Glory Girl, who had gone home. She wasn’t yet an official member of the team.
“No word on what’s going on?” Clockblocker asked.
“They’re staying quiet on the subject,” Weld spoke.
Vista leaned forward, “Maybe a serial killer?”
“We should focus on what we do know,” Weld shook his head. “As far as tonight’s patrols-“
“Actually,” Kid Win cut in, “Sorry. But I have one theory.”
“What?” Clockblocker asked.
Kid Win glanced at Weld, checking to see if their leader was ok with it. Weld didn’t say anything, which he took as assent to continue.
“There were two other crime scenes, right? Any idea if there were the same number of bodies at each crime scene?”
“Same number-” Weld raised an eyebrow, “Why… Oh. Shit. I think I follow.”
Smarter than you’d think, given his brute-force power and his appearance, Kid Win realized. Or I’m just that bad with numbers. The connection took me twenty minutes to make.
“Three crime scenes with three bodies each. So it’d be nine bodies?” Clockblocker asked, “Each killed in some different way? I don’t see what killer that would fit with.”
“Not one killer,” Kid Win answered, “Nine bodies, each for different killers.”
“The Slaughterhouse Nine,” Clockblocker leaned back in his seat, groaning, “Fuck, that’d be all we needed.”
“Wouldn’t be the first time they’ve arrived at a location in the wake of an Endbringer event,” Flechette pointed out.
“Maybe it’s them,” Weld conceded, “And maybe the Protectorate figured that much out, with the clues they have from the other two scenes. It could be someone or something else. Either way, it’s not our case, not even in our league, and we should stay as hands off as we can manage. We need to talk about patrols and tonight’s duties.”
“The grunt work,” Flechette offered a literal grunt to punctuate the statement. Kid Win and Clockblocker chuckled.
“Vista’s due for a patrol, and as a young member, she has to go with someone. Lily?”
Flechette smiled a little, “Quick to make me pay for the snark, huh? No, it’s cool, I’ve been wanting a chance to shoot the shit with Vista.” She extended her fist, with index finger and thumb extended to form a gun, mock fired it at her junior teammate. Vista rolled her eyes.
“Clockblocker, you and I will handle the night’s shifts after that. Your call if you want to patrol with me or not, we can cover different routes and go for a wider area if you’d rather.”
“Alright. We’ll figure it out.”
“Leaving Shadow Stalker. You okay with the late-night, Sophia?”
“Yeah, fine,” Sophia didn’t look up from her laptop.
“And me?” Kid Win asked.
“Special duty, tonight,” Weld smiled, “You’re recruiting.”
“There’s a kid calling himself Chariot. Been racing around the city with a powered suit that lets him move a hundred miles an hour. Assault finally caught up with him last night, brought him into custody. Wound up calling the kid’s mom, got him to agree to talk to our recruiter. You. You’ll be meeting the kid in his home.”
“Shared interests. You’re both tinkers. You have the best idea of how he thinks.”
Kid Win nodded. He couldn’t quite put his finger on what he was feeling. A measure of excitement at the idea of getting to talk to another tinker that wasn’t Armsmaster? Sure. Fear? Would he be replaced by a new tinker? It was an immature thing to be spooked about, he knew that, but that didn’t make it any less real.
“Cool,” he spoke, by way of agreement.
“You convince him, it’ll look good to the guys upstairs,” Weld informed him.
Right. Great. Pressure.
“Now, onto a more serious topic. I’m seeing that this team is really disorganized, these days. I have no problem handling the brunt of the paperwork, it gives me a degree of insight into what’s going on that the files don’t. I don’t even mind cleaning up the kitchen and showers here when the janitors are off duty. But we really need to communicate. Last night Flechette went on patrol and ran into a situation with Parian she should have been briefed on. It could have turned hostile.”
“Sorry,” Vista muttered.
“It turned out okay,” Flechette smiled a little.
“Right. It’s okay, it’s understandable, given all we’re trying to handle,” Weld reassured her, “But we can’t miss out on details and updates on the overall situation. The Protectorate have their hands full with the gang wars between Fenrir’s Chosen, Purity’s group and Coil, they’re now dealing with this serial killer or serial killers, and they’re still updating the records. So here’s what we’re going to do, I’ve checked it with Piggot, she agrees. I’m picking up an extra patrol shift, and I’ll be adjusting your patrol shifts down by twenty minutes each, moving them around slightly. With the downtime that creates, we’re going to have meetings like this, every day.”
Pausing, Weld glanced at Clockblocker, as if expecting a response. When Clockblocker only nodded assent, Weld’s eyebrows rose a fraction in surprise. He continued, “Gives us a chance to talk about our recent patrols, fears, concerns, ideas. Or hell, just talk, because I’m seeing this trend where we only see each other in passing, while patrolling or in class, and some of you are going out of your way to spend time together and hash stuff out, even at the detriment of stuff like school.”
“You’re talking about class, earlier,” Clockblocker said.
“More or less. Not saying it’s a bad thing, but we can restructure our schedules, make time for it, instead of detracting from an area we need to pay attention to.”
“Sure,” Clockblocker agreed. Was there a note of irritation in his voice? Kid Win couldn’t tell. Dennis was playing along, at least.
“Now, about the paperwork you guys have been submitting, there’s been a few recurring problems…”
Kid Win sighed and settled into his seat. This was going to be a little while.
The building was ugly, had trash piled up on either side of the front door, a sour smell wafting out from it. The water level wasn’t so bad here, and the building was almost entirely intact. The only sign of damage was the boarded up windows on the first and second floors where the glass had been knocked out of the window frames. Red brick, it seemed like the usual sort of tenement building one would find in the Docks.
He stepped inside. A Hispanic boy in the front hall whistled sharply as Kid Win stepped inside, while a group of Asian-American boys and girls in dirty clothing ran around him, screaming at a ear-piercing volume as they continued a game, some pointing and hooting at the superhero. Occupants aside, it was dark, with only two dingy lightbulbs and no open windows.
It’s nine o’clock at night. Don’t these kids have a bedtime?
He checked the folded paper he had in his hand, found the room number, and headed up the stairs. A morbidly obese, older man sat halfway up the stairs, maybe a babysitter for the kids. Kid Win hoped the man was a babysitter, because the man was white and the kids weren’t, meaning he probably wasn’t family. If he wasn’t getting paid, there was only one uncomfortable explanation for why the man would be willing to tolerate that yelling and squealing.
Or maybe he’s deaf. Let’s go with that.
The fat old man didn’t budge an inch as Kid Win approached, forcing the boy to squeeze by. He made his way up, ignored a gang of fit twenty-something Asian guys who were standing guard in the hallway on the second floor. On the third floor, he headed past people who were sleeping on blankets in the hallway, found apartment 306.
The door opened a second after he knocked. A tired looking Hispanic woman greeted him, “You’re the superhero, I take it?”
“Yes. Kid Win,” he extended his hand. She shook it firmly.
“Ashley Medina. My son’s back through here.”
There was a sense of pride in the narrow apartment, Kid Win saw. An undercurrent of aesthetic taste, matching knick-knacks and furniture. There were marks of a vacuum cleaner’s recent run over the carpet and both kitchen counters and dining room table were immaculately clean in a way that suggested she’d gone to some effort to clean up. In a building like this, though, there was only so much you could do. There was a water stain on the ceiling, dark brown marks on the carpet under a small rug, maybe from a previous occupant.
“If you’ll wait here, I’ll get him.”
Kid Win sat on the sofa. He noticed the cathode ray tube television was missing its screen, had been gutted. Quite likely for parts. The toaster was a goner, too. Only the wireless modem in the corner of the kitchen had survived, green lights blinking.
He has priorities, at least, Kid Win thought, with mild amusement. Gotta have an internet connection.
When Chariot arrived, Kid Win stood, offered a hand. There was a delay before the kid shook it. He was lanky, with big ears and close shorn hair that made him look slightly goofy, but he had a wary look in his eye. He wore a t-shirt and jeans that were stained with grease, had lots of little cuts and stains on his fingers, hands and forearms.
Been there. Substandard tools, not enough parts. I can use that.
“Please sit,” Chariot’s mother said.
Kid Win obliged. Chariot was the last to take a seat. Was he reluctant, something else?
“Chariot, is it?” Kid Win ventured. God, hope I don’t fuck this up.
“Mm,” was the noncommital reply.
“Just to give me an idea, on a scale of one to ten, how interested are you, in maybe joining the Wards?”
“Ten’s high?”
“Ten’s a lot of interest.”
“Trevor!” Chariot’s mom admonished, “They offer funding, education-“
“We do,” Kid Win interrupted. If mom pushes, this guy’s only going to get less interested. Shit, a four is low. Maybe if I do the talking… “It’s good money, with room for better money. Especially for a tinker like you or me.”
“The guys in charge want tinkers. They really want tinkers, both because they want us in a position where we won’t be making trouble for them, and because and they want the kind of stuff we can create.”
“I’m not giving up my stuff.”
Kid Win paused. This is like looking into a mirror to a year and a half ago. “Look, I can see your TV, your toaster. Chances are you’ve gone to the Trainyard or a scrapyard to find some stuff. Old batteries, car parts, chains, good metal, whatever.”
“He wanted to go to the Trainyard,” Chariot’s mother cut in, “I told him no, caught him trying to sneak out.”
Chariot scowled a little, looked away.
This would be easier without her here. “I get it. Been there. You’re hungry to use your power, but more than any other kind of cape, you’re facing a hurdle in terms of the entry-level resources you need. This is where the team would support you. You get funding, a lot of funding, to put your stuff together.”
Kid Win reached into his belt, retrieved a compact disc. He placed it on the glass coffee table, then withdrew a set of small tools from the other side of his belt. He dismantled the object and began laying out the components one by one.
Chariot reached for the nearest component, and Kid Win moved to block the boy’s hand. “Don’t touch, please. Look only. Trace oils and static charge could damage something.”
The boy gave him an annoyed glance, bent over the table to look closer at the chips.
“What’s this crystal?” Chariot asked.
“3D computer chip. Uses light instead of electrical current. They’re made by this Protectorate tinker down in Texas. She gets funding to produce a set number every month, in addition to her regular pay. So long as you’re in the program, you can put in an order for her stuff, with the specs you want.”
“And this metal threading, gold?”
“Gold, for maximum conductibility.”
“That’s a camera, this would be the power source, that part does something with wavelengths, and this reads energy… but I’m not getting it. What does this do?”
Kid Win quickly slipped the pieces back together, turned the compact device over, then pulled out his smartphone. Touching the screen, he activated the compact device. It floated above the coffee table. He turned his smartphone around to show them the image it was streaming from the device’s camera.
“So much effort, for a video camera?” Chariot’s mother commented, “My tax dollars are going towards this?”
The dumbfounded look Chariot gave his mother put Kid Win in the awkward spot of having to suppress a smile. This is a point for me. If I asked him again, what would he say? Five, six?
“You join the Wards, you get exactly what you need to reach your full potential as a Tinker.” A small lie there. Not like I’ve reached my full potential. “And anything you make, the PRT buys the rights from you. If you’re willing to give up that much, you can do well for yourself.”
“You’re talking money?” That had piqued Chariot’s interest. He leaned forward, elbows on his knees.
“I maybe shouldn’t, but I’m going to tell you what I’m getting out of it, because it’s almost definitely going to be the exact same for you. I get paid, but the money goes straight into a trust. I’ve made enough to pay for my college education, and every dollar I earn beyond that is going to be waiting for me as a cash award, if and when I graduate from a four-year postsecondary program. I’m getting four hundred dollars in allowance each month, just to mess around in my workshop, all my materials are paid for, and I currently have about two thousand dollars sitting in the bank, right now, from that. Once I turn eighteen? I make more. It automatically transitions to a job with good pay, working with the Protectorate, and the hours will be totally flexible around any classes I take.”
“But he’s risking his life,” Chariot’s mother spoke. Chariot frowned.
“He is. There are responsibilities. But honestly? There’s zero way he’s going to be able to go out and try out any of the stuff he’s made without running into trouble. People are going to pick fights, just because he has powers. If he tries to hang out in a workshop he establishes on his own, they’re going to find him, strong-arm him into putting something together for them. Not just villains, either. Heroes too. Being a tinker doesn’t just make you a target. It makes you a resource. It’s why pretty much every tinker out there is a member of a larger, more powerful team.”
“Then Trevor could just not use his powers?” she spoke.
“Sure,” Kid Win folded his arms, leaning back against the back of the couch. “What do you think, Chariot? You think you could keep from using that power of yours? Be normal?”
Chariot frowned, looked down at his scratched-up hands, “No.”
Kid Win nodded in agreement, “It’s a part of you, Chariot, a part of how you think, now. I’m telling you this is the best option. The safest. Having a team means you’re protected, free to do what you need to do.”
Chariot’s expression indicated clear interest. Then he frowned, “I don’t want to give up my stuff to others. It’s mine.”
Something struck Kid Win as off about the reply. What was it? It was out of tune with the flow of the conversation, didn’t quite match up with Kid Win’s own experiences being recruited. Maybe it sounded forced? But why would Chariot fake reluctance?
He pushed forward, anyways, “I get that, really. But it’s only given away in name. You still get to use it, you just can’t give it away or sell it to others. The benefit is that you gain access to all the stuff and plans other PRT tinkers have made. I can’t show you any more of that than I have, but the fact is, you’d be able to look at my blueprints as easily as I could look up yours, get inspiration…
“…Or you could look at the sort of stuff Dragon makes.”
Chariot’s eyes lit up.
“Tell me you’re not interested, now.”
“I’m… kind of interested.”
Again, that vibe. Pretending he’s not as interested as he is.
“They can’t force you to join, but they do want you on the team. There’s no negotiating. You’d get the same I get, pretty much, so if you’re holding back or trying to fake like you don’t want to join when you do, you’re just wasting your time and mine.”
“I’m not,” Chariot replied, defensive. “It’s only… this is a big deal.”
“It is. So take my card. Call me if you have any questions, or if you want me to pass on word that you’re joining the team.”
Kid Win fished in his belt and then handed his card to the boy. Black with white lettering and his starburst-gun emblem on the back.
“Okay,” Chariot replied.
“Talk it over with your mom. Get back to us.”
“Thank you,” Chariot’s mother spoke, standing. Kid Win stood as well. He shook her hand again.
“Not a problem,” Kid Win replied. He punched the boy lightly on the shoulder as he stood, “Join. It’d be good to talk shop with someone else that gets this stuff.”
Chariot nodded.
The mother led Kid Win to the door, and he headed out the building – the fat man from the stairwell was gone, and only the Hispanic boy by the front door was still in the hallway. Kid Win stepped outside.
Something’s off with this scenario.
He tapped his foot a second, then stepped around the building and into the alleyway. He retrieved his smartphone, and used it to send the hovering camera up to the third floor, checked in the windows where the apartment would be. The boy was leaving the bathroom, going into his room. Kid Win moved the camera to the next window over, the boy was sitting down at his computer, turning it on.
Straight to the computer. Hm. Kid Win pocketed the hovering camera, then turned his attention to the smartphone. According to the phone, there were three wireless modems in the building. One was named with a string of violent swear words, the other was on its default settings. Both were unlocked. He chose the third, locked connection, clicked a button on the screen to have his phone decrypt the password.
Fifteen seconds later, he could see someone online. Kid Win watched the white text scroll by with details on the connection’s activity.
Google docs – pages of technical stuff, the boy was adding notes on gold wiring, shortform notes on antigravity, 3D crystals. The next page the boy visited, five minutes later, was an email account.
Twenty seconds later, an email was sent.
To: C1298475739@cryptmail.com
Guy from wards came. I’m in.
Kid Win stared at the screen for a long while. Cryptmail. That wouldn’t be an agreement with the PRT.
“So someone got to you before we did,” he muttered to himself. He tapped the armor over his ear twice to open a communications channel, “Console?”
“Weld here, manning the console.”
“Do me a favor, call everyone back to the base for a quick meeting? And maybe call Piggot?”
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“Welcome to Parahumans 103: Theories and Patterns. I see we have a packed auditorium, and according to the enrollment list, we have no less than three hundred students taking the TV course. A bump up from the last two trimesters, so I must be doing something right.”
Clockblocker looked around the room. Six PRT uniforms sat in the front row, helmets off, three with notebooks open on the desks in front of them. Weld and Flechette sat in the desks closest to the door, exchanging murmured words as the professor on the screen began going over the course syllabus.
Glory Girl sat just in front of him, wearing a black, long-sleeved shirt, arms folded on her desk, chin resting on the back of one hand. Vista, odd as it was, sat beside the other heroine, had been the only one to offer any conversation. When Glory Girl hadn’t seemed interested in talking, Vista had instead offered her silent company. Clockblocker wasn’t exactly sure how Glory Girl had gotten into the Wards headquarters to attend the screening, but she was here, uncharacteristically quiet, much in the same way that Vista had been this past week.
Kid Win sat to Clockblocker’s right, fidgeting by taking apart his pen and putting it back together, his eyes not leaving the screen. Shadow Stalker was sitting as far away from everyone else as she could manage, at the back corner of the room. She sat sideways in her seat, back to the wall, her feet resting on the seat next to her. Her attention was directed entirely at the keys and screen of her cell phone, rather than the projector screen at the front of the room.
Only thirteen people present, altogether.
“…for disability and pregnancy accommodations, the course syllabus gives you all the details you need on who to contact. If you aren’t already, you’re going to be sick of hearing all that by the time you graduate. We’re required to go over it in the first class of every class we teach.
“So. Let me start off by addressing and banishing some assumptions you may have. This is not an easy class, and anyone who took Parahumans: History and Society or Parahumans: Case Studies and Powers will be aware of this. Even for those of you who emerged triumphant from the previous two semesters should know that PARA-103 may be something of a shock to you if this is your first year of University. Here, primarily, I will be looking for creativity, problem solving and research abilities. Skills and abilities that, frankly, aren’t stressed enough in high school.
“For this class, I want you to think. Parahumans. People with powers. They’ve been around for nearly thirty years. Where did they come from? Why are they here? It’s common knowledge that parahumans are ordinary individuals who gained abilities. It is too easy, however, to assume that this is the sum total of our knowledge. I want you to think further on the subject. For example, why does virtually every parahuman ability have some application in confrontation and combat? Is this the nature of humans, to turn any progress to violent ends, be it science or superpower? Or is it by design, an individual’s hand at work?
“With the destructive potential of these abilities, why do so very few individuals perish in the chaotic and unpredictable emergence of their talents? For the first two or three weeks of the class, we’ll be talking about these most pivotal moments in a given parahuman’s existence, these trigger events, when an individual first gains their powers, typically through some form of trauma.
“Throughout the course, we’re going to be looking at correlations and patterns, both in relation to trigger events and other things. For example, how does the nature of the trigger event shape the power? A study by Garth and Rogers suggests that psychological stress leads to a higher prevalence of mentally driven powers. Tinkers, thinkers, masters, shakers. The more physical violence that is involved, the higher the bias towards physically driven powers. Garth and Rogers suggest a sliding scale, but it may not be that cut and dry.
“A followup study by Garth touches on what we know about cape ‘families’. If one individual in a family has powers, it is far more likely that others will as well. Almost always, this trend is either descending or lateral, it seems to transition from parent to child, or one sibling to another, but not from child to parent. We’ll talk about the theories on why. For those of you wanting to read ahead, take a look at Garth’s notes on the Dallon and Pelham families in chapter nine. We can surmise that the different scenarios leading to trigger events may be directly related to the differences in powers, even among closely related members of a cape family. Similar trigger events and related individuals, similar powers. The more distant the relation and the more varied the trigger events, the more drastically different the powers they possess in the end.”
Clockblocker glanced at Glory Girl, to see if the mention of her family had stirred her interest. She hadn’t budged an inch. Was she asleep?
He couldn’t help but sympathize. This is a monumental waste of time. I could be out there, helping people. Or spending time with my family. The Protectorate was coordinating shifts so the Wards could collectively get at least some education in the meantime, on Piggot’s orders. Except this wasn’t useful, this wasn’t applicable to the ongoing crisis right here, right now, in this city. Cooped up in a PRT conference room, learning stuff that didn’t apply to actual field work.
Hell, it was on videotape, a recording of last year’s lectures. Why couldn’t they watch it in their off hours? It was just a fucked up set of priorities enforced on them from the people in charge.
He shifted restlessly, annoyed, angry.
“Trigger events are a crucial element for study, because the timing, nature and spread of these emerging powers may provide a clue as to where these parahuman abilities come from. More women than men have powers, for example, and there are more powers in undeveloped countries than there are in industrialized ones – Some of you may remember me mentioning this fact in the 101 class, when I was talking about the witch burnings in The People’s Republic of Uganda.
“Another pattern we will be exploring is the apparent effect of multiple trigger events occurring in the same time and place. There is a very strong correlation between coinciding trigger events and individuals displaying three or more powers rather than one or two predominant ones.”
“Hey, Flechette,” Kid Win called across the room, “You’ve got a bunch of powers, right?”
She turned in her seat, “Sure.”
“Anyone else get powers at the same time you did?”
“Could someone nearby have gotten their powers, without you knowing? Way things played out? Did any capes show up around the same time as you?”
Flechette frowned, “Yeah. A rather persistent villain.”
“Worth thinking about.”
Weld turned around, “Critical thinking and applying this stuff is good, but let’s not forget the lecture. Or the other people in the classroom.”
Is he trying to get people to dislike him? Clockblocker wondered.
The professor on the screen was answering a student’s question, “…I think Eidolon expresses a single power. But thank you. Good question, and good lead-in to the next section of the course we’ll be discussing. After we wrap up on trigger events, we’re going to be moving on to what we call ‘outliers’. Parahumans or parahuman-related elements that deviate from the norm. Any guesses?”
“Scion.” A student on the TV spoke. The camera shifted to him late, and by the time he’d responded, the professor was pointing to another.
“Endbringers.”
“Nilbog.”
“I wouldn’t suggest Nilbog, but we can debate the point later,” the professor spoke, “Perhaps a subject for a course paper. Scion, yes. Endbringers? Yes. We have no reason or evidence to suspect they gained powers by normal means. Another group you may or may not be familiar with are what the PRT terms Case Fifty-Threes. Often the ‘monstrous’ parahumans, we’ll get into more depth on the subject.”
Clockblocker glanced at Weld. The boy was digging through his canvas backpack for something. Was he one of them?
“Weeks five and six, assuming we’re on schedule, we’ll pull all earlier material together and discuss the beginnings of the parahuman phenomenon. Not for the individual, as with trigger events, but as a whole. Where do capes come from? There is the patient zero theory, typically working under the assumption that Scion is the source of these abilities. This, however, raises questions about where Scion came from. The theory is corroborated by the case of Andrew Hawke, who came into contact with Scion on the very first sighting of the hero, only to manifest powers of his own… but there are others who manifested powers without ever coming into contact with Scion or entering a location where Scion had visited.”
“There’s the viral theory, supposing some advanced virus, though it is flimsy at best in justifications, with no identified culprits, method of transmission or explanation as to how it provides the actual powers. The genetics theory is popular, but has been thoroughly debunked. We’re going to talk about how it was debunked…”
Clockblocker felt a vibration at his wrist. He reached inside his glove to get his cell phone. A text.
From: Mom
Dad’s not doing well. You may want to come by the hospital.
He stood, and Weld turned to give him a look. He ignored the metal skinned boy, headed for the back door of the classroom, his keypad beeping as he dialed the number. It was ringing as he closed the door behind him.
“Dennis.”
“How bad is it?”
“As bad as last weekend. Worse.”
He closed his eyes. More statement than question, he said, “He’s not getting better.”
“Okay. Do you need me there? I can use my power, buy the doctors time to think or get prepared if there’s a crisis.”
Her voice was tight. “No, Dennis. It’s not that kind of situation. They’ve got him on a respirator, and the doctors don’t have much hope he’s going to be able to breathe without it, again. The antibiotics can’t fight the infection on their own.”
“So he’s going to die.”
“A few hours? Days? A week?”
“The doctor says it’ll be the next few days.”
He clenched his fist, relaxed it. Not fair.
“Hey, mom? Listen, I’ve got to run.”
“Come by, Dennis. Before it’s too late.”
“I’ll try.”
He hung up, paused to compose himself.
Stepping back inside the classroom, he returned to his seat, but didn’t sit down. Instead, he stepped up a little further to where Glory Girl sat and touched her shoulder. When she raised her head, he pointed to the door. She nodded, stood.
When they were both in the hallway, he spoke, “Sorry to pull you away from that.”
She shook her head, golden curls swinging, “Not missing anything. I’ve already taken this class.”
“Oh. Then why are you here?”
“New Wave may be disbanding. My mom suggested that if I wanted to keep being a hero, I should consider joining the Wards. So I’m here, checking things out. Your leader and director okayed it.”
“Are you? Joining?”
“Don’t know. They’re willing, if I agree to some extra rules and stipulations. They’d be putting me on probationary membership, like they did with Shadow Stalker. I came by to get a sense of things, see if it’d be worth going through the hassle instead of going solo. I thought maybe I was ok with doing it until I saw the portraits in the lobby. Now I’m not so sure.”
Clockblocker nodded. She didn’t need to explain. Where the Wards’ portraits hung in the lobby of the PRT offices, the portraits of Aegis and Gallant had been reprinted in black and white, surrounded with thick black frames. One was apparently in the works for Browbeat, who had been too new to even have an official costume, let alone a portrait. They had been repositioned to be just above the front desk and below the PRT logo, with wreaths and flowers beneath, tokens from the PRT employees. The building wasn’t open to the public, and was surrounded by PRT squads, but the public would get their chance to pay respects.
Glory Girl had lost three people she was close to on that day. Gallant – Dean when out of costume – was a loss she shared with Clockblocker. Her boyfriend, his friend.
“I know it’s crass, I know you guys have rules,” he spoke, “I’ll understand if you get angry. But… my dad has leukemia. He was a few days into some pretty rigorous treatments when Leviathan came. He got hurt when one of the waves hit, and some infection got at him through the wounds. He has pretty much no immune system, doesn’t have the strength to fight it off.”
“You want me to ask my sister to use her power on him.”
The response startled him. He looked up at her, caught off guard.
She explained, “I’m not promising anything. Like you said, Amy has her rules about taking requests. But I’ll see if I can convince her. Again, no promises.”
“Thank you,” he said, “Really.”
“And if you want to pay me back, maybe tell me about Gallant sometime. Share some stories I wouldn’t get to hear otherwise.”
“For sure.”
The door opened, and Weld stepped out into the hall, followed closely by Vista. Clockblocker felt a pang of annoyance, bit his tongue before he could say anything.
“Everything okay?” Weld asked.
I could tell them, Clockblocker glanced at Vista, but the rest of the team would find out. They don’t need another thing to worry about.
“Things are okay,” Clockblocker spoke, carefully.
“We paused the video, waiting until you guys are ready.”
“Alright,” Clockblocker replied. He added, “Thank you.”
“I’ll trust you have reason for this,” Weld smiled slightly, showing a row of white metal teeth, “But don’t take too long. You’re on patrol at two this afternoon, and that doesn’t allow us much leeway for delays if we want to finish watching.”
“Alright,” Clockblocker repeated, his tone growing impatient. He watched as Weld returned to the classroom, shutting the door behind him. To the closed door, he muttered, “Tool.”
“He’s trying,” Vista piped up. “It’s hard to be leader, but he’s working hard.”
“That’s my whole problem with him,” Clockblocker answered, annoyed, “He gets on our case about patrols and training and paperwork, then turns around and says he’s not asking us to do anything he isn’t doing himself. Except he only sleeps one or two hours a night, he barely eats, doesn’t need to use the washroom or shower. He’s got no friends or family here to look after. He can afford to work hard. He’s a f…rigging robot.” He censored himself for his junior teammate.
Vista shook her head. “That robot, and he’s not really a robot, by the way, is doing as much paperwork as the rest of us put together. He only makes us do the paperwork he can’t do himself. Even if he doesn’t have to. That gets brownie points from me.”
His temper flared. “What, are you channeling Gallant, here? Standing up for…” he trailed off before he could finish. Realized who he was talking to. “Shit, no, I…”
Vista just stared at him. After a second, her eyes got shiny, and she looked down at the ground, an angry expression on her face. She wheeled around and ran down the hallway.
He moved to chase her, stop her, but the hallway folded together, letting her reach the end in two strides, snapping back to its full length as she passed along it. She rounded a corner in the distance.
He looked at Glory Girl, his voice small, “I’m sorry.”
She answered him with only a glare. He wondered if she would hit him.
She relented, looking in the direction Vista had run off. “It’s okay. We’re all worn down, at the end of our ropes, and you’re worrying about your dad on top of that. You get one pass from me. One.”
He nodded.
“But you’d better go after that girl and apologize. Because the way I heard it from Kid Win, you were the one who told everyone else to be extra nice to her, because she was taking it hard. You convinced Shadow Stalker to play nice, and from what Kid Win said before class started, that was a pretty big deal. Maybe I’m wrong, I don’t know your team like you do, but I’d guess that if you don’t fix this, your team won’t forgive you for a long time.”
“Yeah,” he swallowed. Was she using her power? He was getting a bad vibe from her. Like he was locked in a cage at the zoo with a murderous jungle cat.
She poked him in the chest with a finger. “A real apology. You own up to what you said and did, acknowledge that it wasn’t fair of you to say, and you promise to do better in the future. That probably means you should cut Weld some slack, because Vista wants you to.”
“Okay. Right, okay.”
She pushed his shoulder, making him stumble in the direction Vista had gone. Easy to forget how strong she is. “Now go.”
He ran.
Definitely don’t get the sense I’m forgiven, there.
He checked two empty rooms and made one nervous check of the women’s bathroom before he found Vista halfway down the stairwell at the rear of the building. She had one leg up on a higher stair than the other, her hands clasped around her knee. She turned her head partway, acknowledging that someone was there, then wiped at her eyes with the sleeve of her costume.
“I’m sorry,” he spoke to her back.
“You’re a jerk.”
“I am. I’m the worst jerk.”
Vista twisted around to look up at him, “You said that in front of Glory Girl, too. He was her boyfriend.”
“I know. She said she understood and that it was okay, but I don’t know how true that is. Before I figure that out and work out how to make it up to her, I want to make sure you’re okay.”
She hung her head.
It was a long time before she spoke. “He was the reason I looked forward to coming here every day.”
He walked down the stairs and sat down next to her. “Yeah.”
“I knew I didn’t have a chance with him. He was way older, he was rich, handsome. He was dating Glory Girl, or they were just getting over a breakup, or he was starting to patch things up with her for the millionth time. There was never a good time to talk to him one on one, unless we were out on patrol together, and I dunno what I would have said if there had been a chance.”
“He liked you. He was fond of you.”
Vista gave him a sidelong glare, “Are you lying to me?”
“No! No. I’m saying he actually enjoyed doing patrols with you. Never had an unkind word to say about you-”
She interrupted, “He didn’t have an unkind word to say about anybody.”
“Not exactly true. When Piggy caught on to the fact that Shadow Stalker was doing solo patrols every night, made us take turns going with her, he had a few things to say. About both Piggy and Shadow Stalker.”
Vista smiled slightly.
“He enjoyed your company, Missy. There were little signs, but I believe it. When Triumph or Aegis assigned him a patrol shift with Kid Win, Browbeat or just about anyone else, it was ‘okay’, or ‘yes sir’. But when it was with me or you, it was ‘great’ or he’d just smile really wide, like it had made his night. It sounds dumb when I say it out loud-”
“No. I kind of noticed that too. I thought it was wishful thinking.”
Clockblocker sighed, “He was a good guy, and it’s shhsss…ucky-”
“You can swear around me, Dennis. I’m thirteen, not eight.”
He smiled a little behind his mask, feeling embarrassed. “Okay. Sorry.”
More seriously, he admitted, “It’s shitty of me to snap at you for doing what he would do. Glory Girl said I should let the grudge toward Weld go, partially for you, and she’s right. You’re right. I was, am, angry. At the pointlessness of what happened, what’s still happening out there. I get frustrated and angry when I’m here, because I feel like I should be out on the streets. I get pissed off when I’m out on patrol because I feel like I should be with my family… but when I’m with my family, I feel frustrated and helpless because I can’t do anything there…”
He stopped himself before he admitted the full extent of his difficulties back home.
“…I was taking it out on the new guy, when he probably doesn’t deserve it.”
Vista let her head rest on his arm.
“I miss the old Dennis. The guy who picked a sorta rude codename and announced himself in front of the news so Piggy and the other people in charge couldn’t really make him change it. Because it was funny. Because he liked pushing the limits and because he saw this all as something fun. The new Dennis is so angry. Now I guess I get why.”
“Aren’t you? Angry? At everything that’s going on? At the unfairness of what happened?”
She shook her head, which amounted to rubbing her head against his shoulder. “Yeah. But you can’t let it consume you. If you really don’t like Weld, you don’t have to force yourself to get along with him. But don’t stay like this. Don’t stay angry.”
He nodded. It wasn’t so easy, though. Letting things go, relaxing, he couldn’t help but feel like he’d fall apart if he did. He couldn’t get his hopes up about Panacea’s willingness to help his dad – and facing any of that head on, without a buffer of smouldering fury? It might leave him unable to serve and protect the people who really needed it. He felt his pulse quicken a step at the thought of it.
He hedged his answer, “I’ll work on it. Sorry if that’s been bothering you.”
“It’s okay. I’m tougher than I look.” She bumped one fist against the armor that covered her chest.
“And I’m sorry, again, for saying what I did. You’re good people, Missy.”
“Want to go back to class?” she asked.
“If you’re okay?”
When they returned, the Wards and Glory Girl were out in the hallway. The PRT officers were rushing out of the room, pulling their helmets on.
“You’re back,” Weld informed them, “Just in time. Class is cancelled. We’ve got trouble.”
The scene was set up in the husk of a building. Walls loomed on three sides, but there was no roof remaining. The floor was uneven, composed of layers of broken boards, shattered drywall and chunks of concrete.
“There’s two more crime scenes like this?” Clockblocker asked, eyes wide. He craned his neck upward to look above them.
“Yeah,” Weld spoke.
“It’s the middle of the day,” Kid Win spoke, “Broad daylight.”
Clockblocker looked at the overcast sky above. Not quite daylight. And people weren’t around. It was still ballsy, and more than a little scary.
On each of the three interior walls of the older building was a body, twenty feet above the ground. Each had received a different kind of treatment. To their left was a corpse that had been flayed, the gender no longer identifiable. Directly opposite their group was the corpse of an obese woman, charred black. Completing the scene was the body of what appeared to be a homeless man, or one of the people who’d been rendered homeless by the recent disaster, judging by the layers of clothing he wore. His limbs had been severed at each joint, then reconnected so each was joined by a short, foot-long length of chain. Nails placed through the chain kept him in position, head hanging, a macabre puppet with an overlong body. The chains jangled and swung in the wind.
Occupying the same building as the corpses was a familiar group. Trickster, Sundancer and Ballistic stood beneath the corpses. A winged figure that might have been a gargoyle, demon or dragon was clutching to the sides of an empty window frame with three talons, the other reaching toward the homeless man. Genesis.
“Pardon the cliche, but this isn’t what it looks like,” Trickster spoke.
“I believe you,” Weld spoke, “I’ve read your file, and this isn’t your M.O.”
“Excellent, excellent. I commend you,” Trickster tipped his hat, “Then we’ll be on our way?”
“No. But if you come into custody-”
“You’ll arrest us for any number of other criminal charges we’ve got waiting. And you can’t promise that one of your superiors won’t try to stick us with the blame for this.”
Weld frowned.
“Let us go. Whatever happened here, it deserves your full attention. You should be trying to find and capture the real criminals. This guy here was still alive when we arrived.” Trickster pointed at the man with the chain limbs.
“Can’t do that. You’re still suspects, regardless of how much this deviates from your usual methods.”
“A shame,” Trickster bowed.
In the blink of an eye, Weld disappeared, and Genesis loomed in his place, eight feet tall and nearly as broad across the shoulders, a body of pebble-like scales, heavy with muscle, a short tail and broad bat wings sprouting from her shoulders. She spun to face the rest of the Wards as Weld fell from the window.
Ballistic turned on the fallen captain of the Wards, unloading a barrage of debris and rubble to keep the metal skinned boy off-balance and on the defensive.
Clockblocker lunged for Genesis, hand outstretched. He was mere inches away when Genesis disappeared from in front of him. Or, rather, Clockblocker had been moved somewhere else. A lack of proper footing made him stumble, and he nearly collided with one of the dilapidated walls of the ruined building.
As he spun in place, catching a glimpse of Genesis exchanging blows with Glory Girl, he had his position swapped yet again. He found himself once more with his back to the brawling pair. One of them bumped into him, and he sprawled. If only he’d been able to tell if it were Genesis or Glory Girl that bumped into him; had he known, he might have used his power, taken Genesis out of the fight.
Annoying. He climbed to his feet, wary of more teleportation hijinks.
Kid Win wheeled on the spot to raise a square-nosed pistol and fire what looked like a brilliant blue flare at Trickster, but the teleporter swapped positions with him. Kid Win ducked the moment he was teleported, but he still got grazed by his own shot, blue sparks showering off his armored costume, small arcs of electricity dancing briefly around the metal joins. Sundancer created her flaming ball – small, but still far too bright to look at – and sent it after Kid Win. The young hero scrambled for cover, dropping his gun in his hurry to get away from the superheated orb. Flechette moved to shoot, then reconsidered, threw a handful of darts at Trickster instead. The darts disappeared in midair, and splinters of wood and small stones dropped straight out of the air where they had been.
Really fucking annoying, Clockblocker revised his summation of the teleporter.
Shadow Stalker had positioned herself on the ragged top of the wall where the roof had crumbled away, high above the skirmish, cloak billowing. She fired a shot at Ballistic and Sundancer, reloaded as Ballistic sent a piece of rubble flying through her shadowy form, then fired again. The Travelers had body armor, so she wasn’t doing more than distracting them. The needles of the tranquilizer darts wouldn’t pass through the durable armor or material.
“Red rover!” Vista shouted, “Go!”
Good girl. Clockblocker dashed for Trickster, and the distance between them compressed to a matter of feet, the highest points in the uneven ground flattening to make running easier.
Trickster swapped him with Vista, placing him several feet back. Ahead of him, he could see the girl where he’d just been, within a few feet of the teleporter. Clockblocker found his footing, darted forward once more. Again, Vista’s powers helped close the distance. Kid Win, Flechette, and Vista joined him in charging the enemy, so that Clockblocker wouldn’t be set too far back if he was teleported to their locations.
Sundancer moved the orb in between them and Trickster, igniting a few of the pieces of wood that were exposed and above the water. Vista responded by raising her hand to shrink it dramatically. Weld ducked one of Ballistic’s attacks, then charged for the orb, striking it out of the air with one fist. The blow dispersed it enough that Sundancer couldn’t draw it back together, and a wave of hot air washed over everyone present.
Weld, for his part, staggered back, his hand glowing white-hot. He flexed his glowing hand, and it moved slowly, stiffly. Even as far down as his elbow, the metal of his arm was an orange-red.
Clockblocker didn’t get a chance to see if Weld was okay. He charged around his team leader, using the metal boy’s broader body to put himself in Trickster’s blind spot. From this position, he tried to charge and tag the villain.
An instant before his hand could brush against Trickster, the villain was gone, and Weld was in front of him. His hand touched the metal of Weld’s back.
He breathed a sigh of relief when Weld turned around. Only the fact that he’d expected something along these lines had allowed him to turn his power off in time. Spinning around, Clockblocker reached for the space Weld had just vacated, but Trickster was already swapping places with Glory Girl to place himself as far away from the thick of the fighting as he could get.
I can’t keep track of this guy.
Clockblocker looked around to survey the situation. His group was sandwiched between the Travelers, now. On one side, Sundancer and Ballistic crouched in the far corner of the building. Trickster and Genesis stood on the other side, atop the rubble that spilled across the building’s entrance and onto the flooded street.
Genesis inhaled, chest expanding, and Weld was the first to react, stomping one foot hard into the rubble underfoot, using his foot to raise a large, ragged piece of plywood. With his hands, he forced the large wooden board into a standing position, placing it between himself and Genesis. Kid Win, Flechette and Vista wheeled on Ballistic and Sundancer.
Weld’s piece of plywood served to block the worst of whatever it was that Genesis exhaled. From what Clockblocker could see around the plywood, it was a dark, gray-black vapor. Wisps billowed around the edge of the board and drifted their way – it had a bitter smell and taste, like ashes mixed with something foul. Even inhaling a trace of it through the air holes of his mask forced barking coughs from his lungs. His teammates seemed to be in rougher shape, Vista falling to her hands and knees. The changer’s exhalation hadn’t even reached them directly.
So, that’s what a changer nine brings to the table. Different forms, each with their own powers.
Weld staggered as Genesis lunged forward, and Clockblocker ducked low under Weld’s arm, planted a hand against the plywood. He felt his power snap out to encompass the material, and he fixed it in place, cutting it off from the flow of time.
A second later, he felt a heavy hand on his shoulder. Weld, standing over him, gave him a quick smile and an offered hand. He returned it with the briefest of nods and took Weld’s hand to stand straight. Together, the pair of them stepped back and away, to see Genesis rising into the air with heavy flaps of her bat-like wings, inhaling to prepare another blast of the noxious smoke.
He felt oddly calm as his group squared off against the villains with some of the highest power ratings in Brockton Bay, beneath the grim display of the three hanging corpses. He reached into the slot of the armor at his side and withdrew two sheaves of paper. Moving his thumbs in one direction, he fanned out the papers, holding them like anyone else might hold a pair of knives.
He realized what it was, this calm. Whatever else it was, this fight was a refuge from that feeling that had plagued him since the fight with Leviathan ended. The feeling that he was always in the wrong place, doing the wrong thing at the wrong time, in the face of a city in crisis and a dying father. This, right here, was where he was needed.
This is what I’m here for.
Posted in 9.3 | Tagged Ballistic, Clockblocker, Flechette, Genesis, Glory Girl, Kid Win, Shadow Stalker, Sundancer, Trickster, Vista, Weld | 98 Replies
Posted on April 7, 2012 by wildbow
Flechette spoke, “You’re a hard person to fin-”
Shadow Stalker, transparent and wispy, whirled on the spot, not even pausing as she fired her crossbows. The first bolt went wide. Flechette caught the second out of the air, staggered back a step as she was caught off balance. Her right foot skidded to the edge of the rooftop.
“What the hell!?”
Shadow Stalker rose from a crouch, becoming opaque in the process, “Oh. You shouldn’t sneak up on people when they’re on patrol.”
What? I nearly get shot and she blames me?
“You nearly killed me!”
“It’s a tranquilizer shot, and you have the fire escape behind you.”
Flechette turned to see Shadow Stalker was right about the fire escape. The bolt in her hand had a glass shaft, filled with fluid, a three-pronged head with a wider cross-shaped flare at the base of it to prevent it from stabbing too deep. Tinker made? “Geez. You shaved a year off my life, doing that.”
“Sorry. A little twitchy. Good to see you,” Shadow Stalker crossed the roof, offered a hand. Flechette shook it.
“I suppose being twitchy is excusable,” Flechette excused Shadow Stalker, looking out beyond the rooftop to the dark streets. Some of the buildings looked ready to fall over, and the main street below the pair had a two-foot crack running down the middle. Water covered everything at the ground level, a half-foot deep. “And the apology is accepted.”
“So. You joining the team?”
“No. Temporary stay, until you guys fill out your ranks again. Maybe a few weeks, maybe as much as a month or two. Weld told me you were out on patrol, that you might need backup.”
“I don’t do backup, and I don’t do the team thing unless someone makes me, but I’m willing to hang with another crossbow aficionado. Is that the right word? Aficionado?”
Flechette smiled, “It is. The brown haired guy at the computer told me you’d be around here. Took me almost two hours to spot you, though I did get sidetracked by some kids taking clothing from a broken display window. We’ll patrol?”
“Sure,” Shadow Stalker agreed, lowering her eyes to her crossbows as she picked bolts out of one of the three cartridges mounted on her forearm and loaded them into her crossbows. “You look like a rooftop type. Fly? Glide? Grappling hook?”
“Grappling hook,” she patted her weapon, touched the chain that ran along her arm to the automatic-firing crossbow, her arbalest.
“If you can’t keep up, don’t worry about it. Keep moving in a straight line, I’m mostly untouchable, hard to spot, so I’ll scout ahead for trouble, double back every minute or so to check on you.”
Shadow Stalker swept her cloak over one shoulder, simultaneously shifting into her shadow state. She turned and leaped twenty feet to the side of a neighboring building. Grabbing a windowsill, she vaulted herself another fifteen or so feet straight up the face of the building, caught another windowsill, and then heaved herself up once more to reach the rooftop. Her cloak billowed out around her, and Flechette saw how Shadow Stalker’s costume clung to her body. One of the surprisingly few people who could wear a skintight costume without armor pads or features to mask minor physical imperfections and emphasize or suggest certain features.
When Shadow Stalker had disappeared from view, Flechette remembered she was supposed to follow. She cocked her arbalest, flipped a switch beneath the trigger while sending a burst of her power through her weapon to connect the chain to the ammunition, and then fired a needle with an attached chain to the edge of the rooftop.
The needle bit deep, and the chain went taut. A second later, she was reeling in. The pull of the chain wasn’t quite enough to carry her straight to the rooftop, but the pull of the chain coupled with her ability to plant her cleats into the face of the building and run up the building face let her reach the edge of the roof. A bit of momentum, one hand and her cleats gave her what she needed to hop over the roof’s edge.
Running across the rooftop, she used her index finger to flip the switch, severing the chain, then reconnected the chain to the next piece of ammunition as her free hand loaded it into place. It took her a second to spot the vague blur that was Shadow Stalker, almost three buildings ahead of her. The girl was practically gliding as she fell, moving more horizontally than vertically.
It was a drop to the next rooftop, Flechette noted. She touched the front end of the needle that was mounted in her arbalest, used her power on it.
Capes with the ‘breaker’ classification were generally those who had some ability to ‘break’ the natural laws of the universe as far as those laws applied to them. Shadow Stalker was one. Scion was apparently another. There were others who could slow or stop time in relation to themselves, change their effective orientation in respect to gravity or make themselves effectively larger without the exponentially increasing the stresses that the increased size and mass would normally place on their body. Almost always, such powers came with some physiological changes that let them manage despite the altered environment they were effectively operating in, allowing them to breathe and walk at the very least.
Flechette wasn’t a breaker, though her power came close. Technically, she was a striker, a cape with the ability to apply some effect by touch or at point-blank range. The striker classification could include certain breaker effects as they were applied to things other than the cape themselves, but not always. Other strikers included those who used energy weapons, those who had certain kinds of superstrength that weren’t accompanied by durability and those with pyrokinesis or such that didn’t extend more than a foot around them. The way she used her ability, coupled with the intuitive understanding of angles, trajectories and timing she got from her secondary powers, gave her a low rating as a ‘blaster’. A cape with a ranged attack.
She infused the three-foot length of sharpened metal that was mounted in her arbalest with her power. The more power there was in it, the less it was affected by the natural laws of the universe. Focusing more power into an object meant gravity, air resistance and general physics held less and less sway over it. She could tune it, make the effect longer lived, shorter lived or bias the effects to allow for more of one element or less of another.
She could do other things, but the primary benefit, the easiest thing to do, was making her ammunition punch through anything. It would glue itself in place on impact, if she had the effect wear off at the right time, and she was very good at timing things. She could charge the metal of her cleats so they bit into any surface, and though it was too slow to be used defensively unless her foe telegraphed their attacks, she could make her costume frictionless.
She fired the needle through the corner of the roof just in front of her, and it passed through without resistance. It continued on to strike the rooftop below and in front of her, nestling in deep as the effect wore off, bonding on a molecular level to the material around it. The chain stretched down at a fifty degree angle, taut.
Flechette stepped forward, onto the chain. The space between the spikes of her cleats made for a groove the chain could run through. She slid down, one foot behind the other, arbalest held behind her with the chain reeling out, a safety measure in the event she slipped or was pushed off, with the added advantage that it allowed her to control the speed of her descent.
When she was close to the rooftop below, she cut the chain, let herself drop down. She was running the second her feet met the surface, using the momentum from her slide.
It was tiring, constantly running, but she didn’t want to look bad in front of Shadow Stalker. She was going to spend weeks with this team, and Shadow Stalker was the only other girl present that was close to her own age. Doing double shifts of patrols, eating, showering, relaxing with her teammates, day in and day out, it would drain the life out of her if she had no friends to do it with, if she had no conversation and camaraderie.
At least this wasn’t so different from the exercise she got on her nightly patrol back in New York. The problem was that this city was unfamiliar ground. The buildings didn’t match together well, the skyline was jarring, didn’t flow. Back home, traveling from rooftop to rooftop wasn’t much harder than running, with the use of her grappling hook to move her every minute or two. Here, it was a jerky, stilted exercise, slow, awkward, demanding use of the grappling hook for nearly every building.
It wasn’t something she did often, but after too many steep ascents followed by steep descents, she bridged a gap to a more distant building with her chain, forming a horizontal tightrope, and ran along it.
Shadow Stalker was waiting for her when she got to the other end. She did her best not to pant for breath.
“Don’t you run out of chain?”
Flechette turned, reached over her shoulder to tap her back. “Tinker teammate back home specializes in replication and cloning. Small pack back here consumes energy from a small fusion battery to create a steady supply. I’ve also got a kit back at the base that makes me a fresh stock of bolts.”
“I could use one of those.”
“Why’d you stop? You see something?”
Shadow Stalker led Flechette to the edge of the roof. Looking down, they could see a group of men in a loose half-circle around a middle-aged woman. The woman was backing away from the men, who were gradually closing in.
“Why haven’t you done anything yet?!” Flechette gasped.
“These things go smoother if the culprits are clearly committing a crime when you step in-”
A man grabbed the woman’s wrist, and she pulled back, struggled. She screamed, attacked the man, only to get punched and knocked back on her ass, landing in the shallow water.
“-And there we go.” Shadow Stalker leaped from the rooftop, falling at a normal speed, slowing to an almost gentle floating descent when she was partway down.
You only need to wait like that if you’re going to be violent, Flechette thought to herself. Why? When she has the tranquilizer bolts?
And Shadow Stalker had neglected to inform command. Flechette reached for her ear, where an earbud was nestled in the canal. She squeezed it twice. “Console, woman under attack by twelve or so ordinaries. Shadow Stalker and Flechette stepping in.”
“Acknowledged,” a voice in her ear responded, “Good luck.”
She fired a bolt into the corner of the rooftop, then jumped, rappelling down.
Shadow Stalker was already engaged by the time Flechette arrived at the fight. In a matter of heartbeats, Shadow Stalker answered Flechette’s unspoken questions.
The other heroine didn’t flinch as one of the men swung a baseball bat at her – the weapon passed harmlessly through her head. In response, she stepped back, materialized from her shadow state, raised a crossbow and shot him in the side of the neck. A fraction of a second after the glass arrow stuck in her target’s neck, Shadow Stalker stepped forward again, driving her armored elbow up at an angle at the spot where the bolt had struck home. Glass shattered and the combination needle-arrowhead was violently dislodged. The man went tumbled with a splash, going limp before he hit the water. The side of his neck and the corner of his jaw were a bloody mess of cuts and embedded broken glass.
Shadow Stalker wheeled around, then simultaneously slammed the top of her right crossbow into her left forearm and her left crossbow into her right arm. There was a barely audible click as cartridges loaded into the top of each crossbow. She extended her arms to fire at the two of the men closest to the woman. They dropped on their backs in the water, splashing.
Realizing what they were up against, the group began to scatter. Flechette raised her arbalest, shot one bolt so it struck a wall just in front of one man’s throat. Still running, he ran headlong into it, clotheslined himself, and fell over, gasping and gurgling.
She spared a glance to double check he wasn’t in a position to drown, which very nearly cost her. One of the thugs turned to attack her, drawing a gun, but she had a bolt loaded and fired off before he could aim it, spearing through the gun’s barrel and out the back, to strike a wall. She loaded another bolt even as she was already pulling the trigger to fire it, so it was sent out an eye-blink after it was in place. The shaft of metal struck the thug through the crotch of his sagging jeans, pinning them to the wall he was backing up to. He didn’t scream, so he clearly wasn’t well endowed enough to get hit anywhere important. Flechette wasn’t exactly an expert -or even a novice- in that sort of thing, but she was ninety-nine percent sure that men didn’t dangle nearly to their knees.
Made lightweight by her power, Shadow Stalker leaped to the nearest wall, then vaulted herself off, careening directly toward three of the retreating men. As she landed atop the one in the front, she dropped out of her shadow form, returning to her normal weight. Planting her feet on his shoulder blades, she combined the force of her weight and her momentum with a downward kick of both feet, driving him into the water, hard. She went shadowy a half second later, becoming almost invisible in the gloom of the empty lot, effortlessly reorienting her now lightweight body to land on her feet.
Both of the men behind Shadow Stalker attacked her, one swiping a knife at her, the other kicking for the small of her back. Smoky, dark flickers appeared where limbs and weapons passed through her.
Almost casually, she holstered her crossbows, then straightened up. A flurry of other attacks passed through her.
One man hesitated, seeing the futility of what they were doing, and Shadow Stalker took the opportunity to drop the shadow state. She leaned out of the way of one desperate punch from the other man, then grabbed him. She seized him by the shirt-front, pulled him forward with a hard tug on his collar and a counterclockwise turn of her body, then brought her right knee into his ribs. He fell with a splash.
Metal kneepad, Flechette noted. That’s going to hurt.
The other man attacked, but Shadow Stalker went shadowy just long enough for his knife to pass through her, then slammed her metal mask into his face.
While he swayed back, stunned, blood streaming from his nose, she reached out and grabbed him by the lower jaw, her fingers digging into the bottom of his mouth. Instinctively, desperately, he bit down, hard, but the construction of the girl’s gauntlets was good enough to safeguard her fingers. She used her grip to pull him to one side as she’d just done with his compatriot, helped by a swift kick to the side of one leg. Rather than use her knee to deliver the telling blow, she brought the heel of her free hand against the gap between the man’s skull and his jaw. He screamed, crumpled toward the ground, his hands moving to where the strike had hit.
Shadow Stalker waited a moment before letting go, forcing him to twist and squeal in agony before she let him finish collapsing.
After watching him a moment, perhaps to be sure he wouldn’t retaliate, Shadow Stalker glanced at Flechette. “Your man there is getting loose.”
Flechette had been caught up in the spectacle of watching Shadow Stalker fight. A kind of horrified fascination. She saw the thug she’d shot in the crotch, on his back in the water, his pants still fixed to the wall. He was struggling to work his legs out of the jeans. She loaded a shot and fired a bolt just beneath his armpit, nailing his sweatshirt to the ground. Another just above his opposite shoulder and behind his neck secured him.
Shadow Stalker was chasing one of the stragglers. Going shadow-light, she closed the distance in two long paces, leaving ripples and small disturbances in the foot-deep water, rather than splashes. As she reached the man’s side, she dropped the shadow state, gripped his ear and used one leg to trip him. With the grip his ear afforded her, she thrust him face first into the ground with enough force that he couldn’t absorb the impact with his arms. Water sprayed around them in the wake of the hit.
Flechette reached into her belt and withdrew a handful of darts, each nine inches long. She channeled her power into each, and then flung them at the feet of the two remaining thugs, catching the edges of their shoes. Their shoes fixed firmly to the ground and they fell awkwardly. Two tranquilizer bolts appeared in the rear end of one and the upper thigh of the other. Shadow Stalker.
Which finished the fight. None of the men were left in any state to run.
Flechette palmed one of her throwing darts, glanced at it. She’d been with the Wards a year before she had been given the arbalest and the chain reel. Her darts had been her weapon of choice for a long time, alongside a rapier she’d eventually retired after too many fights using it had turned out badly. She hadn’t had the heart to change her codename, even if it didn’t quite apply anymore. Maybe when she graduated to the Protectorate.
“Hey,” Shadow Stalker called out, disturbing her from her thoughts. “Here!”
Tired, she thought, mind’s wandering.
Flechette caught the device Shadow Stalker threw to her. Investigation revealed it to be a small, thin, round device with a single button on top. “Haven’t seen one of these since training.”
“Times like this call for ’em. City wants us on patrol, not sitting around with our thumbs up our asses, waiting for the cops to cart these fuckers off,” Shadow Stalker kicked one man in the side, so he flopped over onto his back, no longer face down in the water. He grunted.
Flechette winced. That girl is a little too comfortable with violence for my tastes.
While Shadow Stalker ensured that the man with the cuts on his neck wasn’t bleeding out, Flechette loaded another bolt into her arbalest and fired it into a spot on the wall, two floors up.
She walked briskly to the two men that had just been darted. She bent down and used her left hand to wind the coil of the restraint device around his left foot, then did the same for the next man’s right foot.
She tossed the restraint device over the bolt she’d embedded in the wall, a metal thread trailing behind it. She caught it as it fell, then connected it back to the cord, forming a loose loop that encircled the bolt in the wall. She pressed the button, and the cord retracted, pulled tight around the pole, then continued retracting. The two thugs were pulled off the ground, so that each hung from the wall by one ankle.
The device would signal nearby police and PRT officers and direct them here. They’d use their own equipment to make the restraint device lower the men so the thugs could be brought into custody. The cord was difficult to cut with conventional knives and saws, and those caught wouldn’t want to cut it either, given how they faced a long drop face first onto pavement. Any buddies of theirs would have a hell of a time getting to them and cutting them free, as well.
She walked over to the man she’d clotheslined, who still hadn’t finished gasping, nor had he collected himself enough to run. She grabbed his wrist and forced it behind his back.
As she hauled him to his feet, a collision made her stagger back. It hadn’t been directed at her. No, it was the man she held that slumped, almost insensate. He hung his head, a trail of blood dribbling from his lip.
Seeing a movement just outside her blind spot, opposite the man, Flechette pushed her captive down and away. She had to evade the weapon as it swung towards her head.
It was the middle-aged woman that the men had been attacking. She held a metal trash can lid in two hands. Oblivious to Flechette, she swung the lid down at the man’s head.
“Hey!” Flechette shouted, “Stop!”
She reached out to grab for the lid, but a hand on her wrist stopped her.
“Let her,” Shadow Stalker spoke.
The woman kicked the man in the ribs, hard, then struck him with the flat of the metal lid.
“You fuckers!” the woman screamed.
Stunned, Flechette spoke to Shadow Stalker, “The hell? He’s not in a position to defend himself!”
“Doesn’t deserve to.”
“She’s going to kill him!”
“Better that we give her another few swings than render her powerless for the second time tonight,” Shadow Stalker spoke. “Or she won’t get over it for a long time. We’ll stop her before she goes too far.”
“No, this isn’t right.” Flechette pulled her arm free of Shadow Stalker’s grasp, then grabbed the woman’s wrist, stopping her as the lid was brought back behind her head. Not entirely to the woman, she spoke, “You’re better than this. You have to be.”
The woman resisted, tried to pull free to make another swing. When Flechette maintained her grip, the woman used her free hand to throw the lid down on top of the man.
“Stop,” Flechette spoke. As the woman struggled, she turned to bark a command to Shadow Stalker, “Help!”
“I’m on her side, to be honest,” Shadow Stalker didn’t move.
“So am I,” Flechette grunted as the woman shifted her weight towards her, knocking her off balance. “Which means stopping her from doing anything she’ll regret!”
“Let me go!” the woman shouted at her, “Fuckers like this hurt my daughter!”
“Is she here? Your daughter?” Flechette asked.
“She’s home, it- it happened last week! Let me at him! Fuckers!”
“Stop attacking him and I will!”
The woman didn’t have a response, beyond continued struggles. Though Flechette kept to an exercise regimen, spent four nights a week in the gym, she was still only seventeen, and the woman had a good fifty or more pounds of weight advantage. The woman pulled free and staggered back, gave her an angry look.
When the lady stepped forward, toward the fallen, bloodied man, Flechette stepped in her way. The woman didn’t back off, so Flechette raised her arbalest a fraction.
That was apparently enough. The woman scowled further, then turned and fled the scene, half-running, half-limping.
“Thanks for the backup,” Flechette spat the words to Shadow Stalker.
“Told you, I don’t do the backup thing,” Shadow Stalker bent over the unconscious man, turning his head to investigate his injuries. “He’ll live. Him and his buddies deserve what they got.”
“That’s not your call to make.”
“Sure it is,” Shadow Stalker retrieved another restraint device and quickly strung the man up beneath a metal frame meant for an air conditioning unit. “Times like this, we’re cop, judge, jury and if it really comes down to it, executioner. We’re the ones with the power.”
“No. That’s wrong.”
“Suppose we’ll have to agree to disagree,” Shadow Stalker turned her back, preparing another restraint device.
Flechette huffed, angry. She didn’t want to get into a shouting match, wasn’t sure what to say to convince the girl. “You can finish your patrol alone.”
“Whatever,” Shadow Stalker replied without looking back, “If you want to be like that. I’m only on the team because I have to be, so you’re doing me a favor. Prefer to fly solo.”
Three strikes, Flechette thought, as she strode away. Nearly being shot for saying hello, the way Shadow Stalker had delayed helping the woman, and now this.
She’d give the other girl the benefit of a doubt. Maybe Shadow Stalker had some unresolved issues, maybe it had been a rough week. But for now, she needed to calm down and wait long enough to think more objectively about what had happened. Then she’d decide whether to deal or to tell her new team leader.
Fuck. She felt profoundly disappointed. She wanted to like the other heroine, but this was too much.
She had one other thing she had wanted to do tonight, before she finished her patrol, went back, showered, ate and unpacked.
She squeezed the bud in her ear twice, “Console?”
A brief pause, then a voice in her ear, “Kid Win on the console. Hi, Flechette. Deal with those guys okay?”
“Guys are dealt with but… I’m going to do the rest of my night’s patrol alone.”
“Sorry. I should’ve warned you. Tends to be easier to work around her.”
So she’s always like that.
“This is unfamiliar territory for me. I might need you to brief me if I run into a cape, so I know what I’m potentially running into.”
“Of course, I’m not going anywhere.”
“And on that subject, I remember meeting someone when I was in town for the attack. What can you tell me about the cape with the stuffed animals? Pariah, par-”
“Parian,” Kid Win replied. “A parian doll was a kind of doll about a hundred and fifty years ago. Though Parian’s costume is actually closer to a more classical Victorian style porcelain doll, from the same era.”
“Oh.” That was random. What kind of guy knew that much about dolls?
He went on, “She’s a rogue. Fashion student with the costume and stuffed animals as a gimmick to help her build for a professional reputation and stand out. Tentative rating of Master-6, but we haven’t really seen her fight, outside of the Leviathan encounter.”
“Student. So she’ll be near a college?”
“College is gone. Kaput. Um, let me see. Last we heard, she was situated between the spot where the college was and the lake downtown. If I remember right, there’s going to be a fairly thin strip of places there that are intact enough to live in. Vista ran into her the other night, but she’s asleep right now and we’re behind on paperwork so…”
“So you don’t know exactly what happened, and I’d be going in blind. She’s harmless though? This Parian?”
“Nobody’s harmless at a time like this, Flechette,” Kid Win replied.
“Right.” Flechette thought of the middle-aged woman beating her attacker bloody.
“Listen, easiest way to get to that area, you’ll find the lake to the northwest, walk the perimeter of it to reach the north end. The area she could be staying at should only be a block or two wide. If she’s even awake. I’ve got Clockblocker buzzing in, probably to check in for the night and give me the cliff notes on his nightly patrol, so I’m going silent until you need me, k?”
Flechette gauged the direction of the ocean, deemed that east, and then headed northwest as Kid Win had suggested. She traveled at ground level, wading through the water, to make faster progress. Nothing to prove, now that she had stopped patrolling with Shadow Stalker.
It didn’t take long to find the ‘lake’ Leviathan had made in the downtown area. Given that the streets were flooded with water anyways, the crater itself was distinguishable only by the barrier around it, and a dark shadow beneath the water where there was nothing beneath to reflect light. Hulks of fallen buildings sat in the center of the water. The orange light of a fire on the top floor of one of the buildings suggested that someone had swum to one of the buildings and was staying there. Maybe one of the safer places to be.
The crater was surrounded by orange striped barriers with flashing lights and portable chain link fences that were chained together. The fencing formed a solid barrier around the hole. She walked with the fence to her left, which roughly halved the area she had to keep an eye on, in case of approaching trouble. Her right index finger was just below the trigger of her arbalest, and her left hand clutched a handful of darts.
The massive sinkhole Leviathan had made was roughly circular, but it was large enough that she couldn’t say for sure when she had turned and started moving more west than north.
Fresh graffiti stained buildings, some warning people to stay away, others were the crude pictographs of hobo signs. One neighborhood had used the debris of fallen buildings to form makeshift barricades in alleys and in front of doorways. There wasn’t much intact housing here – the sinkhole sat to her left, and two blocks to her right, from what she could make out in the moonlight, the buildings were too damaged to serve as living accommodations.
At one intersection there were two parallel, vertical lines spray painted in yellow on opposite walls. Traffic cones, some broken, an orange striped barrier and the remains of one yellow raincoat sat in the water, much of it weighed down by rubble. Together, the organized debris formed a brightly colored line joining the marks that had been spray painted on the wall.
She stepped over the line, and immediately felt a resistance. It took her a second to figure out what it was – a thread caught the moonlight.
There was a muffled splashing sound, and a twelve-foot tall gorilla leaped from the nearest rooftop to land directly in front of her. It swung its arms wildly in front of it, missing her, then slammed both knuckles down in the water, crushing one side of the orange striped barrier. Flechette raised her arbalest to shoot, then stopped.
It wasn’t real. Damp cloth, stitched together. And it was blind. It wasn’t acting as though it could see her.
She dropped the arbalest, backed over the line, and then waited.
Parian arrived at a run, feet splashing in the water. She spotted Flechette, and the gorilla moved to place itself between the two of them.
Her creations can only see what she sees. They’re puppets.
“Stay back,” Parian warned. She peeked out from behind the gorilla. Her mask, a doll’s face, was smudged, and a crack ran from the corner of one eye to the ear. She wore a frock, different than the one she had worn for the Leviathan fight, but it was wet, dirty, and some of the lace had torn. There was a wood chip in the damp golden curls that were otherwise too perfectly coiled to be real hair
“I’m staying back,” Flechette assured the girl. “Remember me?”
“Yes. You talked to me before the fight, pulled me away from that horrible little girl.”
“Yeah,” Flechette smiled, shrugging. She stepped forward.
“Back!” Parian called out. The Gorilla slammed its knuckles against the ground again, then lurched forward, one fist raising as if to deliver a massive punch.
Flechette obeyed, backing up another two steps, hands raised. The gorilla’s fist stayed where it was.
“I’m a hero. Member of the Wards. I’m in town for a little while.”
“Doesn’t matter. I made a deal. Me, my friends and my family get a place to stay here, a fair share of the food and water. In exchange, I keep people from entering.”
“I’m a hero,” Flechette stressed the word. “I’m not going to cause trouble.”
“I don’t know you’re telling the truth. Nothing saying you couldn’t be lying.”
“I have ID.”
Parian shook her head. “It doesn’t matter anyways.”
The frocked rogue climbed up to stand on top of the gorilla’s shoulders. She added, “I made a deal. I’m keeping to it. One hundred percent neutrality. You trespass, I fight you.”
And I’d almost definitely win, Flechette thought. You may even know that, but you’d fight me anyways.
“Okay,” Flechette replied, trying to sound reassuring, “I won’t step over the line. I heard you were around here, you’re one of the only recognizable faces for me here, I thought I’d stop by, see how you were doing.”
“Coping,” Parian answered.
“Good, good,” Flechette sheathed her arbalest, hoping the rogue would feel safer. “Look, I’m here if you need anything. If people make trouble and you’re not strong enough to protect that neighborhood there, or if you need resources that you couldn’t get otherwise, like names or medical services, call me. Can I give you my card?”
The gorilla lowered his raised fist, reached forward with palm upturned, and Flechette fished in her belt for her cards. Slightly damp, but readable. She placed it in the center of a sopping wet hand crafted out of black denim. The gorilla’s palm was surprisingly firm. Hard. Its shape was a little too humanlike, in comparison to a real gorilla, maybe. Not that it mattered.
“Okay,” Parian spoke, as the gorilla handed her the card. Her voice was a little softer. “Phone lines are down, but cell phones work around here.”
“You guys need anything here? I don’t know what the situation is with supplies, just got into the city a few hours ago. Don’t know how that stuff is being distributed, but I could see about making sure you guys have something.”
Parian sat down cross-legged on the gorilla’s shoulders. “Yeah. We’re low on fresh water. This stuff we’re wading in has too much salt content, and you couldn’t even boil it clean if you wanted to, I don’t think.”
“Okay. Fresh water.”
The doll girl shifted her weight to put the card in the front pocket of her lacy apron, fumbled with it. Flechette spotted a tremor as the girl put the card away and moved to clasp her hands in her lap.
She’s shaking.
“Hey?” Flechette asked.
“Seriously, are you okay? You holding up?”
Parian turned, looked behind her, as if checking anyone was listening.
“I hate fighting. Hate confrontation. Even this, being here, having just thought I might have to fight you, fight anyone, it makes me feel edgy. My teeth are chattering and I’m not even cold.”
“You faced down Leviathan. You did better than a lot of people.”
“Do you know how long it took me to get my head together? To actually step up and help?”
“But you did. You stepped up. Give yourself credit. You’re strong.”
“I want this to be over. I’m so, so scared that someone’s going to come and try to loot this place and I won’t be able to do anything.”
“You’ve got my card. I can’t promise I’ll arrive immediately, but I’ll be staying at the Wards headquarters, which isn’t too far.”
Parian nodded. Quietly, she spoke, “That helps a lot. More than you know.”
“And I can come by on my patrols, if you want. Check everything is okay, give you an update on what I can do about supplies.”
Parian hesitated, “Please do. If you pluck the strings twice, I’ll know it’s you. I’m using my telekinesis on the strings, I’ll feel it.”
“Deal. I’m Flechette, by the way, in case you didn’t know.”
“Oh. Um. I didn’t. My name’s Sab-” Parian stopped, made a barely audible groan.
“It’s okay,” Flechette suppressed the urge to smile. Sabrina? Maybe. Sable? No, the b pronunciation was different.
“I’m an idiot,” Parian spoke.
Flechette paused, then removed her visor. “Lily.”
I need people I can trust, she tried to convince herself, even as she knew she had other reasons. Stuff like this could get her in serious trouble with the Wards.
Parian hesitated, then reached up and removed her mask. Though her clothing style was western, her wig all blonde curls, her face was dark, middle eastern. There were bands of metal extending from the edges of her face to the middle of her cheekbones, her chin and her forehead. Mounts to keep her mask in position? She had full lips and large, dark eyes. “Sabah.”
Cute, the thought struck Flechette. Funny to think she’s older than me.
“Nice to meet you, Sabah.”
“I’m still not letting you over the line,” Sabah warned. She looked so small, up on the gorilla’s broad shoulders, the threat held little gravity. Maybe, Flechette considered, it was intended more for Sabah than for her.
“Okay,” Flechette donned her visor once more, “But maybe you want to walk with me? Do a patrol of the perimeter of your territory? I’ll stay on this side.”
Sabah put her mask back on, and for a second, Flechette thought she would say no.
“Okay. Thank you.” Parian dropped her legs down to either side of the gorilla’s neck as it moved forward. To stay decent, the girl pressed her hands down on the lap of her dress, leaning forward a little. It was a little thing, that bashful modesty, but Flechette felt as much of a rush watching that as she did running across her chain/tightrope with a five-story drop below her.
She didn’t let it show. Instead, she smiled and started walking, hands clasped behind her back, darts clasped in one hand in case of trouble or ambush. The gorilla crossed the yellow line and sort of half-ran, half-loped to catch up, move beside her. It slowed to a plodding, gentle walk
Flechette was secretly relieved. She knew she’d manage for the duration of her stay, now. She’d made a connection, even if it wasn’t with someone on her team. She wasn’t in this alone.
“So, you’re a fashion student?” she asked.
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It was seven-thirty in the evening in a medium sized airport. Weren’t there supposed to be people?
There had been staff, for sure. The odd staff member to greet him as he got off the plane, another to see him past the gates. Still, the terminals were empty, there were no crowds, the shops and restaurants were all closed. Only half the lights were on. For the first time, he was wondering if he was getting in over his head.
At least there were no people making the same old jokes about the metal detectors.
Baggage claim had three carousels, which should have been in operation, delivering a regular supply of people’s luggage onto the conveyor belts, crowds gathered around them in anticipation. Instead, there was a single man in uniform with three large bags already piled onto a cart.
“I can take my bags, I’m stronger than I look.”
“It’s alright, son,” the man replied, “It’s good to have something to do that isn’t cleaning up.”
Son. That bothered him more than he cared to admit. Not that he had any ideas about his own ethnicity, but it was vaguely condescending. A reminder that people didn’t know how to act around him.
“Alright,” he conceded, “Where are we headed?”
The man gestured toward a set of double doors, then gripped the handle of the cart to push it in that same direction.
Stainless steel handles on the doors. He put his hands on the painted surface instead, pushed them open, and then held one of the doors open for the cart. He was distracted enough that he almost didn’t notice the group waiting for him.
The group consisted of a squad of PRT officers with their regular assortment of nonlethal weaponry and a large woman with a bleached blonde bob.
“Weld, I’m glad you made it,” she managed to say the words without a trace of humor or smile on her face. She extended a hand.
He glanced quickly at her hand, checking there were no rings, then shook it. “Thank you, ma’am. Director Piggot, I’m assuming?”
“You assume correctly. Shall we?”
As they fell into step, he asked, “Where is everyone?”
“This airport was attacked by one of the local villain groups just three days ago. The front lobby and ticket claim were ransacked, and the airport has shut down for the time being, with only special cases such as yourself coming or going.”
“I take it things are bad?”
“Yes. We have seen this type of situation before, if not to this extreme. Too many citizens here had been living paycheck to paycheck or were unemployed. There was a great deal of latent frustration and unhappiness with the status quo. A powder keg needing only a spark to set it off.”
Weld nodded, “And the arrival of an Endbringer is a bit more than a spark. I see. I know the Endbringers tend to target areas where they know they can do the most damage. You think Leviathan did it on purpose? Attacked this city because he knew this would happen?”
“If someone raised the idea, I wouldn’t dismiss it. But our focus should be on what we do in the here and now. Are you ready to take command of the local Wards?”
“I’m ready to try.”
“Good. The team here is smaller than your old team in Boston. It currently consists of Clockblocker, Vista, Kid Win and Shadow Stalker. We had three members die in the attack.”
PRT uniforms opened the doors, and he followed the Director onto a helipad, followed shortly after by the other PRT uniforms and man with his luggage. A black helicopter with the PRT logo on the sides sat there, propeller already whirring in preparation for takeoff.
The Director took the hand of a uniform inside the helicopter, stepping inside, and Weld followed her up, refusing a helping hand. The helicopter shifted slightly with the addition of his six hundred pounds of weight.
When the door shut, cutting off the worst of the noise, he took the offered headphones and put them on. When he spoke, his voice came through the headphones crystal clear, without a trace of the ambient noise of the helicopter, “So there’s only five of us?”
“There will be more. We’ve got a lead on a young man who could be joining as a new member, assuming we can get close enough to him to make the offer. I trust you know your classifications?”
“I do,” Weld nodded. He’d memorized it as a rhyme, as suggested by his old boss. Maybe that had been the intention from the start:
Mover, Shaker,
Brute and Breaker.
Master, Tinker,
Blaster and Thinker,
Striker, Changer,
Trump and Stranger.
He was classified as a brute and changer, classifications meant for the unnaturally tough and strong and for those who could change their shape to some extent, respectively. He never liked the word brute being applied to him, even though he was aware that the labels had originally been intended for the PRT teams to identify and label villains, specifically. It was only later that they had been extended to identifying the heroes as well.
“Right. This potential recruit is tentatively marked down as a Tinker/Mover. It isn’t unusual for powers to emerge in the wake of an event as serious as this. For this reason, we keep careful track of things to see if we cannot detect any new parahumans. This young man has been observed in the south end, moving at over a hundred miles an hour with the assistance of a mechanical suit. His inclusion on a local team would help fill gaps left by the death of Velocity, a local Protectorate member, and Armsmaster’s retirement.”
Weld nodded.
“Others may make themselves known, and we will approach each of them in turn. To help fill the gap in the meantime, Flechette is arriving from New York.”
Weld chuckled, just under his breath.
“Something amusing?”
He was surprised that she had heard or noticed the laugh. “No, it’s just that we know each other. Our teams are -were- friendly rivals, kind of. We’d meet two or three times a year and compete, just to spar and practice our skills against less familiar opponents. We’d joke around about which team was better, give each other a hard time.”
“I certainly hope this ‘rivalry’ isn’t going to hamper your ability to lead this team and work with her.” There was no humor in her tone. Just the opposite.
“Um, no, ma’am,” he replied, chastened. The helicopter lifted into the air. A glance out the window showed the sprawl of the city. It was dark out, but much of the city was unlit, nothing shining through the windows, no street lights illuminating the roads, nor the headlights and taillights of traffic.
Noting where he was looking, Director Piggot spoke, “Because the current situation is serious, and it isn’t improving as fast as we’d like. You’re going to have to be on the top of your game.”
“Clockblocker and Vista are your best assets. Clockblocker is a Striker 7 with touch-based time-stopping. Vista is a Shaker 9. Large scale spatial distortion.”
“Geez louise. The others?”
“Kid Win is a Tinker 4. Guns and antigravity devices, primarily. Shadow Stalker is more ambiguous. Breaker 3, sublabels are Stranger 2, Mover 1. Her particular nature as a ‘breaker’ makes her superlight, semi-gaseous, transparent and capable of passing through solid surfaces.”
“Okay. The team sounds well rounded, I can work with that.”
She handed him a stack of files, “Here’s the files on local factions, including your new team, and a file on the solo heroes and villains. You’ll have limited access to the databases as well, which you should be familiar with, but this should get you the essential details to get underway. I’ve ordered those files loosely by priority, so you’ll find the most need-to-know information at the top of the pile.”
Weld took the folders and opened the one for the Wards, glanced through it to memorize the faces of his new team. Then he went to the next file, “Then the top priority as far as opposition goes is… the Archer’s Bridge Merchants? Superpowered drug dealers. A Shaker 2, Tinker 2/Mover 3 and a Shifter 4. These aren’t big numbers. Am I missing something?”
“Context. They’ve become a rallying point, representatives and leaders for those on the lowest rungs of society. Too many civilians who were the have-nots think allying with the Merchants is a way to become the haves. People that were angry, disenfranchised or both have gravitated towards the group, are seeking to overturn the social order.”
“So they’ve got, what, a following of homeless?”
“Brockton Bay doesn’t, or didn’t, have many that you could strictly call homeless, as there were so many abandoned buildings to squat in. When the Endbringer attacked, he chose the area with many of these buildings.”
“I think I remember, yeah. The area where the fight started didn’t exactly look upscale.”
“The sad irony of this is that the defending parahumans protected that area, while other locations were leveled by the tidal waves. That area, known to locals as the Docks, was not under the control of any organized crime or villain organization even before the attack. After the battle’s conclusion, it was swiftly occupied by the Merchants and growing numbers of their followers, and is now one of the areas with reliable shelter. Not entirely, but more than many. By the time our local heroes were finished with search, rescue and minimizing damage, their number of followers had reached a critical mass. In the past several days, they’ve begun attacking the city infrastructure, the airport, grocery stores, malls and they’ve repeatedly seized medical supplies and food as they come in.”
“So a big priority will be safeguarding incoming supplies from relief efforts, protecting key areas of the city so it can recuperate from the disaster.”
“Yes, for the time being.”
“Let’s see, the next group is… Fenrir’s Chosen?”
“One of two major offshoots of the Aryan villain group, Empire Eighty-Eight, which fell apart after the death of their leader, Kaiser. Fenrir’s Chosen are led by Hookwolf. Violent, utterly merciless, and reveling in the current chaos.”
“And it looks like he’s a Shaper 4, Brute 7, with the longest list of homicides or suspected homicides I’ve seen on someone who wasn’t already in prison. Thick file, I take it he has lots of followers?”
“The largest group in terms of parahuman numbers, at present.”
“And this second group, The Pure, is the second offshoot of that Aryan group, I take it?”
“Small but powerful. Their leader, Purity, is a Blaster 8 and Mover 4.”
“Yeah, there’s a Breaker 9, a Shifter 8 with Stranger 3 and a Master 6 in that group? I buy that they’re powerful.”
“Their leader has made overtures to us, offering cooperation in helping us regain control of the city. We have refused her for the time being. If she approaches you, you are in no way, shape or form permitted to agree to any deals.”
“Noted. Let’s see… Coil, powers unknown. The Travelers have high ratings on their powers, but their crimes are low end, pretty much. There’s the Undersiders… three Master classifications in one team.”
“Only one of whom is of any particular concern. Investigations into two members have suggested sociopathic tendencies, and if they’re channeling their efforts into low threat activities such as robberies, we can afford to ignore them for the time being.”
“Faultline’s Crew. Mercenaries, low rating, mediocre rating, low rating… A Shaker 12? Seriously?”
“The girl has cognitive deficiencies that reduce the effective threat she poses, but yes. Again, that group is not an imminent threat. In the current situation, I might suggest you leave them be if you cross paths, conserve your group’s strength for the priority opponents. The Merchants and Hookwolf’s group.”
“Okay. I’ll have this memorized by the end of the week.”
“I expect you will. That brings us to more mundane matters. You’ll be enrolled full-time at Arcadia High School. It’s close to the Wards headquarters, and your teachers have been informed about your special nature. I’m afraid there’s no easy answers as far as your appearance and how the rest of the student body will react to you.”
Weld looked down at his hands. His body, from skin to hair to bone, was all metal and alloys of varying types. “I’ve dealt with it before, I’ll manage.”
“We can’t enroll you in the co-op program, as your absence would be noted, and would draw attention to others who are using the co-op program to mask their attendance in the Wards. It won’t be easy, attending high school full-time, keeping up with your coursework and leading the team in your off hours.”
“It’s fine. I don’t have to sleep much, anyways, so it’s good to keep busy.”
“Good to hear that. All that said, I have asked your teachers to make special arrangements, reducing expectations toward your homework, provided you are not struggling in any subjects. The Wards program will also provide tutors should you need them.”
“Okay, cool.”
“You’ll have time to get into the swing of things without worrying about school, as the high schools are all currently shut down for repairs and to allow time for thorough investigation of the premises. When the schools are open, we’ll have you take three courses and attend first year classes on parahumans at the University, if that suits you?”
“You’ll be living in a private room in the Wards headquarters, and you’ll have a monthly allowance of four hundred dollars in addition to the money put into your trust account by the program. We expect you’ll spend this allowance on necessities, such as food and clothing. You do still eat, yes?”
“Yes,” he answered her, bending the truth. While he did eat, it was a negligible amount. As he saw it, there was no real harm done if he pocketed some of that extra money and said he spent it on food. Given that his tongue was made of an alloy and the pleasures of food were a shadow of what they should be, it was only fair that he enjoy himself in some other way. He knew that some staff back in Boston had caught on, but they hadn’t said anything. Director Piggot here gave him the vibe that maybe she wouldn’t be so cool with it. He’d be more careful until he knew for sure.
“Your quarters have been checked and double checked, so there is no exposed metal, no screws, nails, frames or pegs.”
“I appreciate the thought,” he told her. His physiology had the unfortunate drawback that he couldn’t help but attach to and absorb metal he touched. While it had been crippling when he’d first been found, dumped in a junkyard, he had learned ways around it. He could rearrange the metals that formed his body, separate them into their composite elements, and he extended this particular trick to push all the impurities in the metals out to his ‘skin’. The impurities, unlike the metal that composed the rest of him, didn’t bond, giving him the ability to handle things with his hands and teeth if he needed to. It didn’t always work – at least once a week there was one embarrassing moments where he bonded with someone’s wedding ring during a handshake or bumped into a shelf display – but it helped. Clothes helped as well.
In a more serious situation, such as when he was out on patrol, he could force parts of himself to melt and drop off, leaving a piece of himself behind, but it made him distinctly uncomfortable – pain wasn’t the right word – until he replaced the tissue he’d lost. More often, he preferred to just tear the offending piece of metal from whatever surface it rested on, whether it was a segment of chain link fence or a hubcap. Whenever he did it, he’d have to spend as much as an hour dissolving the metal and absorbing it into his body. Either way, they were only emergency measures.
Which wasn’t to say he was weak. Being made of materials and alloys as strong or stronger than steel from head to toe made him practically untouchable in a fight. In addition, his biology fell into some optimal middle ground between organic and inorganic. For those whose powers affected only living things, he counted as inorganic. The opposite was also true.
“Do you understand why we have gone to this trouble for your sake, Weld? Why we are testing your ability as a team leader in a crisis such as this?”
“You’re grooming me,” he replied.
“Yes, but do you understand what we’re grooming you for?” she pressed.
He knew, but he assumed she would prefer to explain. Besides, how she explained would inform him a great deal about his new boss’s personality. “Not really.”
“You likely know Director Armstrong in Boston, how he tends to prioritize research and understanding parahumans. I concern myself with more concrete affairs. Public relations, parahumans as a part of America.”
“What Armstrong continually fails to grasp is that if we do not integrate parahumans into society, help society bend to accommodate your kind, there is no point in lab experiments or classifications. As bad as things might be with the periodic arrival of Endbringers and parahuman criminals, matters could be ten times worse if panic or prejudice takes hold from the public. You understand?”
“One thing, ma’am,” Weld spoke.
He took a deep breath. Not that he really needed it, but he did anyways. “Forgive me for saying so, but I get the impression you don’t like or respect Director Armstrong?”
“Your point?”
“I just thought you should know he’s something like a father figure to me. He’s the one who recruited me to the Wards, got me up to speed. I’ve already made plans to go to his house for a bit this summer. Maybe I’m putting myself on your sh… in your bad books by saying so, but I just thought I should let you know I’ll step up to defend him if you start putting him down.”
“I see,” tiny frown lines appeared between her eyebrows.
A fire on a street below caught his attention. A car had been set on fire, and people were crowding around it.
Not noticing, Piggot pursed her lips, “Fine. My apologies for putting you in that situation. I won’t say anything further about Director Armstrong for the time being. I was speaking of the need for public relations?”
“Yes ma’am,” he spoke, feeling somewhat relieved at her composure. He wouldn’t feel a hundred percent okay about it until he verified her as someone who wouldn’t find some other way to get back at him.
“As the number of parahumans first became clear, a long-term plan was established. In the early phases of the plan, much effort was dedicated to setting up the Protectorate and Wards, ensuring the public had heroes they could look up to, likable faces, likable personalities. Merchandising, interviews, tv shows, music, movies and more were all encouraged and supported with the idea of building up this image. Law, policy and rules for the official groups were all shaped with the idea of gradually building confidence in heroes.”
“As we enter the next phase, our objective is to push the public a margin beyond their comfort zone. We are encouraging and promoting the existence of rogues, which is an unfortunate term that heralds back to the early days.”
“Right,” Weld responded. The term ‘rogue’ applied to anyone with powers who wasn’t hero or villain, the negative connotations of the term tying back to an era when expectations had been rather different, much the same way the brute classification had been coined.
“This is a sensitive subject, slow to advance, as major corporations are particularly litigious when parahumans get involved. In simple terms, the big businesses do not want people with powers affecting the status quo, and it is very easy for them to derail years of work with one bad media campaign targeting parahumans.”
“I see,” Weld commented. He didn’t like that in simple terms bit of what she’d said. Too many people implied he was stupid because he was strong. But could he really speak up about it, when he couldn’t be sure if her choice of words came from an offensive or judgemental perspective? Or was he being overly sensitive?
“The second half of this phase is getting the public more comfortable with the outliers. The people with stranger powers, and stranger appearances. You’re likable, Weld. You have a clearly unnatural appearance, if you’ll forgive me saying so-”
Weld shrugged. He stood out. There were a hundred things that bothered him more than stares and comments on the subject.
“-but you have fans, and people are interested in you. You get higher ratings for your interviews than even the average handsome hero gets. You’re second most popular for team leaders for number of youtube videos, possibly helped by a briefly lived internet meme featuring your face, and you have a blemish-free record, both academically and in your two years serving as a part of the Wards.”
“Provided all goes according to plan, we intend for you to become a member of the core Protectorate team within the span of three to five years. Making your face national, even international, if you are willing.”
“Wow. Yeah, I’m definitely okay with that, ma’am,” he tried to feign surprise. Armstrong had already covered much of this.
“Of course, this hinges on your ability to lead your team, in the here and now.”
“It seems we will land shortly. Any questions before we do?”
“One. I was hoping to arrange interstate training sessions with the New York and Boston Wards groups. As far as I’m aware, the local team doesn’t do this. They barely have regular situation training.”
“I recall Triumph made a request for something like this, a few years ago. I believe we refused him on the grounds that it was frivolous.”
Weld squared his shoulders. He had to be assertive, here. “I’m firmly of the opinion that it would improve the local team’s ability to cooperate and respond to a greater variety of situations. I’m totally prepared to eat any and all paperwork on our end.”
“Eat the paperwork?”
“I mean I’ll do it all, for the members of my team. Give you updates after any and all training sessions. Notes on improvements, lessons learned, weak areas, strengths, resources that could fill any perceived gaps.”
“So long as you’re prepared for me to put a stop to things at any time.”
“Yes, ma’am.”
“And,” the Director paused a moment as the Helicopter touched down on solid ground, “It cannot cut into the regular patrol schedule. You and your team members would do this outside of the hours you’re on clock for the Wards.”
“I’ll see if I can sell it to them. Thank you, Director,” Weld stood.
Secretly, he was elated. The training games he’d led his team through back in Boston had been some of the more fun moments of his career. It had also allowed for a harmless but fun interaction with the New York group, giving them a chance to mingle, talk and share war stories. There was something about being able to mess with others on a level that you couldn’t with teammates you had to fight alongside. If his new team liked the games half as much as he did, it would be a win in his book.
“Do you wish me to come down and introduce you?”
That earned a moment’s consideration. Was this woman likable? No. Would the others like her? Probably not. Which meant that having her introduce him might be detrimental, associate him with someone they might view negatively.
“No, I don’t think it’s necessary, ma’am.”
“Your old keycards will let you in. I’ll have replacement identification sent to you shortly. In the meantime, I wish you luck.”
“Thank you, Director,” he handed her his headset and stepped through the door as PRT uniforms opened it. As if welcoming him into the city proper, there was the sound of a woman screaming down on the street below, the noise turning into a manic laugh in the same breath. Half the block was without power, and searchlights on the corners of the rooftop scanned nearby streets. PRT guards stood at the edge of the roof, armaments in hand. He relaxed at the sight of the guards – if they weren’t acting on whatever was going on below, he didn’t need to worry about it.
He took a deep breath, deep enough that he could feel the groan of the metal stretching to its limits inside his chest. Then he stepped off the rooftop and through the elevator doors. When the complex chrome doors shut, they cut off the noise of the helicopter entirely.
It was utterly quiet, inside the box. There was barely any sense of motion or movement from the elevator. Tinker designed. It had to be. He avoided touching the chrome walls or railing. It was probably coated with something, but emerging with a piece of railing stuck to him would make for a terrible first impression.
Stepping out into a hallway, he walked up to a security terminal. He swiped his identification card, spoke his name for the voice authentication, “Weld.” There was a pause, and then the doors glided open.
His team was there, each with their masks off.
Clockblocker sat in a chair at the huge computer to the right of the room, swiveled to check out their new arrival, then stood, folding his arms. Red haired, freckled, thin lipped, he wore a costume that was all white, with animated images of clock faces on it. A white helmet sat on the counter of the computer terminal.
Shadow Stalker was leaning against a wall, thumbing through a smartphone. She had one foot against the wall, one arm folded just under her chest, her free hand resting in the crook of her other elbow. She looked up at him, stuck the phone in a pouch on her belt. She was dark-skinned, pretty, and from what he could see beneath her costume and her voluminous cloak, she had a nice body. Athletic figure. A part of Weld’s adolescent psyche was relieved that there was some eye candy here.
Kid Win and Vista arrived from what the ‘cubicles’ at the far end of the spacious room. They weren’t really cubicles, but sectioned off areas with beds and room for personal effects. The base in Boston had been similar. Kid Win was in civilian clothes, brown-haired, ruddy cheeked in a way that suggested he had been exercising until just recently. Very normal looking.
Vista was in pyjamas, her hair tied back into a ponytail. He’d had someone as young as her on his team in Boston, but the boy had been a Thinker, a limited precog content to work and communicate with them from their command station. This girl had been out in the field – three fingers on her left hand were bandaged, with crimson seeping in through the white. Her eyes were puffy, as though she’d been crying until very recently.
Should he comment on that? Offer support? He wasn’t sure what to say, if it would even be welcome.
“Hello,” he spoke. He received a chorus of muttered and murmured greetings in return.
“Look,” he said, “I won’t make a big deal of this. The guys upstairs want me in charge. It’s going to take me a short while to get up to speed, but I hope to prove to you guys that I can and will work as hard as anyone.”
It was hard to say what he’d expected, but surely he should have gotten more of a response than some blank stares and glazed looks. Was it the wrong time for this? Every single one of them looked dog tired. Clockblocker looked like he was barely managing to stand.
“From everything I’ve heard, you guys are an excellent team, and I hope I can do you justice as a leader. It’s my hope that we can improve on a winning formula. I’ve talked to the director about some special training-”
“Training?” Clockblocker interrupted, “You just lost me.”
“If you’ll hear me out, I think you’ll like the idea.”
“Have you seen the situation out there?” Clockblocker challenged him, “Less than an hour ago, I saved a guy I know from my high school physics class from being dragged into an alley by a half-dozen grown men. One of them stuck him with a needle before I got him away from them. The Hospitals are shut down or over capacity, so I brought him here. He’s upstairs right now, getting drugs to ensure he doesn’t get HIV.”
Weld struggled to find something to say, failed.
Clockblocker went on, “Kid Win and I stopped some lunatics in gas masks from mixing ammonia and bleach into a poison gas. You know why? They wanted to off the people in an apartment block so they could loot the place and stay there. There’s people going fucking crazy out there, and you’re talking training.”
“I didn’t mean now,” Weld protested, backpedaling, “I was thinking in terms of the future. The training would be something to look forward to, after this crisis has passed.”
“You’re assuming it’s going to pass,” Shadow Stalker replied, her voice tired. “Some are saying this is the way things are going to stay. I almost agree with them. This isn’t the kind of city that bounces back from things.”
I’m losing them. “I can’t believe that. We’ve got to have hope.”
“Pull a fifteen hour patrol out there, then come back and talk to me about hope,” Clockblocker spoke. “You know, I could almost play along. Go with the blind optimism, say yippee to training. But you don’t even mention the guy you’re replacing? A few words for the dead? It’s a matter of respect, bro.”
“I didn’t mean to dismiss them or their sacrifice. I just didn’t know them, and-”
Clockblocker turned, swiping his arm angrily at his helmet to snatch it off the counter. Tucking it under one arm, he spoke to the others, his back to Weld, “I’m going to check on my family. I’ll head there in costume, in case I run into trouble, be back in the morning. Mind manning the console, Kid?”
Kid Win shook his head, “I need to take a break anyways.”
Vista glanced at Weld, then asked, “Where do you guys need me?”
“Go sleep,” Shadow Stalker spoke, placing a hand on Vista’s head as she walked past the girl, “I’ll start my patrol, go with Clock to make sure he gets home and that he has some backup. You can relieve me when I’m back, maybe get Clockblocker to go with you.”
“Thank you,” Vista’s voice piped up, with a definite note of relief.
Helplessly, Weld watched as the team split up to go their separate ways, Kid Win sitting down at the far end of the computer station, Shadow Stalker and Clockblocker heading for the elevator.
“I fucked up. I already lost them,” Weld spoke, mostly to himself.
“No. They’re just tired,” Vista spoke from beside him. “And not just lack of sleep. You’ll see what I mean. You could’ve mentioned Aegis, Browbeat, and Gallant, but you can’t be blamed if Clockblocker didn’t give you time to get around to it. Nobody’s really in the mood for speeches.”
“Right,” Weld replied, feeling lost, “They’re the ones who died?”
Vista gave him a look that could only be described as pity. “You didn’t even learn their names? Nevermind what I just said. Yeah, you fucked up.”
Then she turned away and walked back to the cubicles. She was halfway there when he saw her rub at one cheek with the back of her hand.
“I… I just got here,” Weld said, helplessly.
I just got told by a pre-teen, he thought.
“Shit,” he swore under his breath. He found a chair in front of the computer and dropped the stack of file folders on the nearest flat surface. He plucked the file folder off the top of the stack, opened it and began studying.
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New York buyer and Paterson dealer arrested in Fair Street drug bust, says sheriff
Detectives arrested an alleged buyer from New York and a dealer from Paterson in a Fair Street drug bust on Tuesday evening, according to Passaic County Sheriff Richard Berdnik.
Christopher J. Zecchini, 29, of Middletown, NY, and Kayla S. Pomales, 22, of Paterson, were arrested on drug charges.
Zecchini allegedly parked his Subaru vehicle in front of 339 Fair Street at 6 p.m. After the vehicle idled for several minutes, Pomales (pictured on left) got out of 339 Fair Street, and approached the driver side window of the vehicle.
Detectives saw Pomales hand several bundles of heroin to Zecchini (pictured on right) in exchange for money, authorities said. Zecchini was pulled over on Broadway and East 24th Street and had four bundles of heroin, authorities said.
A bundle of heroin is typically ten glassine envelopes. Pomales got out a second time from the house and was placed under arrest. 1,400 glassine envelopes of heroin and $6,100 in cash was seized from her bedroom, authorities said.
“This was a major arrest and seizer of illegal narcotics,” Berdnik said.
Zecchini was charged with heroin possession and released pending court appearance. Pomales was charged with six drug offenses and is being held at the Passaic County Jail.
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THE NEVER-ENDING STORY ABOUT SEX By Paulyne Pogorelske
Date: November 2, 2016Author: Paulyne Pogorelske 0 Comments
In 1998, White House intern Monica Lewinsky, at 22, was having sex with US President, Bill Clinton, creating sensational headlines around the western world at least. In 2015, seventeen years after the sexcapade, Lewinsky addressed an audience for Ted’s Talk with her subject “The Price of Shame”. Never too late for a good sexy story! During her 15-minute monologue, she articulated her ‘mistake’ for falling in love with her boss who just happened to be the president of America. Acknowledging her shame, she elaborated how her feelings of humiliation were most painful and pernicious as her passionate sentiments became enveloped in a ‘cult of humiliation’ on social media and in cyberspace. Much of the contempt, both of self and from the social environs, was engendered I suggest, by pre-ordained distorted attitudes pertaining to sex for young women with its politically correct norms of behaviour. These norms imply a conformist, conventional and conservative perspective for young women and good sex, almost a contradiction in terms. For Bill Clinton it was a very different denouement. While he was impeached in Congress, the Senate issued its ‘forgiveness,’ allowing him to keep his presidential job despite initially denying his affair with Lewinsky. His wife, Hillary, remained as a loyal and good ‘first lady’ beside him. Monica Lewinsky suffered in a way he never did, let alone never would or could, in western culture.
Moreover in a quality newspaper in Melbourne recently it was reported that a British businesswoman and TV personality, Saira Khan, who I’ve never heard of, publicly admitted she granted her husband of 11 years ‘a sex pass’ for freedom to enjoy sexual dalliances with women other than herself. She was 46-years-old, apparently not wanting to have sex with him anymore and instead gave him carte blanche to indulge outside the marital bed. He later denied he had any such arrangement with his wife. The columnist, first published in the Telegraph in London and reprinted in The Age, wrote how Khan was applauded for NOT conforming to an ancient set of relationship rules that pervade the social spectrum.
Many Hollywood stars, pop icons and sporting celebs are ‘dumped’ unceremoniously in a melting-pot of sexual shame due to supposedly inappropriate sexual indulgence still sullied as ‘contemptible’ in this 21st century. These consensual experiences, which I assume were pleasurable to the participants, are somehow perceived as harmful to others. As to how they are defies logic; maybe because there isn’t any, just an irrational obsession about people and their boudoir behaviour. I am constantly bemused by precious space in a newspaper devoted to sex issues that I couldn’t give a damn about. Yes, Khan is believed to be doing ‘marriage’ a benevolent favour or so the columnist argued, but shouldn’t it all be private and beyond our interest? Do we need some ‘famous’ woman, be it in Britain, America or elsewhere to set sexual standards for us? I am concerned that any woman, such as Lewinsky or Khan are either castigated or celebrated because of their sexual behaviour or attitudes, sex being the common denominator for their honour or humiliation. Men, too, can experience similar indignities relating to their sexual behaviour such as golf celeb Tiger Woods who acknowledged just a few years ago he has a sexual problem as too much of a good thing may be a problem after all, infamous cricket legend Shane Warne who was caught with his pants down in the media for his ‘sexting’ and sexual romps while married and more recently West Indian ‘stud’ cricketer Chris Gayle attracted attention for his claim he was THAT big you needed two hands to lift it. Interestingly, male waywardness seems more temporarily taunted than females, but social sexual mores can devalue the dick as much as the vagina when private and personal sex enters the public domain. That domain seems to focus on shaming sex for both genders depending on where you do it, how it’s suggested, who with and of course, it’s totally infra dig if you’re married to someone else. I don’t get it I’m glad to say.
More than 30 years ago when I worked as a journalist for a TV showbiz magazine, a female reporter colleague gloated over the ‘best’ story when some famous showbiz ‘star’ revealed trauma or heartache on a personal level, particularly about sex. Not just for her I realised, but also for the hundreds of thousands of people, mostly women, who bought and read this magazine. Knowing the rich and famous can fall off their glamorous pedestals excites some kind of perverse enjoyment for these readers by glorying in the shame of others, perhaps offering them therapy as after all, these people are just human too, like me and most others. Yet contrarily, these ordinary human beings are mercilessly persecuted in the media on an almost daily basis as more sinner than saint, implying one should eschew sex unless it’s within the sanctity of a bona fide relationship.
This magazine, still on sale, is not alone in pandering to the salacious tastes abounding in suburbia. Too many women’s mags are testament to this penchant as I peruse the covers of these mags in my supermarket on shopping days. Be it about being fat, fucking or faking it, the famous fall foul over and over again on many fronts. Are people just inherently sadistic and cruel fulfilling their need for weekly therapy behind the printed page in a way that is far less stigmatising and more socially acceptable than anti-depressants or valium, albeit addictive nonetheless.
Now, as the American presidential vote is just days away, there has been more and more media focus on and exposure about both Trump and Clinton’s sex lives. As Trump is condemned by millions of women worldwide for his ‘locker room talk’ about ‘grabbing a women by the pussy’ and his supposed sexual misdemeanours with many women, his entourage has slammed opponent Hillary for her husband’s supposed sexual misdemeanours. Trump’s alleged tax evasion and his racist stance on Muslims and immigration recede into a background of irrelevance most of the time. Clinton’s possible secrecy violations rendered likewise insignificant, though the FBI’s re-opening its investigation has spotlighted their significance again. However, it’s Clinton’s aide’s earlier marriage (implicit is their sexual liaison) to a ‘sexually’ disgraced former politician that seems to have reignited a flame of fire. One local journalist referred to this sexual media mire as ‘gutter’ politics but it is not the first time, and I’m certain it won’t be the last time, where the sexual behaviour and/or attitudes of politicians take centre stage in the political landscape. As a young girl in my early teens, I read about British MP and Crown Minister John Profumo whose political career was destroyed by the public knowledge of his sexual relationships, albeit with a call girl. Too many policies, plans and performance are subsumed as unimportant compared to the more significant arena pertaining to sex. Indeed, last weekend, a well-respected Melbourne daily newspaper devoted several pages of its magazine to discussing observations by both a male and female reporter of cable television’s coverage of the election campaign. Stand out comments I noticed were by the male reporter who watching Fox News referred several times to ‘short, tight dresses’ worn by its female news reporters as if their apparel denoted their status as ‘sex objects’. Maybe they are, but who gives a damn what they are wearing if they ask the right questions. Of course, the male reporter didn’t comment on their journalistic skills or lack thereof. Their appearance he implied spoke volumes about them as broadcast bimbos and tantalising tarts touting for Trump. Clinton, with her more rotund aged body, is sadly circumscribed to wear sexless, long jackets and pants suits, not mentioned of course, her husband’s sordid sexual history shaming her by association. Sex writ large in our global media network!
There has also been recent media controversy in Australia about the government’s proposed same sex marriage plebiscite and the educational program Safe Schools, where sex and people’s private preferences have attracted public gaze engendering contempt and condemnation for other than ‘normal’ heterosexual sex. In so many spheres of our lives, sex is used as a predominant predictor of both aberrant and acceptable attitudes to be admired or abhorred, depending on perspectives proclaimed as sane, sensible and safe. Anything distant from that delusional distortion of human behaviour is denounced as dangerous to democracy and of greater relevance it seems, our collective social sanity. The irony, as I understand it, is an absurd anathema to a sense of freedom we should all be entitled to enjoy where sex no longer makes news because of prurient and perilous assumptions by the status quo. Maybe it is because so many people are intrinsically voyeurs who enjoy the sexual revelations of others however meaningless they are to their lives. The social impact of sullying others’ sexual indulgences seems of paramount importance not just in the media but to people in all corners of the globe. Be it pornography or plain old-fashioned permissiveness, sexual pundits seem determined to disparage any behaviour that contradicts their perception of permissible sexual norms. Sex is the name of the game underpinning our politics and the public interest.
It is a never-ending story about sex enshrined in human history in one way or another from thousands of years ago to the present day with different twists depending on who is involved, what they have indulged in and with whom. It is as if sex is a ‘crime’ per se, unless sanctioned in law between one consenting adult man and one consenting adult woman in holy matrimony with the 2.2 offspring as biological determinism decrees. As people’s lurid sexploits become malicious gossip in the world’s media, online or more significantly, off line, what is at the core of this endless intrigue about others’ sex lives? Why do we care, let alone, why should we even bother to be interested when it’s about people we have never met and never will who are of no import in our lives? Will the past sexual comments of Trump as they’ve been reported or Clinton and her husband’s purported sexcapades affect how they will do business in the White House? I would hope they had more important matters to attend to with sex shelved into the trite basket of superfluous trivia. Monica Lewinsky clearly paid a ‘price of shame’ for ‘sex’ with the President and I can only fantasise that her story is buried in the annals of the past for the White House on voting day on November 8. I’m quite sure however there’s more to come. Stand by for the next instalment.
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Second round of storms sweep across South
April 20, 2020 /in Southern Territory News /by SalArmySouth
Photo: Salvation Army disaster workers continue to provide relief services in Hamilton and Bradley counties in southeastern Tennessee.
By: Dan Childs
Just as had happened a week ago, the weekend concluded with an outbreak of storms that slammed the South, with most of the damage occurring in the Alabama-Louisiana-Mississippi Division. Fortunately, the outbreak on this occasion was less severe than that which swept through the South on Easter weekend.
The most severe damage occurred in Lamar and Marion counties in southeastern Mississippi, where a large tornado was reported and wind and hail caused some damage, resulting in more than 28,000 power outages. Need assessment was being done on Monday.
In Alabama, most of the storm’s effects were felt in the east central part of the state, where some 12,000 residents experienced power outages. In Coosa and Tallapoosa counties, The Salvation Army’s Alexander City Service Center was coordinating with state and county officials on service delivery. In nearby Chilton County, the Birmingham Area Command was working with state and county authorities on provision of services.
Louisiana experienced less damage. Some 6,000 residents were without utilities. The Natchitoches and Vernon parishes had some damage from high winds.
Meanwhile, the Kentucky-Tennessee Division continues relief services in the wake of the storms that struck the South Easter weekend. As of Saturday, The Salvation Army had served 9,800 meals along with 2,200 snacks and 3,400 beverages in Hamilton and Bradley counties. Over 250 individuals have received personal prayer support. Four mobile feeding units were providing food and drinks, and six officers were offering emotional and spiritual care.
Source: southernspiritonline.org
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Ryan Sandes’s Home Run
April 19, 2020 April 19, 2020 by Lewis Cooper
When lockdown reveals a different opportunity. Lewis Copper speak with ultra-runner Ryan Sandes who still managed 100 miles, just not in the race he had planned!
So your training plan’s completely scuppered, the race you were aiming for has been cancelled, life in general has become unrecognisable and entire countries the world over are in lockdown. Some might feel like it’s a disaster, some might call it a blessing in disguise, some might be just trying to get through it, some might be revelling in the chance to reassess priorities but I’m pretty sure only one person thought this is a great time to run 100-miles! That person is ultra-runner Ryan Sandes who this week did just that whilst in lockdown in his native South Africa.
Ryan, who’s achievements include winning Western States, Leadville and TransGranCanaria as well as a whole host of other races, and holds the FKT on The Great Himalayan Trail, created a loop that ran through his house, down the driveway, skirted the front lawn, through the back gate, into the garden and through the house again. He set off on the challenge at 01:15am local time and completed the 100-mile target in 26hrs:27mins, along the way taking in nearly 4500m of ascent. With a play on his sponsors, Salomon, tagline it was “Time To Play Inside” and we caught up with Ryan shortly after he’d finished to find out the thinking behind this bonkers challenge.
When did you first come up with this idea? Did you have anything in the schedule at this point beforehand that you were working towards?
On April 1st actually I did an April Fool’s joke saying “Today would be a good day to run 100 miles in my garden” and then shortly after that we had the three weeks of lockdown, now extended for a few more weeks, and when that happened I was like flip I did actually have a 100-mile race at the Ultra-Trail Drakensberg coming up at the end of the month which obviously I couldn’t really train for and then the race was cancelled anyway, so I just kind of thought you know let me give this a bash. The idea kind of intrigued me. I’ve never been one for running garden laps or around in circles but I thought this would really be an ultimate challenge, a real mental challenge and to be honest I had no idea if it could even be done.
How far was the loop? How often were you changing up rotations?
The loop was 110 meters and I changed direction every 15 / 20 minutes or so. I wasn’t too strict on when to change directions I really just went with it according to how I was feeling or when I felt like it.
When did it dawn on you that those stairs were going to be a bit more of a challenge than maybe you first thought?
Well during this lockdown I’ve been doing a lot of work on the stairs incorporating strength training so I knew beforehand they were quite a lot and quite intensive but it was about 35/40k into the run that I realised they were taking it out of me a bit more than I thought they would. But also some of the other running, it was just impossible to get into any sort of rhythm and flow, it was very stop start all the time and I guess having not really done much running for the last three weeks’ kind of amplified that. But without doubt it was much tougher and way more vert in the loop than what I had originally anticipated
Any particular tricky points during the day?
Yeah I had a bad patch right before the half way mark, my energy levels just dropped and I was quite tired. Then the last 30k was really tough. I think from really just running in loops for the whole day, at that point it was maybe 20 hours, I was almost becoming delirious or delusional every time I was going up or down the stairs. Also the lights were on through the house and then it was dark during the night outside and running from one straight into the other made me feel really out of it and kind of disorientated. I’ve done quite a few really long projects and have suffered sleep deprivation but this wasn’t like that, my brain was just completely and utterly fatigued.
How cool was it to literally have all your “Home comforts” at every “Aid Station”?
It was really awesome to be able to do something like this at home. Obviously with the coronavirus outbreak there are a lot of negatives but this has been great fun. I would’ve never done it under normal circumstances and will probably never do it again! It was great to have family and the neighbours supporting. But also a disadvantage is that you spend a lot more time stopping at the aid station if you’re passing it every 110 meters!
What was the reaction from your son Max when he woke up to find you running through the house every few minutes?
Max was a bit perplexed at first but really due to the lockdown I’ve been doing much more running and other workouts around the house so he’s been getting used to it. Having said that when he was going to bed last night and I was still running and sweaty he realised something wasn’t quite right.
What was your main thing you wanted to achieve when you set out on this challenge?
It was really just to show how you can make the most of your situations. I think being positive and when things are bad those positive references are sometimes all that we have. It was just thinking outside the box. Running laps around the garden is definitely not my style, it’s not something I would naturally do but that’s all I’ve got and you can create a fun adventure out of it. Anything is what you make of it if you have a positive attitude. If I can inspire people through doing this for them to attempt their own challenges, then that’s amazing. It was also a chance for me to do something really different that would really take me out of my comfort zone and challenge myself.
As much as running 100 miles is an unbelievable achievement a lot also has to be said for your wife!? I’m guessing she probably had a heck of a day crewing you, covering media obligations, watching the kids as well as cheering you on for the entire 26-odd hours! That’s a long day for both of you!
Yeah of course, she was a complete rock star. Crewing for me, trying to capture photos and videos and put them up on social media that kind of thing, whilst looking after Max so it was no easy feat. Then as well into that second night, about the last 30/40km, when I was really tired and fatigued she was still right there supporting me so that was just so amazing and I’m really grateful.
Now as much as I can’t imagine there will be too many of us jumping at the chance to follow in precisely Ryan’s 100-mile footsteps what he proved with this challenge was the ability to make the best of even the most demoralizing situations is sometimes all you need to see you through. So keep challenging yourself, keep pushing the possibilities, keep surprising yourself and keep running, even if it’s for a hundredth of the distance Ryan covered.
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ESA Science & Technology - The BepiColombo MMO on the base of its transport container
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The BepiColombo MMO on the base of its transport container
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Location: ESTEC, Noordwijk, the Netherlands
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The BepiColombo Mercury Magnetospheric Orbiter (MMO) pictured in a cleanroom at ESA's European Space Research and Technology Centre (ESTEC) in the Netherlands. The MMO arrived there from Japan in April 2015.
Pictured here are engineers from JAXA, who are unbolting the spacecraft from a special transport frame, ready to transfer it to its integration stand – visible in the background on the yellow stand. The large disc on top of the spacecraft is the high-gain antenna, which will be used to transmit data back to Earth.
The protoflight model of the Mercury Transfer Module (MTM) is visible in the background. MTM will provide solar-electric propulsion for the spacecraft stack during the journey to Mercury.
BepiColombo is a joint mission by ESA and the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA), executed under ESA leadership. The MMO is contributed by the Institute of Space and Astronautical Science (ISAS) at the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA). ESA is building the Mercury Planetary Orbiter (MPO), the MTM and Magnetospheric Orbiter Sunshield and Interface Structure (MOSIF).
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Joseph Kosinski Gives An Update On ‘TRON 3’ And ‘The Black Hole’
Posted July 11th, 2013 by Stuart Conover
The success of ‘TRON: Legacy’ immediately sparked an announcement for a sequel and after that? We really haven’t heard much. There was some brief news about a TRON 3 script update a few months back but nothing solid. Around the same time, it was announced that the 1979 Disney property ‘The Black Hole’ was also going to be updated. Again, no real word on that happening since then. Thanks to an interview with ET Online during ‘Oblivion’s’ Blu-Ray release press junket, Joseph Kosinski gave updated information on both!
So what did he have to say about the two films? Well first up, he had some word on the writers who are working on the scripts:
Both projects are being written right now by two really talented writers: Jon Spaihts is writing ‘The Black Hole’ and Jesse Wigutow (‘Peter and the Starcatchers‘) is writing ‘TRON 3’. “Both scripts are in progress,” says Kosinski. “I’m really excited about both. The fundamental ideas of both are really interesting.”
So in charge of ‘The Black Hole’ we see Jon Spaihts who has four films under his credit. 2 of them aren’t done yet (one being a reboot of ‘The Mummy‘ and the other being a Keanu Reeves film known as ‘The Passengers’. Of the two released, one was ‘The Darkest Hour‘ which is an alien film I’ve never heard of and the other is going to give quite a few of you pause as it goes by the name ‘Prometheus‘. I’ll let you decide how to take that.
In ‘TRON 3’s’ corner, we have Jesse Wigutow. Jesse’s work I don’t recognize at all aside from working on an earlier screenplay for the upcoming The Crow movie. How much of that will translate to the final film though is unknown. While not being familiar with his work doesn’t mean it’s a cause for concern, it is something to keep in mind.
So what is the plan for ‘TRON 3’? According to Kosinski, “the TRON sequel kind of takes where we left off with Legacy, that idea presented in the last few minutes of the film, and really expands on it in a real exciting way.”
Does that signal the return of Quorra in the sequel? As of three months ago Olivia Wilde sounded excited about being in a third TRON film. So ideally that means we’re going to see her grace the third film and be out there in the real world. I’m curious as to what direction that is going to end up going.
Back to ‘The Black Hole’, it was up in the air if the movie was going to be a remake, reboot, or sequel (the last being doubtful as so few movie goers will have seen the original). “I guess I would call it a reboot because the fundamental concept is there,” says Kosinski, “but we are taking it in our own direction.”
I’m excited about this one. The original film was a bit of a remake of ‘20,000 Leagues Under the Sea’ except it took place in space. Considering we don’t get enough space odysseys these days, I’m curious as to where this one may end up, although I’m a little worried on the pacing.
What about you? Excited on either ‘The Black Hole’ or ‘TRON 3’? Why or why not? Sound off below!
Stuart Conover
Stuart Conover is a father, husband, blogger, published author, geek, entrepreneur, editor of Horror Tree, horror fanatic, science fiction junkie, lives in a world of comics, and a casual gamer (all of this when his wife lets him of course.) He fell in love with science fiction and horror at the same time while watching the movie Alien at probably far too young of an age while still being extremely impressionable and has been happily obsessed with both since! Around the same time, he had also developed an unhealthy addiction to comic books that continues to this day!Want to talk about anything geeky? Reach out on Twitter - @StuartConover
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SubTopic Security mergers and acquisitions
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MSSPs add advanced threats as managed security services gain hold
Skill shortages and budget constraints have lead some companies to adopt a hybrid approach to managed security. Is it time for CISOs to start looking for 'expertise as a service'?
Virginia's Arlington County government first signed up with a managed security service provider to offload some of the cost and resource burdens associated with maintaining a constant state of cyber readiness.
That was more than a decade ago. Over the years, its relationship with MSSPs has since morphed from vulnerability risk assessments to critical security information and event management (SIEM) functions across government departments and offices throughout Arlington, the second largest city in the Washington, D.C., metropolitan area. MSSPs provide the county with real-time cyber health assessments and immediate breach notification, which is vital to the government's ability to deal with the current threat environment and attack surface.
"A firm that offers 24/7 year-round threat monitoring, detection and response can provide [Arlington County] a level of resources it couldn't otherwise create or afford independently," said David Jordan, the chief information security and privacy officer at Arlington County, who has held the position for 16 years.
Many organizations struggling with tight budgets and a shortage of cybersecurity skills are expanding their use of MSSPs in strategic ways to deal with an array of new threats. "The option to choose whether to spend is now down to how best to spend," Jordan said. "Funds have to be allocated and spent well. [There's] no room for resets of strategy or tactical realignment."
Expertise as a service
While organizations of all sizes have tapped MSSPs to varying degrees, the demand for such services is expected to pop over the next few years. Research firm MarketsandMarkets expects the overall market size for security services to double from just over $17 billion in 2016 to about $34 billion in 2021.
Much of the growth is being driven by the need for increased security measures at small to medium-sized businesses to address evolving threats, according to researchers. Also pushing demand are factors like convenience, quality assurance, better responsiveness, quick fault resolution and the potential to lower cost, according to Technavio, which pegs global market growth at 12% annually until 2020.
"The primary reasons for selecting an MSSP are greater competency, specialized skills, improving the quality of protection and reduced complexity," said Forrester Research principal analyst Jeff Pollard. In addition to SMBs, it's time for enterprises to think of MSSPs as 'expertise as a service' rather than just generic security providers for filling gaps in people, process and technology.
The best advice here is to pick your internal team's specialty and then select services that fill any gaps.
Jeff Pollardprincipal analyst, Forrester Research
Standard managed security services like network infrastructure and antivirus are still growing and provide value, according to Pollard. But increasingly, CIOs and CISOs running mature security programs are interested in services like security analytics, incident response as a service and managed threat hunting.
Organizations should use MSSPs strategically to fill gaps in their security capabilities, according to Pollard. Those requirements could be related to technology, like needing security engineers to handle the configuration and administration of security tools, or they could be related to operational issues such as contracting security analysts to investigate and respond to security events. "The best advice here is to pick your internal team's specialty and then select services that fill any gaps," he said.
For example, if your internal team is great at device management and change controls, then it makes sense to select an MSSP that will focus on detection, investigation and response. "The key is putting together a set of internal and external experts so that resources are allocated appropriately to secure your business," Pollard said.
Himansu Karunadasa, the chief technology officer at Media Defined, a learning management system provider whose service is used by over 12,000 organizations in 100 countries, has adopted the two-pronged approach. The Dallas company's internal team ensures secure coding practices are followed throughout the entire development lifecycle and performs internal vulnerability tests before any code hits the web.
Other critical security functions have been outsourced to MSSPs: Initially, Media Defined hired one service provider to handle its firewall, intrusion prevention and detection and log monitoring requirements. Later, the company decided to bring on another provider, ControlScan—a Dallas MSSP that provides IT security, PCI and HIPAA services—to help it meet the specialized compliance requirements of the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS).
Himansu Karunadasa
"Our core competency is developing learning-related technology," Karunadasa said. Media Defined builds a lot of its software internally and has implemented multiple controls to ensure security is a part of the conversation before a learning system's software architecture document is finalized. Matters like PCI compliance are out of Media Defined's realm of competence, however. "ControlScan helped us get a roadmap of compliance requirements," Karunadasa said.
The MSSP aided the development team with vulnerability scans, penetration tests and web application firewall services that were required for meeting PCI DSS compliance. Like many MSSPs, ControlScan has increasingly partnered with technology suppliers, such as Tripwire and Cisco, to support its growing range of managed security services. With PCI standards constantly evolving, the managed service provider has played a critical role in handling Media Defined's compliance requirements, Karunadasa said: "To me, that is the biggest advantage."
A hybrid security model has worked for Arlington County as well. The local government's security operations center is managed by in-house engineers, who inherently know the network and are better positioned to respond to SIEM alerts from the MSSP. "We preferred the hybrid approach because we had the seasoned staff available to perform this aspect of the security practice," Jordan said. "It's a positive and successful approach, and the results are repeatable."
Changing threat landscape
Strategic outsourcing of security functions is poised to become more critical as chief security and privacy officers come under tremendous pressure to secure their networks, sensitive data and endpoints against a range of increasingly sophisticated threats including ransomware, advanced persistent threats and highly targeted attacks.
These factors contributed to 974 publicly disclosed breaches in the first half of 2016 and resulted in the loss of 554 million data records, according to global statistics from Gemalto. The Herjavec Group estimated that losses from ransomware alone could have topped $1 billion or more in 2016.
The attacks show adversaries are able to innovate with ease around whatever security control organizations put in their way, maintained Justin Turner, security researcher and director of the counter threat unit at managed security service provider SecureWorks. (Dell is still the majority stakeholder in the Atlanta-based company, which went public in 2016.)
It's a partnership
For a little more than two years, Talking Rain Beverage Company has outsourced the management of key security services -- such as network intrusion prevention, vulnerability assessment and penetration testing -- to a managed security service provider. The Seattle-area beverage company reached a mass market in recent years with the popularity of its Sparkling Ice and other carbonated drinks.
The security tools, expertise and round-the-clock monitoring that managed security service provider SecureWorks delivers has been critical to ensuring robust cybersecurity, according to Gina Harris, director of information technology at Talking Rain.
Gina Harris
Even so, it's a mistake to assume an MSSP is a silver bullet, she said. "Don't believe you can totally outsource responsibility for security; it's a partnership, and you are ultimately accountable for your company's security."
Large and small organizations need to do plenty of homework before signing up for managed security services. "Evaluate service offerings based on your company's needs, check references and do all that you can to be fully informed on the total cost of ownership for an in-house versus contracted service offering," Harris said.
While companies usually can rely on MSSPs in their specific areas of expertise, make sure roles and responsibilities are clearly defined. "Be pragmatic," Harris said. Make it a point to meet with the service provider at least semiannually to ensure up-to-date security and privacy controls, compliance with contract terms and to learn about new service offerings. --J.V.
Not so long ago, most attacks targeted the network because perimeter controls were weak and the demand for managed security services centered on network protection. When network defenses improved, criminals started going after endpoint systems. "We have evolved significantly over the past four or five years, both as an industry and from our client perspective, from a focus on network-based detection … to a focus on observing, tracking and eradicating malicious traffic from the endpoint," Turner said.
Managed service providers can augment an organization's cybersecurity capabilities, but not everyone touting advanced threat protection and incident response services is qualified to offer that functionality. Security service providers that have failed to get much traction with earlier offerings often rebrand and pivot to any area where there's a perceived need for specialized skills and expertise.
"CISOs need to avoid being fooled by an updated website and new PowerPoint slides," Pollard said. It pays to research what a vendor was doing a few years ago to get an idea of where they are headed. "If a potential provider's website four years ago said 'Advanced Managed Security Services' and two years ago said 'Advanced [Security Operations Center]' and now says 'Advanced Threat' or 'Managed Detection & Response,' they likely haven't been very good at any one of those things," Pollard warned.
Organizations should also never assume a managed service provider can take care of all incident response needs. "There are always going to be incidents so severe that they require boots on the ground to investigate, contain and remediate. Clients have to avoid complacency in thinking that a remote approach solves everything," Pollard said.
As endpoint defenses have become better, attackers have also started resorting to attacks involving the use of legitimate tools and business processes. This poses fresh challenges for organizations and is creating demand for yet another type of service.
Vertically aligned services
Many MSSPs are now organizing their security operations teams by customer vertical, rather than overall function, according to Pollard. Instead of having a general security staff of analysts, engineers and researchers, MSSPs have begun to reconfigure their security teams based on industry expertise in areas such as financial services, manufacturing and energy.
The benefit for organizations is that they get MSSPs that are more familiar and aligned with the specific security requirements of their industry. Hacienda Mexican Restaurants started in 1978 in South Bend, Ind., and today has 13 locations. The company first contracted with MSSPs to provide managed firewalls and cloud-managed wireless access points at all of its restaurants. More recently, the restaurant company began using an MSSP for PCI services—including scanning, penetration testing, a breach protection program and a dashboard to assist in completing a compliance-related questionnaire.
Timothy Yoder
"Unless you have the necessary in-house resources and a team dedicated to your security platform, I would recommend using a MSSP," said Timothy Yoder, director of technology at Hacienda Mexican Restaurants.
"This industry is so dynamic; [it's] almost impossible to keep up with the changes and new security threats," he said. "Why not leave it to the experts? It just makes sense."
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Imagine flying from New York to London in under an hour
By Mike Mount, CNN Senior National Security Producer
Perhaps Han Solo said it best in Star Wars when, describing his hyper-fast smuggling spaceship the Millennium Falcon, he said, "It may not look like much, but it's got it where it counts."
While the Air Force might take exception to being likened to the Falcon, in reality the platypus-nosed X-51A Waverider hypersonic flight test vehicle really doesn't look like much. But it definitely has it where it counts.
On Tuesday, the unmanned 25-foot-long vehicle will be dropped off of the wing of a converted B-52 bomber off the California coast and try to fly for 300 seconds at science fiction-like speeds of Mach 6, over 4,500 mph - fast enough to fly from New York to London in less than an hour.
It is the Pentagon's latest test as it studies the possibilities of hypersonic flight, defined as moving at speeds of Mach 5 (about 3,400 mph) and above without leaving the atmosphere. The technology could eventually bring missiles or airplanes to the other side of the planet in minutes instead of hours.
The Air Force and the Pentagon are not saying much about Tuesday's test, but the military could use such technology for reconnaissance aircraft, cruise missile-like weapons or vehicles that could carry people or cargo so fast adversaries would not have time to react, according to military analysts.
The Air Force conceived the X-51A program in 2004 and, according to the military analysis website Globalsecurity.org, the service has spent $140 million on the Waverider system. The Air Force will not disclose the actual cost of the program.
Long like a missile and with just a few fins in the rear, the Boeing-built aircraft is not designed as a bed for a weapon, according to the Air Force, but it is testing the technology to build future weapons around.
Past Waverider flights have come with mixed results. In May 2010, the Waverider made its first flight at 3,500 mph for 143 seconds before a malfunction caused the test to shut down early.
A June 2011 test also was shutdown early but did collect some data for the Air Force.
If all goes as planned, the flight Tuesday will end with a dive into the Pacific; there is no intent to recover the aircraft. The Air Force says the program was designed for each vehicle to be destroyed at the end of its flight test because of the cost that would be involved in recovering them. Data is fed back to evaluators during the test.
The Pentagon considers hypersonic flight the new stealth. The technology could move reconnaissance or bomber aircraft at high altitudes and speeds that put them far out of the reach of surface-to-air missiles or other anti-aircraft fire. The kind of speeds the X-51A is able to reach cannot be achieved with current jet-powered technology.
The aircraft uses "scramjet" technology, an engine with virtually no moving parts. It uses oxygen from the atmosphere for its engines, as opposed to carrying large fuel tanks that rockets require, making it a more efficient vehicle for military or commercial purposes.
Additionally, because of the high speeds the vehicle is also able to ride on the shockwave it creates at six times the speed of sound, increasing efficiency, according to an Air Force factsheet on the X-51A. It says that is also the genesis of the vehicle's nickname, the Waverider.
The Pentagon's high-technology research group, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, or DARPA, says getting aircraft to speeds of Mach 20 - which would enable the military to get anywhere in the world in under an hour - is an area of research where significant scientific advancements have eluded researchers for decades.
The Pentagon says it is studying this technology as countries have made advances in thwarting stealth technologies the U.S military has in its arsenal.
"That strategic advantage is threatened as other nations' abilities in stealth and counter-stealth improve," according to DARPA website. "Restoring that battle space advantage requires advanced speed, reach and range. Hypersonic technologies have the potential to provide the dominance once afforded by stealth to support a range of varied future national security missions."
The military could use it in two realms, according to Dan Wasserbly, the Americas editor of IHS/Jane's, a military analysis publication.
"They could use it to develop cruise missile-like weapons that could reach a target on the other side of the planet in minutes instead of hours, as well as developing aircraft which could put a quick-reaction force on a far-off battleground within hours instead of days," Wasserbly said.
The Air Force has said that by 2016 it would like to have a working weapon flying with hypersonic technology. But with the program budgeted only though this Tuesday's test, it is unclear when anything with hypersonic technology could be fielded, according to Wasserbly.
The Air Force made four of the X-51A test vehicles. Tuesday's test will be the third and possibly last test, according to Air Force spokesman Daryl Mayer.
"The Air Force will review the data from this mission and assess what will come next," he said.
The Pentagon has also been studying other hypersonic technology, including 2010 and 2011 flight tests of the Falcon Hypersonic Test Vehicle (HTV-2) capable of reaching Mach 20, approximately 13,000 mph, according to DARPA.
Both of those tests ended with the aircraft crashing before the tests were complete.
So even after the Air Force evaluates the results of the Tuesday test, it will be hard to know when the military will start launching troops from the U.S. to a far-flung combat zone in minutes.
Post by: CNN Senior National Security Producer Mike Mount
Filed under: DARPA
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It tells a story of how these "agents" are trying to turn us into machines. We are closer then ever before for this to become a reality when they cause us to receive an implantable microchip in our body during a time when physical money will be no more.
"He (the false prophet who deceives many by his miracles) causes all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and slave, to receive a mark on their right hand or on their foreheads, and that no one may buy or sell except one who has the mark or the name of the beast, or the number of his name...
You also may have heard of the legendary number "666" that people have been speculating for possibly thousands of years on what it actually means. This article shares something I haven't seen before, and I don't think there could be any better explanation for what it means to calculate 666. This is no hoax. Very fascinating stuff!
...Here is wisdom. Let him who has understanding calculate the number of the beast, for it is the number of a man: His number is 666" (Revelation 13:16-18 NKJV).
"Then a third angel followed them, saying with a loud voice, 'If anyone worships the beast and his image, and receives his mark on his forehead or on his hand, he himself shall also drink of the wine of the wrath of God, which is poured out full strength into the cup of His indignation. He shall be tormented with fire and brimstone in the presence of the holy angels and in the presence of the Lamb. And the smoke of their torment ascends forever and ever; and they have no rest day or night, who worship the beast and his image, and whoever receives the mark of his name'" (Revelation 14:9-11).
He came on stage claiming to be a Christian with no affiliation to the Muslim faith...
"In our lives, Michelle and I have been strengthened by our Christian faith. But there have been times where my faith has been questioned - by people who don't know me - or they've said that I adhere to a different religion, as if that were somehow a bad thing," – Barack Obama
...but was later revealed by his own family members that he indeed is a devout Muslim.
So what's in the name? The meaning of someones name can say a lot about a person. God throughout history has given names to people that have a specific meaning tied to their lives. How about the name Barack Obama? Let us take a look at what may be hiding beneath the surface...
"And He (Jesus) said to them (His disciples), 'I saw Satan fall like lightning from heaven'" (Luke 10:18).
From Strongs H1299; lightning; by analogy a gleam; concretely a flashing sword: – bright, glitter (-ing, sword), lightning. (Strongs Hebrew word H1300 baraq baw-rawk')
Barak 'O'bamah, The use of bamah is used to refer to the "heights" of Heaven.
From an unused root (meaning to be high); an elevation: – height, high place, wave. (Strongs Hebrew word H1116 bamah baw-maw')
The day following the election of Barack Obama (11/04/08), the winning pick 3 lotto numbers in Illinois (Obama's home state) for 11/5/08 were 666.
Seek Jesus while He may be found...repent, confess and forsake your sins and trust in the savior! Jesus says we must be born again by His Holy Spirit to enter the kingdom of God...God bless!
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It really is misleading, there are so many more variables to flying to London in under a hour. However i think it's great that we may
be able to travel that fast one day. I think the sole purpose of this is to deliver missiles to targets in sec's.
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This is pretty cool tecnology but I'm always a fan of long relaxing plane rides.
Apparently it didn't have it where it counts – the fins broke off and it crashed. So far, of three tests of this boondoggle, two have failed.
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What ever happened to the small time inventor? It wasn't always huge corporations who came up with these fantastic ideas, or the means to develop said ideas. There used to be everyday dreamers...dreamers who worked on their own terms...who would never allow their project to be dumped into the ocean never to be seen again...
People with the right capabilities just aren't scientifically motivated anymore. This is one of the reasons Richard Branson is so epic.... at least he's using what he has to dream ... dream big, and then dream some more, for the rest of us. : )
This article is so inredibly misleading its rediculous.
Unless they've created artificial gravity, or commericial passengers are required to endure the same g-forces as fighter pilots, then the numbers their using are rediculous.
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umadbro?
took an hour to hit the al qeada training camp... because Osama knew a week before they were going to launch lol!
It FAILED. wheres the news on the failure.
B. Bittner
This may have already been caught, but let's get the Han Solo quote right. "She may not look like much, but she's got it where it counts, kid." (ref. IMDB). Thanks.
This is amazing technology! The one thing I am very upset to read: " the flight Tuesday will end with a dive into the Pacific; there is no intent to recover the aircraft. The Air Force says the program was designed for each vehicle to be destroyed at the end of its flight test because of the cost that would be involved in recovering them". So we are just going to dump a huge amount of trash in the ocean and not clean it up!!! Way to set an example for these developing countries the US loves to bash for the same type of actions
Dead Lenny
Hey, I'm all for this project on one condition: they have to design an animatronic Slim Pickens to ride on the damn thing - backwards, while waving a cowboy hat - that will survive the trip. (The ability for RoboPickens to keep yelling, "WEEE-HOO! WEEE-HOO!" for the duration of the flight should also be considered.)
Okay guys, you win. You officially have the biggest war/technology-dick on the planet. Now that's settled, can you start filling in some potholes or funding higher education?
Yeah, didn't think so. (And people wonder why I'm voting for Gary Johnson.)
fatblackfrancis
"Excuse me steward, I can't seem to raise my hands to my face, my tongue is very dry and I don't believe there's any blood left in my face. I think I'm also blind."
"It's just the mach 6, sir! Now if you'll excuse me, I need to let go of your seat.. AAAAAAAAAAAARRRRGH!!" *THUD*
DefyTheGods
Bring back Buckaroo Bonzai and his "oscillator over thruster"!
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Dont want to know until you have a full working plane ok thanks
good grief, if it was for some of you people we'd never accomplish anything like going to the moon or to Mars or develop things like GPS technology, the internet or anything else that has commercial, everyday application. These are the types of experiments that helped us create the technology we humans end up USING EVERY DAY. And so what of Boeing makes $140MLN or $140BLN, who else do you want to develop this technology? Who else can do it other than corporations with the human and financial capital. The companies also create fantastic, well-paying jobs. Get over it.
They are not TRYING to produce perfect technology...they get $140 billion dollars free money for each one of these they produce that FAIL ... why on Earth would they want to make 1 that actually works???
Michael re-read the article. It's 140 MILLION not billion
The government is just rubbing this in our Faces isn't it? Showing us that they will do WHATEVER they want with our money, like it or not, it doesn't matter one bit. They are flexing their muscles and trying to show to us-prove to us-that they can spend our money any which way they so desire, and there's not a danm thing we can do about it!
2 BILLION dollars every couple of years for these cute little projects goes to show what congress thinks of you all and your money
$140 Milllion dollar dump into the Ocean. Boeing couldn't be happier. Keep those $140 Million Dollar Paychecks coming American taxpayers...
I want a whole bunch of $140,000,000,000.00 toys too!!!! Please give me just One per year too, and I'll never ask for anything else! I'll even play with you
Andy in Oz
Hmm flight to end up in the Pacific.......no intent to recover the vehicle, can we safely assume on that basis that the flight will fall into the US coastal areas of the Pacific and not fall in a flaming heap over places in the Pacific whether foe or worse yet friend.
When will we learn. Stop talking about it and just do it. Too much information is leaked to the press and this gives our opponents a heads up on what to expect. A guy who was a clandestine operative said it best. The real pros don't talk about what they do. They just do it.
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Words cannot even begin to describe how awesome this is.
The Woof
So Boeing and other defense contractors are crying about the profits they are losing but here is a case where they've gooten $140 mil of governemnt money to develop a system and will charge the the government billions if they perfect it and make planes from it. And Mitt, they didn't do it on their freaking own!
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The purpose of this vehicle is very simple. The US has only one munition carrying vehicle that can reach any spot in the world within an hour. That is a nuclear armed ICBM. This research project is primarily dedicated to putting a conventional warhead on a target anywhere within that hour timeframe without having to bring relatively slow moving submarines or surface ships into play using cruise missiles. It's like firing a pistol off
your back porch knowing you will hit some bad guys in less than an hour any where in the world you aim to.
We have the AGM-86B air launched cruise missile, submarines and surface ships aren't the only delivery platforms for cruise missiles. Why don't you learn about what we already have before you start spouting off.
Typical – we will pay billions of dollars to kill people, but not a penny to save somebody.
They are saving you and your grand kids from the evil Chinese. Good enough for me.
Not really, they are jeopardizing their futures because they keep destabilizing the balance of power.
August 14, 2012 at 10:19 pm |
ocinfo
The X-030 could do mach 30 – http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rockwell_X-30
Why are they making such a big deal about mach 5?
choward5400
This is on wind aircraft. X-30 top speeds were to be achieved above the stratosphere and it was scrapped for it's lack of successful attempts anyways... .mook point.
@ocinfo....did you even read the link you posted?? It was never put into production so the specs it listed were never proven...It was cancelled in the early 1990s, before a prototype was completed. Besides this was designed for single orbit space travel. The proto type in teh article...It is the Pentagon's latest test as it studies the possibilities of hypersonic flight, defined as moving at speeds of Mach 5 (about 3,400 mph) and above without leaving the atmosphere.
Mortran
You can't compare the high-tech of the 60s with the junk tech of today. We could also fly to the Moon and there was a supersonic passenger plane (Concorde) in these days. But these days are long gone.
Today it is indeed an achievement, when the USAF makes something that at least remotely reminds us of the golden age.
Well pardon us if our goal isn't to keep proving over and over we can go to the moon. And have since moved on to sending drones to mars.
August 14, 2012 at 6:52 pm |
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There have never been, nor are there currently, any Mach 6 air breathing missiles or aircraft in operation by the US or any other nation. Likewise no nation has made an operational scramjet. .
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scramjet? what the heck for? big boys with tiny weeny like to play with speed, we don't need it. I'm more interested in nanotech and decoding the dna, that something that matters.
Schmedley
Oh, so because something is of interest to you, we should just drop everything and do that... Hey folks, we've just discovered the center of the universe!
Unlocking the mysteries of DNA holds far more promise for improving the lot of mankind than building more weapons. If you can't understand that then please move on.
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Not all events can be anaticipated, Black Swan, so intelligence "failures" like 911 have to be planned for. Probably it is better to hire better "intelligence" workers so that the possibility of having to depend on such a weapon will not be necessary. fFnding those workers is becoming more and more difficult. It is a wonder that "scram jet", looking like the product of technology forcing the moving body through the atmosphere, is used. Isn't there a way to move the atmosphere out of the way? Isn't that what a lightening bolt does? I am far from a science geek but it looks like this flying machine could be the topping out of what will soon be old technology. And the uncertainty about it, whether or not the thing actually works, might be just enough valuable deterrent, in the mean time, to justify the expense. Looks like an enjoyable effort though.
If they are showing this to us now, they already have something much more impressive, and it's probably already in operation. This is a red herring project.
tez07
Firing the weapon from the bomber????…..thats what the military thinks. In reality Val Kilmer and Gabriel Jarret hacked the system and changed the protocol. The system will instead fill the inventor and conniving professor’s house with popcorn.
Old school... nice
allenwoll
The Military-Industrial Complex operating at its "finest" pitch ! ! !
This is ALL gross B-S, NOT to mention pure fantasy / insanity ! ! !
It needs to be stopped in its tracks and its proponents escorted to and permanently ensconced in one of our fine Arizona Hard-Rock, Desert-Tent prisons ! ! !
Does the Navy know about this? At two hours to cross the globe, that's the end of aircraft carriers. Don't need 'em. That's 12 multi-billion dollar systems carrying multi-billion dollar system that will be redundant. I like it!
Speed doesn't always work in favor of an anti ship missile. Moving that fast, it has almost no time to find a moving target and maneuver to hit it. I think there is a reason no western navy uses supersonic cruise missiles. You have no idea how difficult it is to find a ship at sea, especially if there is any kind of weather. Remember that Admiral Ace Lyons managed to sneak the whole Eisenhower battle group from Norfolk to the Russian coast off Murmansk without the Soviets detecting them, using weather systems to hide the carrier and it's escorts from detection by Soviet satelliites and recon aircraft. The first time the Soviets realized they had a US aircraft carrier in their back yard was when a Bear bomber being refuled by another aircraft was buzzed by two F-14s doing about Mach 2. Surprise. Don't assume China or any other nation will even know where US aircraft carriers are operating, much less be able to target them.
Mike from PA
It will only be a matter of time before the Russians and the Chinese make our stealth tech less useful. If it's important enough to them, they will find a way to make using stealth more difficult. Also the American taxpayer's wallet isn't bottomless and neither is the rest of the world that buys our debt.
The Chinese are big on talking. And copying. BUt not much else.
Really? There seems to be quite a large inventory of supersonic ASM cruise missiles out there to refute your hypothesis. And as a matter of fact, the threat was considered to be so great that ship production was threatened to be stopped until the Navy could demonstrate having a credible defense against them not too many years ago.
mayanah
This technology wer already been used since ancient time.. Wake up people the technology is under control by the Elite.!
Then you see why the U.S. is in debt because they want to keep spending/wasting money on dumb things....smh!
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Mask Mandates, Lockdowns No Longer About Public Health - Should Cease
If the pandemic mask mandates and lockdowns we’ve endured since March were ever really about science and public health, they are no more.
“Trust the experts or science,” we’re told, but which experts, what science, and why trust them at all if indeed mask mandates and lockdowns don’t accomplish much other virtue signaling or destroying economies?
Multiple, credible medical scientists and even now the WHO say lockdowns are not effective in stopping the spread of the Coronavirus and, on top of this, are creating other collateral damage like greater negative impact upon impoverished people.
Scientists are saying, “’Coming from both the left and right, and around the world, we have devoted our careers to protecting people,’ said the declaration. ‘Current lockdown policies are producing devastating effects on short and long-term public health.’ They include ‘lower childhood vaccination rates, worsening cardiovascular disease outcomes, fewer cancer screenings and deteriorating mental health—leading to greater excess mortality in years to come.’”
‘Keeping these measures in place until a vaccine is available will cause irreparable damage, with the underprivileged disproportionately harmed.’”
Yet still, state governors like Michigan’s Governor Gretchen Whitmer and California’s Governor Gavin Newsom persist in introducing new draconian measures mandating statewide masks, even outdoors, keeping churches closed, and pushing schools to keep tens of thousands of students at home.
Gov. Whitmer’s 160 plus executive orders were tossed out by the Michigan State Supreme Court, which said her use of emergency powers was unconstitutional. She, of course, merely shifted her argument to other state laws and accused the court of partisanship.
Gov. Newsome’s latest attempt to play doctor occurred last week when his office tweeted a reminder to those going out to dinner to “keep your mask on in between bites.”
WHO weighed-in, finally, stating, “We in the World Health Organization do not advocate lockdowns as the primary means of control of this virus.” To say this is late to the party is an understatement.
There is no end in sight to governors and mayors acting as health czars, unless the presidential election brings a change. First, masks, stay at home, and lockdowns were necessary to “flatten the curve.” Then these measures would “save lives.” Then it was “until there is a vaccine.” Then it was no longer just C-19 but “flu season,” meaning any rationale will do. Meanwhile, doctors worldwide are recording more deaths due to lockdowns than to the virus.
The economic impact of the unnecessary lockdowns has been devastating. “About 60 percent of US businesses closed since the beginning of March will never again reopen.”
“Many of the consequences listed here will take years to analyze and document, but we’ve seen glimpses of more immediate unintended consequences already: rampant suicide, surging drug overdoses, increases in domestic violence, economic destruction, and many others.
None of these consequences were intended when lawmakers passed sweeping lockdowns, but that does not make them less real. Nor do pure intentions absolve lawmakers of responsibility.
The famed economist Milton Friedman once observed that perhaps the greatest threat to liberty comes ‘from men of good intentions and good will who wish to reform us.’
In this case, the well-intentioned seek not to reform us but to protect us. But as Friedman noted, ‘concentrated power is not rendered harmless by the good intentions of those who create it.’”
The problems with mask mandates and pandemic lockdowns now form a long list. Yet political leaders continue to argue vigorously and at times self-righteously that this show—their show—must go on. Why?
Trust the science – but scientists and medical professionals are not in agreement, and many now argue against masks and lockdowns. Yet political leaders and much of mainstream media ignore this.
Mask and lockdowns do not work – they have not actually stopped the spread of the virus, have not appreciably reduced infection or death rates, and do not accomplish what proponents claim with religious fervor.
Mask mandates and lockdowns are arguably not needed for a virus, that is yes deadly for some, still moving through populations with a 95-99% survival rate.
Lockdowns are destroying businesses, peoples’ livelihoods, entire economies, and they are creating other negative social and health side-effects, confounding variables, and unintended consequences like increased suicides and greater mortality due to lack of medical care.
Lockdown restrictions may be more about partisan advantage than public health.
Lockdowns are in numerous instances unconstitutional and have violated Americans’ civil liberties.
Lockdowns and the mentality they create are a threat long-term to political liberty.
Masks and lockdowns don’t work, cause other problems, may be leveraged in biased ways, and are a threat to liberty, so I strongly recommend states and localities stop the lockdowns now.
No more cherry-picking scientific data to reinforce one’s biases.
No more mask mandates, just people with information using common sense to care for their own health and that of others.
No more closed businesses and fines, just businesses functioning in a free economy.
No more political leaders acting like public health czars to further their careers or party politics.
No more planned economies, just American people acting freely in the best interests of themselves, their families, and communities.
Without Truth There Is No Hope
Truth seems up for grabs in our confused culture.
It is possible to speak truth in a nasty way or for improper motives, which is why Scripture reminds us to speak the truth in love.
God is the ultimate source of truth. Actually, he is truth, so he defines reality and he never said, "Don’t speak the truth." So, speaking truth is not an act of hate, as incredibly some now claim.
It may seem harsh, for example, to call something error, wrong, sin, but if true, it creates an opportunity for change, correction, forgiveness, redemption > hope.
Without truth, there is no hope.
Thinking About American Politics
Deep thoughts Saturday afternoon:
1-Politics is not what’s most important in life, yet politics can be constructive or destructive to individual and social well-being.
2-Political parties are useful, but like denominations, party labels matter less than what proponents actually believe.
3-Ideology, Left-Liberal-Moderate-Conservative-Right, is now more socially influential than partisanship.
4-Left and Liberal are not synonymous, nor are Conservative and Right, but four distinct, diverging political philosophies.
5-The Bible is not a political handbook but speaks to foundational issues that find expression in politics, e.g., created order; origin and purpose of life; liberty; good and evil; work and property; family; sexuality.
6-American society and politics are not secular, meaning irreligious, but postmodern DIY religious with no moral calculus but feelings, meaning doing what’s right in your own eyes.
7-I am blessed with political liberty by virtue of my birthright. Like most Americans, I did nothing to earn it. God forbid that I would ever take it for granted.
When Celebrities, Politicians and Media Talk But Don’t Say Anything
Celebrities, politicians, and media use euphemisms as handy deflections to questions they don’t want to answer or don’t know how to answer or don’t want to answer in historically understood moral categories. These euphemisms pass for excuses or even erudition, but they don’t really offer anything substantive and can be misleading or downright wrong.
Consider these:
I was lucky.
This comment is regularly made by entertainment stars on late night TV talk shows or by sports figures when they are asked about their success. In an effort to sound, or maybe to give them the benefit of the doubt to actually be, humble, the accomplished star does not say, I am great (unless they are Muhammad Ali); I am enormously talented; I worked hard and by hook and crook clawed my way to the top; I am blessed – especially not this one because this implies there is a God who distributes talent and grace and admitting this in public media isn’t politically correct.
Problem is, taken at face value, this means that the star is saying I did nothing, I have no talent, did not work hard, and am not responsible for anything I’ve accomplished. Pretty bleak view of themselves, humanity, and existence. It’s all dumb, blind fate.
I just want her/him to be happy.
This comment usually comes when a former spouse or girlfriend/boyfriend has left the person behind. Or it comes when parents hear of their son or daughter’s decision to pursue some odd sexual expression.
Problem is, does the person’s happiness trump all other considerations?
I’m not really religious but I’m a very spiritual person.
The celebrity making this statement may be honest or may just be dodging the deeper meaning of a question, but either way, the idea is that it’s not really socially kosher anymore to be overtly religious, but it’s apparently OK to be “spiritual.”
Problem is, spiritual can mean anything and nothing.
He’s/She’s dealing with his/her demons.
This is a frequent media comment when some celebrity or politician has gone off the deep end but the media doesn’t want or know how to talk about the person’s choices in moral terms. Certainly, sin is not in the mix, so a reference is made to demons.
Problem is, demons can mean anything and in particular can mean that whatever is going awry in the person’s life, it’s not her or his fault. It’s the demons. So, this is a great way to duck accountability and blame something, anything but one’s own moral choices.
Mistakes were made.
This is the time-honored non-apology-apology. It’s a way of saying something so it sounds like you took responsibility but in actuality you did not take responsibility. Corporate CEOs say this when their company is struggling with a bad product; celebrities and especially politicians say this when they want to sort-of-own-but-not-own bad press.
Problem is, who made the mistakes? The person saying this rarely says I made mistakes. And if what happened was actually a mistake, then it perhaps was without intent or culpability, so you blame frail humanity. This may be accurate. Humans are frail and we make mistakes. But usually, this comment isn’t referencing actual mistakes. It is referencing premeditated choices. Someone acted and knew what and why they were doing what they were doing. This is not a mistake. It is willful forethought with intent.
Just have faith.
This comment is a favorite of celebrities on late night TV. It’s an all-purpose way of providing some kind of optimism and sometimes the full phrase is “Just have faith in yourself.”
Problem is, faith in what? Faith is as good as what it trusts. Faith in yourself may be good pop-psychology and perhaps helpful self-confidence, but as a religious or moral philosophy capable of dealing with life’s greatest challenges, it’s a non-starter.
I have to follow my heart.
This celebrity comment is sometimes presented as “You can’t help who you love,” which usually references some sexually progressive idea, i.e., I am pansexual, or I cheated on my wife because, well, I had to.
Problem is, once again, this comment seeks to side-step individual responsibility because it is saying that somehow the person is doing what they are doing and can’t help doing so.
Euphemisms may not all be bad or wrong. Saying someone “passed away” rather than he or she “died” is often used to soften the sad news. But euphemisms that obscure and deflect accountability ultimately do not serve the speaker well, let alone anyone else.
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Celebrating Irrationality Is Now the American Pastime
When culture rejects the idea of objective truth all that’s left is irrationality.
American culture is now not just embracing but celebrating irrationality. What else explains abortion-on-demand all the way through even post-birth, gender fluidity, freedom of speech only if we agree, rejection of evidentiary rule of law in favor of rule by feelings?
Our irrationality is rooted in our embrace of moral relativism, which is now the basis of American culture’s worldview. This is perhaps most obvious in matters of human sexuality.
Doing what’s right in your own eyes sexually, that is, with public approval, cannot happen as long as religion, specifically biblical Christianity, is influential in people’s hearts and minds. So sexual progressivism in all its forms has become the point of the spear pushing total rejection of Judeo-Christian values as the historic basis of American public morality and culture. This push is organized, aggressive, and in the name of tolerance the most intolerant silence-opposing-views movement at work today.
This moral chaos shows up in, among other things:
Huge percentage of homes with no father in the home, i.e. kids growing up without male parental influence
LGBTQ+, same sex marriage
Debt complacency- Living not just beyond our means; living beyond our children’s means
Dividing walls of hostility between groups: gender, race, ethnicity, nationality, language, culture
Loss of civility, morality, optimism replaced by a coarse and obscene culture, hysterical politics
Francis A. Schaeffer’s phrase “true truth” foresaw our current “your truth vs my truth,” subjectivism and relativism, “truthiness,” feelings-the-measure-of-all-things, and the mess we have now with “fake news” and “alternative facts.”
Along with the phrase “celebrating irrationality” to describe our culture I’ve used the phrase “sophisticated ignorance,” like Athens in Acts 17. The superstition and D.I.Y. religion is evident in rejection of moral absolutes and the idea of objective truth, then an embrace of chance, feelings, and subjectivity over reason, and an inclination toward new forms of paganism.
If you think abortion is “life-sustaining” as does the governor of Michigan, so it is. If a baby in the womb or even born alive is not wanted, it’s not a human baby.
“War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength.” Celebration of irrationality.
Irrationality is now a way of life for more and more people.
Heart Attack One Year Ago Today--God Is So Good
Race, Racism, and Racial Politics in America
What We Believe, What We Know In A Post-Christian Era
Illogic Passing For Logic In the Postmodern Era
Cultural Trends
Death after Death Issues
Journalists and Religion
Homosexuality and LGBTQ
Personal Piety
Politics and Political Responsibility
Sexuality and Gender Issues
Sports, Athletics, and Competition
Truth and Relativism
Crime Violence and the Justice System
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Macedonia: No for Underage Marriages Among Roma
MacedoniaApril 14, 2014
Children give birth children. The purpose of this project is to raise awareness among young Roma population and their parents and once again reminded their children should not go a married too early, on 12, 13, 14 years old. This project will be a multimedia project by non-profit organization NGO “ZZPD. This NGO's work is dedicated to Roma young people up to 15 years old. Anyway the world has a problem with excess population, especially in poor areas. Will be a opportunity for Roma by training them to use media tools to tell their stories, and establish better communicati. with other ethnicity
Honduras: Knowing Our Ethnic Indigenous Groups
HondurasApril 14, 2014
The project is an initiative by students in San Pedro Sula to present the realities of various indigenous groups through an ethnographic study. These groups are often marginalized and ostracized from society. By creating awareness of these problems we are one step closer to resolving them. I had previously given cinematographic tutorials in Honduras with the director of the project through the organization OYE Adelante Jovenes. I plan to use the money to produce this project and provide equipment. Unfortunately, the crowd-funding campaign we initiated only achieved 190$ of it's goal.
Kazakhstan: Searching for the 100 – Seeing Kazakhstan
KazakhstanApril 13, 2014
Kazakhstan's multicultural & multinational citizenry is a legacy of Soviet social engineering activities. Yet, beyond the majority nationalities, i.e., the Kazakhs and Russians (76% of the population), many of these minorities have little public visibility. This project aims to begin documenting the lived experiences of some of these minority populations (e.g., Dungans, Uighurs, and Koreans). We will assemble collections of shared stories which will be both published & documented via video in order to produce a documentary about people's lives amidst social change in post-Soviet Kazakhstan.
Philippines: Changing the World Through Values Education
PhilippinesApril 12, 2014
Values Education is a process by which we can transmit positive values to other people. Positive values begets positive actions and this is what we need to change the world. Changing the World Through Values Education is aimed to train Values Educators in the Philippines. Abraham Lincoln said, “If I have six hours to chop a tree, I would spend the first four hours to sharpen the axe.” Hence, this project will help Values educators to better transform Filipino students and other Filipinos in the community as well by giving them the right tools in teaching.
Romania: Visualising Roma women’s voices in Romania
RomaniaApril 11, 2014
The purpose of this citizen media project is to make visible Roma women’s voices in the online environment through digital story telling. After being provided training on digital photography, Roma women from Tg Frumos will be given the tools and the support to self-document their lives behind the households’ fences. Together with young people, Roma women will be protagonists and narrators of the digital stories the project will generate and widely distribute. A blog reflecting the dynamics of the process of implementing it will be another media endeavor to widely spread Roma citizens’ voices.
Brazil: Osijê Dúdú ” Mensageiro Preto”
BrazilApril 10, 2014
“The history of blacks in our country, espraiando up for all dimensions of human existence, was founded in an inhuman capitalism anchored in slavery, racism and the exclusionary rule. This project aims through practical workshops in radio, audio editing, podcast and use of the voice as an instrument of communication, the Maroons can make use of the radio to go beyond just the use of communication tools with digital interface area and computer network, help people to approach and access databases and information repositories, breaking boundaries and barriers of time and space.
Pakistan: Capacity Building on Minority Rights
PakistanApril 8, 2014
The term minority rights come from human rights. Human rights are, as such, the foundation of minority rights. The Members of minority communities have all human rights because we all are human being. The unique and often marginalized situation of minorities means, in addition, they have minority rights. Individual Rights -The term minority rights are the individual rights that are enjoyed by person’s belonging to ethnic, religious and/or linguistic minorities. Apart from the individual rights, project also advocates the following 2 topics Protecting Minority Rights Capacity Building
Bosnia Herzegovina: The Other Side of the Story – Roma Population
Bosnia HerzegovinaApril 7, 2014
Roma in BiH are the most numerous minority group. The exact number of Roma is not known. The Kakanj municipality today is one with the highest Roma population, but they are not represented in media. Our NGO is the owner of web portal called Kaportal.ba. We want to buil a series of stories about Roma population in our city: 10 articles and media campaign called The other side of the story: Roma population, to unbias comunity about Roma population.
United Kingdom: Transnational Palestinian Hip-Hop
United KingdomApril 4, 2014
This research will explore the development of a transnational Palestinian identity through the medium of contemporary Palestinian music, with particular focus on the Palestinian diaspora. Exploration of this identity will determine whether this transnational identity can impact Israel's relations with the Palestinians and nations in which Palestinians currently reside.
Macedonia: Media Literacy for Roma Youth
MacedoniaApril 4, 2014
This project aims at training young ROMA from the Tetova region on online media literacy through which will be able to express their culture,their struggles,their identity and the discrimination that they face. Additionally, the project will try to portray the future of ROMA, the way they see it not the way that it is tried to be imposed by other communities;the social inclusion process from the perception of ROMA themselves in terms of how they want other communities to include them and not to force them into integrating; build communication links between young ROMA and the rest of the youth.
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Meet the 2018 Adrian Cheng Fellows
September 10, 2018SICI News
The Social Innovation and Change Initiative is pleased to announce the members of the 2018 Cheng Fellow cohort. The Cheng Fellowship is a rigorous program that selects and supports students who are actively advancing social innovation projects while in school. The co-curricular experience works to bridge research, theory, and social change frameworks with experiential insights to guide students in leveraging themselves as leaders for social impact.
Cheng Fellows are committed to addressing specific social problems, working on diverse issues around the world, and advancing innovations in healthcare, agriculture, labor unions, waste management, and more. Read below to meet the Cheng Fellows joining SICI during the 2018-19 academic year.
Ashri Anurudran (Harvard College ‘19) runs a sexual violence prevention program in Kusumu, Kenya that empowers students with tools to fight immediate danger and challenge and change cultural norms.
Vikas Birhma (MPP ‘19) is working to support smallholder farmers in India to increase their livelihoods by connecting them to local markets.
Cassandra Devine (MPA ‘19) is working to strengthen the traditional union and rising alt-labor movements in the US through innovative revenue generation models.
Zeenith Ebrahim (MC-MPA ‘19) seeks to provide preventative healthcare solutions and home caregiving support to communities in South Africa.
Shapri Generette (MPA ‘19, joint with MIT Sloan) is the co-founder of Chord, the debt-free path from renting to owning not only a home but a diversified asset portfolio.
Hasani Hayden (Harvard College ‘19) seeks to contribute to the economic and social development of communities through a proposal for holistic real estate development efforts.
Chris Kuang (Harvard College ‘20) is the co-founder and Executive Director of Coding it Forward, a fellowship program for students with technical skills to create social impact through summer placements in US federal agencies.
Willow Latham (MPA ‘19, joint with Harvard GSD) seeks to help direct remittances towards local infrastructure investment to promote long-term community and economic development.
Meghan McCormick (MPA ‘19, joint with MIT Sloan) is the Co-Founder & CEO of OZÉ, a business insights engine which enables investment-readiness for small to medium enterprises in West Africa.
Wladimir Nikoluk (MPP ‘19) is the CEO of ImmerLearn, which seeks to improve the effectiveness of the public and social sector through advanced data analytics and artificial intelligence.
Genevieve Oni (MPA ‘19, joint with MIT Sloan) is the Co-Founder and CFO of MDaaS Global, which is building a network of private diagnostics and primary care facilities in Nigeria and eventually across the African continent.
Kennedy Opala (MPA-ID ‘19) is Co-founder and Product Lead of Akyakit, a health management decision support platform designed for healthcare managers in Sub-Saharan Africa.
Manivannan Ponniah (MC-MPA ‘19) is working to empower citizens to engage with the local government to address garbage and waste management through the citizen group, CITA (citizens involved technology assisted).
Alondra Ramirez (Harvard College ‘19) seeks to convene existing organizations and resources to improve student outcomes by optimizing access to support services.
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Rosa Vazquez (Harvard College ‘20) is helping undocumented students in the US access resources to realize their full potential.
David Walfish (HKS ‘19) is the co-founder of Ho‘oulu Pacific, which seeks to improve nutrition, self-sufficiency, and holistic health in the Pacific Islands.
Learn more about Adrian Cheng and the Cheng Fellowship.
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What Is in a Labor Contract?
By Sam Amico
Project Management Contract Types
What Are the Components of a Request for Proposal?
How Contract Payments Work
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Labor contracts are an important aspect of the American work force, as many companies farm out portions of their workload to contractors, who provide needed services. Labor contracts vary by individual company and specific responsibilities, but all must consist of general guidelines. That includes description of duties, the length of the agreement, what type of payment will be made and risks of the contractor undertaking the project.
Typically, the first information a labor contract details are the duties expected to be met. All obligations from both parties must be described in great detail, in language everyone involved can understand. One misspelled word or misinterpreted phrase can result in a job not being performed as desired, or a contractor’s expectations failing to be met. Some labor contracts also consist of “outs” for either party, and these should be well-defined as well.
Labor contracts must provide the amount of time in which a project is expected to be completed. This usually means a specific date, and even time, agreed upon by both parties before signing the deal. Occasionally, labor contracts consist of more than one project, and therefore must consist of multiple time frames specific to each job.
The amount of money that will be transferred from employee to contractor is another vital aspect included in labor contracts. On top of how much, labor contracts often must indicate the day on which a payment will be made--or days, in the event of multiple payments. Expenses for supplies and the type of supplies that are to be purchased also must be detailed in labor contracts, as should advance payments made to the contractor.
Every labor contract needs to contain potential risks to the employer and contractor. Risks often include potential injuries, damage to a contractor’s property or other hazards of undertaking a job. Most contractors understand the risks of their job, but this aspect of labor contracts need to be spelled out in great detail to protect the company and worker.
Once both parties have obtained and read over a labor contract, they must sign and date it to indicate they understand its terms. Both parties obtain a copy of the signed deal before actual work begins. Once a labor contract is signed, it puts everything into motion. Those who veer from the agreement can be found in “breach” of the contract and subject to fines.
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Sam Amico is a reporter for NBA.com and worked as a writer and editor at daily newspapers for more than a decade, covering everything from rock concerts to college football to courts and crime. He attended Kent State University and is the author of the book, "A Basketball Summer." He also is the co-host of a nationally-syndicated television show, "The Wine & Gold Zone."
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Treatment of intracranial vertebral artery dissecting aneurysms involving the posterior inferior cerebellar artery origin
Jason A. Chen1, Matthew C. Garrett1, Anton Mlikotic2, James I. Ausman1
1Department of Neurosurgery, University of California, Los Angeles,
2Department of Radiology, Harbor-UCLA Medical Center, Torrance, California, USA.
*Corresponding author: James I. Ausman, Emeritus Editor-in-Chief and Publisher, SNI Publications, Professor, Neurosurgery, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, Los Angeles, CA and Harbor-UCLA Medical Center, Torrance, CA, USA. jamesausman@mac.com
Received: 2018-06-16 , Accepted: 2019-05-02 , Published: 2019-06-25
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Vertebral artery dissecting aneurysm (VADA) involving the origin of the posterior inferior cerebellar artery (PICA) is a complex disease entity in which the dual goals of preventing future rebleeding and maintaining perfusion of the lateral medulla must be considered. We present an illustrative case and review the literature surrounding treatment strategies.
Case Description:
We report a patient presenting with extensive subarachnoid hemorrhage due to rupture of an intracranial VADA involving the PICA origin. After consideration of the patient’s cerebral vasculature and robustness of collaterals, a flow-diverting stent was placed with angiographic resolution of the lesion and maintenance of antegrade PICA flow. Ultimately, the patient experienced a contralateral intraparenchymal hemorrhage leading to death. Review of the literature identified 124 cases of VADA involving the PICA origin described over the past decade. The methods of surgical and endovascular treatment of these cases were reviewed, with particular focus on the rationale of treatment, outcomes, and complications.
Numerous treatment options for VADA involving PICA have been reported with different risk and benefit profiles. Flow-diverting stents appear to offer the most favorable balance of securing the aneurysm and avoiding medullary infarction, but the risks and optimal anti-thrombotic treatment strategy are incompletely understood. In select cases, in which the surgical risk is low or in which the anatomy is favorable (e.g., nondominant parent vessel or robust collateral circulation in the involved territories), parent artery trapping with or without microsurgical revascularization can be considered.
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Vertebral artery dissecting aneurysms (VADA) cause 3–5% of cases of subarachnoid hemorrhage (SAH),[28,34] particularly in middle-aged men,[10] and can occasionally involve the posterior inferior cerebellar artery (PICA). Intracranial VADA results from a tear in the intima, degeneration of the media, or disruption of the internal elastic lamina, which lead to the formation of an intramural hematoma.[32,35] The hematoma may be eccentric to the adventitia or intima; subadventitial dissection preferentially occurs in the VA alone and presents as aneurysmal enlargement and SAH whereas subintimal dissection preferentially involves the basilar artery and presents with luminal narrowing and brainstem ischemia.[34]
Unruptured VADA may present with headache, ischemic symptoms (e.g., lateral medullary syndrome), or mass effect, and remain stable or even improve without treatment.[17] Alongside surgical and endovascular treatment options, conservative management may be considered. Due to its uncertain natural history, the management of unruptured lesions is controversial. However, ruptured VADA presents a precarious situation with a high propensity for subsequent rebleeding, estimated at 30–70% and typically occurring within hours to days of the initial event.[3,28] In patients with rebleeding, the mortality rate is high and has been estimated near 50%.[28] Therefore, ruptured VADA is treated emergently to prevent mortality and severe disability.
VADA is usually not amenable to treatment with standard clipping or coil embolization due to the morphology of the lesion. Involvement of branch vessels of the VA, for example, PICA, further complicates matters due to the need to preserve brainstem and cerebellar perfusion, limiting treatment options and resulting in worse outcomes.[36] Many endovascular and surgical treatment options for VADA have been proposed, and new developments such as flow-diverting stents continue to expand the armamentarium. However, the risks associated with these treatment options are not clearly understood in the context of VADA involving PICA, and there are other variables (e.g., arterial configuration, presence of collaterals, operator skill, and potential bleeding events from antiplatelet therapy following endovascular treatment) that may factor into favorable treatment outcomes.
Here, we report an illustrative case of a patient with VADA involving the origin of PICA, with anatomically poor collateral flow to PICA demonstrated on angiography. The patient was ultimately treated with a flow-diverting stent. Treatment options and considerations for treatment of this condition were reviewed.
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A 57-year-old man with a history of hypertension and mechanical valve replacement, on warfarin, presented to Harbor-UCLA Medical Center after experiencing severe headache and decreasing level of consciousness; the precise time of onset was unknown. There was no history of preceding trauma, tobacco use, or known connective tissue disorders. By the time of initial evaluation, the patient was unresponsive and did not withdraw to noxious stimulation. The Glasgow Coma Scale score was 5 (E1V1M3), corresponding to the World Federation of Neurosurgical Societies Grade 5. His clinical condition was assessed as Hunt and Hess Grade 5. The patient’s international normalized ratio was in the therapeutic range; warfarin was held, and anticoagulation was reversed using prothrombin complex concentrate and Vitamin K.
Noncontrast computed tomography (CT) imaging of the brain revealed diffuse hemorrhage in the subarachnoid cisterns and fourth ventricular hemorrhage (modified Fisher[14] Grade 4), with secondary mild obstructive hydrocephalus [Figure 1]. CT angiography showed a focal vascular lesion arising from the distal right VA [Figure 2a].
Figure 1:: Noncontrast computed tomography images of the brain. (a) Axial plane, showing diffuse subarachnoid hemorrhage, especially within the prepontine cistern and foramen magnum. (b) Sagittal plane, again demonstrating subarachnoid hemorrhage. There is dilatation of the temporal horns related to secondary ventricular obstruction.
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Figure 2:: (a) Computed tomography angiography in the coronal plane revealed an aneurysmal lesion arising from the distal right vertebral artery (arrow) that is surrounded by high-density subarachnoid hemorrhage. The left vertebral artery (LVA) is labeled. (b) Three-dimensional volume rendered image of the distal vertebral artery during initial catheter angiography, showing vessel wall irregularity and a broad-based fusiform lesion consistent with a dissecting aneurysm (arrow) that involves a dominant posterior inferior cerebellar artery. There is also a proximal normal variant partial duplication of the vessel.
Digital subtraction angiography further revealed a dissection of the distal aspect of the vessel and a broad-based, 5 mm aneurysm that involved the origin of a large PICA [Figure 2b and Figure 3]. The right posterior communicating artery (posterior communicating artery (PCOM)) was not visualized. Injection of the left VA did not demonstrate any appreciable collateral flow to the right PICA territory, although a balloon occlusion test was not performed. There was a normal variant short segment partial duplication of the right VA at the V2-V3 junction that was not involved by the dissection.
Figure 3:: Digital subtraction angiography of the right vertebral artery in the anteroposterior view (a), showing a variant segmental duplication of the distal vessel, dissection, and associated aneurysm (arrow), which involves the origin of the posterior inferior cerebellar artery, and decreased flow to the distal vasculature. Left vertebral artery in the anteroposterior view (b), demonstrating a paucity of flow to the right posterior inferior cerebellar artery territory (arrow). Immediately following placement of a pipeline flow-diverting stent (c), there is an instant decrease in flow to the lesion, improved flow to the distal vasculature, and preservation of flow to the posterior inferior cerebellar artery.
The patient was intubated and an external ventricular drain (EVD) was placed, before initiation of antiplatelet therapy. He exhibited clinical improvement with ventricular drainage to the point where he was speaking, following commands, and moving all extremities, though he was somnolent and confused. Due to the improvement in the patient’s neurological status, surgical and endovascular options were considered to (1) control the aneurysm and prevent imminent rebleeding and (2) avoid ischemia of the right PICA territory in light of lack of clear collateral perfusion. An occipital artery to PICA bypass or PICA-PICA bypass could achieve the latter objective; however, the presence of significant medical comorbidities disfavored a surgical approach. Proximal vessel sacrifice would ordinarily preserve PICA flow through retrograde flow from the left vertebral system but would perpetuate flow to the dissecting aneurysm and thus maintain the risk of rerupture. Entrapment of the lesion with proximal and distal coil embolization would protect the lesion, but antegrade flow in the PICA would be eliminated with a high risk of ischemia to the lateral medulla and cerebellum. Furthermore, it would remove a VA from the posterior circulation with unclear consequences, particularly during a period of subsequent high risk of vasospasm.
We ultimately opted to treat with the urgent placement of a flow-diverting stent (one day after initial presentation), which would with one maneuver protect the aneurysm and preserve flow through the right PICA and VA. The cell design of the stent would restore laminar flow in the native vessel, thus redirecting flow to the VA and eliminating focal turbulence that often perpetuates incompletely treated lesions. At the same time, the stent wall does not compromise flow to normal side-branching vessels (i.e., PICA). Although this is an off-label indication, we believed that it provided the best treatment solution for this patient due to the aforementioned risks of each alternative.
The patient was premedicated with a loading dose of dual antiplatelet therapy (650 mg aspirin and 600 mg clopidogrel) the day before the procedure. A 2.75 mm × 18 mm Pipeline flow-diverting stent was deployed across the dissecting aneurysm in the V4 segment of the vessel. Angiography showed slowing of flow and early partial thrombus formation in the aneurysm with preservation of flow to PICA [Figure 3]. The Pipeline stent placement was also visualized on CT [Figure 4]. To prevent stent thrombosis and potential stent- related thromboembolic complications, the patient remained on the dual antiplatelet regimen medication protocol. Repeat angiography 2 days later demonstrated further reduction in the size of the aneurysmal sac with normal PICA flow.
Figure 4:: Postprocedural computed tomography image in the coronal plane, demonstrating the course of the stent (arrow).
Postprocedure course
The patient’s course was complicated by atrial fibrillation with rapid ventricular response and pulmonary edema on the 1st postprocedure day. His neurological status improved over subsequent days of hospitalization to the point where he was awake, responsive, following commands, and moving all extremities. He was treated for rhythm control and extubated. There was no evidence of vasospasm or rebleeding at the repaired dissecting aneurysm on repeated angiography. The patient continued on a course of 325 mg aspirin and 75 mg clopidogrel daily to prevent stent thrombosis and was observed clinically to assess platelet function. There were no signs of hyper-responsiveness to antiplatelet treatment.
On the 10th postprocedure day, the patient developed a hemorrhage of the left thalamus and basal ganglia. An intraparenchymal hematoma measuring 6.7 cm × 5.7 cm × 5.5 cm was found on CT, with mass effect resulting in a 1 cm left-to-right midline shift and uncal herniation [Figure 5]. His clinical status correspondingly deteriorated. Antiplatelet therapy was withheld until the hemorrhage was stable on CT, but unfortunately, the patient did not recover and expired on day 28.
Figure 5:: Postprocedure day 10: Axial computed tomography image showing new left basal ganglia and thalamic hemorrhage with extension to the ventricular system.
The treatment of VADA illustrates the importance of carefully weighing treatment risks and benefits, taking into account multiple considerations: (1) preventing further rebleeding; (2) decreasing flow/promoting thrombosis to the aneurysm; (3) maintaining perfusion of the territory of the parent vessel; (4) maintaining perfusion of the branch vessels; (5) avoiding iatrogenic complications, for example, from use of antiplatelet or anticoagulant medications. Proposed treatment options possess unique combinations of these features. Broadly, they can be classified as deconstructive, in which the segment of the parent (vertebral) artery containing the aneurysm is excluded, thereby reducing the risk of bleeding, or reconstructive, in which the dissecting aneurysm is allowed to thrombose while maintaining normal flow through the parent artery. Surgical treatments open further possibilities, in which the PICA can be revascularized, or the aneurysmal segment can be bypassed.
The database PubMed was searched using the keywords “vertebral artery dissecting aneurysm” for articles published in the past 10 years, returning 873 articles. The articles were narrowed to English-language reports of case series of VADA. Reports of single cases were excluded. Each of these articles was read to identify whether the relationship of the aneurysm to the origin of PICA was reported. In total, 160 cases from 33 articles were identified, and their histories were reviewed [Supplementary Table 1]. The patients were comprised of 66% men and 34% women, ranging in age from 12 to 82 (median 47) years of age. Endovascular treatments utilized included deconstructive methods: proximal occlusion (20 cases) and parent artery trapping (24 cases), and reconstructive methods: conventional stent placement (12 cases), multiple stent placement (30 cases), stent-assisted coiling (38 cases), VA-PICA stent placement combined with parent artery trapping (4 cases), and flow- diverting stent placement (10 cases). Surgical treatments included surgical clipping (1 case) and various methods of bypass and revascularization (19 cases).
Nonoperative treatment
Experience in several cohorts indicates that VADA, when ruptured, is unstable and, if untreated, at high risk of rebleeding and subsequent mortality.[3,28] However, the natural history, and therefore treatment, of unruptured VADA is less clear. Avoiding endovascular or surgical treatment altogether, in that case, may be a reasonable option followed by monitoring for progression of symptoms or aneurysmal growth.[44]
Occasionally, nonoperative management has been attempted in patients presenting with ruptured VADA. Hashimoto et al. reported on a prospective cohort of 7 patients managed nonoperatively with sedation using fentanyl and blood pressure control using diltiazem or nicardipine, and none suffered from rebleeding in a mean 20-month follow-up time frame.[16] However, this strategy is fraught with risk. While stratification attempts have yielded intriguing results,[40] it remains challenging to identify patients with a low chance of rebleeding. It is therefore unsurprising that nonoperative management is rarely reported in more recent case series. Of the cases we reviewed, only one was managed nonoperatively, due to a hypoplastic contralateral VA; the eventual outcome was favorable.[39] However, given the body of evidence for a high propensity of rebleeding from untreated, ruptured VADA that threatens severe disability and death, treatment aimed at preventing these complications should take precedence.
Proximal occlusion
Endovascular and open surgical methods exist for occlusion of the VA proximal to the aneurysm. Unilateral occlusion of the VA, if it does not affect branching or perforating vessels, usually results in good neurological outcome due to the supply of the basilar artery and VA distal to the occlusion by the contralateral VA.[38] However, the degree to which this is tolerated depends on the ability of the contralateral VA to provide this perfusion, which can be compromised with arterial pathology or in a nondominant artery. Furthermore, subsequent pathology in the remaining VA is much more difficult to treat after occlusion.
In cases involving PICA, this method is particularly attractive as it can maintain patency of distal branches by retrograde flow from the distal end of the VA. Unfortunately, with proximal occlusion the aneurysm is still open to retrograde flow from the contralateral VA and perhaps the basilar artery if there were patent PCOMs, therefore maintaining the dissecting aneurysm’s ability to progress or bleed.[13,22,27,28,31] In a series of 47 patients with VADA involving PICA and treated with proximal occlusion in most cases, 21.3% experienced rebleeding or angiographic recurrence.[20] Other variations of a technique intended to address this issue, for example, occluding even more proximally in relation to the dissection,[23] also suffer from similar problems. Among the 20 cases treated with proximal occlusion reviewed here, 7 (35%) resulted in rebleeding, growth of the aneurysm, or infarction, reflecting the inadequate control of the aneurysm. Among four of these patients who presented with unruptured VADA, all had a good clinical outcome. Among the remaining 16 patients with ruptured VADA, two (12.5%) were complicated by rebleeding and death. These cases provide evidence that proximal occlusion leaves open the possibility of further aneurysm growth and rupture.
Parent artery trapping
To more definitively control the dissecting aneurysm, the VA can be occluded both proximal and distal to the aneurysm (thereby completely excluding it from the circulation). For cases in which the origin of PICA is involved or nearby the aneurysm, this procedure would also sacrifice PICA with the compromise of its territory in the absence of robust collateral flow. Another less frequently discussed risk is the loss of the VA. The nondominant VA is usually considered safe to occlude, and even the dominant VA is frequently occluded, particularly if a large PCOM is present. However, following occlusion, the posterior circulation would almost entirely depend on the contralateral VA, which may not be sufficient or may suffer from contralateral disease involvement or resulting vasospasm.
Interestingly, this procedure has been performed in some cases without ischemic complications.[30] From the Japanese Registry of Neuroendovascular Therapy 1,[36] PICA was involved in VADA in 50 cases. Of these, PICA was sacrificed in 23 and preserved in 23. Among cases in which PICA was occluded, procedural complications were reported in 34.8% of patients, and ischemic complications were reported in 21.7% patients, higher than the rate in the PICA-preserved group. The ability to withstand the loss of PICA is likely related to the quality of pial collaterals from the ipsilateral anterior inferior cerebellar artery (AICA) and superior cerebellar artery (SCA) and contralateral PICA.[21] Nonetheless, some authors have reported a high complication rate with parent artery trapping in patients with aneurysms involving PICA; in one case series, 2 of 42 in which the VADA was distal to PICA experienced medullary infarction, compared to 4 of 7 in which the VADA involved PICA.[1]
Surprisingly, in our review of 24 cases treated with parent artery trapping, only one asymptomatic infarction in the PICA territory was documented. Incomplete occlusion was found in two cases. This relative success with parent artery trapping may result from the careful selection of patients who may tolerate obliteration of PICA. While the sacrifice of PICA is possible in some cases without neurological sequelae, particularly in cases with strong collateral supply to the PICA territory, it remains difficult to predict which patients may not tolerate this procedure.
Trapping of an aneurysm involving PICA usually necessitates interrupting the antegrade flow through the branching vessel; however, multiple surgical approaches are available to revascularize PICA. PICA-PICA bypass, for example, can be performed in an elegant procedure that takes advantage of the anatomical proximity and similarity in the caliber of the two vessels.[5] Other approaches include occipital artery- PICA bypass, PICA re-implantation, or VA-PICA bypass with an interposition graft.[11]
Trapping of the aneurysm and surgical revascularization of PICA can provide immediate, definitive treatment while still preserving PICA. Among 19 cases that were reviewed, two episodes of graft occlusion were reported (one asymptomatic and one causing symptomatic cerebellar infarction). Three other instances of infarction were also noted that may not have been related to the bypass procedure. Indeed, as this treatment is sometimes reserved for patients with few other options, the population may be over-represented with patients with more complicated presentations.
While bypass is very useful as a definitive treatment with a lower risk of rebleeding compared to endovascular methods, these procedures are technically challenging and require the patient to withstand surgery and its accompanying risks.[33] Furthermore, they depend on vascular anatomy that is amenable to the anastomosis, which is not possible in all instances. Therefore, they have been typically reserved for cases not amenable to endovascular treatment, or that have failed endovascular treatment.
Traditional stents
In contrast to the deconstructive methods, stenting provides a reconstructive method that heals the aneurysm while maintaining patency of the parent artery. Stents may also support coil placement within the aneurysm that would otherwise be precluded by the lack of a distinct aneurysmal neck. Modifications to these procedures include stent placement from the contralateral VA to PICA, to maintain patency of retrograde flow; stent-assisted coiling with the distal end of the stent within PICA, to prevent occlusion of the PICA origin;[43] and placement of multiple overlapping stent methods to decrease the porosity of the stent wall and further exclude the aneurysm.[9]
Risks to conventional stenting include insufficient redirection of flow away from the aneurysmal dilatation, leading to rebleeding, or aneurysmal progression.[18] In addition, if coiling is used for the false lumen, the wall of the aneurysm is fragile and may be prone to rupture. Furthermore, the use of stents necessitates antiplatelet or anticoagulant therapy, increasing the risk of bleeding. The superiority of antiplatelet over anticoagulant therapy has been demonstrated in the interventional cardiology literature.[37] The salience of this bleeding risk further increases in patients who require an EVD, and precautions should be taken to prevent intraparenchymal bleeds. Previous studies have found a relatively high risk of recurrence; in one series, 9 of 39 (23%) patients with ruptured VADA involving PICA and treated with stent-assisted coiling experienced either rebleeding or angiographic recurrence.[45]
In the 12 patients reviewed that were treated with stent alone, aneurysm obliteration was incomplete in 8 (67%) by angiography, with one episode among these of rebleeding and death. The patient population may also have been biased toward relatively healthy patients. In the 38 patients treated with stent-assisted coiling, aneurysm obliteration was incomplete in 7 (18%) with four episodes of rebleeding and death and two episodes of cerebellar infarction. Curiously, the lack of aneurysmal obliteration did not always correspond to rebleeding; in one patient with complete obliteration, there was rebleeding, while many patients with incomplete obliteration did not experience any complications even after lengthy follow-up. Nonetheless, the high rebleeding rate suggests that stent placement is suboptimal for control of VADA.
Flow-diverting stents
The use of multiple overlapping stents offered high wall coverage and low porosity, thereby reducing blood flow to an aneurysmal dilatation while maintaining patency of the parent artery. Now, specialized stents have been designed to achieve this “flow-diverting” effect with a single device. While typical stents have wall coverage of 9–12%, flow-diverting stents may achieve wall coverage of 30–35%.[12] This decrease in flow leads to thrombosis and occlusion of the aneurysm followed by intimal remodeling and stent endothelialization that further excludes the aneurysm.
A major advantage of flow-diverting stents derives from the ability to occlude flow to the aneurysm while preserving parent artery blood flow, regardless of the fusiform shape. Furthermore, the flow-diverting stent may maintain trans- stent perfusion of branching vessels, for example, PICA,[19] with high rates of patency.[26] Despite these advantages, there is thought to be a higher risk of hemorrhagic and thromboembolic complications compared to alternative treatments, in one study with 8% symptomatic infarctions and 51% DWI changes.[41] Perforator infarction has been reported due to the high metal coverage of the stent but appears to be relatively rare.[7] The curious phenomenon of contralateral hemorrhage with no clear etiology, as our patient experienced, has also been reported occasionally,[29] and may be related to antiplatelet therapy, in which tiny vascular lesions occult to standard diagnostic imaging may hemorrhage. The rate of immediate aneurysm occlusion is poor, though it is unclear if there are any resultant increases in the risk of rebleeding. Finally, flow-diverting stents are more technically challenging to place, and procedure-related morbidity and mortality may improve as familiarity increases.[29]
Literature of flow-diverting stents, including in the posterior circulation, has accumulated only recently, and conclusions are only now starting to solidify. Among the reviewed studies, there were 30 that reported on the use of multiple overlapping stents, with only one instance of rebleeding. In addition, there were 10 cases treated using flow-diverting stents, with complications in two (stent thrombosis and occlusion, and the intraparenchymal hemorrhage in this case). Between both groups, the risk of rebleeding was only 1 in 40, and PICA was patent in all cases. However, the immediate occlusion rate was poor. These data suggest that, even though the flow-diverting stent is associated with variable degrees of angiographic improvement in the acute stage, the risk of rebleeding from the dissecting aneurysm is relatively low.
Aside from surgical trapping, other surgical approaches are occasionally used for the treatment of VADA. Surgical aneurysm clipping offers an attractive option in saccular aneurysms, providing the most physiologic restoration of normal arterial flow with broad applicability to aneurysms at the VA-PICA junction.[24] While typically less amenable to clipping compared to saccular aneurysms, dissecting or fusiform aneurysms, have occasionally been treated by methods such as clipping or wrapping, although these alternatives carry the risk of rebleeding.[25] The lower third of the posterior circulation can be accessed by variations of the lateral or far-lateral suboccipital approach.[33] However, these techniques are especially challenging for dissecting aneurysms that often have fusiform morphology and friable walls without an easily clippable neck, and the additional challenge of PICA involvement necessitating preservation of parent artery flow. Surgical approaches also carry inherent risks; in particular, for surgery at the VA/PICA junction, the incidence of lower cranial nerve injury is high.[2,25] Carefully selected patients may benefit from these surgical treatment methods, particularly when the aneurysm morphology is amenable to clipping and the perioperative risk is low.
Treatment strategy
The treatment of VADA continues to improve with new techniques, most notably the development of flow-diverting stents. However, the approach to VADA remains multifaceted and requires consideration of many variables including PICA involvement, rupture, angiographic appearance, and evidence of progression, collateral flow and VA dominance, and other patient and operator factors. The number of potential treatment options parallels these considerations. In a series of 190 patients with VA aneurysms (150 saccular and 42 fusiform), Lehto et al. described more than 20 different treatment methods used at a single institution.[25] The characteristics of a large number of imperfect surgical and endovascular options must be understood to optimize treatment.
Here, we reviewed literature for cases of VADA that involved PICA to clarify some of these points. Our study is limited by its design; as a retrospective literature review based on case series without standardized methods or inclusion criteria, the possibility for ascertainment bias, publication bias, differences in technique and skill, variable reporting standards, and other confounders inevitably confound the results. Indeed, as this is a rare entity, most of the reviewed literature consists of case series and the level of evidence is rather low. In the treatment of an individual patient, variables that cannot be controlled also factor in the response to treatment. However, the data presented point toward a general strategy for the management of this entity.
Due to the high risk of rebleeding leading to significant morbidity or mortality, the treatment of ruptured VADA must first focus on securing the aneurysm. Given the evidence presented in literature, we believe that parent artery trapping remains the most effective treatment in ruptured intracranial VADA, given sufficient distance of the aneurysm from PICA or other VA branches. Parent artery trapping has demonstrated a lower rate of rebleeding compared to proximal occlusion. The rate of immediate angiographic occlusion is also higher compared to the flow-diverting stent, which theoretically should yield better control of the vessel in the acute stage in which rebleeding is most likely. Furthermore, parent artery trapping obviates the risk of thromboembolic events from stent hardware or hemorrhage from dual antiplatelet treatment or anticoagulation. The disadvantage of trapping is the removal of one VA from the total flow of the posterior circulation. Two-thirds of patients have an incomplete circle of Willis. Thus, in view of the risk of compromise to the posterior circulation it would be important to know the total collateral circulation to the posterior circulation. Absence of one VA or qualitatively poor contribution from the anterior circulation through the PCOMs would be important factors in the selection of the treatment. The common belief that the patient can lose one VA if the other is patent is not backed by hard evidence that this assumption is true.[6]
In ruptured VADA with PICA involvement, the priority remains securing the aneurysm to prevent rebleeding and death. However, due to the risks of medullary infarction (which can range from asymptomatic to life threatening), flow-diverting stents should be considered first-line treatment. As an example, in our case, the patient appeared to have poor collateral flow to the distribution of the involved PICA and an incomplete circle of Willis, thereby disfavoring parent artery trapping. Flow-diverting stent placement was performed, with excellent immediate angiographic outcome. Published outcomes are excellent and the devices maintain patency of PICA in most cases. Care should be taken with monitoring of platelet function and special consideration for intracranial operations, for example, EVD or VP shunt placement, due to antiplatelet therapy.
In some cases, especially those with strong collaterals, the sacrifice of PICA along with the parent artery in a trapping procedure would provide more definitive treatment and should be considered. Unfortunately, the presence of collaterals and the importance of PICA are difficult to assess quantitatively. Surgical treatment with bypass methods may be considered in cases where the anatomy does not lend itself to the previously mentioned endovascular approaches and in which the patient has an acceptable risk of surgical complications.
Despite the published success with flow-diverting stents, the total experience with this treatment is still in its infancy and the complications must be better understood. The FDA- approved indications for Pipeline stenting in the United States have recently expanded to include intracranial aneurysms of the internal carotid artery (ICA) from the petrous ICA to the carotid terminus; flow diversion of the posterior circulation is, therefore, an off-label use. In addition, the optimal antiplatelet treatment strategy to prevent thromboembolic complications has not been determined. The most common regimen is preprocedural and postprocedural dual antiplatelet therapy with aspirin and clopidogrel, with discontinuation of clopidogrel and reduction of aspirin dose over time, though heterogeneity exists in the dosages used, duration of therapy, and use of platelet function testing.[15] Clopidogrel suffers from nonuniform response among patients, and therefore, the degree of platelet inhibition must be monitored. Hyporesponders and nonresponders comprise 16–50% of the population and are prone to thromboembolic complications; a smaller fraction of patients are hyperresponders and may be prone to hemorrhagic complications, although the clinical data are not definitive.[42] Alternatives to clopidogrel, including ticagrelor and prasugrel, provide a more homogeneous response across patients with a more rapid onset of action and may be used for initial treatment or more commonly, in clopidogrel nonresponders.[4] Likewise, platelet function tests (such as light transmission aggregometry, impedance whole blood aggregometry, and the VerifyNow P2Y12 assay) may help guide antiplatelet treatment, but there exists uncertainty regarding the precision of the result and superiority over clinical observation in both the neuroendovascular and percutaneous coronary intervention literature.[8,15,42] In the reported case, the Pipeline stent resulted in initial improvement and angiographic resolution. Subsequently, the patient developed a massive contralateral intraparenchymal hemorrhage that unfortunately led to death, even with precautions regarding intracranial instrumentation. While reported infrequently in literature, the optimal strategies for identification of at-risk patients and titration of antiplatelet therapy are still being clarified; more experience with flow diversion is needed. In the meantime, flow-diverting stents appear to be a promising solution at present for a condition with no ideal treatment options.
These guidelines provide a framework for considering the treatment options for ruptured, intracranial VADA, particularly involving PICA. However, uncertainty continues to surround the treatment of this precarious condition. The collateral flow of PICA and the competency of the contralateral VA are difficult to quantify precisely, and therefore the operative risk of ischemia to these important arterial distributions can only be approximated. Furthermore, the success of treatment (as measured by immediate angiography) does not seem to be highly correlated with the durability of outcome, in instances of using conventional and flow-diverting stents. Efforts in identifying predictors of clinical outcome and treatment complications will be important to determine the optimal treatment option for individual patients.
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After the stunning success of Cavalli’s Giasone in December 2013 and already into its second decade of uncompromisingly superb productions, Pinchgut Opera presents its first ever mid-winter production, The Chimney Sweep (Der Rauchfangkehrer) by Antonio Salieri.
Conducted once more by the electrifying Erin Helyard, and directed by Mark Gaal, Pinchgut audiences again have the opportunity to hear a rarely performed opera in its Australian premiere. Pinchgut says “For those whose knowledge of Salieri comes from the excellent film Amadeus, Pinchgut is compelled to report that much of the story in the film is nonsense. Mozart’s murderer? Pah! Pinchgut’s production of The Chimney Sweep will restore Salieri’s good name, and his music! “
With libretto by Leopold Auenbrugger and performed in the vernacular, Salieri’s opera tells the tale of an Italian chimney sweep who seduces the women of the household in which he works, in order to bargain for his future. Pinchgut Opera promises “a sexy, fun comedy, filled with characters all shamelessly indulging their appetites…..Bribery and blackmail, anarchic domestic affairs, and venality reign. But most of all, more wonderful music from the 18th century that you’ve probably never heard before.”
Stuart Haycock: Volpino/ Amelia Farrugia: Frau Habicht/ Alexandra Oomens: Leisel/ Janet Todd: Fraulein Nannette/
David Woloszko: Herr Bär/ Christopher Saunders: Herr Wolf/ David Hidden: Tomasso.
Conductor: Erin Helyard/Director: Mark Gaal/ Designer: Emma Kingsbury/ Lighting: Luiz Pampolha/ Orchestra of the Antipodes.
Tickets: www.cityrecitalhall.com or call (02) 8256 2222
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CESTUI QUE TRUST.
What is CESTUI QUE TRUST?
He who has a right to a beneficial interest in and out of an estate the legal title to which is vested in another.
2 Waslib. Real Prop. 163.
The person who possesses the equitable right to property and receives the rents, issues, and profits thereof, the legal estate of which is vested in a trustee.
It has been proposed to substitute for this uncouth term the English word “beneficiary,” and the latter, though still far from universally adopted, has come to be quite frequently used.
It is equal in precision to the antiquated and unwieldy Norman phrase, and far better adapted to the genius of our language.
The cestui que trust is the person entitled to an equitable, as opposed to a legal, estate in the trust assets.
Thus, if land is granted to A, for the use of B while in trust, with remainder to C when the trust terminates, A is the trustee, B is cestui que use, and C the cestui que trust.
Beneficiary (trust)
Trusts are created only upon the conveyance of property and can exist only as long as there is value in the trust.
The alleged property is we men and women whom they have deemed to be incompetent, dead, abandoned, lost, bankrupts, or minors, but that is an illusion so, if we claim our body, then we collapse the presumption that the trust has value.
They are operating in fraud––something we’ve always known, but now we know how they do it.
Our having exposed their fraud gives them only three options:
They can dissolve the CQV trust––the one for which the clerk of the court is trustee and from which s/he created a constructive trust––the case––for which s/he appointed the judge and prosecutor titles which hold temporary liability––trustee and executor, respectively.
But they cannot dissolve the CQV or the entire global system will collapse because they cannot exist without our energy which they obtain via that CQV trust.
They can enforce the existing rules of trust law which means, as trustee, they can set-off their debt and leave us alone.
Now they know that we are onto their fraud and every time they go into court to administer a trust account, they will not know if we are the one who will send them to jail.
The trustee (judge) is the liable party who will go to jail, and the executor (prosecutor) is the one who enforces this.
This is why they want us to take on both titles, because then, not only do we go to jail but also, by signing their paper, we become executor and enforce our own sentence.
They cannot afford to violate the ecclesiastical canon laws, out of fear of ending their careers, so they are, again, trapped with no place to run.
They can dismiss the cases before they even take the risk of our exposing their fraud …. which also makes no sense because then their careers, again, come to a screeching halt.
History in German and Roman law.
It is the opinion of William Holdsworth quoting such scholars as Gilbert, Sanders, Blackstone, Spence and Digby, that cestui que in English law had a Roman origin.
An analogy exists between cestui que uses and a usufructus (usufruct) or the bequest of a fideicommissum.
These all tended to create a feoffement to one person for the use of another.
Gilbert writes, (also seen in Blackstone): “that they answer more to the fideicommissum than the usufructus of the civil law.”
These were transplanted into England from Roman civil law about the close of the reign of Edward III of England by means of foreign ecclesiastics who introduced them to evade the Statute of Mortmain.
Others argue that the comparison between cestui que and Roman law is merely superficial.
The transfer of land for the use of one person for certain purposes to be carried out either in the lifetime or after the death of the person conveying it has its basis in Germanic law.
It was popularly held that land could be transferred for the use from one person to another in local custom.
The formal English or Saxon law didn’t always recognize this custom.
The practice was called Salman or Treuhand. Sala is German for “transfer”.
It is related to the Old English sellen, “to sell”.
The earliest appearance of cestui que in the medieval period was the feoffee to uses, which like the Salman, held on account of another.
This was called the cestui que use.
It was because the feoffor could impose on him many various duties that landowners acquired through his instrumentality the power to do many things with their land.
This was a to avoid the rigidity of medieval common law of land and its uses.
Germanic law was familiar with the idea that a man who holds property on account of, or to the use of another is bound to fulfill his trust.
Frankish formulas from the Merovingian period describe property given to a church ad opus sancti illius.
Mercian books in the ninth century convey land ad opus monachorum.
The Domesday Book refers to geld or money, sac and soc held in ad opus regus, or in reginae or vicecomitis.
The laws of William I of England speak of the sheriff holding money al os le rei (“for the use of the king”).
Canon law 2057
Any Administrator or Executor that refuses to immediately dissolve a Cestui Que (Vie) Trust, upon a Person establishing their status and competency, is guilty of fraud and fundamental breach of their fiduciary duties requiring their immediate removal and punishment.
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Find any city in America with a booming job market and affordable rent prices, and you’ll find a seemingly endless stream of young Millennials in search of the perfect place to live. Enter Alec Slocum: The CEO and cofounder at ABODO Apartments, an online apartment marketplace designed to help college students find their next off-campus rental.
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“We were on the fence about joining an accelerator, but we’d built a rapidly growing business in Madison and wanted to learn sooner rather than later how effectively it could be scaled. We needed funding. But we also needed access to experienced networks so that our fundraising and scaling processes would be efficient. And gener8tor’s hands-on mentorship approach was perfect for us.”
Talk about the application process and what you learned during that time. How did you get in the door?
“Funny story. I was working at a coworking space in downtown Madison, and just happened — really, this was not planned — to find myself taking an elevator up to the 8th floor with gener8r co-founder Joe Kirgues, who was coming in to do a presentation. The doors opened, the doors closed, and I actually made an elevator pitch. Joe liked the vision behind our company and got us onboard.”
Talk about the benefits of joining a corporate accelerator. Describe what you gained, knowledge, mentorship, etc.
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"The ownership right will be of government of India. That right of trade he can trade with someone else fully between two service providers," Prasad said.
NEW D ELHI: The government has allowed telcos to trade airwaves, a move that could ease the financial stress on some operators, allow others to add bandwidth and improve the quality of services in the world’s secondlargest telecom market.
However, the industry and experts say that clauses on adding deal proceeds to annual revenue — which would push up payments to the government — as well tight spectrum-holding limits could dampen trading.
"While this is helpful to the industry and something which it has sought, issues like spectrum caps, double taxation and administrative spectrum stepup in pricing will not make it a game-changer," said Rajan Mathews, director general of the Cellular Operators Association of India, which represents top telcos including Bharti Airtel, Vodafone and Idea Cellular.
Telecom minister Ravi Shankar Prasad defended the trading rules and said the government had set up a panel to reconsider spectrum-holding limits set for service areas and specific bands.
Speaking to ET, Prasad said the cabinet’s decision was in line with the government’s steps to liberalise the use and sale of natural resources towards growth and development. "We have facilitated the sale and purchase of airwaves by removing the obligation for buyers and sellers to take prior permission. This provides an exit route for those aren’t able to use it and a way for operators to buy airwaves any time they require it," he said.
Trading will allow operators to monetise their assets and reduce debt, thus helping the industry overall, said Prashant Singhal, global lead for telecom at EY.
The much-awaited trading rules, coupled with the recently announced spectrum-sharing norms, will pave the way for consolidation in the fragmented telecom industry, which has as many as 10 operators in some circles, keeping calling rates at record lows and hurting the financials of telcos. Moneyed operators such as Bharti Airtel, Vodafone, Idea, Uninor and newcomer Reliance Jio Infocomm can add to their spectrum holdings while others including Reliance Communications (RCOM), Aircel and Tata Teleservices can monetise their unused airwaves.
The announcement saw immediate movement on possible deals, with sources telling ET that Mukesh Ambani-owned Reliance Jio Infocomm and Reliance Communications, owned by younger brother Anil Ambani, are set to sign a pan-India sharing and trading deal next week.
RCOM’s stock ended the day 11.6 per cent higher at Rs 62.20, outpacing a 1.6 per cent increase in the benchmark Sensex. Bharti Airtel closed 2.4 per cent higher while Idea gained 2.1 per cent.
Videocon Telecom CEO Arvind Bali said the company is likely to finalise airwave sharing and trading pacts shortly with at least two mobile operators, including a leading European carrier.
The potential pact with the leading European incumbent is planned in Madhya Pradesh, Haryana and Gujarat to offer a combination of 4G and 2G voice services, while the other possible deal is for 4G services in Gujarat, Bihar, UP-West and UPEast, Bali said.
In the absence of an M&A policy, spectrum trading provides an exit route for financially stressed mobile operators saddled with unused airwaves. Coupled with spectrum sharing, trading allows operators to boost their spectrum holdings without having to bid for them at auctions. Consumers will benefit as higher airwave holdings are key to providing a better quality of services.
The government on Wednesday allowed spectrum trading between two telcos in all bands, but only two years after the airwaves have been assigned, won in an auction or received through a deal. An operator wanting to sell spectrum that was allocated by the government needs to convert it into tradable airwaves by paying a market price to the government. A non-refundable transfer fee of 1 per cent of the deal value or of the prescribed market price, whichever is higher, will be imposed on all trading pacts.
Industry officials noted two clauses that could sour trading deals – spectrum-holding limits and the addition of the proceeds from trading in airwaves to the adjusted gross revenue, on which basis a telco pays spectrum usage charges and licence fees annually. A pool of airwaves formed after sharing and trading cannot exceed 25 per cent of the entire spectrum allocated in a circle and 50 per cent of the airwaves in the particular band.
A top official at a leading telecom operator said the revenue clause "could stymie a lot of trading deals as the industry already coughs up a lot as licence and usage charges."
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The revenue provision "could prove to be deterrent to trading as this effectively entails a 13 per cent levy —licence fee (8 per cent) and SUC (5 per cent) — for the seller. This ultimately results in double taxation for the industry, which is already subjected to about 30 per cent in taxes and levies and is reeling under huge debt levels," Singhal of EY said.
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Pesaḥim 82a-b: Destroying a Sacrifice
The Mishna on our daf teaches that a korban Pesah that becomes invalid because it was taken out of Jerusalem or became tameh (ritually defiled) must be destroyed immediately on the 14th of Nisan. If, however, the sacrifice remained valid, but an outside problem will keep it from being eaten – e.g. all the people scheduled to eat it became tameh or died – the korban is left overnight and is only burned on the 16th of Nisan, after the first day of Yom Tov is over. Rabbi Yohanan ben Beroka disagrees and rules that even in the latter case the korban is destroyed immediately.
In an attempt to find the source for how to deal with kodashim (sanctified items) that have become unusable, the Gemara suggests an obvious story that bears great similarity to our case.
In Sefer Vayikra (chapter 10) we learn about two of Aharon’s sons, Nadav and Avihu, who bring an esh zara – a strange fire – in the Mishkan and are killed by a heavenly fire. Aharon and his other children cannot eat the sin-offering and it is burned, a ruling that is questioned by Moshe, but defended by Aharon (see Vayikra 10:16-20).
The Gemara decides that that case cannot be used as a proof-text for two reasons:
1. ma’ase she-haya – it is a story that happened that way.
And the sin-offering of Aaron that was burned on the eighth day of inauguration was mentioned only because the incident that took place, took place in this way. It was not mentioned in order to teach the halakhot of offerings.
Generally speaking, a passage from the Torah that deals with a point of law is carefully examined and analyzed. A story that appears in the Torah as narrative, however, is treated differently. Sometimes the Gemara simply concludes that we cannot learn from that story.
2. hora’at sha’a – it is an emergency measure.
This expression is used to describe several cases in which we find something described in the Torah that clearly deviates from what we know to be the accepted law. In such cases, an instruction may have been given to the Jewish People that directed the behavior at that particular time, but it is one that cannot be understood to impact on the halakha over the long-term. We find that the Sages also invoked this rule when a given situation demanded that a ruling be given that was more stringent – or more lenient – than usual. Under certain, limited, circumstances the Sages will even quote the passage et la’asot la-Shem heferu Toratekha (Tehillim 119:126) – that there are times that doing God’s will involves breaking the rules of the Torah.
This essay is based upon the insights and chidushim of Rabbi Steinsaltz, as published in the English version of the Koren Talmud Bavli with Commentary by Rabbi Adin Steinsaltz, and edited and adapted by Rabbi Shalom Berger.
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Over-Due Theatre’s ‘Godspell’ Loaded with Talent
old_2pap4y March 19, 2018 No Comments Bekah HarbisonBen SevillaBrittany Kohl HesterChristopher StrawhunDennis FolwarcznyEleanor Inez HumphreyGodspellJennifer KernerJohn-Michael TebelakLaura DevaneyMacLean BannerMichael BlackwoodOver Due Theatre CompanySarah PolizziShane RudolphStephen SchwartzWayne Mackenberg
With its high-energy and stacked-with-talent cast, Over Due Theatre Company’s production of “Godspell” blew the roof off the Olivette Community Center.
This is not your run-of-the-mill church-friendly “Godspell.” This must-see show is full of jaw-dropping performances, with the cast displaying their tremendous vocal power from the start, setting the standard in the opening Prologue “Tower of Babble,” which went into “Prepare Ye the Way of the Lord.”
The nearly a cappella opening grabbed me immediately and the ensemble continued to impress, soaring through the Stephen Schwartz score with their four-part or more harmonies, control and clear, pure vocals.
The five-piece pit band, led by music director Michael Blackwood, smoothly complemented the cast’s pitch-perfect sound, which filled the auditorium.
“Godspell” has been an audience favorite since its off-Broadway debut in 1971, and 40 years later, a Broadway revival included “Beautiful City,” a song from the film, and took advantage of newer technology.
Over Due used the 2012 revival version, which offers a similar modern take on the parables from the playwright’s source – the Gospel according to St. Matthew. John-Michael Tebelak wrote the spoken parts of the original.
Co-directors Bekah Harbison and Wayne Mackenberg emphasized modern technology, adding social media and incorporating “Selfies,” which were projected onto a screen. Music videos were fun and effective visual aides.
The screens helped make the funny moments better and amplified the meaning behind the more crucial and important messages the show delivered.
Benjamin Sevilla was an effective Jesus and preached amiably to everybody – on stage and in attendance. He led the cast through parables that taught lessons of unselfishness and purity of the heart. In “Save The People” his voice, paired with the band, set the pace for both himself and the rest of the first act.
The ensemble was a tight-knit group who clicked together, and they each had their moment to shine. MacLean Banner showed such strength in “Day By Day” while Sarah Polizzi showed off her comedic skills, getting riled up often before she spoke.
Dennis Folwarczny’s deep, booming voice was well-suited for the dual role of John the Baptist and Judas, which stood out and made a positive mark when the traditionally softer tune “On the Willows” became a forceful hymn that was felt just as much as it was heard.
The show’s tech work was solid, as every word could be heard, and they kept the vocals in check with the orchestra, which was loud at times. The lighting, designed by Ryan Young, played a big role in punching up more upbeat songs and setting the mood.
The cast’s collective level of talent was outstanding, making this “Godspell” one to remember.
Over Due Theatre Company presented “Godspell” March 9-11 and 16-18 at the Olivette Community Center. For tickets or more information, visit overduetheatrecompany.com
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Setien breaks silence after Barcelona humiliated by Bayern in Champions League
Quique Setien admitted Barcelona's 8-2 Champions League defeat to Bayern Munich "will cause a lot of damage" as he faced up to the prospect of being sacked as head coach.
Barca president Josep Maria Bartomeu promised changes in the coming week following the club's humiliating quarter-final exit – saying "some decisions have already been thought of".
His comments were widely interpreted as indicating the end for Setien, with former Barca star Xavi and ex-Tottenham boss Mauricio Pochettino among the names rumoured to be in the frame to replace the 61-year-old.
And Setien appeared resigned to his fate as he spoke after Friday's game, during which Bayern had raced to a 4-1 lead by half-time before inflicting one of Barcelona's worst European defeats.
"Right now we feel enormous frustration and all we can do is make conclusions and think about the future," Setien told reporters, in quotes reported by Mail Online.
"Barca is a club that is so great that this will cause us a lot of damage and obviously some things will have to change. The truth is this is a tremendously painful defeat."
Setien admitted his future as head coach was out of his hands following "a humiliating and painful defeat".
He said: " Barcelona want to recover their identity.
"Right now, it's too soon to think about whether I will stay or not. It doesn't depend on me.
"We have to reflect, taking the situation into account and the importance that such a humiliating and painful defeat means.
"I'm hurt, evidently, by such a hefty defeat. The way it came about has been tremendously painful.
"I'm not worried about my future right now, but a defeat that is very painful for the club and the fans."
Setien, who took charge in January after Ernesto Valverde was sacked, acknowledged that exiting the Champions League in such an embarrassing manner wouldn't be countenanced by Barca fans following a season without silverware.
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"I know what a defeat of this calibre means," the Spaniard said.
"We have to analyse what happened today from a bigger perspective. I know that the credibility of a coach diminishes when something like this happens. This isn't what worries me at the moment.
"We have to accept the defeat how it is. We were beaten by a very good team.
"Apart from the first few minutes, they were clearly better than us for the rest of the game."
Setien was also asked about Gerard Pique 's comments, after the veteran centre-back sensationally offered to quit Barcelona following the defeat.
A tearful Pique, who has been at Barcelona since 2008, said: “We have hit rock bottom. If I have to leave for new blood to come, I will leave.
"We do not compete in Europe or the league. The club needs changes of all kinds.”
Setien admitted Pique's assessment was significant, saying: "This reflection from a player that has been here his whole life indicates something."
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Bartomeu said after the game that decisions needed to be made following the humiliating defeat.
"It's been a disaster, and now it's time to take some decisions," said Bartomeu to Movistar, in quotes translated for Barcelona's English language Twitter page.
"Some of them we've already thought about. We need to take these decisions, and there's some others that we have to take now."
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Champagnole Septmoncel
Type Hilly
Climbing +2,710 m
Stage 1 Stage 3
Septmoncel
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GPM - Côte de Châtelneuf (Cat. 4)
GPM - Côte de Frasnois (Cat. 4)
Sprint - Saint-Maurice-Crillat
GPM - Col de la Joux (Cat. 3)
1er Passage sur la ligne d'arrivée - Septmoncel
GPM - Côte de la Combe du Lac (Cat. 3)
2nd Passage sur la ligne d'arrivée - Septmoncel
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Video Summary
The town of Champagnole, gateway to the Haut-Jura, is ideally situated, by its central geographical position, between vineyards, the region of lakes and waterfalls and the first reliefs of the mountain range.
Champagnole, crossed by the river Ain, surrounded by forests, dominated by the Mont-Rivel (812 m), is truly in a privileged environment. The town is also characterized by its pleasant living environment and its commercial, economic and associative dynamism.
A sporty, attractive, lively town, Champagnole knows how to create the event but also how to welcome it.
Champagnole loves cycling: after the stage starts of the Tour de l’Avenir in 2011, 2013 and 2015, the riders will set off again from the Jura town, one month before the finish of the Tour de France.
Welcome to the riders of the Tour de l’Avenir, in the heart of the Jura.
The Jura Department.
Naturally hilly, the Jura department is a real paradise for cycling and more generally for nature activities in summer and winter. The diversity of its landscapes, from the wetlands of the Bresse Jurassienne to the wide open spaces of the Haut-Jura at an altitude of more than 1200 m, via the remote vineyards and the emerald lakes of the Pays des Lacs, make it a must-see destination for all lovers of nature and freshness.
The second stage of the Tour de l’Avenir will start from the town of Champagnole, a real link between the Lake District, the Haut-Jura and the vineyards. Through the pastures, forests and typical valleys of the Haut-Jura Regional Nature Park, the emblematic sites of the region can be admired, such as the Billaude waterfall, the 7 Lakes plateau and the Hérisson Valley (Grand Site de France in the making), or the Bonlieu Lake. After the ascent of the Col de la Joux, the Haut-Jura unveils its most beautiful landscapes, the valley of the Bienne, Saint-Claude, the laces of Septmoncel and its Gendarme’s Hat or the Lake of Lamoura and the Hautes-Combes offering a breathtaking view of the Jura Mountains.
All of which is enough to fully appreciate this beautiful stopover, a true compendium of preserved nature, panoramas, authenticity and delicacies offered by the cheese and fruit dairies of Comté du Jura! All the more reason to climb a little higher and appreciate the Jura as we like it…
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Septmoncel les Molunes is a mountain commune of 853 inhabitants in the heart of the southern Haut Jura, located 10 km above Saint Claude and 50 km from Geneva.
Home of Désiré DALLOZ, famous jurisconsult, the village is part of the Regional Natural Park of the Haut Jura and of the community of communes “Haut Jura Saint Claude”.
Offering picturesque landscapes, a classified site of the Flumen valley and the famous anticline “Le Chapeau de gendarme”, this vast territory of more than 4000 hectares with strong decline (from 448 m to 1330 m of altitude) is very frequented by the hikers who come to take advantage of the thematic paths of the 7 belevédères . In winter, the Nordic area of the Hautes Combes is ideal for cross-country skiing.
The lapidary, i.e. the cutting and polishing of coloured stones, is part of the industrial history of the municipality.
This mountainous territory, with not very fertile soil and a harsh climate is also the origin of the “Bleu”, “Le Septmoncel”, very well known under the name of “Bleu de Gex” but whose AOC is “Bleu de Gex – Haut Jura – Septmoncel”.
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Alpes Vélo is the technical and commercial operator of the Tour de l'Avenir. ASO, organizer of the Tour de France, contributes technical and human resources to the sporting success of the event. Alpes Vélo also organises the Tour de l'Ain. © 2021 Alpes Vélo. All rights reserved. Website by
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The Poison Flood
Jordan Farmer
"A near-Shakespearean snarl, a mad, seven-day action crucible set in the West Virginia wild...The Poison Flood is an ambitious saga, cockamamie and passionate. Through Hollis, Farmer produces a pocket Hillbilly manifesto."--Atlanta Journal Constitution
A captivating, gritty, and tender story of a reclusive musician and the local disaster that threatens his small town and changes his life forever.
Hollis Bragg lives on the fringes. The hunchbacked son of a West Virginia hill preacher, he now resides in rural isolation next to the burned-out husk of his father's church, and earns his living ghostwriting songs for a popular band that left the poverty and corruption of Appalachia and never looked back. It's the life he prefers, free from the harsh glare of the spotlight and attachments that lead only to heartbreak.
Then, much to his consternation, he's discovered by Russell Watson, a local musician and fan who also happens to be the rebellious son of the local chemical company magnate. When a devastating toxic spill at the Watson chemical plant poisons the local water, it sets off an unpredictable series of events as Hollis witnesses a murder, faces a shocking betrayal, and begins to come to terms with his body and his past. Soon Hollis will find that in losing his anonymity and reclaiming his music, he can transform his future; and in opening himself up to the world, he might find redemption.
Jordan Farmer:
Jordan Farmer was born and raised in a small West Virginia town, population approximately two thousand. He earned his MA from Marshall University and his Ph.D. at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.
Publisher Name Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group
Imprint Penguin Audio
Fiction & Literature » Fiction: general & literary
Fiction & Literature » Mystery & Suspense
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13.0 available
13.0 is now available. In addition to the new changes introduced overall, Tobias demonstrated that the browser can stand up and run with -mdynamic-no-pic, which disables position-independent code in the executable and the dylibs. For those unfamiliar with PIC, it allows libraries to move around in memory, but requires a level of indirection because instead of directly calling a routine you must call a PIC stub, which does the actual call. Since TenFourFox is the only app using its own internal libraries, and only one instance can run at a given time (except for certain unusual circumstances), this is entirely acceptable and improves the browser's smoothness a fair degree. This won't translate much into benchmark changes (most benchmarks including Peacekeeper are disproportionately swayed by our JavaScript JIT, which already generates code finalized to memory address), but the browser will feel a bit more responsive, and that's good. Because we don't know how this will behave completely yet, the change will not be backported to stable. However, even with binary extensions I have no reason to believe that this will cause any major issue; Tobias has been using such a build, and I've been running 13 with it on both my quad G5 and the Luxo G4.
A lingering bug is bug 757262, probably caused by a significant change in plugin architecture in bug 90268. Let me reiterate that plugins are still not supported, and even 10.5 is having some serious problems with plugin architecture that will probably cause our deprecated plugin support to stop working completely after 10.5 support is removed from Firefox. Nevertheless, if you are bitten by this bug (i.e., the plugin you enabled "against medical advice" fails to shut down when a tab is closed), you are encouraged to follow up in that bug. Don't report it here. Mozilla has decided not to respin since the proposed fix is speculative and no one has proven it works because the manifestation is maddeningly uneven.
This version also fixes the last of the graphical glitches with Azure (mostly issues with CTGradient), puts WebM back to single threaded (not ported to stable either), and fixes the endian problem with WOFF fonts. Smooth scrolling is disabled by default, only enabled for those who previously had it enabled; that's the only new difference between Fx13 and us. Remember, the change in how graphics are painted will affect how the browser reportedly acts, but does appear to be an overall win. We can expect the graphics stack and painting operations to change further as Mozilla tries to wring more efficiency out; most of this is likely to land in the Fx15/16 timeframe.
Some odds and ends. As a followup to our security on Power Macs post, Sophos has a list of viruses and malware listed by OS X version and architecture. Although an alarming number will work on PPC, all of those PPC-capable or Universal malware packages appear to be trojans, so you have to run them; none of the listed compatible attacks can be mounted without user assistance. The trick is to make sure you are not caused to receive them by a drive-by download, let alone execute them, and again, your browser can be a great help (or a horribly effective vector) with such software. Scriptable components like Flash and Java can be caused to download such software under false pretenses if their sandbox protections are subverted -- that is exactly the vector that Flashback used -- and it's yet another reason we need to leave those in the dust.
We are starting to deploy official localizations for German, French and Polish. There is an existing Japanese language pack, but so far they have indicated they would prefer to maintain it separately, and we have not yet heard back from our Chinese (zh-TW) translator. Chris is coordinating our l10n/i18n efforts. Please test these (they are only compatible with 10.0.x) and ensure they work to your satisfaction; I plan to roll these out with 10.0.5. Langpacks will not be offered for unstable branch to reduce load on our localizers.
WebGL nerds will want to look at bug 684882. While looking at 10.5 bugs to determine what we would need to backport in a 10.5-less future, comments 16, 37 and maybe 75 imply what needs to be fixed to enable WebGL and/or OpenGL acceleration on Leopard. I won't be doing this here on 10.4Fx because 10.4 doesn't support OpenGL 2.0 at all, so that's that, but those of you working on Leopard-specific ports including AuroraFox may wish to see if this gives you some pointers. Disabling texture minification appears to be the trick (but it has to be disabled completely) and a putative patch is in comment 16 in that bug. Obviously it will only work on those handful of cards and configurations where OpenGL 2.0 is operational, so this will only benefit a minority of Leopard users with a minority of configurations.
Finally, I am watching Mozilla's progress on Australis, the new Firefox UI. Some of the prerequisites for how the tab bar is to be drawn and designed (bug 625989 and dependencies) have me somewhat worried that there may be no good equivalents on 10.4, and a few comments imply that even 10.5 may have issues with it. It is entirely possible that Australis will land after 10.5 support in Firefox ends (we still don't know when this will be), and if it does, it is guaranteed Mozilla will use 10.6+ APIs of which some are almost certain not to have an effective or extant 10.4 equivalent. As we dropped visual parity with Firefox in 8.0, if it came to that, we would simply just not implement Australis and block installable themes that depend on it.
10.0.5 is holding for some last-minute landings; I aim to have it ready by Friday or Saturday. In the meantime, release notes and architecture builds:
13.0 changesets available
13.0 is now in the beta channel and I am typing this blog post in it. The new Blogger is still freaking treacle in January; I'd switch to Wordpress or something else, but Google still owes me some ad buxx and this is where people expect to find this blog, so I just turn the G5 up to Highest performance and type away.
The biggest change people will notice in Firefox 13 (and TenFourFox 13) is bug 598482. This greatly reworks how the graphics stack handles updates by almost totally eliminating the ability to have synchronous painting of the window, and instead connects everything up to the central refresh timer so that paints are batched and executed asynchronously. The result is some noticeable improvements in benchmarks because the browser is doing less unnecessary work (Peacekeeper increases to almost 660 on my quad G5), but there's occasionally a tiny lag in the UI because there is no way to trigger a synchronous paint anymore in the widget library. We notice this more because our title bar is drawn differently than Firefox's is (they use CoreUI; we use CoreGraphics to do it "by hand"); our titlebar is still drawn synchronously, so it appears first, but the rest of the window repaints at a random brief interval after when the refresh driver wakes up. Like most such title bar irregularities, using a Persona fixes it. A definitive fix is simply to rework the theme and the way we draw chrome completely, and I plan to (issue 16), but I'll talk more about that at the end. I expect graphics performance to improve further when bug 539356 lands.
13 also enables SPDY by default. Not many sites are using SPDY; as of this writing the only two big ones were Google and Twitter. SPDY improves network throughput, and it does seem to for us as well, but most of the overhead of rendering Google and Twitter isn't the network, so it's not really much different. There is no way to tell from the browser whether the site supports SPDY, btw; there are a few add-ons that will report the status if you're curious, but since functionally it doesn't differ any from SSL, I don't really see the point.
Another important user-facing feature is that tabs-refresh-on-demand is now default (so that tabs saved from previous sessions only load when you actually go to that tab instead of eighty tabs trying to squeeze out of your DSL line when you start the browser), and the new tab page. I actually don't care much for the new tab page -- it reminds me too much of Safari's, which I didn't like either -- but you can move things around and pin them, and you can also turn it off by clicking the little cube icon at the upper right.
Mozilla made two changes in 13 that I turned off. The first one is enabling smooth scroll by default: this is too slow on all but very simple sites, even on the G5; I might reconsider this after bug 702463. If you already have it enabled, of course, then it is still enabled. The second change they made was to compile everything with -ffunction-sections -fdata-sections, which is ostensibly to help trim binary fat, but caused an approximate 5% regression in just about every benchmark I test with and the small savings in code size are not worth it, so that's backed out too.
In other local changes, I landed a temporary endian fix for WOFF downloadable fonts (so Acid3 works again), and also removed our hack to make WebM decoding multi-threaded because Mozilla's testing seemed to imply it actually makes the current video pipeline slower. (This is not true of 10, so it will remain in the stable branch.)
While binaries for 13 are not yet ready, a number of you have asked for advance changesets to build your own or to play with them, and I will start making them available with this release; here you go.
I have my four eyes on two things in Mountain View. The first is, of course, IonMonkey, the new JavaScript engine. It is now to the point where the browser can allegedly stand up with it, but there are a number of tests that do not pass, and the engine is still not in mozilla-central. Reading the patches, it looks like IM will initially be paired with methodjit+TI ("JM+TI" -- the current JavaScript JIT in Firefox that we also use) in the same way that JM+TI was paired with the old tracejit (r.i.p.), so we should be able to just turn Ion off to start with and thus buy some time to get it working. Tracejit was fully functional for five entire releases (4 through 9), so we can assume we will have a similar grace period to get up to date. Unfortunately, even when IM eventually passes all the tests, benchmark results as of this writing show it's way behind Google V8 and even behind JM+TI, so it is very unlikely to be actually in the tree much before 17 or 18.
The second thing afoot is that Mozilla has started to float ending support for 10.5 again; recall that this was already circulated for the 13 timeframe, but that has obviously already come and gone as mozilla-central is currently on 15. While I still hold that Mozilla killed 10.4 and PPC support way too soon, they have supported 10.5 far longer than I thought they would, and their case is strengthened by Google planning to drop Chrome and Chromium support for 10.5 by "version" 22 -- note that Chromium hasn't been able to actually build on 10.5 for almost a year already.
The current proposal is that Mozilla would end 10.5 support for Firefox 16, but I'd prefer them to end it for 18 so that 17ESR still has 10.5 support in it and we can still use it as a dependable stable release. Since dropping 10.5 means losing a lot of legacy code we depend on (and a lot more work to merge), for 17 we would spin our current widget and theme libraries into Tiger-specific directories separate from Mozilla's code and maintain them independently. We would have to backport some changes required by the cross-platform portion of Firefox as it evolves, but it would be less work than the other way, and it also puts us in a better position for when 10.6 support ends as well because 10.7 has runtime and system requirements we will not be able to emulate. With our widget and theme thus separate from the mainline, I can finally rework how they are drawn, and I am strongly considering using brushed metal to work in better with the OS rather than the slight gradient we use now (remember that we haven't been at visual parity with Firefox since 8.0; if Australis imposed system requirements we would not be able to meet, under this scheme we could simply drop it entirely and continue to develop what we have). If Mozilla ignores us and decides to drop 10.5 in 16 anyway, I may accelerate this timetable. It's not a killer, but it may require us to fall away from them sooner.
10.0.5 and 13 binaries will probably be available in a week or two.
The security blanket blues
Briefly before the main piece, it seems that Fx 12 was not one of Mozilla's finer moments. Besides our broken web fonts, which was an endianness issue introduced by Google and picked up by Mozilla downstream, there was a rather nasty regression in JavaScript causing many scripts to run incorrectly and several other QA issues. I am hoping Mozilla fixes these in the 13 cycle, but many of the important fixes have not landed yet. It may be even later than beta 3, but that's when I plan to start the port regardless.
Also, Mozilla changed the login system for Builder.AMO, on which the QuickTime Enabler was stored, and now I can't get back in. I can recover the code, but this sucks, and we may need to rebuild against a new Add-on SDK anyway due to memory improvements landed for Fx15. So, for the time being, the QTE will remain at the same version for the lifetime of 10, and I will work on rebuilding it in the Fx15 timeframe against the new SDK.
Anyway, security. A recent piece in Computerworld gives the chilling statistic that half of all Macs will no longer be receiving security updates by this summer, assuming that Apple continues their current trend of ending security updates for version n-0.2 when version n comes out (so 10.6 ended updates for 10.4; 10.7 ended them for 10.5; 10.8 will end them for 10.6). Considering Microsoft is still supporting Windows XP, admittedly unwillingly, this seems pretty lousy behaviour.
In particular, this thinly disguised attempt at maximizing hardware sales screws those Intel Macs that can't be updated to 10.7 (or those of us that realize the utter trainwreck that is Lion and/or still need Rosetta), but in PowerPC land, even if Tim Cook grew the conscience for his userbase his predecessor never had, we can assume Apple doesn't give a flying cancerous pancreas about us. PPC is dead technology to Cupertino and that's that.
Because one of the goals for TenFourFox is security -- and security is the goal for Classilla, which if I grow an extra pair of hands might allow me to complete the security audit by the American Tricentennial -- I think it's worth a blog post to talk about exactly what security issues Power Mac users face. Both 10.4 and 10.5 are equally unsupported now and they won't ever be again (I intentionally won't talk about 10.1-10.3 here; there are very few good reasons for New World Macs not to be on at least 10.4, and beige Macs are better off in OS 9). If you are like me and believe it is not unreasonable to expect a long life out of your computer, then you'd better be prepared to do the legwork to keep it safe. Not only is a compromised computer a risk to you and your data, it can also be a source of misery for people on your network. At my normal workplace we are wrestling with a worm preying on the local Exchange server to pump out spam, and it all came from someone incautiously loading drive-by malware onto their office PC from some link they clicked. Moreover, while no PowerPC machines were known to be exploited by the recent Flashback worm, our previous analysis shows that the flaw was real; it's just that the actual payload was Intel-only, so it could not run even though it was possible to gain the privileges it would have required to be successful.
Surprisingly, the biggest improvement to our current security situation comes from, of all companies, Apple themselves. Believe it or not, One Infinite Loop is doing us a big (unintended?) solid by dropping PowerPC support like a hot potato. Xcode 4, which is the most current major version, does not support the 10.4 and 10.5 SDKs, and although it can be coerced with some difficulty into building x86 and x86_64 binaries for them, it won't build PowerPC code at all. To make a PowerPC binary, you must explicitly use Xcode 3, which won't run on 10.7 or any later version of OS X. Furthermore, to make a PowerPC binary that can run on 10.4, you must use Xcode 3 and explicitly link against the 10.4 SDK and build Universal or PPC, none of happens by default (heck, for that matter, linking against the 10.5 SDK is not by default either). Making malware that runs on a Power Mac will get harder and harder as the user base slowly dwindles, and this doesn't seem like much payoff for the typical money-grubbing phisher. I doubt Apple did this out of love and affection for us, but it is an unexpected benefit.
Most attacks nowadays won't work on Power Macs, anyway. A buffer overflow or stacksmash or other kind of specific low-level code attack requires that the malicious code written by the attacker be built in PowerPC machine language. Relatively few existed during the Power Mac's reign, almost all of them dating from pre-OS X days, and they all but disappeared after the 2006 Intel debacle transition when attackers moved to the much more familiar x86 architecture. Any attack that requires the processor to execute malicious code directly must be in PPC machine code; if it's in x86, it'll merely crash. The security elite reading this entry will immediately dismiss the rest of it as an appeal to "security by obscurity," and I entirely concur. But when the primary motivation of most attacks today is monetary, obscure just doesn't make enough dough. Laziness and the profit motive are the noblest goals. ;)
We do have to worry about cross-platform attacks, however, and there are no shortage of those. The Flashback worm was one example: by allowing Java to escalate privileges, anything could have been in that payload -- if it had been another Java-based executable, say, then the worm would have been able to run on Power Macs, and we'd be just as shot. Flash has been used as a cross-platform attack vector, as have the scripting capabilities of Adobe Acrobat Reader, and macro viruses in Word. And, of course, your Virtual PC instance is just as susceptible to a virus as the real thing if you run an unpatched version of Windows in it. Plus, a trojan written in a cross-platform language like Python, Java, Perl or whatnot will probably alarmingly run just fine on a Power Mac. These attacks are particularly dangerous because they hit us just as easily as the PCs and Intel Macs they are targetted at, even though we weren't the actual target (we're just gravy on the cake, or something).
Similarly, you need to make sure the browser you are using doesn't leak data and helps to insulate you against running insecure code. But you're using TenFourFox, so you already have an updated browser that doesn't run insecure plugins. Right? Right.
Security issues with what comes with OS X
Built-in networking: Enable the built-in firewall, and, if you can, enable stealth mode and disable UDP from System Preferences. Some applications require UDP, but see if you can work without it. Using a hardware firewall is even better. There are some potential exploits with the network-accessible components of 10.4 and 10.5, and simply preventing access to them is probably the best approach. If you intend to use Apache or some other server software with your Power Mac, probably better just to install Linux PPC and use that except if you are serving to an internal, trusted network.
QuickTime: There are PPC-based exploits for certain codecs in QuickTime, though none of these are known to be circulating now, and no specific PPC-based exploit for QT 7+. (While QT 6.0.3 in Classic is technically vulnerable, the limitations of OS 9 make the exploit difficult and it would have to be specific to both OS 9 and PowerPC.) It is possible for QuickTime playlists and certain other kinds of scriptable content to be used to load data over the network, but they can be only interacted with in limited ways, and to actually use them for executable data would require a PPC-compatible attack. An attack designed for Intel Macs wouldn't work.
Preview.app: Preview.app and the built-in image and PDF viewer libraries do have known holes, but no known PowerPC-based exploits. The built-in PDF toolkit doesn't understand JavaScript in PDF files or embedded Flash, and as a result is much safer than using the real Adobe Acrobat Reader (which you should really only use for protected documents). This TidBITS article says it all, really. Eventually TenFourFox will have the pdf.js extension when Firefox gets it, but it's slow even on supported Firefox systems, so Preview is still going to render much service for most people.
Java: Just don't. If you use TenFourFox, it is disabled by default; otherwise, disable and destroy the Java plugin if it exists. Java is no longer safe on Power Macs.
Mail.app: There are probably multiple specific ways to attack this application, mostly by blended attacks on the individual components such as the image viewer, etc. (and see below about Webkit). However, almost all of them would require PowerPC-specific code. That said, with Tenfourbird available, why take the risk?
Safari.app and system WebKit: oh gawd no. But here's something you might not have thought of: applications that use the built-in system WebKit components to view HTML are just as vulnerable to attack as Safari. This includes, notably, iCab 4 (but not 3), and many RIA-based applications. However, it does not include OmniWeb, which has its own updated WebKit, nor Tobias' leopard-webkit, of course.
Security issues with common applications
Adobe Flash: I think I've already voiced my objections to Flash. At least one cross-platform worm was created with Flash to attack local networks, and there will be others. Because it is scriptable, many malicious tasks can be executed on a Power Mac. If you use TenFourFox, it and other plugins are disabled; otherwise, disable and destroy the Flash plugin if it exists. For the doubters in the audience: I have not used Flash since TenFourFox 6 disabled plugins last year. I mean it.
Adobe Acrobat: Acrobat allows embedded Flash and JavaScript, which also makes it a scriptable cross-platform target. The only thing you should use Acrobat for is creating PDFs, and protected documents. Otherwise, make sure your PDFs open by default in Preview. Do not use the Acrobat plugin.
Microsoft Office: Office has a number of exploitable holes through macro viruses. For Word, I can think of few reasons you would want macros enabled, but this is a real problem with Excel. v.X and 98 in Classic are probably too old to be effectively pwned, but many macro attacks against 2004 will run on Power Macs, and the Open XML Converter can be attacked in some of the same ways. Fortunately, Microsoft has been kinder to us Power Mac users than Apple has, and you can get updates for all of these issues from Mactopia. Office 2008 is much less susceptible than 2004, but this is because it lacks VBA altogether (greatly limiting its utility), and it is noticeably slower than 2004 or v.X. iWork does not seem to suffer from any of these issues, nor does dear old AppleWorks, so those are safe alternatives. OpenOffice and NeoOffice also get regular updates.
Microsoft Virtual PC (and other PC emulators): This depends greatly on what you run. Remember that a virtual machine installation of Windows can be just as hosed as a real installation. Some Linuces will still run in VPC (I used to use Knoppix). Otherwise, stick to Windows XP and patch patch patch, and/or take advantage of disabling networking or enabling bridged mode.
We need to be realistic and realize our dear Power Macs are not absolutely invulnerable, but we can make them practically so. While I respect those who run Linux on their Macs, for me I need Classic compatibility and the ability to run the apps I've paid good money for over the years (part of what also keeps me from switching to Intel, besides my general bigotry against x86 ISA), and there is no substitute for 10.4 or to a lesser extent 10.5. I run my Macs behind a hardware firewall and I practice what I preach in software. If we're judicious, careful and methodical, we can be nearly as functional as anyone else on the hardware we paid good money for and faithfully maintain.
By the way, I detest the new Blogger. It's slow, and trying to send a complaint about it being slow was even freaking slower. I don't enjoy upgrades for upgrades' sake, and Google is great at this kind of self-gratifying nonsense. Let's hope they forget about Google Code so that it doesn't get "upgraded" either.
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As a result of the Ban, thousands of U.S. citizens and lawful permanent residents of Yemeni origin remain separated from their families. Many individuals interviewed report that members of their families with different citizenship and immigration statuses remain scattered across multiple countries. Those trapped in Djibouti, amidst the civil war and resulting humanitarian crisis in Yemen, face mounting debt, limited medical and educational opportunities, along with prolonged separation from their loved ones. One person interviewed added that because the consular officers have their passports while they wait, they “are under detention without walls.” Another said, “The waiver is a lie word.”
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The History of Chrissy Teigen Making Fun of John Legend Online
By Cady Lang
Updated: September 17, 2018 4:49 PM ET | Originally published: May 16, 2017 10:17 AM EDT
Chrissy Teigen and John Legend‘s marriage hasn’t become the cultural touchstone that’s routinely acknowledged as “relationship goals” just because of their striking good looks and their adorable offspring, Luna Simone Stephens.
No, the reason why Chrissy Teigen and John Legend are the embodiment of dreamy modern love is because the two share a wickedly witty sense of humor that keeps their rom com-esque romance from heading into saccharine territory. Chrissy shoulders most of this responsibility by burning her husband at every opportunity she can, whether by trolling him on Twitter or burning him with her Instagram captions— and thankfully, for our entertainment, John’s an exceptionally good sport about it.
We’ve rounded up all the most memorable times that Chrissy’s owned John on social media below — read on for some epic mean tweets and hilarious Instagrams.
Chrissy had some strong thoughts about John’s style choices in the past.
Trolling or flirting? You be the judge.
Even when she has a rare moment of sappiness, Chrissy keeps it real about John.
Chrissy is candid about being generally unimpressed with John’s many honors.
And she knows that the key to a successful relationship is keeping the spark — and anxiety — alive.
Her tactics to make sure that she is the only love of John’s life are unparalleled.
Lest you forget where John’s most beloved song came from, Chrissy is here to remind both you and him.
She’s also conscientious about capturing all of John’s most embarrassing moments and kind enough to share them with all of us.
If John wasn’t embarrassed about crying before, Chrissy definitely made sure that he was after this.
Chrissy subtly dropped a few hints about her husband via Twitter.
Even the birth of their adorable baby girl couldn’t stop Chrissy from burning John on Twitter.
Even when it comes to John’s sense of style, Chrissy couldn’t help but give him a gentle ribbing by asking GQ to acknowledge how dapper he looked on a red carpet.
John, has, on occasion, shown that he can dish back the trolling like the best of them.
When it came to John singing the National Anthem, Chrissy seems to prefer the guidelines of Kendrick Lamar: Sit down…Be humble.
For all her trolling, however, don’t worry — divorce isn’t in their future.
And of course, there was this.
There was the time that Chrissy teased John about the typo on his name card at the Golden Globes.
Even her subtweets of John are legendary.
And the time that she saw through his plots to thwart her success on the piano.
One time, she trolled him like one of her Internet haters, complete with fitting GIF use.
And the time that she helped the Internet troll him with an A grade meme.
She also knows how to get on his nerves and exercises her right to do so.
John didn’t just have to worry about the Internet trolls coming for him after he lost his bag at the airport — the person who roasted him the most was his wife.
And just for the record, John is definitely not Chrissy’s favorite singer on The Voice, something he’s well aware of.
In retaliation for John dancing with a fan, Chrissy got matching henna back tattoos with a random stranger — and thankfully for us, Snapchatted the entire thing.
Of course, who could forget Teigen’s dedication to carrying on the Internet’s firmly-held belief that John has an uncanny resemblance to Arthur?
Something that she’s revived on multiple occasions, including when John got an Emmy and completed his coveted EGOT.
Even the couple’s wedding anniversary isn’t safe from Chrissy’s lighthearted ribbing. The couple recently celebrated 5 years of marriage, but Chrissy took John to task for his new gig on The Voice.
Write to Cady Lang at cady.lang@timemagazine.com.
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UADO Fashion Tribe > Regulations
Online Store Rules and Regulations
1 Preliminary Provisions
UADO Online Store available at www.uado.pl is managed by Aleksandra Stodółka, conducting business activity under the company name Aleksandra Stodółka UADO, entered into the CEIDG (Central Registration and Information on Business) kept by the competent minister for economy, NIP (Tax ID No.): 684 232 58 17, REGON (National Business Registry No.): 366372301.
These Rules and Regulations apply both to the Consumers and to the Entrepreneurs using the Store and determine the rules of using the Online Store and the rules and mode of concluding remote Sales Contracts with the Customer via the Store.
Seller – natural person conducting business activity under the company name Aleksandra Stodółka UADO, entered into the CEIDG (Central Registration and Information on Business) kept by the competent minister for economy, NIP (Tax ID No.): 684 232 58 17, REGON (National Business Registry No.): 366372301.
Store – online store managed by the Seller at www.uado.pl
Customer – every entity making purchases via the Store.
Consumer – natural person concluding a contract with the Seller as part of the Store activity, the subject of which is not directly connected to their business or professional activity.
Entrepreneur – natural person, legal person and organisational unit other than legal person, granted legal capacity by a separate act, conducting business activity on their own behalf, using the Store.
Remote Contract – contract concluded with the Customer as part of the organised system of concluding remote contracts (as part of the Store activity) without simultaneous physical presence of the parties, with the exclusive use of one or more methods of remote communication until the moment of concluding the contract, inclusive.
Rules and Regulations – these Rules and Regulations of the Store.
Order – declaration of intent of the Customer placed via the Order Form and aimed directly at concluding an Item(s) Sales Contract with the Seller.
Account – account of the Customer in the Store recording the data provided by the Customer and the information regarding the Orders they placed within the Store.
Registration Form – form available within the Store enabling registration of the Account.
Order Form – interactive form available within the store enabling placing an Order, specifically by adding Items to a Basket, and defining the conditions of a Sales Contract, including the methods of delivery and payment.
Basket – Store software component, displaying the Items selected by the Customer for purchasing, and enabling defining the modifying the Order data, specifically the number of Items.
Item – a movable good/service available in the Store being the subject of the Sales Contract concluded between the Customer and the Seller.
Sales Contract – Item sales contract concluded by the Customer and the Seller via the Online Store. The Sales Contract is also understood as – appropriately to the features of the Item – contract for the provision of services and contract for specific work.
3 Contacting the Store
Address of the Seller: Aleksandra Stodółka, ul.Ludwinowska 11/174, 30-033 Kraków, Poland.
Email of the Seller: olastodolka@uado.pl.
Telephone number of the Seller:(+48) 608 007 885. The Customer can contact the Seller via telephone on working days, 09:00 a.m. – 05:00 p.m.
Bank account number of the Seller: 91 1140 2004 0000 3602 7664 3692.
The Customer can contact the Seller using the addresses and telephone numbers provided in this paragraph.
4 Technical Requirements
Using the Store, including browsing the Store’s offer and placing orders for the Items, requires:
User’s device with access to the Internet and an Internet browser like Internet Explorer, Firefox, Google Chrome.
Active email account.
Enabled cookie files support.
Installed FlashPlayer software.
The Seller, in the broadest legally acceptable scope, shall not be liable for any interference, including interruptions, in the functioning of the Store caused by Force Majeure, illegal actions of third parties or incompatibility of the Online Store with the technical infrastructure of the Customer.
Browsing through the Store’s offer does not require registering an Account. Placing orders by the Customer for the Items offered by the Store is possible either after registering an Account, pursuant to the provisions of § 6 of the Rules and Regulations, or by providing the required personal data and address details enabling the fulfilment of the Order without registering an Account.
The prices displayed in the Store are gross amounts in PLN.
The final amount to be paid by the Customer comprises of the Item price and the delivery cost (including transportation, delivery and post services fees), and the Customer is informed about it on the Store pages when placing an Order, and also on confirmation of the intent to conclude a Sales Contract.
6. Registering a Store Account
To register a Store Account, one must fill out the Registration Form. It is necessary to provide the following data: email, name, surname.
Registering a Store Account is free of charge.
Logging in the Account takes place by typing in login and password provided in the Registration Form.
4.The Customer can, at any moment, without giving reason or paying any fees, delete the Account by sending an appropriate demand to the Seller, specifically via email or in written form, to the addresses provided in § 3.
7. Placed Orders
Select an Item being the subject of the Order, and then click the “Add to basket” button (or equivalent).
Display the content of the basket.
Select delivery address.
Select delivery options and accept terms and conditions.
Select one of the available payment methods and confirm the order.
Depending on the payment method, pay for the order within the specific time limit.
8. Method of Delivery and Payment
The Customer can use the following methods of delivery and reception of the ordered Item:
Delivery by post, COD (Cash On Delivery) delivery by post,
Courier delivery, COD courier delivery,
Personal pick-up at the Seller’s address.
The Customer can use one of the following payment methods:
Payment by cash on pick-up.
COD (Cash On Delivery).
Wire transfer to the Seller’s account.
9. Performance of the Contract
The Sales Contract is concluded by and between the Customer and the Seller after the Customer has filed an order via the Form in the Online Store, pursuant to § 7 of the Rules and Regulations.
After the Order has been filed, the Seller confirms its reception, and, at the same time, accepts the Order for fulfilment. Confirmation of receiving an Order and its acceptance for fulfilment shall take place by the Seller sending the Customer an appropriate email message to the email address of the Customer provided when filing the Order, including at least the statement of the Seller on receiving the Order and its acceptance for fulfilment, and the confirmation of the conclusion of the Sales Contract. As of the reception of the aforementioned email message by the Customer, the Sales Contract is concluded by and between the Customer and the Seller.
If the Customer selects:
wire transfer, electronic payment or payment by card, the Customer is obliged to make the payment within 7 calendar days from the conclusion of the Sales Contract – otherwise the order shall be cancelled.
COD (Cash On Delivery), the Customer is obliged to make the payment on reception of the delivery.
Payment by cash on personal pick-up, the Customer is obliged to make the payment on pick-up of the package within 7 days from receiving the information on the package being ready for pick-up.
If the Customer selects a different method of delivery than personal pick-up, the Item shall be sent by the Seller on the day indicated in the description (with the reservation of section 5 of this paragraph), in accordance with the method selected by the Customer on filing the Order.
The beginning of the time of delivery of the Item to the Customer is determined as follows:
If the Customer has selected payment by wire transfer, electronic payment or payment by card – from the day of crediting the Seller’s bank account.
If the Customer has selected COD (Cash On Delivery) – from the day of conclusion of the Sales Contract.
If the Customer has selected personal pick-up of the Item, the Item shall be ready for pick-up by the Customer on the date indicated in the Item’s description. The Customer shall be additionally informed by the Seller about the Item being ready for pick-up in an appropriate email message sent to the email address of the Customer provided when filing the Order.
In the case of ordering Items with different readiness for pick-up dates, the readiness for pick-up date shall be the latest of the provided dates.
The Item can be delivered only within Poland.
10. Right of Rescission of Contract
The Consumer can rescind the Sales Contract within 14 days without giving any reason.
The period defined in section 1 starts on the delivery of the Item to the Consumer or to the person indicated by the Consumer other than the carrier.
In the case of a Contract for multiple Items delivered separately, in batches or in parts, the period indicated in section 1 starts on the delivery of the last item, batch or part.
In the case of a Contract requiring regular deliveries of Items for a specific time (subscription), the period indicated in section 1 starts on receiving the first of items.
The Consumer can rescind a Contract by submitting to the Seller a statement of rescission of Contract. To keep the deadline for the rescission of Contract it is enough for the Consumer to send the statement before the end of this period.
The statement can be submitted via traditional post, fax or electronically, by sending the statement to the email address of the Seller or by submitting the statement via the website of the Seller – the Seller’s contact details have been provided in § 3. The statement can be also submitted via the form, the template of which constitutes Appendix No. 1 to these Rules and Regulations, and the appendix to the Act of 30th May of 2014 on the rights of consumers, however, it is not obligatory.
If the Consumer has sent the statement electronically, the Seller shall immediately send to the provided Consumer’s email address the confirmation of receiving the statement on rescission of Contract.
Consequences of rescission of Contract:
In the case of rescission of a Remote Contract, the Contract is considered not concluded.
In the case of rescission of Contract, the Seller immediately returns to the Consumer, not later than within 14 days from receiving the Consumer’s statement of rescission of Contract, all the payments made by them, including the costs of delivering items, with the exclusion of any additional costs resulting from the method of delivery selected by the Consumer and other than the least expensive normal method of delivery offered by the Seller.
The Seller shall return the payments using the same methods of payment as used by the Consumer in the original transaction, unless the Consumer has agreed to other solutions, which do not generate other costs for them.
The Seller can withhold the return of payments until getting back the Item or until provided a proof of sending it back, whichever occurs first.
The Consumer should immediately send back the Item to the Seller’s address provided in these Rules and Regulations, not later than within 14 days from the day of informing the Seller of rescission of Contract. The deadline shall be kept if the Consumer send back the Item before the end of the 14-day period.
The Consumer shall bear the direct costs of returning the Item, also the costs of returning the Item if, due to its nature, the Item could not have been returned by post in a normal mode.
The Consumer is liable only for decreasing the value of the Item resulting from using it in a way other than necessary to conclude the nature, features and functioning of the Item.
A complaint can be filed by the Customer: in a written form delivered to the Seller’s address, in an electronic format via email sent to the Seller’s email.
The Customer shall provide the following information in the description of the complaint:
a. the circumstances concerning the subject of complaint, the type and date of identifying a fault;
b. the expected corrective actions: repair, declaration of accepting a discount, rescission of the Sales Contract;
contact details of the person filing a complaint.
The Customer shall send the faulty item to the Seller’s address.
The Seller shall immediately take a position regarding the Customer’s complaint, not later than within 14 calendar days from filing the complaint. The date of filing a complaint shall be understood as the date of delivering an item to the Seller’s seat.
The amounts paid for items being the subjects of complaints and returned due to damages or faults, if any have been confirmed, shall be returned in full, including the costs of delivery resulting from the delivery of such goods and the costs of returning them incurred by the Buyer in the Online Store.
12. Extrajudicial Methods of Considering Complaints
1.Detailed information regarding the possibility for the Consumer to use extrajudicial methods of considering complaints and asserting claims, as well as the rules of accessing these procedures are available in the seats and on websites of poviat (city) consumer ombudsmen, social organisations, the statute tasks of which include protecting consumers, Voivodeship Trade Inspection Inspectorates, and at the following URLs of the Office of Competition and Consumer Protection: http://www.uokik.gov.pl/spory_konsumenckie.php; http://www.uokik.gov.pl/sprawy_indywidualne.php and
http://www.uokik.gov.pl/wazne_adresy.php.
The Consumer has the following exemplary possibilities of using extrajudicial methods of considering complaints and asserting claims:
The Consumer is entitled to turn to a permanent amicable consumer court, described in art. 37 of the Act of 15th December 2000 on trade inspection (Journal of Laws from 2014, item 148, as amended), with an application for the settlement of a dispute resulting from the Contract concluded with the Seller.
The Consumer is entitled to turn to the voivodeship inspector of Trade Inspection, pursuant to art. 36 of the Act of 15th December 2000 on trade inspection (Journal of Laws from 2014, item 148, as amended), with an application for the initiation of mediation proceedings regarding amicable settlement of the dispute between the Consumer and the Seller.
The Consumer can obtain free-of-charge help regarding settling a dispute between them and the Seller, using also free-of-charge help of the poviat (city) consumer ombudsman or a social organisation, the statute tasks of which include protecting consumers (i.a. Federacja Konsumentów (Federation of Consumers), Stowarzyszenie Konsumentów Polskich (Polish Consumer Association)).
1.The Seller is the Controller of Customers’ personal data recorded via the Online Store.
2.Personal Data of Customers collected by the Controller via the Online Store is recorded for the purpose of performing a Sales Contract, and, if the Customer agrees – also for marketing purposes.
3.The recipients of personal data of Online Store Customers can be as follows:
In the case of a Customer using postal delivery or courier delivery methods in the Online Store, the Controller provides the recorded personal data of the Customer to the selected carrier or intermediary performing delivery services by order of the Controller.
In the case of a Customer using electronic payment or card payment in the Online Store, the Controller provides the recorded personal data of the Customer to the selected entity servicing the aforementioned payment methods in the Online Store.
The Customer is entitled to access their personal data and to correct it.
Providing personal data is voluntary, however, failure to provide the personal data indicated in the Rules and Regulations necessary to conclude a Sales Contract renders conclusion of such a contract impossible.
14. Information for persons visiting the uado.pl website:
The Controller of your data is Aleksandra Stodółka, ul. Ludwinowska 11/174, 30-033 Kraków, Poland, conducting business activity under the company name Aleksandra Stodółka UADO,
The Controller can be contacted via email olastodolka@uado.pl or via telephone under the number (+48) 608 007 885.
Your data shall be processed to enable browsing the website. The legal basis for the processing is the necessity for the performance of a contract provided electronically.
The processing shall include the following personal data: name and surname, address, telephone number, email.
Your personal data shall be processed during your visit on the website and in cookie files for ten years. The period of storing personal data can be in each case extended for the period of expiration of claims if personal data processing is necessary for asserting potential claims or for the purpose of defence against such claims by the Controller.
As your data is processed in an automated manner based on a contract – you are entitled to transfer personal data, which you provided to the Controller, i.e. receive from the Controller your personal data in a structured, universally used machine-readable format. You can send this data to a different data controller.
You are entitled to access your data and to demand correcting, deleting or limiting its processing. Additionally, you are entitled to object to processing your personal data.
You are entitled to file a complaint with a supervisory authority dealing with personal data protection in a Member State of your usual residence, work, or of committing the alleged violation. In Poland, the competent authority is the President of the Personal Data Protection Office.
Provision of personal data is voluntary.
15. Information for Persons Filling Out a Form and for the Registered Customers of the Online Store:
The processing will include the following personal data: name and surname, address, telephone number, email.
Your data shall be processed for the purpose of registering and servicing a customer account in the uado.pl online store, accepting and fulfilling online orders, and delivering the ordered goods. The legal basis for the processing is the necessity for the performance of a contract.
Your personal data shall be processed throughout the term of the contract, until your account is deleted from the Online Store. The period of storing personal data can be in each case extended for the period of expiration of claims if personal data processing is necessary for asserting potential claims or for the purpose of defence against such claims by the Controller.
The legal basis for sending commercial information via email is the justified interest of the Controller in the form of ensuring their own marketing. After the termination of the contract, the Controller is entitled to process your data for the purpose of asserting claims and defending against them – the legal basis is also the justified interest of the Controller.
Data can be provided to Poczta Polska (Polish Post), courier company – for the purpose of fulfilling an order;
You are entitled to access your data and to demand correcting, deleting or limiting its processing.
In the scope of the legal basis for processing your personal data being the premise of legally justified interest of the Controller, you are entitled to file objection to processing your personal data, i.e. you are entitled to object to processing data.
Providing personal data for marketing communication is voluntary.
Providing personal data to register an account and then place orders is necessary for the conclusion and performance of the Contract – without providing personal data the conclusion of the Contract shall be impossible.
16. Information for Unregistered Customers of the Online Store Making Purchases:
Your data shall be processed to accept and fulfil online orders and to deliver ordered goods. The legal basis for the processing is the necessity for the performance of a contract.
Your personal data shall be processed throughout the term of the contract. The period of storing personal data can be in each case extended for the period of expiration of claims if personal data processing is necessary for investigating potential claims or for the purpose of defence against such claims by the Controller.
The legal basis for sending commercial information via email is the justified interest of the Controller in the form of ensuring their own marketing. After the termination of the contract, the Controller is entitled to process your data for the purpose of investigating claims and defending against them – the legal basis is also the justified interest of the Controller.
In the scope of the legal basis for processing your personal data being the premise of legally justified interest of the Controller, you are entitled to object to processing your personal data.
Providing personal data to place orders is necessary for the conclusion and performance of the Contract – without providing personal data the conclusion of the Contract shall be impossible.
The contracts concluded by the Online Store shall be concluded in Polish.
The Seller reserves the right to amend the Rules and Regulations due to important issues, i.e.: changed legal regulations, changed methods of payment and delivery – in the scope they influence the performance of the provisions of these Rules and Regulations. The Seller shall inform the Customer about every amendment observing at least 7-day notice period.
In the cases of issues not regulated by these Rules and Regulations, the generally applicable regulations of Polish law shall apply, specifically of: the Civil Code; the Act on providing services electronically; the Act on the rights of consumers, the Act on the protection of personal data.
The Customer is entitled to use extrajudicial methods of considering complaints and asserting claims. For this purpose, they can file a complaint via the ODR EU Internet platform available at: http://ec.europa.eu/consumers/odr/.
olastodolka@uado.pl
Wysyłka / Płatności
© 2020 UADO
UADO. FOR PEOPLE AND PLANET
+48 608 007 885 / olastodolka@uado.pl
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Rare snowfall blankets locked-down Milan
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MILAN (Reuters) - Milan woke up to a thick blanket of snow on Monday, thrilling children but disrupting anyone trying to get back to work after the strict Christmas lockdown.
Masked city workers were out at dawn shoveling about 15 centimetres of snow off the central Piazza Duomo, as the sparse morning traffic struggled on slippery roads.
Several trees and marquees outside bars collapsed under the weight, a rare sight in a city that typically gets just a dusting of snow in the coldest of years.
A pole supporting overhead tram lines fell on one woman, leaving her with head injuries, news agency Ansa reported.
The city's transport chief Marco Granelli said the priority for the authorities was removing fallen trees and clearing the entrances to hospitals, health facilities and coronavirus-testing points.
The lockdown that kept Italians largely in their homes from Dec. 24-27 was eased on Monday, allowing people to move around freely within their towns even while most services remain shut or severely limited.
Heavy snow was widespread over much of northern Italy, causing train cancellations and the closure of mountain roads in the Veneto region.
(Reporting by Elisa Anzolin, editing by Gavin Jones and Andrew Heavens)
Former Presidents Obama, Bush, and Clinton Send Message to Biden
Former Presidents Obama, Bush, and Clinton recorded a video message at the Arlington Memorial Amphitheater as their contribution to the Celebrating America inauguration concert.In the video, George Bush, addressing Joe Biden as “Mr President”, says “Your success is our country’s success. God bless you.”Bill Clinton echoes this, saying: “You have spoken for us today. Now you will lead for us. And we’re ready to march with you. Good luck. God bless you.”Barack Obama, concluding the message, said: “I’m proud of you. You and Kamala need to know that you’ve got all of us here rooting for your success.” Credit: Biden Inaugural Committee via Storyful
New Britney Spears docuseries to examine long-contested conservatorship: ‘How we treated her was disgusting’
Premiering on 5 February on FX and FX on Hulu, ‘Framing Britney Spears’ will ‘offer a new assessment of the movement rallying against her court-mandated conservatorship’
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Reliance Jio to offer 30 GB, unlimited calls for Rs 303/month from April
2017-02-21 2017-03-09 | Sreejiraj Eluvangal
Mukesh Ambani, chairman of Reliance Jio, confirmed what many feared — the end of free 4G data will get over on March 31, but also announced a new program called ‘Jio Prime’, under which subscribers can get 1 GB per day at Rs 303 per month.
They also have to pay a one-time cost of Rs 99 to be eligible for the offer.
Besides getting 1 GB per day, people who recharge with Rs 303 every month will also get unlimited data usage between 2 AM and 5 AM, as well as free voice usage 24 hours of the day. They can continue to enjoy this scheme by recharging with Rs 303, but only for one year. After a year, the scheme will be replaced or withdrawn.
There will also be offers other than the above for those who take the Prime membership by paying the Rs 99.
For example, such subscribers will also continue to get free access to Jio apps for another one year, up to 21 Dec, 2018, Ambani added.
Customers will be able to join the Prime program and avail of these benefits by recharging with Rs 99 on the MyJio app or via the company’s website or retail outlets.
Ambani also said Jio will provide 20% more data than the highest-selling tariffs of all operators.
“You no longer have to worry about whether you are getting the best value,” Mukesh Ambani said.
“You can also count on us to deliver many more suprrises in the coming days,” he added.
He confirmed that voice will continue to be free and no charges will be levied for anything, including roaming services.
Ambani had revealed a set of tariff plans in September last year, which were at the time the cheapest in the country.
However, since then, rivals like BSNL, Bharti Airtel and Idea Cellular have either matched those tariffs, especially for data, or unveiled even cheaper plans.
Jio, which started signing up customers in September, had crossed the 72 mln mark in December and has been adding about 20 mln per month. At the rate, therefore, the 100 mln subscriber mark would have been hit by around the middle of this month.
There were also various media reports that the RIL chairman did indeed make such an announcement at the recently held Nasscom Leadership Forum in Mumbai.
However, the news reports were followed by a clarification that the billionaire made no such announcement.
The milestone has come as a surprise to many people, including those in the industry, as very few people expected that any operator would be able to cross 100 mln 4G subscribers in 2017, let alone at the beginning of the year.
For comparison, Idea Cellular, the third biggest 4G service provider in India, has only around 20 mln 4G devices on its network and many of these subscribers have not activated 4G packs.
Similarly, three months ago, Bharti Airtel CEO Gopal Vittal predicted that the new operator would be able to sign on about 40 mln users by the end of December, but additions would start “dropping off” after that.
You can watch the live broadcast of Mukesh Ambani’s speech below.
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Zambia validates updated trade policies with help from UNCTAD
Zambia's trade is dominated by the export of a primary commodity - copper - so the Government is looking at ways to diversify sources of revenue, add value to exports and build a resilient economy for its citizens.
Zambia is an exporter of fresh horticulture produce - cut flowers and vegetables
UNCTAD has been supporting the government of Zambia to update its commercial and trade policy framework.
On 9 to 10 April 2015, representatives from UNCTAD were among over 40 participants at a workshop in Lusaka that validated the latest outcome of this process, a study by UNCTAD.
Major issues affecting Zambia's economy and trade, and possible policy responses, were discussed by participants of the workshop, which was chaired by Lillian Bwalya, Zambia's Director of Trade in the Ministry of Commerce, Trade and Industry.
The issues included promoting export value addition and trade in services, harnessing regional trade, maintaining stable macro-economic measures, preservation of policy space in global and regional rule making, using trade as a tool for industrialization, among others.
Recommendations resulting from the study, and the multi-stakeholder deliberations, included the following:
Harnessing regional trade for export diversification and value addition.
Ensuring that trade in services was an important policy option to diversify and add value to exports considering that Zambia depends largely on exports of goods.
Developing the supply and productive aspects of services trade.
Reducing the costs of trade especially in transport.
Directing foreign direct investment in export value addition.
UNCTAD supports countries' efforts to assess and formulate national trade policy frameworks. As well as to Zambia, such assistance has been provided to Rwanda, Papua New Guinea, Jamaica, Angola and Namibia.
Readying future trade agreements for future crisis and pandemic
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New Asian trade bloc could help boost post-pandemic investment
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Thomas Frank No. 3
The American Nonconformist in the Age of the Commercialization of Dissent
We saw this trend approaching a million consumer-miles away. It was inevitable: the Protest Generation comes of age as the Generation of Super-Consumers.
—Faith Popcorn, 1991
Thirty-five years ago, Norman Mailer first gave voice to the idea that the “hipster,” the young art-appreciating free-spirit alienated from an increasingly repressive society, was the existential hero of the day. In an America terrified by the bomb, grown stagnant from over-organization, cowed into homogeneity and conformity by red scares and the depersonalization of the computer age, the “hipster” was supposed to represent liberty and the affirmation of life. “The only life-giving answer” to the deathly drag of American civilization, Mailer wrote, was to tear oneself from the security of physical and spiritual certainty, to embrace rebellion, particularly rebellion associated with the subculture of jazz and drugs. The distinction between those who resisted mass society and those who collaborated was a clear and obvious one, Mailer insisted: “one is Hip or one is Square . . . one is a rebel or one conforms . . . trapped in the totalitarian tissues of American society, doomed willy-nilly to conform if one is to succeed.”
Today the opposite is true. In advertising, television, and all the other organs of official culture, the hipster is now a figure to be revered. He has become a central symbol of the technocratic system he is supposed to be subverting: a model consumer, a good citizen in a society which demands moral indifference and a perpetual patronage of the new in order to keep its gigantic wheels turning. Rather than resisting the enormous cultural machinery of mediocrity, impoverishment, and stupidity, in 1992 the hipster is its star player.
Spike Lee has made his reputation as a film innovator by posturing as a free-floating radical, as a spokesman without portfolio for the nation’s outsiders and oppressed, as a fulminator against convention and bourgeois morality. He is also a spokesman for the Nike corporation, and you can regularly see this daring and revolutionary young filmmaker on prime-time TV, selling an extraordinarily expensive athletic shoe.
On another channel the Burger King corporation confides that “Sometimes You Gotta Break the Rules.” A brand of perfume named “Tribe” calls upon consumers to “Join the Uprising.” A new variety of chewing gum is cast as the embodiment of hip teen resistance to the puritanical, antifun ways of police and old people. Rock radio stations routinely promote themselves as rule-breakers of the most defiant sort while Mazda introduces us to their new models by ridiculing “Mom” and “apple pie” images and telling us that if “You’re not John Doe, why drive his car?”
Bizarre and cynical anomalies? On the contrary, these incidents are perfectly representative of our contemporary consumer culture, which for some time now has utilized images of rebellion to encourage a mindset of endless dissatisfaction with the old and a never-ending compulsion to buy, buy, buy. In 1992 the transformation of rebellion into money is the fundamental operation of our pop-cultural machinery. The commercialization of deviance is fast becoming the universal theme of American culture, the preeminent motif of the age.
And not simply because of its value in reaching the kids. The simulation of dissent we see all around us has become the preeminent image of mass culture because it reinforces an ideology focused on the eternal new and the identification of individuality with product choice. The beautiful hipsters we see in ads, movies, and malls are always celebrating their liberation, their difference, their emancipation precisely because these aspects of rebellion, American-style, make them model consumers. They have embraced a worldview of bourgeois antinomianism, an automatic scorn for anything even vaguely established, permanent, or conventional (except, of course, their own incomes), because this is the attitude they must adopt to do their part in keeping the great machine racing at fever pitch. Our young pseudo-radicals buy, eat, and discard freely and unrestrainedly, unencumbered by the repressive moral baggage of their square, tightwad elders, who didn’t buy a lot of things they didn’t need, who saved money and didn’t purchase on credit, whose dull, unliberated lives centered on producing goods rather than consuming them.
The commercialization of deviance is fast becoming the universal theme of American culture, the preeminent motif of the age.
So commercial rock ‘n’ roll music, the veritable incarnation of commercialized deviance, becomes the inescapable soundtrack of daily life, and millions of products are peddled in its wake. So American youth and its young-thinking parents fall over one another rushing to patronize the latest consumer expression of rebellion, whether it’s acid-washed jeans, leather motorcycle jackets, or multiple-pierced ears. We let our hair grow, cut it short, tie it in a ponytail, dye it, cut lines and words into it. We wear all black or don “X” caps and wait anxiously for the next hip dispensation from the East. We make sure our bandit garb has labels conspicuously displayed because we want there to be no question whether we have bought the real hot article or a cheap knock-off. We purchase every product, visit every nightclub we think will set us apart from the crowd and exemplify our daring disdain for tradition. And then a few weeks later we do it again, and again, and again.
Commercialized dissent is a condition of perpetual youth, because our identities are more flexible when young, and we can experiment with the (external markings) of many, many different “lifestyles.” It is a condition that has thrown off the restraints of tradition and values, because without these we are truly free to buy any product, appropriate any motif, obsolete it quickly thereafter, and go on to the next.
And the art world, with its traditional reverence for a hyper-alienated avant-garde, has served as a prominent model for the development of commercialized deviance. Arty hipsters appear regularly in ads and sitcoms as icons of consumer perfection. And this is hardly a media distortion: on the contrary, every movement in the institutional avant-garde scene during the last 25 years has served to reinforce the new ideology of consumption being foisted on the world by Madison Avenue. Nor is this complicity a new problem. Malcolm Cowley wrote of his Greenwich Village experiences in the 1920s that
[t]o keep the factory wheels turning, a new domestic market had to be created. Industry and thrift were no longer adequate. There must be a new ethic that encouraged people to buy, a consumption ethic.
It happened that many of the Greenwich Village ideas proved useful in the altered situation. Thus, self-expression and paganism encouraged a demand for all sorts of products—modern furniture, beach pajamas, cosmetics, colored bathrooms with toilet paper to match. Living for the moment meant buying an automobile, radio or house, using it now and paying for it tomorrow.
Today the story is the same, but the inversion of values we are faced with is a trifle more complex. Artists are given to strutting their pseudo-dissent like no other group except rock stars. Take for example Interview magazine, the preposterous Andy Warhol’s greatest contribution to American life, a showplace of commercialized deviance which is actually taken seriously south of Houston street. Warhol himself was, of course, the model consumer of his day, playing with maximum effectiveness the role of artist/nonconformist as hyper-consumer and celebrity-worshiper. His magazine carries on this legacy, whether it’s railing against the imaginary bogeyman of moral repressiveness, slavering over the institution of celebrity, or tantalizing us with visions of our purchase-lust unfettered. A lucrative testimony to all in the art/fashion/ad world that is unfailingly superficial and aggressively stupid, Interview puts forward a consistent ideal of the alienated, vaguely artistic (and always handsome) outsider as ideal consumer.
The non-advertising text of Interview has one reliable quality: the artist/celebrities which it incessantly praises are “unconventional” people. We are told again and again and again in words and pictures that they resist conformity, that they do their own thing. The ads hammer away at the same point: the rebels who appear in DKNY or Cavaricci clothing are always distinguishing themselves from the crowd, being their ineluctable selves. “Resound,” reads the caption for a recent Interview ad featuring saxophonist Maceo Parker. “It’s the thunder you create, the way that everything you choose [to buy] adds to the roar. For individuals it starts with the Gap.”
What is it about the celebrity rebel hipster that makes him/her such an effective corporate symbol? These ads are the key to grasping the whole thing, to understanding why this juxtaposition of alienation with advertising, the central pillar of the consumerist establishment, seems so appropriate and yet rings so false. It’s the same point The Baffler has squawked about for three years. Not only is big art big money in this image-obsessed age, but its most characteristic poses—the alienation, the hipness, the shockery we have been hung up on for a century now—are eminently marketable.
And not just “eminently marketable.” The commodification of dissent is the great ideological innovation of our time, the central theme and image of almost all our mass culture. Millionaire Michael Jackson pushes product by opening his latest video with classic images of youth rebellion against adult authority. An advertiser moves units by admonishing us to “Dare to be Different.” An irritating tennis guy who routinely dresses up like a rock star endorses a camera called “The Rebel” with the line “Image is Everything.” This kind of faux insurgency is almost pandemic in advertising for beer, fast food, cigarettes, radio stations, and cars. It is the hegemonic and inescapable consumerist idea of the day.
Levi’s blue jeans, which have been a standard image of faux deviance since the golden years of the 1960s, have lately revamped their appeal to the hip market by introducing their new jeans for women in a series of ads based loosely on the modernist paintings of Matisse and Picasso, those darling nonconformists loved by businessman and Villager alike. Some of the installments in this ad cycle contain enough detail that the viewer can identify the figure as a minority of some sort, signifying immediately the born nonconformist, the automatic outsider, secure in her womanhood and in her Levi’s blue jeans, the veritable emblem of individuality and rebellion.
If “being ourselves” is of the utmost importance, we must immerse ourselves in a lifelong frenzy of shopping.
In academic circles they call it “the discovery of difference,” but in simple business terms fragmentation and otherness mean that Americans must buy twenty products to avoid traditionally-sanctioned norms where just one or two would have sufficed in the conformist age of the Gray Flannel Suit. If our personalities, our “lifestyles” are no longer stable or unitary things (as we are told over and over by admen and academics that they are not), but “being ourselves” is of the utmost importance (ditto), we must immerse ourselves in a lifelong frenzy of shopping, eternally seeking the perfect embodiment of our always-already shifting individuality. And this is exactly what Americans do, prodded on by our TV rebel-heroes and the beautiful hipsters of Greenwich Village, Interview, and Vanity Fair.
Yet somehow, thanks to the hidebound mindset exemplified by Interview, the traditional leaders of dissent have failed to recognize how obsolete their simple “alienated” stance has become—how the hipster has become the favorite image of several generations of TV Americans as well as our much vaunted poets and painters. The dissent of the art world has become so toothless, so mired in textuality, that in almost every way it has become a harmless pose, an attitude they and millions of mall-mired others strike to signify “artist”—“hipster”—“consumer.”
We have failed to understand it because the hip arty ones are now well loved by admen and TV watchers alike. They have been elevated with great acclaim to the vanguard of the American way of life. In the public culture of our time the corporate artists of the “cutting edge” have come to exemplify the ideal consumerist existence, flailing endlessly at a phantom Puritan “conformity” and an imagined “repressiveness” which have long ceased to exert any significant influence on American life. Consumerism itself long ago made the strait-laced Victorian order of character and thrift obsolete: it is retained only as a sort of cultural punching bag in TV sitcoms and imaginary threats from Jesse Helms so that the consuming celebrity vanguard can rail endlessly about the daring virtues of unrestraint, about the individualism of product choices which is the prerogative only of the liberated, about immediate gratification through credit buying. The avant-garde we are taught to admire spin round and round in their blind but righteous fury, attacking over and over again the same cold corpses of conformity and complacency and morality, always new, always improved, always different, but all the while missing the real target and creating nothing that is not defined and even ordained by the economic necessities of a consumption-driven economy.
In the 1950s consumerism was a pathetic and clumsy thing, appealing openly to people’s status fears and terror of standing out. Its public face was a tired, demoralized advertising industry whose products were so transparent and contrived that they were the butt of jokes then and are quite universally mocked now. Books like The Hidden Persuaders and The Hucksters (by BAFFLER contributor Frederic Wakeman) easily shamed a business already dispirited by a stagnant “gray flannel suit” mentality.
Sometime between now and then the whole direction of consumerism changed, and it is not difficult to see Mailer’s essay on the “Hipster” as one of the first calls for a new consuming ideology. The last vestiges of the obsolete producer culture had to go some time, and that time was the sixties. While it challenged bigotry, autocracy, and hierarchy on all fronts, the youth movement of that era can also be understood as a consumer revolution. The greatest contribution of the counterculture has turned out to be the consolidation of a bourgeois antinomianism, a species of vague rebelliousness firmly grounded in the imperatives of mass market consumerism. And anyone who has noticed the number of expensive cars bearing Grateful Dead stickers in college towns—Saab, Cadillac, BMW, Mercedes, Volvo, all of them truckin’ up to Buffalo? can understand the appeal of the countercultural message to the TV-raised children of the middle class, can understand how the hedonist, anti-establishmentarian obsession with visual differentness of the hippies could be easily transformed into the hedonist, anti-establishmentarian commodity fetishism of today.
As Jane and Michael Stern have written, the Sixties was above all a time of lifestyle experimentation. As established cultural modes of understanding the world were discarded, the young rebels were freed to adopt any identity they chose to: their dismissal of (all varieties of) authority meant anything was possible. And their embrace of generic rebellion, their antinomianism, ensured that they would shift lifestyles as rapidly as they could. In books like the Sterns’ Sixties People the counterculture comes off sounding much more like the final apotheosis of spectacular consumerist shallowness than its implacable foe. “Our attic tells a story of many incarnations,” the Sterns write.
Its trunks contain love beads and a Nehru jacket, hootenanny song books, an empty beer keg with a fraternity emblem, a Beatle wig, a disposable paper dress, go-go boots, an “American Bandstand” souvenir book, a first edition of Sex and the Single Girl a wig done up in a flip like Mary Tyler Moore’s, a poster that says KILL THE PIGS, and a 45-rpm record of Sergeant Barry Sadler singing “The Ballad of the Green Beret.”
Sometimes we look at this patchwork quilt of discarded identities and wonder: Who were we? In fact, we probably weren’t much different than many sixties people who fell in love with the cavalcade of new identities that swept through that prodigious decade. The sixties were a time when, like so many in our generation, we craved to ally ourselves with something bigger and more momentous than our single selves: the newest cause, the latest fad, the hippest beat . . .
With identities no more stable than the Top-40 charts, the sixties was the age of postmodern fantasy and retailers’ dream, for each identity, each new phase of rebellion, necessitated a comprehensive shopping expedition. Yes, the baby boomers railed against the establishment and its ‘traditional’ values, but mainly because they didn’t want to be bound to any single identity or image: they would be rebels, poets, perky-girls, English, hippies, and playboys in quick succession. As the Sterns put it, “the sixties was a moonstruck time when people were smitten with new identities, then insouciantly discarded them in search of the next one, always looking for the true light and the real meaning of life . . . ” And, needless to say, never really finding it.
And in suburban malls across the republic the TV youngsters and their TV parents are living out that rebel dream, breaking away from the rat race, from the lonely crowd, freeing their libidos, welcoming otherness and other styles, spending unrestrainedly and staying always one step ahead of the demon conformity. They believe earnestly in Madonna and in the sixties, in the never obtainable stuff that they will someday wear and eat to define their ineluctable, intensely subjective TV personalities. They believe in the great orgasm of purchasing, they cast off their Puritan restraints, and sometimes wonder why it‘s never like it is on TV. But that’s no matter. Tomorrow they will drive a little bit farther, spend a little more, break down those hard edges with some more sensitivity training . . .
Thomas Frank is a political analyst, historian, journalist and columnist for Salon. He is a former columnist for the Wall Street Journal, authoring “The Tilting Yard” from 2008 to 2010, and a founding editor of The Baffler. He is the author of a number of books, most notably What’s the Matter with Kansas? (2004). His newest book is Listen, Liberal.
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No Big Edge For More-Active Funds
Larry Swedroe, 5/18/2016
The prevailing wisdom is that the market for equities in emerging markets is less efficient than in developed markets. Unfortunately, the evidence doesn’t support this hypothesis. For instance, the S&P Indices Versus Active (SPIVA) scorecard showed that over the 10-year period ending June 2015, 92% of actively managed emerging market funds underperformed their benchmark, the S&P/IFCI Composite Index.
On an equal-weighted basis, the full universe of actively managed funds returned 7.2% over that period and underperformed the benchmark by 1.9 percentage points. On an asset-weighted basis, the underperformance was 1.2 percentage points.
More Proof Of Active Underperformance
As another example demonstrating that emerging markets are not inefficient, we can look at Morningstar data. Even with the significant survivorship bias in Morningstar’s data (a bias not found in the SPIVA data), for the 15-year period ended April 18, each of the three passively managed funds from Dimensional Fund Advisors (DFA)—which my firm uses to gain exposure to emerging market equities—outperformed the vast majority of actively managed funds. (Full disclosure: My firm, Buckingham, recommends DFA funds in constructing client portfolios.)
The DFA Emerging Markets Portfolio II (DFETX) had a 25th percentile ranking (which means it outperformed 75% of the surviving actively managed funds), and both DFA’s Emerging Markets Value Portfolio (DFEVX) and DFA’s Emerging Markets Small Cap Portfolio (DEMSX) had 1st percentile rankings. That’s an average ranking in the 9th percentile. And that’s even before considering the survivorship bias in the data, let alone the impact of taxes (the higher turnover of actively managed funds will typically create more negative tax consequences). It is hard to make the claim that emerging markets are inefficient in the face of those results.
The fact that a small percentage of active funds manage to outperform holds out the hope for outperformance. If there were just a way to identify ahead of time the few funds that will outperform in the future, active management in theory would be a winner’s game.
Unfortunately, the literature has shown how difficult a task this is to accomplish. Recently, several papers have claimed that, by using a measure known as “active share,” investors are able to identify the few winners.
I’ve previously discussed some of the issues researchers have raised in relation to the use of active share. Keeping those issues in mind, we do have a new study that attempts to determine if active share can be employed as a measure to identify the few future outperformers.
EM Active Share Up Close
Aron Gottesman and Matthew Morey, authors of the January 2016 study “Active Share and Emerging Market Equity Funds,” examined whether active share was predictive of future performance in emerging markets over the six-year period from 2009 through 2014. The study included 67 actively managed emerging market funds. Following is a summary of their findings:
The most active quintile of funds had active share of at least 78.3%. The average active share was 83.2%, and the highest was 94.5%. For the middle quintile, the figures were 69.2%, 71.2% and 72.3%, respectively. For the lowest quintile, the figures were 61.3%, 49.1% and 23.6%, respectively.
There’s a positive, and significant, relationship between the average level of a fund’s active share and fund performance. More active funds have significantly better performance than less active funds.
A fund’s standard deviation of active share is a negative, and significant, predictor of fund performance. Highly active funds that change their active share over time have significantly worse performance than funds that keep their level of activeness consistent over time.
Expenses are negatively and significantly related to fund performance.
Active share and expenses are positively correlated. Funds with higher active share are more expensive.
Because fees for actively managed emerging market funds are significantly higher than for passively managed ones, there is a high hurdle for active managers to overcome. Thus, closet indexing (funds with low active share) in emerging market equity funds robs investors of the opportunity to outperform. About 16% of the funds studied were closet indexers (had active share of 60% or less).
Gottesman and Morey reached the following conclusions: “We have found that the level of activeness matters for performance. More active funds outperform. In addition we have found that the consistency of the fund’s activeness matters also for performance. Funds that keep their active share consistent over time outperform funds who attempt to alter their active share over time.”
Returns Show A Different Story
Before you draw any conclusions, however, let’s review the authors’ findings on returns. They ranked funds by active share and placed them into quintiles. The table below shows the monthly returns of those quintiles over the period from 2009 through 2014.
While the two most active quintiles did have the highest returns, the least active quintile outperformed the middle quintile and second least active quintile. If active share were predictive, that shouldn’t be the case.
We can now compare the return of the most active quintile with the returns of the three aforementioned DFA emerging markets funds: DFETX, DFEVX and DEMSX.
First, note that all three DFA funds outperformed the bottom four quintiles of active share. Second, while the most active quintile of funds did outperform DFETX and DFEVX, by 5 and 3 basis points a month, respectively, they underperformed DEMSX by a much larger 33 basis points per month. Thus, it is possible that the most active quintile’s outperformance of DFETX and DFEVX was due to the funds in it having some exposure to small-cap stocks, not because they were good stock pickers.
At least based on these facts, it seems hard to make a compelling case that active share is a predictor of future outperformance. One thing we can say is that, unless you have funds in the highest active share quintile, your odds of outperforming are poor. That surely is a loser’s game.
We can add that, given the relatively narrow outperformance of the top quintile, it seems unlikely that taxable investors could benefit from using active share even if it were as a predictor of future performance.
Active Management Dooms Itself
There’s one other issue to consider regarding active share. If it is predictive, then active share contains the seeds of its own destruction. Here’s why: Jonathan Berk, in his paper “Five Myths of Active Portfolio Management,” suggested the following thought process: “Who gets money to manage? Well, since investors know who the skilled managers are, money will flow to the best manager first. Eventually, this manager will receive so much money that it will impact his ability to generate superior returns and his expected return will be driven down to the second best manager’s expected return. At that point investors will be indifferent to investing with either manager and so funds will flow to both managers until their expected returns are driven down to the third best manager. This process will continue until the expected return of investing with any manager is the benchmark expected return—the return investors can expect to receive by investing in a passive strategy of similar riskiness. At that point investors are indifferent between investing with active managers or just indexing and an equilibrium is achieved.”
Berk went on to point out that the manager with the most skill ends up with the most money. He then added: “When capital is supplied competitively by investors but ability is scarce only participants with the skill in short supply can earn economic rents. Investors who choose to invest with active managers cannot expect to receive positive excess returns on a risk-adjusted basis. If they did, there would be an excess supply of capital to those managers.”
There is another reason successful active management (and active share as a useful tool) sows the seeds of its own destruction. As a fund’s assets increase, either trading costs will rise or the fund will have to diversify across more securities to limit trading costs. In other words, its active share will fall.
However, the more a fund diversifies, the more it looks and performs like its benchmark index, becoming that dreaded closet index fund which, as we discussed, has almost no chance of outperforming. And we saw the results from closet index funds in the study by Gottesman and Morey.
Also keep in mind that the publication of papers on active share spreads the word, and thus speeds up the process that Berk described. For investors interested in how the publication of academic research impacts return predictability, I suggest a 2012 paper by R. David McLean and Jeffrey Pontiff, “Does Academic Research Destroy Stock Return Predictability?”
The bottom line is that active share doesn’t look to be that useful a metric, especially for taxable investors.
This commentary originally appeared April 25 on ETF.com
Chief Research Officer
Larry Swedroe is Chief Research Officer for the BAM ALLIANCE.
Previously, Larry was vice chairman of Prudential Home Mortgage. Larry holds an MBA in finance and investment from NYU, and a bachelor’s degree in finance from Baruch College.
To help inform investors about the evidence-based investing approach, he was among the first authors to publish a book that explained evidence-based investing in layman’s terms — The Only Guide to a Winning Investment Strategy You’ll Ever Need. He has authored 15 more books:
What Wall Street Doesn’t Want You to Know (2001)
Rational Investing in Irrational Times (2002)
The Successful Investor Today (2003)
Wise Investing Made Simple (2007)
Wise Investing Made Simpler (2010)
The Quest for Alpha (2011)
Think, Act and Invest Like Warren Buffett (2012)
The Incredible Shrinking Alpha (2015)
Your Complete Guide to Factor-Based Investing (2016)
Reducing the Risk of Black Swans (2018)
Your Complete Guide to a Successful & Secure Retirement (2019)
He also co-authored four books: The Only Guide to a Winning Bond Strategy You’ll Ever Need (2006), The Only Guide to Alternative Investments You’ll Ever Need (2008), The Only Guide You’ll Ever Need for the Right Financial Plan (2010) and Investment Mistakes Even Smart Investors Make and How to Avoid Them (2012). Larry also writes blogs for MutualFunds.com and Index Investor Corner on ETF.com.
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“With our commitment to carbon neutrality, we hope to be a ripple in the pond that creates a much larger change,” said Apple’s CEO Tim Cook.
By Pahull Bains
When you’re one of the world’s biggest tech companies, every decision you make has a big impact. Today, Apple announced that it would be working towards becoming carbon neutral across its entire supply chain and product life cycle by 2030.
The company’s global corporate operations are already carbon neutral but this latest move means every Apple device sold will have net zero climate impact, a necessary step towards bringing its entire carbon footprint to zero.
“Businesses have a profound opportunity to help build a more sustainable future, one born of our common concern for the planet we share,” said Tim Cook, Apple’s CEO, in a statement. “The innovations powering our environmental journey are not only good for the planet — they’ve helped us make our products more energy efficient and bring new sources of clean energy online around the world. Climate action can be the foundation for a new era of innovative potential, job creation, and durable economic growth. With our commitment to carbon neutrality, we hope to be a ripple in the pond that creates a much larger change.”
The company’s 10-year plan aims to lower emissions by pursuing a low carbon product design that utilizes recycled materials, innovating new methods of product recycling, and expanding energy efficiency at its corporate facilities. Apple pledges to remain at 100 per cent renewable energy for its operations, focusing on creating new projects and moving its entire supply chain to clean power, and will also be investing in forests and other natural ecosystems around the world to remove carbon from the atmosphere.
Apple will be sharing details on its approach to carbon neutrality so that other industries may use it as a roadmap for reducing their own environmental impact. The California-based company will also be establishing an Impact Accelerator to focus on investing in minority-owned businesses that drive “positive outcomes in its supply chain and in communities that are disproportionately affected by environmental hazards.” This accelerator is part of Apple’s recently announced $100 million Racial Equity and Justice Initiative focusing on education, economic equality, and criminal justice reform.
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You can now pre-order the final instalment in the five-book Lethbridge-Stewart: Bloodlines sequence of novels from Candy Jar.
Continuing on from The George Kostinen Mystery, Foreword to the Past is written by first-time novelist, Baz Greenland and sees our heroes finally joining forces as they travel through time to save the universe itself.
Range Editor, Andy Frankham-Allen, says:
“Originally entitled Back to the Past, this final part of the sequence was going to be co-written between me and Baz, but after seeing how effortlessly he wrote his short story, The Dinner Party, I decided to step back and let him write it on his own. Baz and I go back a few years now, 2014 I think, and we met when I did a talk at Rhydypennau Library on the companions of Doctor Who. His son displayed a remarkable knowledge of Doctor Who, and I soon got to talking to Baz himself. Since then we’ve often talked about writing, and Baz’s interest in such. As ever, it was just a case of finding the right story for him, the right opportunity. And here we are.”
Baz Greenland has written two plays for the Manchester Fringe theatre scene and a script for online comedy series, Supermarket Matters. His first published prose work was The Dinner Party in last year’s The Laughing Gnome: The Havoc Files collection.
Baz says:
“As a big Doctor Who fan, writing for one of the show’s most iconic characters has been a dream come true. I am incredibly grateful for Andy and Candy Jar Books for giving me the opportunity. With their support, I’ve been able to achieve my dream of seeing my name in print. I cut my teeth into this world with The Dinner Party last year and it’s been an absolute pleasure – and a challenge – to go bigger with Foreword to the Past. Getting into the minds of Lethbridge Stewart, Anne Bishop, George ‘Hobo’ Kostinen, and real-life hero Eileen Le Croissette has been a privilege. I’ve also had the duty of bringing to a conclusion a number of threads running through the Bloodlines series and I hope I’ve done it justice!”
Andy continues:
“With four heroes, it made sense to have two plot threads, and so from the outset of developing Bloodlines, it was essential that the threat not only be directed at Lethbridge-Stewart’s family line, but also Anne’s. The culmination of this sends our heroes into the past – specifically the 1967 Doctor Who serial, The Abominable Snowmen and an event referenced both in Baz’s short story, The Dinner Party, and the book three of Bloodlines, An Ordinary Man. While one team of heroes have to avoid changing the past and interacting with established events, the other team have to ensure that Lethbridge-Stewart’s grandparents meet and fall in love. Both classic sci-fi tropes, and both wonderfully spun into a fun yarn by Baz in Foreword to the Past.”
Baz concludes:
“Foreword to the Past is an epic adventure, filled with lots of wonderful character moments. Getting into their heads, understanding what makes them tick, is what really drives me as a writer and I’ve really put these four heroes through their paces. From a new twist on a classic Doctor Who story to 19th Century France, I wanted to use real and fictional past events to shape the story. On screen, Anne and Lethbridge-Stewart never got to go travelling through time. In Foreword to the Past, I give these characters just that.”
The cover is a return engagement for the artist responsible for The Lucy Wilson Mysteries’ covers, Steve Beckett.
“Foreword to the Past is my third piece of cover art for the Lethbridge-Stewart series. Each cover I have worked on has called for a slightly different art style from me which is great fun and certainly stretches me as an artist. This cover gave me the challenge of developing the look of Hobo who first appeared on the covers of the Lucy Wilson series. The Lucy book covers are very cartoony and Hobo is very simply drawn, so for this book he needed to look more real. The author’s description of Hobo dictated his dress sense and included Hobo’s trademark hoody, but I had to develop his facial features, which was tricky considering his lack of hair and eyebrows! I settled on using my eldest son, Ethan, as a starting point, imagining him without his hair. I wanted to make sure Hobo still had his wide piercing eyes and I think it worked out well. Hobo is probably relieved that he is not being attacked by some alien beastie on this cover for a change!”
Here’s the book’s blurb:
The Accord has assembled its team from various realities: Lethbridge-Stewart, Anne Travers, Eileen Le Croissette and Hobo Kostinen. They have been given their missions…
For Hobo and Eileen, it is a trip to 1935, and Tibet. There they must ensure that anthropologist Edward Travers is not killed. If they fail, he will not go on to meet the Doctor, nor will he go on to father Anne Travers, undoing decades of future history.
For Lethbridge-Stewart and Anne, it is a trip further back, to May 1896, Paris. There they must ensure that Lethbridge-Stewart’s grandparents meet and fall in love. If they do not, then Lethbridge-Stewart’s father will never be born, and neither will Lethbridge-Stewart himself.
But there is a mysterious force at work, targeting both time zones simultaneously. One determined to erase the bloodlines of both the Lethbridge-Stewarts and Traverses, and if it succeeds, the very future of the universe will completely fall apart.
Our heroes must use every skill they possess to protect and restore time, and make sure that the Lethbridge-Stewarts and Traverses go on to protect the future of Earth!
Foreword to the Past will be followed by the final book in Lethbridge-Stewart Series 7, a sequel to 2015’s The Schizoid Earth and a final trip into parallel realities, I, Alastair by Robert Mammone.
You can order Bloodlines: Foreword to the Past from Candy Jar now.
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Editor and co-founder of the Doctor Who Companion. When he’s not watching television, reading books ‘n’ Marvel comics, listening to The Killers, and obsessing over script ideas, Philip Bates pretends to be a freelance writer. He enjoys collecting everything. Writer of The Black Archive: The Pandorica Opens/ The Big Bang, The Silver Archive: The Stone Tape, and 100 Objects of Doctor Who.
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Ian Poulter got into the WGC-HSBC Champions after all
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As it turns out, Ian Poulter didn't need to make that last-minute trip from Orlando to Hong Kong last week.
Poulter is now in the field for next week's WGC-HSBC Champions, getting into the field as the sixth alternate. The first four alternates were drawn into the initial field, and then Tyrrell Hatton replaced the injured George Coetzee. It was down to Poulter on the alternate list, and he got in when Brandt Snedeker declined to play.
After the week of the Frys.com Open and Portugal Masters, Poulter fell out of the top 50 in the Official World Golf Ranking for the first time since September 2006, meaning he wasn't exempt into the final World Golf Championships event of the year. Since the Englishman had planned on competing in the Shanghai-based event to fulfill the European Tour's 13-event participation minimum, Poulter had to find another tournament to replace that intended start.
Only one tournament, the UBS Hong Kong Open, remained on the schedule that Poulter hadn't planned on playing. However, with the open tournament deadline already closed, Poulter could only get into the event with a sponsor's exemption. Rich Beem, the 2002 PGA champion, had one of those exemptions and effectively gifted it to Poulter so he could play, retain his European Tour membership and remain eligible for the 2016 European Ryder Cup team.
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Lest We Forget The Horrors: A Catalog Of Trump’s Worst Cruelties, Collusions, Corruptions, and Crimes
by The Hare Krishna Movement in Divine and Demoniac Natures, Donald Trump, Politics Tags: Amy Sumerton, Ben Parker, Bg 16.4, Bhagavad-gita, Divine and Demoniac Natures, DuRose, John McMurtrie, Kelsey Ronan, mcsweeneys.net, Rachel Villa, Sophia, Stephanie Steinbrecher, Trump
This is a very shocking list or catalog of our current President’s misdeeds that I recently ran across. Click on link below to veiw entire list.
by Ben Parker, Stephanie Steinbrecher, Kelsey Ronan, John McMurtrie, Sophia, DuRose, Rachel Villa, and Amy Sumerton
Early in President Trump’s term, McSweeney’s editors began to catalog the head-spinning number of misdeeds coming from his administration. We called this list a collection of Trump’s cruelties, collusions, and crimes, and it felt urgent then to track them, to ensure these horrors — happening almost daily — would not be forgotten. This election year, amid a harrowing global health, civil rights, humanitarian, and economic crisis, we know it’s never been more critical to note these horrors, to remember them, and to do all in our power to reverse them. This list will be updated between now and the November 2020 Presidential election.
Various writers have compiled this list during the course of the Trump administration. Their work has been guided by invaluable journalistic resources, including WTFJHT, NPR, the New York Times, the Washington Post, and other sources, to whom we are grateful.
The Complete Listing (so far)
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British Writer Pens The Best Description Of Trump I’ve Read
by The Hare Krishna Movement in A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada, Divine and Demoniac Natures, Donald Trump, Qualities of a Devotee Tags: A. C. Bhakthvedanta Swami Prabhupada, as it is, Bhagavad-gita, british, British writer, Divine and Demoniac Natures, Donald Trump, Nate White, troll
Although I don’t normally do political posts from this page, we are living in difficult times, in the midst of a modern viral pandemic, and we see that our political leader has no transcendental vision and does not know what is actually beneficial for human society.
by Nate White
“Why do some British people not like Donald Trump?” Nate White, an articulate and witty writer from England wrote the following response:
A few things spring to mind. Trump lacks certain qualities which the British traditionally esteem. For instance, he has no class, no charm, no coolness, no credibility, no compassion, no wit, no warmth, no wisdom, no subtlety, no sensitivity, no self-awareness, no humility, no honour and no grace – all qualities, funnily enough, with which his predecessor Mr. Obama was generously blessed. So for us, the stark contrast does rather throw Trump’s limitations into embarrassingly sharp relief.
Plus, we like a laugh. And while Trump may be laughable, he has never once said anything wry, witty or even faintly amusing – not once, ever. I don’t say that rhetorically, I mean it quite literally: not once, not ever. And that fact is particularly disturbing to the British sensibility – for us, to lack humour is almost inhuman. But with Trump, it’s a fact. He doesn’t even seem to understand what a joke is – his idea of a joke is a crass comment, an illiterate insult, a casual act of cruelty.
The Divine and Demoniac Natures
by The Hare Krishna Movement in A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada, Bhagavad-gita, Divine and Demoniac Natures, Donald Trump Tags: anger, Arrogance, conceit, Demoniac, demoniac nature, harshness, ignorance, pride
We are in the middle of a pandemic that is killing thousands of people worldwide.
Here in America we have a president that instead of acting in a sympathetic, compassionate way towards the sufferings of others, is instead criticizing and blaming others. This is not a good quality for a leader who should be taking responsibility for the safety and welfare of his citizens. All his self glorification, and his attack on others, in this time of turmoil, I find very disturbing and reminiscent of the description given in the 16th chapter of the Bhagavad-gita entitled “The Divine and Demon Natures”
Arrogance, pride, anger, conceit, harshness and ignorance—these qualities belong to those of demonic nature… (Bg. 4.16)
Those who are demoniac do not know what is to be done and what is not to be done. Neither cleanliness nor proper behavior nor truth is found in them. (Bg. 7.16)
The demoniac person thinks: “So much wealth do I have today, and I will gain more according to my schemes. So much is mine now, and it will increase in the future, more and more. He is my enemy, and I have killed him; and my other enemy will also be killed. I am the lord of everything, I am the enjoyer, I am perfect, powerful and happy. I am the richest man, surrounded by aristocratic relatives. There is none so powerful and happy as I am. I shall perform sacrifices, I shall give some charity, and thus I shall rejoice.” In this way, such persons are deluded by ignorance. (Bg. 13-15.16)
Following such conclusions, the demoniac, who are lost to themselves and who have no intelligence, engage in unbeneficial, horrible works meant to destroy the world. ( Bg. 9.16)
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by The Hare Krishna Movement in A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada, Divine and Demoniac Natures Tags: 1972 Edition, A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada, Arjuna, as it is, austerity, Bhagavad-gita As It Is, charity, cultivation of spiritual knowledge, Demoniac, Divine, Fearlessness, Krishna, performance of sacrifice, purification of one’s existence, self-control, Sri Bhagavan uvaca, study of the Vedas, the blessed Lord said, the divine and demoniac natures
Bhagavad-gītā As It Is 1972 Edition
By His Divine Grace A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupāda
Lust, Anger & Greed
by The Hare Krishna Movement in A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada, Bhagavad-gita, Divine and Demoniac Natures Tags: A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada. As It Is, anger, Bg. 16. 10-12, bhagavad-gita, Demoniac, Divine, greed, human civilization, lust, Original 1972 Edition, sense gratificiation, The Divine and Demoneac Natures
They believe that to gratify the senses unto the end of life is the prime necessity of human civilization. Thus there is no end to their anxiety. Being bound by hundreds and thousands of desires, by lust and anger, they secure money by illegal means for sense gratification.
Bhagavad-gītā As It Is
Chapter 16, Text 10-12
kāmam āśritya duṣpūraṁ
dambha-māna-madānvitāḥ
mohād gṛhītvāsad-grāhān
pravartante ’śuci-vratāḥ
kāmam—lust; āśritya—taking shelter of; duṣpūram—insatiable; dambha—pride; māna—false prestige; mada-anvitāḥ—absorbed in conceit; mohāt—by illusion; gṛhītvā—taking; asat—nonpermanent; grāhān—things; pravartante—flourish; aśuci—unclean; vratāḥ—avowed.
The demoniac, taking shelter of insatiable lust, pride and false prestige, and being thus illusioned, are always sworn to unclean work, attracted by the impermanent.
The demoniac mentality is described here. The demons’ lust is never satiated. They will go on increasing and increasing their insatiable desires for material enjoyment. Although they are always full of anxieties on account of accepting nonpermanent things, they still continue to engage in such activities out of illusion. They have no knowledge and cannot tell that they are heading the wrong way. Accepting nonpermanent things, such demoniac people create their own God, create their own hymns and chant accordingly. The result is that they become more and more attracted to two things—sex enjoyment and accumulation of material wealth. The word aśuci-vratāḥ, unclean vow, is very significant in this connection. Such demoniac people are only attracted by wine, women, gambling and meat eating; those are their aśuci, unclean habits. Induced by pride and false prestige, they create some principles of religion which are not approved by the Vedic injunctions. Although such demoniac people are most abominable in the world, still, by artificial means, the world creates a false honor for them. Although they are gliding toward hell, they consider themselves very much advanced.
by The Hare Krishna Movement in A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada, Bhagavad-gita, Divine and Demoniac Natures Tags: A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada, as it is, Bg chapter 16, bhagavad-gita, Demoniac, Divine, nature, qualities
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Donald Trump Says He Can Buy Politicians, None of His Rivals Disagree
Trump was illustrating the key problem with the current campaign finance system: It has essentially legalized bribery.
August 7 2015, 3:15 p.m.
Donald Trump bragged Thursday night that he could buy politicians — even the ones sharing the stage with him at a Republican presidential debate.
Trump was asked about something he said in a previous interview: “When you give, they do whatever the hell you want them to do.”
“You’d better believe it,” Trump said. “If I ask them, if I need them, you know, most of the people on this stage I’ve given to, just so you understand, a lot of money.”
The only complaints came from two candidates who yelled that they had received no Trump money. As Trump continued to talk, he was interrupted by Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., complaining that Trump instead gave campaign contributions to Rubio’s Democratic opponent.
“I hope you will give to me,” said Gov. John Kasich of Ohio.
“Sounds good. Sounds good to me, governor,” said Trump.
Without missing a beat, the real estate tycoon continued: “I was a businessman. I give to everybody. When they call, I give. And you know what? When I need something from them, two years later, three years later, I call them, and they are there for me.” He added, “And that’s a broken system.”
Repeatedly asked what he got in return for his donations, Trump said: “With Hillary Clinton, I said be at my wedding and she came to my wedding. You know why? She didn’t have a choice because I gave. I gave to a foundation that, frankly, that foundation is supposed to do good.”
Though it surely wasn’t his intention, Trump was illustrating the key problem with the current campaign finance system. Campaign contributions are legally considered bribes only when there is an explicit quid-pro-quo. But as Trump explained, giving money to politicians bought him access and relationships, which he could leverage down the road in the form of favors. Such conflicts of interest are inherent in privately funded election systems.
No one on stage disputed Trump’s depiction of the American political system. In fact, it was taken as a given.
Earlier in the debate, Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., had stated that Trump “buys and sells politicians of all stripes.” He wasn’t so much complaining that big donors like Trump can buy and sell politicians as grumbling that Trump should only purchase Republicans. (Trump, indicating toward Paul, responded: “Well, I’ve given him plenty of money.”)
Trump has indeed made a considerable number of political donations, as recorded by OpenSecrets.org. But those records don’t show a contribution to Paul.
At another point, Trump said that the U.S. health care system is badly designed because “the insurance companies … have total control of the politicians” with which they’re “making a fortune.”
Other candidates also referenced the corrupting influence of money in politics. Former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee stated that “the problem is we have a Wall Street-to-Washington access of power that has controlled the political climate.” He continued: “The donor class feeds the political class who does the dance that the donor class wants. And the result is federal government keeps getting bigger.”
Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, said that there are many “career politicians in both parties who get in bed with the lobbyists and special interests.”
Last weekend, GOP contenders Cruz, Rubio, Walker, Jeb Bush and Carly Fiorina attended a private meeting of elite campaign donors at a retreat in Southern California organized by Koch Industries chief executive Charles Koch. At the time Trump tweeted: “I wish good luck to all of the Republican candidates that traveled to California to beg for money etc. from the Koch Brothers. Puppets?”
Lee Fang[email protected]theintercept.com@lhfang
abbadabba
August 10 2015, 3:36 p.m.
Does anyone else pine for the days of a Frank Costello or a Lucky Luciano to show this bully who’s boss in business and politics? The guy ain’t got no CLASS!! All he’s done is bring the heat down on the family. There’s an app for that.
Rudy Haugeneder
Now you know the absolute truth. Time to vote for the Green Party, the party of integrity that promotes the growth of green business while saving the environment.
Are you smart and concerned enough to vote Green Party. I doubt it. You are also puppets to the oligarchy.
patrick mcneal
August 10 2015, 1:33 a.m.
Would someone send this to each of justices on the supreme court.
The naive explanation of the majority in the “Citizens United” case says that money doesn’t have an effect on politicians seems to be contradicted Trump’s statements.
But then the explanation was just a white wash so the Justices can realize their vision of America where those who own the country run the country
Well David Duke and Cynthia McKinney are right. Zionism rules DC.
If someone had made Trump’s comments even 10 years ago it would have been shocking. Today it is no big deal. We all know the system is corrupt and it’s just business as usual anymore.
Tom Lowe
Great article through and through. Thank you!
August 9 2015, 12:42 p.m.
So Democracy is not possible when money buys Freedom and Rights for only the “privileged ” ones. The politicians act as our “Daddy” making sure to set all our “limits”…speech, jobs, money, access to land, credit, Rights, etc. They (the political Daddys we elect) make sure we are always told “No” on EVERYTHING that would let the general Public advance and progress.
The Rich are given a “free pass” on EVERYTHING that would or could ever limit their enjoyment of “Democracy” and their “Pursuit of Happiness”. Little things such as – Little or no taxes, little or no business regulations, no police harassment….no limits on anything they desire.
So, while we, the “average American” continue to hear the same lies/promises from each one of the Daddy/politicians spewing their boring, prepared dribble….Trump has made Public everything we have always known: “Politicians are whores. They care nothing about YOUR future; YOUR Family; YOUR Country. They only care about THEIR FUTURE IN POLITICS AND THEIR WEALTH….even if it costs YOU everything YOU have worked hard for!
They will pass laws that will turn you into a criminal; pass laws to protect the biggest thieves a.k.a. bankers; support endless wars using YOUR money and killing and maiming YOUR kids; they will send EVERY American job overseas; they will allow millions more illegal immigrants to take YOUR money and YOUR children’s Future, etc. Why? Because, you elected them!
Selecting between that “lesser-of-two-evils” is always how the final voting goes. You want to fix the Political System? Stop choosing your Destroyer! Break the election system completely by, NOT getting involved with it. Just DO NOTHING….so simple and easy to do. You are only going to vote to elect ANOTHER political whore that is working hard to cause your demise!
If you involve yourself, you are responsible for the finally outcome.
I refuse to vote so, I can complain about whatever happen because I had nothing to do with it! The fools that say, “Well if you want change, you should vote” ….are assuming that there would be at least ONE moral, patriotic politician that would follow the American Way and Constitution….Nope! THEY ARE ALL about the money and can be bought-off!
EACH and EVERY POLITICIAN is all about the money and if they are not, they don’t stay in politics very long!
So, your vote doesn’t and is designed not to change the “Status Quo” of the political system. This is what your vote does, it guarantees No Change, No Hope, No Way Out.
So go back to your beer and football and worrying about losing your job…..
Tom Lowe Reality
I agree 1000%. I also quit voting after the 2000 Bush SCOTUS-POTUS magick.
Socman Reality
August 10 2015, 12:52 p.m.
There are a group of posters – possibly paid – whose pitch is “they’re all the same”, so don’t participate, don’t speak out, and don’t vote. It should be clear that not voting – even for the write-in candidate of your choice – support the Republiclone agenda which is almost entirely based on restricting the vote.
Don’t be deceived by this propaganda.
August 9 2015, 2:40 a.m.
I like the title of this article. It seems as of late there are so many of these titles that seem like they belong in The Onion, and yet they are happening in real life. I think my 2nd favorite title from a The Intercept article was, “Nobel Peace Prize Winner President Obama Bombs 7th Country”. That one also seemed like it belonged in The Onion.
Did Donald Trump shoot himself in the foot by making the bleeding wherever comment? I don’t know. His defense that he was trying to come up with nose but couldn’t think of it seems weird, but then again, Rick Perry couldn’t remember the names of the 3 agencies he wanted to get rid of. Also, his other comments about Mexican rapists didn’t sink him so who knows if this will hurt him?
Tom Lowe Person
Sticks and stones. The women who were offended are all Hil-shills who would not have voted for Trump anyway. The men who professed to be offended are all toadies to the usual suspects and would not have voted for Trump anyway. In my own opinion, the vacuous Megyn Kelly is a paragon of an airheaded newsmedia personality merely propagating propaganda from the usual suspects.
It is almost painful that the level of cretinism and cynicism of this debate just manages to be accepted by most. On a regular basis, all of these sad candidates blatantly give out all the ammunition critics need to ridicule them.
No one should have to repeat and analyse this debate to show how corrupted, conniving and dishonest these people are.
Tom Lowe Katrina
On what basis do you make all of these negative claims? Would you care to enlighten us with some actual facts, or are you just limited to spewing invective?
Socman Tom Lowe
Katrina was perfectly clear to me as she referenced both the article and the comments – all here and readable if you’d care to. This poster is guilty of his own claims: spew.
Huckabee is way off of the mark. With this dance going on between donors and the politicians our government becomes more, and more, and more capitalist! He is lying through his teeth or stupid! All capitalism is is a means to strip everyone else of the wealth and power and continue until the planet has been destroyed for human life! The Earth has CANCER and it is the human race!
Tom Lowe william w Haywood
What obtains today is not capitalism. It is fascistic oligarchical criminality which the fascistic oligarchical criminals call capitalism as a way to fool you. And in that they have succeeded.
BTW I want to hear what your solution is.
Every single one of our elected folks are bought and paid for before they ever do their first day on the job of representing the 1%! The 99% are not really a part of the equation anymore. Apoplectic capitalism! With this much wealth in their veins thay have had a stroke, and are acting like it!
Now that I agree with 1000%.
MrJollyGreen william w Haywood
Theres still hope. look up Bernie Sanders
Arizona Patroit
Donald is right. He is the only candidate that can’t be bought. He proved his point with his Hillary Clinton story. My vote is for the only candidate that can’t be bought. DONALD TRUMP!
Tom Lowe Arizona Patroit
The banksters thought they bought Trump a long time ago. But he just might turn out to be their Vlad Tepes. And in her own way, Madonna might just be a Vlad Tepes as well. She is on the inside, and she has got their number.
We have to have public financing of campaigns, private contributions of any amount illegal. There are more details to be provided, but that is an introduction to the restoration of our greatness.
Much as though I find him offensive, full of teenage angst and ‘touched’ by celebrity and that he would make a terrible President – like all Cult of Personality leaders around the world. But, he’s right about the Health Care system and that Government , policy and Law is up for sale to the highest bidder/donor both nationally and internationally.
But, I don’t think he cares whether he is elected or not, the Presidency certainly won’t add to the power he wields with his dollars. It would merely be another feather in his cap. A trophy for his shelf. A chance to ride in Airforce One – Woopee!
So, this throwing the cat among the pigeons, is it to feed his ego? Or is it just his idea of having a whole lot of his kind of fun at the expense of others, showing people that he is a law unto himself and will do whatever he pleases. And above all that no one can (or will dare to) touch him in a way that does his own kingdom any damage.
It’s fascinating if nothing else. Maybe that is what he is really after, the attention.
MrJollyGreen a1
look up Bernie Sanders
Does it make sense, as Trump claims, to elect a president so wealthy that they can’t be corrupted by money? I decided to do a correlation test between the performance rankings of presidents by the Siena College Research Institute survey and compare these to the rankings by net worth.
I used the Siena College performance rankings since my own rankings, while undoubtedly superior, might lead to accusations of personal bias. The results show a stronger correlation of performance to net worth than I had expected. Four of the top six ranked presidents were also in the top six in net worth (Washington, Jefferson, Theodore Roosevelt and Madison). For only 12 of the 43 presidents was the difference between their rankings on the two lists greater than 10. For only 6 was the difference greater than 20. Those six outliers consist of three presidents who ranked highly on performance, but had relatively low net worth: Lincoln, Wilson and Truman. And three presidents who ranked poorly, despite relatively high net worth: Hoover, Tyler and G.W.Bush.
For those who are statistically minded, if you eliminate those 6 cases, the R-squared coefficient of the linear fit between performance and net worth is 0.6251 – which is a fairly strong positive correlation.
Here is the full list of presidents, their performance ranking, net worth ranking and the difference between them. A positive difference indicates a higher performance than predicted purely by net worth. Hence Lincoln, while only ranking third in terms of performance, is sometimes considered the greatest president because he did so well in overcoming the handicap of his relatively low net worth.
Franklin D. Roosevelt: 1, 9, 8
Theodore Roosevelt: 2, 4, 2
Abraham Lincoln: 3, 37, 34
George Washington: 4, 2, -2
Thomas Jefferson: 5, 3, -2
James Madison: 6, 6, 0
James Monroe: 7, 12, 5
Woodrow Wilson: 8, 42, 34
Harry Truman: 9, 44, 35
Dwight D. Eisenhower: 10, 24, 14
John F. Kennedy: 11, 1, -10
James K. Polk: 12, 12, 0
Bill Clinton: 13, 10, -3
Andrew Jackson: 14, 5, -9
Barack Obama: 15, 22, 7
Lyndon B. Johnson: 16, 7, -9
John Adams: 17, 19, 2
Ronald Reagan: 18, 21, 3
John Quincy Adams: 19, 17, -2
Grover Cleveland: 20, 14, -6
William McKinley: 21, 34, 13
George H. W. Bush: 22, 16, -6
Martin Van Buren: 23, 13, -10
William Howard Taft: 24, 32, 8
Chester A. Arthur: 25, 41, 16
Ulysses S. Grant: 26, 39, 13
James A. Garfield: 27, 40, 13
Gerald Ford: 28, 25, -3
Calvin Coolidge: 29, 43, 14
Richard Nixon: 30, 20, -10
Rutherford B. Hayes: 31, 31, 0
Jimmy Carter: 32, 26, -6
Zachary Taylor: 33, 27, -6
Benjamin Harrison: 34, 29, -5
William Henry Harrison: 35, 28, -7
Herbert Hoover: 36, 8, -28
John Tyler: 37, 11, -26
Millard Fillmore: 38, 30, -8
George W. Bush: 39, 18, -21
Franklin Pierce: 40, 33, -7
Warren G. Harding: 41, 35, -6
James Buchanan: 42, 36, -6
Andrew Johnson: 43, 38, -5
(I ask that no one take this too seriously, as the only indisputable fact that can be gleaned from this list is that the US has had a lot of mediocre presidents).
Tom Lowe Benito Mussolini
My father, a conservative who generally hung around with other conservatives, had a wealthy friend ‘Bill’ who owned a car dealership. My father joked that “Bill is a democrat–for effect”.
Socman Benito Mussolini
So sorry to have to say this, but as you should know: correlation is not cause.
Benito Mussolini Socman
But it may suggest an hypothesis. A president requires cooperation from established institutions. A president who opposes those vested interests may be less effective at implementing an agenda – and hence less effective overall. A wealthier president might have a better relationship with more powerful constituencies (since the wealthiest segments of society are also the most powerful) and therefore can get things done.
The exceptions – Lincoln, Wilson and Truman – were all war time presidents. So they possibly benefitted from the mobilization of support in face of more pressing national concerns. The other three exceptions in the opposite direction – Bush, Hoover and Tyler – may simply have been incompetent.
So if a president’s performance is measured by how well he protects established interests, there might be a logical explanation for the observed correlation.
avelna2001
They pretend to dislike yet fully support the pay to play system that is American politics. And the American electorate, for the most part, buys right into it. It’s a thoroughly depressing spectacle.
No, Trump DID intend to show the corruption of the system. ..
Brett Ludwig
Quote from Trump, in this article, regarding donations being a problem:
He added, “And that’s a broken system.”
Quote from this article, a few paragraphs later, seemingly forgetting that trump was saying it was a problem:
Though it surely wasn’t his intention, Trump was illustrating the key problem with the current campaign finance system.
JWS
August 8 2015, 12:15 a.m.
Of course they agree with Trump, the other 9 ALL have a price and all 9 are hoping and praying the Kochs will buy them.
red ryder
So big deal, money talks BS walks. Politicians have sold their souls for money since day 1. Remember everyone the coffin has no pockets !!!!
james red ryder
People like u r the problem too
Socman red ryder
But not anywhere near this extent, and not under the condition of a fully developed oligarchy and international monopoly. In this light, it is a VERY big deal.
“You’d better believe it,” Trump said. “If I ask them, if I need them, you know, most of the people on this stage I’ve given to, just so you understand, a lot of money … I was a businessman. I give to everybody. When they call, I give. And you know what? When I need something from them, two years later, three years later, I call them, and they are there for me.”
Given that The Donald did a lot of business in New Jersey, this should concern Gov. Chris Christie.
And the winner of the GOP Presidential debate is: Bernie Sanders!
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You say “Though it surely wasn’t his intention, Trump was illustrating the key problem with the current campaign finance system.” — that was exactly his intention. After describing how it works, he even said, ” that’s a broken system”.
Bill Owen Dave
That was my take too.
wiltmellow
Good for Trump.
Any normal moderators would have followed up on Trump’s assertion. ( E.g., Are you saying US politicians’ political positions and votes reflect the values of those giving them money? Who has accepted money from Koch industries? From AIPAC? Do these donations have anything to do with your positions on the Iranian treaty?)
But the Fox panelists had their own Republican agenda — to make these buffoons appear thoughtful and principled. (The question isn’t who will make a great President … the question is “who is the bestest for the Republican brand boys and girls?”)
But none of the rest of the media noticed this “the emperor wears no clothes” moment, although it should be the single headline to emerge from these stiffs’ inane blabbering.
Who will shed a tear for these spineless hirelings when they must deplore themselves to keep their pockets stuffed full of corporate cash?
They’re all illustrating Bernie Sanders message, perfectly. The Republicans candidates can’t help but confess. It’s eating them up inside. “Forgive us, American people, we have sinned.”
repulsed by dem all
The lead inquisitors candidly discuss the corruption at the highest levels of “righteousness” yet avoid discussion about the effects of their elitist policies including the budding WWIII resulting from US proxy wars that was planned out by Neo cons in the “Project for a New American Century”.
“The world is big crime scene, nah mean…” ~ NAS & Damian “Nah Mean”
” In fact, they not only assume the risk of bankruptcy, but price it into the deal when they lend Donald Trump or anyone else money.”
I’d be curious how big of a premium would be added onto mortgages if bankruptcies were part of the business. I don’t think there’s many customers that would be too eager to ask for an extra percentage point to be added onto their mortgage rate in exchange for a bankruptcy option.
Some of the things Trump says are actually very refreshing and perceptive. If only he didn’t seem so dirty and egomaniacal he might be worth considering supporting. Too untrustworthy and unthoughtful is the problem with his image.
Roger Springfield Jacob
Too untrustworthy compared to whom?
I’m sorry, but this was nowhere near as creepy as watching these people call for “politically incorrect war” and (especially) for that creepy neurosurgeon to talk about how he’s not going to talk about what kind of torture he’s going to do to prisoners (but I bet it involves getting into their heads in a far more literal way).
Fred Cowan
I am no great fan of Trump and also no fan of someone else interpreting another’s remarks, who the hell knows what the Donald real means?
I previously stated: Trump is the elephant in the room and a “rouge” that threatens a third party run. Who knows what he might actually propose or accomplish IF elected. He both frightens and fascinates and minimally establishes interest and pulls more people into politics by rocking the boat of the established elites who deserve a dunking. Trump is one of few candidates that for good or ill might upset (double-entendre) the established powers. My issues are to restore a Constitutional Republic by checking surveillance and plutocracy. For this I give him and other such “off key” candidates, right (Paul, Carson) and left (Warren, Sanders) at least an ear if not my support. The rule of law and some semblance of equity and sanity in policy “trumps” ideologies that both serve the same masters. The down side for any outsider to be elected major financial, terrorists act, police state or other revelation or an epic scandal will have to hit the fan and splatter those with the gold that make the rules.
Louise Cypher Fred Cowan
Trump would make a good President.
And frankly, compared to the current one, it is very probable that even an inanimate object would perform better.
You Sound Smarter When You Don't Talk Louise Cypher
It’s really cute how you think your opinion is even remotely valuable.
Louise Cypher
There is an obvious solution to this issue, and that is that billionaires get off their lazy behinds and enter politics themselves. Mark Zuckerberg and Jeff Bezos campaigning to unseat President Trump in 2020, now that would be a spectacle worth watching.
Richard Caldwell Louise Cypher
For sadomasochists perhaps.
Dorothy Stewart Louise Cypher
Marc Andreessen would be a better fit for your ideology.
Louise Cypher Dorothy Stewart
The more the merrier, to be honest.
Jose Louise Cypher
You don’t say, Louise. I couldn’t have guessed your political position on this.
In other words, billionaires don’t quite have everything yet. They should get the presidency too.
coram nobis Louise Cypher
It’s interesting; The Donald could merely buy and sell us. Bezos and Zuckerberg already know more about us personally than anybody outside NSA or the three credit bureaux, so they could bring their own surveillance to the job.
Louise Cypher coram nobis
Good thinking. That’s at least half the deficit dealt with right there.
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Internal dose escalation associated with increased local control for melanoma brain metastases treated with stereotactic radiosurgery
William R. Kennedy, Todd A. DeWees, Sahaja Acharya, Mustafaa Mahmood, Nels C. Knutson, S. Murty Goddu, James A. Kavanaugh, Timothy J. Mitchell, Keith M. Rich, Albert H. Kim, Eric C. Leuthardt, Joshua L. Dowling, Gavin P. Dunn, Michael R. Chicoine, Stephanie M. Perkins, Jiayi Huang, Christina I. Tsien, Clifford G. Robinson, and Christopher D. Abraham
The internal high-dose volume varies widely for a given prescribed dose during stereotactic radiosurgery (SRS) to treat brain metastases (BMs). This may be altered during treatment planning, and the authors have previously shown that this improves local control (LC) for non–small cell lung cancer BMs without increasing toxicity. Here, they seek to identify potentially actionable dosimetric predictors of LC after SRS for melanoma BM.
The records of patients with unresected melanoma BM treated with single-fraction Gamma Knife RS between 2006 and 2017 were reviewed. LC was assessed on a per-lesion basis, defined as stability or a decrease in lesion size. Outcome-oriented approaches were utilized to determine optimal dichotomization for dosimetric variables relative to LC. Univariable and multivariable Cox regression analysis was implemented to evaluate the impact of collected parameters on LC.
Two hundred eighty-seven melanoma BMs in 79 patients were identified. The median age was 56 years (range 31–86 years). The median follow-up was 7.6 months (range 0.5–81.6 months), and the median survival was 9.3 months (range 1.3–81.6 months). Lesions were optimally stratified by volume receiving at least 30 Gy (V30) greater than or equal to versus less than 25%. V30 was ≥ and < 25% in 147 and 140 lesions, respectively. For all patients, 1-year LC was 83% versus 66% for V30 ≥ and < 25%, respectively (p = 0.001). Stratifying by volume, lesions 2 cm or less (n = 215) had 1-year LC of 82% versus 70% (p = 0.013) for V30 ≥ and < 25%, respectively. Lesions > 2 to 3 cm (n = 32) had 1-year LC of 100% versus 43% (p = 0.214) for V30 ≥ and < 25%, respectively. V30 was still predictive of LC even after controlling for the use of immunotherapy and targeted therapy. Radionecrosis occurred in 2.8% of lesions and was not significantly associated with V30.
For a given prescription dose, an increased internal high-dose volume, as indicated by measures such as V30 ≥ 25%, is associated with improved LC but not increased toxicity in single-fraction SRS for melanoma BM. Internal dose escalation is an independent predictor of improved LC even in patients receiving immunotherapy and/or targeted therapy. This represents a dosimetric parameter that is actionable at the time of treatment planning and warrants further evaluation.
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Seven scoops six from six
March 21st, 2016 By David Knox 1 commentFiled under: News,
Seven now has 6 wins from 6 weeks, as TV heads into two weeks of Easter non-ratings.
Seven’s start to the year has been impressive, with Nine and TEN barely able to chalk up any hits against the might of My Kitchen Rules.
Morning television and 7flix notwithstanding, Seven’s primetime is the poster child for Free to Air ratings.
But last week Nine came home with a wet sail thanks to the NRL and ICC World Twenty20 Cricket. Nine managed to win the week in the biggest markets, Sydney and Melbourne.
TEN’s share dropped slightly without I’m A Celebrity Get Me Out of Here but its newer titles were amongst its best. It just needs them to rate higher.
Seven: 30.1
Nine: 27.7
ABC: 18.5
TEN: 17.0
SBS: 6.7
Primary channel:
Seven won the demos 16-39, 18-49 and 25-54.
Best brands were:
Seven: My Kitchen Rules (1.5m), Seven News (Sun: 1.03m), Downton Abbey (872,000) and Seven Year Switch (858,000).
Nine: Nine News (Sun: 1.01m), Australia’s Got Talent (Winner announced: 935,000), A Current Affair (823,000) and The Big Bang Theory (809,000).
ABC: Doc Martin (1.04m), Death in Paradise (904,000), ABC News (Sat: 882,000) and The Doctor Blake Mysteries (794,000).
TEN: I’m A Celebrity Get Me Out of Here (1.06m), All Star Family Feud (648,000), Long Lost Family (564,000) and The Project (7pm: 531,000).
SBS: Great Continental Railway Journeys (325,000), 24 Hours in Emergency (309,000), Insight (282,000) and In Defence of Food (273,000).
Multichannels:
GO!: 4.2
7TWO: 3.7
7mate: 3.5
ABC2: 3.1
GEM: 2.7
ONE: 2.6
9Life / ELEVEN: 2.5
7flix: 1.4
ABC News 24: 1.3
SBS Food Network: 1.1
SBS 2: 0.9
NITV: 0.1
Seven won Sunday – Wednesday, Nine scored Thursday – Saturday. ABC bettered TEN on Monday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday and Saturday.
Seven won in Brisbane, Adelaide and Perth but Nine took Sydney & Melbourne.
Tags: 24 Hours in Emergency, A Current Affair, ABC News, All Star Family Feud, Australia's Got Talent, Death In Paradise, Doc Martin, Downton Abbey, Great Continental Railway Journeys, I'm a Celebrity Get Me Out of Here, In Defence of Food, Insight, Long Lost Family, My Kitchen Rules, Nine News, NRL, Seven News, Seven Year Switch, The Big Bang Theory, The Doctor Blake Mysteries, The Project, Twenty20 cricket
andrewb March 21, 2016 2:22 pm
Seven winning the ratings regardless of whether the main channel is in HD or not would no doubt be their best argument right now not to outlay the expense to switch the main channel to HD.
Also – with 7flix only contributing 1.4% to Seven’s network share, they’d be winning even if 7flix did not launch (which perhaps would have allowed Seven to put more thought into the channel and its programming).
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As 2020 has drawn to a close and we start the new year I thought it timely to provide a little update on TWRFC.
It has been a challenging year for the club with virtually no senior rugby to talk of and an interrupted and rather constrained Colts/Youth/Ladies/Mini’s rugby. Despite the adversity I’m pleased to share that TWRFC is thriving.
One of our key purposes at TWRFC is to be a centre of sporting excellence in Tunbridge Wells for all players at whatever level they are able to compete, our ability to do this has been heavily constrained throughout 2020 by both the Government and RFU guidelines. During this year our focus has inevitably shifted to maintaining a Covid-safe environment for our members, retaining our strong club-community and safeguarding the financial future of the club through these difficult times.
In-spite of the challenging environment, we have kept the Youth/Ladies/Mini’s active at times when they have really needed it. I would like to recognise and thank all the coaches and volunteers who have worked so hard to deliver the maximum programme of rugby permitted within the constraints. Whilst I’m sure all of us in the rugby community had appetite for more, it was still great to be able to offer the rugby we did, and the positive feedback and support we received across the club was much appreciated. I’d also like to thank Martin for keeping us on the straight and narrow as regards the ever-changing and indecipherable Covid requirements. To call out a few highlights from the youth section:
We have record numbers of family/youth members (over 650 youth players)
Out U6’s hit a new record for membership, breaking through the 125 mark for an age group
The Ladies numbers have risen yet again with all teams playing great rugby and enjoying the game. It’s particularly pleasing to see the advent of the Under 11s section which looks set to improve the pipeline of players into the older Ladies age-groups.
The Academy are back to full strength and challenging at the right levels. Even making a final… that was never played!
We also got the Kiwi camp away which gave lots of kids a fantastic outlet in the summer.
Prior to the pandemic, the first XV played some fantastic exciting attacking rugby resulting in a healthy (above Sevenoaks) finish to the 2019/20 season. They have established themselves fully in L&SE premier and I know they are now keen to push on and challenge themselves for promotion. Looking forward, Simon Whatling has been joined by Dave Marshall as our new DoR and Ben Kayser as our new forward’s coach. We have the best coaching team in the area and these guys should be a magnet to new members. Not sure Ben will thank me for the photo I used! We don’t really know what the rest of the season holds, hopefully the first XV will take part in a friendly local tournament with teams like Sevenoaks, Westcombe Park, Dorking etc. Which would be an excellent opportunity to get behind your club and enjoy a celebratory atmosphere. I am optimistic that the rest of our senior rugby and academy will ‘hopefully’ get going soon and get some rugby under their (ever growing) belts.
Ben Kayser – our new Forwards Coach
Importantly we have also kept a very keen eye on our finances. Our income has been severely impacted by the pandemic: Many of our sponsors are themselves under pressure, and I’d very much like to thank those who continue to support the club in these difficult times, Inevitably a few were unable to continue to support the club to the extent they had done previously. We also had to cancel all our usual fun (and fundraising) events; and have seen the bar sales reduced to nil. Typically, sponsorship, bar and events would account for roughly 2/3rds of our revenue. We have sought to replace as much of the lost revenue as we could, though new sources (puppy clubs, fitness clubs, school rentals etc. even a football academy), maximising the revenue opportunities afforded by the café (Thanks to Martha and crew). We were also able to secure a couple of grants and take advantage of VAT reduction and deferment schemes. We have managed to significantly reduce our costs. Expenditure has been watched by everybody like a hawk to ensure we are as lean as possible.
Typically, membership subscriptions account for the remaining ~third of our revenue. This season we encouraged membership to be paid early and in full where possible, and helped by the switch to Spond, 65% of membership subscriptions were paid prior to the start of the season. There are still a small number of members who could help us here…. We have been overwhelmed by people’s generosity in donating funds from cancelled tours, cancelled youth balls and supporting the club in many other ways. Thank you everyone, for working hard to achieve the above. I am delighted to say despite the unusual circumstances we are in good financial health and have clear visibility of cash to see us through to next season. Special thanks as always to Don Bailey for taking on the extra work requires to afford us month-to-month forecasting.
Off the pitch, we have secured new volunteers who are doing ever broader roles for the club. Our press and marketing group in particular has grown fantastically. Thank you for some amazing articles, great coverage, good sponsor interaction and of course those fun videos. Our members also engaged in helping the locally community, and collectively raised £6,000 for Nourish and Hospice in the Weald, through the 6-nations challenge; and the U13s race between kids/parents to Rome.
Looking towards St. Mark – during 2020 we invested in the clubhouse and grounds: new PA system outside, new sound system inside, new Café, new decking and gazebo (see photo). We have kept up progress of our 3G planning application (thanks to Richard Bains). The club is progressing our development plans and with our planning consultation back (and positive) we have created a new Development committee under the leadership of Steve Daly to progress our ambitions here. If you have time to help, then do let Steve know (steve@ascenderconsulting.co.uk).
Moving into 2021, all sections will continue to deliver as much rugby as the Government and RFU allow us to. We know how important this is and we can’t wait to get some fixtures delivered too. As soon as circumstances permit; we also hope to be able to gather our membership and enable some very much needed and valued social interaction. Can’t wait to get that club room open when it is safe to do so, and enjoy a pint with friends.
And with that thought of a pint with friends I wish you all a Happy New Year. Let it bring health, happiness and lots of rugby!
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And I might even wanna hide (Might wanna hide) Very very vaguely. The songs are listed in the video details. There is a part saying like,(sometimes you make me feel so alone. Pretty sure the name of the song is drunk girl.Not sure if it was only written for a movie but I know it's a song and not the country one that everyone keeps whinning about. How bad I need you now, yeah I remember listening to it when I was 11 (I'm 14 now) there weren't many views on the video. Not a commercial song at all. Google draws a complete blank apart from your comment. All rights reserved. The chorus is sang by a white man with a deep voice. (Just please don’t ask us to throw it back, we still don’t know how.) Did you try LCD Sound system? Cinderella by Steven Curtis Chapman maybe? I need to know, darling Rinsing out baby bottles, water bottles and travel mugs is pretty much the worst. Then it also says "go where you want". It goes something like this "Let me wipe those tears feom your eyes, let it goso we can go up and down, we can go round and roundbut at the end of the day were gonna to walk away so baby lets go lets take and no one will ever know so baby lets go"It is played on the third episode at 3 minutes about, hi I'm looking for a song and some of the lyrics are you're such a nice guy when you're not talking about yourself and then something about rich friends driving their Mercedes.
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For the start-up investor Rocket Internet, a good half year comes to an end.The holdings of CEO Oliver Samwer, however, postpone their prospects for profits.
The IPOs from the portfolio are still worthwhile for Oliver Samwer. His company Rocket Internet wrote a profit of 297 million euros in the first half of 2018.
Samwer invests in start-ups and wants to sell his shares later with a profit. Recently, the entrepreneur has succeeded in showing the Home24 stock market chart with the IPOs of the self-founded companies, showingHelloFresh’s stock market chart and showing the holding’s Delivery Hero stock market chart . Rocket itself still has a lot of capital that it can invest: 2.1 billion euros.
With the profits, Rocket buys internet stock market chartnow again show shares back. Samwer announced Thursday morning that he intends to spend up to 150 million euros over the next few months to buy up to 3.6 percent of the outstanding shares. There are then two options: Either you want to reduce the share capital with the repurchased shares, which could reduce the number of securities and thus lead to higher earnings per share. Alternatively, the company will use them for the employee option program. Rocket currently controls 37.07% of the SE.
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The decision of the buyback program has driven the share price on Thursday: the shares advanced by just under 4 percent. So far this year, the Rocket papers have gained a good 27 percent and are thus among the best MDax values. However, the share price is still a long way off its issue price of EUR 42.50 after its crash in 2017.
At the same time Samwer announced numbers for selected holdings. His promise made some time ago to profitably trim at least three of his key holdings by the end of 2017 remains broken. Instead, just the furniture shop Home24, the cookie mailer HelloFresh and the delivery service portal Delivery Hero have shifted the prospects for profits. For Home24 customers, it was too hot,according to start-up , to buy a lot ; the other two companies justify the move with “investing in growth”.
The only portfolio company with a marginally positive Ebitda margin is the Westwing furniture store: it was 2.3 percent in the first half of the year. Most recently, the start-up cut back three markets, apparently in anticipation of going public , which Westwing recently announced . In the first six months of this year, the start-up’s turnover increased by 22 percent to 121 million euros.
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The Global Fashion Group – a group of Zalando clones in emerging markets and Australia – increased their sales year-on-year by 20 percent to 535 million euros. On a euro basis, however, the group is facing currency effects: its growth is only 5 percent. While orders increased by 22.3 percent, the loss was still at 39.1 million euros.
The core of the portfolio seems to be the African online platform Jumia, for which Rocket Internet announced only the growth in sales and no losses that were high in the past. Oliver Samwer said in a telephone conversation with journalists Thursday that the start-up will try to recapture capital in the next 24 months. Whether Rocket Internet would also participate in the round of financing, he left open.
As Samwer recently said in an interview with manager magazin , he reaffirmed that Rocket is looking for start-ups in many areas. “The sectors are more open than we were four years ago,” says the CEO. “Software, fintech, artificial intelligence and marketplaces” – you can see all that.
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Study.com has thousands of articles about every flashcard sets, {{courseNav.course.topics.length}} chapters | The first known occurrences of the phrase are said to be in two earlier Elizabethan plays; Henry VI, Part 3by Shak… and find homework help for other Julius Caesar questions at eNotes On March 15 (the Ides of March) of 44 BC, Caesar expected to show up at a meeting of the Senate. Julius caesar last words to brutus. On this page you will find the solution to ___ to tyrants and my countrys friend (words of Cato in Julius Caesar) crossword clue.This clue was last seen on New York Times Crossword August 2 2020 Answers In case the clue doesn’t fit or there’s something wrong please contact us. But did Caesar really say that phrase upon his death, or is it the case of a 2,000-year-old game of telephone gone awry? Casca. In terms of famous last words, Julius Caesar’s supposed “Et tu, Brute?” may be the most well known of any in history. Start studying Julius Caesar Vocabulary List. The supposed last words of the roman dictator julius caesar have been the subject of debate among historians and has been speculated about for centuries. In Shakespeare's Julius Caesar, this is the first half of the line: "Et tu, Brute? He knew that the conspirators would not seek to record any words, if they were indeed uttered, as they might implicate themselves in treachery. I can’t and won’t argue, because they aren’t wrong. succeed. Following Marc Antony's loss and suicide, most sources report Cleopatra's life ended after she was bit by an ____. ~ Caesar, Gaius Julius (100-44 B.C.) Julius Caesar. Learn exactly what happened in this chapter, scene, or section of Julius Caesar and what it means. Perfect for acing essays, tests, and quizzes, as well as for writing lesson plans. Caesar was quite the blue blood. What was julius caesar last words. Shakespeare s rendition of caesar s last words has received popular canonization entering the vernacular alongside other literary imports from shakespeare s the tragedy of julius caesar such as beware the ides of march cry havoc and let slip the dogs of war friends romans countrymen lend me your ears and. The scene of the assassination of Caesar was pretty bloody, with each of the conspirators adding his own knife wound to the fallen body of their leader. However, this made a number of the Senators jealous and angry, as they wanted their own prestige to be returned. What was Julius Caesars last dying words? 's' : ''}}. Since you already solved the clue Julius caesar's last word which had the answer BRUTE, you can simply go back at the main post to check the other daily crossword clues. Shakespeare, the most important figure of the English Renaissance and a man responsible for revolutionizing the use of the English language, actually used the line, ''Et tu, Brute? Chapter One: A New Beginning. The supposed last words of the Roman dictator Julius Caesar have been the subject of debate among historians and has been speculated about for centuries. As a dictator, Caesar drastically reduced the power of the Senate in Rome. All rights reserved. This phrase is usually used as an expression of shock towards Brutus' betrayal. Ted K. Lv 6. hace 1 década. All other trademarks and copyrights are the property of their respective owners. He played a critical role in the events that led to the demise of the Roman Republic and the rise of the Roman Empire. Last Words by Gaius Julius Caesar "You too, Brutus?" imaginable degree, area of The supposed last words of Julius Caesar, the Roman dictator, is the subject of debate among historians and has been speculated about for centuries. Long Essay on Julius Caesar is usually given to classes 7, 8, 9, and 10. One of the conspirators in shakespeare's 'julius caesar' One of five in shakespeare's julius caesar ___ brute? Partially reinforced by these takes on Caesar’s assassination in popular culture, many people mistakenly believe that Julius Caesar’s last words were, “Et tu, Brute?” which means, “And you, Brutus?” in Latin—allegedly an expression of shock and horror at Marcus Junius Brutus’s betrayal. A number of them believed that if they could assassinate Caesar, the power they had lost would be returned. Learn how your comment data is processed. Learn exactly what happened in this chapter, scene, or section of Julius Caesar and what it means. Relevancia. The version best known in the English-speaking world is the Latin phrase Et tu, Brute? Eager to gain their power back and restore republican rule to Rome once again, they miscalculated the dictator's enormous popularity with the people, who almost instantly rebelled against the Senate. A civil war ensued in which all of Caesar's enemies were ultimately defeated, Caesar was deified, and his chosen heir, Caesar Augustus, became the emperor of a new Roman Empire. However, thanks to figures like Greek historian Plutarch's accounts, we can call the last words of Julius Caesar into question. Since you already solved the clue julius caesar s last word which had the answer brute you can simply go back at the main post to check the other daily crossword clues. Julius Caesar was a leader who was killed by a large group of conspirators. It was common for ancient historians to place words in their subjects' mouths to interest their readers and construct their desired narratives. The dictator’s final address to Brutus has become proverbial for shocking betrayal. Julius Caesar, in full Gaius Julius Caesar, (born July 12/13, 100? The excellent answers here deal with the historical Julius Caesar his alleged last words. He played a critical role in the events that led to the demise of the Roman Republic and the rise of the Roman Empire. The name brutus a second declension masculine noun appears in the phrase in the vocative case and so the us ending of the nominative case is replaced by e. The same holds true of the last words of gaius julius caesar c. A group of over thirty conspirators led by gaius cassius longinus marcus junius brutus the younger and decimus junius brutus albinus assassinated the roman politician and general gaius julius caesar in the theater of pompey. were supposedly uttered by Caesar. The other unusual thing about this death was that there were about sixty of them. ~ Caesar, Gaius Julius (100-44 B.C.) I didn’t kill you with half so good a will. Julius Caesar was stabbed to death by a group of as many as 60 men, who landed 23 knife wounds on him. Visit the Julius Caesar: Help & Review page to learn more. This list covers some of the basic words in Shakespeare's play about the assassination of the titular Roman ruler. An error occurred trying to load this video. Already registered? Of a well-known family, Gauis Julius Caesar was born on the 12th of 100BCE. As such, it's probably likely that if Caesar did have any last words, they were lost to history. The supposed last words of Julius Caesar, the Roman dictator, is the subject of debate among historians and there have been several phrases and words identified as possible options.The different interpretations of the meaning and implications of each option has also varied greatly. and career path that can help you find the school that's right for you. What were Julius Caesar’s actual last words when he was being assassinated? asp. Romans, countrymen, and lovers! A vocabulary list featuring "Julius Caesar" by William Shakespeare, Act I. or 'also you, Brutus? Hear me for my cause, and be silent that you may 15 hear. (julius caesar words) ___ brute? Censure me in your wisdom, and awake your senses that you may the better judge. Based on true events from Roman history, it was probably first performed in 1599. This Egyptian pharaoh was "involved" with Marc Antony following Julius Caesar's assassination. All right, let's take a moment to review what we've learned. His last words were 'Et tu, Brute?' | {{course.flashcardSetCount}} The other unusual thing about this death was that there were about sixty of them. Julius caesar's last word 7 Little Words . Military order in shakespeare's julius caesar; Part of julius caesar's dying words, supposedly ''__, brute?'' Romans, countrymen, and lovers! Samuel Thurber. Julius Caesar . Mark Antony, heard of the plot the previous night from an alarmed hero named Servilius Casca, in fear of the worst, went to take Caesar … Shakespeare borrowed the phrasing from two earlier plays, which in turn had used the Roman historian Suetonius as a source. The Ides of March was the day on which Julius Caesar was assassinated in the year 44 B.C. Be patient till the last. Learn vocabulary, terms, and more with flashcards, games, and other study tools. I didn t kill you with half so good a will. Caesar, among other things, is famous for his last words, ''Et tu, Brute?,'' as his friend Brutus joined in with Roman Senators to assassinate him and end his dictatorship during a religious holiday called the Ides of March. Caesar’s last words while slowly sinking to the floor after getting stabbed 23 times by his murderers (Gaius Cassius Longinus, Marcus Iunius Brutus and other angry senators) were “And you, Brutus, my son?” (Et tu, Brute?) A summary of Part X (Section9) in William Shakespeare's Julius Caesar. The full line is, “Et tu, Brute? The conspiration to murder Julius Caesar. Julius caesar s last word 7 little words. Then fall, Caesar!" Caesar Augustus Was The First Ruler Of The Roman Empire Leading. The word that solves this crossword puzzle is 9 letters long and begins with E Many people have been taught that his famous last words were Et Tu, Brute, meaning “You also Brutus?” But this Latin phrase was only popularized centuries later by William Shakespeare (Julius Caesar, Act 3, Scene 1, Line 77). Plus, get practice tests, quizzes, and personalized coaching to help you Anyone can earn While a number of them held up Caesar's friends from entering the Senate, about 60 Senators attacked Caesar, stabbing him to death with 23 blows. ____ ACT V Scene 3 2. to my own. Though named after the famous Roman general and politician Gaius Julius Caesar, the play is more focused on the character of Marcus Brutus who has to face the dilemma of choosing between loyalty to his dear friend Caesar and his patriotism for his countr… Be not deceived. Sciences, Culinary Arts and Personal To unlock this lesson you must be a Study.com Member. However, these conspirators were not thugs in Rome. Respuesta favorita. Instead, they were senators who helped Caesar lead the country. The last words of Julius Caesar are the stuff of legend, holding a place in popular culture more than 2,000 years after his death. Log in here for access. You can make another search to find the answers to the other puzzles, or just go to the homepage of 7 Little Words daily Bonus puzzles and then select the date and the puzzle in which you are blocked on. The Emporer Caesar Essay 1496 Words | 6 Pages. Vexèd I am Of late with passions of some difference, Conceptions only proper to myself, Which give some soil perhaps to my behaviors. were Julius Caesar 's last words after being assassinated at his own senate. You can make another search to find the answers to the other puzzles, or just go to the homepage of 7 Little Words daily Bonus puzzles and then […] The teacher would whisper a phrase into the first student's ear, and then that person would whisper the same phrase to the next pupil. Suetonius, in his book The Twelve Caesars, published a little more than 150 years after Caesar's death, used the line, ''You too, my child?'' 100 bce to 44 bce a skilled general and the first dictator of the roman republic. (Julius Caesar last words - also quoted as Tu quoque, fili mi! ) Select a subject to preview related courses: The phrase ''Et tu, Brute?'' 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I THINK it's generally accepted that Caesar's dying words were the Greek 'Kai su, teknon'. The Roman historian Suetonius tells us that Caesar groaned at … In addition, according to numerous writings by his biographers, his alleged last words were not “What an great artist the world loses in me!”, but instead ”What a fidelity!”, after one of the centurions removed the dagger from his wound, and tried to stop bleeding with his tunic. 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You can do so by clicking the link here 7 Little Words … On 15 march 44 bc an event happened that changed history forever. Julius Caesar was a general, politician and scholar who became dictator of ancient Rome until he was assassinated in 44 B.C., inspiring a play by Shakespeare. The Last Assassin: The Hunt for the Killers of Julius Caesar by Peter Stothard Read Julius Caesar was a populist politician and general of the late Roman Republic who immortalized himself not only by his beautiful writing about his military exploits, but also by the manner of his death. In this article, I will propose that we can recover them. It has become synonymous in modern culture as a way to denote betrayal or backstabbing by a close friend or associate. credit-by-exam regardless of age or education level. Try refreshing the page, or contact customer support. Julius Caesar’s last words (καὶ σύ, τέκνον, ‘you too, son’) are so widely known that they can appear in comic strips and pop culture without any need for further explanation. You can do so by clicking the link here 7 little words bonus 2 july 19 2020. However, these conspirators were not thugs in Rome. (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); Best Inspirational Quotes for Your Friends and Family, Love quotes 78 5k life quotes 61k inspirational quotes 58k …, The problem with escaping is that we leave behind us …. Censure me in your wisdom, and awake your senses that you may the better judge. Brutus was Julius Caesars best friend, and he betrayed him. Possible Solution: BRUTE. The quote appears in Act 3 Scene 1 of William Shakespeare's play Julius Caesar, where it is spoken by the Roman dictator Julius Caesar, at the moment of his assassination, to his friend Marcus Junius Brutus, upon recognizing him as one of the assassins. Cleopatra. There are differing accounts of his last words yet, we can be positively sure that Julius Caesar’s last words were not “Et tu Brute?” The Wisdom Segment I In Scandinavia, the oldest library is The Royal Library, which was built in 1673. Jonathan Munn, Whitchurch, Cardiff. His most outstanding achievement was the invasion of Britain. Log in or sign up to add this lesson to a Custom Course. A summary of Part X (Section9) in William Shakespeare's Julius Caesar. The same holds true of the last words of Gaius Julius Caesar, a skilled general and the first dictator of the Roman Republic. For context, William Shakespeare would have us believe, Julius Caesar, in his final moments called out: “Et tu, Brute? In roughly 49 bc gaius julius caesar then a very popular general of rome s armies emerged the victor from a civil war. Julius Caesars was a hero of war ! Lesson plans, unit studies, teacher resource curriculum, and hands on ideas. From Gladiator Duels To Caesar's Last Words: The Myths Of Ancient Rome Historian Mary Beard says many of our popular notions about the empire are based on … Brutus last words indicate that he is still grieving over having had to kill Caesar: Goodbye, good Strato. Shakespeare gives Caesar history’s most often quoted final words too. in College Teaching. © copyright 2003-2020 Study.com. The last senator to stab Julius Caesar to death was Brutus who was a good friend of Caesar. History play, tragedy, Rome, Roman, Caesar, politics, assassination. {{courseNav.course.mDynamicIntFields.lessonCount}} lessons In the days before the murder, Cassius, another conspirator and ringleader of the murder talked Brutus into helping kill Caesar. The phrase refers to Caesar's shock at seeing one of his best friends and political proteges, Marcus Junius Brutus, as part of the conspiracy to kill him. He may have obtained his leadership skills at a very early age due to the fact that he derived from a political family. When the last student to hear the message repeated it aloud to the entire class, the words were changed into something that was unrecognizable from the original message! His last words indicate that he is still upset by having had to kill Caesar. At some point in the proceedings, the fateful words, ''Et tu, Brute?'' Spencer alexander mcdaniel has studied ancient history obsessively for years on 15 march 44 bc an event happened that changed history forever. They were heard, but they have been misunderstood for … Shakespeare s rendition of caesar s last words has received popular canonization entering the vernacular alongside other literary imports from shakespeare s the tragedy of julius caesar such as beware the ides of march cry havoc and let slip the dogs of war friends romans countrymen lend me your ears and. The last senator to stab Julius Caesar to death was Brutus who was a good friend of Caesar. Since you already solved the clue Julius caesar's last word which had the answer BRUTE, you can simply go back at the main post to check the other daily crossword clues. A group of over thirty conspirators led by gaius cassius longinus marcus junius brutus the younger and decimus junius brutus albinus assassinated the roman politician and general. Jul 15, 2020 - Projects and activities for Progeny Press literature & reading study guide, Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare. The supposed famous last words of Caesar which people believe to be “Et Tu, Brute?” which means “And, you Brutus?” It was meant to showcase his disbelief in his confidant’s betrayal, but his true words are from the truth and many scholars are still baffled today as to what his actual words were. Plus, some of the senators were friends of Julius Caesar. Then fall, Caesar!'' Personally, I suspect Julius Caesar's last words were 'aaaaaaaaaaah'. Julius Caesar’s last words (καὶ σύ, τέκνον, ‘you too, son’) are so widely known that they can appear in comic strips and pop culture without any need for further explanation. flashcard set{{course.flashcardSetCoun > 1 ? However, it's much more likely that Suetonius, along with Shakespeare and his fellow playwrights, invented the dialogue to provide their works with drama. They’re not really answering the question, though. lessons in math, English, science, history, and more. Enrolling in a course lets you earn progress by passing quizzes and exams. Plus, some of the senators were friends of Julius Caesar. You can find our lists covering more difficult words here. Services. 129 lessons Remember those games of telephone you played in elementary school? Welcome to the page with the answer to the clue Julius Caesar’s last word. Not sure what college you want to attend yet? Get the unbiased info you need to find the right school. Julius caesar's last words, according to shakespeare ___ to tyrants and my countrys friend (words of cato in julius caesar) Words spoken on stage, for example on caesar's dying day; Dying words from caesar; Last month is dying away as one is dying away 'i'm dying, egypt, dying' speaker; Julius caesar's last words to unexpected assassin ___ to tyrants and my … Welcome to the page with the answer to the clue Julius Caesar’s last word. Next: Julius Caesar, Act 5, Scene 4 Explanatory Notes for Act 5, Scene 3 From Julius Caesar.Ed. Plus, some of the senators were friends of Julius Caesar. The dictator's last words are not known with certainty, and are a contested subject among scholars and historians alike. So when Caesar scheduled an appearance at the Senate on a religious holiday called the Ides of March, or March 15, in 44 BCE, the Senators decided to act. BRUTUS. | 2 The supposed last words of the Roman dictator Julius Caesar have been the subject of debate among historians and has been speculated about for centuries. Long and Short Essays on Julius Caesar for Students and Kids in English. credit by exam that is accepted by over 1,500 colleges and universities. Quiz & Worksheet - Julius Caesar's Last Words, Over 83,000 lessons in all major subjects, {{courseNav.course.mDynamicIntFields.lessonCount}}, Marcus Junius Brutus: Biography & Overview, Marcus Licinius Crassus: Biography & Death, Mark Antony of Rome: Biography, Facts & Death, The Death of the Republic: Julius Caesar & Pompey, The Second Triumvirate: Members & Overview, Who was Julius Caesar? Believe me for mine honor, and have respect to mine honor that you may believe. What was julius caesar last words. Shakespeare s rendition of caesar s last words has received popular canonization entering the vernacular alongside other literary imports from shakespeare s the tragedy of julius caesar such as beware the ides of march cry havoc and let slip the dogs of war friends romans countrymen lend me your ears and. Category Education; Show more Show less. That is, to one of my own army, -- the standard-bearer referred to in the next lines. As we learned, Gaius Julius Caesar was a skilled general and the first dictator of the Roman Republic. Yet this interpretation is not suggested in the ancient sources that attest the tag καὶ σύ, τέκνον (‘you too, son’). (dying words from julius caesar) (2 wds.) Then fall Caesar!”Assassination was the fate of many Roman leaders. But let not therefore, my good friends, be grieved— Among which number, Cassius, be you one— Nor construe any further my neglect Than that poor Brutus, with himself … Born Gaius Julius … Create your account. In this video, Keith Massey, PhD theorizes on the possible last words of Julius Caesar, which were misheard over 2000 years ago. or 'Even you, Brutus?'. to refer to the last words of the fallen dictator. But while the words make for great political theater, it's likely that the phrase was invented for dramatic purposes, ranging from William Shakespeare to Roman historian Suetonius. However, these conspirators were not thugs in Rome. Plutarch, though he stretched the facts at times to fit his broad theme of parallel Greek and Roman lives, held many characteristics of the modern historian and avoided falsehoods when he could. Antony. 11 respuestas. Create an account to start this course today. Perfect for acing essays, tests, and quizzes, as well as for writing lesson plans. You can test out of the Brutus. He is stating that he is more willing to kill himself than to kill Caesar. Cassius. ', often translated as 'You as well, Brutus?' To learn more, visit our Earning Credit Page. What were julius caesar s last words. In reality, however, the historical Julius Caesar never uttered these words; no one knows what Caesar’s … E. Austin Answered: Nov 27, 2018 Julius Caesar was a leader who was killed by a large group of conspirators. - Life & Assassination, To learn more about the information we collect, how we use it and your choices visit our, Biological and Biomedical Possible Solution: BRUTE. Boston: Allyn and Bacon. He is thought to have either spoken latin or greek in his final. It is an assassination that has gone down continue reading caesar s real last words. became extremely famous following its inclusion in William Shakespeare's play, The Tragedy of Julius Caesar, in 1599. This is just one of the 7 puzzles found on today’s bonus puzzles. The Tragedy of Julius Caesar, commonly known just as Julius Caesar, is one of the most famous plays written by English playwright William Shakespeare (1564 1616). —Now Caesar, be still. Long Essay on Julius Caesar 500 Words in English. See more ideas about enrichment activities, julius caesar, shakespeare. But regardless of the interpretation, the assassination backfired upon the conspirators. Which conspirator did Julius Caesar point out with amazement with his last words? famous line from shakespeare's julius caesar: 2 wds. What were the last words of Julius Caesar before his death? Last words of julius caesar last updated january 27 2020 part cropped from the death of julius caesar 1806 by vincenzo camuccini caesar can be seen staring at brutus who is looking away from caesar s gaze. Instead, they were senators who helped Caesar lead the country. Et tu, Brute? Shakespeare’s Et tu, Brute has been influential in shaping a tradition that interprets Caesar’s last words as an expression of shock at Brutus’ betrayal. The word that solves this crossword puzzle is 9 letters long and begins with E Brutus - caesar and Brutus were originally very … They have been interpreted by some as a mournful pronouncement in seeing a friend act as a murderer, while others have deemed the words prophetic, arguing that Caesar believed Brutus would soon meet the same end as him. Get access risk-free for 30 days, But did he really say those words? Julius caesar's last word 7 Little Words . This quote, immortalized by Shakespeare's Julius Caesar (1599), is widely used in Western culture to signify utmost betrayal. bce , Rome [Italy]—died March 15, 44 bce , Rome), celebrated Roman general and statesman, the conqueror of Gaul (58–50 bce ), victor in the civil war of 49–45 bce , and dictator (46–44 bce ), who was launching a … The last senator to stab Julius Caesar to death was Brutus who was a good friend of Caesar. Gaius Julius Caesar was a Roman general, statesman, Consul, and notable author of Latin prose. 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What goes through my my mind when I read the news with my morning coffee. …Or for the Simon's Rockers in the group, this is my response journal.
Category: Modern Parenting,
A high-risk Florida teen who died from COVID-19 attended a huge church party, then was given hydroxychloroquine by her parents, report says – Anchorage Daily News
On July 8, 2020 By peanutgallerynhIn Domestic Affairs,, Modern Parenting,, Science and Stuff,Leave a comment
If it’s not willful abuse, it certainly still is both immoral and neglect.
Mnuchin sued for denying “citizen children” their stimulus money – CBS News
On May 6, 2020 May 6, 2020 By peanutgallerynhIn Domestic Affairs,, Modern Parenting,, Money, Class, and Poverty,Leave a comment
Jeezus… No class, no heart, no soul.
Judge says government must justify holding migrant children as coronavirus spreads – CBS News
On April 6, 2020 By peanutgallerynhIn American Injustice System,, Domestic Affairs,, Modern Parenting,, Race,Leave a comment
These Bikers Escort Child Victims To Court To Confront Their Abusers—And Give The Kids Cool Nicknames
On March 17, 2020 By peanutgallerynhIn Media and Culture,, Modern Parenting,Leave a comment
Mom: 11-year-old ‘traumatized’ after police handcuff her, suspect her of attempted car theft
On March 9, 2020 By peanutgallerynhIn American Injustice System,, Modern Parenting,, Race,Leave a comment
Mom: 11-year-old ‘traumatized’ after police handcuff her, suspect her of attempted car theft | 11alive.com
So you want to legalize cannabis? Some dos and don’ts from the experts
On March 2, 2020 By peanutgallerynhIn American Injustice System,, Domestic Affairs,, Drugs & Drink,, Modern Parenting,, Race,Leave a comment
So you want to legalize cannabis? Some dos and don’ts from the experts – CNN
CA bill requires gender neutral children’s areas at stores
On February 28, 2020 By peanutgallerynhIn Chick Stuff,, Media and Culture,, Modern Parenting,, Money, Class, and Poverty,Leave a comment
Assembly Bill 2826, by Assemblyman Evan Low, D-Campbell, would apply to all retail department stores with 500 or more employees.
The bill would do away with so-called “boys aisles” and “girls aisles,” by requiring that children’s products be offered in a single, gender neutral section, according to Low’s office.
…Lawmakers also are considering a bill that would eliminate the “pink tax,” the discrepancy in pricing that sees women paying more for female-marketed products than men pay for male-marketed ones.
CA bill requires gender neutral children’s areas at stores | The Sacramento Bee
‘Please let me go:’ Video shows 6-year-old girl crying, pleading during arrest at Orlando school
On February 28, 2020 By peanutgallerynhIn American Injustice System,, Modern Parenting,, Race,, Schools,Leave a comment
Orlando Police Department officials previously declined a public records request to release the body camera video showing Kaia Rolle’s arrest at Lucious and Emma Nixon Academy on Sept. 19, 2019, citing student privacy issues, however, the family’s attorney was given a copy and shared it with local news outlets.
…Kaia’s grandmother, Meralyn Kirkland, previously told News 6 her granddaughter was acting out in class, a side effect of a lack of sleep from a medical condition, so she was sent to the office. While Kaia was there, a staff member grabbed her wrists in order to calm her down and that’s when she lashed out and kicked, according to Kirkland.
Turner wrote in Kaia’s arrest report that Beverly Stoute, whom he identified as an assistant principal, was the victim in the case and she wanted to press charges because Kaia kicked her on the legs and punched her arms several times.
The arrest record is the legal record of the incident. You don’t call the police unless you want someone arrested. Period. The school denial of the goal being the child’s arrest is galling. Lying to save their own jobs should preclude them from working in education.
Similarly, the department’s apology is meaningless. It is 100% responsible for their officers’ behavior. There are no mistakes in law enforcement, only justice and injustice.
Finally, Beverly Stoute is the perpetrator in this injustice, not the victim. Any other telling of these events is an outright lie.
As long as we tolerate people like Stoute and Turner working in our country’s schools no child is safe.
Video: 6-year-old cries for help as Orlando police arrest her
On February 28, 2020 February 28, 2020 By peanutgallerynhIn American Injustice System,, Modern Parenting,, Race,, Schools,Leave a comment
The body camera footage still upsets her, Kirkland said, especially when Turner “callously” talks about arresting children.
“You’re discussing traumatizing a 6- and 7-year-old — and that’s a boasting right for you?” she said. “These are babies.”
Kirkland said her granddaughter had sleep apnea, which could cause her to act out in school — a condition that Kirkland had repeatedly worked with the school to manage, she said.
Kaia was completely processed at the county Juvenile Assessment Center, where the girl’s mugshot and fingerprints were taken, Kirkland said, adding that employees at the center had to use a step stool so Kaia could reach the camera for the mugshot.
Kaia has since re-enrolled in a private school, after refusing to attend a school with an officer on campus, Kirkland said. She said she worries about how the trauma from the arrest will affect her granddaughter in years to come.
Video: 6-year-old cries for help as Orlando police arrest her – Orlando Sentinel
The family needs to sue the school system and the city of Orlando into the ground. Consequences are the only thing that would induce people without souls to change their approach to issues like this.
Doctors Have a Name for Separating Kids from Their Parents at the Border: It’s Torture. – VICE
On February 28, 2020 By peanutgallerynhIn American Injustice System,, Modern Parenting,, Race,, Science and Stuff,1 Comment
A 39-year-old Honduran mother had her 9-year-old child taken from her when she fled to the U.S. to seek asylum. It was three weeks before she was even able to speak to him, and though they were reunited two months later, she experienced depression and post-traumatic stress. She sometimes wondered whether she’d be better off dead.
Physicians for Human Rights has a name for what she endured. They say it’s torture.
…It was common for separated children to show regressive behaviors like bed-wetting or loss of language, according to the report.
…Some said their children disappeared when the parents were in court or at a doctor’s appointment or had their kids ripped from their arms. Others said they weren’t given clear answers when asked where their kids had gone, and that they were mocked by immigration authorities. They reported poor conditions at the detention centers where they were held, without any idea of how their kids were doing.
“What was a gut-punch for me — as I was reading one report, and another, and another — was the depth of the trauma, the depth of the cruelty of the agents; how they talked to some of the clients, how they misled them, how they lied to them and told them they would never see their children again,” said Dr. Ranit Mishori, co-author of the report and senior medical advisor for Physicians for Human Rights.
…All of the parents interviewed by the medical-advocacy group reported that they came to the U.S. from El Salvador, Guatemala, and Honduras shouldering a good deal of trauma already, only to see that agony and guilt compounded by separation from their children. Fifteen of the 17 adults interviewed had received death threats, for example; 14 reported that they were targeted by gang or cartels. Many had already taken other measures to protect their families before coming to the U.S., like going to local authorities or moving internally within their own country.
Aggggggggggggggggggggggggggggghhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!
Florida Officer Who Detained a 6-Year-Old for Throwing a Tantrum Caught on BodyCam Bragging About Arrest
So much for the officers had no choice and went along with this unwillingly….
The school official who sanctioned the call to the police (and any policy makers who created protocols to do so) need to be fired and banned from working with children.
The officers involved? Cuff, court, conviction, and then into general population imprisonment they go.
Anything less is lawlessness and child abuse.
Confidential therapy notes being used against immigrant children
On February 21, 2020 By peanutgallerynhIn American Injustice System,, Domestic Affairs,, Modern Parenting,, Race,Leave a comment
Confidential therapy notes being used against immigrant children – Washington Post
Jeezus…
6-year-old girl was committed to mental health facility without parent consent
On February 17, 2020 By peanutgallerynhIn Domestic Affairs,, Modern Parenting,, Race,1 Comment
A 6-year-old Florida girl was committed for two days to a mental health facility without her mother’s consent after allegedly throwing a temper tantrum at school, an attorney for the family said.
The child was allegedly given anti-psychotic medications at the center, also without the permission of her mother.
State sanctioned child abuse.
…And quite frankly, if you can’t handle a six year old’s temper tanturm you have no business working around children. Period.
Florida Baker Act: 6-year-old girl sent to mental health facility by school
On February 13, 2020 By peanutgallerynhIn American Injustice System,, Modern Parenting,, Schools,Leave a comment
According to a sheriff’s report, a social worker who responded to Nadia’s tantrum at Love Grove Elementary School stated the girl was a “threat to herself and others,” “destroying school property” and “attacking staff.”
She was removed from school and committed to a behavioral health center for a psychiatric evaluation under the Baker Act, which allows authorities to force such an evaluation on anyone considered to be a danger to themselves or others.
Nadia’s mother, Martina Falk, said her daughter has attention deficit hyperactivity disorder and a mood disorder.
…”She’s traumatized. She is not herself anymore. I don’t know what the long-term effects are,” she told CBS News correspondent Manuel Bojorquez.
Florida Baker Act: 6-year-old girl sent to mental health facility by school – CBS News
Company to stop making pesticide linked to neurological damage in children
On February 8, 2020 By peanutgallerynhIn Environment,, Modern Parenting,, Money, Class, and Poverty,, Science and Stuff,Leave a comment
= Company to stop making pesticide linked to neurological damage in children | Money | omaha.com
In 5-4 ruling, Supreme Court allows Trump plan to deny green cards to those who may need government aid
On February 6, 2020 By peanutgallerynhIn American Injustice System,, Modern Parenting,, Money, Class, and Poverty,, Race,Leave a comment
bigots.
Groundbreaking South Carolina Bill: Compensate People for Forcing Them to Give Birth
On February 6, 2020 By peanutgallerynhIn American Injustice System,, Chick Stuff,, Modern Parenting,, Money, Class, and Poverty,Leave a comment
The bill, SB 928, demands that anti-choice lawmakers in South Carolina who have proposed banning abortion at six weeks into pregnancy put their money where their mouth is: If lawmakers are going to force people to carry their pregnancies to term, and if they are going to deem the development of an unborn embryo as more important than the life and rights of pregnant people, then South Carolina should compensate them for acting as a gestational surrogate for the state of South Carolina.
…just as South Carolina may not constitutionally use a citizen’s rental property without just compensation, it may not constitutionally require a woman to incubate a child without appropriate compensation.”
…The compensation suggested in the legislation includes reasonable living, legal, medical, psychological, and psychiatric expenses that are directly related to prenatal, intrapartal, and postpartal periods. In addition, upon detection of a fetal heartbeat, a pregnant person may claim the fetus as a child for purposes of federal or state income tax credits or deductions.
….Compensation also includes automatic eligibility to participate in a program that would pair a pregnant person with a specially trained nurse to provide home visits from early pregnancy through the child’s second birthday. …Pregnant people would also be automatically eligible for any public assistance like TANF (Temporary Assistance for Needy Families), SNAP (Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program), and WIC, and the law would prohibit reducing or suspending those benefits until the child is 18 years old.
…If the pregnant person becomes disabled as the result of carrying the fetus to term, then the state must cover all medical expenses associated with the disability. Similarly, if the child is born with a congenital abnormality or disability, the state must cover all medical expenses associated with that disability for the rest of the child’s life.
Also, South Carolina would be required to cover all costs associated with health, dental, and vision insurance until the child turns 18. And if the biological father of the child is unknown or unable to provide support, then the state must provide child support in the biological father’s stead.
….South Carolina must fully fund a college savings plan for the benefit of the child.
Groundbreaking South Carolina Bill: Compensate People for Forcing Them to Give Birth #ABLC
J. Lo & Shakira’s Halftime Show Gave Separated Families Center Stage
On February 4, 2020 By peanutgallerynhIn American Injustice System,, Domestic Affairs,, Media and Culture,, Modern Parenting,, Race,, The Americas,Leave a comment
EPA Refuses to Ban Neurotoxic Pesticide Found in Newborns
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‘Sesame Street’ Is Opening Up to Syrian Refugees
On February 3, 2020 By peanutgallerynhIn Media and Culture,, Middle East,, Modern Parenting,Leave a comment
A new version of the show will begin airing for an audience that, less than a decade ago, didn’t exist: children displaced by the war in Syria and their neighbors in the communities where many of the refugees have fled or sought asylum. “At this point, there are lots of 7-year-olds who were born as refugees from Syria” and remain far from permanent resettlement.
…Since the start of the conflict, in 2011, nearly seven of every 10 residents of Syria have been forced from their homes. More than 11 million have fled to unfamiliar parts of Syria or to the countries across its borders, with only around 150,000 permanently resettled. They are now the largest displaced population in the world.
…Parents often carry the trauma of forced migration with them in unexpected ways, and a childhood of makeshift housing, isolation from an extended community of familiar faces, and few safe places to play can affect not only children’s behavior and learning skills but also brain development, gene expression and the ability to build the fundamental tools of resiliency. “It can be very hard to moderate, or to cope,” said Sherrie Westin, Sesame Workshop’s president of social impact and philanthropy. Preliminary research conducted in Jordan and Lebanon found that displaced children have trouble finding the language to express their emotions. They describe what they feel only very broadly: sad, happy, scared.
The show will focus on identifying and managing emotions, and will be coupled with thousands of outreach workers going to clinics, community centers, homes and other gathering spaces in the four countries, where they will meet with children, parents and caregivers to provide support and extend many lessons of the series.
…Just as American “Sesame Street” teaches counting and the alphabet before deeper literacy and numeracy, the new series, called “Ahlan Simsim,” or “Welcome Sesame,” will start with the basics. “We want this first season to dive into identifying different emotions, like frustration and anger, nervousness and loneliness, fear,” Scott Cameron, an executive producer at Sesame Workshop, said. “But we also have to make that entertaining. And we have to do that without, in the case of fear, terrifying the kids.”
…We want this project to be a model for humanitarian response not just in the Middle East,” Ms. Westin added, “but for refugee children wherever they may be.”
‘Sesame Street’ Is Opening Up to Syrian Refugees – The New York Times
Bills heard to ban school lunch debt punishments, pledge of allegiance discrimination
On January 30, 2020 By peanutgallerynhIn Granite State,, Modern Parenting,, Money, Class, and Poverty,, Schools,Leave a comment
Greta Thunberg’s father: ‘She is happy, but I worry’
On January 29, 2020 By peanutgallerynhIn Environment,, Media and Culture,, Modern Parenting,Leave a comment
Greta Thunberg’s father: ‘She is happy, but I worry’ – BBC News
2015 Lebanese child bride social experiment won 8 international awards
On January 28, 2020 By peanutgallerynhIn Chick Stuff,, Media and Culture,, Middle East,, Modern Parenting,Leave a comment
Lebanese child bride social experiment wins 8 international awards
…and inspired the more recent version set in NYC.
Utah Judge Rules It’s ‘Lewd’ for a Woman to Be Topless in Her Own Home
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House to investigate Trump ‘Remain in Mexico’ policy
On January 21, 2020 By peanutgallerynhIn American Injustice System,, Domestic Affairs,, Media and Culture,, Modern Parenting,, Money, Class, and Poverty,, Race,, The Americas,Leave a comment
“As we have previously written to you, MPP is inconsistent with the Department of Homeland Security’s (DHS) statutory authority, while exposing thousands of people to threats of murder, sexual violence, and kidnapping as they are forced to wait in extremely dangerous conditions before their asylum claims may be heard,” the letter reads.
“As of today, there are 31 active travel advisories for Mexico, including 5 warnings in which the State Department explicitly advises Americans against travel. It is difficult to understand why this administration is sending children and families to areas where they will face certain harm,” the members wrote.
…”It is imperative that the United States end this reckless course of action and reaffirm its commitment to the principles of due process on which this country was founded.”
House to investigate Trump ‘Remain in Mexico’ policy | TheHill
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Ontario passes legislation to make daylight time permanent
Published Wednesday, November 25, 2020 11:23PM EST
TORONTO -- The Ontario government has passed legislation that would end the bi-annual changing of clocks, making daylight time permanent in the province—but the change will only happen if neighbouring jurisdictions agree.
The Time Amendment Act, which was tabled by Jeremy Roberts, MPP for Ottawa West – Nepean in October, passed Wednesday on third reading in the legislature.
“I am thrilled that tonight my bill ending the time change in Ontario passed through final reading with unanimous support. Ontario is now poised to lead the way on ending this outdated practice,” Roberts said in a statement.
Studies have shown that the bi-annual tradition can cause “serious negative effects,” including increased depression rates, heart attacks and strokes, Roberts said.
He added that one of the benefits of ending the twice-yearly change includes promoting more consumerism by giving residents more hours of daylight in the evening.
However, Ontario’s Attorney General would only bring the act into motion in coordination with Quebec and New York.
“I look forward now to reaching out to counterparts in Quebec and New York to get them on board this exciting initiative,” Roberts said.
- with files from Kerrisa Wilson
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The other smartphone rumor that just won’t die: The HTC Opera UL is the Facebook phone
by Emil Protalinski — in Facebook
Last night, the rumor of Microsoft building its own smartphone came back to life. Today, the Facebook phone rumor is back, and yes, once again HTC is the expected manufacturer.
It’s certainly not the first time we’re hearing that a Facebook phone is in development together by the American and Taiwanese companies. The latest episode comes from Pocket-lint, which claims the mysterious device recently popped up in a benchmark test as the HTC Opera UL (working title).
The publication cites a “very reliable source” that has confirmed the HTC Opera UL is an “OEM product” for the social networking giant: “It is the Facebook phone, made for Facebook.” The NenaMark 2 benchmark test, pictured below, suggests the device will sport a 1.4GHz processor and a Qualcomm Adreno 305 graphics processor, an HD (1280×720 resolution) display.
We’ve heard time and time again that the mythical device is running some version of Google’s Android operating system, and apparently the latest iteration is currently powered by Android 4.1.1 (Jelly Bean). It’s not yet clear if HTC will bump that to Android 4.2 (Jelly Bean), but then again this is still just a rumor.
The other phone rumor that just won’t die
HTC keeps coming up as the manufacturer for the Facebook phone, although last year we heard talks of Facebook considering South Korea’s Samsung. Google’s Android operating system also keeps getting mentioned, although we’ve also heard that Microsoft is pushing for Windows Phone to power the device.
Publications such as AllThingsD, Bloomberg, Business Insider, and of course DigiTimes have all claimed the Facebook phone is coming. Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg has frequently said it doesn’t make sense for his company to build a phone. Of course it doesn’t, but no executive would say otherwise in their right mind, until it is the right time to make such a move.
See also – Facebook promises to update its mobile apps every 4 to 8 weeks
Image credit: Margarit Ralev
Read next: Are you on Facebook? Check out MyPermissions now. Seriously, just do it.
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Movie Review – Blind Justice (1916)
This review is part of the A Play of Light and Shadow: Horror in Silent Cinema Series
Blind Justice (1916) is a Danish thriller directed by Benjamin Christensen, who also plays the lead character – the tragic and simple-minded Strong John, a circus strong man who is falsely accused of murder. On the run with his infant son, John mistakenly believes a young woman, Ann, has betrayed him, causing him to be caught and imprisoned. Fourteen years later he’s acquitted as new evidence comes to light. He leaves prison a broken man, in search of his son who he believes is forever beyond his reach. Eventually, Strong John comes under the influence of local thieves and soon decides to carry out the revenge he promised upon Ann – to strangle her with a rope – not knowing how connected she now is with the circumstances of his boy.
Blind Justice is a tightly crafted tale of interweaving subplots and terrific characterizations, especially in the sympathetic John. It is well-paced, the lighting is excellent and the camera placement creates many shots of depth and intriguing, almost voyeuristic perspective. One memorable shot is of Ann in her bedroom looking frightened into the camera, only to have the camera pull back into the night to reveal the window frame and John’s silhouette creeping before the panes. The scene where a monkey puppet in baby’s clothes is revealed, due to the camera’s perspective, might qualify as a very early fake jump scare (and is still better than a screeching cat). Even the inter-title cards are stunning and evocative.
The last twenty minutes had me anxiously watching the screen, my legs restless. That’s no small feat for a silent film, especially since I watched it on mute so as not to be distracted by the generic music that was being played over it. Blind Justice is thoroughly impressive.
Of course, this was still 1916, of which I was reminded when the circus manager yells, “Get the crocodile act on at once and warn the Chinks to be ready twenty minutes earlier!” But that’s all just part of the experience of watching an old film like this, as is the final frame which comes after the tense finale, and which is a title card that simply reads “SLUT.” Come to find out, this means “END” in Danish.
Christensen would have many false starts in his film career. When Blind Justice was not met with great success he returned to the theater. But in 1922 he would return to horror to direct the seminal Häxan which contained what was considered at the time graphic depictions of torture, nudity, and perversion. Christensen would continually return to film, fail, and then go back to the theater in a cycle thereafter. The actress who played Ann, Karen Caspersen (as Karen Sandberg), would go on to appear in films until she died in a house fire in 1941.
Blind Justice is a major achievement of the early silent era that deserves more recognition.
SLUT.
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Pupils are forced to perform their OWN Covid tests at school as nurse watches on
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School pupils are carrying out Covid tests on themselves, despite fears over their effectiveness when self-administered.
Students at Oasis Academy in Coulsdon, Surrey, were sent the kits on Monday ahead of the regime starting.
Following the latest national lockdown being announced only vulnerable children or those whose parents are key workers have been allowed to attend lessons in person.
They were given instructions by nurses on how to carry out the tests themselves and supervised by them, similar to how some walk-in testing centres are run.
The idea is that fewer medical experts will be needed to test a larger number of people.
But it comes amid fears self-administered tests could miss cases, due to the force and depth needed to collect a sample.
Experts recommend a trained nurse or professional carries out the insertion of the swab to get to the necessary spot, which can be extremely uncomfortable.
Student Molly Tinker takes a COVID-19 test at Oasis Academy in Coulsdon, Surrey, today
Student Ruby Soden receives instructions on how to self-administer her coronavirus test
Student Henry Parker receives instructions and equipment on how to take his virus test
John Murphy, CEO of Oasis Trust, said on Monday before the lockdown and general school closures: ‘What we know for sure is that our young people make the best progress with quality first teaching, with their teachers, in the classroom with their friends.
‘Therefore, once effectively delivered, we are assured that mass testing in schools will provide additional confidence to our children, parents, teachers and staff, and has the potential to greatly reduce disruption to learning, alongside our existing Covid controls.
‘In January we will be piloting the testing in a number of our schools before implementing this to all our secondary academies across the country.’
Schools were given comprehensive online training modules with 1,500 military personnel on hand to provide advice and guidance on establishing the process.
Student Lily Mae Milliman takes her COVID-19 test using a mirror to assist in using the swab
After use the swab is placed into a reacting agent which shows whether the user has Covid
The tests were sent out to schools before they were shut down under the UK’s new lockdown
There fears self-administered tests could miss cases, due to the depth needed to take swab
Professional use swabs are longer and when administered by a nurse can be painful
Infectious disease specialists say letting people do swabs makes false negatives more likely
Schools could still spread coronavirus
Covid-19 infections will continue to spread through classrooms where high numbers of children are attending schools in the lockdown, experts have warned.
Scientific advice group Independent Sage is calling for the definition of key workers to be narrowed and for increased financial support or furlough to be given to those who cannot work amid a large demand for school places.
The group of scientists, chaired by former chief scientific adviser Sir David King, warns that underprivileged children are being exposed to a “greater risk of infection” due to the high number of pupils who are eligible to attend class.
The warning came after the Government told schools not to limit the number of children of key workers onsite during the national lockdown in England – and it said vulnerable children should be strongly encouraged to attend.
Headteachers have been reporting a high demand for places after students in schools and colleges – except children of key workers and vulnerable pupils – were told to learn remotely until mid-February.
Vulnerable children can include “pupils who may have difficulty engaging with remote education at home” due to a lack of devices or a quiet space to study.
The report from Independent Sage says: “First … this undermines the whole point of school closures making the policy less effective and therefore extending the period of closure.
“Second, it exposes underprivileged children to still greater risk of infection.”
Addressing high demand from key worker parents, it adds: “This is in danger of increasing the number in school to a point where the policy becomes less effective and the ability of teachers to deliver remote learning is undermined.”
Independent Sage is calling for the creation of a national education task force involving Government, councils, teachers, parents and students to “create a more Covid-secure environment in schools”.
Experts warned last year some self-tests are less accurate because they use shorter swabs and do not need to be inserted as deeply into the nose.
Instructions for some say: ‘No force is needed and you do not have to push far into your nostril.’
However, professional-use swabs – which are much longer and are designed to take samples from the ‘floor’ of the nose – can make people gag, their eyes water or even trigger nosebleeds when carried out properly.
Infectious disease specialists say letting people do swabs themselves – notoriously difficult even for trained medics – makes false negatives more likely. False negatives mean people who are infected with the virus are wrongly told they’re in good health.
Britain’s current guidelines mean there is no rule to tell them to stay at home after a negative test, even if they have symptoms. Medics say Britain is out of step with other countries such as New Zealand – which contained its Covid-19 outbreak quickly, which place less importance on tests and do them multiple times.
Norwich-based researcher Dr Katherine Deane, branch equalities officer for the University and College Union, is worried about how effective infection control will be.
She told the Eastern Daily Press: ‘Schools don’t have experts in infection control, so the level of precision there will be on the set up, the cleaning of the area, the wearing of personal protective equipment and the ventilation is all worrying.
‘When you have a swab test, that tends to produce a cough – a gag reflex and the droplets go into the air.
‘The big ones will fall quickly, but the fine ones can stay in the air for up to an hour.
‘And yet, the idea of the testing is that you get a student swabbed, you clean up and five minutes later the next student is tested.
‘It means the volunteers supervising can be at higher risk of infection and, unless the infection control is meticulous, the venues run the risk of being the site of super-spreader events.’
Professor Jon Deeks, a biostatistics expert at the University of Birmingham, said: ‘A single negative test result doesn’t exclude the disease. You can so easily miss the virus – they give a lot of false negatives.’
Research suggests up to 30 per cent of professional swab tests return false negatives, meaning the number of positive cases may be underestimated by thousands.
It is not clear how inaccurate self-swabs are, even though they are being carried out more than 60,000 times a day in the UK. The Department of Health will not release data about the false negative rates of its tests.
PCR vs lateral flow Covid tests
WHAT IS THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN A PCR TEST AND A LATERAL FLOW?
A PCR test can cost upwards of £180 per person, with the swab needing to be processed in a lab.
The UK, on the other hand, favours faster tests which are not lab based and give a result within 15 minutes.
These rapid coronavirus tests, known as lateral flow tests, are ones that can be done on the spot using portable equipment.
They are faster and cheaper than lab-based PCR tests, which the government uses to diagnose people, but are less accurate.
LATERAL FLOW TESTS ARE RAPID – BUT CAN SACRIFICE ACCURACY
In a lateral flow test a swab is used to get a sample from the person’s nose or throat and it is then processed in a small machine that tries to detect the coronavirus by mixing the sample with something the virus would react with.
If there is a reaction in the mixture it suggests that the person is carrying coronavirus. If not, they get a negative result. This process can be completed in as little as 15 minutes.
You take your own swab though a professional on site processes it through the machine.
Lateral flow miss up to half of cases, by the Department of Health’s own admission.
But damning evidence shows they may be effectively useless when self-administered, despite Downing Street’s current testing scheme relying on people taking their own swabs.
The tests are more accurate when swabs are carried out by trained professionals because they have to be pushed deep inside the nose.
But scientists fear Britain simply doesn’t have the money or enough spare medics to do this nationwide every day, with health chiefs instead accepting DIY swabs to save time.
PCR TESTS CAN TAKE SEVERAL DAYS TO GET RESULTS – BUT ARE MORE ACCURATE
These lateral flow tests differ from the gold standard PCR test – known scientifically as polymerase chain reaction testing.
PCR tests also use a swab but this is then processed using high-tech laboratory equipment to analyse the genetic sequence of the sample to see if any of it matches the genes of coronavirus.
This is a much more long-winded and expensive process, involving multiple types of trained staff, and the analysis process can take hours, with the whole process from swab to someone receiving their result taking days.
It is significantly more accurate, however. In ideal conditions the tests are almost 100 per cent accurate at spotting the virus, although this may be more like 70 per cent in the real world.
This compares to a much lower sensitivity in lateral flow tests, with a trial of one type used in Liverpool suggesting they miss around 50 per cent of the people who would test positive with PCR.
SO, WHAT IS THE BENEFIT OF LATERAL FLOW TESTING?
Extreme accuracy may be a drawback for PCR now that so many people have been infected, however, with the tests able to detect shreds of the virus in people who recovered weeks ago and are no longer infectious, which may lead them to have to self-isolate unnecessarily.
Lateral flow tests are more likely to miss people who are carrying the virus but, experts say, do have value as a way of weeding out people carrying large amounts of the virus and therefore most likely to be spreading the disease.
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NOW Government says BTECs can be cancelled… just HOURS before pupils are due to sit first exams
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More than 130,000 students are in limbo today after ministers agreed to axe BTEC exams – but left it up to schools and colleges to decide – just hours before the first tests were due to begin across the country.
The U-turn on the UK’s most popular vocational qualifications came hours before under-fire Education Secretary Gavin Williamson faces the Commons after finally confirming that GCSE and A-level exams will not take place this year and losing his battle to keep schools open.
Pupils face having grades decided by their teachers again this summer after a furious row erupted last night over the decision to cancel exams for the second year in a row.
MailOnline has been inundated with emails from panicked parents and worried students as the Government was accused of ‘dithering’ and millions of parents began homeschooling their children again until at least February 22.
But anxious BTEC students are still waiting for confirmation about whether their exams starting today will happen after the Department for Education dodged an outright ban and said ‘schools/colleges can choose to offer exams if they judge it right to’.
Irate parent Simon Brooks from Nottinghamshire says his daughter Kaitlyn and her friends ‘don’t know whether they are coming or going’, leaving his 17-year-old child in tears last night.
He told MailOnline: ‘This to me is a ridiculous decision. Of all the exam types in this country BTEC lends itself more to teacher assessed grades as it is continually marked and assessed throughout the year. Why are those doing A levels being afforded the protection from then past year. I am furious and upset for her and her friends’.
Tony Gordon from Essex said: ‘My daughter was due a year 13 BTEC business exam next week but this has now been brought forward to this Friday with her being advised today, costing her precious revision over the weekend. The teacher even said he has no idea if it will actually go ahead’.
Amid more chaos in schools today:
Prime Minister Johnson’s Cabinet was bitterly divided over the decision to close schools;
Mr Johnson defended his screeching coronavirus U-turn that closed schools as part of the new national lockdown in England;
The BBC is unveiling its ‘biggest education offer in history’ as schools across the country lock down;
One in 50 of the population of England – around a million people – are infected with coronavirus;
Mr Johnson promised to update the nation on Britain’s Covid vaccination drive every day starting next week.
Gavin Williamson (pictured today) has been accused of dithering and bungling decisions over schools again as BTEC exams were axed – but only if a school wants to – leaving students in limbo
Charlotte Rose assists one of her children, who is home schooled in Milton Keynes today
Perivale Primary School is closed after Prime Minister Boris Johnson announced all educational setting must shut until February 22
Gavin Williamson came in for fierce criticism over the move as there is no definite plan in place to replace exams.
A former chief inspector of education watchdog Ofsted claimed Mr Williamson had ‘got a lot wrong’ while top private schools said the cancellation of exams looked ‘premature’.
Pupils now face limbo as a new system is drawn up, with the exams regulator Ofqual asked to embark on a consultation before a decision is taken.
The process will mean pupils are likely to be waiting weeks – if not months – for a plan although it is strongly suspected grades allotted by teachers will play a crucial role.
Ex-Ofsted chief inspector Sir Michael Wilshaw said of Mr Williamson: ‘He has got a lot wrong up to now, hasn’t he?’
Q&A: What has happened and what will replace exams?
What has happened?
All GCSEs and A-levels have been abandoned for the second year in a row, after Boris Johnson instructed schools to shut for a lengthy spell amid the third national lockdown.
The fate of technical and vocational qualifications scheduled for this month remains uncertain after ministers said they could still go ahead but met with major opposition from colleges and students.
What will replace GCSEs and A-levels?
Since pupils are certain to lose out on at least half a term of crucial learning in important exam years – following last year’s mayhem – the Government believes that even watered-down exams would end up being significantly unfair to those pupils living in regions worst-hit by the virus or in families where remote learning is harder.
Therefore the emphasis is likely to be on teacher-assessed grades – formulated by education staff who know their students best.
Is the plan certain?
No. Although Education Secretary Gavin Williamson is set to tell MPs about his priorities for exam year groups today, the new system will need to be looked at by the exams regulator, Ofqual, which will have to consult schools and teachers about plans and attempt to root out any potential flaws in the system which could lead to unfairness.
This means students are likely to face a significant delay before the plans are set in stone.
What happened last year? Wasn’t it a disaster?
Exams were also cancelled in 2020. Teachers were asked to come up with grades and a ranking order for their pupils.
Although not without difficulties, this side of things proceeded relatively smoothly.
However chaos struck when Ofqual processed the marks through a programme dubbed a ‘mutant algorithm’ by Boris Johnson.
This led to thousands of students being downgraded unfairly, triggering a U-turn and the abandonment of the entire ‘moderation’ process.
With new leaders in place following the scandal, Ofqual is almost certain to avoid any repeat of a reliance on computerised exam referees, although some system will still need to be thought up to tackle potential abuses.
Asked if he should resign, Sir Michael replied: ‘He gets other people to resign – permanent secretaries and the head of Ofqual. He has got to take final accountability for what has gone on. Ministers don’t tend to resign for mistakes they have made now in the way that they did before.’
Meanwhile, leading private schools came out strongly against the decision to cancel exams.
Dr Simon Hyde, of the Headmasters’ and Headmistresses’ Conference, which represents schools such as Eton and Harrow, said: ‘HMC believes that any decision to cancel all exams in England this summer would be premature.
‘With the hope of the vaccine on the horizon and the Government now taking stringent lockdown measures, teachers and students can be more confident that public examinations can go ahead safely in June.’
He added: ‘Students in Years 11 and 13 must not have the rug pulled from under their learning. They have suffered much.’
Asked if its position meant all GCSE and A Levels in England were being cancelled, the DfE said it had no further comment.
It comes after Boris Johnson failed to guarantee all pupils in England will be back in school classrooms before the summer holidays.
In a televised address on Monday announcing England’s third lockdown, Mr Johnson acknowledged shutting schools meant ‘it’s not possible or fair for all exams to go ahead this summer, as normal’.
In a statement, Mr Williamson said: ‘It is now vital that we support our young people at home, including making sure all students are receiving the best possible remote education, and that those students who were due to take exams can still progress to their next stage of education or training.’
It is believed civil servants are in favour of building on the successful aspects of last year’s grading operation, while steering well clear of ‘mutant algorithms’ or unfairnesses.
This means teachers’ judgments will be at the forefront of grading like in summer 2020 and they are likely to be encouraged to give the benefit of the doubt to teenagers robbed of classroom routine.
In a statement to MPs on Wednesday, Mr Williamson is only expected to float ideas.
Ofqual said: ‘We are considering a number of options to ensure the fairest possible outcome in the circumstances. We will update as soon as we can.’
Robert Halfon, chairman of the Education Select Committee, said Mr Williamson needed to ‘make a policy and stick to it’ while guaranteeing a ‘level playing field’.
He said: ‘Everyone has been marched up the hill and down again so they need to come up with a decision that is clear and understandable and does what it says on the tin.’
The Headmasters’ and Headmistresses’ Conference, which represents almost 300 leading private schools, said cancelling exams would be ‘premature’.
General Secretary Dr Simon Hyde said: ‘Whilst it is important that the learning loss which some students have experienced is accounted for, and that disadvantaged pupils are not further disadvantaged, HMC believes that any decision to cancel all exams in England this summer would be premature.’
He added: ‘The best way of ensuring fairness is not by cancelling all examinations but by externally moderating assessment in whatever form it takes. We require decisive leadership and a willingness to compromise to bring about such a system. Our students deserve no less.’
Barnaby Lenon, chairman of the Independent Schools Council, said there is no ‘perfect solution to assessment arrangements for Year 11 and Year 13 pupils given the current course of the virus’.
He acknowledged there is a range of views across the education sector and ‘many students will be disappointed to lose the opportunity to put their learning to the test through traditional exams’.
He added: ‘It is now for the Government and Ofqual to work with education professionals to produce a fair system of assessment that will reward all our young people with the grades they deserve.’
He told Radio 4’s The World At One the Department for Education was not ‘being led well’, insisting: ‘If you talk to headteachers – I talk to them regularly as an ex-head – they lack confidence in leadership that they are receiving.’
Despite facing calls to cancel this month’s Btec exams in light of the lockdown, the Government has left it to school and college leaders to decide whether they want to go ahead with the vocational exam series.
The decision came after ministers faced calls to cancel the January exams.
Elsewhere, the issue of whether exams such as GCSEs will go ahead in Northern Ireland has not been resolved.
It is understood the Education Minister will bring proposals to the Executive on Wednesday.
Earlier the Prime Minister told a Downing Street press conference that he is ‘optimistic’ that ‘things really will be very different by the spring’.
Jody Saunders (left)and Shannon Harper (right) are among those suffering today after schools were shut and exams cancelled at the 11th hour. Jodi is one of thousands still doing BTEC exams in stressful circumstances
Lyndsey Brand’s daughter Isabelle, 18, and son Harry, 15, were both due to take their exams this summer after years of hard work
Boris Johnson last night failed to guarantee that all pupils across in England will be back in the classroom before the summer holidays
Timeline: PM’s path to Lockdown 3 and how Gavin Williamson threatened to sue shutting schools before the Boris closed them
Boris Johnson rules out a two-week circuit breaker after calls from Labour.
The PM announces a four-week lockdown beginning on November 5.
National lockdown ends but a new tier system is brought in, with London and the south-east in Tier 2 and areas of the north in Tier 3.
London and Essex is moved into Tier 3 as Matt Hancock reveals a new mutant strain of Covid has been found.
Boris Johnsons rules out more Christmas restrictions and said: ‘I want to be clear, we don’t want to ban Christmas’
Gavin Williamson threatens councils who shut schools with legal action and forces Greenwich schools to reopen after one day
The Government announces a new Tier 4 – and bans mixing at Christmas for much of the country
SAGE scientists recommend shutting schools as a way to keep the ‘R’ around or below 1
Gavin Williams convinces Boris Johnson not to shut primary schools and open most on time on January 4
But secondaries are later closed until January 18
Boris Johnson says parents in England should send primary school children to school saying they are ‘safe. It is very, very important to stress that and the risk to kids, to young people, to staff is very small’.
Boris Johnson announces national lockdown and shuts all schools because they could be acting as ‘vectors for transmission’.
But he was unable to give parents, pupils and teachers a firm assurance that face-to-face teaching will be able to resume during the current academic year.
It followed him announcing last night all schools and colleges across the country have to remain closed as part of his new coronavirus lockdown.
The closure of schools is due to last until the middle of February at the earliest when the lockdown is due to be reviewed.
The massive disruption to learning has forced ministers to tear up plans for A-level and GCSE exams to go ahead broadly as normal in May and June.
Mr Johnson was told at this evening’s briefing parents want ‘realism’ from the Government on when pupils will be able to move from remote learning back to class.
Asked whether he could tell parents all children will definitely be back in schools before the summer holidays, Mr Johnson replied: ‘I just go back to the answer really I gave to Robert Peston.
‘We think that with the vaccination programme we can do a huge amount to take out of the path of the virus those who are most vulnerable.
‘That clearly offers opportunities to our country to do things differently, to approach the whole issue of non-pharmaceutical interventions very differently.
‘I am full of the same optimism and fundamental hope about the position… that I think that things really will be very different by the spring and that is what I would certainly say to every parent in the land.’
Mr Johnson had earlier been asked by Mr Peston from ITV how confident he is that lockdown measures will be lifted by March.
The PM said: ‘I think it all depends. Our ability to come out of the lockdown measures, our ability to get through this fast, depends on a number things.’
Mr Johnson cited the roll-out of vaccinations and people following lockdown rules as two factors which will have a significant impact on when the rules can be eased.
The PM decided to announce the closure of schools last night just one day after he had encouraged parents to send their children back to classrooms this week.
The closure plans mean schools and colleges are shut to all but vulnerable children and the children of key workers, with everyone else switching to remote learning.
Shutting schools has plunged the academic year into chaos, with Mr Johnson telling pupils that ‘alternative arrangements’ will have to be made for exams this summer.
The Department for Education and exam regulator Ofqual are now trying to hammer out exactly how pupils will be assessed.
The Government’s official lockdown guidance on exams states: ‘In the circumstances, we do not think it is possible for all exams in the summer to go ahead as planned.
‘We will accordingly be working with Ofqual to consult rapidly to put in place alternative arrangements that will allow students to progress fairly.
‘Public exams and vocational assessments scheduled to take place in January will go ahead as planned.’
Slides presented at tonight’s Downing Street briefing showed that one in 50 people in England are thought to be infected with coronavirus
The Government had previously been adamant that exams would be sat in 2021 after the closure of schools meant they had to be scrapped last year and students were instead awarded their predicted grades.
Headteachers have urged Mr Johnson to call off the tests again because ‘wider public health, pupil and staff safety should be prioritised ahead of examinations.’
Furious students and parents claimed it was simply ‘not fair’ to make teenagers sit exams when in-person contact hours are being so severely curtailed.
Kelly Saunders’ daughter Jody is taking her BTEC exams this week.
She said: ‘This year’s kids have missed school from March to July and then been hit and miss since September.
‘My daughter is 17 and in sixth form and she will have missed pretty much a year of the 18 month course she is doing on science, dance and photography.
‘She had no work set at all in the first lockdown for photography and barely anything for the other two subjects.
‘She has exams next week as they are Btecs and it seems they are still going ahead. But with no preparation. It’s such a mess and she is fuming’.
A family in Knutsford, Cheshire, watch Prime Minister Boris Johnson making a televised address to the nation from 10 Downing Street as he shut all schools until February 22
BBC unveils ‘biggest education offer in its history’
The BBC is unveiling its ‘biggest education offer in history’ as schools across the country lock down. CBBC will broadcast a three-hour block of primary school programming from 9am each weekday, starting on January 11, the corporation has announced. These will include BBC Live Lessons and BBC Bitesize Daily, along with other educational programming such as Our School and Celebrity Supply Teacher, Horrible Histories, Art Ninja and Operation Ouch.
It comes as England enters its third lockdown in less than a year, with Boris Johnson cancelling A Level and GCSE exams and closing all primary and secondary schools. Tim Davie, BBC Director General, says: ‘Ensuring children across the UK have the opportunity to continue to follow the appropriate core parts of their nation’s school curriculum has been a key priority for the BBC throughout this past year.
‘Education is absolutely vital – the BBC is here to play its part and I’m delighted that we have been able to bring this to audiences so swiftly.’ BBC Two will offer content for secondary students with programming to support the GCSE curriculum, with a least two hours of content each weekday.
Lyndsey Brand’s daughter Isabelle, 18, and son Harry, 15, were both due to take their exams this summer.
Mrs Brand said: ‘We have yet to hear from either school however I expect this is due to the schools not having formulated a plan in response to last night’s news.
‘The provision at both schools for online learning has been fantastic but obviously it is not the same as being in a class room with teacher led sessions.
‘All I hope is that my daughter achieves the grades she needs to move on to the next stage of her education at university and my son achieves the grades he deserves.
‘Hopefully no algorithms or class ranking system. Just a series of tests to establish what level they are working at’.
Shannon Harper, 20, did two years of study at the royal academy of music but took a gap year to study science A-levels to get a place on a chemical engineering course.
She said: ‘This news has come like a wrecking ball to my plans as I am sitting the a levels independently and therefore do not have a school to rely on to accommodate me.
‘I am extremely concerned that many other people in my position will be bottom of the government’s list of consideration.
‘Furthermore, I have paid over £5000 in order to sit these A-levels, a sum that has nearly decimated my savings, notwithstanding all the money I’ve paid in rent and food.’
Debbie Powell, from Shropshire, said: ‘My concern as a parent of a year 11 pupil is how much cancelling GCSE exams will affect him with future opportunities and employment, will he be seen as one of the coronavirus generation and his grades questioned because he never took the exams?
‘I feel so sorry for what will be an educationally damaged generation who may never know what their true potential was’.
Julia Raned from London wrote: ‘My son is taking his GCSEs this year and he had his mocks planned in early December. The day before his first mock he was told to self isolate for 14 days.
‘We knew over Christmas he would come back and sit his mocks on the 5th, then his excellent head teacher sent a revised timetable for the mocks starting on the 6th instead of the 5th.
‘We spent all day yesterday together with me helping him revise for his chemistry GCSE mock only for that to be cancelled again last night at 8pm.
Aai’sha Mallik told MailOnline: ‘My son is in year 11 and expected to sit his GCSE’s in a few months.
‘Since last year March when the lockdown began he has definitely not progressed as he would have given a normal year.
‘Not only that, the government promised a huge fund would go into tutoring children so they are not falling behind, however not one parent that I have spoken to has told me that they have been offered this.
‘Our kids in year 11 and those sitting A levels should have been first in line to receive the benefits of those funds. Instead we get links to revision books which in turn costs more money’.
One in FIFTY people now have COVID in the UK – but PM Boris Johnson says 1.3million have now been vaccinated and pledges UK CAN get shots to most vulnerable by mid-February
The new lockdown in England at a glance
England will be put into a full national lockdown that will last until the February half term.
According to the new rules:
All primary and secondary schools will close with immediate effect
Classes will remain only for vulnerable pupils and the children of key workers.
The plan is for them to reopen after the February half-term break.
A-Level and GCSE exams are unlikely to go ahead as planned in the summer.
Universities will also remain closed to students until mid-February.
Nurseries will remain fully open.
The public should stay at home unless they need to leave for one of just five reasons: If they cannot work from home, shopping for necessities, exercise, to give care and for medical treatment or emergencies.
All non-essential retailers, hospitality and ‘personal care’ like hairdressers must close.
Restaurants and other eateries can continue to operate for takeaways and deliveries.
But pubs will no longer be allowed to offer take-away alcohol sales.
Children’s playgrounds will remain open.
All indoor and outdoor sports venues, including golf courses, gyms, swimming pools and tennis courts must close, and team sports cannot take place, even outdoors.
Elite sports like the Premier League can go on under their own schemes.
The guidance is for people who are fit and well.
There is additional advice for people who are clinically extremely vulnerable to coronavirus and households with a possible or confirmed coronavirus infection.
They should not attend work, school, college or university, and limit the time you spend outside the home. The guidance says you should only go out for medical appointments, exercise or if it is essential.
The rules for all people in England also state:
You cannot leave your home to meet socially with anyone you do not live with or are not in a support bubble with (if you are legally permitted to form one).
You may exercise on your own, with one other person, or with your household or support bubble.
You should not meet other people you do not live with, or have formed a support bubble with, unless for a permitted reason.
Stay 2 metres apart from anyone not in your household.
Detailed guidance on the national lockdown:
You must not leave or be outside of your home except where you have a ‘reasonable excuse’. This will be put in law. The police can take action against you if you leave home without a ‘reasonable excuse’, and issue you with a fine (Fixed Penalty Notice).
You can be given a Fixed Penalty Notice of £200 for the first offence, doubling for further offences up to a maximum of £6,400.
A ‘reasonable excuse’ includes:
Work – you can only leave home for work purposes where it is unreasonable for you to do your job from home
Volunteering – you can also leave home to provide voluntary or charitable services
Essential activities – you can leave home to buy things at shops or obtain services. You may also leave your home to do these things on behalf of a disabled or vulnerable person or someone self-isolating
Education and childcare – you can only leave home for education, registered childcare, and supervised activities for children where they are eligible to attend.
Meeting others and care – you can leave home to visit people in your support bubble ( if you are legally permitted to form one), to provide informal childcare for children under 14 as part of a childcare bubble (for example, to enable parents to work), to provide care for disabled or vulnerable people
Exercise – you can continue to exercise alone, with one other person or with your household or support bubble, limited to once per day, and not outside your local area
Medical reasons – you can leave home for a medical reason, including to get a COVID-19 test, for medical appointments and emergencies
Harm and compassionate visits – you can leave home to be with someone who is giving birth, to avoid injury or illness or to escape risk of harm (such as domestic abuse).
You can also leave home to visit someone who is dying or someone in a care home (if permitted under care home guidance), hospice, or hospital, or to accompany them to a medical appointment
Animal welfare reasons – you can leave home for animal welfare reasons, such as to attend veterinary services for advice or treatment
Communal worship and life events – You can leave home to attend or visit a place of worship for communal worship, a funeral or event related to a death, a burial ground or a remembrance garden, or to attend a wedding ceremony.
There are further reasonable excuses. For example, you may leave home to fulfil legal obligations or to carry out activities related to buying, selling, letting or renting a residential property, or where it is reasonably necessary for voting in an election or referendum.
Boris Johnson tonight revealed that one in 50 of the population of England – around a million people – are infected with coronavirus as he defended his U-turn to plunge the country into lockdown.
The PM told a Downing Street briefing that the scorching spread of the mutant version of the disease meant there was ‘no choice’ about imposing lockdown.
But he insisted the measures can get the situation under control while vaccines are rolled out – revealing that 1.3million people have now had jabs as he dismissed criticism that he is ‘over-promising’ about the most vulnerable categories being covered by mid-February.
Mr Johnson vowed to give the country ‘jab by jab’ information about the crucial process.
He was flanked at the press conference by medical and science chiefs Chris Whitty and Patrick Vallance – whose warnings about the threat of the NHS being overwhelmed sparked the extraordinary U-turn to plunge England into new restrictions.
The podiums once again were adorned with the slogan from the March lockdown – ‘stay home, protect the NHS, save lives’.
Asked if he thought the target of vaccinating more than 13million people over the next seven weeks was possible, Prof Whitty said it was ‘realistic but not easy’.
But the medic also delivered a grim message that ‘some’ restrictions could still be needed next winter, as the virus was likely to be in regular circulation like flu.
The scale of the problem was underlined tonight as the UK reported a record 60,916 cases – up nearly 15 per cent on last Tuesday. The tally of deaths was 830, double the number from last week.
Meanwhile one-in-thirty Londoners – more than 290,000 people – are estimated to have had the virus on January 2, figures from the Office of National Statistics show.
Mr Johnson said the total of 1.3million vaccinated so far included 1.1million people in England, and 650,000 people over the age of 80 – 23 per cent of all that age group in England.
‘That means nearly one-in-four of the most vulnerable groups will have in two to three weeks a significant degree of immunity,’ he said.
‘That is why I believe the Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation was right to draw up a programme saving the most lives the fastest.’
Prof Whitty and Sir Patrick confirmed that giving a single dose of the vaccine to more people, rather than the recommended double-dose to half the number, could potentially encourage mutations.
But he said the public health benefits of having more people with some resistance were greater.
‘It is a real worry but quite a small real worry within the system,’ he said.
‘The public health arguments are really strongly in favour.’
Sir Patrick warned that the virus would change anyway and vaccines will need to be altered.
‘The virus probably will mutate… different vaccines will be needed at that point.’
Mr Johnson also struck a gloomy note on schools, refusing to state categorically that they will return before the summer holidays – although he stressed they would be the top priority and things would be ‘different’ by the spring.
As ministers battle to prevent the brutal squeeze wiping out the hospitality and leisure sectors, Rishi Sunak has unveiled another £4.6billion bailout, offering one-off grants of up to £9,000 to keep venues afloat for the next seven weeks.
The Chancellor also hinted that furlough could be extended beyond April if necessary, even though the government’s borrowing is spiralling out of control.
But businesses are urging the government to go further by offering VAT and rates relief.
And Tory unrest is growing amid fears that Mr Johnson has raised false hopes that the measures can be lifted by mid-February.
Michael Gove admitted this morning that there was no ‘certainty’ on the timeline, as it depends on the government meeting its highly ambitious targets for vaccinating more than 13million of the most vulnerable in society.
The Cabinet Office minister also cautioned that even in the best case scenario not ‘all’ of the curbs will go, as he braced the weary public for a long haul to combat the fast-spreading new variant of coronavirus.
Some Conservative MPs are demanding to know why more preparation was not done for the vaccine drive in the autumn, pointing out that Israel has been more successful despite not having a ‘functional’ government.
Labour leader Keir Starmer said the crackdown was ‘essential’ and his MPs will support them, effectively guaranteeing their approval in the Commons. But he criticised the government for not changing course sooner and expressed serious doubts about the optimism over distributing vaccines.
‘I hope he is not over-promising. It’s going to be a struggle and we need to make this work.’
He insisted the government must set up a ‘massive, immediate, and round-the-clock vaccination programme to deliver millions of doses a week by the end of the month in every village and town, every high street and every GP surgery’.
Just a day after he urged parents to send their children back, Mr Johnson declared in a sombre address from No10 last night that primary and secondary schools will be shut from today, with only the vulnerable and offspring of key workers allowed to go in.
Nurseries can stay open. But university students are being told to stay at home and study remotely, while GCSE and A-level exams will not go ahead as planned.
Teenagers might not know for weeks how their exams will be replaced, with Ofsted expected to launch a consultation, although government sources said some ‘contingency’ plans had already been considered.
Under the the new guidance, published overnight, non-essential retail, all hospitality, gyms and swimming pools will be ordered to close – with Rishi Sunak due to lay out another package of support today amid growing fears about the impact on the economy.
Cafes, bars and restaurants will be allowed to serve takeaway – but in a tightening from the draconian measures last spring, they will not be allowed to serve any alcohol. Vulnerable people are being told to shield where possible.
The public are once again only allowed to leave home for one of five reasons: to go to work if essential, shop for necessities, exercise – allowed with one other person from another household, care for someone, or to seek medical help or flee threat such as domestic violence.
As England gets used to the idea of a third national lockdown and months more coronavirus chaos:
Rishi Sunak announced another £4.6billion of bailouts for lockdown-stricken businesses as economists warned of the ‘colossal’ hit from the surging pandemic;
The number of Covid-19 patients in hospital in England stood at 26,467 as of 8am on January 5, according to the latest figures – up 21 per cent week on week;
Arrivals at UK borders are set to have to show they have tested negative for Covid in the last 72 hours in another major U-turn from government;
Police have warned that enforcing the lockdown will be difficult with large numbers of officers already off sick or self-isolating;
Scientists have warned that even the new tough measures might not be enough to contain the mutant coronavirus strain;
The PM is set to hold a press conference with medical and science chiefs Chris Whitty and Patrick Vallance at 5pm;
Streets and city centres were quiet as Britons digested the new restrictions being placed on their lives;
Hundreds of medical professionals have called for hospital staff to be given higher grade personal protective equipment (PPE) amid growing concern over airborne transmission of coronavirus.
Boris Johnson told a Downing Street briefing that the spread of the mutant version of the disease had made lockdown impossible to avoid
Boris Johnson was flanked at the press conference tonight by medical and science chiefs Chris Whitty (left) and Patrick Vallance (right) – whose warnings about the threat of the NHS being overwhelmed sparked the extraordinary U-turn to plunge England into new restrictions
Slides presented at the briefing showed that one in 50 people in England are thought to be infected with coronavirus
Mr Johnson vowed to use ‘every second’ under the stringent restrictions to put an ‘invisible shield’ around the elderly and vulnerable through a mass vaccination programme.
‘I believe that when everybody looks at the position, people understand overwhelmingly that we have no choice,’ he said.
‘When the Office of National Statistics (ONS) is telling us that more than 2 per cent of the population is now infected – that’s over one million people in England.
Covid restrictions might still be needed next winter, warns Whitty
Coronavirus restrictions could still be needed next winter, the government’s chief medical officer warned tonight.
In one of the most alarming sections of the No10 briefing, Prof Chris Whitty said that some curbs may have to be brought back into place at the end of the year.
He said: ‘If we did not do all the things all of us must now do, if people don’t take the stay at home seriously, the risk at this point in time, in the middle of winter with this new variant, is extraordinarily high.’
He said the risk level will gradually decrease over time with measures being ‘lifted by degrees possibly at different rates in different parts of the country, we’ll have to see’.
‘We’ll then get over time to a point where people say this level of risk is something society is prepared to tolerate and lift right down to almost no restrictions at all,’ he added.
‘We might have to bring in a few in next winter for example, that’s possible, because winter will benefit the virus.’
‘And when today we have reported another 60,000 new cases, and when the number of patients in hospitals in England is now 40 per cent higher than at the first peak in April.
‘I think obviously everybody – you all – want to be sure that we in Government are now using every second of this lockdown to put that invisible shield around the elderly and the vulnerable in the form of vaccination and so to begin to bring this crisis to an end.’
Batting away pessimism on his own benches, Mr Johnson said there is a ‘prospect’ the lockdown can be eased in mid-February.
‘When a very considerable proportion of the most vulnerable groups have been vaccinated … then there really is the prospect of beginning the relaxation of some of these measures.
‘But you will also appreciate there are a lot of caveats, a lot of ifs built into that, the most important of which is that we all now follow the guidance.’
But in one of the most alarming sections of the briefing, Prof Whitty said that some restrictions may have to be brought back into place next winter to control the virus.
The extraordinary third national squeeze will come into effect in the early hours tomorrow after the regulations are laid today, but Mr Johnson urged the public to adopt the new rules straight away. MPs will get a vote on them on Wednesday when Parliament is recalled.
Those who break the rules face a £200 for the first offence, doubling for further offences up to a maximum of £6,400.
Senior Tory MPs had joined the Opposition in calling for the introduction of another national lockdown. But the idea of hardening the restrictions sparked fury from other Conservatives, who insist the country’s experience of the pandemic shows that lockdowns do not work and are crippling the economy.
There are claims that at least two MPs have now sent letters of no confidence in the PM to Conservative backbench chief Sir Graham Brady – although the numbers are nowhere near the threshold to put his position in doubt.
Evidence of disquiet over the vaccination drive has been growing, with claims ministers have failed to prepare.
‘We need that scaling up of vaccination like Israel has managed to achieve,’ one backbencher told MailOnline. ‘Why aren’t we there already? Why hasn’t the time been used over the summer and autumn to get the army of vaccinators in place?
‘The only limitation should be the speed by which the manufacturers are able to supply it to you.
‘The whole future of the economy, the future of saving more lives, the future of a sense of normality is in the hands of the vaccinator. That is where we now are.’
Other senior Tory MPs were just as gloomy. ‘We are over-promising and under-delivering,’ one said. ‘It is a big risk. They are not prepared and they are not ready to do it.
‘The problem is people don’t understand the logistics of administering this vaccine and checking people are OK and doing the paperwork. It is not just a case of putting a jab in someone’s arm.’
With his hands clasped together and seated behind a desk in Downing Street last night, Mr Johnson made clear there is no chance of them being lifted for at least seven weeks – and possibly longer if the vaccine rollout does not go well.
‘Our hospitals are under more pressure than at any time since the start of the pandemic. It’s clear we need to do more.. while our vaccines are rolled out,’ he said.
He said it would not be ‘possible or fair’ for exams to go ahead this summer as normal.
‘The weeks ahead will be the hardest but I really do believe that we are reaching the end of the struggle,’ he said, pledging that by mid-February the top four categories on the vaccine distribution list will have had their first jabs.
There are 13.2million people in the top four groups on the vaccination list – care home residents and the over-80s, frontline healthcare workers, the over-70s and the clinically vulnerable.
But the Prime Minister admitted that he could only give assurance that the situation will improve assuming that ‘our understanding of the virus does not change again’.
He said: ‘By the middle of February, if things go well and with a fair wind in our sails, we expect to have offered the first vaccine dose to everyone in the four top priority groups identified by the Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation.
‘That means vaccinating all residents in a care home for older adults and their carers, everyone over the age of 70, all frontline health and social care workers, and everyone who is clinically extremely vulnerable.
‘If we succeed in vaccinating all those groups, we will have removed huge numbers of people from the path of the virus.
‘And of course, that will eventually enable us to lift many of the restrictions we have endured for so long.’
Mr Johnson said he was left with no option after being confronted with catastrophic figures about the burden on the NHS by science chiefs today.
Hospital patients with coronavirus had risen by 40 per cent over a week, and are now higher than at the peak of the first wave.
Downing Street issued a series of slides showing the problem the country faces due to the new variant of the virus – the evidence that apparently forced Mr Johnson into his latest extraordinary U-turn
Hundreds of thousands of non-essential retailers will have to keep their doors closed under England’s third nation-wide lockdown
The Joint Biosecurity Centre has recommended today that the Covid-19 alert level be reduced
ALL YOUR LOCKDOWN QUESTIONS ANSWERED
Why is England going into lockdown again?
Cases caused by the new, more infectious variant of Covid-19 are surging rapidly in every part of the country. In the past week they have gone up by 30 per cent, and the number is 40 per cent higher than the peak of the first wave in April. Medical experts have warned the NHS could be overwhelmed in 21 days unless action is taken.
How long will it last?
Until mid-February. It will then be subject to a review.
Can I see family and friends?
The mixing of households indoors is not allowed outside of support bubbles. You can meet one other person outside your household for outdoor exercise.
If I am in a bubble with someone, can I still see them?
The support bubble system – where a person living alone can pair with another household – can continue. Childcare support bubbles are also still allowed.
Are schools closing?
Yes. All primary and secondary schools and colleges have to close and switch to online learning, except for the children of key workers and the most vulnerable. Universities must also stay closed. Early years providers, such as nurseries, and special schools can stay open.
Will GCSEs and A-levels be cancelled?
Boris Johnson said it would not be possible, or fair, for all exams to go ahead as normal this summer. Education Secretary Gavin Williamson will work to put alternative arrangements in place.
Will churches and other places of worship stay open?
Yes, they are allowed to open for individual prayer and communal worship.
Can I go on holiday in the UK or abroad?
No. Only essential travel is allowed.
Will playgrounds stay open?
Unlike the first lockdown, yes.
Can I move home?
Yes, you can still view houses and move home.
Can I let my cleaner or plumber into my house?
Yes, essential visits by tradesmen can continue.
Can I still exercise?
You can exercise outdoors with your household, your support bubble or alone with one other person from another household. Exercise should be limited to once a day and should be local, meaning you should not drive to a beauty spot.
Can I play golf or tennis?
No. Courses and courts must shut.
Is professional sport affected?
No. Elite sports that are Covid-secure and have bubble systems can continue.
Will there be extra financial support?
The furlough scheme will remain in place until April.
Can I leave my house to get a Covid vaccine?
Yes, you can leave your home for all medical appointments.
Will garden centres be open?
Are restaurants open?
Not for eating inside, but cafes, restaurants, pubs and bars can serve takeaway food and non-alcoholic drinks until 11pm.
Will non-essential retailers such as clothes shops be open?
No. But click-and-collect services will be permitted to continue.
What about hairdressers and beauty salons?
No, they are among the non-essential shops that must close.
Can I go to work?
Only if you ‘absolutely cannot’ work from home. This means the construction industry can continue and key workers can continue to go to work.
Can I get married?
Only in exceptional circumstances, for example in cases where people are dying or have debilitating conditions.
I had to ‘shield’ last time – will I have to do this again?
Yes. Those who are clinically vulnerable and who were previously told to shield should stay at home and leave only for medical appointments or exercise. They will receive a letter shortly informing them about this.
Can I travel to my second home?
Travel is allowed only for essential work, shopping for necessities, exercise, caring for the vulnerable and medical reasons.
What shops are open?
Food shops, supermarkets, pharmacies, garden centres, building merchants and suppliers of building products and off-licences are allowed to remain open, along with market stalls selling essential retail.
Can I go to the bank?
Banks, building societies, post offices, short-term loan providers and money transfer businesses can stay open.
Can I take my pet to the vet?
Vets and retailers of products and food for the upkeep and welfare of animals can stay open, along with animal rescue centres
What about public facilities?
Car parks, public toilets and motorway service areas, along with outdoor playgrounds, outdoor parts of botanical gardens and heritage sites for exercise can stay open
Rishi Sunak today announced another £4.6billion of bailouts for lockdown-stricken businesses as economists warned of the ‘colossal’ hit from the surging pandemic.
The Chancellor declared that venues hammered by Boris Johnson’s dramatic decision will get one-off grants of up to £9,000 to keep them afloat over the next seven weeks.
Some 600,000 premises across the UK are set to receive the cash, while another £594million is being pumped into a ‘discretionary fund’ to support other firms affected.
Mr Sunak also pointedly refused to rule out extending the massive furlough scheme again beyond the end of April, merely saying he would ‘take stock’ at the Budget in March.
However, businesses warned that the package is not enough, amid pressure for VAT and rates relief to be kept in place to stop a wave of bankruptcies.
The latest huge intervention came amid fears that the lockdown will slash GDP by up to 10 per cent in every month it is imposed – although the respected IFS think-tank said this morning that the impact might be lower as businesses have adapted since the first squeeze in March.
It will also raise alarm at the state of the government’s finances, with IFS director Paul Johnson saying the scale of the economic damage was the worst ‘in the whole of history’. Public sector borrowing could hit £400billion this year, with Mr Sunak already having warned of a reckoning later to balance the books.
In his speech to the nation, the Prime Minister said the previous tiers would have been enough to cope with Covid as it was originally, but the new variant – which is 50 per cent to 70 per cent more transmissible – was spreading in a ‘frustrating and alarming’ manner.
‘As I speak to you tonight, our hospitals are under more pressure from Covid than at any time since the start of the pandemic,’ he said.
Mr Johnson said that in England the number of Covid patients in hospitals has increased by nearly a third in the last week to almost 27,000 – some 40 per cent higher than the first peak in April.
On December 29 ‘more than 80,000 people tested positive for Covid across the UK’, the number of deaths is up by 20 per cent over the last week ‘and will sadly rise further’.
‘With most of the country, or maybe under extreme measures, it’s clear that we need to do more together to bring this new variant under control while our vaccines are rolled out,’ he said.
‘In England we must therefore go into a national lockdown which is tough enough to contain this variant.’
Mr Johnson said parents ‘may reasonably ask why’ decisions on schools were not taken ‘sooner’.
‘The answer is simply that we’ve been doing everything in our power to keep schools open because we know how important each day in education is to children’s life chances,’ he said.
‘And I want to stress that the problem is not that schools are unsafe for children. Children are still very unlikely to be severely affected by even the new variant of Covid.
‘The problem is that schools may nonetheless act as vectors for transmission, causing the virus to spread between households.’
Mr Johnson said the move on schools means ‘it’s not possible or fair for all exams to go ahead this summer, as normal’.
The PM added: ‘We will provide extra support to ensure that pupils entitled to free school meals will continue to receive them while schools are closed, and we will distribute more devices to support remote education.’
The premier suggested England could ‘steadily’ move out of lockdown from mid-February – but he heavily caveated his optimism, in a sign that the crisis could drag on much longer.
‘If our understanding of the virus doesn’t change dramatically, once again, if the rollout of the vaccine programme continues to be successful, if deaths start to fall as the vaccine takes effect and – critically – if everyone plays their part by following the rules, then I hope we can steadily move out of lockdown, reopening schools after the February half-term and starting cautiously to move regions down the tiers,’ Mr Johnson said.
‘I must stress that even if we achieve this goal, there remains a time lag of two to three weeks from getting a jab to receiving immunity.
‘And there will be a further time lag before the pressure on the NHS is lifted. So we should remain cautious about the timetable ahead.’
He rounded off his downbeat address by repeating the mantra from the first lockdown, ‘stay at home, protect the NHS and save lives’.
‘I want to say to everyone right across the UK that I know how tough this is,’ he said.
‘And I know how frustrated you are and I know that you have had more than enough of Government guidance about defeating this virus.
‘But now, more than ever, we must pull together.’
He warned that ‘the weeks ahead will be the hardest yet’ but ‘with every jab that goes into our arms, we are tilting the odds against Covid and in favour of the British people’.
‘Thanks to the miracle of science not only is the end in sight but we know exactly how we will get there.’
Even the Scilly Isles has not escaped, shifting from Tier 1 straight to full lockdown.
In a round of interviews, Mr Gove said a review of the situation would happen in the February half-term.
‘We hope we will be able to progressively lift restrictions after that but what I can’t do is predict – nobody can predict – with accuracy exactly what we will be able to relax and when,’ he told Sky News.
‘What we do know is that the more effective our vaccination programme, the more people who are protected in that way, the easier it will be to lift these restrictions.’
Despite the ferocity of the new measures, scientists warned they still might not be enough to control the Covid variant.
Andrew Hayward, professor of infectious diseases epidemiology at University College London, told BBC Radio 4’s Today programme that the move ‘will clearly save tens of thousands of lives’.
But he added: ‘The threat we’re facing is at least as bad as we were back in March.
‘I think the virus is different and it may be that the lockdown measures we had are not enough so we need to learn from the new insights and new technologies, we need to learn from the last lockdown and particularly some of the things we saw.
‘I think this time round we really need to use this lockdown to bear down on the virus in a way that can protect key workers – for example, we could be using the lateral flow (tests) and working with employers to offer regular testing to key workers.’
Meanwhile, police warned that enforcing the new national lockdown would put ‘a lot of pressure’ on officers whose numbers are already reduced by the coronavirus pandemic.
Rishi unveils ANOTHER £4.6bn bailout for stricken businesses
Ken Marsh, chairman of the Metropolitan Police Federation – which represents front line officers in London, said some 1,300 were off sick or self-isolating in the capital.
His counterpart nationally, John Apter, wrote in the Daily Telegraph some forces were reporting 15 per cent of their staff off sick or self-isolating.
Mr Marsh urged the Government to place police officers on a priority list to receive coronavirus vaccines, saying requests to the Government so far were ‘falling on deaf ears’.
Businesses voiced dismay at the new clampdown that threatens to wreak more havoc on the economy.
British Chambers of Commerce director general Adam Marshall said: ‘Businesses will understand why the Prime Minister has felt compelled to act on the spiralling threat to public health, but they will be baffled and disappointed by the fact that he did not announce additional support for affected businesses alongside these new restrictions.’
Asked about how lockdown enforcement would affect officers, Mr Marsh said: ‘It will obviously create a lot of pressure on us because we have a lot more officers off this time than we did back in March.
‘Our numbers have rocketed in terms of officers with Covid and officers isolating and we envisage that getting worse.
‘So the pressure is on my colleagues who are still out there to maintain the same level that they did before.’
Commenting on getting officers access to vaccines, he claimed: ‘It would appear that policing has been airbrushed out of any conversation in relation to protecting my colleagues, which I find quite incredible considering they are on the front line.
‘They are the one group of people other than the National Health Service that actually have to go to work and have to be out there with the public, every day, 24 hours a day.
‘It’s just amazing that no consideration whatsoever has been given to vaccinating police.’
Mr Apter, chairman of the Police Federation of England and Wales, has called for officers to be prioritised after society’s most vulnerable groups and NHS workers have been given the jab.
He wrote in the Telegraph: ‘Without the vaccine, there is a real danger that more officers will contract the virus.
‘As growing numbers self-isolate or report sick with the virus, then the police service begins to struggle to do what the public fully expects of it.
‘Some forces are already starting to report up to 15 per cent of their officers off sick or self-isolating. This is getting worse and is simply not sustainable.’
Starmer warns PM ‘over-promising’ on vaccines
Sir Keir Starmer sent a warning shot to Boris Johnson today over the Prime Minister’s ambitious goal of vaccinating 13million Brits by mid-February, claiming it will be another example of No10 ‘over-promising and under-delivering’ if it fails.
Labour’s leader said drastically scaling up the vaccination programme — which has so far only inoculated a million people, despite launching a month ago — would be a ‘struggle’ and that there was ‘no room for error’.
His comments came after Michael Gove today warned that lockdown will only start to be lifted gradually in March — and that the timeline depends on the Government meeting its inoculation goal.
But there are serious doubts about whether the target is achievable, given it has been slow to get off the ground and the NHS will need to juggle running the biggest immunisation programme in British history with battling the greatest crisis it has ever faced as Covid patients continue to pour into hospitals. Record numbers of staff absences and stringent infection control measures are also making the jobs of frontline health workers more difficult.
The NHS has refused to commit to the two million target because of potential vaccine supply shortages, staffing concerns and other logistical hurdles. There is also a suggestion that health bosses want to distance themselves from the Government’s arbitrary targets, given that it has failed to hit numerous goals throughout the pandemic, including ramping up daily swabbing capacity and expanding NHS Test and Trace.
Mr Apter, whose organisation represents 130,000 officers, said the ‘last thing the public want is to call 999 in their hour of need, only to find we are too short of officers to be able to respond’.
Emma McClarkin, chief executive of the British Beer & Pub Association, said: ‘A third lockdown is yet another blow to our sector. Particularly after it has faced an abysmally quiet Christmas and New Year’s, which saw many pubs remain closed over what is meant to be their busiest time of the year.
‘The announcement today adds to the woes of pubs as it shows they are a long way from reopening properly. The road to recovery for the pub sector just got longer.’
London Mayor Sadiq Khan said the Government should have gone further by extending the rules on wearing face masks to cover busy outdoor areas and toughening up controls at the borders.
‘This announcement by the Government of a full national lockdown was inevitable,’ Mr Khan said.
‘It is unclear why it took Boris Johnson so long to reach this conclusion.’
The latest infection tally meant the UK has passed the milestone of 50,000 infections every day for a week, suggesting that the easing of restrictions at Christmas helped fuel the outbreak.
Department of Health chiefs also posted 407 more deaths, up just 14 per cent on the figure recorded last week.
But it can take infected patients several weeks to fall severely ill and succumb to the illness, meaning fatalities have yet to reach their peak and will continue to rise.
The UK recorded almost 1,000 deaths twice last week, in grisly tolls not seen since the darkest days of the spring.
Nicola Sturgeon announced a drastic crackdown in the Scottish Parliament on Monday afternoon, with a legally-enforced stay at home order from midnight and schools north of the border set to stay closed until February.
Mr Johnson confirmed yesterday morning that ‘tougher’ measures were coming despite the optimism sparked by the first Oxford/AstraZeneca vaccine doses being administered – although at that point he appeared to hint he would prefer to stick with the Tier system in England.
Streets and city centres were quiet as Britons digested the new restrictions being placed on their lives. PIctured, Waterloo station in London
Traffic was relatively light in many parts of London this morning, although the new rules have yet to come into force legally. Pictured, the A40 Marylebone flyover heading into central London
Lockdown 3: what ‘non-essential businesses must close?
Non-essential retail, such as clothing and homeware stores, vehicle showrooms (excluding rental), betting shops, tailors, tobacco and vape shops, electronic goods and mobile phone shops, auction houses (except for auctions of livestock or agricultural equipment) and market stalls selling non-essential goods. (These venues can continue to be able to operate click-and-collect off-premises, and delivery services).
Hospitality venues such as cafes, restaurants, pubs, bars and social clubs (they can remain open for takeaway and delivery of food and non-alcoholic drinks).
Accommodation such as hotels, hostels, guest houses and campsites,
Leisure and sports facilities such as leisure centres and gyms, swimming pools, sports courts,fitness and dance studios, riding arenas at riding centres, climbing walls, and golf courses.
Entertainment venues such as theatres, concert halls, cinemas, museums and galleries, casinos, amusement arcades, bingo halls, bowling alleys, skating rinks, go-karting venues, indoor play and soft play centres and areas (including inflatable parks and trampolining centres), circuses, fairgrounds, funfairs, water parks and theme parks
Animal attractions (such as zoos, safari parks, aquariums, and wildlife reserves)
Indoor attractions at venues such as botanical gardens, stately homes and landmarks – though outdoor grounds can stay open for exercise.
Personal care facilities such as hair, beauty, tanning and nail salons. Tattoo parlours, spas, massage parlours, body and skin piercing services must also close. They can also not be done in private homes.
Community centres and halls.
SAGE had cautioned that it is probably impossible to control the new coronavirus variant while they remain open – although experts say a total shutdown still might not be enough to bring the ‘R’ reproduction rate below one.
Michael Gove held a conference call with the First Ministers from the four nations to coordinate strategies. But in a sign of splits, Wales has said it will push ahead with reopening schools over the next fortnight unless there is new evidence about the variant strain.
Earlier, ex-health secretary Jeremy Hunt joined demands from Labour and Tory MPs for an immediate national squeeze with schools and borders shut and a ban on all household mixing.
Mr Hunt warned that mutant Covid has put the NHS under ‘off the scale’ pressure compared to normal winters and the government ‘cannot afford to wait’ even one more day.
Mr Hunt posted on Twitter: ‘To those arguing winter is always like this in the NHS: you are wrong. I faced four serious winter crises as Health Sec and the situation now is off-the-scale worse than any of those.’
Mr Hunt said the ‘No1 lesson’ from the pandemic is that countries can ‘save lives and get their economies back to normal faster’ if they ‘act early and decisively’.
‘We therefore cannot afford to wait: all schools should be closed, international travel stopped, household mixing limited and the tier system reviewed so that the highest tier really does bring down infection levels,’ Mr Hunt said.
‘The good news is that unlike before these restrictions will be time limited to the 12 weeks or so it will take to get the vaccine out to those most vulnerable to covid – so there is light at the end of the tunnel.’
Mr Hunt was among a growing band of Conservative MPs, including ex-No10 adviser Neil O’Brien, urging emergency steps to tackle the coronavirus surge.
Labour has also been pushing for a squeeze, with Sadiq Khan saying Mr Hunt was ‘spot on’.
Earlier Matt Hancock suggested the first step will be to escalate even more of the country into Tier 4, saying Tier 3 did not seem able to hold back the more infectious version of the deadly disease.
He insisted the problem was partly down to people failing to obey the rules, amid calls from some MPs for police to be given more powers.
But there were questions about how much more impact extending the coverage of Tier 4 could have, given three-quarters of England is already subject to the harshest bracket, where only essential shops such as supermarkets are allowed to open and people are meant to stay at home.
Dr Yvonne Doyle, medical director for Public Health England (PHE), said the latest daily figures were a ‘bitter warning’ about the threat.
BORIS JOHNSON’S LOCKDOWN ANNOUNCEMENT IN FULL
‘Since the pandemic began last year, the whole United Kingdom has been engaged in a great national effort to fight Covid.
‘And there is no doubt that in fighting the old variant of the virus, our collective efforts were working and would have continued to work.
‘But we now have a new variant of the virus. It has been both frustrating and alarming to see the speed with which the new variant is spreading.
‘Our scientists have confirmed this new variant is between 50% and 70% more transmissible – that means you are much, much more likely to catch the virus and to pass it on.
‘As I speak to you tonight, our hospitals are under more pressure from Covid than at any time since the start of the pandemic.
‘In England alone, the number of Covid patients in hospitals has increased by nearly a third in the last week, to almost 27,000.
‘That number is 40% higher than the first peak in April. On 29 December, more than 80,000 people tested positive for Covid across the UK – a new record.
‘The number of deaths is up by 20% over the last week and will sadly rise further. My thoughts are with all those who have lost loved ones.
‘With most of the country already under extreme measures, it is clear that we need to do more, together, to bring this new variant under control while our vaccines are rolled out.
‘In England, we must therefore go into a national lockdown which is tough enough to contain this variant.
‘That means the Government is once again instructing you to stay at home.
‘You may only leave home for limited reasons permitted in law, such as to shop for essentials, to work if you absolutely cannot work from home, to exercise, to seek medical assistance such as getting a Covid test, or to escape domestic abuse.
‘The full details on what you can and can’t do will be available at gov.uk/coronavirus.
‘If you are clinically extremely vulnerable, we are advising you to begin shielding again and you will shortly receive a letter about what this means for you.
‘And because we now have to do everything we possibly can to stop the spread of the disease, primary schools, secondary schools and colleges across England must move to remote provision from tomorrow, except for vulnerable children and the children of key workers.
‘Everyone will still be able to access early years settings such as nurseries.
‘We recognise that this will mean it is not possible or fair for all exams to go ahead this summer as normal. The Education Secretary will work with Ofqual to put in place alternative arrangements.
‘We will provide extra support to ensure that pupils entitled to free school meals will continue to receive them while schools are closed, and we’ll distribute more devices to support remote education.
‘I completely understand the inconvenience and distress this late change will cause millions of parents and pupils up and down the country.
‘Parents whose children were in school today may reasonably ask why we did not take this decision sooner.
‘The answer is simply that we have been doing everything in our power to keep schools open, because we know how important each day in education is to children’s life chances.
‘And I want to stress that the problem is not that schools are unsafe for children – children are still very unlikely to be severely affected by even the new variant of Covid.
‘Today the United Kingdom’s chief medical officers have advised that the country should move to alert level 5, meaning that if action is not taken NHS capacity may be overwhelmed within 21 days.
‘Of course, there is one huge difference compared to last year. We are now rolling out the biggest vaccination programme in our history.
‘So far, we in the UK have vaccinated more people than the rest of Europe combined.
‘With the arrival today of the UK’s own Oxford AstraZeneca vaccine, the pace of vaccination is accelerating.
‘I can share with you tonight the NHS’s realistic expectations for the vaccination programme in the coming weeks.
‘By the middle of February, if things go well and with a fair wind in our sails, we expect to have offered the first vaccine dose to everyone in the four top priority groups identified by the Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation.
‘But if our understanding of the virus doesn’t change dramatically once again…
‘If the rollout of the vaccine programme continues to be successful…
‘If deaths start to fall as the vaccine takes effect…
‘And, critically, if everyone plays their part by following the rules…
‘Then I hope we can steadily move out of lockdown, reopening schools after the February half-term and starting, cautiously, to move regions down the tiers.
‘I want to say to everyone right across the United Kingdom that I know how tough this is, I know how frustrated you are, I know that you have had more than enough of government guidance about defeating this virus.
‘But now more than ever, we must pull together.
‘You should follow the new rules from now, and they will become law in the early hours of Wednesday morning. Parliament will meet – largely remotely – later that day.
‘I know that the devolved administrations in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland share my conviction this is a pivotal moment and they’re taking similar steps.
‘The weeks ahead will be the hardest yet but I really do believe that we are entering the last phase of the struggle.
‘Because with every jab that goes into our arms, we are tilting the odds against Covid and in favour of the British people.
‘And, thanks to the miracle of science, not only is the end in sight and we know exactly how we will get there.
‘But for now, I am afraid, you must once again stay at home, protect the NHS and save lives.
‘Thank you all very much.’
Who has to work from home now and how strictly will it be enforced?
Boris Johnson plunged the country into a third national lockdown ordering everyone to work from home if they can.
However, the criteria on who can stay out of the office has caused some confusion with the exception applying only to people who ‘absolutely cannot work from home’.
The Government’s official website states this category includes – but is not limited to – ‘people who work within critical national infrastructure, construction or manufacturing that require in-person attendance’.
Roles such as these – which include water service and telecoms workers – are ‘essential to keeping the country operating and supporting sectors and employers’, guidance states.
Those working in childcare or education are deemed to be providing an essential service, meaning they should continue to go into work.
People who need to work in others’ homes – such as nannies, cleaners or tradespeople – are also able to do so.
To facilitate working from home, employees are encouraged to provide both IT equipment and the services to enable remote working.
Those who are out of the house without a ‘reasonable excuse’ – including those who are working outside when it is not essential – can be slapped with a £200 fine.
This figure can increase to up to £6,400 for repeat offenders.
‘The continuous rise in cases and deaths should be a bitter warning for us all. We must not forget the basics – the lives of our friends and family depend on it,’ she said.
Speaking during a visit to Chase Farm Hospital in north London yesterday morning, Mr Johnson warned of ‘tough tough’ weeks to come.
He added: ‘If you look at the numbers there’s no question we will have to take tougher measures and we will be announcing those in due course.’
Mr Johnson tried to strike a positive note, promising there will be a ‘massive ramp up’ in vaccination numbers.
Before Mr Johnson acted, Ms Sturgeon announced yesterday that Scotland will be plunged back into a national coronavirus lockdown from midnight.
The SNP leader said the new crackdown, lasting all of January, will include a legally enforceable stay-at-home rule.
Exercise and essential journeys will be the only reasons why people will be allowed to leave their homes.
The planned reopening of schools on January 18 is also being pushed back to February 1 at the earliest while workers are being instructed to work from home wherever possible.
Rules on outdoor gatherings will be tightened to allow a maximum of just two people from two households to meet.
Meanwhile, places of worship will be closed from this Friday but weddings and funerals will still be allowed to go ahead.
A maximum of 20 people will be allowed to attend funeral services and a maximum of five people will be allowed to attend weddings.
Ms Sturgeon said the tough new curbs are necessary because of the ‘steeply rising’ rate of infections north of the border as she warned the lockdown could be extended beyond January if necessary.
The measures effectively mean a return to the restrictions seen during the first UK-wide lockdown which was imposed at the end of March last year.
All of mainland Scotland is already placed in the highest tier of Covid-19 rules but case numbers have prompted Ms Sturgeon to take more drastic action after 2,464 new cases were announced yesterday.
What you can and cannot do during the national lockdown: The government guidelines in full
You must stay at home. The single most important action we can all take is to stay at home to protect the NHS and save lives.
You should follow this guidance immediately. The law will be updated to reflect these new rules.
You must not leave, or be outside of your home except where necessary. You may leave the home to:
shop for basic necessities, for you or a vulnerable person
go to work, or provide voluntary or charitable services, if you cannot reasonably do so from home
exercise with your household (or support bubble) or one other person, this should be limited to once per day, and you should not travel outside your local area.
meet your support bubble or childcare bubble where necessary, but only if you are legally permitted to form one
seek medical assistance or avoid injury, illness or risk of harm (including domestic abuse)
attend education or childcare – for those eligible
Colleges, primary and secondary schools will remain open only for vulnerable children and the children of critical workers. All other children will learn remotely until February half term. Early Years settings remain open.
Higher Education provision will remain online until mid February for all except future critical worker courses.
If you do leave home for a permitted reason, you should always stay local in the village, town, or part of the city where you live. You may leave your local area for a legally permitted reason, such as for work.
If you are clinically extremely vulnerable you should only go out for medical appointments, exercise or if it is essential. You should not attend work
Detailed guidance on the national lockdown
Who this guidance is for
This guidance is for people who are fit and well. There is additional advice for people who are clinically extremely vulnerable to coronavirus and households with a possible or confirmed coronavirus infection. If you are clinically extremely vulnerable you should not attend work, school, college or university, and limit the time you spend outside the home. You should only go out for medical appointments, exercise or if it is essential.
Hands. Face. Space.
Approximately 1 in 3 people who have coronavirus have no symptoms and could be spreading it without realising it.
Remember – ‘Hands. Face. Space.’
hands – wash your hands regularly and for at least 20 seconds
face – wear a face covering in indoor settings where social distancing may be difficult, and where you will come into contact with people you do not normally meet
space – stay 2 metres apart from people you do not live with where possible, or 1 metre with extra precautions in place (such as wearing face coverings)
In all circumstances, you should follow the guidance on meeting others safely.
When you can leave home
Work – you can only leave home for work purposes where it is unreasonable for you to do your job from home, including but not limited to people who work within critical national infrastructure, construction or manufacturing that require in-person attendance
Volunteering – you can also leave home to provide voluntary or charitable services.
Essential activities – you can leave home to buy things at shops or obtain services. You may also leave your home to do these things on behalf of a disabled or vulnerable person or someone self-isolating.
Education and childcare – You can only leave home for education, registered childcare, and supervised activities for children where they are eligible to attend. Access to education and children’s activities for school-aged pupils is restricted. See further information on education and childcare. People can continue existing arrangements for contact between parents and children where they live apart. This includes childcare bubbles.
Meeting others and care – You can leave home to visit people in your support bubble ( if you are legally permitted to form one), to provide informal childcare for children under 14 as part of a childcare bubble (for example, to enable parents to work, and not to enable social contact between adults), to provide care for disabled or vulnerable people, to provide emergency assistance, to attend a support group (of up to 15 people), or for respite care where that care is being provided to a vulnerable person or a person with a disability, or is a short break in respect of a looked-after child.
Exercise – You can continue to exercise alone, with one other person or with your household or support bubble. This should be limited to once per day, and you should not travel outside your local area.You should maintain social distancing. See exercising and meeting other people.
Medical reasons – You can leave home for a medical reason, including to get a COVID-19 test, for medical appointments and emergencies.
Harm and compassionate visits – you can leave home to be with someone who is giving birth, to avoid injury or illness or to escape risk of harm (such as domestic abuse). You can also leave home to visit someone who is dying or someone in a care home (if permitted under care home guidance), hospice, or hospital, or to accompany them to a medical appointment.
Animal welfare reasons – you can leave home for animal welfare reasons, such as to attend veterinary services for advice or treatment.
Communal worship and life events – You can leave home to attend or visit a place of worship for communal worship, a funeral or event related to a death, a burial ground or a remembrance garden, or to attend a wedding ceremony. You should follow the guidance on the safe use of places of worship and must not mingle with anyone outside of your household or support bubble when attending a place of worship.Weddings, funerals and religious, belief-based or commemorative events linked to someone’s death are all subject to limits on the numbers that can attend, and weddings and civil ceremonies may only take place in exceptional circumstances.
Exercising and meeting other people
You should minimise time spent outside your home.
It is against the law to meet socially with family or friends unless they are part of your household or support bubble. You can only leave your home to exercise, and not for the purpose of recreation or leisure (e.g. a picnic or a social meeting). This should be limited to once per day, and you should not travel outside your local area.
You can exercise in a public outdoor place:
by yourself
with the people you live with
with your support bubble (if you are legally permitted to form one)
in a childcare bubble where providing childcare
or, when on your own, with 1 person from another household
Public outdoor places include:
parks, beaches, countryside accessible to the public, forests
public gardens (whether or not you pay to enter them)
the grounds of a heritage site
Outdoor sports venues, including tennis courts, golf courses and swimming pools, must close.
When around other people, stay 2 metres apart from anyone not in your household – meaning the people you live with – or your support bubble. Where this is not possible, stay 1 metre apart with extra precautions (e.g. wearing a face covering).
You must wear a face covering in many indoor settings, such as shops or places of worship where these remain open, and on public transport, unless you are exempt. This is the law. Read guidance on face coverings.
Support and childcare bubbles
You have to meet certain eligibility rules to form a support or childcare bubble. This means not everyone will be able to form a bubble.
A support bubble is a support network which links two households. You can form a support bubble with another household of any size only if you meet the eligibility rules.
It is against the law to form a support bubble if you do not follow these rules.
You are permitted to leave your home to visit your support bubble (and to stay overnight with them). However, if you form a support bubble, it is best if this is with a household who live locally. This will help prevent the virus spreading from an area where more people are infected.
If you live in a household with anyone aged under 14, you can form a childcare bubble. This allows friends or family from one other household to provide informal childcare.
You must not meet socially with your childcare bubble, and must avoid seeing members of your childcare and support bubbles at the same time.
There is separate guidance for support bubbles and childcare bubbles.
Where and when you can meet in larger groups
There are still circumstances in which you are allowed to meet others from outside your household, childcare or support bubble in larger groups, but this should not be for socialising and only for permitted purposes. A full list of these circumstances will be included in the regulations, and includes:
for work, or providing voluntary or charitable services, where it is unreasonable to do so from home. This can include work in other people’s homes where necessary – for example, for nannies, cleaners, social care workers providing support to children and families, or tradespeople. See guidance on working safely in other people’s homes). Where a work meeting does not need to take place in a private home or garden, it should not – for example, although you can meet a personal trainer, you should do so in a public outdoor place.
in a childcare bubble (for the purposes of childcare only)
Where eligible to use these services, for education, registered childcare, and supervised activities for children. Access to education and childcare facilities is restricted. See further information on education and childcare.
for arrangements where children do not live in the same household as both their parents or guardians
to allow contact between birth parents and children in care, as well as between siblings in care
for prospective adopting parents to meet a child or children who may be placed with them
to place or facilitate the placing of a child or children in the care of another by social services
for birth partners
to provide emergency assistance, and to avoid injury or illness, or to escape a risk of harm (including domestic abuse)
to see someone who is dying
to fulfil a legal obligation, such as attending court or jury service
for gatherings within criminal justice accommodation or immigration detention centres
to provide care or assistance to someone vulnerable, or to provide respite for a carer
for a wedding or equivalent ceremony in exceptional circumstances and only for up to 6 people
for funerals – up to a maximum of 30 people. Wakes and other linked ceremonial events can continue in a group of up to 6 people.
to visit someone at home who is dying, or to visit someone receiving treatment in a hospital, hospice or care home, or to accompany a family member or friend to a medical appointment
for elite sportspeople (and their coaches if necessary, or parents/guardians if they are under 18) – or those on an official elite sports pathway – to compete and train
to facilitate a house move
Support groups that have to be delivered in person can continue with up to 15 participants where formally organised to provide mutual aid, therapy or any other form of support – but they must take place at a premises other than a private home.
Where a group includes someone covered by an exception (for example, someone who is working or volunteering), they are not generally counted as part of the gatherings limit. This means, for example, a tradesperson can go into a household without breaching the limit, if they are there for work, and the officiant at a wedding would not count towards the limit.
If you break the rules
The police can take action against you if you meet in larger groups. This includes breaking up illegal gatherings and issuing fines (fixed penalty notices).
You can be given a Fixed Penalty Notice of £200 for the first offence, doubling for further offences up to a maximum of £6,400. If you hold, or are involved in holding, an illegal gathering of over 30 people, the police can issue fines of £10,000.
Protecting people more at risk from coronavirus
If you are clinically vulnerable, you could be at higher risk of severe illness from coronavirus. There is additional advice for people who are clinically extremely vulnerable to coronavirus. Those who are clinically extremely vulnerable should not attend work, school, college or university, and limit the time you spend outside the home. You should only go out for medical appointments, exercise or if it is essential.
You must not leave your home unless you have a reasonable excuse (for example, for work or education purposes). If you need to travel you should stay local – meaning avoiding travelling outside of your village, town or the part of a city where you live – and look to reduce the number of journeys you make overall. The list of reasons you can leave your home and area include, but are not limited to:
work, where you cannot reasonably work from home
accessing education and for caring responsibilities
visiting those in your support bubble – or your childcare bubble for childcare
visiting hospital, GP and other medical appointments or visits where you have had an accident or are concerned about your health
buying goods or services that you need, but this should be within your local area wherever possible
outdoor exercise. This should be done locally wherever possible, but you can travel a short distance within your area to do so if necessary (for example, to access an open space)
attending the care and exercise of an animal, or veterinary services
If you need to travel, walk or cycle where possible, and plan ahead and avoid busy times and routes on public transport. This will allow you to practice social distancing while you travel.
Avoid car sharing with anyone from outside your household or your support bubble. See the guidance on car sharing.
If you need to use public transport, you should follow the safer travel guidance.
You can only travel internationally – or within the UK – where you first have a legally permitted reason to leave home. In addition, you should consider the public health advice in the country you are visiting.
If you do need to travel overseas (and are legally permitted to do so, for example, because it is for work), even if you are returning to a place you’ve visited before, you should look at the rules in place at your destination and the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO) travel advice.
UK residents currently abroad do not need to return home immediately. However, you should check with your airline or travel operator on arrangements for returning.
Foreign nationals are subject to the ‘Stay at Home’ regulations. You should not travel abroad unless it is permitted. This means you must not go on holiday.
If you are visiting the UK, you may return home. You should check whether there are any restrictions in place at your destination.
Staying away from home overnight
You cannot leave your home or the place where you are living for holidays or overnight stays unless you have a reasonable excuse for doing so. This means that holidays in the UK and abroad are not allowed.
This includes staying in a second home or caravan, if that is not your primary residence. This also includes staying with anyone who you don’t live with unless they’re in your support bubble.
You are allowed to stay overnight away from your home if you:
are visiting your support bubble
are unable to return to your main residence
need accommodation while moving house
need accommodation to attend a funeral or related commemorative event
require accommodation for work purposes or to provide voluntary services
are a child requiring accommodation for school or care
are homeless, seeking asylum, a vulnerable person seeking refuge, or if escaping harm (including domestic abuse)
are an elite athlete or their support staff or parent, if the athlete is under 18 and it is necessary to be outside of the home for training or competition
If you are already on holiday, you should return to your home as soon as practical.
Guest accommodation providers such as hotels, B&Bs and caravan parks may remain open for the specific reasons set out in law, including where guests are unable to return to their main residence, use that guest accommodation as their main residence, need accommodation while moving house, are self-isolating as required by law, or would otherwise be made homeless as a result of the accommodation closing. A full list of reasons can be found in the guidance on closing certain businesses and venues in England.
Accommodation providers are also encouraged to work cooperatively with local authorities to provide accommodation to vulnerable groups, including the homeless.
Going to work
You may only leave your home for work if you cannot reasonably work from home.
Where people cannot work from home – including, but not limited to, people who work in critical national infrastructure, construction, or manufacturing – they should continue to travel to their workplace. This is essential to keeping the country operating and supporting sectors and employers.
Public sector employees working in essential services, including childcare or education, should continue to go into work.
Where it is necessary for you to work in other people’s homes – for example, for nannies, cleaners or tradespeople – you can do so. Otherwise, you should avoid meeting for work in a private home or garden, where COVID-19 Secure measures may not be in place.
Employers and employees should discuss their working arrangements, and employers should take every possible step to facilitate their employees working from home, including providing suitable IT and equipment to enable remote working.
The risk of transmission can be substantially reduced if COVID-19 secure guidelines are followed closely. Extra consideration should be given to those people at higher risk.
Going to school, college and university
Colleges, primary (reception onwards) and secondary schools will remain open for vulnerable children and the children of critical workers. All other children will learn remotely until February half term.
In the circumstances, we do not think it is possible for all exams in the summer to go ahead as planned. We will accordingly be working with Ofqual to consult rapidly to put in place alternative arrangements that will allow students to progress fairly.
Public exams and vocational assessments scheduled to take place in January will go ahead as planned.
Those students who are undertaking training and study for the following courses should return to face to face learning as planned and be tested twice, upon arrival or self-isolate for ten days:
Medicine & dentistry
Subjects allied to medicine/health
Education (initial teacher training)
Courses which require Professional, Statutory and Regulatory Body (PSRB) assessments and or mandatory activity which is scheduled for January and which cannot be rescheduled (your university will notify you if this applies to you).
Students who do not study these courses should remain where they are wherever possible, and start their term online, as facilitated by their university until at least Mid-February. This includes students on other practical courses not on the list above.
We have previously published guidance to universities and students on how students can return safely to higher education in the spring term. This guidance sets out how we will support higher education providers to enable students that need to return to do so as safely as possible following the winter break.
If you live at university, you should not move back and forward between your permanent home and student home during term time.
For those students who are eligible for face to face teaching, you can meet in groups of more than your household as part of your formal education or training, where necessary. Students should expect to follow the guidance and restrictions. You should socially distance from anyone you do not live with wherever possible.
There are several ways that parents and carers can continue to access childcare:
Early Years settings (including nurseries and childminders) remain open
Vulnerable children and children of critical workers can continue to use registered childcare, childminders and other childcare activities (including wraparound care)
parents are able to form a childcare bubble with one other household for the purposes of informal childcare, where the child is under 14. This is mainly to enable parents to work, and must not be used to enable social contact between adults
some households will also be able to benefit from being in a support bubble
nannies will be able to continue to provide services, including in the home
Visits to care homes can take place with arrangements such as substantial screens, visiting pods, or behind windows. Close-contact indoor visits are not allowed. No visits will be permitted in the event of an outbreak.
You should check the guidance on visiting care homes during COVID-19 to find out how visits should be conducted. Residents cannot meet people indoors on a visit out (for example, to visit their relatives in the family home). There is separate guidance for those in supported living.
Weddings, civil partnerships, religious services and funerals
Weddings, civil partnership ceremonies and funerals are allowed with strict limits on attendance, and must only take place in COVID-19 secure venues or in public outdoor spaces unless in exceptional circumstances.
Funerals can be attended by a maximum of 30 people. Linked religious, belief-based or commemorative events, such as stone settings and ash scatterings can also continue with up to 6 people in attendance. Anyone working is not counted in these limits. Social distancing should be maintained between people who do not live together or share a support bubble.
Weddings and civil partnership ceremonies must only take place with up to 6 people. Anyone working is not included. These should only take place in exceptional circumstances, for example, an urgent marriage where one of those getting married is seriously ill and not expected to recover, or is to undergo debilitating treatment or life-changing surgery.
You can attend places of worship for a service. However, you must not mingle with anyone outside of your household or support bubble. You should maintain strict social distancing at all times.
You should follow the national guidance on the safe use of places of worship.
Sports and physical activity
Indoor gyms and sports facilities will remain closed. Outdoor sports courts, outdoor gyms, golf courses, outdoor swimming pools, archery/driving/shooting ranges and riding arenas must also close. Organised outdoor sport for disabled people is allowed to continue.
You can still move home. People outside your household or support bubble should not help with moving house unless absolutely necessary.
Estate and letting agents and removals firms can continue to work. If you are looking to move, you can go to property viewings.
Follow the national guidance on moving home safely, which includes advice on social distancing, letting fresh air in, and wearing a face covering.
Wherever you live, you may be able to get financial help
Businesses and venues
Businesses and venues which must close
To reduce social contact, the regulations require some businesses to close and impose restrictions on how some businesses provide goods and services. The full list of businesses required to close can be found in the guidance on closing certain businesses and venues in England, but includes:
non-essential retail, such as clothing and homeware stores, vehicle showrooms (other than for rental), betting shops, tailors, tobacco and vape shops, electronic goods and mobile phone shops, auction houses (except for auctions of livestock or agricultural equipment) and market stalls selling non-essential goods. These venues can continue to be able to operate click-and-collect (where goods are pre-ordered and collected off the premises) and delivery services.
hospitality venues such as cafes, restaurants, pubs, bars and social clubs; with the exception of providing food and non-alcoholic drinks for takeaway (until 11pm), click-and-collect and drive-through. All food and drink (including alcohol) can continue to be provided by delivery.
accommodation such as hotels, hostels, guest houses and campsites, except for specific circumstances, such as where these act as someone’s main residence, where the person cannot return home, for providing accommodation or support to the homeless, or where it is essential to stay there for work purposes
indoor attractions at venues such as botanical gardens, heritage homes and landmarks must also close, though outdoor grounds of these premises can stay open for outdoor exercise.
personal care facilities such as hair, beauty, tanning and nail salons. Tattoo parlours, spas, massage parlours, body and skin piercing services must also close. These services should not be provided in other people’s homes
community centres and halls must close except for a limited number of exempt activities, as set out below. Libraries can also remain open to provide access to IT and digital services – for example for people who do not have it at home – and for click-and-collect services
Some of these businesses and places will also be permitted to be open for a small number of exempt activities. A full list of exemptions can be found in the guidance on closing certain businesses and venues in England, but includes:
education and training – for schools to use sports, leisure and community facilities where that is part of their normal provision
childcare purposes and supervised activities for those children eligible to attend
hosting blood donation sessions and food banks
for the purposes of film and TV filming
Businesses and venues which can remain open
Other businesses and venues are permitted to stay open, following COVID-19 secure guidelines. Businesses providing essential goods and services can stay open. The full list of these businesses can be found in the guidance on closing certain businesses and venues in England, but includes:
essential retail such as food shops, supermarkets, pharmacies, garden centres, building merchants and suppliers of building products and off-licences
market stalls selling essential retail may also stay open
businesses providing repair services may also stay open, where they primarily offer repair services
petrol stations, automatic (but not manual) car washes, vehicle repair and MOT services, bicycle shops, and taxi and vehicle hire businesses
banks, building societies, post offices, short-term loan providers and money transfer businesses
laundrettes and dry cleaners
medical and dental services
vets and retailers of products and food for the upkeep and welfare of animals
animal rescue centres, boarding facilities and animal groomers (may continue to be used for animal welfare, rather than aesthetic purposes)
agricultural supplies shops
mobility and disability support shops
storage and distribution facilities
car parks, public toilets and motorway service areas
outdoor playgrounds
outdoor parts of botanical gardens and heritage sites for exercise
crematoriums and burial grounds
The majority of public services will continue and you will be able to leave home to visit them. These include:
the NHS and medical services like GPs and dentists. We are supporting the NHS to carry out urgent and non-urgent services safely, and it is vital anyone who thinks they need any kind of medical care comes forward and seeks help
Jobcentre Plus sites
courts and probation services
civil registrations offices
passport and visa services
services provided to victims
waste or recycling centres
getting an MOT, if you need to drive when lawfully leaving home
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Government experts drawing up plans to vaccinate secondary pupils to curb spread of new Covid strain
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Government scientists are drawing up plans to vaccinate secondary school pupils in England in a bid to curb the spread of the new Covid strain, according to reports.
Ministers have vowed the keep schools open after the Christmas break, saying children’s learning was suffering due to the impact of Covid-19.
But experts are growing concerned that the new variant may infect children more effectively than the earlier strain.
Government scientists have also been told that keeping secondary schools open during the recent national lockdown helped drive the spread of the new variant in badly hit areas such as Kent and London.
The Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation – the UK’s vaccine authority which is responsible for drawing-up the priority lists for the Covid jab – has now been asked to model plans for immunisation in secondary schools, according to the i.
The early-stage plans were discussed at a meeting of the Government’s Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies (SAGE), it adds.
The reports come as ministers today vowed to push-on with plans for a mass testing roll-out in schools in January, something which unions have slammed as ‘undeliverable’.
Ministers held crunch talks with educators on Friday over the plans, but union chiefs say headteachers have ‘not been reassured that schools will receive the support we believe they need and deserve’.
Meanwhile, Matt Hancock last night fuelled speculation over school closures in Tier 4 areas in the south east, saying he would ‘not to rule anything out’.
Government scientists are drawing up plans to vaccinate secondary school pupils (pictured: Library image) in England in a bid to curb the spread of the new Covid strain, according to reports.
In a bid to combat the spread of the new strain, the UK’s vaccines (pictured: Carol Patrick receives her Covid-19 jab in Bodmin) authority has now been asked to outline modelling requirements on immunisation in schools, according to the i
It comes as Matt Hancock (pictured) last night refused to rule out keeping schools closed after the holiday in the parts of England under the toughest restrictions
Scotland’s Education Secretary insists it’s ‘safe’ for children and teachers in schools
Scotland’s Education Secretary John Swinney has insisted it is ‘safe’ for children and teachers to be in school this week – despite the Scottish Government moving classes for most youngsters online in January.
The school Christmas break is being extended to January 11 for the majority of pupils, with remote learning then being in place until January 18 at the earliest.
Mr Swinney said he would ‘want to stick’ to schools returning to face-to-face learning after that.
But Larry Flanagan, the general secretary of the EIS teaching union, said that would depend on the prevalence of coronavirus in communities across Scotland.
The extension of the school break and the move to remote learning for all but vulnerable youngsters and the children of key workers was announced by First Minister Nicola Sturgeon as part of the response to a new, faster-spreading strain of Covid-19.
Those measures will see all of mainland Scotland put under the toughest coronavirus restrictions from Saturday December 26
Mr Swinney told BBC Radio Scotland’s Good Morning Scotland programme that ministers were taking ‘a strategic approach in the country to try to minimise movement so we maximise our chances of avoiding further spread of the virus’.
His comments came as Scotland’s Children’s Commission Bruce Adamson said he remained “deeply concerned” that online learning can be “inconsistent” across the country, with a lack of national guidance and support from Scottish Government.
He added: “Ministers continue to have the ultimate responsibility to ensure children’s rights to education and mental and physical health are realised.”
Mr Swinney said keeping schools open for children had been the Government’s “highest priority” since classes resumed in August.
Plans to model a mass vaccination programme in secondary schools follow the announcement of last week’s mass coronavirus testing programme in schools and colleges, along with the staggered return of students after Christmas.
From January 4, staff in secondary schools will have access to weekly rapid lateral flow tests.
Students and staff will be eligible for daily testing for seven days if identified as a close contact of someone who has tested positive for Covid-19.
Primary schools are expected to follow the testing regime from April.
As a result, GCSEs, A-levels and vocational students in England will return to school as planned in the first full week of January.
Other secondary pupils will have online classes for the first week of term, before returning to school from Monday, January 11.
Primary school pupils will return as normal.
Schools in Scotland and Wales will also have a staggered return, while schools in Northern Ireland will return as usual in January.
But Matt Hancock last night fuelled speculation of a possible change when he refused to rule out keeping schools closed after the holiday in the parts of England under the toughest restrictions.
Asked to guarantee if schools in Tier Four areas would remain open, the Health Secretary said: ‘I’ve learned not to rule anything out in this pandemic.’
Today education chiefs reaffirmed the Government’s commitment to keep schools open despite tougher restrictions.
A spokesperson for the Department of Education told MailOnline: ‘Our huge expansion of rapid testing will support secondary schools to stay open to all pupils as well as reduce the risk of transmission within local communities.
‘The Chief Medical Officers have been consistently clear about the importance of children being in school for their mental health, wellbeing and development.
‘As such, there are no plans for schools to close and it has rightly been a national priority for all pupils to return to school full-time.’
The spokesperson added: ‘Schools, colleges and early years settings across the country have worked tremendously hard to put protective measures in place that are helping reduce the risk of the virus being transmitted and the Department will continue to support local authorities and schools to open and reman open next term.’
Meanwhile, Professor Neil Ferguson of Imperial College London, who is also a member of the Government’s New and Emerging Respiratory Virus Threats advisory group (NervTag), today said experts will use the Christmas break to monitor the impact of schools on the spread of the virus.
The epidemiologist, who quit his role as a Government adviser after breaking rules to see his married lover, told BBC Radio 4’s Today programme: ‘So undoubtedly increased transmissibility limits our options for manoeuvre even more, and there is a hint from the data that this variant may infect children slightly more effectively than the previous variants, so it’s very difficult to prove causality.
Meanwhile, Professor Neil Ferguson today said experts will use the Christmas break to monitor the impact of schools on the spread of the virus
‘I think what we’ll see in the next two weeks though, whilst schools are closed, is probably all the variants of the virus in circulation at the moment declining.
‘We’ll be tracking very carefully whether we can see differences in that rate of decline and really it’s the data which is being put together now and unfortunately over the Christmas break which is going to inform policy measures in January.
‘It’s just too early to tell. It is going to be difficult no doubt about that… but it’s too early to say precisely what additional measures might be needed.’
When are schools reopening in the UK after Christmas?
From January, staff in secondary schools will have access to weekly rapid lateral flow tests.
Students and staff will be eligible for daily testing for seven days if identified as a close contact of someone who has tested positive. Primary schools are expected to follow from April.
As a result, GCSEs, A-levels and vocational students in England will return to school as planned in the first full week of January, while other secondary pupils will have online classes for the first week of term, before returning to school from Monday, January 11.
He added: ‘The faster we can get the vaccine into people’s arms, the quicker we’ll be able to, not go back completely to normal, but at least to be able to relax restrictions.’
At the weekend union leaders said the return of secondary schools should be delayed for two weeks to give time for infection rates to fall.
Kevin Courtney, joint general secretary of the National Education Union (NEU), said: ‘Delaying secondary school opening until January 18 would be the right thing to do. The latest figures show that the highest rates of infection are now among secondary schoolchildren.’
But Children’s Commissioner Anne Longfield has warned that this could mean sacrificing children’s learning and wellbeing.
Meanwhile, Mr Hancock said: ‘Our goal is to bring schools back in January with a big testing regime, and that means we need a staggered start in order to test people with the coronavirus test.’
Responding to claims that the testing plan had been announced too late, the Health Secretary said: ‘There are three weeks between now and the start of term and like so many people in the NHS there is going to have to be some work over the Christmas break.’
It comes after teaching unions hit out at the government’s plans to roll-out mass coronavirus testing to secondary schools and colleges and told members not to work on them over Christmas.
The Association of School and College Leaders (ASCL) said the ‘last minute’ announcement of the testing proposals before the festive break made the scheme ‘undeliverable’.
Furthermore, another education sector body warned the plan could see headteachers working on Christmas Day in order to put everything in place.
The four main teaching unions and the National Governance Association urged staff in a statement to put off preparations until term starts again in the new year.
It added that they should also refuse to work on the scheme while on their days off over Christmas.
‘It is our view that due to the chaotic and rushed nature of this announcement, the lack of proper guidance and an absence of appropriate support, the government’s plan in its current form will be inoperable for most schools and colleges,’ the statement said.
Kevin Courtney (pictured left), joint general secretary of the National Education Union (NEU), called for a delay in students returning to schools after Christmas. Gavin Williamson (pictured right) held crunch talks with teaching unions on Friday over the mass-testing plans
‘Schools and colleges simply do not have the staffing capacity to carry this out themselves. As such, most will not be in a position to carry this out in a safe and effective manner.’
Ministers are later said to have held crunch talks with union chiefs over the mass-testing proposals with the hope of getting more support for education staff over the programme.
But, according to the National Association of Head Teachers (NAHT), a breakthrough was not found.
In a letter sent to members of the NAHT, seen by MailOnline, union chiefs said: ‘At that meeting, the Secretary of State (Gavin Williamson) reiterated the government’s rationale for introducing mass testing in schools with secondary aged pupils during the week beginning 4 January.
‘He also reiterated the support the DfE is planning to offer schools. To be clear, this was essentially the same support as outlined last week.
‘As a result, NAHT’s position remains as previously communicated to you. NAHT has not been reassured that schools will receive the support we believe they need and deserve.
‘Our joint statement and advice issued on Friday remains unchanged.’
Mass testing reveals 1.24% of pupils and 1.29% of staff tested positive for coronavirus in study of England’s schools during first fortnight of November’s lockdown
By Sam Blanchard, Senior Health Reporter for MailOnline
A mass testing study in England’s schools revealed that one in every 79 people tested positive for coronavirus without knowing they had it in November.
Office for National Statistics data showed that 1.24 per cent of pupils and 1.29 per cent of staff were carrying the virus while in school during the lockdown.
And the programme picked up one or more cases in 58 out of the 105 schools involved in the research between November 3 and 19.
The same number of schools found one case as found multiple – 29 in each category (27.6 per cent of the total).
Infection rates were highest among secondary school pupils in the study, and lowest in primary school staff, the report found.
Although teenagers have had some of the highest infection rates in the country during the second wave, closing schools is no longer included in lockdowns because of the long-term damage experts fear it could do to youngsters.
The ONS survey was conducted on 9,662 staff and pupils in 63 secondary schools and 43 primaries.
Two thirds of the schools were in areas with relatively high rates of coronavirus – the statisticians said the survey results were not fully representative of the whole of England because choosing high prevalence areas meant there was bias, likely to the North.
One of the study’s lead investigators said it showed ‘a significant number of students and staff who were attending school had coronavirus infection’.
But they admitted the results of the study were not statistically significant, meaning they are not strong enough to prove differences between the groups.
The ONS survey found that in the worst-affected parts of the country 1.47 per cent of school pupils and 1.5 per cent of staff tested positive for coronavirus.
This is equal to around one in every 67 people.
In areas that had lower rates of officially diagnosed coronavirus the survey found 0.79 per cent of pupils and 0.87 per cent of staff were infected without knowing – around one in 124.
In those area, secondary school staff were more likely to test positive than their pupils, the survey found.
No cases were found in primary schools in ‘low prevalence’ areas.
Schools are a major focus for scientists and officials because they have the potential to be hotbeds for transmission as proper social distancing is impossible – but for some reason they haven’t been conclusively linked to outbreaks.
Children and teenagers are significantly less likely to develop Covid-19 or any symptoms of viral infection than adults, scientists have found.
And they believe this may also make young people less likely to spread the virus, and the better immune response might mean they’re less likely to catch the illness in the first place.
Dr Shamez Ladhani, lead investigator on the study and a Public Health England epidemiologist, said: ‘While there is still more research to be done, these results appear to show that the rate of infection among students and staff attending school closely mirrors what’s happening outside the school gates.
‘That’s why we all need to take responsibility for driving infections down if we want to keep schools open and safe for our children.’
He said this was the ‘clearest picture to date’ of how coronavirus affects schools.
His colleague Professor James Hargreaves, from the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, added: ‘These findings show that, in November, a significant number of students and staff who were attending school had coronavirus infection.
‘With this crucial collaboration between the scientists, school staff and pupils, and their parents, we hope to answer questions to ensure children’s education can continue in the safest way possible.’
Separate Public Health England data shows that some of the highest rates of infection during the second wave have been among teenagers.
In the most recent week, ending December 6, 10 to 19-year-olds had 193 positive tests per 100,000 people across England.
This was a higher per-person rate than any other age group except people in their 40s, among whom it was 196.
The highest rate for teenagers was 295 per 100,000 in the week ending October 11, when it was lower only than people in their 20s at 302.
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Dubai private school pupils now rank among world’s best in Maths and Science
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The 2019 results show Dubai private school students made it to the top 10 in all categories.
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Dubai: Dubai private school students have scored amongst the top 10 in the latest Maths and Science international standardised tests under Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study (TIMSS).
TIMSS, held every four years, shows how well students perform in grades four and eight in Maths and Science, with 500 points as the centre-point of that scale on which countries can compare their performance. Results from the latest TIMSS, taken in 2019, were announced recently.
The 2019 results show Dubai private school students made it to the top 10 in all categories (grade four Maths, grade eight Maths, grade four Science and grade eight Science). It also means they have met the UAE National Agenda’s TIMSS targets to place in the top 15 by 2021. “Dubai’s private school students have made amazing progress since Dubai first took part in the TIMSS international test in 2007. They’ve improved an additional 98 points in Grade 4 Maths; 70 points in Grade 8 Maths, 79 points in Grade 4 Science & 60 points in Grade 8 Science,” Dubai’s Knowledge and Human Development Authority (KHDA) tweeted on Saturday.
How Dubai ranked
Earlier, on Thursday, Dubai Media Office had announced that Dubai private schools’ highest placing came in Grade 8 Science, for which they ranked fifth among participating countries and regions. In Grade 4 Science, they were placed eight. Dubai private schools scored seventh overall in Grade 8 Maths, and 10th in Grade 4 Maths. KHDA director-general Dr Abdulla Al Karam said: “Six years ago, the leadership of the UAE announced ambitious National Agenda targets for Dubai private schools. Our education community has never backed away from a challenge. Ever since Dubai first participated in the TIMSS cycle in 2007, schools have made consistent and significant improvement. What started out as an ambitious target soon became a reality.”
How Dubai students fared in Science.
How Dubai students fared in Mathematics.
Students attending Indian-curriculum schools scored highest in Grades 4 and 8 Science and Grade 8 Maths, scoring 568, 598 and 580 respectively, while students at UK-curriculum schools were placed highest in Grade 4 Maths, with 565 points.
Singapore was again number one in every category, retaining its top spot across the board since 2015. Involving more than 72 countries and regions and 580,000 students, TIMSS 2019 is one of the world’s most influential global assessments of student achievement in maths and science. A total of 7,265 Grade 4 students from 199 Dubai private schools and 5,728 Grade 8 students from 163 schools across various curricula participated in the digital version of TIMSS in 2019. This was Dubai’s fourth consecutive participation in TIMSS, the first time being the 2007 cycle.
UAE’s overall performance
The results of the TIMSS 2019 study also revealed that overall, UAE’s fourth-grade students advanced from TIMSS 2015 by 29 points in Maths (scoring 481) and 22 points in Science (scoring 473), reported WAM on Wednesday. Eighth-grade students improved in Maths by eight points (scoring 473), with a slight decrease of four points in Science (scoring 473). These overall results are below the 500-point TIMSS average.
More than 48,000 students from about 700 public and private schools across UAE participated in the 2019 study, WAM had reported. Under the directive of the Education and Human Resources Council, the Ministry of Education was determined to involve all public schools in this international study. When compared to all other countries taking part, the number of UAE’s students who participated was the largest in the world.
Since its first participation in TIMSS in 2011, the UAE has made “remarkable progress” with a steady improvement in the national averages, WAM had reported. The Ministry of Education is working in cooperation with partners to achieve the goals of the National Agenda 2021, which aims for the UAE to be among the top 15 countries in the world in this study.
TIMSS has been administered every four years since 1995, and is sponsored by the International Association for the Evaluation of Educational Achievement (IEA) in Amsterdam.
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Eddie Jones ’embarrassed’ in front of pupils after Eton teacher chastised him for saying ‘manliness’
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England rugby coach Eddie Jones was ’embarrassed’ in front of Eton pupils after teacher chastised him for saying ‘manliness’ when asked what attributes players need at event
Eddie Jones, 60, was responding to a pupil’s question at the school in Berkshire
Staff member said she thought it was ‘inappropriate word’, according to parent
Meanwhile, another parent said he was respectfully asked to define manliness
It follows Will Knowland being dismissed for speech intended for class at school
By Katie Weston For Mailonline
Published: 13:54 GMT, 5 December 2020 | Updated: 13:57 GMT, 5 December 2020
England rugby coach Eddie Jones was ’embarrassed’ in front of Eton pupils after a teacher chastised him for saying ‘manliness’ when asked what attributes players needed.
The coach, 60, was responding to a question from a pupil during an event at the £42,500-a-year-school near Windsor, in Berkshire.
A female staff member told Mr Jones that she thought it was an ‘inappropriate word’ with the ex-rugby player ‘letting it go’, according to a parent.
The comments come after a former Eton teacher, Will Knowland, was dismissed over a speech intended for one of the school’s ‘Perspectives’ classes – which are delivered to older students to help them think critically about issues of public debate.
Eddie Jones, 60, was responding to a question from a pupil on what attributes players needed during an event at the £42,500-a-year-school near Windsor, in Berkshire
A parent told The Times: ‘A staff member embarrassed Eddie in front of the boys, saying she thought this an inappropriate word.
‘Eddie behaved as a gentleman and let the moment go, but the night was soured.
‘The boys were furious at such an open breach of the school’s tradition of intellectual hospitality.’
Meanwhile, another parent added that he was respectfully asked to define manliness and that such questions are a necessary part of the events.
It follows a video of a lecture from Mr Knowland, who is at the centre of a freedom of speech row, being posted on YouTube.
The ex-English teacher at Eton had wanted to deliver a questionable lecture to boys in which he cited incorrect statistics about rape and approvingly quoted an article saying women wanted to be ‘overwhelmed by the sheer power of masculinity’.
A female staff member at Eton (above) told Mr Jones that she thought it was an ‘inappropriate word’ with the ex-rugby player ‘letting it go’, according to a parent
In the lecture, named ‘The Patriarchy Paradox’, he claimed the male role as a ‘protector’ benefits society as a whole – including women.
And he warned that ‘shaping men and women to be more similar actually exaggerates their differences’ – which he described as the Patriarchy Paradox.
He said that a world without men would be ‘awful’ for women and complains that chivalry and honour – which he labelled as good male qualities – are being driven down by terms such as ‘toxic masculinity’.
The virtual lecture, which was never actually shown to students at the school, resulted in Mr Knowland being sacked from his job when he refused to remove it from his YouTube channel.
Old Etonians slammed the ‘woke agenda’ at the elite school on Thursday – with around 2,500 people signing a pupil petition calling for the teacher to be reinstated.
Former Eton teacher Will Knowland (pictured above) was dismissed over a speech intended for one of the school’s ‘Perspectives’ classes’
Mr Knowland has appealed the decision, and a disciplinary panel at the school is considering his fate, although the decision is not expected to be announced for several days.
Many pupils are demanding Mr Knowland’s reinstatement, including a boy who was sent home after writing to head master Simon Henderson demanding that he resign.
But other figures, including Harvard psychologist Steven Pinker, who initially supported Mr Knowland, have distanced themselves after learning of the actual content of his lecture.
In a letter to parents sent on Thursday, Mr Henderson denied that he nor the school wanted to ‘shut down debate’.
MailOnline has approached Eton College for comment.
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History GCSE ‘set for BLM revamp’: Pupils may learn about Nazis’ black victims and a Tudor trumpeter
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The history GCSE curriculum is set for a Black Lives Matter revamp to teach pupils about the experiences of minorities at key moments in time.
An update could see pupils learn about black victims of the Nazis and a dark-skinned trumpeter who played for Henry VIII.
The Telegraph reported that exam boards have been in discussion with a number of groups since the summer regarding how courses could be expanded to include more black history.
It comes as long-standing calls for a more inclusive curriculum reflective of Britain’s diversity gained more attention in the aftermath of protests following the police killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis in May.
Dr Katherine Burn said that a ‘concerted’ effort has begun to remake the syllabus.
‘We are looking particularly at the most commonly taught courses within History GCSE and thinking about if this is the diet that most students get, where is there scope to make changes,’ the associate professor of education at Oxford University and deputy president of the Historical Association told The Telegraph.
‘What could we add into those existing units as small changes, with the proviso that if you put something in you do have to take some things out.’
A dark-skinned school girl in a photo that was used in genetics lectures at Germany’s State Academy for Race and Health during Hitler’s dictatorship. Pupils could learn about the fate of black people in Nazi Germany under a revamped GCSE curriculum
Burn acknowledged that the Black Lives Matter movement had prompted the discussions but said historians were already keen to make changes.
One of the issues with adding new courses to the curriculum, Burn told The Telegraph, was that schools do not pick them up in large numbers as this would require the expense of purchasing new textbooks and carrying out teacher training.
As such, exam boards are seeking to adapt the content of existing courses so that more pupils might benefit from any new material.
‘We know Nazi Germany is the bog standard that everyone will do,’ Dr Burn said.
‘Within this topic, pupils could be taught about the black population of Germany at the time and ‘how they caught up in the Holocaust and the promotion of the Aryan identity’, she told The Telegraph.
In Nazi Germany black people were not systematically killed like some other minority groups but did face persecution ranging from isolation to murder, according to The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum.
Black people living in Germany and Nazi occupied countries at the time were social and economic outcasts who could not attend university or marry individuals of other races.
Some black people, including African American prisoners of war, were sent to interment and concentration camps where they were worked to death or subjected to inhumane medical experiments.
Dr Burn also pointed to the Tudors as another popular subject that could be adapted to include elements of black history, in that case in the story of the musician John Blanke.
Blanke was a black trumpeter in the court of Henry VII and the only black Tudor of whom there is an identifiable image.
He is thought to have arrived in England as part of the retinue of Katherine of Aragon, the first wife of Henry VIII and to have taken part in historic events including Henry’s coronation, according to the Historic Royal Palaces website.
In 1507, he successfully petition the King for a promotion and considerable wage increase.
In 2018, the Royal Historical Society (RHS) published a report arguing that teachers should devote less time to the topic of slavery as it puts black pupils off studying history.
The report found that the ‘seemingly relentless focus’ on the exploitation and abolition of slavery can be ‘intellectually limiting and, at times, alienating’ for black pupils, The Telegraph reported.
It said that apart from slavery, British black and minority ethnic (BAME) individuals are ‘often absent’ from historical study in schools, a point echoed by many campaigners for a more inclusive curriculum.
John Blanke (depicted centre) is another potential addition to the curriculum. He was a black trumpeter in the court of Henry VII and the only black Tudor of whom there is an identifiable image
Dr Burn added that she ‘absolutely’ hoped changes in the curriculum would encourage more BAME pupils to study history.
The RHS is one of the organisations that has been in discussions this year with the UK’s major exam boards on the issue of expanding the history curriculum.
Other groups include the Historical Association, the Institute of Historical Research, the School History Project and the Runnymede Trust.
The Department for Education and Ofqual, a regulator, must approve any proposed amendments to the curriculum.
A spokesman for AQA – the UK’s largest exam board – said it was constantly evaluating how to make its qualifications ‘as representative as they can possibly be.’
A spokesperson for Pearson, which owns the exam board Edexcel, told the Telegraph that this year had ‘rightly generated a renewed focus on what history is taught to our young people, and the sector needs to keep challenging itself.’
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Distance education for all pupils isolated at home
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Three months after the start of the school year, the Minister of Education, Jean-François Roberge, corrects the situation. All students who are in isolation at home individually will ultimately be entitled to distance education.
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The minister sent the school network new directives on this subject on Thursday morning. The announcement delighted representatives of parents and school administrators, while teachers’ unions deplore that this overload of work is once again on the shoulders of teachers, already breathless.
Since the start of the school year, several students have had to isolate themselves at home while waiting for a test result or because they had been in contact with someone who had contracted the virus, while their classmates were still at home. school.
Their absence, which could last for several days, was then treated as if the pupil had the flu or “gastro”. His teacher was under no obligation to communicate with him on a regular basis in order to ensure academic follow-up.
Only students whose entire group was in isolation at home were entitled to a minimum number of hours of online instruction.
The situation had been denounced many times since the start of the school year, by parents and school administrators.
Daily monitoring
From now on, “each student whose absence extends beyond two days must be offered services on a daily basis allowing the continuation of his learning, despite his absence,” writes Minister Roberge in a letter obtained by The newspaper.
Teachers will have to “establish direct and daily contact with the pupils” and the school will have to provide educational materials and a computer device for those who do not have them at home.
A teacher could send in homework to do, schedule phone or virtual appointments, make himself available to answer questions or record video clips, the minister lists as an example.
An “emergency educational kit” could also be designed by the team of teachers to provide for the realization of projects that allow for the integration of several subjects.
“If necessary, these tasks could be entrusted to additional staff,” such as retired or part-time teachers, recalls Mr. Roberge.
These services must be deployed to the students concerned within 48 hours and parents must be well informed, he says.
This news was greeted with relief at the Fédération des committees de parents du Québec. “Finally! It happens a bit late, but at least it happens, ”launched its president, Kévin Roy.
In recent weeks, the Federation has received calls from parents whose child had had to isolate themselves at home for two, three or even four weeks without any academic follow-up.
Same story from the Quebec Federation of Educational Institution Managers. “That’s very good news. We realized that it affected a lot of students and that it represented a lot of days of absence. It was a significant blind spot since the start of the new school year, “said its president, Nicolas Prévost.
Disgruntled teachers
There is, however, great discontent among the ranks of the teachers’ unions, who deplore that they have never been consulted on this subject.
“It’s not working at all,” says Josée Scalabrini, president of the Federation of Educational Unions (FSE-CSQ). Where are we going to find him? The yard is already full. ”
The FSE considers that the teachers’ task should be reorganized accordingly or that some form of compensation should be offered to teachers for this extra work.
At the Autonomous Federation of Teachers (FAE), its president Sylvain Mallette recognizes that the situation is problematic for many students, but regrets that the solution once again rests on the shoulders of teachers.
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Nursery pupils ‘have gone back to wearing nappies in lockdown’
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School and nursery closures due to Covid-19 have left potty-trained youngsters now needing nappies and dummies, according to inspectors.
Ofsted added that some primary pupils have forgotten how to use cutlery while others have lost ‘stamina’ in reading and writing and fallen behind in maths.
Older pupils are struggling to write for long periods and ‘stay awake and alert’ as they remain ‘disconnected’ from learning and are physically unfit.
Amanda Spielman, chief inspector of schools, said the ‘majority’ of children across the country ‘have slipped back in their learning to varying degrees’.
School and nursery closures due to Covid-19 have left potty-trained youngsters now needing nappies and dummies, according to inspectors (File image)
Ofsted carried out more than 900 visits in September and October to education and social care providers, finding that children ‘of all ages and backgrounds, have lost some basic skills and learning as a result of school closures’.
But Miss Spielman said the hardest hit were pre-school youngsters whose parents were unable to work more flexibly.
These pre-school youngsters had ‘experienced the double whammy of less time with parents and less time with other children’.
The head of Ofsted said: ‘Leaders reported regression back into nappies among potty-trained children and others who had forgotten some basic skills they had mastered, such as eating with a knife and fork – not to mention the loss of early progress in words and numbers.
‘We were told of older children losing stamina when it came to reading and writing; some who had lost physical fitness; and others showing signs of mental distress, including an increase in eating disorders and self-harm.’
Ofsted visited 208 early years settings such as childminders, private nurseries and maintained nursery schools last month.
Inspectors discovered some children had become ‘less independent’, ‘less confident and more anxious’ since the first national lockdown.
They had returned to their setting using dummies and comforters ‘at an older age than providers would usually expect’.
They were also back in nappies despite previously being toilet trained while others had forgotten ‘how to play’.
The Ofsted briefing on early years said some providers are now focusing more on developing independent skills ‘such as dressing, toileting and using a knife and fork, as they felt these skills had suffered’.
Four in five early years providers said children’s maths and literacy skills had ‘either not progressed or had declined’.
Eighty four per cent said youngsters’ personal, social and emotional development had fallen behind or just stayed the same over the last six months.
However, the report also notes that many children who were at home ‘thrived when their parents were able to spend quality time with them’.
Ofsted also visited 266 primary, 87 secondary schools and 27 pupil referral units and special schools.
Four in five early years providers said children’s maths and literacy skills had ‘either not progressed or had declined’ (File image)
In primary schools, some younger pupils are ‘experiencing increased attachment to their parents or home’ as a result of being off lessons for so long.
They have ‘lost elements of independence, for example forgetting how to use a knife and fork’ as well as their reading skills.
Writing is an issue in primaries, including ‘writing at length, spelling, grammar, presentation, punctuation and handwriting’.
Primaries are attempting to build up youngsters’ ‘stamina’ again for writing at length.
They are ‘prioritising reading and mathematics’, which has led to a reduction in depth or suspension of other subjects.
Many children have fallen behind in maths, with ‘oral fluency’ also regressing.
In secondaries, literacy and maths is ‘a concern’, with pupils again ‘finding it difficult to write for long periods of time’.
Across primary and secondary schools, pupils’ ‘concentration or their mental and physical stamina has reduced’.
The Ofsted briefing on schools says: ‘Some leaders said pupils were fatigued, ‘disconnected’ from learning or struggling to stay awake and alert.
‘Even though good behaviour was not just a ‘honeymoon period’ according to some leaders, others have perceived deterioration in pupils’ behaviour and willingness to follow rules compared with when they first returned to school in September.’
Children have gained weight as physical fitness has declined and several schools have reported increases in self-harming cases. More pupils are believed to be suffering from eating disorders.
A Department for Education spokesman said: ‘We know that some children do need additional support to catch up as a result of the pandemic, which is why we launched a £1 billion Covid catch up fund for schools to support those children who need it.
‘Our National Tutoring Programme is now live in schools, providing intensive support to the most disadvantaged children. The evidence shows high quality tutoring can make up as much as three to five months’ lost learning.’
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Pupils and staff of secondary schools in England ordered to wear masks
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The deadline for the implementation of the new rules is November 9
From November 5, staff and students of all high schools and colleges in England are required to wear masks, according to the BBC. They need to be worn outside the classroom – in hallways and other public places. The new rule applies to all children over 11 years old, according to the British government guide.
School principals and teachers’ unions were unhappy that the guidelines were published less than 24 hours before the quarantine was introduced.
Schools that did not manage to alert students and staff were given time until Monday 9 November.
The Ministry of Education is also recommending that teachers at risk for health reasons move to remote work. Association General Secretary of Schools and Colleges (ASCL) Jeff Barton said schools would incur additional hiring costs of up to £ 6,000 a week. He welcomed the introduction of the mask regime, but noted that the government should reimburse colleges and schools for the costs.
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Secondary school pupils and staff in England could be made to wear masks under new rules out today
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Pupils could be required to wear masks in secondary schools under new government guidance expected today.
The measures are likely to suggest face coverings are worn when moving between lessons and when entering communal areas.
Both staff and pupils could have to wear masks and adhere to the new regulations.
The government guidelines are expected to bring English schools more in line with their Scottish counterparts who have been under stricter covid restricitons for several weeks.
Under current rules, wearing masks is encouraged but is down to the discretion of the individual schools.
Secondary school pupils in England could be required to wear masks as they move between classrooms, like pupils in Scotland are currently required to do (Pictured: file photo of pupils in Northern Ireland)
Schools in high risk areas around England are currently already asking pupils and staff to wear masks as they move around the school, but this could be introduced for all schools under new guidelines set to be released by the government today
Schools in high risk areas are currently already asking pupils and staff to wear masks as they move around between classes.
Kevin Courtney, Joint General Secretary, National Education Union said: ‘The Department for Education should follow the example of Scotland and adopt face coverings as a requirement on school premises.
‘Given that face coverings are currently required in all communal areas in Tier 2 and 3 secondaries, it is not unreasonable to expect Gavin Williamson to adjust his position in light of national lockdown from Thursday.
‘A consistent approach is needed if we are to get the case count down dramatically in the next few weeks, but closing schools as part of lockdown would be far more effective in turning the tide.’
Julie McCulloch, director of policy at the Association of School and College Leaders, told The Times: ‘Lockdown obviously begs the question of whether the whole country is now viewes as high risk, and if the policy on face coverings needs to be adjusted accordinly.’
Teaching union launch new ‘escalation’ app
The National Teaching Union are set to launch a new ‘escalation app’ for teachers.
The app would show teachers how to navigate safety in the workplace to and how to escalate their covid safety concerns.
Most complaints can be handled within the school, the union reports, but the app would also show staff how to take their complaints higher to external bodies.
This could lead to the closure of schools if strike action is encouraged.
The union has previously called for schools to close in light of rising coronavirus cases as it fears schools are not safe for pupils and staff.
Kevin Courtney, joint general secretary of the union, told The Times: ‘For as long as schools and colleges remain open, they have to be as safe a working and learning environment as possible.
‘Our members and reps have worked with school and college leaders during this difficult time, and the proportion of settings which fully opened in September is a testament to that.
‘But it is also the case that standards can slip and new issues emerge’.
The government guidelines, expected later today according to The Times, are set to be another shake up for the education system.
The sector had to make major readjustments to reopen in September, and did so against the wishes of some teaching unions and campaigners who petitioned for them to stay closed.
Pupils had up to six months away from school as the coronavirus pandemic forced the nation into lockdown in March.
When schools reopened in September they had to introduce one way walking systems and social distacing in classrooms.
This comes despite reseach showing schools are one of the lowest sites of virus transmission.
A study from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (LSHTM) and the University of Oxford found adults living with young children had no increased risk of Covid- infection.
While people living with secondary-school-age children had only 8% increased risk of a Covid-19 infection, but no increased risk of hospitalisation.
Hundreds of thousands of people have since signed petitions urging the government to close schools as the country enters a second lockdown.
But the government inisists they will keep them open, with chief medical officer Chris Whitty telling MPs that: ‘On balance of risk our view is firmly for children to be in school.’
He highlighted data that showed that the risk of trasnmission in primary schools is very low.
Secondary school pupils carry a greater risk of spreading the virus, but it is still very low.
It also emerged that one of the country’s largest teacing unions is launching an app for teachers to report covid safety concerns in schools.
Pints ordered by text, football at school but not at clubs, and 30 guests at funerals but only six for weddings: The odd new rules we face in the new lockdown
By JASON GROVES and CLAIRE ELLICOT FOR THE DAILY MAIL
If you’re sad about not being able to drink at your local pub during the new lockdown, there is a way to drown your sorrows at home – order your pints via post instead!
Official regulations confirmed pubs and restaurants, hairdressers and most shops will have to close from midnight tonight, provided MPs approve Boris Johnson’s lockdown plans tonight.
But an 11th hour U-turn means pubs can now keep some kind custom going, as long as drinkers order by phone or website.
They will not be allowed inside the premises but will be able to turn up to collect their alcohol.
The detailed second lockdown legislation revealed the curious anomalies when they were finally put out last night.
Pubs will be able to sell takeaway drinks to customers who order online or by phone, text or post (stock image used)
The quirks of the new lockdown rules
You can get a takeaway pint but only if you order online, by phone or by post
Children can play team sports in school but not outside
Public parks and stately gardens are allowed to stay open, but not botanical gardens
You’ll be allowed to jog with a friend but you can’t play singles tennis
Public land fishing is allowed but going to an angling club will be banned
You can go for a walk with a friend and your three-year-old, but not your six-year-old
Swimming pools and lidos will be closed but you’ll be allowed to swim in the sea or a lake
Private prayer in places of worship is allowed, but not congregational
Cleaners, carers and trade workers are allowed to work in your home
You can meet people you don’t live with – but only one-to-one and only outdoors for exercise or recreation
What are the rules for takeaway drinks from pubs?
In an 11th hour move last night, the Government decided pubs could open for takeaway drinks.
In a relaxation of the original plans expected to start tomorrow, punters will be able to collect pre-ordered alcohol – on the condition they do not enter a pub or bars’ premises.
The drink must be ordered via a website, phone or text message while venues can also deliver beverages.
Emma McClarkin, chief executive of the British Beer and Pub Association, told the BBC: ‘Takeaway alcohol from pubs if it is pre-ordered and customers don’t enter the premises is movement, but still not anywhere near enough.
‘Supermarkets and off-licences can still sell alcohol, so this is grossly unfair on pubs with off-licences. It remains the case that to help pubs and brewers survive, and to stop up to 7.5 million pints from being wasted, the government needs to give pubs the same ability to sell off-licence alcohol as it did in the first lockdown.’
What are the rules and punishments?
The complex rules, enforced by fines of up to £10,000 tripped up two Cabinet ministers yesterday.
Michael Gove was forced to apologise after wrongly suggesting people could play tennis and golf with one other person – both sports are in fact banned.
And Communities Secretary Robert Jenrick wrongly said a family could meet up with a friend in the park.
Downing Street confirmed only one adult can meet up with another adult from a different household outside unless they are in a support bubble.
Children will be permitted to play football and other team sports at school under a number of curious anomalies (stock image used)
The Rules of Sups: How to get pub drinks in the second lockdown
The government has u-turned on pubs a day before the second national lockdown comes in to allow them to sell takeaway drinks.
New rules state that drinkers can order their tipple through websites, phone of text and collect at the door.
They are not allowed to go inside the premises, in the move which has been hailed by some pubs and bars.
But some were unhappy they were unable to operate in the same way shops do, with walk-up custom prohibited under the regulations.
They want the facility to be there so they can act similarly to a takeaway, which was how things operated in the first lockdown.
Emma McClarkin, chief executive of the British Beer & Pub Association said: ‘Takeaway alcohol from pubs if it is pre-ordered and customers don’t enter the premises is movement, but still not anywhere near enough.
Kate Nichols, of lobby group UK Hospitality, said: ‘It is a welcome and helpful clarification that pubs and restaurants will be permitted to continue with off-licence sales of alcohol through delivery, as well as click and collect for pre-ordered sales.
‘This was a lifeline to many businesses in the first lockdown and it is good to see common sense prevail this time too – avoiding waste and providing a valuable community service – although we can see no reason why a pub could not operate as a retail outlet for pre-packaged food and drink as many did last time.’
Although pubs and restaurants will be allowed to sell take away food, Downing Street had previously said they would be banned from selling alcoholic drinks to take away.
However, the new regulations state pubs will be able to sell drinks to takeaway customers, provided they have been ordered via a website or by telephone, text or post.
The move was welcomed last night by the Society of Independent Brewers, which said that small brewers and pubs had ‘proven their ability to trade responsibly during Covid’.
Everyone who can work from home must do so.
Those who can’t can continue going into work.
What are the rules for schools?
People are allowed to attend school, university or another place of education or training.
This also means there is scope for at-home teaching and tutoring, such as music lessons, but the government has advised a move to online teaching where possible.
Secondary school pupils and teachers in England could also be told to wear masks on the premises.
Children will be permitted to play football and other team sports at school, but banned from playing with schoolmates at local clubs.
What are the rules on sport?
Ministers faced a growing backlash over the clampdown on sport.
Pupils cannot play football and other team sports outside of school despite evidence the virus doesn’t spread well in children.
The rules prompted anger among sports figures who argue they are ‘nonsensical’ and pose a threat to children’s health.
Yesterday, sports figures led opposition to the Government’s ban on children playing sports outside school.
Football pundit Robbie Savage branded the plans ‘nonsensical’ as he said there were inconsistencies in allowing children to mix during school but not while playing grassroots sports at the weekend.
And Damian Collins, who was previously chairman of the digital, culture, media and sport committee, urged the Government to reconsider its position.
Funerals will be allowed to go ahead with up to 30 guests under new lockdown rules (stock image used)
He said: ‘If we recognise that children are better off in school, even with Covid, then I think we should recognise they’re better off doing grassroots sports than… being stuck at home.
The PM’s official spokesman said: ‘Sport is permitted in school settings. In terms of outside, we do need to reduce transmission from households mixing.
‘As soon as can resume grassroots sports for children, we will.’
What are the rules on outdoor venues?
Nature lovers will be allowed to visit parks and gardens, including paid-entry venues like the Royal Horticultural Society’s gardens at Wisley in Surrey.
But they will be banned from visiting many botanical gardens and sculpture parks.
However, Kew Gardens in south-west London, said it will remain open – though its buildings, including glasshouses, will be shut.
Can I visit my second home?
People will be banned from visiting second homes unless they need to carry out work required for the potential sale or rental of the property.
What about funerals and weddings?
Funerals will be allowed to go ahead with up to 30 guests, but weddings will be limited to six people.
Can I leave the country?
No. The government is advising against all but essential international travel and only for work. However, reasons for travel will not be checked.
Travel within the country is also discouraged.
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Home » Culture » Traditions » Sona Mohapatra Documentary ‘Shut Up Sona’ Honored With Impact Docs Award In The US
Sona Mohapatra Documentary ‘Shut Up Sona’ Honored With Impact Docs Award In The US
February 23, 2020 July 15, 2020 Swati Pokhriyal
Indian singer, music composer and lyricist Sona Mohapatra feature documentary directed by Deepti Gupta and produced by the artist herself, ‘Shut Up Sona’ has been honored with the Impact Docs Award in the US. The documentary has been produced by Mohapatra and her husband Ram Sampath through their OmGrown Films banner.
Director, Deepti Gupta says, “Ours is a universal tale and a film that’s relevant across cultures. I believe that Sona is the most fascinating person in our country right now to tell the story of the quest for women who are fighting for equality. A lot of her hit music is independent of Bollywood and she uses her voice not only in song but also in protest to stand up for her beliefs.Through her you see this prismatic reality of what India has been for years for women and what it is right now. I believe that our journey with the film is only getting started now.”
Director Deepti Gupta is one of the few female cinematographers in Hindi cinema and has also directed the music videos for the Sona Mohapatra’s tunes, including Aaja Ve, Diljale and Shyam Piya.
The Impact Docs Award award endeavours to support and promote filmmakers who are making a difference in the critical issues of our times through producing impactful documentaries…or making contributions to the world through enlightening and entertaining documentary films.
The other films in competition were ‘This LittleLand of Mines’ about the resilience of the Lao people, and Pushout: The criminalisation of black girls in school.
Priyanka Chopra’s Marathi Film Paani Wins…
64th National Film Awards
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Cirque Eloize iD
September 5, 2011 at 11:13 pm (Art, Miami, performing arts, technology, Uncategorized) (adrienne arsht center, arsht center, circus, cirque, eloize, iD, Miami, performing arts, show, South Florida, technology, theater, ziff balet)
The final South Florida performance of Cirque Eloize iD was a visual feast. The technical direction and set design of the show are flawless. As for the story, I’m not sure I followed it. In fact, I’m not sure there is one. The show begins with a love scene that involves some very nice floor based gymnastics and lifts along with an act on a Chinese Pole and some break dance fighting. After that the plot is not really present and seems to be a jumbled mess of incongruent story lines. The only way that I picked up on this being like West Side Story is that it says so in the promo: West Side Story Meets Hip Hop. I definitely got the hip hop vibe. Although it added to the story, they used break dancing for filler every chance they got, sometimes needlessly. I personally think that their “fights” would be much more dynamic if they incorporated more capoeira techniques instead of trying to make break dancing look like fighting.
Story aside it was a beautiful show. The acts included traditional Cirque performances – aerial lyra, strength acts mixed with choreography, balancing acts, juggling, a contortionist, Cyr wheel and aerial silks. Newer performances were incorporated like jump rope, rollerblading, powerskips and BMX stunts (including audience participation). The one act that really seemed to impress the audience was the trampo-wall act, which involved the entire troupe. This act worked seamlessly with the stage decor, which incorporated trap doors, moving platforms, and digital imagery across it’s various surfaces as each performer did tricks and stunts up the many surfaces of the wall. Throughout the show I could pick up that the performers were tired – and rightfully so, they’ve been performing a rigorous schedule over the last month plus here in South Florida.
Coming from more of a backstage and technical background, the set design is what really impressed me. At any given time nearly every face of the stage design had digital imagery on it. This was accomplished through 9 projectors that must have overlapped with seamless edge-blending or overlapping projection and some major keystoning. The effect allowed for scenes to change while keeping the projection from being fully eclipsed by a performer’s body or other set piece. This is quite an accomplishment as the performers were up against the projection surface for much of the show.
Miami was the last leg of the US tour schedule, but if you have a chance to Cirque Eloise iD, I would take it. The visual experience of the technology behind the show along with the cirque acts is worth it. They even encourage audience participation through live lobby and house video along with constantly updated twitter and text feeds projected on stage.
U2 360 MIA
July 1, 2011 at 10:05 am (Design, Florida, Miami, South Florida, technology, Uncategorized) (360, concert, Florence and the Machine, Florida, Miami, rock concert, Sun Life Stadium, tour, U2, U2 Concert, U2360MIA)
Taken with a Blackberry
Imagine a structure 164 feet tall, that uses 120 trucks to move and several days to assemble. Now imagine that same structure surrounded by 50,000 to 300,000 people per tour stop; pretty impressive, right?
June 29th U2 landed their space ship like stage in Sun Life Stadium. This monster stage – the largest touring stage ever built – looks like a giant claw or a structure built by NASA. The stage has four legs that support a center column of LCD screens, speaker stacks, and even four aerial lighting platforms that 12 crew strap in to and get hoisted into positions within the legs. A giant spire looks as though it’s been thrust through the whole apparatus, and the stage has two concentric circles of performance platforms. There was a lot of buzz about both the stage and the tour when I went to LDI in 2009, but even with the advanced knowledge I couldn’t grasp the magnitude of this concert.
The idea of the stage, as the “360” tour name suggests, is a concert in the round. Instead of the traditional stage flanked by speaker stacks and fans only concentrated in one direction, the fans literally surround the stage. This stage did everything functionally and SFX wise that I was hoping for. Whenever I’d say “it would be cool if…” all of sudden that very thing would happen – smoke, LCD screens moving, elevator systems for bringing equipment on stage, even the ramps that span from the inner circle to the outer circle moved! With 432 speakers distributed between eight speakers stacks the sound quality was excellent no matter where you sat. This was truly a feast for the eyes and a massage for the ear drums.
U2s songs reverberated through the stadium and the crowd was so in tune to it that you could feel it. Yes in the way you do at a normal concert where you feel the bass and the music, but there was more than that. As people were clapping, stomping, and jumping I could actually feel the vibrations through the steel of the prestressed concrete of the stadium. This was both really cool, and a little disconcerting all at the same time. My mind kept bouncing between enjoying the show and worrying about the stadiums mechanical resonance and how that affected the Tacoma Narrows Bridge. Obviously the fans did not cause the stadium to shake itself apart, or you would be reading about somewhere else than my blog.
This was one impressive concert. We left the stadium visually stimulated, physically resonated, and all over tired. If you want to check the tour out, there are only 10 stops left of the 109 scheduled on the tour. So get your tickets or watch it online!
What The Flugtag!
July 13, 2010 at 10:45 am (Florida, free, Miami, social event, Social Events & Networking, South Florida, Uncategorized) (2010, Bayfront Park, Flugtag, Miami, Red Bull, three kings flugtag)
Saturday, July 10th, Miami witnessed Red Bull’s Flugtag for the first time in 6 years. The event, put on by the energy drink, travels to various cities around the country each year encouraging inhabitants to build flying machines that they will hurl off a 30’ platform into the water to see if they can fly.
In 2004 I was part of the team “Camel Skiing” from the Art Institute of Fort Lauderdale, but this time I wasn’t able to get enough people, nor enough time, to gather a team of wanna-be aviators. Luckily the company I work for, Sixth Star Entertainment, was asked to build not one, but two of these machines. The first was built for Telemundo over the course of two days and was used for the test flight on Friday. The second, built in only one day, was to celebrate the signing of LeBron James, Dwyane Wade and Chris Bosh to the Miami Heat.
Enough stroking my ego – back to the main event! I have never seen Bayfront Park packed by so many people. The estimated number of spectators was between 80,000 and 100,000! That’s a lot of people in one area on one day, even for Miami. No matter where, or when, the Flugtag event you are guaranteed that the flying machines will be impressive (most will not fly) and that you will be entertained. At this year’s Miami event all walks of life were represented: from Luchadores to Beer Connoisseurs, Ibis to Rubber Ducky, rednecks in Mullets and even a giant wedding cake by a couple who is getting married at the event! Flugtag was wrapped up by a show from the U.S. Coast Guard who flew in a helicopter to pluck the Coast Guard’s Flugtag Pilot from the water.
We need more Flugtags in South Florida! We have some annual events like the Coconut Grove Bed Race, but nothing really compares to the creativity and overall experience of a good Flugtag.
Visionary Expo 2009
October 12, 2009 at 10:20 pm (Art, Florida, Miami, networking, social event, South Florida, Uncategorized) (tattoo, tattoo expo, tattoo show, visionary expo)
This weekend the DoubleTree Miami Mart Hotel & Exhibition Center played host to Visionary Expo. What is the Visionary Expo you may ask? Here’s what the website tells us: “Visionary Expo is the first tattoo and art festival of it’s kind concentrating on visionary art, tattooing, music, and performance art. The world’s finest tattoo artists and painters will be there fused in live painting sessions…”
As soon as you approached the entrance of the exhibition center the hum of tattoo machines let you know what this expo was about, but throughout the weekend the show had several other artistic expressions featured. Artwork by Chet Zar was shown in one booth, and local graffiti artists Crome, and MSG Cartel were on hand with Eazy Street Gallery. In the back of the room painting seminars went on all weekend. There was a fashion show, contests, core suspension show, and even ongoing circus performances by Cirque Du Macabre from Florida Circus Art School,LLC.
The show included tattoo artists from around the globe, including Taiwan Tattoo. South Florida was represented very well with artists Federico Ferroni, Miki Foged, Dicky Magoo, and shops like Chico’s Marked 4 Life, Black Sparrow Tattoo Company, and Salvation Tattoo Lounge among others.
The show was an interesting experience. I only attended on Sunday, so I missed some of the more interesting performances. Next time they have a show I’ll have to check it out before the last day.
RefreshMiami
October 1, 2009 at 1:37 am (Design Events, free, marketing, Miami, networking, social event, Social Events & Networking, social media, South Florida) (#refreshmiami, bartleby, Florida, florida tech community, free, gunster, networking, refresh miami, social media, South Florida, startup 101, tech, wosterer.com)
Tonight’s RefreshMiami was a little different. Apparently the hotel it is normally held at is under new management, and ill informed of the tech community’s monthly meeting. Luckily Windisch-Hunt Fine Art Gallery stepped in and allowed the group to use their beautiful art gallery for the evening.
The goal of tonight’s event was to answer three questions:
I’ve got an idea, now what?
I’ve got a company, who can fund it?
I’m up and running, now what?
So in the adaptive spirit of our newfound meeting place we all sat around for story time.
First up was Startup 101 with attorneys Gaida Zirkelbach, Esq. and Nicholas Robbins, Esq. of Gunster, Florida’s Law Firm for Business. Together they discussed what is needed to start and protect a business and other intellectual property. We discovered the difference between ©, ® and ™, the different types of investors, and parts of contracts, privacy statements, etc.
After the legal discussion the guys from Worsterer.com took the reigns and told us about their company, and how three former Yahoo employees formed it. They dispelled some good tips about defining a business plan, checking your software, and testing your product.
It was a good and informative meeting. Thank you to all the presenters, and especially Windisch-Hunt Gallery for letting us use their space. Hope to see you at one the next events: Southwest Florida Code Camp, Wodpress Meetup, and Twineup Take 2
September 23, 2009 at 6:38 pm (Art, Art Event, Design, Design Events, Florida, free, Graphic Design, Logo Design, Miami, networking, News, photography, South Florida) (AI, Art, Art + Design, Art Event, art institute, art school, art show, Design, Design Events, Education, Florida, graduation, Miami, Miami International University of Art & Design, portfolio, portfolio review, South Florida)
It’s graduation season at the Art Institutes again, and once again I was not disappointed at the showing in Miami. The graduating class at Miami International University of Art and Design seemed a little smaller this quarter compared to last, but the work was equally as good. Interior design was set up outside the hall and the extra space allowed for a little less congestion throughout portfolio review. Fashion Design, Accessory Design, and Fashion Merchandizing had a good showing with a wide variety of styles represented. Graphic Design showed sound composition and design aesthetics. Juan Lopez from the Graphics Department caught my eye with some interesting 3D work.
Visual Arts had only two graduates this quarter, but both were very strong. Alejandra Cicilia showed her diversity in photography. She had some fantastic photos of construction workers in front of the Fontainebleau on Miami Beach, her fashion photography was well composed, and her nighttime photography has an amazing use of color. The work of Chantal Disler can be an event in itself. She takes watercolor, newsprint, and other mixed media and forms them into beautiful arrangements of harmony. Her branding seems to be set around birds in different forms and flight patterns. Her photography, drawings, and portraits all follow a free will aesthetic.
This quarter’s showing was very good. The Art Institute of Fort Lauderdale had their portfolio review today at the Broward County Convention Center. Unfortunately I was unable to attend both, but wish graduates from both schools the best of luck!
Shoot’n Hot & Wet on Brickell
September 22, 2009 at 11:37 pm (Florida, free, Miami, networking, photography, social event, South Florida) (Architecture, brickell avenue, Florida, free, Gordon Biersch, meetup.com, Miami, networking, photo, photo group, photo walk, photograph, photographer, photography, photography club, photography social event, photogrpahy event, Shoot Miami, Shoot Miami Meetup, social event, South Florida)
Sunday and Monday were photo-filled days. Sunday saw a small contingent of photographers from Shoot Miami converge on Brickell Avenue. We met in front of Gordon Biersch Brewery and Restaurant located a little south of the famed Brickell Avenue Bridge and Miami Circle. The small group that I was with wandered a for a while before finding ourselves at a Miami Metromover station – Elevated transportation stations are a great place to get photographs from in Miami or any other metropolitan area that has them. After getting off the Metromover we got stuck under a pavilion waiting for a rain storm to pass until it was time to return to Gordon Biersch for some food and good conversation
Monday evening was the monthly Shoot Miami general meeting. The photography theme was “architecture.” I saw some really nice HDR images that were not over processed – an all too common abuse of Photoshop’s power. Some of the photos that come from that group are amazing!
Shoot Miami’s next schedule event is October 3 and 4 at the Dragon Boat races in Miami, but there is rumor of a Halloween shoot in the works. Details on the group can be found here.
HD Boutique – The Best of Hospitality Design
September 16, 2009 at 12:22 am (Art, Design, Design Events, Environmental Graphic Design, marketing, Miami, networking, social event, South Florida) (Architecture, conference, expo, hd boutique, hospitality design, hotel design, interior design, Miami Beach Convention Center, new materials, new technology, tradeshow, wall coverings)
HD Boutique Expo and Conference was held once again at the Miami Beach Convention Center. The show, which brings together vendors from all aspects of the hospitality design industry, was fairly good this year. There seemed to be a few less vendors then when I attended two years ago, but this allowed for the show to be covered in only one day instead of two.
As an exhibit designer I enjoy this show. It is geared more toward permanent installation and high volume sales, but the materials and design solutions that are presented carry over to sales centers, tradeshow exhibits, and live events quite beautifully. I always am interested in the wall covering companies, specifically Wolf Gordon and U.S. Vinyl. Both companies provide high quality vinyl coverings that can really punch up the design in a space. I was also happy to see that Applied Coatings was back with a full line of their Modono glass collection. Last time I saw this company they were making their debut and had a small line of products – not any more. If you need some cool glass tile, I suggest checking them out.
Speaking of wall coverings, The Gage Corporation had a nice showing of decorative metal architectural products. They have decorative, dimensional metal for vertical surfaces, ceilings, and floor systems, and best of all the rep’s business card was made out of aluminum flat stock! Concertex was making its first appearance in the show with “Nature Friendly Wallcoverings.” The company has been in the fabrics industry for years, but decided to expand into wallcoverings that are PVC free. Some of their product line include sparkling glass beads, natural fibers, and high performance fabrics. Maya Ramanoff came out with some incredible textures and materials for wall coverings – everything from paper to felt and glass beads.
We came across some unexpected, but really interesting products this year as well. ShimmerScreen is a neat product – think of a bead curtain with metal beads that you can use to define spaces, add character, project on, or have a logo made from. The Fire Company showed off their ecosmart fire collection, my favorite by far was the Zeta from their Designer Range series. This freestanding, portable piece of “fire furniture” has see through sides, a leather surround, and can spin!
Two of my favorite new lines who use recycled and repurposed elements were Meyda Custom Lighting with their family of lights made from reclaimed wine and olive oil bottles, and LumiVisions’ use of carbonate substrates as primary materials. The color combinations and textures achieved through their system is fantastic!
The show was a lot to take in over a few hours, but was well worth it. The new technologies and textures have already started to inspire my design metaphor within a few projects and I’m excited to see these new textures and materials within my designs. Their next show is in Las Vegas May 18 – 21, 2010.
Call To Action From The Wolfsonian–FIU
September 15, 2009 at 7:42 pm (Design, economy, Florida, Miami, News, South Florida, Uncategorized) (Art, budget cuts, call to action, dade county, Design, Miami-Dade County, save the arts, wolfosonian museum)
Reproduced from an email by the Wolfsonian Museum:
The second and final Miami-Dade County public Budget Hearing is scheduled for this Thursday, September 17th and your personal messages to the County Commission about the value of support to cultural organizations is critical. Presently, if no positive action is taken, there will be “zero” dollars in the County budget for social service and cultural organizations.
We all recognize the arduous task before the County Commission; however, we have all worked so hard over the past two decades to build a vibrant cultural community that reflects the creativity, innovation, and generosity of our community. The arts have demonstrated their impact on quality of life, education, the economy, and job market, not to mention that almost all of the good news that comes out of Miami-Dade County is related to cultural organizations and arts events.
The severe reduction of County support of the arts will impact every cultural institution and the community it serves. It will result in the reduction of staff and seriously curtail most public, educational programs—exacerbating an already dire economic situation. Furthermore, the economic multiplier of this loss of funding is immeasurable, affecting numerous local businesses, service providers, and countless individuals. No one would argue that Art Basel and Design Miami, among other major conferences and events, have chosen to come to Miami, in part, because of its dynamic cultural scene.
If you have a strong opinion about the County budget, we urge you to attend the upcoming budget hearing and state your concerns.
Alternatively, if you are unable to attend the meeting, you may write members of the Miami-Dade County Commission to express your opinions or concerns. Visit http://artsactionalliance.wordpress.com/elected-officials/ for a list of Miami-Dade County Commissioners. Your individual letters about your personal experiences are more valuable than a form letter.
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Nobody Died. Trump Takes Credit For Zero Aviation Deaths In 2017
Turns out, every time your plane doesn’t crash it’s thanks to Donald Trump! Hooray!
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By Bryan Altman
Have you gotten on a plane in the last year, and had it land safely at its destination? Duh! You’re reading this… So, dumb question, you landed safely! All hail the President! According to, um, him, he did that.
Since taking office I have been very strict on Commercial Aviation. Good news – it was just reported that there were Zero deaths in 2017, the best and safest year on record!
Trump’s tweet (above), ridiculously claiming 2017 was the safest year on record, when it’s a rare year when there are fatal commercial flights in the US, or that he had anything to do with the continuation of an immensely safe system, received the appropriate immediate backlash on Twitter as users pointed out that there have been zero commercial aviation deaths in the United States since 2009. (Which means….well done, Obama! All eight years of his Presidency he kept all the planes in the sky! On his own, with Magical Powers!)
And according to The Atlantic, the Trump administration didn’t effect any changes to Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) regulations in fiscal 2017. In fact, besides killing the sensible regulation to require airlines to disclose hidden fees for checked bags and seat assignments, among other routine services, the President’s only attempt at legislation within the airline industry was trying to privatize the air traffic control system. Mercifully, that idiotic idea was shut down by both Congressional parties in the early stages of discussions.
Actually, it's @USDOT, @FAANews, & @NASA —and especially the airlines— who deserve credit for this. But, if you're going to take credit for zero airline deaths in 2017 then you should take responsibility for the tens of thousands of gun deaths, too. #lawsmatter https://t.co/vnSPBo76LF
— Mark Kelly (@ShuttleCDRKelly) January 2, 2018
There hasn't been a death in about EIGHT years, it's got NOTHING to do with you and you did NOTHING, and you are LYING and trying to take credit for something that's got NOTHING to do with you. You are a pathetic liar.
— Ale (@aliasvaughn) January 2, 2018
Vox Populi: I don’t think Ale is buying it.
OMG Give me a break. Are you seriously trying to take credit for that?
— Greg Shugar (@GregShugar) January 2, 2018
Days after Trump’s tweet, current FAA head Michael Huerta — appointed in 2011 by Obama — confirmed his previously declared intention to step aside at the end of his term, and officially did so on Jan. 6.
Deputy administrator Daniel Elwell will take over until a permanent successor is confirmed. Nominating a full time Director will actually be Trump’s first action of any kind with the FAA. I mean, he can take credit for that all day long.
5 Smartest Tips for BUSINESS TRAVELERS
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The island still struggles to recover after Hurricane Maria, while FEMA does little but bicker with San Juan Mayor
FREQUENT FLYER Book Excerpt, Katy Tur's Unbelievable
NBC’s star TV reporter chased candidate Donald Trump around the country in 2016, and wrote a sensational book about how much fun that was….
Trump Hates Us DOT Stops Efforts To Make Airline Fees Transparent
The DOT is reportedly following President Trump’s policy guidelines that aim to reduce government regulations and control regulatory costs.
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WTDC June 29 News: US-Cuba update, Cyzerg, Maersk, MDC Trade-Up, Interns
June 2, 2016 by Techleadz
Independence Day – WTDC Closed
WTDC will be closed on Tuesday, July 4, 2017, in observance of Independence Day. Please note that WTDC will be OPEN on Monday, July 3, as well as July 5th, 6th, and 7th, regular business hours 8 am to 5 pm, closed 12-1 pm for lunch.
US-Cuba Relations Update: President Trump’s New Cuba Policy
On June 16, in Miami’s Little Havana, President Trump announced his new policy towards Cuba. As many expected, the policy limits individually booked travel itineraries (dubbed people to people encounters) and forbids investment and purchases with Cuban military enterprises (which can include anything from hotels to infrastructure companies). The new policy will spell out which Cuban companies are under military control and are prohibited for U.S. citizens and companies, a notable change from the somewhat vague parameters opened during the Obama administration. The existing U.S. embargo of Cuba, which can only be overturned by Congress, remains intact.
The U.S. Embassy in Havana will remain open as the countries continue diplomatic relations. Travel will still be allowed under certain guidelines but with more complete records keeping and limitations on where travelers may stay and spend their money. The door to Cuba remains open for U.S. citizens and businesses but with a new emphasis on limiting funds that would have benefited the Cuban military and its business entities.
U.S. companies are already making changes as a result of these policy changes, including Southwest Airlines announcing yesterday that it would stop flying from Ft. Lauderdale, Florida, to Varadero and Santa Clara, Cuba. More on that announcement here.
Cyzerg – Manuel Cassola
Protecting customer data and operating with maximum efficiency are the technology requirements of all companies these days. WTDC would like to spotlight our vendor Cyzerg and its Chief Technical Advisor, Mr. Manuel Cassola:
“Cyzerg is a logistics technology solutions and service provider focused on research, development, implementation, and management of solutions for logistics businesses,” Cassola said.
“Forged on the principles of innovation, integrity, and empowerment, Cyzerg is driven to bring innovative technology solutions to the logistics industry. With a personalized and partnership-driven approach, Cyzerg has the knowledge and desire to build a road map to success with you.”
WTDC Health & Wellness Program & Intern Alexander Muñoz
WTDC’s new Health & Wellness program offers healthy living initiatives for WTDC Employees. The Gazitua family are avid nutrition and fitness enthusiasts and see the Health & Wellness program as an opportunity to bring this balance of sound mind and sound body they practice into the workplace.
WTDC welcomes Intern Alexander Muñoz to our new Health & Wellness Program. Alex is attending FIU and is Majoring in Nutrition & Dietetics, with the ambition to become a Registered Dietician. Alex is also a fitness and nutrition enthusiast. He is creating a motivating atmosphere that promotes healthy habits here at WTDC for a happier and more productive workplace!
Click to visit FIU Career Services
WTDC Welcomes Orianna Camargo, Transportation Department Intern
WTDC welcomes Orianna Camargo to the team! Orianna, originally from Venezuela, is completing a summer Internship with WTDC Transportation Department and is a junior at Barry University, double majoring in International Business and Management. She is also a student-athlete part of the Barry University Rowing Team where she was part of the 2016 National Championship team. We’re looking forward to good things from Orianna!
Click to Visit Barry University Career Services
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Top quotes by Juliette Binoche
I would have loved to have met Marilyn Monroe and have dinner with her. Votes: 17
I've been changed watching films or reading books or hearing music, and that helps you to live your life. Votes: 16
I move on stage differently. The more you act, anyway, the more you live, your perception of life becomes more and more accurate. Votes: 15
What I need is to express my passion for life... It's movement I'm interested in, the life in me, the life in humanity. Votes: 15
I've never thought of my characters as being sad. On the contrary, they are full of life. They didn't choose tragedy. Tragedy chose them. Votes: 15
I love the unknown. I think because it brings fear, and to embrace fear is the best feeling. Votes: 13
It's not a struggle to be on a diet. You feel lighter, and your spirit is lighter, too. But I love chocolate, and I allow myself to have chocolate. That doesn't go against a diet for me. Votes: 11
I think acting is about forgetting yourself in order to give the best of yourself. It's passing through you more than you're creating it. You're not the flower, but the vase which holds the flower. Votes: 11
Being a famous actress may give you a sense of being important, but believe me, it's just an illusion. Votes: 11
Movies are open doors, and at every door, I change character and life... I live for the present always. I accept this risk. I don't deny the past, but it's a page to turn. Votes: 10
Sometimes I call directors. Sometimes I just meet with them. It just happens. It's not that I'm pushy. It comes naturally. But I go ahead. I don't stay in my armchair, waiting for the phone to ring. Votes: 9
The best mother is the mother who adapts, and the best children are the children who adapt as well. Votes: 9
Movies are open doors, and at every door, I change character and life. Votes: 9
Choosing to be in the theatre was a way to put my roots down somewhere with other people. It was a way to choose a new family. Votes: 9
The thing is that I never felt beautiful. I really never did. I think I can change my looks and be different things, but I've never thought of myself as this face. Votes: 8
I wanted to work with people from the world, with different minds and different visions. Votes: 8
My only ambition is to be true every moment I am living. Votes: 8
Usually I love preparing. It's really the time I prefer, because it's a time of reflection and of possibility of growth - to let it cook inside. Votes: 7
When I won the Oscar, there was something telling me 'this isn't the truth'. I had to get back to real work. Votes: 7
I really don't think that the Oscar changed my career much because I didn't want it to. Votes: 7
In a building with apartments, of course, you want to make connections. Life is easier that way. There's salt if you don't have salt; you can knock at someone's door, like in any city. But you know, you can hear the others, and you want to sleep, you get annoyed. Votes: 6
I won't do something just for the sake of working. Votes: 6
It's never been my purpose to become an American icon, or more famous or richer. Votes: 5
I believe that being an actress or being involved in a movie has to be a life experience, otherwise why go for it? I have to change me, and I have to learn things, and I have to push me and my limits. By acting, I find a freedom inside of a prison in a way. Votes: 4
I'm not even aware of my success. Success is such an illusion. Votes: 4
I have stories that I'd like to maybe one day consider directing, but you need a lot of time to write and put it together. Votes: 4
If you told me tomorrow that I couldn't act anymore, it wouldn't bother me. I have only one wish: to meet the man of my life. Votes: 4
Each new film is like a trial. Before I step in front of the camera, I do not know whether I am going to fall or whether I am going to fly - and that is exactly the way I want it to stay. Votes: 2
My ambition is to have beautiful encounters, not to make money. Votes: 2
I like travelling and if I have to come to Hollywood to make a movie I will, but otherwise I'd never move there. It's very much an industry town and that doesn't really interest me. Votes: 1
For me, acting goes to a special place; it's almost mystical. You have to let go of what you think is good; it's a jump into trust, and trying to reach without wanting too much. Votes: 0
I've played journalists before, and I have good friends who are journalists. I think being an actor is not very far from being a journalist. Because you investigate, you try to understand, you're asking questions, you're interested in the other. Votes: 0
You make your own path as an actor. Nobody does it for you, so you have to invent yourself. Votes: 0
As an actress we don't beat one another. It's whoever's right for the part. Votes: 0
I am not a great French woman. George Sand, Marguerite Duras and Simone de Beauvoir are great French women. Votes: 0
Fighting the ageing process just doesn't work. I think that actresses, ultimately, are responsible for the faces we give to women. Votes: 0
I have been proposed to four times. Twice at the beginning of a relationship and twice at the end of a relationship. I've never said no. I just didn't give an answer! Votes: 0
Ive never thought of my characters as being sad. On the contrary, they are full of life. They didnt choose tragedy. Tragedy chose them. Votes: 0
I don't believe in coincidence. Votes: 0
What I love most about this crazy life is the adventure of it. Votes: 0
I live for the present always. I accept this risk. I don't deny the past, but it's a page to turn. Votes: 0
I'm very down-to-earth and accessible, I think. Votes: 0
I never really worked in Hollywood. Some American producers came to Europe to shoot films with me, so it's a different situation... It was not my aim. Votes: 0
People think actors have such glamorous lives, but the truth is actors go where nobody wants to go. Votes: 0
There is a secret, I think. When you are front of a camera there is something that happens. Some relationship, some movement, some strange kind of suspension. That's where you find the layer in yourself that is duplicated in everyone. And when you get it right, if you can imagine all the hearts beating in one beat, it's like that. It's beautiful. Votes: 0
The strong is not the one who can put on the blades at a glance, and the one who is able to raise a smile from his knees! Votes: 0
Acting is like peeling an onion. You have to peel away each layer to reveal another. Votes: 0
Maybe it's because my mother divorced and my grandmother divorced, so maybe I'm frightened deep down. But then I also feel there is no real need. Why do I need to get married? To reassure me? No I don't need reassurance. Votes: 0
But I think it's a little different in Europe, because 40 is really the best age for a woman. That's when we hit our peak and become this ripe fruit. Votes: 0
There was probably something as a child I wanted to express, something unsaid that I needed to share. Votes: 0
Acting is a tough business, and you need to be in good shape mentally and physically. Votes: 0
I think it's the same simple thing for everyone - to be happy, and have love in your life. Votes: 0
What makes a person sexy is when he's not trying to be sexy. Votes: 0
For me, habit is just a synonym for death. Votes: 0
I don't like films giving me answers. I like films that are provoking me, that are making me feel not only being in an easy place. Votes: 0
Attraction is beyond our will or ideas sometimes. Votes: 0
But I've never felt that being an actress is being in a comfortable place. It's seen from the outside that we're being driven in big cars and having these gorgeous suites and all of that. But come on, it's not about that. Votes: 0
Before I thought there was a common denominator between my films - as if all my characters were sisters - but I'm not so sure now. Votes: 0
I want to know why I'm alive. I want to understand. It's like exploration; it's like someone being interested in a place and its history, digging into the earth and looking for it, searching - it's a passion. Votes: 0
I was used to theatre classes. I studied with my mother; she was a theatre teacher and directed, too, so it was very family-like. Then I studied with a great teacher in Paris, and she was wonderful; she pushed me, but she was a warm soul. Votes: 0
I like being a mother, and I want to be involved in my work, so I have to make choices. If you're a film actress, your career is from 20 to 45, but you can still dream. Votes: 0
I try to see my films just once. it's like a dream you've been through when it's been intense, and you just have to go through it once more just to make sure you've had it. Votes: 0
I'm a fighter as a mother. I'm fighting to be a mother, but I cannot say no to my passion because it's me, as well. Votes: 0
You must understand, I don't have to be happy to be happy. Votes: 0
Some words, you know, it's amazing but some words would come only in French, and when I speak French, it would only come in English. And so the adjustment is very difficult sometimes. Votes: 0
When you really put your heart in the work, you don't think of how you look. And I think that's the beauty of it. Votes: 0
I believe such illumination comes if you're open to the surprises the universe throws at you. You must be able to let go of the past, whatever success you may have seen, whatever your comfort, whatever your habits. To me, that's the key to loving life: Enabling yourself to step bravely into the unknown. Only there will you find yourself again. Votes: 0
I think the world would be much better if you always started the morning by calling the person you dreamt of during the night. Votes: 0
I need relationships, but sometimes when I am in one I feel claustrophobic. It is about feeling that I still have my freedom, that I have choices. I don't look back on the past because I like to live in the present. I know this makes some people think I probably never cared, but I need my freedom and I like to keep moving. Votes: 0
I like intensity. If it's too mellow, I feel like, bleah. I like intensity, because it's way of reaching spaces inside of you, and it's my need of knowledge, of knowing about myself regardless. Votes: 0
If you have everything, then you don't want to go on. It's the lacking that makes you search for something better. Votes: 0
But, you know, when I choose a film I need to believe in it and believe I can do something special with it, and after a while that means not trying to judge or analyze why I should do it. You have to follow this intuition thing, which is a mystery to me. Votes: 0
As an actress, I think there is always a political consciousness there. Votes: 0
As an actor, I have to be fulfilled in the roles that I play; it has to be a journey for me to learn something or involve myself. Votes: 0
As actors, we are so privileged to do what we do and to give to the world and to choose the subject we want to say to the world. Votes: 0
I want to make films that are political and social. Films with a message or an idea. Films that dare to ask. Votes: 0
Changing someone's life is not the best, is not wanting to change the other life. It is being who you are that changes another's life. Do you understand? Votes: 0
I was so happy when they cast me in Chocolat, because it's one of my vices. Votes: 0
I never felt being an actor or making a movie was an easy thing to do. Votes: 0
I would say I'm humanly engaged. Votes: 0
My aim was never to be an American star; otherwise, I would have moved to Los Angeles. Votes: 0
When you make a film, it's a bet. You don't know how the film is going to be, anyway. Votes: 0
I am not a woman staying at home. Votes: 0
I'm not obsessed by looks. I think you can become a prisoner of your own image. Votes: 0
When I'm in the movie, I'm entirely in the movie. When I'm on the set, I'm 200 per cent there; when I'm at home, I'm 200 per cent at home. Votes: 0
You have to have the courage to wait, to say no, ... And thats difficult. This job is very uncertain, and its frightening. Votes: 0
I think I am pretty much melancholic. Votes: 0
I sometimes feel like I could do another job. Anything. Maybe because as an actress you're playing different characters, everything feels possible. Votes: 0
Oh, I'll be forgotten too, don't worry. Votes: 0
My private life is very private, and I have chosen not to live in America or England, where you are so exposed and can't fight against it. Votes: 0
I'm very patient and always willing to try things but I have some resistance as well because I have my own vision. I have resistance sometimes because I see a director who's freaking out and wants to have control and they sometimes anticipate about what I'm going to be doing or not. Votes: 0
It's challenging as an actor to let go but I had some pleasure out of it too. To not have the effort of having to present myself is quite liberating. Votes: 0
For me, real, truthful moments come from a place that I don't know. If somebody was telling me, "You're going to lift your face like this, you're going to do this..." No! I don't want to know. Just let me live it. Votes: 0
My experience has nothing to do with creation, I don't think, even though maturity is helpful. In a creation process, there's an intuition that takes you and if it's nourished with awareness and experience, it's great. Votes: 0
I like independence, I like creating my own world, not being in a system. There are more possibilities, I think. Votes: 0
You have to be very cautious about what you are doing for charity and things like that. I think you have to start with your life. I think that's what life is expecting you to do. In your family, in your surroundings, in your work life, in the people you're with, your relationships; how you behave and doing what you need to accomplish. That for me is being a hero every day of your life. Votes: 0
George Clooney is trying his own way but he's struggling too because he has to deal with America. Yet, if he has a foot in Europe, it's not for nothing. Votes: 0
A director could be 20 years old and an actor 60, or vice versa; it doesn't matter. It's about connecting sensibility and energy together, and having a vision that goes together and anchors the film as you go along. Votes: 0
Being Sad
Best Love
City of Salt
Different People
Different World
Differently
Famous Actress
For the sake of
Full-On
Get A Real
I Need Time
I've Changed
Just Being Me
Life And Change
Life And Passion
Life Experience
Love Chocolates
Love Feeling
Maybe One Day
One Act
People choosing
Pushy
Real Truth
Sad Life
Telling The Truth
Thoughts On Life
To Put You Together
You Changed
You've Changed
Accepting life changes
Accepting past
Accepting risks
Accepting the past
Ambition and money
Being full
Being full of life
Being important
Being involved in life
Change a life
Change career
Change character
Change life
Changing the page
Choosing family
Different is beautiful
Different minds
Different peoples
Different perception
Different perceptions
Different stages of life
Different tastes
Dinner with love
Embracing fear
Embracing the unknown
Fear and love
Fear in love
Fear to love
Fear unknown
For humanity
Freedom prison
Full of thoughts
Give it
Giving flowers
Going on a diet
Growth in love
Growth love
Growth of love
Having a diet
Having dinner
Hearing music
Hearing the music
His face
I won't
In the moment
Just do something
Life in movies
Life movies
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Living every moment
Living moment
Living true
Love and dinner
Love unknown
Man life
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Music of life
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My arm
My success
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Not having ambition
Ny city
Only one me
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Passion and life
Passion in life
Passion of life
Perception life
Possibility of love
Reading and life
Reading changing your life
Reading in books
Reading or books
Reflection and growth
Reflection love
Reflection of love
Sad in life
Sad thoughts
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Telling truth
Time of need
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Unknown love
Waiting for phone calls
What i need
Your perception
Your spirit
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Leicester City Goals
Leicester City vs Chelsea highlights (2-0)
Leicester boss Brendan Rodgers: "You have seen the real spirit of the side tonight. We were a real threat going forward. "The performance and maturity of the team was pleasing. I knew we were playing against a talented team and we had to be right on our game.
Leicester City vs Southampton (2-0)
Leicester boss Brendan Rodgers told BBC Sport: "It's a very good win against a good team. We were too passive at the start, we took social distancing to the letter and didn't get close to them.
Newcastle United vs Leicester City (1-2)
Leicester manager Brendan Rodgers on Sky Sports: "I'm delighted with that. It was always going to be a tight game. "We had some really good moments in first half but just failed with that final ball.
Leicester City vs Manchester United (2-2)
Leicester City manager Rodgers, speaking to BBC Sport: "We showed the mentality to come back. I thought some of our attacking play was very good. You are playing against a team that is so quick on the counter-attack but I felt we counter-pressed very well.
Tottenham Hotspur vs Leicester City (0-2)
Leicester manager Brendan Rodgers insists his side "won't get carried away" after they overcame top-four rivals Tottenham to climb to second in the Premier League. "The players have done great.
Leicester City vs Everton (0-2)
Everton boss Ancelotti: "It's been a good week. We've found consistency defensively and that was the reason for these two results. "It keeps us with a lot of confidence, a lot of ambition and a lot of motivation.
Leicester City vs Brighton & Hove Albion (3-0)
Leicester manager Brendan Rodgers to BBC Sport on James Maddison: "He has such quality. What makes it even better is he hardly trained at all this week. He had an issue with his knee so we took him out of our midweek game.
Sheffield United vs Leicester City (1-2)
Leicester City manager Brendan Rodgers, speaking to BBC Sport: "The mark of how you're judged as a team is how you bounce back. "We showed confidence and it was a case of at half-time reinforcing a few things and perseverance.
Leicester City vs Fulham (1-2)
Leicester manager Brendan Rodgers, speaking to Sky Sports: "It was a disappointing first half for us. We made mistakes in our defensive moments and in this league, if you give away opportunities, it can be very difficult.
Liverpool vs Leicester City (3-0)
Liverpool boss Jurgen Klopp speaking to Match of the Day: "We scored three goals and didn't concede one, we defended exceptionally well, controlled the game, there were a lot of good things, I can't pick one that pleased me most - maybe the performance of James Milner at right back.
Leicester City vs Wolverhampton Wanderers (1-0)
Leicester boss Brendan Rodgers: "The first half we were very good without the football and in the second half we had to show real resilience. "We have seen that this season, the players are developing and to show that mentality and desire is so pleasing.
Leeds United vs Leicester City (1-4)
Leicester boss Brendan Rodgers, speaking to BBC Sport: I thought my players were brilliant. We had to be tactically disciplined and then play when we had the ball. If we get to March, April and we are in that position [second], then it will be nice, but there is a long way to go.
Arsenal vs Leicester City (0-1)
Arsenal boss Mikel Arteta told BBC Sport: "The game the way it went, I felt we had total control in the first half and restricted them to nothing. We were winning every ball, created a few chances and scored a goal I don't know how it got disallowed.
West Ham United vs West Bromwich Albion highlights (2-1)
Arsenal vs Newcastle United highlights (3-0)
Manchester City vs Crystal Palace highlights (4-0)
Liverpool vs Manchester United highlights (0-0)
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Home » New Seattle Light Rail Line Opens Ahead of Schedule and Under Budget
New Seattle Light Rail Line Opens Ahead of Schedule and Under Budget
ACP Staff
DENVER, CO Sound Transit, the regional transit authority serving the greater Seattle, Washington, area, officially opened the University Link Light Rail Extension, bringing fast, reliable rail service to Capitol Hill and the University of Washington (UW) - two of the Seattle area's major centers of employment and education.
The transformational project, with CH2M serving as the lead in a construction management joint venture, opened six months ahead of schedule and approximately $200 million under its $1.6 billion budget. The 3.15-mile extension runs through twin-bored tunnels from downtown Seattle north to the UW, with stations at Capitol Hill and on the UW campus near Husky Stadium.
The eight-year construction scheme involved nine separate contracts for demolition, utilities, site preparations, two underground stations, 3.15 miles of twin-bore tunnel with precast placed liner, 21 hand-mined cross passages and expansion of the pre-existing rail yard. CH2M's construction management services included overall program management, resident engineering, inspection, project controls, cost estimating, constructability reviews and contract administration.
Congratulations to Sound Transit, the construction contractors, consultants, partner agencies, community stakeholder and the more than 5,000 union workers affiliated with the Washington State and Seattle/King County Building and Construction Trades Council and affiliated unions of the Northwest Construction Alliance who put in more than three million work hours to make the project a success.
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Boosting skills, celebrating women empowerment
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Supporting social development through advanced skills trainings
Celebrating achievements
Fashion for sustainable development
TVET - Technical and Vocational Education and Training
ACTED Lebanon
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Graduation ceremony of the women enrolled in ACTED’s advanced skills trainings in Jbeil, Lebanon
Women in Lebanon face daunting challenges to both entering the labour force and facing protection concerns in their day-to-day life. With competition for jobs and resources on the rise in Lebanon, women face increasing obstacles in matching their skills with existing jobs due to lack of strong networks and access to financial resources. With this in mind, ACTED implemented an innovative project aimed at empowering vulnerable women in Jbeil and Msaitbeh through support for protection and learning of practical skills. The project, funded by the French Centre de Crise (CDC), was designed to offer advanced skills trainings focusing on protection and livelihoods in collaboration with the Social Development Centres (SDC) of Jbeil and Msaitbeh.
Over six months, 96 women participated in advanced skill-building sessions, focusing on sewing, catering and computer skills, complemented with business development and financial trainings. Through several workshops, the women took these sessions as an opportunity to improve their resilience to Lebanon’s constantly evolving social and economic conditions as well as a chance to forge a pathway into the labour market.
Throughout the months, the women taking part in this project attended numerous workshops led by private sector professionals, such as the international high fashion school ESMOD, who had introduced the trainees to proper measurement and fitting techniques during the course, and FabricAid, an innovative Lebanese start-up that recycles and upcycles clothing, as well as Kaddoum Honey Factory who supported the trainees under the same project. By shaping networks with private and public sector professionals, ACTED seeks to integrate these women into pre-existing jobs or provide them with the ability to create their own home-based business.
On Tuesday, September 12th, ACTED celebrated the 96 women who graduated from its sewing, catering and IT trainings in addition to protection trainings during a ceremony that took place at the Collège Saint Coeur, in Jbeil.
The graduation ceremony began with Mrs. Dolly El Chami, Jbeil SDC Director, who congratulated the graduates for their hard work and devotion to learning, adding that “the SDC has gained a lot from this collaboration with ACTED. Thanks to all the materials and tools we have acquired, more women will be able to join our SDC and gain rewarding skills and knowledge”. The ceremony was also attended by the Director of Msaitbeh SDC, as well as representatives from the Ministry of Social Affairs (MoSA), the French CDC, ACTED in Lebanon, and local business owners.
ACTED Country Director handing over Honorary Shields to MoSA representatives and SDC Directors to thank them for their efforts an support throughout the project.
The event was notably an opportunity for the 20 women enrolled in the sewing course to showcase their newly acquired skills during a fashion show. As such, each graduate sent their garments down the runway, either modelling their own clothes or walking beside their daughters. Huda, a participant in the sewing trainings, expressed her gratitude for the knowledge she has gained through this programme, saying, “we have learned a lot in the past six months. Between computer skills and sewing techniques, I am now able to make my dream come true and set out on the path to become a fashion designer.”
Following the fashion show, graduates came on stage to receive their diplomas from representatives from ACTED, the CDC and SDCs. In addition, ACTED Lebanon Country Director, Ms. Hart Ford, and ACTED Project Manager Joseph Nassar handed over honorary shields to the Ministry of Social Affairs representatives and the SDC directors to thank them for their efforts and support within the project.
Visit of vulnerable women to honey factory as part of ACTED’s advanced skills training program
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Current Proposals
IPv4 Inter-RIR Resource Transfers (Comprehensive Scope)
Consolidated Policy Manual
PDWG
Policy Archive
Committees/ WG
Election Processes
Staff Assessment
AFPUB-2019-v4-002-DRAFT01
Status: Under Discussion
Obsoletes:
Jordi Palet Martinez
jordi.palet at theipv6company.com
The IPv6 Company
Amends: CPM, amend art. 5.7
1.0 Summary of the problem being addressed by this proposal
This proposal allows establishing the mechanism to allow transfers of IPv4 resources to/from other regions and to align AFRINIC with a market that already exists and in which we are lagging behind, which is negative for the region.
2.0 Summary of how this proposal addresses the problem
In recent years, and with the exhaustion of IPv4, several regions have solved this problem, not only through transfers within the region itself, but between different regions. This allows to facilitate a dynamic in the market and by increasing the offer, reducing prices.
However, an inter-RIR mechanism has not been established in AFRINIC, which is leading the region to a situation of discrimination and scarcity of addresses, not only in the RIR itself, but in the region's market, which avoids even that new businesses can be established in the region, due to the lack of addresses.
On the other hand, the fact that there is no inter-RIR policy does not prevent transfers "under the table" and, therefore, assumes that there are resources from which the history of their registration is lost, which is one of the main functions of AFRINIC.
This proposal considers that such transfers should be allowed for all types of IPv4 resources. In the case of legacy resources, this has the advantage of allowing these resources to emerge and incorporate them into the RIRs system.
Additionally, it is important to highlight that the deployment of IPv6, in some cases, may require small blocks of IPv4 addresses for transition mechanisms, or significantly increase the costs thereof, and many AFRINIC entities could, therefore, be in serious disadvantage if they do not have access to a global market, as it is currently the case.
There is no doubt that accepting this type of transfer also has its risks, and it is possible that an initial price increase will be generated, which would quickly be aligned with the rest of the global market, as is usually the case with equivalent markets.
This proposal would allow bidirectional transfers with APNIC, ARIN, LACNIC and RIPE.
The only difference between this policy proposal and AFPUB-2019-IPv4-001-DRAFT01 is that the latter includes a restriction which only allows inter-RIR transfers of legacy resources. Therefore, if both proposals achieve consensus, regardless of whether they reach consensus at the same or at different times, the text of this proposal would automatically prevail.
3. Proposal
Amend article 5.7 of the CPM, as follows:
5.7 IPv4 Resources transfer within the AFRINIC Region
Like the other Regional Internet Registries, AFRINIC will soon exhaust its IPv4 pool. In order to meet the needs of late resource requestors, a transfer policy for IPv4 resources within the region is needed. The goal of this policy is to define conditions under which transfers must occur.
The policy solves the issue of an African organization needing IPv4 number resources after the exhaustion of the AFRINIC IPv4 pool or when AFRINIC can no longer satisfy the needs of such an organization.
5.7.1 Summary of the policy
This policy applies to an organization with justified need for IPv4 resources that cannot be satisfied by AFRINIC.
5.7.2 IPv4 resources to be transferred - must be from an existing AFRINIC member's account or from a Legacy Resource Holder in the AFRINIC service region.
5.7 IPv4 Resources transfers
This policy applies to an organization with justified need, for IPv4 resources that cannot be satisfied by AFRINIC.
5.7.1 Recognized transfer types
Two types of transfers are recognized:
Intra-RIR. Both parties are within the AFRINIC service region.
Inter-RIR. One of the parties is within the AFRINIC service region, while the other is in another RIR service region.
5.7.3. Conditions on the source of the transfer
5.7.3.1 The source must be the current rightful holder of the IPv4 address resources recognized by AFRINIC, and not be involved in any dispute as to the status of those resources.
5.7.3.2 Source entities will not be eligible to receive any further IPv4 address allocations or assignments from AFRINIC for a period of 12 months after a transfer approval.
5.7.3.3 Source entities must not have received a transfer, allocation, or assignment of IPv4 number resources from AFRINIC for the 12 months prior to the approval of transfer request. This restriction excludes mergers and acquisitions transfers.
5.7.2 Conditions on the source of the transfer
5.7.2.1 The source must be the current rightful holder of the IPv4 address resources in the relevant RIR, and not be involved in any dispute as to the status of those resources.
5.7.4. Conditions on the recipient of the transfer
5.7.4.1 AFRINIC must approve the recipient's need for the IPv4 number resources. In order for an organization to qualify for receiving a transfer, it must first go through the process of justifying its IPv4 resource needs before AFRINIC. That is to say, the organization must justify and demonstrate before AFRINIC its initial/additional allocation/assignment usage, as applicable, according to the policies in force.
5.7.4.2 The recipient must be an AFRINIC member, subject to current AFRINIC policies and must sign the Registration Services Agreement for resources being received.
5.7.3 Conditions on the recipient of the transfer
5.7.3.1 For an organization within the AFRINIC service region, AFRINIC must approve the recipient's need for the IPv4 number resources, following existing relevant policies.
5.7.3.2 For an organization in another RIR service region the relevant criterion will depend on the relevant policies in the destination RIR.
5.7.3.3 The recipient must be a member of the relevant RIR, subjected to its policies and legal documents/service agreements.
5.7.4.3 Transferred IPv4 legacy resources will no longer be regarded as legacy resources.
5.7.3.4 IPv4 legacy resources will no longer be regarded as legacy resources:
In the case of intra-RIR transfers.
In the case of inter-RIR, when incoming to AFRINIC service region.
There are Inter-RIR policies in APNIC, ARIN and RIPE, which have widely demonstrated their effectiveness and have not presented problems to the respective communities, quite the contrary.
LACNIC reached consensus on an equivalent proposal in their last meeting:
LAC-2019-11: https://politicas.lacnic.net/politicas/detail/id/LAC-2019-1?language=en
According to the existing evidence, the ARIN region appears as the origin of the transfer of the largest number of addresses to the other regions that have resource transfer policies.
https://www.nro.net/wp-content/uploads/NRO-Statistics-2018-Q4.pdf
https://www.lacnic.net/innovaportal/file/3277/1/2-john-sweeting-arin.pdf
Proposal AFPUB-2019-v4-001-DRAFT01
Title IPv4 Inter-RIR Resource Transfers (Comprehensive Scope) - v1
Proposal URL https://afrinic.net/policy/proposals/2019-v4-002-d1#proposal
Assessed 20 July 2019
1.0 Staff Understanding of the Proposal
Amends CPM 5.7 that currently provides for Intra-RIR transfers so as to allow for both Intra and Inter-RIR transfers.
Intra-RIR transfers will happen under the following conditions :-
Both parties (source and recipient) are within the AFRINIC service region.
The source shall be the current rightful holder of the resources (Legacy Resource Holder or Resource Member) and not subject to any disputes at the time of the transfer request being submitted/executed
The source entity (Legacy Resource Holder or Resource Member) shall not be eligible to receive IPv4 addresses (allocations or assignments) from AFRINIC for a period of 12 months after a transfer approval.
The recipient organisation will be a Resource Member or apply to be a resource member to receive the resources being transferred. They shall be subject to AFRINIC policies, legal documents and service agreements and will undergo a needs evaluation so that AFRINIC could determine their needs for the resources to be received as part of the transfer, in compliance with existing policies.
If legacy space is transferred, it will lose legacy status after the transfer.
Section 5.7.3.3 present in current policy is now removed from the new policy proposal ("Source entities must not have received a transfer, allocation, or assignment of IPv4 number resources from AFRINIC for the 12 months prior to the approval of transfer request"). This restriction excludes mergers and acquisitions transfers. This means that a Resource member who just received delegated resources from AFRINIC can transfer the resources.
Inter-RIR transfers will happen under the following conditions :-
If the source is in the AFRINIC service region, the recipient shall be in another RIR and likewise.
The source RIR shall have an inter-RIR transfer policy compatible with AFRINIC’s.
All types of IPv4 resources are allowed to be transferred from AFRINIC to receiving RIRs.
The source shall be the current rightful holder of the resources (Legacy Resource Holder or Resource Member holding some legacy resources) and not subject to any disputes at the time of the transfer request being submitted/executed.
Source entities (Legacy Resource Holder or Resource Member) will not be eligible to receive any further IPv4 address allocations or assignments from AFRINIC for a period of 12 months after a transfer approval.
The recipient criteria will depend on the relevant policies in the RIR where it is registered as a member.
The recipient shall be subject to its RIR’s legal documents/ service agreements.
AFRINIC can receive both legacy and non-legacy IPv4 space from other RIRs.
Legacy space once transferred falls under RSA and loses legacy status.
The recipient will be a Resource Member or apply to be a resource member in order to receive resources being transferred. They shall undergo a needs evaluation so that AFRINIC could determine their needs for the resources to be received as part of the transfer, in compliance with existing policies.
2.0 Staff Comments
2.1 Intra-RIR transfers:
The proposal only caters for the transfers of IPv4 space. Some organisations may want to transfer ASNs that hold legacy status at source. Is the author’s intent to restrict transfers to IPv4 only & exclude ASNs from this policy proposal?
Section 5.7.3.3 is now removed from the new policy proposal ("Source entities must not have received a transfer, allocation, or assignment of IPv4 number resources from AFRINIC for the 12 months prior to the approval of transfer request"). This restriction excludes mergers and acquisitions transfers.Removal of this clause will open the way for companies to set up in the AFRINIC service region, get resources and transfer them out of the region - that is, new members will be able to immediately sell/transfer their resources as soon as received - paving way for serious abuse and at the same time conflicts with the soft-landing policy clause that requires a demonstration of need for next 8 months (CPM 5.4.5).
Is it the author's intent to amend the intra-RIR policy by removing this clause?
How will the conflict with CPM 5.4.5 be dealt with?
2.2 Inter-RIR transfers
It is not clear when inter-RIR transfers become effective? When AFRINIC is in Phase 1 or Phase 2 of soft-landing?
Proposed 5.7.2.2 reads "Source entities will not be eligible to receive any further IPv4 address allocations or assignments from AFRINIC for a period of 12 months after a transfer approval". This could imply that the Legacy Resource Holders that transferred resources out of AFRINIC may not be able to become AFRINIC members and request for resources within the 12 months?
3.0 Comments from Legal Counsel
4.0 Implementation:
4.1 Timeline & Impact
Minimum impact to AFRINIC operations are foreseen , should the conflicting policy clauses be addressed.
The policy can be implemented within 6 months from last call .
4.2 Implementation Requirements
Amendment of intra-RIR rules will require AFRINIC to rework the automated transfer tool
Collaboration with the other RIRs to implement inter-RIR transfers and automate related services (such as rDNS).
Version 1: AFPUB-2019-v4-002-DRAFT01
Initial Draft Posted to rpd
Last Modified on - 28 August 2019
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Peter B. Moyle
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Moyle, P. B., Hobbs J., & Durand J. R. (2018). Delta Smelt and the Politics of Water in California. Fisheries. 43,
Baumsteiger, J., O'Rear T., Cook J., Manfree A., & Moyle P. B. (2018). Factors affecting distribution and abundance of jellyfish medusae in a temperate estuary: a multi-decadal study. Biological Invasions.
Howard, J. K., Fesenmyer K., Grantham T. E., Viers J. H., Ode P., Moyle P. B., et al. (2018). A Freshwater Conservation Blueprint for California: Prioritizing Watersheds for Freshwater Biodiversity. Freshwater Science. 37(2),
Herbold, B. (2018). Managing for salmon resilience in California’s variable and changing climate. (Carlson, SM., Henery R., Johnson RC., Mantua N., Moyle P. B., & Sommer T., Ed.).San Francisco Estuary and Watershed Sciences. 16(2),
SFEWS_Herbold_0818_final.pdf (6.85 MB)
Lusardi, R. A., Jeffres C. A., & Moyle P. B. (2018). Stream macrophytes increase invertebrate production and fish habitat utilization in a California stream. River Research and Applications.
Lusardietal2018.pdf (548.37 KB)
Baumsteiger, J., & Moyle P. B. (2017). Assessing Extinction. Bioscience. 67,
Kopf, R.K., Nimmo D.G., Humphries P., Baumsteiger J., Bode M., Bond N.R., et al. (2017). Confronting the risks of large-scale invasive species control. Nature Ecology & Evolution. 1,
Adams, L., Lund J. R., Moyle P. B., Quiñones R. M., Herman J., & O'Rear T. (2017). Environmental hedging: Theory and method for reconciling reservoir operations for downstream ecology and water supply. Water Resources Research.
Hobbs, J. A., Moyle P. B., Fangue N., & Connon R.E. (2017). Is extinction inevitable for Delta Smelt and Longfin Smelt? An opinion and recommendations for recovery.. San Francisco Estuary and Watershed Science . 15(2),
Katz, J., Jeffres C., Conrad L., Sommer T., Martinex J., Brumbaugh S., et al. (2017). Floodplain farm fields provide novel rearing habitat for Chinook salmon. PLoS ONE. 12(6),
Opperman, J.J., Moyle P. B., Larsen E.W., Florsheim J.L., & Manfree A. D. (2017). Floodplains: Processes and Management for Ecosystem Services. 258.
Baumsteiger, J., Moyle P. B., S.A. A., O'Rourke S. M., & Miller M. R. (2017). Genomics Clarifies Taxonomic Boundaries in a Difficult Species Complex.. PLoS ONE. 12(12),
Young, M., Berridge K., O'Rear T., Moyle P. B., & Durand J. R. (2017). Habitat partitioning by native and non-native fishes and decapods in novel habitats of the upper San Francisco Estuary. Biological Invasions.
Baumsteiger, J., Schroeter R., O'Rear T., Cook J., & Moyle P. B. (2017). Long-term surveys show invasive overbite clams (Potamocorbula amurensis) are spatially limited in Suisun Marsh. San Francisco Estuary and Watershed Science. 15(1),
Mount, JF., Gray B., Chappelle C., Gartrell G., Grantham T. E., Moyle P. B., et al. (2017). Managing California's Freshwater Ecosystems: Lessons from the 2012-16 Drought.. Public Policy Institute of California.
Moyle, P. B., Lusardi R. A., Samuel P., & Katz J. V. E. (2017). State of the Salmonids: Status of California's Emblematic Fishes 2017.
State of the Salmonids 2017 (8.35 MB)
O'Rear, T., & Moyle P. B. (2017). Suisun Marsh Fish Study: trends in fish and invertebrate populations of Suisun Marsh January 2015 - December 2015.
Suisun Marsh Fish Report 2015 Final - A.pdf (1.44 MB) Suisun Marsh Fish Report 2015 Final - B.pdf (789.71 KB)
Lusardi, R. A., & Moyle P. B. (2017). Two-Way Trap and Haul as a Conservation Strategy for Anadromous Salmonids. Fisheries. 42(9),
LusardiandMoyle2017.pdf (830.56 KB)
Cloern, J.E., Kay J., Kimmerer W., Mount JF., Moyle P. B., & Mueller-Solger A. (2017). Water wasted to the sea? . San Francisco Estuary and Watershed Science. 15(2),
Moyle, P. B., Brown L. R., Durand J. R., & Hobbs J. A. (2016). Delta Smelt: Life History and Decline of a Once Abundant Species in the San Francisco Estuary. San Francisco Estuary and Watershed Science.
Lusardi, R. A., Bogan MT., Moyle P. B., & Dahlgren RA. (2016). Environment shapes invertebrate assemblage structure differences between volcanic spring-fed and runoff rivers in northern California. Freshwater Science. 35(3),
Young, M., Perales M., Durand J. R., & Moyle P. B. (2016). Fish distribution in the cache slough complex of the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta during a drought. IEP Newsletter.
Grantham, T. E., Fesenmyer K., Peek R. A., Holmes E., Quiñones R. M., Bell A., et al. (2016). Missing the Boat on Freshwater Fish Conservation in California.
Missing the Boat on Freshwater Fish Conservation in California (1.35 MB)
Durand, J. R., Fleenor W. E., McElreath R., Santos M., & Moyle P. B. (2016). Physical controls on the distribution of the submersed aquatic weed Egeria densa in the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta and implcations for habitat.. San Francisco Estuary and Watershed Science. 14(1),
Duffy, W. G., Garone P., Grewell B. J., Kahara S., Fleskes J., Helm B., et al. (2016). Wetlands. Ecosystems of California. p 669-692,
Montgomery, J., Durand J. R., & Moyle P. B. (2016). Zooplankton biomass and chlorophyll-a trends in the North Delta Arc: two consecutive drought years. 28(3),
Chornesky, E. A., Ackerly D. D., Beier P., Davis F. W., Flint L. E., Lawler J. J., et al. (2015). Adapting California's Ecosystems to a Changing Climate. BioScience. 65(3), 247–262.
Schroeter, RE., O'Rear T., Young M., & Moyle P. B. (2015). The aquatic trophic ecology of Suisun Marsh, San Francisco Estuary, California, during autumn in a wet year. San Francisco Estuary and Watershed Science. 13(3),
Light, T., Moyle P. B., & J Clode C. (2015). Assembly rules and novel assemblages in aquatic ecosystems. Biological Invasions in Changing Ecosystems Vectors, Ecological Impacts, Management and Predictions.
Quiñones, R. M., & Moyle P. B. (2015). California’s freshwater fishes: status and management. FISHMED Fishes in Mediterranean Environments. 20p.
Complete study (1.46 MB)
Quiñones, R. M., Grantham T. E., Harvey B. N., Kiernan J. D., Klasson M., Wintzer A. P., et al. (2015). Dam removal and anadromous salmonid (Oncorhynchus spp.) conservation in California. Reviews in Fish Biology and Fisheries. 25(1), 195-215.
O’Rear, T., & Moyle P. B. (2015). Diets of two alien predators - adult striped bass and white catfish - in Suisun Marsh.
ORear CA NV AFS Presentation Striped Bass White Catfish Diets2015.pdf (2.89 MB)
Perales, M., Rowan J., & Moyle P. B. (2015). Evidence of Landlocked Chinook Salmon Populations in California. North American Journal of Fisheries Management. 35(6),
Perales_Salmon.pdf (498.87 KB)
Moyle, P. B., Quiñones R. M., Katz J. V. E., & Weaver J. (2015). Fish Species of Special Concern in California. Sacramento: California Department of Fish and Wildlife. https://www.wildlife.ca.gov/Conservation/Fishes/Special-Concern,
Williamson, B. O., O'Rear T., De Carion D., Durand J. R., & Moyle P. B. (2015). Fishes of the Nurse-Denverton Complex: managed wetlands and tidal waterways in Suisun Marsh. IEP Newsletter.
Howard, J., Klausmeyer K., Furnish J., Gardali T., Grantham T. E., Katz J., et al. (2015). Patterns of Freshwater Species Richness, Endemism, and Vulnerability in California. PLoS ONE. 10(7),
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Durand, J. R., & Moyle P. B. (2015). San Francisco Estuary: Time for a Reconciliation Approach to Species Conservation.
Suisun Marsh Fish Report 2014 Final.pdf (1.97 MB)
Suisun Marsh Fish Report 2013 Final No Appendix.pdf (1.67 MB) Suisun Marsh Fish Report 2013 Appendix.pdf (68.56 KB)
Hanak, E., Mount JF., Chappelle C., Frank R. M., Lund J. R., Moyle P. B., et al. (2015). Ten ways U.S. agencies and Congress can help ease the drought in California and other western states. California WaterBlog.
FedDrought.pdf (303.06 KB)
Lusardi, R. A., Stephens M. R., Moyle P. B., McGuire C. L., & Hull J. M. (2015). Threat evolution: negative feedbacks between management actions and species recovery in threatened trout (Salmonidae). Reviews in Fish Biology and Fisheries. 25(3), 521-535.
Hanak, E., Mount JF., Chappelle C., Lund J. R., Medellín-Azuara J., Moyle P. B., et al. (2015). What If California's Drought Continues?. 20pp.
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O'Rear, T., & Moyle P. B. (2015). White catfish and adult striped bass diets in Suisun Marsh.
ORear CA NV AFS Presentation Striped Bass White Catfish Diets 2015 Final.pdf (1.94 MB)
Grantham, T. E., & Moyle P. B. (2014). Assessing flows for fish below dams: A systematic approach to evaluate compliance with California Fish and Game Code 5937. Center for Watershed Sciences Technical Reports. 1-136.
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Quiñones, R. M., & Moyle P. B. (2014). Climate change vulnerability of freshwater fishes in the San Francisco Bay Area. San Francisco Estuary and Watershed Science. 12(3),
Quinones and Moyle 2014 cc in SFBA.pdf (324.79 KB)
Quiñones, R. M., Grantham T. E., Harvey B. N., Kiernan J. D., Klasson M., Wintzer A. P., et al. (2014). Dam removal and anadromous salmonid (Oncorhynchus spp.) conservation in California.
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Quiñones, R. M., Grantham T. E., Harvey B. N., Kiernan J. D., Klasson M., Wintzer A. P., et al. (2014). Dam removal and anadromous salmonid (Oncorhynchus spp.) conservation in California. Reviews in Fish Biology and Fisheries.
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O'Rear, T., & Moyle P. B. (2014). Fishes and aquatic macroinvertebrates. Suisun Marsh - ecological history and possible futures.
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Bunn, D. A., Moyle P. B., & Johnson C. K. (2014). Maximizing the ecological contribution of conservation banks. Wildlife Society Bulletin. 38(2), 377–385.
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This document reflects the general terms and conditions applicable on the Platform Services provided by SNV to Users.
Users are provided access to the SNV Platform provided that Users act in accordance with the terms and conditions imposed by SNV. The Platform Services allows Users to purchase Webcam Entertainment Services from the Performers registered on the platform.
If You are a visitor or a User / buyer (hereinafter referred to as User) of the Entertainment Webcam Services offered by the Performer on this Platform as exploited by (hereinafter: referred to as SNV), you must consult these General User Conditions Platform.These General User Conditions Platform describe the terms and rules applicable when the User visits this Platform and when he purchases Entertainment Webcam Services from the Performers registered on the Platform.
The General User Conditions Platform constitute all the rules of use of the Platform and govern the relationship between on the one hand you as a User of SNV's Platform and/or customer of Entertainment Webcam Services offered by the Performers on the Platform of SNV, and on the other hand SNV, as a technical Platform. These General User Conditions Platform do not apply to the Entertainment Webcam Services offered by the Performers to Users. SNV does not participate in the offer, sale and delivery of Entertainment Webcam Services offered by the Performer. If you purchase Entertainment Webcam Services from a Performer, an agreement will come in place between you and the Performer, SNV will not be part to this agreement.Before you enter the Platform, you must read carefully and accept these General User Conditions Platform in whole, including the documents and other regulations that are part of it for reference. If you do not wish to accept these General User Conditions Platform or if you do not understand the language used, please leave the Platform.
1.1. These General User Conditions Platform supersede all prior conditions applicable between SNV and the User with respect to the SNV Platform.
1.2. By effectively using SNV's technical Platform, you are deemed to have accepted these General User Conditions Platform.
1.3. If you have any questions regarding these General User Conditions Platform you can consult the FAQ section (frequently asked questions) or contact SNV via the contact form that you will find on the Platform.
1.4. SNV reserves the right to modify these General User Conditions Platform. SNV will inform the User by placing the new modified General User Conditions Platform on the SNV Platform. In case of explicit request by the duly registered User, SNV will transmit the modified General User Conditions Platform by email or any other means. The changes take effect 14 days after publication or on the date specified in the notification. If the User does not accept the modifications, the relationship between you as a User of SNV's technical Platform and SNV will end, by the effect of the law.
2.1. (hereinafter: ACW BV): refers to registered with the Chamber of Commerce under number 52306054 with its offices in The Hague.
2.2. Direct Payment: the payment by the User to Performer for the Entertainment Webcam Services other than via the E-Wallet.
2.3. Entertainment Webcam Service: service offered and sold by the Performer on this Platform to the User which service is rendered via the webcam.
2.4. E-Wallet (prepaid virtual credit): prepaid virtual credit on the name of the User serving to make discharge payments to the Performers who offer and sell their Entertainment Webcam Services on the SNV Platform. The E-Wallet is not an account but a virtual credit which cannot be refunded to the User.
2.5. Financial Transaction: the transaction by which the User feeds his virtual credit.
2.6. General Conditions E-Wallet: general conditions applicable to the relationship between you as a User of the E-Wallet m and ACW BV.
2.7. General User Conditions Platform: general conditions applicable to the relationship between you as a User of the SNV Platform and SNV.
2.8. Login data: data giving access to the User account.
2.9. Payment Service: allowing Users to exchange money for virtual credits in their E-Wallet which credits the User can only spend for purchasing Entertainment Webcam Services from the Performers on the Platform. A payment from the User results in a discharge payment in respect of that which the User owes to the Performer.
2.10. Performer: the natural person who offers and sells Entertainment Webcam Services to the User via the Platform provided by SNV.
2.11. The Performer account: the personal registration of the Performer on the SNV Platform which contains the Performer's information and his account.
2.12. Performer Name: the name under which the Performer is listed on the SNV Platform.
2.13. Performer Profile: the complete description of the Performer made by the Performer on his personal page.
2.14. Policy Rules: documents prepared by the AC Group and published on the SNV Platform containing mandatory or non-mandatory rules which apply to use of the SNV Platform including but not limited to Privacy/ GDPR rules, Code of Conduct, KYC rules and AML rules.
2.15. SNV refers to a company registered in the commercial registry under number 122760, having its offices at the address mentioned below, ECommerce Park Vredenberg, Unit 23. Willemstad, Curacao and related companies and partners of SNV with the exception of the related company ACW BV.
2.16. SNV Platform: the technical Platform of SNV to which a number of websites are linked.
2.17. Start date: the date on which the User accepts the General User Conditions E-Wallet.
2.18. User: the natural person who purchases Entertainment Webcam Services from the Performer.
2.19. User Account: the personal registration of the User on the SNV Platform.
2.20. User Name: the name under which the User is registered on the SNV Platform but also the name which, combined with the personal password, allows access to the User Account.
2.21. User Information: all the information that you place yourself as a User on the SNV Platform or on your User Account, including registration data, feedback and all other messages.
3. User Requirements
3.1. The User must be a person with legal capacity or at least the age of majority in his country of residence and the power to enter into binding contracts.
3.2. The User must not be less than 18 years old and must have reached at least the legal age of use of the Platform.
3.3. The User Account is not transferable, in any form whatsoever.
4.1. To be able to register, the User must choose a User name and a password.
4.2. The User is personally responsible for the use he makes of his username and password.
4.3. The User must take all necessary steps to protect his password.
4.4. The General User Conditions Platform take effect on the date on which the User has registered and has accepted the General User Conditions Platform (effective date).
4.5. Registration as a User is completely free of charges.
5. SNV is only a technical Platform
5.1. SNV acts as a technical Platform allowing the Performer to anonymously provide the Entertainment Webcam Services to the User and the User to anonymously purchase the Entertainment Webcam Services from the Performer. 5.2. SNV does not control the Entertainment Webcam Services offered by the Performer and SNV does not intervene in the Entertainment Webcam Services offered by the Performer.
5.3. SNV only acts as a host. SNV hosts content and information that is placed by the Performer in his account, the Entertainment Webcam Services offered by the Performer and information placed by the User (User Information) in his Account on the Platform.
5.4. SNV does not in any way verify the quality, safety or legality of the Entertainment Webcam Services offered, the Performer's competence to offer Entertainment Webcam Services and the User's ability to purchase Entertainment Webcam Services. SNV therefore does not guarantee the quality, safety or legality of the Entertainment Webcam Services offered, the Performer's competence to offer Entertainment Webcam Services and the User's ability to purchase Entertainment Webcam Services. SNV does not guarantee that the Performer will actually provide the Entertainment Webcam Services offered.
5.5. The User may obtain from the Performer paid Entertainment Webcam Services and also free Entertainment Webcam Services. The User and the Performer will mutually agree upon this.
5.6. The payment by the User to the Performer will be made by any means they have mutually agreed upon. In this respect ACW BV, which is a related company of SNV, offers the possibility for the User to make discharge payments to the Performers by making use of a so-called E-Wallet. The relationship between ACW BV and the User is governed by the General Conditions E-Wallet.
5.7. Under no circumstances is SNV a party to the offer, sale and / or delivery of Entertainment Webcam Services offered by the Performer. Using the E-Wallet offered by ACW BV to the User to pay for the Performer does not change the above.
6. Absence of representation
6.1. SNV on the one hand, and the User on the other, are independent parties. Each of them acts in his own name and on his own behalf.
6.2. These General User Conditions Platform are not intended to establish / create an agency, agency agreement, corporation, joint venture or any other form of cooperation or to establish an employer or franchisor relationship. The above cannot be the subject of the General User Conditions Platform.
7. Entertainment Webcam Services
7.1. The price of the Entertainment Webcam Services offered by the Performer is determined by the Performer himself. The price of the Entertainment Webcam Services offered is mentioned on the personal page of the Performer.
7.2. Entertainment Webcam Services and transactions are not approved and / or validated by SNV.
7.3. The User must ensure for himself that he has the ability to purchase the Entertainment Webcam Service offered by the Performer under the applicable law in his country of origin or in his country of residence.
7.4. It cannot be guaranteed that the Entertainment Webcam Services offered will be harmless for the User, for third parties and/or for their property.
8. Information and actions of the User
8.1. The User is solely responsible for the information he publishes on the SNV Platform.
8.2. Said information as well as all the acts of the User cannot:
a. be inaccurate, incorrect or misleading;
b. be insulting, threatening, damaging, slanderous;
c. infringe copyright, privacy rights or other rights;
d. violate the law and/or any other regulation;
e. contravene public order and / or morality;
f. be obscene, indecent or contain child pornography;
g. incur the liability of SNV and/or cause (in whole or in part) that SNV cannot exploit the Platform;
h. cause SNV's Platform to be broken, damaged or less efficiently operated, or have the effect that the SNV Platform is affected in such a way that its effectiveness or functionality is affected in any way.
9. Privacy and personal data.
9.1. SNV acts as a technical Platform allowing the Performer to anonymously provide Entertainment Webcam Services and the User to anonymously purchase Entertainment Webcam Services. As a result, it is recommended not to publish personal information (e.g. name, address, telephone number, email address, social network account).
9.2. Information about SNV's data protection is mentioned in the Privacy Statement of Users. In particular, it explains how SNV processes the User's personal data and how the User's privacy is respected when purchasing the Entertainment Webcam Services.
9.3. The User is personally responsible for the confidentiality of the corresponding identifiers to his User account and must himself take all reasonable measures to maintain the confidentiality of this information.9.4. SNV will inform the User in the event that his User Account is suspended. SNV will reenable User Account credentials as soon as possible and after the causes of the suspension have been resolved.
10. Fraud/AML/ abuse
10.1. SNV will, in the event of suspected fraud, prohibited transactions or money laundering, carry out an identity check. Failure by the User to cooperate with an identity check may result in the immediate suspension or termination of the relationship between the User and SNV.
10.2. In the event of suspected fraud, prohibited transactions or money laundering, or not complying with the General User Conditions Platform, the User is responsible for all losses suffered by SNV as a result of / or in connection with these actions.
11.1. In case there will be any payment obligation from the User towards SNV under these General User Conditions Platform, in addition to all other legal rights and remedies available towards the User by SNV, the amount at that moment remaining in the E-Wallet offered by ACW BV for the payment of the Performers, will serve as (partial) payment of such obligation.
11.2. SNV cannot be held responsible towards the User or a third party for any loss incurred by the User due to imposed transaction limits or other recoveries.
12. Litigation
12.1. The User accepts and acknowledges that SNV is not a party and therefore SNV cannot be held responsible for any dispute between the User and the Performer.
12.2. Claims or disputes arising from these General User Conditions Platform must first be reported to SNV online support.
13. Warranties
13.1. The User guarantees that he is over 18 years old. The User also guarantees to have reached at least the legal age of use of the Platform.
13.2. The User guarantees that he will comply with all laws, regulations and regulations applicable to the purchase of Entertainment Webcam Services by the Performers registered on the SNV Platform.
13.3. The User will not (attempt to) initiate, or take advantage of, fraud, prohibited transactions or money laundering, the violation of these General User Conditions Platform or a violation of the law or be in violation of applicable laws and regulations.
13.4. The User is obliged to pay the taxes, fees and commissions that may arise from the use of the SNV Platform.
14. Exclusion of guarantees
14.1. SNV does not warrant that the access to the Platform, the operation of the servers and the Entertainment Webcam Services of the Performer will be permanent, uninterrupted, fast / punctual, secure or infallible.
14.2. To the fullest extent permitted by law, SNV excludes all warranties, conditions or other terms, legal or implicit, quality or speed / punctuality in relation to the use of the Platform by the User.
14.3. SNV does not warrant that the use of the Platform offered by SNV will always meet all User requirements or will be permanent, secure, virus free and infallible.
15. Violation of the General User Conditions Platform
15.1. Without prejudice to the other means available to SNV, SNV has the right to immediately send the User a warning, to temporarily suspend or for an indefinite period the User's Account, to close the User's Account, to refuse to the User access to the use of the Platform when:
a. the User does not respect the General User Conditions Platform or the documents by integral part by reference; or
b. when it proves impossible for SNV to check the accuracy of the information provided by the User; or
c. SNV is of the opinion that the User is guilty of fraudulent activity, fraud, prohibited transactions or money laundering or is involved in, or in any way connected with, such activities; or
d. SNV believes that the User, by its actions, causes or may cause damage to SNV.
16. Limitation of liability of SNV.
16.1. Entertainment Webcam Services offered and purchased on SNV's Platforms are not endorsed by SNV. The User is solely responsible for the legality of his actions. SNV declines any responsibility with regard to any dangerousness or defectiveness of the Entertainment Webcam Services offered on SNV's Platform that may be harmful to physical or mental health.
16.2. In no event shall SNV be liable for any direct or indirect (consequential) damages, including:
* any loss or falsification of data;
* any loss of profit (suffered directly or indirectly);
* any loss as a result of cybercrime;
* any loss of turnover;
* any loss of reputation;
* any loss of opportunity;
* any indirect, incidental, or other damages, regardless of whether the loss or damage is attributable to any changes made by SNV to the SNV Platform or due to temporary or permanent interruption of the SNV Platform, and regardless of whether it is due to negligence or any other cause attributable to SNV.
16.3. SNV's liability to the User whatever the circumstances is limited, in any event, to the aggregate of the amounts that the User has paid to the Performer(s) as a fee for the Entertainment Webcam Services in the six months preceding the legal act giving rise to the responsibility, the whole with a maximum of 150 €.
17.1. The User agrees to indemnify and hold SNV harmless against any claim or claim whatsoever including reasonable attorney's fees from any third party that is attributable to or arising from the breach of this contract of use or documents by integral part by reference, a violation of the law or the regulation or an infringement of the rights of a third party by the User.
17.2. When the User has a right or a claim on the Performer or is in dispute with the latter following the use of the SNV Platform, the User has no right of recourse against SNV and the User guarantees SNV against any claim, seeking liability, damages, losses, costs and compensation, including legal costs, known or unknown, in connection with such a claim or such litigation.
18. Announcements and notifications
18.1. Statements, notices and other announcements to the User may be made by post, email, publications on the SNV Platform or by any other reasonable means.
18.2. All notifications to the User will be sent to the email address that he has indicated to SNV during the registration process.
19. Policy rules
19.1. SNV reserves the right to introduce policy rules to supplement or amend the conditions and / or to clarify the applicable provisions. The policy rules are an integral part of these General User Conditions Platform.
19.2. SNV can modify the policy rules. Important changes will be published on the SNV Platform.
19.3. Once these modifications have been published, the User may, within 14 days, inform SNV that he refuses to accept these changes. In that case the relationship between SNV and the User will end.
19.4. The policy rules to which it is referred, and which form part of these General User Conditions Platform are: SNV's privacy policy, GDPR policy as included in the cookie policy and the Users Code of Conduct.
20. Termination of the relationship with SNV
20.1. The General User Conditions Platform apply until the relationship between SNV and the User is terminated as described below.
20.2. If the User wishes to terminate the relationship with SNV, he can do so immediately and free of charge by closing his User account.
20.3. SNV may terminate the relationship with the User at any time without notice when:a. the User has violated an essential provision of the General User Conditions Platform or clearly shows, by the way he acts, that he does not intend or is unable to comply with the essential provisions of the General User Conditions Platform; orb. SNV is obligated by law.
20.4. The termination of the relationship between SNV and the User does not affect the rights, obligations and responsibilities arising from the law which governed the relationship between the User and SNV.
21.1. The law of Curaçao is applicable to the relationship between SNV and the User. Any dispute that may arise between the User and SNV, resulting from these General User Conditions Platform or any other agreement or any other action in connection with these General User Conditions Platform will be settled by the Court of Willemstad, Curaçao, except to the extent that binding rules of jurisdiction shall apply.
21.2. In the event of contradiction, whatever it may be, between the English version and a version in another language of the present contract of use, the English version prevails.
21.3. The court in Willemstad, Curaçao has exclusive jurisdiction in case of litigation.
22. Other
22.1. The User acknowledges that the rights and obligations arising from these General User Conditions Platform and all other documents that apply by reference, may be freely and automatically transferred by SNV in the event of a merger, demerger or redemption or any other form of restructuring.
22.2. The titles of the different sections of these General User Conditions Platform are purely indicative and do not necessarily indicate precisely the content of the articles to which they refer.
22.3. If SNV fails to act as a result of not complying by the User or by third parties of these General User Conditions Platform, SNV does not automatically waive the right to act in the face of subsequent or similar violations.
22.4. If SNV does not exercise or enforce a legal right or remedy set forth in these General User Conditions Platform (or to which SNV is entitled in accordance with applicable law), that choice shall not be considered to constitute a waiver of a right on the part of SNV. Nor can that choice be regarded as a waiver of a right to act in relation to subsequent or similar violations. SNV can and still has the right to exercise its rights or to implement the remedies.
22.5. The provisions of the articles bearing the titles: "8. Information and actions of the User", "13. Warranties", "16. Limitations of responsibility of SNV", "18. Announcements and notifications", "21. Governing law" and "22. Other" and other provisions and charges thereunder continue to apply after the termination of the relationship between SNV and the User.
22.6. These General User Conditions Platform together with the documents that form part thereof by reference and the policy rules followed govern the entire relationship between the User and SNV.
For buying the services from the Performers who are registered on the platform of (the Platform) (the Entertainment Webcam Services), the Users need to open an Users Account on the Platform and in this respect they need to comply with this Code of Conduct.
In addition to the Code of Conduct (also referred to as: “Code”), Users are required to comply with the Users Conditions.
Nothing in this Code of Conduct shall be deemed to amend, limit or otherwise impact any other obligations the User may have to (whether such obligation is written or otherwise) will discontinue the relationship with any User who violates the Code or the law.
The Code is comprised of 3 sections. Section A outlines standards for buying the Entertainment Webcam Services from the Performers registered on the Platform. Section B adds standards relating to business ethics and Section C contains additional provisions.
A. BUYING ENTERTAINMENT WEBCAM SERVICES FROM THE PERFORMERS REGISTERED ON THE PLATFORM
In buying the services from the Performers registered on the Platform, the Users are committed to uphold the human rights as understood by the international community and proclaimed under the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the International Labour Organization's core conventions.
1. Free Choice
When buying the Entertainment Webcam Services from the Performers registered on the Platform, the Users will comply with the rule that all Performers have to provide the Entertainment Webcam Services via the Platform voluntarily.
2. Child Labour Avoidance
When buying the Entertainment Webcam Services from the Performers registered on the Platform, the Users will comply with the rule that child labour shall not be used under any circumstances. The term "child" refers to any person under the age of 18 or 21 according to the applicable local laws.
3. Non-Discrimination
In buying the Entertainment Webcam Services from the Performers registered on the Platform, the Users must maintain an attitude free of harassment and unlawful discrimination.
B. ETHICS
requires the highest standards of integrity in all interactions between and the Users and in all business interactions between the Users and the Performers registered on the Platform.
1. Business Integrity
In buying the Entertainment Webcam Services from the Performers registered on the Platform any and all forms of corruption, extortion and embezzlement are strictly prohibited.
2. No Improper Advantage
Users are prohibited to use their User Account as an item of value in providing, promising to provide, or offering to provide any item of value, directly or indirectly, to any government or public international organization officials, political parties.
3. Disclosure of Information
Users should not disclose information regarding business activities, structure, financial situation and performance, relating to any other party. Users shall act in accordance with applicable regulations and prevailing industry practices in this area.
4. Intellectual Property, Confidentiality, and Data Privacy
Users are prohibited from using any or third party patented technology, copyrighted materials, or other intellectual property or confidential information without written permission. Users are further prohibited from transferring, publishing, disclosing, or using 's confidential information other than as necessary in the ordinary course of business or as authorized by.
5. Data Privacy Laws and Regulations
Users are required to abide by applicable data privacy laws and regulations.
6. Fair Business
In buying the Entertainment Webcam Services from the Performers registered on the Platform, Users shall maintain all standards of fair business.
C. ADDITIONAL PROVISIONS
1. Conflicts of Interest
Users must be free to act with total objectivity in their relationship with , and thus, must avoid conflicts of interest.
2. Regulatory Officials
Users have to be honest in discussions with regulatory agency representatives and government officials and cooperate with representatives in any internal or external investigations or audits of Users' relationship involving or related to.
Users shall inform the support if any situation develops that causes the User to act in violation of this Code.
Users are encouraged to promptly contact and to work together in resolving the compliance concern.
GENERAL USER CONDITIONS E-WALLET (10-01-2020)
This document reflects the general terms and conditions applicable on the Payment Services provided by ACW to Users.
ACW B.V. provides Payment Services to Users by allowing the Users to exchange money for virtual credits in their E-wallet. Users may only spend these credits for purchasing Entertainment Webcam Services from the Performers on the SNV Platform.
If You are a User of the E-Wallet (hereinafter referred to as User) offered by (hereinafter: ACW BV) serving to make discharge payments to the Performers who offer and sell their Entertainment Webcam Services on the Platform as exploited by (hereinafter: referred to as SNV Platform and SNV respectively), you must consult these General User Conditions E-Wallet for the use of the E-Wallet (hereinafter: General User Conditions E-Wallet).
These General User Conditions E-Wallet describe the terms and rules applicable when the User uses the E-Wallet as registered and stored by ACW BV to make discharge payments to the Performers for the purchase of the Entertainment Webcam Services offered and sold to him by the Performers registered on the Platform. A User can only apply for the use of the E-Wallet after he has opened a User Account on the SNV Platform.
The General User Conditions E-Wallet constitute all the rules of use of the E-Wallet and govern the relationship between you as a User of the E-Wallet on the one hand and ACW BV as the provider of the E-Wallet on the other hand. These General User Conditions E-Wallet do not apply to the Entertainment Webcam Services sold by the Performers to Users for which the E-Wallet is used as a payment method. ACW BV does not participate in the offer, sale and delivery of Entertainment Webcam Services offered by the Performer. If you purchase Entertainment Webcam Services from a Performer, an agreement will come in place between you and the Performer, ACW BV will not be part to this agreement.
1.1. These General User Conditions E-Wallet supersede all prior conditions applicable between SNV and the User with respect to the E-Wallet.
1.2. By effectively using the E-Wallet, you are deemed to have accepted these General User Conditions E-Wallet.
1.3. If you have any questions regarding these General User Conditions E-Wallet you can consult the FAQ section (frequently asked questions) or contact ACW BV via the contact form that you will find on the SNV Platform.
1.4. ACW BV reserves the right to modify these General User Conditions E-Wallet. ACW BV will inform the User by placing the new modified General User Conditions E-Wallet on the SNV Platform. In case of explicit request by the duly registered User, ACW BV will transmit the modified General User Conditions E-Wallet by email or any other means. The changes take effect 14 days after publication or on the date specified in the notification. If the User does not accept the modifications, the relationship between you as a User of the E-Wallet and ACW BV will end, by the effect of the law.
1.5. The General User Conditions E-Wallet take effect on the date on which the User has registered and has accepted the General User Conditions E-Wallet (effective date).
2.1. ACW BV: refers to registered with the Chamber of Commerce under number 52306054 with its offices in The Hague.
2.16. (SNV) Platform: the technical Platform of SNV to which a number of websites are linked.
3.1. The User must be a person with legal capacity and the power to enter into binding contracts.
3.2. The User must not be less than 18 years old or at least the age of majority in his country of residence and must have reached at least the legal age of use of the Platform.
3.3. The E-Wallet is not transferable, in any form whatsoever.
4. E-Wallet
4.1. The E-Wallet is a virtual asset registered with ACW BV to the credit of the User upon placing of funds by the User, and serves to allow the User to make discharge payments to the Performers for Entertainment Webcam Services purchased from the Performers.
4.2. The User can only apply for registration of the E-Wallet with ACW BV with his User Account on the SNV Platform.
4.3. ACW BV provides Payments Services to Users by allowing the Users to exchange money for virtual credits in their E-Wallet which credits the User can only spend for purchasing Entertainment Webcam Services from the Performers on the SNV Platform. A payment from the User by means of the E-Wallet results in a discharge payment in respect of that which the User owes to the Performer for the purchase of the Entertainment Webcam Services from the Performer.
4.4. The User acknowledges that, in the event of purchase of a Performer Service, the amount due to the Performer will be deducted directly and automatically from his virtual credit in order to make a discharge payment to the Performer.
4.5. The E-Wallet is not an account but a virtual asset.
4.6. ACW BV sets daily loading limits for the E-Wallet to comply with the AML rules.
4.7. In any case, the E-Wallet cannot be considered as a deposit.
4.8. In no case does ACW BV pay interest on the balance of the E-Wallet.
4.9. ACW BV does not charge any fees to the User for the use of the E-Wallet.
4.10. The E-Wallet and/or the funds placed is not refundable.
4.11. The User agrees that he will not give access (or attempt to give access) to the E-Wallet to third parties.
4.12. The User may not undertake any activity that could hinder or interfere with the operation of the E-Wallet (or the servers and networks to which the E-Wallet is connected).
4.13. The User is prohibited from reproducing, duplicating, copying, selling, exchanging the E-Wallet.
4.14. Use of the E-Wallet by the User is completely free of charges.
4.15. Payment via the E-Wallet guarantees the anonymity of the User and the Performer. Only the name chosen by the User and the Performer on the Platform will be visible.
4.16. Under no circumstances is ACW BV a party to the offer, sale and / or delivery of Entertainment Webcam Services offered by the Performer. Using the E-Wallet to pay for the Performer does not change the above.
5. Direct payment
5.1. The Performer may be paid by the User for his Entertainment Webcam Services other than via the E-Wallet. The payment by the User to the Performer will then be made by any means they have mutually agreed upon.
6. Absence of representation.
6.1. ACW BV on the one hand, and the User on the other, are independent parties. Each of them acts in his own name and on his own behalf.
6.2. These General User Conditions E-Wallet are not intended to establish / create an agency, agency agreement, corporation, joint venture or any other form of cooperation or to establish an employer or franchisor relationship. The above cannot be the subject of the General User Conditions E-Wallet.
7. Information of the User
7.1. The User is solely responsible for the information he provides in order to make use of the E-Wallet.
7.2. Said information of the User cannot:
b. violate the law and/or any other regulation;
c. incur the liability of ACW BV and/or cause (in whole or in part) that ACW BV cannot operate the E-Wallet;
d. cause the E-Wallet to be broken, damaged or less efficiently operated, or have the effect that the E-Wallet is affected in such a way that its effectiveness or functionality is affected in any way.
8. Privacy and personal data
8.1. ACW BV operates an E-Wallet allowing the User to anonymously pay for the Entertainment Webcam Services purchased from Performer. As a result, it is recommended not to publish personal information (e.g. name, address, telephone number, email address, social network account).
8.2. Information about ACW BV's data protection is mentioned in the Privacy Statement of Users. In particular, it explains how ACW BV processes the User's personal data and how the User's privacy is respected when using the E-Wallet.
8.3. The User is personally responsible for the confidentiality of the corresponding identifiers to his User account and thus to the information in respect of the E-Wallet and must himself take all reasonable measures to maintain the confidentiality of this information.
8.4. ACW BV will inform the User in the event that his E-Wallet is suspended. ACW BV will reenable the use of the E-Wallet credentials as soon as possible and after the causes of the suspension have been resolved.
9. Fraud/AML/ abuse
9.1. SNV and/or ACW BV will, in the event of suspected fraud, prohibited transactions or money laundering, carry out an identity check. Failure by the User to cooperate with an identity check may result in the immediate suspension of the use of the E-Wallet and termination of the relationship between the User and ACW BV.
9.2. The User acknowledges that ACW BV may block a transaction, a payment order or any use of the E-Wallet when ACW BV reasonably suspects a case of fraud, prohibited transactions or money laundering, the violation of these General User Conditions E-Wallet or a violation of the law. When ACW BV blocks a transaction or payment order, the User is informed unless ACW BV is legally prevented from doing so.
9.3. In the event of suspected fraud, prohibited transactions or money laundering, or not complying with the General User Conditions E-Wallet, the User is responsible for all losses suffered by ACW BV as a result of / or in connection with these actions.
10.1. In case there will be any payment obligation from the User towards ACW BV under these General User Conditions E-Wallet, in addition to all other legal rights and remedies available towards the User by ACW BV, the amount at that moment remaining in the E-Wallet will serve as (partial) payment of such obligation.
10.2. ACW BV cannot be held responsible towards the User or a third party for any loss incurred by the User due to imposed transaction limits or other recoveries.
11.1. The User accepts and acknowledges that ACW BV cannot be held responsible for any dispute between the User and the Performer.
11.2. Claims or disputes arising from these General User Conditions E-Wallet must first be reported to ACW BV online support.
12.1. The User guarantees that he is over 18 years old of at least the age of majority in his country of residence. The User also guarantees to have reached at least the legal age of use of the Platform.
12.2. The User guarantees that he will comply with all laws, regulations and regulations applicable to the use of the E-Wallet.
12.3. The User will not (attempt to) initiate, or take advantage of, fraud, prohibited transactions or money laundering, the violation of these General User Conditions E-Wallet or a violation of the law or be in violation of applicable laws and regulations.
12.4. The User is obliged to pay the taxes, fees and commissions that may arise from the use of the E-Wallet.
13.1. ACW BV does not warrant that the operation of the E-Wallet, the operation of the servers and the Entertainment Webcam Services of the Performer will be permanent, uninterrupted, fast / punctual, secure or infallible.
13.2. To the fullest extent permitted by law, ACW BV excludes all warranties, conditions or other terms, legal or implicit, quality or speed / punctuality in relation to the use of the E-Wallet by the User,
13.3. ACW BV does not warrant that the use of the E-Wallet will always meet all User requirements or that the operation of the E-Wallet will be permanent, secure, virus free and infallible.
14. Violation of the General User Conditions E-Wallet
14.1. Without prejudice to the other means available to ACW BV, ACW BV has the right to immediately send the User a warning, to temporarily suspend or for an indefinite period the User's E-Wallet, to close the User's E-Wallet, to refuse to the User access to the use of the E-Wallet when:
a. the User does not respect the General User Conditions E-Wallet or the documents by integral part by reference; or
b. when it proves impossible for ACW BV to check the accuracy of the information provided by the User; or
c. ACW BV is of the opinion that the User is guilty of fraudulent activity, fraud, prohibited transactions or money laundering or is involved in, or in any way connected with, such activities; or
d. ACW BV believes that the User, by its actions, causes or may cause damage to ACW BV.
15. Limitation of liability of ACW BV
15.1. In no event shall ACW BV be liable for any direct or indirect (consequential) damages, including:
* any indirect, incidental, or other damages, regardless of whether the loss or damage is attributable to any changes made by ACW BV to the E-Wallet or due to temporary or permanent interruption of the E-Wallet, and regardless of whether it is due to negligence or any other cause attributable to ACW BV.
15.2. ACW BV's liability to the User - whatever the circumstances - is limited, in any event, to the aggregate of the amounts that the User has paid to the Performer through the E-Wallet in the six months preceding the legal act giving rise to the responsibility, the whole with a maximum of 150 €.
16.1. The User agrees to indemnify and hold ACW BV harmless against any claim or claim whatsoever including reasonable attorney's fees from any third party that is attributable to or arising from the breach of this contract of use or documents by integral part by reference, a violation of the law or the regulation or an infringement of the rights of a third party by the User.
16.2. When the User has a right or a claim on the Performer or is in dispute with the latter following the use of the E-Wallet, the User has no right of recourse against ACW BV and the User guarantees ACW BV against any claim, seeking liability, damages, losses, costs and compensation, including legal costs, known or unknown, in connection with such a claim or such litigation.
17.2. All notifications to the User will be sent to the email address that he has indicated to ACW BV during the registration process.
17.3. The User can consult free of charge the transactions carried out with his E-Wallet. The User agrees that he will not receive a statement in paper form.
18.1. ACW BV reserves the right to introduce policy rules to supplement or amend the conditions and / or to clarify the applicable provisions. The policy rules are an integral part of these General User Conditions E-Wallet.
18.2. ACW BV can modify the policy rules. Important changes will be published on the SNV Platform.
18.3. Once these modifications have been published, the User may, within 14 days, inform ACW BV that he refuses to accept these changes. In that case the relationship between ACW BV and the User will end.
18.4. The policy rules to which it is referred, and which form part of these General User Conditions E-Wallet are: privacy policy, GDPR policy as included in the cookie policy and the Users Code of Conduct.
19. Termination of the relationship with ACW BV
19.1. The General User Conditions E-Wallet apply until the relationship between ACW BV and the User is terminated as described below.
19.2. If the User wishes to terminate the relationship with ACW BV, he can do so immediately and free of charge by closing his User Account as a result of which the E-Wallet will also be closed. The User has no right of refund of the remaining credits.
19.3. ACW BV may terminate the relationship with the User at any time without notice when:
a. the User has violated an essential provision of the General User Conditions E-Wallet or clearly shows, by the way he acts, that he does not intend or is unable to comply with the essential provisions of the General User Conditions E-Wallet; or
b. ACW BV is obligated by law for example, when the provision of the E-Wallet to the User is not or will not be legally authorized.
19.4. The termination of the relationship between ACW BV and the User does not affect the rights, obligations and responsibilities arising from the law which governed the relationship between the User and ACW BV.
19.5 The relationship between ACW BV and the User in respect of the E-Wallet is automatically terminated if the relationship between SNV and the User in respect of the use of the Platform is terminated.
20.1. The law of the Netherlands is applicable to the relationship between ACW BV and the User. Any dispute that may arise between the User and ACW BV, resulting from these General User Conditions E-Wallet or any other agreement or any other action in connection with these General User Conditions E-Wallet will be settled by the Court of The Hague, except to the extent that binding rules of jurisdiction shall apply.
20.3. The court in The Hague has exclusive jurisdiction in case of litigation.
21.1. The User acknowledges that the rights and obligations arising from these General User Conditions E-Wallet and all other documents that apply by reference, may be freely and automatically transferred by ACW BV in the event of a merger, demerger or redemption or any other form of restructuring.
21.2. The titles of the different sections of these General User Conditions E-Wallet are purely indicative and do not necessarily indicate precisely the content of the articles to which they refer.
21.3. If ACW BV fails to act as a result of not complying by the User or by third parties of these General User Conditions E-Wallet, ACW BV does not automatically waive the right to act in the face of subsequent or similar violations.
21.4. If ACW BV does not exercise or enforce a legal right or remedy set forth in these General User Conditions E-Wallet (or to which ACW BV is entitled in accordance with applicable law), that choice shall not be considered to constitute a waiver of a right on the part of ACW BV. Nor can that choice be regarded as a waiver of a right to act in relation to subsequent or similar violations. ACW BV can and still has the right to exercise its rights or to implement the remedies.
21.5. The provisions of the articles bearing the titles: "7. Information and actions of the User", "12. Warranties", "15. Limitations of liability ", "17. Announcements and notifications", "20. Governing law" and "21. Other" and other provisions and charges thereunder continue to apply after the termination of the relationship between ACW BV and the User.
21.6. These General User Conditions E-Wallet together with the documents that form part thereof by reference and the policy rules followed govern the entire relationship between the User and ACW BV.
AGREEMENT BETWEEN ACW AND INDEPENDENT PERFORMER REGARDING THE PROVISION OF PAYMENT SERVICES (10-01-2020)
Agreement between ACW and Performer regarding the Provision of Payment Services
This document reflects the general terms and conditions applicable on the Payment Services provided by ACW to Performers.
At the instructions of Users, ACW will debit the Users E-Wallet for the discharge payment of Entertainment Webcam Services the Performer has provided to Users. Consequently, ACW will credit the Performer Payment Account. Before crediting the Performer Payment Account, ACW will deduct: (i) the Platform Fees due by the Performer and credit SNV. (ii) the Payment Service Fee due by the Performer and credit ACW.
This Agreement describes the general terms & conditions that apply when you use the Payment Service (Billing) offered by ACW BV.
This Agreement constitutes a legally valid contract determining the relationship between you, as the Performer and ACW BV
Before you can make use of the Payment Services you need to carefully read and accept all the conditions and stipulations of this Agreement, including the documents and Policy Rules that are part of this Agreement.
1.1 This Agreement replaces all previous agreements between the Performer and a company of the AC Group.
1.2 In the case of questions about this Agreement the Performer can consult the FAQ page (Frequently Asked Questions) or contact ACW BV via the online contact form of ACW BV.
1.3 ACW BV has the right to make changes to this Agreement. ACW BV will notify the Performer of such changes by means of placing the new, amended Agreement on the SNV Platform, by means of an email to the registered Performer by other means. The changes take effect on the date specified in the notification. If the Performer is unable to agree with the changes this Agreement will terminate.
1.4 This Performer Agreement is drawn up in the English language. In the event of a conflict between the English version and a version in another language the English version will prevail.
2.1 ACW BV: being a company registered with the Chamber of Commerce under number 52306054 with its offices in The Hague.
2.2 AC Group: companies which are directly and indirectly held by AC Media Connect Holding BV, AC Media Connect Holding BV.
2.3 AC Media Connect Holding BV: a company registered in the commercial registry under number 6863636628, having its offices at Beursplein 37, 3011 AA, Rotterdam.
2.4 : a company having its offices at E-commerce Park Vredenberg, Unit 23, Willemstad, Curacao, Netherlands Antilles, registered under number 12276
2.5 Affiliates: third parties with whom has concluded agreements to provide and offer marketing services to the Performers.
2.6 Entertainment Webcam Service: a service offered and sold by the Performer to the User.
2.7 Entertainment Webcam Service Fee: the fee the User pays to the Performer for the sale of the Entertainment Webcam Service by the Performer to the User.
2.8 E-Wallet: virtual credit balance registered by ACW BV upon receipt of funds from the User. The User's E-Wallet is stored in the ACW BV computer system. The E-Wallet is not a bank account but a virtual balance.
2.9 Financing Transaction: the transaction in which the User deposits credits into his/her virtual balance (E-Wallet).
2.10 General Platform Fees: the fee that SNV charges to the Performer for the General Platform Service.
2.11 General Platform Services: the services provided to the Performer for the use of the SNV Platform in return for payment, which services may fully be performed by SNV and/or partly by Affiliates under a contract concluded by and the Affiliates.
2.12 General Platform Services Agreement: the general terms & conditions that apply to the relationship between the Performer and SNV in relation to the provision of the General Platform Services to the Performers.
2.13 Micro Company: an enterprise which qualifies under the definition of Micro Company for VAT purposes in your country of residence.
2.14 Payment Day: the 1st or 16th day of each calendar month. If this day falls on a Saturday, Sunday or public holiday, the Payment Day will be postponed to the next following days.
2.15 Payment Instruction: the authorisation the User gives ACW BV to deduct the payment from the virtual credit balance in the User's E-Wallet for the Entertainment Webcam Services purchased from the Performer; these credits are automatically and instantly credited to the Performer Payment Account.
2.16 Payment Service: a service provided by ACW BV to the Performer by crediting the Performer Payment Account, upon the debiting of a virtual credit balance held by the User (E-Wallet), for the discharge payment of Entertainment Webcam Services the Performer has sold to the User.
2.17 Payment Service Agreement: the agreement as concluded by ACW and the Performer on the basis of which ACW BV renders Payment Service to the Performer (this Agreement).
2.18 Payment Service Fee: the fee that ACW BV charges to the Performers for the Payment Service.
2.19 Payment Transaction: the transaction in which ACW BV transfers the credits held in the Performer's Payment Account into the bank account of the Performer.
2.20 Performer: the party who offers and sells his Webcam Entertainment Services to the Users via the SNV Platform and either operates as an independent professional or as a micro company in his country of residence. Wherever the word ‘Performer’ is used this may also be read as ‘you’.
2.21 Performer Account: the Performer's personal registration on the SNV Platform containing the personal information of the Performer (Performer's Profile and the Performer's Name).
2.22 Performer Information: all the information you, as a Performer, put on the SNV Platform and/or on the Performer’s Account, including registration details, pictures, videos, feedback and all other communications.
2.23 Performer's Name: the name under which the Performer is registered. Also the name that, in combination with the personal password, gives access to the Performer's Account.
2.24 Performer Payment Account: the Performer's current account with ACW BV, to which – ACW BV credits the payments made and approved by Users for the purchase of the Webcam Entertainment Services provided by the Performer and to which ACW BV debits amounts owed to ACW BV and/or to SNV by the Performer.
2.25 Performer's Profile: the full personal and physical description of the Performer.
2.26 Policy Rules: documents prepared by the AC Group and published on the SNV Platform containing mandatory or non-mandatory rules which apply to the relationship between the Performer and any member of the AC Group as a result of any agreement concluded between the two including but not limited to Privacy/ GDPR rules, Code of Conduct, KYC rules and AML rules.
2.27 Reservation Requirement: the amount that ACW BV reserves temporarily in accordance with the General Platform Services Agreement to cover possible payment cancellations by Users.
2.28 SNV refers to , registered with the Chamber of Commerce under number 122760, with its offices at E-Commerce Park Vredenberg, unit 23, Willemstad, Curaçao and to the companies and Partners affiliated with
2.29 SNV Platform: the technical platform exploited by SNV that enables the Performer to provide and sell Entertainment Webcam Services anonymously and enables the User to purchase Entertainment Webcam Services anonymously.
2.30 Third Party: any party except the Performer and ACW BV.
2.31 Transaction Fees: the costs associated with the Payment Transaction.
2.32 User: a person who purchases Entertainment Webcam Services from the Performer via a Website connected to the technical Platform of SNV and who uses the User Payment Service (E-Wallet) in order to make the discharge payment of the Entertainment Webcam Services the Performer has provided and sold to the User.
2.33 User Account: the User's personal registration on the SNV technical SNV Platform.
2.34 User Payment Service: service offered by ACW BV to the User whereby the User can obtain – upon placing of funds by the User - a prepaid virtual credit on his name to make discharge payments to the Performers for his purchase of the Entertainment Webcam Services from the Performers registered on the SNV Platform. The Payment Service does not constitute an account but a Virtual Credit which cannot be refunded to the User.
2.35 Virtual Credit: a non-refundable virtual asset registered with ACW BV to the credit of the User upon placing of funds by the User which serves for the User to make discharge payments to the Performers for his purchase of the Entertainment Webcam Services from the Performers registered on the SNV Platform.
2.36 Website: a website linked to the technical Platform of SNV.
3.1 ACW BV will debit the Users E-Wallet for the discharge payment of Entertainment Webcam Services the Performer has provided to Users. Consequently, ACW will credit the Performer Payment Account. On Payment day ACW BV effectuates the Payment Transaction retaining the Payment Service Fee and the General Platform Service Fee.
3.2. The Performer can only apply for registration of the Payment Services with ACW BV with his Performer Account on the SNV Platform as laid down in the General Platform Services Agreement the Performer has concluded with SNV. It is not possible for a Performer to apply for the Payment Services if this Performer has not opened a Performer Account on the SNV Platform.
3.3. In principle the information provided by the Performer for opening his Performer Account is used for applying for the Payment Services and opening the Performer Payment Account albeit that ACW BV is entitled to ask any additional information from the Performer which is considered to be necessary by ACW BV in respect of the application of the Performer for the Payment Services.
3.4. The Performer is obliged to provide complete, up to date and correct registration information and information in respect of his Performer Account and his Performer Payment Account and to update this information on a regular basis to keep it current and correct.
3.5. The Performer agrees that:
a. the sale of the Webcam Entertainment Services constitutes a transaction between the Performer and the User; ACW BV is not a party to this sale.
b. ACW BV is not responsible for and has no influence on the completion or the payment of the Entertainment Webcam Service Fee for the Entertainment Webcam Service Services purchased by the User from the Performer.
c. The Studio has to comply with the VAT legislation in his country of residence in respect of the sale of the Entertainment Webcam Services to the Users.
3.6. If a Financing Transaction is reversed for whatever reason (cancellation), ACW BV is entitled to recover the payment from the Performer by debiting the previously credited amount back from the Performer's Payment Account.
3.7. ACW BV has a Reservation Requirement of 5 percent of the amount of the Webcam Entertainment Services the User has purchased from the Performer. The Reservation Requirement is a temporary reserve (180 days) to cover potential payment cancellations by the User.
3.8. ACW BV can suspend a Payment Transaction if ACW BV, at its own discretion, suspects that the Payment Transaction: is based on a factual error, is fraudulent or is made using a fraudulent or invalid method of payment and/or is a possible case of money laundering.
3.9. ACW BV will notify the Performer about the suspension of any Payment Transaction.
3.10. ACW BV is entitled to deduct all payment obligations that ACW BV may accrue under this Agreement from the Performer's Payment Account, in addition to all other rights and legal means available to ACW BV pursuant to this Agreement.
3.11. ACW BV is not liable to the Performer or Third Parties for any loss suffered by the Performer as a result of imposed transaction limits, Reservation Requirements, payment cancellations or other refund demands.
4. Payment Services Fee
4.1. ACW BV renders the Payment Services to the Performer against a Payment Service Fee. ACW BV will deduct this Payment Service Fee from the discharge payments made by Users to Performers for the Webcam Entertainment Services provided by the Performer.
4.2. The amount of the Payment Transaction is on 50% (or another percentage agreed otherwise) of the turnover of the Performer. The remaining amount is retained by ACW BV to cover the payment of the invoices due by the Performer for the Payment Services and to cover the payment of the invoices due by the Performer for the General Platform Services.
4.3 The Performer has the right to download at any time from his Performer Account the invoices which have been paid by retaining amounts from the Entertainment Webcam Service Fees as set out above.
4.4 Transaction Fees may apply depending on the chosen payment method as laid down in the Performer Account.
4.5 ACW BV is entitled to change the Payment Service Fee and/or the Transaction Fee the Performer is due to ACW BV. The changes take effect on the date specified in the notification of such change. If, in the 14 days after this change, the Performer notifies ACW BV that he/she does not accept the changes in question, question the Payment Service Agreement and the right to use the Payment Services will terminate immediately upon receipt of this notification.
5. Additional conditions Payment Service
a. the Performer’s Payment Account may not be a deposit account;
b. ACW BV is not required to pay the Performer interest on any balance in the Performer’s Payment Account.
5.2. The Performer agrees and acknowledges that ACW BV is not a party to and is not responsible for any dispute between the User and the Performer.
5.3. Any dispute with respect to the Payment Service must, in the first instance, be reported to the online support team of the AC Group.
6. General Platform Fee
6.1 There is no charge for registering as a Performer on the SNV Platform.
6.2 SNV renders the General Platform Services to the Performer against an General Platform Fee.
6.3 Performer hereby instructs ACW BV to deduct this General Platform Fee from the discharge payment made by Users to Performers for the Webcam Entertainment Services.
6.4 The amount of the Payment Transaction is based on 50% (or another percentage agreed otherwise) of the turnover of the Performer. The remaining amount is retained by ACW BV to cover the payment of the invoices due by the Performer for the Payment Services and to cover the payment of the invoices due by the Performer for the General Platform Services.
6.6 SNV NV is entitled to change the General Platform Services Fee. The changes take effect on the date specified in the notification of such change. If, in the 14 days after this change, the Performer notifies SNV NV that he/she does not accept the changes in question, this Agreement will terminate immediately upon receipt of this notification.
6.7 ACW BV will charge Dutch VAT on the Payment Services Fee on the basis of Dutch VAT legislation. Charging VAT on the Payment Services does not affect the amount of the Payment Transaction nor the VAT position of the Performer in his country of residence with respect to the Webcam Entertainment Services sold to the User.
7. No representation
7.1 ACW BV on the one hand and the Performer on the other are independent parties; each party acts only in its own name and on its own behalf.
7.2 It is not the purpose of this Payment Service Agreement to establish an agency, mandate ship, partnership, joint venture or any other form of collaboration, an employer/employee relationship or a franchisor/franchisee relationship. The Payment Service Agreement consequently does not create any of the above.
8. Guarantees
8.1 Each party declares and guarantees that he/she/it is legally competent and authorised to sign this Payment Service Agreement.
8.2 The Performer guarantees ACW BV that he/she is at least 18. If the legislation in the country of the Performer differs from this rule the Performer must be at least 21. For this purpose the Performer will supply a copy of a valid ID.
8.3 The Performer guarantees ACW BV that:
a. the Performer will comply with all the laws, regulations and bylaws that apply to the Performer’s use of the Payment Service;
b. the Performer will comply with (the rules resulting) from the Payment Services Agreement;
c. the Performer will comply with the national legislation of the country in which the Performer is located;
d. the Performer will not attempt to initiate or receive a Payment Transaction that is illegal or fraudulent or that conflicts with the applicable legislation and regulations;
e. the Performer will pay all taxes, levies and commissions which will be due for the Performer in respect of the use of the Payment Services and/or the SNV Platform and/or the use of the General Platform Services and/or the provision of the Entertainment Webcam Services to the User.
8.4 The Performer indemnifies and/or shall be liable for any damage sustained by ACW BV as a result of non-compliance with the stipulations of section 8.3 of the present article. The Performer cannot exculpate itself towards ACW BV by stating that the damage arose as a result of a violation by the Performer. The Performer shall be liable for its or its Performer's actions at all times.
8.5 ACW BV guarantees the Performer that the Payment Service will be provided with reasonable care and professionalism.
8.6 ACW BV does not guarantee that the Payment Service will meet all of the Performer’s requirements or that the Payment Service will function uninterruptedly, be virus-free, safe or error-free.
9. Announcements and notification
9.1 Declarations, notifications and other announcements from ACW BV to the Performer can be made by post, email, via publications on the SNV Platform or by any other reasonable method.
9.2 The Performer agrees that ACW BV can send the Performer electronic messages that relate to the Performer’s use of the Payment Service or any other matter.
10. Information and actions on the part of the Performer
10.1 The Performer is solely responsible and liable for the information he provides in order to make use of the Payment Services. The Performer is obliged to comply with all the applicable national, European and international regulations relating to the activities and Services offered on the SNV Platform.
10.2 This information from and any actions and/or Services by the Performer cannot:
g. incur a liability for ACW BV and/or cause (in whole or in part) that ACW BV cannot operate the Payment Services;
h. cause the operation of the Payment Services by ACW BV to be broken, damaged or less efficiently rendered, or have the effect that the provision of the Payment Services is affected in such a way that its effectiveness or functionality is affected in any way.
11. Fraud, money laundering and terrorism financing
11.1 Without prejudice to any other legal remedy, ACW BV can suspend or terminate the Performer's Payment Account, if actions on the part of the Performer cause ACW BV to reasonably suspect or give the impression that there is any form of involvement or association with fraudulent activities (fraud and terrorism financing), prohibited transactions or money laundering, the violation of this Agreement or a violation of the law.
11.2 If the Performer commits fraud, is involved in prohibited transactions or money laundering or terrorism financing, or deliberately or as a result of gross negligence fails to comply with the stipulations of this Agreement or the law, the Performer is liable for all loss suffered in relation to the unlawful transactions.
11.3. The Performer acknowledges that ACW BV may block a transaction, a payment order or any use of the Payment Services when ACW BV reasonably suspects a case of fraud, prohibited transactions or money laundering, the violation of this Agreement or a violation of the law or terrorism financing. When ACW BV blocks a transaction or payment order, the Performer is informed unless ACW BV is legally prevented from doing so.
11.4. In the event of suspected fraud, prohibited transactions, terrorism financing or money laundering, or not complying with this Agreement, ACW BV may as a result declare the transaction to the relevant authorities without informing the Performer.
12. Violation of this Agreement
12.1 Without prejudice to any other means available to ACW BV, ACW BV has the right to send the Performer an immediate warning, suspend or terminate the Performer’s Payment Account temporarily or indefinitely and refuse to provide the Payment Services to the Performer if:
a. the Performer violates this Agreement, the General Platform Services Agreement or the documents that form an integral part of this Agreement and/or the General Platform Services Agreement for reference purposes;
b. it proves impossible for ACW BV to verify the correctness of the information provided by the Performer; or
c. ACW BV suspects that the Performer is engaged in, will be engaged in or is in any way involved or associated with fraudulent activities, terrorism financing, prohibited transactions or money laundering, the violation of this Agreement or a violation of the law;
d. ACW BV feels that by his/her actions the Performer will or may cause damage to ACW BV.
13. Limitation of liability ACW BV
13.1. ACW BV can never be held liable for any direct or indirect damage or (consequential) loss, including but not limited to :
any loss or falsification of data;
loss of profits (suffered directly or indirectly);
loss of turnover;
loss of goodwill or reputation;
loss of opportunity;
or for indirect, incidental, additional or any other damage, irrespective of whether the loss or damage is attributable to any change ACW BV has made to the operation of the Payment Service, or due to a permanent or temporary interruption in the Payment Service, and irrespective of any negligence or other cause.
13.2. ACW BV's liability to the Performer – irrespective of the circumstances – is in any case limited to the total of the amounts the Performer has received from ACW BV in the 6 months preceding the legal action that gives rise to the liability, with a maximum of €100.
14. Account not Assignable
14.1 The Performer Account is non assignable, shall be strictly personal and must not be transferred to or used by any third party.
14.2 Creating a Performer Account for a third party shall be prohibited.
15.1 The Performer will compensate ACW BV and protect ACW BV against any entitlement or claim whatsoever including reasonable solicitors’ fees on the part of a third party and that is attributable to or arises from a violation of this Agreement or the documents that form part of the Agreement for reference purposes, a violation of any law or regulation whatsoever or the infringement of the rights of a third party by the Performer.
15.2 If the Performer has an entitlement or claim against or a dispute with a User as a result of the use of the operation of the Payment Services, the Performer indemnifies ACW BV against any claims, liability, damage, loss, costs and fees, including legal fees, known or unknown, that are associated with such an entitlement, claim or dispute.
16. Termination of relationship with ACW BV
16.1 This Agreement will remain in place until such time as it is cancelled by the Performer or by ACW BV, as outlined below. If this Agreement is cancelled this means that the Performer Payment Account will be closed by ACW BV.
16.2 If the Performer wishes to terminate this Agreement with ACW BV, the Performer can do so at any time and free of charge by closing the Performer’s Account as a result of which the provision of the Payment Services by ACW BV to the Performer under this Agreement will also terminate.
16.3 ACW BV can terminate this Agreement at any time without prior notice if:
a. the Performer has violated an essential stipulation of this Agreement or has made it clear by his/her actions that he/she does not intend to comply or is not capable of complying with the essential stipulations of this Agreement; or
b. ACW BV is legally obliged to do so.
16.4 The termination of this Agreement does not affect the legal rights, obligations and responsibilities the Performer and ACW BV have used, that have applied to the relationship between the Performer and ACW BV, or that arose in the period that this Agreement was in effect or for which it is stipulated that they remain valid for an indefinite period.
16.5 Upon termination of this Agreement or any other termination of the use of the Payment Service by the Performer the Performer remains responsible for all cancellations and recovery costs.
17.1 Dutch law applies to this Agreement. Any disputes that arise or may arise between the Performer and ACW BV as a result of this Agreement or subsequent agreements or other actions in relation to this Agreement will be settled by the competent courts in the Netherlands.
17.2 This Agreement is drawn up in the English language. In the event of a conflict between the English version of this Agreement and a version in another language, the English version will prevail.
18.1 The Payment Service referred to in this Agreement is supplied by ACW BV.
18.2 The Performer agrees that ACW BV can freely and by operation of law transfer the rights and obligations arising from this Agreement and from all the documents that apply for reference purposes in the event of a merger, division, takeover or other restructuring.
18.3 The titles of the various sections of this Performer’s Agreement are indicative only and do not necessarily give an exact indication of the content of the articles to which they refer.
18.4 If ACW BV fails to act in respect of a violation of this Agreement by the Performer or by others ACW BV does not automatically waive the right to act in respect of later or similar violations.
18.5 If ACW BV does not exercise or enforce a legal right or legal remedy referred to in this Agreement (or to which ACW BV is entitled in accordance with the applicable law) this cannot be considered a waiver of the rights of ACW BV. Neither can it be considered a waiver of the right to act in respect of later or similar violations. ACW BV can and may always use its rights or legal remedies.
18.6 The provisions in the following articles: ‘9. Announcements and notification’, ‘10. Information and actions on the part of the Performer’, ‘13. Limitation of liability ACW BV’, ‘14. Indemnity’, , ‘16. Applicable law’ and ‘17. Other’ and any other provision insofar as applicable continue to exist after the termination or expiry of this Agreement.
18.7 This Agreement, accompanied by the documents and Policy Rules included for reference purposes, constitutes the entire agreement between the Performer and ACW BV.
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A Review of the Effect of Winemaking Techniques on Phenolic Extraction in Red Wines
Karna L. Sacchi, Linda F. Bisson, Douglas O. Adams
Am J Enol Vitic. September 2005 56: 197-206; published ahead of print September 01, 2005
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Linda F. Bisson
Douglas O. Adams
Winemaking variables and techniques are known to affect the phenolic composition of red wines. This review surveys the current literature on the impact of processing and fermentation parameters on the phenolic profile of the finished wines. Six winemaking variables and techniques have been reported to increase phenolic concentration: fermentation temperature, thermovinification, must freezing, saignée, pectolytic enzyme treatments, and extended maceration. In contrast, sulfur dioxide levels and cold-soak treatments have frequently been shown to have no or little lasting effect or to lead to a decrease in phenolic levels. Finally, carbonic maceration, yeast selection, and skin and juice mixing practices have produced variable results depending on the grape varieties studied.
wine composition
phenolic extraction
Phenolic compounds are important to red wine quality because they impact color, mouthfeel, and ageability. Although phenolics are present in grape juice, the amount is greatly increased in wine because of their greater solubility in ethanol than in purely aqueous solutions. Typical levels of the major grape phenolics present in red wine are shown in Table 1⇓.
Phenolic levels in a “typical” Vitis vinifera red wine.
Anthocyanins, flavanols and their polymers, and polymeric pigments resulting from the reaction anthocyanins with polymeric flavanols are the phenolic compounds with the greatest sensory impact in red wine. While anthocyanins and polymeric pigments give red wines their color, flavanols and their polymers are responsible for bitterness and astringency (Joslyn and Goldstein 1964, Arnold et al. 1980, Clifford 1986, Guinard et al. 1986, Robichaud and Noble 1990, Breslin et al. 1993, Naish et al. 1993, Fischer et al. 1994, Thomas and Lawless 1995, Thorngate and Noble 1995, Kallithraka et al. 1997, Sarni-Manchado et al. 1999). The polymeric flavanols are also referred to as tannins.
Color is probably the most easily recognized aspect of red wine quality. Anthocyanins and polymeric pigments both contribute to wine color. Anthocyanins are the pigments that give black and red grapes their color. Once the grapes are crushed, polymeric pigments begin to form and their amounts continue to increase with time (Somers 1971, Nagel and Wulf 1979). By the end of the first year, 50 to 70% of the pigments will have reacted to give polymeric forms (Ribéreau-Gayon et al. 1970, Somers 1971, Nagel and Wulf 1979). Polymeric pigments are important for the long-term color stability of wine since they are more stable to pH and bisulfite bleaching (Somers 1971, Somers and Evans 1977). Anthocyanin-derived pigments, such as the vitisins, may also play a role in wine color (Vivar-Quintana et al. 2002, Schwarz et al. 2003).
Several studies have shown that anthocyanin extraction reaches a maximum early in fermentation and that the concentration drops thereafter (Nagel and Wulf 1979, Watson et al. 1995, Gao et al. 1997), whereas tannin extraction continues to increase with continued skin and seed contact (Singleton and Draper 1964, Ribéreau-Gayon 1974, Ozmianski et al. 1986). Postfermentation factors that decrease anthocyanin content increase polymeric pigment content (Dallas and Laureano 1994). These factors include time, increasing storage temperature, and lower sulfur dioxide content, with temperature appearing to have the greatest effect.
In addition, colorless phenolics such as quercetin and caffeic acid interact with anthocyanins in a phenomenon referred to as copigmentation (reviewed in Boulton 2001, Berké and de Frietas 2005). Copigmentation leads to a shift in the color of wine from red to purple and accounts for 30 to 50% of the color in young red wines (Boulton 2001). Copigments may also be seen as a storage form of anthocyanin, allowing more anthocyanin to be removed from the skins and stabilized in solution until the polymeric pigments are formed.
The total phenol distribution in red grape berries has been estimated as follows: pulp, 1%; juice, 5%; skin, 50%; and the remaining 44% in the seeds (Singleton and Esau 1969). Each of these berry components contains different classes of phenolic compounds. Anthocyanins are found in the skins, specifically the hypodermal cells. Cinnamic acids and their esters are found in the juice and skins. Polymeric tannins and monomeric flavanols such as catechin are found in the seeds and skins and can be found in very low levels in the pulp, with the exception of varieties such as Alicante-Bouschet that display high levels of these compounds in the pulp. Finally, flavonols such as quercetin are found in the skins. Since the phenolics desired in red wines are found in the skins and seeds, red wines are normally made with skin contact.
Because of the large influence of phenolic compounds on red wine quality, many winemaking techniques have been developed to influence the extraction of these compounds during vinification and most have been directed at enhancing extraction. Different factors limit the extraction of different classes of phenolic compounds. The early peak and subsequent decline in anthocyanins during fermentation is inconsistent with solubility being the limiting factor for these compounds, and instead reflects their instability once released. Rather, the limiting factor for release of anthocyanins is likely a physical barrier since they are located in the vacuoles of the hypodermal cells. Extraction requires that the compounds exit both the membrane-bound vacuole and the cell itself. In order to release internal components, it is important that these membranes be ruptured rather than merely collapsed, as a collapsed membrane structure can trap internal components. During a traditional fermentation on the skins, the alcohol content, carbon dioxide, and sulfur dioxide, together with the heat of fermentation, increase the permeability of these cells and membranes. Other treatments that destroy the cell membranes may also increase release of these pigments.
For tannins, extraction appears to be hindered by limited solubility. This is supported by the saturation behavior over time (Watson et al. 1995, Gao et al. 1997). Thus far, the evidence suggests that tannins are extracted from both skins and seeds. Extraction of tannins increases with increasing alcohol content, sulfur dioxide, temperature, and skin contact time, which increase the amount of tannin soluble in wine (Berg and Akiyoshi 1958, Singleton and Draper 1964, Ribéreau-Gayon 1974, Ozmianski et al. 1986). Furthermore, there appears to be a synergistic effect with combinations of alcohol, sulfur dioxide, and temperature (Ozmianski et al. 1986).
This article reviews the literature on the impact of winemaking processes on phenolic extraction. Many of the studies have focused on Pinot noir, a variety known for poor color extraction and low pigment stability. First, the basic variables of fermentation temperature and sulfur dioxide will be covered, followed by other treatments in their order in the winemaking process: prefermentation, fermentation, and postfermentation. Finally, the effect of yeast selection is discussed.
Fermentation Temperature
Overall, higher fermentation temperatures have been reported to increase phenolic extraction. Wines produced from Pinot noir and Cabernet Sauvignon grapes were more colored (Duboscq color values) as the fermentation temperature increased for the temperatures 53°F (11.8°C), 70°F (21.3°C), and 80°F (26.9°C) (Ough and Amerine 1961). A series of papers studying the effect of winemaking practices on phenolic composition has more recently examined the effect of temperature on extraction (Gao et al. 1997, Girard et al. 1997, 2001). Initial reports with Pinot noir showed little difference in the anthocyanin content of wines over fermentation temperatures ranging from 15 to 30°C, but the total phenolics content was greater at higher fermentation temperatures (Girard et al. 1997, 2001). Since the measurements were for wine already in bottle, it is not surprising that little difference in anthocyanin content was seen, as anthocyanins are known to reach a maximum early in fermentation and then to decrease rapidly. Interestingly, a paper was published in the same time period showing the decline of anthocyanins after early fermentation in what appears to be the same grapes, with roughly a 75% decrease by bottling (Gao et al. 1997). This paper also reported that at the same time anthocyanins were decreasing, polymeric pigment was increasing, and that the formation of polymeric pigment increased greatly when the fermentation temperature was increased from 20 to 30°C. The disappearance of anthocyanins and increase in polymeric pigment over time has been confirmed in other studies (Bakker et al. 1998).
An increase in polymeric pigment with increasing fermentation temperature was also reported by Harbertson et al. (2002), who found that tannin, small polymeric pigment, and large polymeric pigment were greater at pressing for wines fermented at higher temperatures. In this study it was also observed that although tannin decreased with time between pressing and racking, the polymeric pigments increased during this time.
Another study with Shiraz showed larger, but still moderate differences in anthocyanin content with increasing fermentation temperature (Reynolds et al. 2001); however, it is unclear how long after fermentation the measurements were taken. A later study that examined the effect of several processing parameters on phenolic extraction as measured by monomeric and polymeric phenols demonstrated that increasing fermentation temperature strongly increased wine color (Monticelli et al. 1999).
The increased extraction of phenolics at higher fermentation temperatures is due to increased permeability of the hypodermal cells releasing anthocyanin and increased solubility of other phenolics in the wine solution. The increase in polymeric pigment appears to be due more to increased extraction of tannins than of anthocyanins since anthocyanin levels drop so early in fermentation. If adequate tannin is not present early in fermentation to trap anthocyanins, there will be less polymeric pigment in the wine.
Sulfur Dioxide Effects
At the levels of SO2 and temperatures normally used for red wine fermentations, sulfur dioxide does not dramatically affect the extraction of phenolics. In an early paper, it was found that increasing SO2 levels affected Pinot noir extraction in fermentations at 53°F (11.8°C), but not at 70°F (21.3°C) or 80°F (26.9°C) (Ough and Amerine 1961). Heatherbell et al. (1996) also observed increased extraction with higher levels of SO2 at lower temperatures in a cold-soak trial. Watson et al. (1995) reported that for Pinot noir with initial additions of 0, 50, and 100 mg/L total SO2, there were no differences in anthocyanin content, but that polymeric pigment and caftaric acid were lowest for the 100 mg/L addition. In a study with Roriz grapes, Bakker et al. (1998) reported that as total SO2 levels were increased from 0 to 75 to 150 mg/L, early fermentation extraction of total pigment was increased; however, there was little difference in the finished wines. That was also true for the concentrations of total phenolics and anthocyanins in the finished wines. Sulfur dioxide was also shown to have a positive effect on pigment extraction in Cabernet franc (Amrani et al. 1995).
In addition to any effect on extraction, sulfur dioxide also impacts wine color via reversible bisulfite bleaching of anthocyanins (Jurd 1964). It has also been reported that bisulfite can bleach polymeric pigment, though to a lesser degree (Bakker et al. 1986).
Cold Soak
During cold-soak treatment the must is held at low temperatures, usually 10 to 15°C, for several days before fermentation. The rationale offered is that aqueous extraction improves wine color. However, based on the known effects of alcohol and temperature on extraction of anthocyanins and tannins, improved extraction would not be anticipated. Even if cold maceration did increase anthocyanin extraction, it would not be expected to increase the polymeric pigment formation that is necessary to have a long-term impact on color. Unfortunately, none of the studies of cold maceration have included measurement of polymeric pigment.
The results obtained with Pinot noir consistently show that a cold soak alone has either no effect or a negative effect on the phenolic composition. Heatherbell et al. (1996) observed no difference between the control and the cold-soak treatment alone; however, a cold soak in the presence of 50 mg/L or greater sulfur dioxide increased the anthocyanin content of young wines and total phenols in the finished wines. Furthermore, the differences in anthocyanin content disappeared during aging. Experiments in Burgundy also showed that cold maceration before fermentation was detrimental to the color and phenolic content of Pinot noir unless the treatment was in conjunction with high levels (250 mg/L) of sulfur dioxide (Gerbaux 1993, Feuillat 1996). The above results suggest that the effect of higher temperature is dominant and that SO2 effects are only observed in its absence. Other experiments confirm the negative impact of cold prefermentation maceration on Pinot noir: wines made with a cold soak were lower in anthocyanin, color intensity, and flavonols (Watson et al. 1995).
In addition, a German research paper reported the rate of color extraction measured as absorbance at 520 nm (A520) to be slower for Pinot noir and Dornfelder at lower temperatures, although the effect was much greater in Dornfelder (Fischer 1997). A study with Cabernet Sauvignon also found a slower rate of color extraction and a greater maximum extraction measured as A520 in wines subjected to cold-soak treatments, but by the end of fermentation the levels were more similar (Okubo et al. 2003). Overall, greater A520 was seen in the young Cabernet Sauvignon wines subjected to cold-soak treatments, but whether this difference persisted throughout aging was not reported.
The results obtained with Pinotage and Sangiovese are similar to those for Pinot noir. Marais (2003a,b) found that cold soaks at 10 or 15°C prolonged extraction of Pinotage and that they did not produce large differences in the phenolic profile of the finished wines. Comparison of cold-soak to traditional fermentation of Sangiovese also showed little difference in the anthocyanin and tannin content of the wine (Zini et al. 2003).
Reynolds et al. (2001) reported that a cold soak increased anthocyanin extraction in Shiraz when combined with lower fermentation temperatures (15 and 20°C), but not high fermentation temperatures (30°C), but it is not clear how old the wines were at the time of measurement.
Must or Grape Freezing
While cold soak has been reported to have little effect on the phenolic composition of the resulting wines, freezing the must before fermentation potentially has a much greater effect. Must freezing causes the berry cells to burst, breaking cell membranes and releasing anthocyanins. Use of solid carbon dioxide confers the additional advantage that, as it freezes the berries, it sublimes to blanket the must, protecting the berries from oxygen before fermentation.
Dry ice was used to freeze Merlot must (Couasnon 1999). Compared to the control wines, those produced with must freezing contained 52% more tannin and 50% more anthocyanins. Similar results were also obtained with Cabernet Sauvignon and Cabernet franc. It is interesting that this method reportedly increased tannins while heat damage to the berries only enhances anthocyanins (see thermovinification section below). Freezing may also break the tannin-containing cells of the seeds, increasing extractability, but this observation requires further study.
In a variation of must freezing, Pinot noir pomace was separated from the juice, frozen, and added back to the fermenting juice when it contained ~6% alcohol (Girard et al. 2001). In this example, the wines contained slightly more anthocyanin than wines fermented without pomace freezing, and the effect on total phenols content was variable. It is possible that a smaller effect was obtained in this study compared to the dry-ice technique because the skins were not present from the beginning of fermentation and the maximum in anthocyanin extraction usually occurs in the first few days of fermentation. In this study there were not large differences in anthocyanin concentration for any of the treatments, including high-temperature fermentation.
Thermovinification
Though there are several variations of the procedure, basic thermovinification entails heating the skins to 60 to 70°C for a short time, extracting them with the juice, pressing, and then cooling before fermentation. The heat damages the hypodermal cell membranes, releasing anthocyanins, and it also denatures polyphenol oxidase, preventing browning. Since there is no alcohol present at the time of heating, it would not be expected to increase tannin extraction. It has, in fact, been reported that compared to fermentation on the skins, thermovinification leads to improved color (anthocyanin) extraction, but much lower phenolic extraction overall (Auw et al. 1996).
Most studies of this technique have been with Pinot noir. Girard et al. (1997) reported that thermovinification resulted in more than a 2-fold increase in anthocyanins in Pinot noir from British Colombia than did fermentation on the skins at 20 and 30°C. In another paper apparently based on the same fermentations, the content of malvidin 3-glucoside was tracked over time from 0 to 225 days and revealed a unique extraction profile in thermovinification (Gao et al. 1997). The anthocyanin content of the thermally treated juice was at a maximum at the beginning of the fermentation and was three times that of the traditional fermentation. It then decreased rapidly by day 10, leveling off to roughly 1.5-fold that of the fermentations on the skins. That was in contrast with the pattern for fermentation on the skins with a peak at day 3 or 4, followed by a slow decrease. In addition, the increase in polymeric pigment over time was nearly identical to that of the traditional fermentation conducted at 20°C, consistent with the expectation that little additional tannin would be extracted during thermovinification without alcohol present.
Thermovinification and traditional fermentation were compared for three Italian varieties: Negro amaro, Primitivo, and Ibrido P (Stella et al. 1991). Thermovinification increased anthocyanin content for all three and decreased catechin and total phenols for the latter two.
The effects of fermentation on the skins, must heating, and must heating followed by fermentation on the skins were compared for Pinot noir (Spätburgunder), Lemberger, and Cabernet franc grown in Germany (Netzel et al. 2003). Must heating consisted of heating to 65°C, cooling for 24 hr, then pressing and inoculating. For all three varieties, the greatest increase in flavan-3-ols was found between the fermentation on the skins and must-heating treatments, while the difference between must heating and must heating plus fermentation on the skins was small. This pattern was also observed for anthocyanin extraction in Pinot noir, while only small increases in anthocyanin were seen for the heat treatments for Lemberger and Cabernet franc.
In this experiment, heating increased flavanol extraction unlike the above studies, perhaps because the must was heated as opposed to heating the skins separately so that liquid was present for extraction during the heating period. It is also interesting that heat had a much greater effect on anthocyanin extraction in Pinot noir than the other varieties studied since this variety is known for problematic color extraction.
Another experiment where the hot skins were pressed immediately led to lower levels of anthocyanins, catechins, and total phenols (Leone et al.1983). For heat treatments to be successful in increasing extraction, it appears to be necessary to have the skins in contact with the juice during or after heating. If the hot skins are not extracted with juice, the compounds released by destruction of cell membranes do not end up in the wine.
Carbonic Maceration
In carbonic maceration, whole berries or clusters are held under a carbon dioxide atmosphere and partial fermentation occurs because of the activity of glycolytic enzymes present in the grapes (Flanzy 1935). After a specific period of time, typically one to two weeks, the grapes are then pressed and the juice is inoculated to complete fermentation. The method is typically used to produce lighter, fruity wines that are meant to be consumed young.
It is difficult to draw general conclusions about the effect of carbonic maceration on the phenolic content of wine because conflicting results have been found with the different varieties studied. Timberlake and Bridle (1976) found that after four months of aging, wines from Cascade grapes produced by carbonic maceration contained less anthocyanin and polymeric pigment than wines produced by fermentation on the skins. Another group examined the effect of carbonic maceration on anthocyanins by analyzing the level in the skins of Carignane rather than in the wines and found that anthocyanin content decreased with time; however, there was no traditional fermentation as a control, so it is not known if extraction increased or decreased with carbonic maceration (Ramos et al. 1993). A more recent study that aimed to isolate the effect of stem contact from the other aspects of carbonic maceration in Tinta Miúda wines also found a decrease in anthocyanins, with no-stem contact wines containing the most anthocyanins, followed by stem contact, then carbonic maceration (Sun et al. 2001). Not surprisingly, the opposite trend was observed for catechins and tannins that may be extracted from stems.
A small decrease in tannin content in wines produced by carbonic maceration has also been reported (Beelman and McArdle 1974). Results of a multi-year study of Hungarian varieties indicated that carbonic maceration increased the total phenol content of the wines compared to fermentation on the skins (Lorincz et al. 1998), while a study with muscadine cultivars showed no effect or a decrease in total phenols with carbonic maceration (Carroll 1986). Finally, another paper comparing fermentation of varietal blends with and without carbonic maceration confirmed that the effect on total phenols was dependent on the varieties present (Pellegrini et al. 2000).
Prefermentation Juice Runoff
In this practice, which is also referred to as saignée, juice is removed before fermentation, thus increasing the skin to juice ratio. Since the anthocyanins and tannins extracted during fermentation are found in the skins and seeds, this practice should theoretically increase their concentration in the finished wine. However, if extraction were strictly solubility limited, the effect would be the opposite since there would be less liquid to dissolve the phenolics. In practice, the former is generally observed.
It has been suggested that juice runoff mimics the effect of smaller berries since this increases the skin to juice ratio, and it was used to study the effect of berry size on wine phenolic composition (Singleton 1972). For nine varieties, the flavonoid and anthocyanin content of the wines at roughly four months of age was greater, with 10% juice runoff compared to the control, and that these were greater in the control than wines made with a 10% juice addition. Later experiments over three vintages of Malbec mostly agreed with these results, although it is not known if the phenolics were measured at a comparable age (Zamora et al. 1994). The wines produced with saignée were characterized by more and larger tannins and by more polymeric pigment in all vintages. They also contained more anthocyanins in two of the three years. Saignée was also found to slightly increase the color and phenolics content of young Pinot noir (Gerbaux 1993).
The effect of 10 and 20% juice runoff was also studied for two vineyard blocks of Syrah (Gawel et al. 2001). At press, increases in anthocyanins and total phenolics with juice runoff were observed only for one of the vineyard blocks, which had a much greater level of extraction of total phenolics overall. However, after six months, the differences between the juice runoff treatments had virtually disappeared as well as the differences between vineyard blocks. This study raises questions about the long-term value of these treatments and the differences in their effects with different varieties.
Pectolytic Enzymes
Pectolytic enzymes have been used to try to increase wine color because they break down skin cell walls, releasing pigments. The purity of the enzyme preparation is important, because if β-glucosidases are present, anthocyanins can be converted to the less stable aglycones, resulting in color loss. Use of these enzymes also generally increases juice yield. There are many studies supporting an improvement in color extraction with these enzymes (Ducruet et al. 1997).
Early reports on the effect of pectinases demonstrated an increase in color and total phenol content at the end of fermentation with Grenache, Carginane, Zinfandel, and Petite Sirah (Ough and Berg 1974, Ough et al. 1975). It was also reported that enzymes improved the color of young Merlot (Takayanagi et al. 1997) and Valpolicella (Zent and Inama 1992) wines. At the end of fermentation, increased total phenols content was seen for Cabernet Sauvignon and Isabel (Daudt and Polenta 1999) wines made with enzyme treatment, but no difference in total phenols was found with Syrah (Clare et al. 2002). Another study with Cabernet Sauvignon showed no effect of enzymes on anthocyanin extraction postmalolactic fermentation, but increased tannin extraction (Guerrand and Gervais 2002).
Five enzyme preparations were compared for their effects on Pinot noir wines and found to increase tannin and polymeric pigment with no change or a decrease in anthocyanin content (Watson et al. 2000). In another study by the same group using Pinot noir and Cabernet Sauvignon, none of the enzymes were found to increase anthocyanin content at six months of aging and some were found to decrease it (Wightman et al. 1997). In both cases, the decrease in anthocyanins was accompanied by an increase in polymeric pigment, so it may be due to polymeric pigment formation. An independent group saw no effect on anthocyanin extraction in Pinot noir at 18 months of aging, but an increase in polymeric pigment and total phenols (Parley et al. 2001).
In the majority of studies, pectinases do not seem to increase anthocyanin extraction but do seem to increase extraction of other phenolics including tannins. The fact that no effect on anthocyanins was observed may be because the wines were tested after aging, allowing losses by degradation or polymeric pigment formation. Pectinase treatment has also been found to increase polymeric pigment formation.
Pump-Overs and Punch-Downs
In fermentation on the skins, a cap develops as carbon dioxide evolution causes the grape solids to rise to the top of the fermentation vessel. This has two potentially negative consequences: heat is trapped in the cap and there is reduced contact between the bulk juice and the skins and seeds. To overcome these problems, the skins and juice are usually mixed several times a day, either by pushing the skins below the juice surface (punch-down) or by pumping juice out and spraying it over the top of the skins (pump-over). The effect of a pump-over is dependent upon the timing during fermentation, as it will be influenced by both fermentation temperature and whether skins are circulating through the pump. The temperature the cap is allowed to attain is also an important variable, but one that has not been adequately investigated. Since some type of juice mixing is always included in red fermentations, studies have focused on comparing the different methods. Generally, it has been found that the results depend on the variety.
Early work showed a small increase in the color and tannin concentration with pump-overs versus punch-downs (Ough and Amerine 1961). Recently, the different classes of phenolics were quantified and compared for manual punch-down, mechanical punch-down, and mechanical pump-over for three grape varieties: Pinot noir, Dornfelder, and Portugieser (Fisher et al. 2000). With the exception of quercetin that was greatly increased by pump-over in all cases, the results were variety dependent. The largest differences were found for Pinot noir, where mechanical punch-down or pump-over increased most classes of phenolics by 100 to 200% and mechanical punch-down gave greater extraction than pump-over. Very little polymeric pigment was found with any of the extraction methods, but that may be due to the analysis method. For Dornfelder, both mechanical methods increased extraction of the nonpolymeric phenols, with pump-over mildly favoring extraction over punch-down. The smallest effect was observed with Portugieser where only quercetin, flavanols, and caftaric acid increased with mechanical methods.
Another study comparing punch-downs with pump-overs also found a variety-dependent effect. For Negra-mano and Primitivo, anthocyanins, catechin, and total phenols were greater for pump-overs, but with Sangiovese there was little effect on anthocyanins and decreases in catechins and total phenols were observed (Leone et al. 1983).
A study with Pinotage comparing manual punch-down, pump-over, and rotary mixing found that extraction rates of total flavonoids, total tannins, and anthocyanins were slower for pump-overs and that lower concentrations were achieved (Marais 2003a,b). Analysis of the total phenols content of the resulting wines showed that the highest concentration was obtained with rotary mixing, followed by punch-down, then pump-over.
Pump-over has also been compared to delestage for the Italian variety Montepulciano d’Abruzzo (Bosso et al. 2001). Delestage, also referred to as rack and return, is a technique where all of the juice is drained from the tank and then poured back over the skins. Pump-overs gave higher anthocyanins, polymeric pigments, and tannins with the largest differences observed for tannins. During bottle aging, the differences in anthocyanins and tannins decreased slowly while the differences in polymeric pigment increased, with the pump-over wines showing more polymeric pigment formation. Of course these results are likely dependent on the type of pump-over operation performed and the length of time it is performed.
Maceration Time
The practice of extended maceration prolongs skin contact after the must has fermented to dryness. Based on what is known about anthocyanin and tannin extraction profiles, extended maceration would be expected to increase tannin, but not anthocyanin content. It is widely believed to increase extraction of the skins and seeds and this belief is generally supported by the literature.
It has been demonstrated that longer pomace contact during fermentation, 10 versus 4 or 5 days, increased the concentration of anthocyanins and tannin in the wines at bottling and that the wines which had longer pomace contact contained more polymeric pigment after one year in bottle (Gomez-Plaza et al. 2001). The largest increase in anthocyanins was between day 4 and day 5 of skin contact, with little increase after 10 days of skin contact.
A replicated small-scale fermentation study found more anthocyanins in young wines made with extended pomace contact and more total phenols at all stages of aging (Scudamore-Smith et al. 1990). A study that compared maceration of Cabernet Sauvignon for 7, 13, and 21 days found that total phenols, gallic acid, and flavanols all increased with skin contact time (Auw et al. 1996). Furthermore, the increases in total phenols and flavanols were greater between 13 and 21 days than between 7 and 13 days. Work with Cabernet Sauvignon has also shown that wines with extended skin contact, 44 days versus 14 or 23 days, contain more molecules of higher molecular weight after 21 months of aging, suggesting that they contain more polymeric pigment (Kudo and Sodeyama 2002).
Several experiments with Pinot noir have indicated that extraction of flavanols and polymeric phenols as well as the levels of total phenols increases with extended skin contact (Watson et al. 1994, 1995). A study with Syrah also showed an increase in total pigment with a three-day extended maceration, which likely reflects an increase in polymeric pigment because of greater tannin extraction (Reynolds et al. 2001). It has also been reported for Merlot that total phenols increase up to 36 days of pomace contact, though the increase slows around day 10, while pigments increase rapidly until day 4, then slowly decrease over time (Yokotsuka et al. 2000).
These studies support the expectation that extended maceration leads to increases in tannin, but not anthocyanin. The increased tannin extraction may also lead to greater polymeric pigment formation.
Yeast Selection
There has also been interest in the potential of yeast selection to affect the phenolic profile of red wines. Yeast lees has been demonstrated to adsorb anthocyanins (Vasserot et al. 1997, Morata et al. 2003), and though there are no reports yet, it seems plausible that macromolecules released on autolysis can bind polymeric phenols in a similar fashion to protein-fining agents. The interaction between tannins and mannoproteins released from different yeast has been examined, and it has been found that addition of mannoproteins from particular yeast led to more anthocyanin-tannin condensation and decreased astringency in wine (Escot et al. 2001).
There have been many studies looking for an effect of yeast selection on the phenolic profile of red wines; however, none of them mention sterile precautions to ensure that the inoculating strain was the only yeast present or monitoring of the microbial population during fermentation to verify that the inoculant was the dominant fermenting yeast. Further confusing the issue in many of the studies, the lots were pressed at dryness, so it is not clear if the different lots had the same skin contact time. Finally, not all of the studies were replicated, making it impossible to assess whether or not the results were statistically significant.
What appears to be the first report on the effect of yeast selection on the phenolic profile of red wines is a review by Cuinier (1988) summarizing the results of several experiments in Burgundy. The phenolic composition of wines produced by different yeast strains was compared using color intensity and total phenolics, both in absorbance units. These nonreplicated studies showed small if any effects on color intensity and total phenolics.
More recently the same author reported the results of a replicated study, comparing Gamay fermentations with 18 yeasts, including wild yeast genera, which showed differences up to 100 mg/L in anthocyanins and 10 absorbance units in total phenolics among Saccharomyces strains (Cuinier 1997). There was uniform skin contact time for all yeasts, although alcohol levels at pressing may have varied. Color intensity and total phenolics were measured as previously; however, there was no separate measurement of polymeric phenols such as tannins.
The initial work on the effects of yeast selection on the phenolic profile of Pinot noir suggested that differences were obtained according to yeast strain (Dumont et al. 1993); however, quantitative results were not given. This study is unique because efforts were made to demonstrate that the fermenting yeast was the inoculating strain using PCR techniques. These initial results were not confirmed by a study comparing six yeast strains in fermentation of Pinot noir that found little difference in the phenolics measured as total phenolics, color intensity, anthocyanins, and tannins (Lorenzini 2001). A later replicated study of vinification effects on the color of Pinot noir included two yeast strains, but found that yeast strain made basically no difference in total phenolics, anthocyanins, or color density (Girard et al. 2001).
This group also compared seven additional yeast strains with Pinot noir and six with Cabernet franc and Merlot (Mazza et al. 1999). Once again the yeast strain did not have a great effect on phenolic composition, although greater differences were observed than in the earlier study. However, since all fermentations were pressed at dryness, differences in skin contact time could confound yeast effects. For all three varieties the following ranges of phenolic parameters were observed: total phenolics, 150 mg/L gallic acid equivalents, and anthocyanins, 50 mg/L malvidin 3-glucoside equivalents.
Another group reported differences in the color of Syrah and Cabernet Sauvignon fermented with Saccharomyces bayanus strains compared to other yeasts, although the Syrah experiment was not replicated (Eglinton and Henschke 2003). In the Syrah wines, absorbance at 520 nm was greatest for uninoculated fermentations, followed by Candida fermentations, then S. bayanus (S. cerevisiae var. bayanus) fermentations. Cabernet Sauvignon wines fermented with S. bayanus were reported to have more color resistant to bleaching, greater color density, and more purple hue than wines fermented with S. cerevisiae var. cerevisiae, but the statistical significance was not reported. These studies did not standardize skin contact time, and it is mentioned that S. bayanus was a slower fermenter with Cabernet Sauvignon. That means S. bayanus wines had more skin contact and thus could contain more copigmentation cofactors, leading to the purple hue.
Three yeast strains were evaluated in Sangiovese and found to give nearly identical phenolic profiles (Zini et al. 2002). Other studies argue that particular strains give superior color (Delteil 1995, Boisson et al. 2002).
The most recent study on the effect of yeast selection on phenolic composition compared five Saccharomyces yeast in fermentation of four varieties: Teroldego, Lagrein, Merlot, and Enantio (Nicolini et al. 2003). Great differences were not observed and there was no information about statistical significance, as it was not a replicated study. The color intensity of the wines was affected more by variety than by yeast strain; however, most of the data was reported as an average of the four varieties with a range of 83 mg/L and 54 mg/L catechin equivalents for total phenols and anthocyanin contents, respectively.
Of the winemaking variables and techniques reviewed here, six have been found to increase the phenolic composition of the finished wine: fermentation temperature, thermovinification, must freezing, saignée, pectolytic enzyme treatments, and extended maceration. Sulfur dioxide levels and cold-soak treatments have been shown to have little to no lasting effect or to lead to a decrease in phenolics. Finally, carbonic maceration, yeast selection, and skin and juice mixing practices have produced variable results depending mainly on the grape varieties studied.
Received November 2004.
Revision received May 2005.
Copyright © 2005 by the American Society for Enology and Viticulture
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Office REITs: Value Opportunity or Value Trap?
Commercial real estate is under pressure. Hospitality properties are in distress and many retail assets are struggling amid restaurant closures and the acceleration of online shopping. Thus far, long-term leases and high-quality tenant rosters have spared Class A office properties from pain. Second quarter results for major publicly traded office real estate investment trusts offer insights into the office markets of large cities, and their discounted stock prices appear to be attractive.
The second quarter results for three office REITs were reviewed for this report: Boston Properties (BXP), SL Green (SLG), and Kilroy Realty Trust (KRC).
Boston Properties is the nation’s largest office REIT with over 51 million square feet owned directly, and another 7 million owned through joint ventures. BXP has concentrations of properties in New York, Boston, Washington, D.C., Los Angeles and San Francisco. SL Green owns nearly 30 million square feet in New York City with roughly half-and-half split between direct ownership and joint ventures. SLG also holds nearly $1.2 billion of mortgages, mezzanine loans and preferred equity positions in other New York properties. Kilroy Realty Trust has over 17 million square feet based on the west coast. It has a larger suburban portfolio than the others, and its stock has performed comparatively well.
All office REIT executives believe their companies are well-prepared to weather the shift towards work-from-home arrangements. They have raised capital at low interest rates and bolstered their balance sheets. Lease expirations are minimal in the near term. Stocks are trading at considerable discounts to underlying asset values and offer hefty dividend yields. The ability to sustain dividend payments for the next two years seems likely and the discount to net asset values offers downside protection. Technology companies continue to lease new space. However, clouds hang on the horizon. A reduction in office floorplans seems inevitable. Financial firms may reduce headcounts as they reckon with tighter interest rate spreads and a rising collection of distressed assets in their portfolios. Meanwhile, working from home may not prove to be the revolution once envisioned in April, but certain jobs will remain permanently remote.
One Vanderbilt, SL Green
Note: This paper contains the opinions and interpretations of the author. No representations are made regarding the accuracy of the material. The views do not represent investment recommendations. All readers should perform their own due diligence before making an investment decision.
Occupancy and Collections of Rent in the Second Quarter
All companies collected over 90% of rents during the second quarter. BXP suffered from vacancy at its hotel properties, and both BXP and SLG reported rent collections only slightly better than 50% for their retail square footage. Yet office rent collections were better than feared. BXP and KRC collected 98% of office rents and 96% of SLG’s office tenants paid during the second quarter. Overall occupancy at the end of the June period stood hovered near 93% for all three firms. However, the actual staff presence in the buildings was minimal, with only about 10-15% physical occupancy for BXP and SLG and 25% for KRC estimated during late July.
BXP and KRC took advantage of the decline in interest rates to raise significant capital during the past six months while SL Green sold two assets for over $600 million to bolster the balance sheet. In August, Kilroy raised $425 million in senior notes at 2.5% due in 2032, and Boston Properties issued $1.25 billion in senior secured notes at 3.25% maturing in 2031. Kilroy raised $247 million in a March share offering. No new senior debt was issued at SLG, although a couple of properties were refinanced. Fitch did affirm a BBB credit rating for SL Green but revised its outlook to “negative”.
Office REITs trade at significan discounts to their pre-Covid highs.
Shareholder Benefits
All CEO’s believe that their balance sheets are well-positioned for the next two years. Kilroy increased its dividend by 3% in August and SL Green purchased $163 million of stock during the second quarter.
Leasing Activity
Despite the pandemic, leasing activity did continue at muted levels. All three companies renewed about 1.5% of their portfolio with an approximate retention rate of 50%. BXP signed a major new lease for 400,000 square feet with Microsoft at its Reston, Virginia property. BXP and KRC have minimal lease expirations over the next three years with KRC at roughly 4% per year through 2022 and BXP closer to 6%. Kilroy has 85% of its space concentrated in low and mid-rise buildings. SL Green has minimal exposure in 2020 but faces a worrying 11% expiration level in 2021.
Kilroy and Boston Properties are bullish on markets where technology and life science businesses are showing resilience and even growth during the pandemic. While Facebook, Google and Amazon grab the most headlines, the emergence of laboratory needs in the biotechnology and pharmaceutical industry is equally fascinating. These companies are viewed as more likely to take up new space in coming years as the office environment remains necessary to foster collaboration and company culture. Both firms show interest in the Seattle market while BXP seeks further growth in the technology hotspots near the Los Angeles beaches. A notable bright spot during the doom and gloom of New York City’s pandemic challenges was Vornado’s signing of Facebook to a 730,000 square foot lease in the former post office building near Penn Station.
DropBox headquarters in Mission Bay, San Francisco
All three REITs have significant development activity which accounts for between 9-15% of the total square footage inventory for each company. While these developments pose risk should they fall short of targets, all CEOs noted that they had adequate liquidity to finish the projects. 90% of KRC’s pipeline is leased while BXP has 74% leased in their upcoming projects. SL Green has higher leasing risk, as was cited in the Fitch ratings downgrade, with 50% of new square feet committed. Among all three companies’ projects in development, the most prominent is the 77 story SL Green tower known as One Vanderbilt – a 1.5 million square foot building near Grand Central Station which is 70% leased and opens this week. The project is a landmark $3 billion asset. The opening generated enough excitement to propel the stock upwards by over 10%. SL Green is also partnering with a Korean pension fund on the $2.3 billion redevelopment of One Madison Avenue. The space is not scheduled for delivery until 2024. Kilroy is in a strong position with its development projects. KRC will soon be opening a 355,000 square foot building in Hollywood fully leased to Netflix and another 635,000 square foot building in Seattle 100% leased to a Fortune 50 company. Another 285,000 square feet in San Diego will come online in 2021 with 91% of the space leased.
Sublease Risks
One of the factors most likely to suppress future rents is the likelihood that surplus space is placed on the market by current tenants. These subleases become phantom vacancy that is nearly always offered at below-market rents. CEO John Kilroy did not view the subleasing environment as overly worrying. In reference to San Francisco in particular, he offered, “Sublease space in the market right now is about 5 million square feet… 2.3 million was added during Covid… to put that into perspective, the direct vacancy rate in San Francisco right now is about 5.4% and sublease is 2.5% of that. To compare that to the dot-com bust, direct vacancy was 8.3% and sublease space with 6.8%.” However, despite the CEO’s comments, Kilroy identified sublease space in its 10-Q, the first time in several quarters such information was broken out. 849,000 square feet in the portfolio was listed for sublease, or nearly six percent of the portfolio. About half the space was noted as vacant. In late July, DropBox announced it would list 270,000 sf for lease, nearly 1/3rd of its offices, in the newly opened Kilroy development in Mission Bay, San Francisco. Meanwhile, Boston Properties was impacted by the bankruptcy of Ann Taylor’s parent company which occupies 340,000 sf in Times Square. It would seem likely that even if a bankruptcy restructuring is successful, surplus space will find it’s way onto the market.
SL Green Challenges
SL Green is the most difficult office REIT to analyze. Nearly half of the company’s square footage is held in joint ventures which are not consolidated in the operating revenues and expenses. The company also has a complicated portfolio of first mortgages, mezzanine loans and preferred equity positions in various properties in New York. SLG also owns many properties encumbered by ground leases.
Indeed, some mezzanine loan positions appear to be under pressure. On September 2nd, it was reported that SL Green bought the $90 million first mortgage for 590 Fifth Avenue after Thor Equities defaulted on a $25 million mezzanine note. The property is a 19 story 100,000 sf building. The mezzanine business cuts both ways for SL Green. A distressed developer who falls behind on their mezzanine financing could present an opportunity for SL Green to pick up assets for the value of the first mortgage. In most cases, these will be bargain acquisitions. Unfortunately, the impairment of a mezzanine loan is in itself a damaging blow to the balance sheet and the need to muster capital to protect a junior debt position could require deeper pockets than the company anticipates.
While two asset sales reinforced cash positions, the failed $815 million sale of the Daily News Building in March offered an indication of the challenges valuing New York office assets in a post-pandemic world after Deutsche Bank pulled financing for the deal. SLG was able to refinance the property in June with a $510 million mortgage from a lender consortium. SL Green is also considering the sale of its two multifamily properties.
Kilroy’s Netflix campus: Academy on Vine
Investment Evaluation
SL Green has seen its stock hammered by the pandemic. Down by nearly 50%, SLG’s dividend yield exceeds 7%. Boston Properties has faced a 40% decline and offers a yield of 4.4%. Meanwhile, Kilroy lost 35% since its pre-Covid highs and yields 3.45%
In the process of evaluating the stocks, I made simple assumptions. Some may argue that these are too elementary, but the exercise was intended to discover whether the public market is significantly undervaluing the underlying assets by a wide enough margin to provide an element of downside protection. I was not intent on arriving at a precise valuation of the businesses.
My method was to annualize pro forma income simply by taking second quarter revenues and multiplying them by four. This may prove generous in the event further occupancy problems arise; it also is punitive for the companies. For example, the methodology assigns no future income for the Mission Bay/DropBox property placed in service. It also ignores the 70% occupancy of One Vanderbilt placed in service by SLG. It gives no value to the new BXP leasing in Virginia. In all cases, the exercise merely values the development assets at cost. The only upside “help” that was given by the author was a slight uptick in hotel revenues attributed to BXP during the balance of two quarters.
I capitalized the net income at 5.0% for KRC due to its high level of low and mid-rise buildings, 5.25% for BXP, and 5.5% for SLG. Certainly, before the pandemic, these cap rates would be considered high for trophy office properties in major urban areas. I added the cash on the balance sheet and subtracted debt to arrive at a net asset value. All in-progress development projects were added at cost. Joint venture assets were included in the income statement computations to the extent that they were reflected in the ownership percentages. The result is a 70% value discount for SLG, and a 38% discount for BXP. KRC is selling for a 17% discount. On the income side, I calculated the dividend coverage ratios: BXP stands at 1.6x, SLG 1.7x and KRC 1.8x.
Next, I performed a stress test analysis that reduced revenues by 10%. In the case of SL Green, I also deemed their property loan portfolio to be 50% impaired. Even with this penalty, SLG appears to trade at par to net asset value. Meanwhile BXP would seem to be 24% below value as well. KRC with its under-estimated future income looks to be valued at par after the stress test. In this example, BXP and KRC could continue to comfortably fund their dividends but SLG would be under pressure to reduce shareholder payments.
While all three companies trade at steep discounts, one can’t help but wonder if the world will look back at this moment and ask why real estate experts underestimated the paradigm shift of working from home. If it worked pretty well for 6 months for most office workers, why can’t it work permanently? If nothing more, workers got 1-2 hours of their days back by not facing a long commute into the city center. This increase in productivity alone is tangible.
Of course, as the weeks have dragged on, frustration has set in with the arrangement. JP Morgan CEO Jamie Dimon has summoned traders back to their desks and recently noted a decline in productivity among employees at the banking giant. Zoom meetings can’t replace the 80% of communication that occurs through body language, and even a micro-second lag on a call is maddening after the third time someone interrupts. The office is a vital asset in our knowledge and information-based economy. Ideas and culture are the engines of growth. But data entry, call centers, accounting and routine back office functions seem to need nothing more than a good workstation in the den along with a high-speed data connection. Office leases will take 2-5 years to expire, but what if all companies simply reduced their footprints by 10%? My stress test may prove to be too light.
Kilroy and Boston Properties are the most appealing investments. The balance sheets have been fortified and leasing activity for the companies’ new developments is robust. Kilroy’s exposure to suburban markets offers a hedge against central business districts in major cities, and BXP has a well-diversified geographic portfolio. Meanwhile, despite the steep discount, SL Green appears to be the riskiest of the three REITs. The concentration in New York City is worrisome. While some may argue that the risk is reflected in the added discount, it is worth noting the SL Green executives had been appealing to investors as recently as the fall of 2019 that the stock traded at an unjustified discount of 25% to its peers. A risky mezzanine portfolio and the complexity of its joint venture arrangements could pose future challenges.
The most encouraging future for office properties lies in the technology and life sciences industries. Despite recent sublease announcements, Both Kilroy and Boston Properties are aggressively pursuing these vanguard companies with visible degrees of success. Meanwhile, the transformation of New York City into a technology hub is well under way. The question is now raised: can technology employment grow fast enough to replace the shrinking office needs of remote workers?
Bert Hancock, September 15, 2020
bert@alchemydevelopment.com
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See more Manganese products. Manganese (atomic symbol: Mn, atomic number: 25) is a Block D, Group 7, Period 4 element with an atomic weight of 54.938045. The number of electrons in each of Manganese's shells is [2, 8, 13, 2] and its electron configuration is [Ar] 3d5 4s2. The manganese atom has a radius of 127 pm and a Van der Waals radius of 197 pm. Manganese was first discovered by Torbern Olof Bergman in 1770 and first isolated by Johann Gottlieb Gahn in 1774. In its elemental form, manganese has a silvery metallic appearance. It is a paramagnetic metal that oxidizes easily in addition to being very hard and brittle. Manganese is found as a free element in nature and also in the minerals pyrolusite, braunite, psilomelane, and rhodochrosite. The name Manganese originates from the Latin word mangnes, meaning "magnet."
42 Mo 95.960000000 Molybdenum
See more Molybdenum products. Molybdenum (atomic symbol: Mo, atomic number: 42) is a Block D, Group 6, Period 5 element with an atomic weight of 95.96. The number of electrons in each of molybdenum's shells is [2, 8, 18, 13, 1] and its electron configuration is [Kr] 4d5 5s1. The molybdenum atom has a radius of 139 pm and a Van der Waals radius of 209 pm. In its elemental form, molybdenum has a gray metallic appearance. Molybdenum was discovered by Carl Wilhelm in 1778 and first isolated by Peter Jacob Hjelm in 1781. Molybdenum is the 54th most abundant element in the earth's crust. It has the third highest melting point of any element, exceeded only by tungsten and tantalum. Molybdenum does not occur naturally as a free metal, it is found in various oxidation states in minerals. The primary commercial source of molybdenum is molybdenite, although it is also recovered as a byproduct of copper and tungsten mining. The origin of the name Molybdenum comes from the Greek word molubdos meaning lead.
28 Ni 58.693400000 Nickel
See more Nickel products. Nickel (atomic symbol: Ni, atomic number: 28) is a Block D, Group 4, Period 4 element with an atomic weight of 58.6934. The number of electrons in each of nickel's shells is [2, 8, 16, 2] and its electron configuration is [Ar]3d8 4s2. Nickel was first discovered by Alex Constedt in 1751. The nickel atom has a radius of 124 pm and a Van der Waals radius of 184 pm. In its elemental form, nickel has a lustrous metallic silver appearance. Nickel is a hard and ductile transition metal that is considered corrosion-resistant because of its slow rate of oxidation. It is one of four elements that are ferromagnetic and is used in the production of various type of magnets for commercial use. Nickel is sometimes found free in nature but is more commonly found in ores. The bulk of mined nickel comes from laterite and magmatic sulfide ores. The name originates from the German word kupfernickel, which means "false copper" from the illusory copper color of the ore.
Effect of Cu/Fe/Co substitution on static and dynamic magnetic properties of Ni-Mn-Sn alloy thin films.
On the real-time atomistic deformation of nano twinned CrCoFeNi high entropy alloy.
Impact of Varied Factors on Iron, Nickel, Molybdenum and Vanadium Concentrations in the Knee Joint.
Facile electrodeposition of ternary Ni-Fe-Co alloy nanostructure as a binder free, cost-effective and durable electrocatalyst for high-performance overall water splitting.
RF magnetron sputtering mediated NiTi/Ag coating on Ti-alloy substrate with enhanced biocompatibility and durability.
Comparative Heating Efficiency of Cobalt-, Manganese-, and Nickel-Ferrite Nanoparticles for a Hyperthermia Agent in Biomedicines.
Arsenic surface complexation behavior in aqueous systems onto Al substituted Ni, Co, Mn, and Cu based ferrite nano adsorbents.
Iron-Doped Nickel Molybdate with Enhanced Oxygen Evolution Kinetics.
A robust core-shell nanostructured nickel-iron alloy@nitrogen-containing carbon catalyst for the highly efficient hydrogenation of nitroarenes.
A novel method for vanadium slag comprehensive utilization to synthesize Zn-Mn ferrite and Fe-V-Cr alloy.
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SYMBOL of OUR LIBERTY
Story by Howard R. Driggs
Back of every great song lies a story. A soul stirring lyric, like a rose, blooms at the end of a thorny stem, with roots in a soil made rich by sacrifice. How true this is of our national anthem, The Star-Spangled Banner.
Here is a distinctive national anthem born in the midst of battle. It was during the War of 1812. America, its rights trampled on by old world powers, had sprung to the defense of hard-won liberties.
Victories for our forces had been won around the Great Lakes and on the high seas. For the moment, however, our National Capital was left virtually undefended. Seizing their opportunity, the British drove on to capture this vital city. President Madison and members of his cabinet watched with dismay the rout of our inadequate army.
At the White House the First Lady of the Land had a dinner in preparation for many guests. Suddenly, word came from the President for her to flee. One treasure, the Stuart portrait of General Washington, she could not leave behind. At risk of delay she hastily cut this from its frame, rolled it carefully and handed it to a trusted friend to save. Then she fled.
Officials of Washington were likewise in flight. An arrogant, reckless enemy swept into our Nation’s Capital intent on destruction. Government buildings and homes were set on fire. The White House was raided; food for Dolly Madison’s dinner was eaten by the hungry invaders, and the loved dwelling given to the flames. All the city might have been reduced to ashes, had not a timely, heavy rain checked the fires. It was a dark hour for youthful, high-spirited America.
Another severe test was not long coming. Up the Chesapeake Bay sailed the British fleet confident that Fort McHenry, main defense of Baltimore, would speedily fall before it. Major Armistead and his band of American fighters had determined otherwise.
Before the warships launched their attack, Francis Scott Key, a young lawyer of Maryland, visited the enemy to try to win release for a friend who had been taken prisoner. His mission was successful, but Key was not permitted to return at once to his friends ashore. Instead, he was held first on a frigate while preparations for the fight went on; then before the bombardment began, he was returned to the little boat that had carried him from Baltimore.
From its deck, through lengthened hours, he watched with anxious heart the efforts of the foe to silence the guns of the fort and bring down his country’s flag. At last for relief of his patriotic emotion, he drew from his pocket a letter, and on the back of it penned lines, which later rounded to completeness, gave us our Star-Spangled Banner.
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Namco Bandai Games' Naruto: Uzumaki Chronicles Battles onto Retail Shelves
NAMCO BANDAI GAMES' “NARUTO(TM): UZUMAKI CHRONICLES(TM)” BATTLES
ONTO RETAIL SHELVES
Action Adventure Game for the PlayStation(R)2 System Summons the Power
of the Nine-Tailed Fox Spirit across North America
SANTA CLARA, Calif., (November 14, 2006) – Leading video games
publisher and developer NAMCO BANDAI Games America Inc. announced today that
“NARUTO(TM): Uzumaki Chronicles(TM)” is now available in retail
stores throughout North America. Based on the hit animated TV series
NARUTO from VIZ Media, “NARUTO: Uzumaki Chronicles” is available
exclusively for the PlayStation(R)2 computer entertainment system. Locked deep
inside Naruto, a rambunctious orphan, is the powerful Nine-Tailed Fox
Spirit. By harnessing the power of this demon through rigorous training
and intense challenges, Naruto aspires to become Hokage, the most
powerful ninja of all.
“Numerous customization options provide players the opportunity to
harness the power of the Nine-Tailed Fox Spirit in a way never before
seen in a Naruto video game," said Naruo Uchida, Vice President of
Localization at NAMCO BANDAI Games America Inc. “Fans have been clamoring
for even more intense Naruto action, and the original storyline of
‘NARUTO: Uzumaki Chronicles’ delivers a unique playing experience within
the familiar world of Naruto.”
Exploring intricately detailed 3D environments, Naruto must embark on a
journey to save the Hidden Leaf Village, from an impending threat. By
utilizing a unique partner system with familiar characters such as
Sasuke, Choji and Kakashi, players must work as a team with the other Leaf
Ninja to complete story-driven missions. By collecting special chips and
plates that affect speed, strength and stamina, players can customize
Naruto's fighting abilities in virtually limitless ways -- each one
unlocking new skills and abilities. Players can fight through hordes of
enemies up-close with lethal ninjutsu, or rely on long-range weapons,
such as exploding cards, to complete missions and unravel the enemies'
secret plots. Mini-games, countless fighting abilities for Naruto and
various unlockable abilities will leave aspiring ninja thirsting for
First introduced into the Weekly Shonen Jump Magazine in Japan in 1999,
NARUTO -- by revered creator Masashi Kishimoto -- quickly became
Japan's most popular ninja manga. In 2000, NARUTO was expanded into a
series of graphic novels with more than 66 million copies sold in Japan.
NARUTO consistently ranks as one of the most popular titles serialized in
VIZ Media's SHONEN JUMP monthly manga anthology and one of the top
graphic novel titles (also published by VIZ Media) in the United States.
VIZ Media was named the Master Licensor in February 2005, obtaining the
television, home video and merchandising rights to NARUTO for North America and Latin America.
For more information about “NARUTO: Uzumaki Chronicles,” please
http://Uzumaki.namcobandaigames.com.
About VIZ Media, LLC
Headquartered in San Francisco, CA, VIZ Media, LLC (VIZ Media), is one
of the most comprehensive and innovative companies in the field of
manga publishing, animation and entertainment licensing of Japanese
content. Owned by three of Japan's largest creators and licensors of manga
and animation, Shueisha Inc., Shogakukan Inc., and Shogakukan Production
Co., Ltd. (ShoPro Japan), VIZ Media is a leader in the publishing and
distribution of Japanese manga for English speaking audiences in North America and a global licensor of Japanese animation. The company offers
an integrated product line including, magazines such as SHONEN JUMP and
SHOJO BEAT, graphic novels, videos, DVDs, audio soundtracks and
develops and markets animated entertainment from initial production,
television placement and distribution, to merchandise licensing and promotions
for audiences and consumers of all ages. Contact VIZ Media at 295 Bay Street, San Francisco, CA 94133; Phone (415) 546-7073; Fax (415) 546-7086; and web site at www.VIZ.com.
About NAMCO BANDAI Games America Inc.
NAMCO BANDAI Games America Inc. is an interactive entertainment
software publisher and developer based in Santa Clara, CA. The company is a
subsidiary of the newly formed NAMCO BANDAI Holdings (USA) Inc. based
in Cypress, CA.
On September 29, 2005, Bandai Co., Ltd. and NAMCO LIMITED implemented a
management integration to form NAMCO BANDAI Holdings Inc. This step was
taken to compete more effectively on the global stage in the
fast-changing entertainment industry and to deliver further growth.
The resulting BANDAI NAMCO Group is a global entertainment group
involved in business fields ranging from toys, amusement facilities, video
game software and visual software, to apparel, sundries and network
As previous separate entities (Namco Hometek Inc. and Bandai Games
Inc.) the companies were each known for creating some of the industry's
top video game franchises including: Tamagotchi(R), Tekken(R),
SOULCALIBUR(R), Dead to Rights(R), Pac-Man(R) World(TM), Digimon(R), Ridge
Racer(R), Time Crisis(R) and ACECOMBAT(R). For more information about
NAMCO BANDAI Games America Inc. and its products log onto
www.namcobandaigames.com.
Press Release (C) 2006 NAMCO BANDAI Games America Inc.
Naruto (C) 2002 MASASHI KISHIMOTO Program (C) 2006 NAMCO BANDAI
Games. Uzumaki Chronicles is a trademark of NAMCO BANDAI Games America
Inc. NAMCO BANDAI Games Logo is a trademark of NAMCO BANDAI. Published
and Distributed by NAMCO BANDAI Games America Inc under license from
VIZ Media LLC. All Rights Reserved.
"PlayStation" and the "PS" Family logo are registered trademarks of
Sony Computer Entertainment Inc.
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Report shows fintech sector flourishing with $40bn in M&A action
By George Geddes on Monday 8 October 2018
Blockchain platforms and insurtech firms are expected to be prime targets to continue the surge of acquisitions for the remainder of the year.
Hampleton Partners has released its latest fintech M&A report which shows a total disclosed transaction value of $39.3bn in deals for H1 2018. This is a 26 per cent increase in value from the previous 6 months.
With the sector suffering a significant slowdown in acquisitions in the latter half of 2016, 2017 witnessed an increase in transactions which sparked speculation that an M&A boom was imminent for the UK’s fintech sector. There were a reported 141 transactions that took place in the first half of 2018 including the $17bn acquisition of Thomson Reuters by Blackstone. The Reuters deal's inclusion shows the broadness of Hampelton’s criteria when it comes to defining “fintech”.
The report suggests that the sudden surge in the value of transactions is a result of “consumer and enterprise acceptance of digital banking, payments and financial data services”.
Jo Goodson, managing director at Hampleton Partners, comments that larger corporations are seeking investments to improve the efficiency of back-office operations and customer experience. RBS acquiring FreeAgent, an accounting software provider, is one example of a big bank absorbing a software company to improve growth in trading and sales.
Digital payments and transactions is a specific area within the sector which has received significant attention. Two out of the top five deals come from the segment including PayPal’s $2.2bn fee to acquire the payment provider, iZettle.
There appears to be no signs of the boom coming to an end any time soon. For the remainder of 2018, Hampleton sees blockchain firms as prime targets when a number of platforms come to market. Additionally, insurtech could be a catalyst that instigates a surge in deals when “traditional insurers step up their efforts to innovate their consumer and enterprise offerings through M&A”.
Goodson added that PSD2 is another component that could drive M&A, saying: “Going forward, the implementation of Europe's Revised Payment Service Directive, or PSD2, is likely to be a major game changer for the deal landscape, as it encourages pan-European competition and participation in the payments industry, including non-banks.”
Ripple effect: Revolut issues warning about XRP while still letting users trade it amid SEC lawsuit
Alternative Lending: The industry’s predictions for 2021
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The Remnant: On the Brink of Armageddon
Left Behind, Book 10
By: Tim LaHaye, Jerry B. Jenkins
Narrated by: Jack Sondericker
Series: Left Behind (abridged), Book 10
Left Behind, Book 8
Narrated by: Frank Muller
The evil world leader Nicolae Carpathia officially takes his place as the Antichrist and begins his three-and-a-half year reign of terror over the earth. Technology provides the means to place the mark of the beast on every human, and the Trib Force scrambles to survive.
Before They Were Left Behind
Narrated by: Richard Ferrone
New York Times best-selling authors Tim LaHaye and Jerry B. Jenkins have sold more than 60 million copies of their Left Behind series, the fastest-selling adult fiction series of all time. Now these extraordinarily popular writers unveil the hotly anticipated Countdown to Rapture series, the thrilling saga that leads to the events of the Left Behind books.
Riveting...
Before They Were Left Behind, Book 3
Narrated by: Jerry Sciarrio
Length: 8 hrs
Pan-Con Airlines captain Rayford Steele prepares for a flight to London with beautiful flight attendant Hattie Durham. Because of his wife's newfound faith, Rayford looks forward to time and the possibilities with Hattie.... Journalist Cameron "Buck" Williams is in Israel when the Russians attack, and he experiences for himself the miraculous deliverance of the Holy Land. Buck cannot deny Chicago bureau chief Lucinda Washington's insistence that the event was prophesied in Scripture....
Narrated by: Wayne Shepherd
Best-selling author and prophecy scholar Tim LaHaye and co-author Jerry B. Jenkins examine the signs of the end times and present 20 reasons why they believe the current generation could see the Rapture. LaHaye and Jenkins lead the listener through the basics of prophecy, then present their 20 reasons in detail. Understanding prophecy can be difficult and confusing. This book takes away all of the mystery - and the intimidation.
Soul Harvest
Left Behind, Volume 4
Great earthquakes have rocked the earth, destroying millions and leaving widespread devastation. As the Antichrist, Nicolae, sends out his forces to restore order, pilot Rayford Steele finds it increasingly difficult to work for this enemy. His thoughts are with the other believers in Christ, the Tribulation Force. Buck Williams, too, is focused on gathering the faithful together as he desperately searches for his wife, who disappeared in the earthquake.
The Indwelling
It has been three and a half years since the Rapture took up the bodies of the innocent to Heaven. The prophecies foretell that this is the point when the seven-year Tribulation shall become the Great Tribulation, with the forces of evil tightening their grip on humanity in preparation for the final battle. As the world mourns the death of a renowned leader, the Tribulation Force looks for the next predicted sign, that Satan will take possession of the Antichrist and raise him from the dead!
The Great Tribulation unfolds as the forces of evil and the armies of God prepare for mankind's ultimate battle. Millions of Christians are protected by God as the anger of the Antichrist Nicolae Carpathia burns against them.
©2002 LaHaye Publishing Group, LLC and Jerry B. Jenkins (P)2002 LaHaye Publishing Group, LLC and Jerry B. Jenkins
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Too short and too much music.
not a lot of text to this. some chapters were only music, which was a little weird. I'm stuck on the story so will probably finish the series.
Randy Gray
A little annoying that I listened to the series narrated Frank Muller only to find the rest of the series narrated by different person that cant even pronounce the names correctly do you even review these before you post very disappointing
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Don't waste a purchase on the abridged version
While the story is wonderful, as are all of the books in this series, the abridged version robs of over 6 hours of story. I purchased the unabridged version and felt I had been ripped off with this book. Don't waste a purchase. Get the unabridged version.
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great story, unconvinced by the narration.
I prefer any of the previous narrators.... it doesn't help having a character voiced completely different to the previous narrator.
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Oracles: Artists’ Calling Cards
This book presents 123 calling cards of artists (painters, sculptors, photographers, architects, graphic designers, illustrators etc.) from the 18th century to the present day. The facsimiled cards are slipped like bookmarks into a book by several authors on the history of the use of calling cards, the social context in which they were produced, and related historical and fictional narratives. The often unexpected graphic qualities of these personalized objects, each designed to capture an individual identity within the narrow confines of a tiny rectangle card, implicitly recount a history of taste and typographic codes in the West. But this calling card collection also lays the foundations for a microhistory of art, inspired by the Italian microstoria, or a looser narrative that breaks free from geographic contexts and historical periods. We can imagine how social networks were formed before the advent of Facebook, and how artists defined themselves in the social sphere, whether they were students or teachers, dean of the art school or museum curator, founder of a journal, firm, restaurant or political party, and so on. Superimposed on this imaginary or idealized network formed by chance encounters is a living network of students of art or history, historians or anthropologists, librarians, archivists, gallerists, museum curators and artists themselves, the network upon which this pocket museum is constructed. The sheer variety of perspectives and stories brought together here makes this book a prodigious forum for discussion. The carded artists include: Absalon, Anni and Josef Albers, John Armleder, Iain Baxter, Larry Bell, Joseph Beuys, Joseph Binder, Max Bill, Pierrette Bloch, Rosa Bonheur, Irma Boom, Aglaüs Bouvenne, Constantin Brancusi, Marcel Broodthaers, Antonio Canova, Caran d’Ache, A.M. Cassandre, Chenue malletier, Iris Clert, Claude Closky, Le Corbusier, Silvie Défraoui, Sonia Delaunay, Fortunato Depero, Marcel Duchamp, A.R. Dunton, Céline Duval, Nathalie Du Pasquier, Yan Duyvendak, Daniel Eatock, Edward Fella, Sylvie Fleury, Schwestern Flöge, Piero Fornasetti, Hans Frank, Lene Frank, Emile Gallé, General Idea, Dan Graham, Wolfgang von Gœthe, Jean-Baptiste Greuze, Walter Gropius, Guerrilla Girls, Hector Guimard, Friedrich Haeffcke, Raymond Hains, Keith Haring, Raoul Hausmann, John Heartfield, Anton Herrgesell, Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres, Ray Johnson, Ana Jotta, Wassily Kandinsky, André Kertész, Martin Kippenberger, Paul Klee, Johann Adam Klein, Yves Klein, Július Koller, Joseph Kosuth, Yayoi Kusama, Carl Gotthard Langhans, Fernand Léger, Pierre Leguillon, George Maciunas, Robert Mallet-Stevens, Edouard Manet, Piero Manzoni, Christian Marclay, Filippo Tommaso Marinetti, Karel Martens, Annette Messager, Lucia Moholy, Piet Mondrian, Valérie Mréjen, Félix Nadar, Isamu Noguchi, The Offices of Jenny Holzer, Peter Nadin, Richard Prince and al., Yoko Ono, Claes Oldenburg, Nam June Paik, Francis Picabia, Adrian Piper, Emil Pirchan, Man Ray, Les ready made appartiennent à tout le monde®, Carl August Reinhardt, Gerrit Rietveld, Auguste Rodin, Edward Ruscha, Alexander Search, Willem Sandberg, Erik Satie, Gino Severini, Johan Gottfried Schadow, Egon Schiele, Oskar Schlemmer, Käthe Schmidt, Roman Signer, Alec Soth, Gertrude Stein and Alice Toklas, Jack Smith, Hélène Smith, Harald Szeemann, Sophie Taeuber, Karel Teige, Oliviero Toscani, Theo van Doesburg, Roman Vishniac, Andy Warhol, Weegee, Neill Whistler, Heimo Zobernig, Piet Zwart, Emmy Zweybrück Prochaska With texts by: Samuel Adams, Damarice Amao, Daniel Baumann, Stuart Bertolotti-Bailey, Géraldine Beck, Paul Bernard, Christian Besson, Christianna Bonin, Véronique Borgeaud, Marie de Brugerolle, Garance Chabert, Kyrill Charbonnel, Yann Chateigné, Manuel Cirauqui, Chiara Costa, Caroline Coutau, Jean-Baptiste Delorme, Carla Demierre, Dakota DeVos, Corinne Diserens, Eva Fabbris, Patricia Falguières, Arthur Fink, Sophie Gayerie, Kati Gegenheimer, Mark Thomas Gibson, Nicolas Giraud, Victor Guégan, Andrea Gyorody, Nastassja Haidinger, Dean Inkster, Aurélie Jacquet, Elisabeth Jobin, Vincent Jolivet, Moritz Küng, Angela Lampe, Charlotte Laubard, Anaël Lejeune, Quentin Lannes, Pierre Leguillon, Charlotte Magnin, Nicole Marchand-Zañartu, Valérie Mavridorakis, Aurélien Mole, Michael J. Moore, Adrien Mouginot, Christiane Mühlegger, Émilie Parendeau, Ying Sze Pek, Corine Pencenat, Mathias Pfund, Fabien Pinaroli, Raphaël Pirenne, Paulo Pires do Vale, Carrie Pilto, Frans Postma, Jeanne Quéheillard, Fabienne Radi, Ivan Ristić, Vincent de Roguin, Paul-Louis Roubert, Margot Sanitas, Gilles Saussier, Elana Shapira, Klaus-Peter Speidel, Friedrich Tietjen, Rebecca Topakian, Gesine Tosin, Xiaoda Wang, Christophe Wavelet, David Zerbib, Célia Zuber Co-published by HEAD – Genève (Geneva University of Art and Design) and Edition Patrick Frey under the patronage of the Museum of Mistakes Editors: Pierre Leguillon in collaboration with Barbara Fédier and Kyrill Charbonnel, Pauline Cordier, Aurélie Jacquet, Aline Melaet, Anaïs Perez, and Charlotte Schaer, students of WorkMaster at HEAD – Genève
Text: Leguillom Pierre, Fédier Barbara. cm 20×26,5; pp. 320; 123 COL; paperback. Publisher: Patrick Frey, Zürich, 2017.
ISBN: 9783906803166 | 3906803163
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About Jovan Karlo
Jovan Karlo Villalba studied at The Cooper Union in New York between 1995-1999. Earlier, he studied at New World School of the Arts in Miami, Florida.
His work is inspired by the possibilities of the imagination. Using various marks, blends, and bleeds, and by juxtaposing the familiar and the unfamiliar, he aims to subverts realism and stimulate both contemplation and escapism in the viewer.
Each painting is conceived of as a puzzle piece, providing another glimpse of a world that is inviting and free to inhabit. While commenting on social and environmental issues, these paintings also reflect his own personal experience.
His work has been exhibited across the United States and he was won numerous honors, including My Art Space NY short list in 2007 and Art Dept Internatioal Modern Art short list in 2003.
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Resident Evil: Revelations Gets Hunky with new Gameplay Trailer and Screenshots
Post by Eorl @ 11:58am 15/02/13 | 5 Comments
Capcom has released a new gameplay trailer for upcoming HD remake of 3DS title Resident Evil: Revelations, featuring the unlockable fan-favourite Hunk. Showcasing his mighty shotgun skills, the trailer gives you a glimpse of just what to expect from the special agent for the upcoming title.
Complete with high quality HD visuals, enhanced lighting effects and an immersive sound experience, the fear that was originally brought to players in Resident Evil Revelations on the Nintendo 3DS™ system returns redefined for home consoles. Furthermore, the home console version will deliver additional content including a terrifying new enemy, extra difficulty mode and improvements to Raid Mode such as new weapons, skill sets and the opportunity to play as Hunk and other characters from the series. Raid Mode, which was first introduced to the series in the original version of Resident Evil Revelations, sees gamers play online in co-op mode or alone in single player, taking on the hordes of enemies across a variety of missions whilst levelling up characters and earning weapon upgrades.
Check it out below along with a handful of screenshots which you can find on our game page.
Resident Evil: Revelations will be available May 24th for PC, XBox 360, Wii U and Playstation 3.
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fryzeegunner
To be 100% honest, it looks like a piece of s***
I liked the look of RE5 more. I'd need to see more gameplay with monsters that aren't all the same colour.
Yes definitely
Its actually the best RE game released since RE4...
glynd
^ That's what I've heard from people. Played the demo and really felt like they combined the original style with the new.
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