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Dean McDermott Admits Quarantine Gives Daughter Stella, 11, & Son Liam, 13, ‘Time To Heal’ After Bullying Trauma
May 11, 2020 3:31PM EDT
Khloe Kardashian Faces Fan Backlash After TP’ing Kourtney’s House During A Shortage
Julia Teti
Fans were not happy with Khloe Kardashian after she covered her sister, Kourtney’s, house with toilet paper amid the COVID-19 outbreak, calling out the reality TV star for being ‘out of touch.’
Khloe Kardashian is being called out for using toilet paper to cover her sister, Kourtney Kardashian‘s, home on May 10! A number of fans and haters took to Facebook to comment on the Good American mogul’s, 35, latest prank with her nephew and Kourtney’s son, Mason Disick, 10. One commenter was not at all pleased with Khloe’s actions. “I was hopeful that they would all just go away,” they wrote. “This just shows you how out of touch they are with reality. People in the real world have so much more important things going on now.”
But the backlash didn’t end there. Another commenter left a scathing message on Facebook, calling Khloe’s actions, “a disgusting display of privilege when so many are hurting and have little to nothing at this time!” The Keeping Up With The Kardashians star did, however, have some fans on her side. “Come on now. This is not hurting anyone,” another person wrote. “Where they all live is exclusive, so it’s not hurting that area either. Everyone, take a deep breath. Everything will be fine.” But even that supporter was dealt a clap back of their own! “It’s wasteful plain and simple,” another Facebook user replied back. “One might expect this from teenagers, but grown women should know better.”
Khloe’s latest prank on Kourtney went down on May 10, Mother’s Day. “So I haven’t had this much excitement in months,” the 41-year-old mother-of-three could be heard saying during her Instagram story. Kourtney showed off the outside of her house, where trees, bushes, and more were completely covered with TP. “This is what I come out to; this is what Mason and Koko do when they have a sleepover,” she said. Even upon the clip’s circulation, fans were not impressed by how casual Kourtney was about the whole thing.
Khloé Kardashian & Mason Disick covered Kourtney Kardashian's house with toilet paper. 🧻 pic.twitter.com/oaBZ4HvCpc
— Pop Crave (@PopCrave) May 10, 2020
Courtesy of Facebook
“Khloe Kardashian proudly toilet papers Kourtney Kardashian’s mansion as a prank, even though there’s a worldwide shortage of toilet paper,” one Twitter user wrote. Another fan commented, “there are people who really need that and are desperately searching for it. next time please think before you post something like that kourtney.”
As the coronavirus pandemic grew far more serious during the months of March and April, citizens across the United States found it incredibly difficult to find rolls of the household necessity in any store, especially due to over-purchasing of the product. As the COVID-19 crisis continues in the U.S., over 1.3 million Americans have been tested positive for the virus, and over 78,000 citizens have lost their lives, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
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Acting early, swiftly against COVID-19
Chairwoman Shelly Fyant of the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes in Montana is talking about the state of her tribe in 2020. And national correspondent Kolby KickingWoman is on the show to share more details on some stories he's been digging into.
Joining Indian Country Today is Chairwoman Shelly Fyant of the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes in Montana.
Through federal elections, the pandemic, and the census count, she's telling us how she is finding ways to continue to serve her citizens.
Plus Kolby KickingWoman tells what's inside The Center for Native American Youth's annual report this year and how that information can be used for 2021.
Shelly Fyant:
"We're fairing pretty well. I just found out this morning however that we did have another death last night and it was a tribal member. In the county that we live in there's been 15 deaths to date and five of those are affiliated with our tribe. So prayers out to the family. We've done everything humanly possible to reduce the transmission and the spread. We're actually in the community spread phase right now. Early on, we acted swiftly and got all of our people together. I remember sitting in a conference room at Mission Valley Power, our electrical utility. that was before we knew masks and social distancing."
"I remember telling the group we're in the final four here with Montana and North and South Dakota and Wyoming. At that time, we didn't have any cases and we wanted to keep it that way. But obviously I think it was like next week we had our first case. And then we reached out to Lake County officials and asked them if we could shut down highway 93. And they said no only the governor can do that. So we took steps. We realized that what we could control was in our tribal workforce, in our tribal lands. So we took actions to establish a shelter in place. And then later we closed down our tribal recreational lands to non-members."
"When we received our CARES Act money, we set 10 priorities and one of them was communications. And so we reached out, we had a subcommittee and they came up with this Tik Tok challenge idea because we knew that we weren't reaching the youth. You know, we're a lot of times as adults, we're just the talking heads. And so we have a lot of amazing talent on our reservation in our youth. And so we reached out to one individual and he did a video and then others just swarmed in. So I think total, we have about a dozen videos right now."
Kolby KickingWoman:
"So it's a great report. I think this is the sixth iteration of it. Like you said, it's released annually during Native American Heritage month. Former Senator Byron Dorgan who founded the organization said it was the best one that's come out yet. What's different about this year I believe is that Nikki Petri, the executive director said all six chapters were authored by Native youth 24 "years and younger, which is pretty cool."
"And of course the cover art and art inside is also from Native youth, it's great artwork. The cover art is called Sweet Medicine Child and the report is titled Native Youth Are Medicine. The art depicts a young two-spirit boy walking through Sundance campgrounds. And it's just a really great piece. The chapters in it cover citizenship and sovereignty, health and wellness, sacred sites and all sorts of good stuff."
"One of the things is just kind of how Native youth have stepped up to the pandemic, especially during the election and organizing get out the vote efforts. Native youth turned out in pretty large numbers. They also talked about some education issues and the importance of including native youth at the table when policy decisions are made. Not only as it comes to COVID-19, but any issues really."
Kolby KickingWoman, Blackfeet/A'aniih is a reporter/producer for Indian Country Today. He is from the great state of Montana and currently reports for the Washington Bureau. For hot sports takes and too many Lakers tweets, follow him on Twitter - @KDKW_406. Email - kkickingwoman@indiancountrytoday.com
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Canada sees 953,000 new jobs in June as economy speeds climb out of pandemic hole: StatsCan
By Jolson Lim. Published on Jul 10, 2020 11:07am
(Jolson Lim/iPolitics)
Canada’s economy added 953,000 jobs in June amid the easing of more COVID-19 restrictions that allowed a growing number of Canadians to return back to work, although such gains were not equal between men and women.
Statistics Canada’s labour force survey released Friday shows that employment is still 1.8 million lower than before the pandemic following the 1.4 million jobs added in both May and June.
READ MORE: Canada added jobs in May even as unemployment rate hit record high: StatsCan
Job gains include 488,000 full-time and 465,000 part-time positions.
The number of working Canadians who worked less than half their usual hours dropped by 823,000 in June. However, 1.4 million Canadians are still working limited hours compared to February.
Friday’s release nevertheless suggests the Canadian economy is on a faster, upward path, as more workplaces across the country are reopening under stricter health measures.
The depths of the pandemic in March and April saw 5.5 million Canadians affected: three million from lost jobs and 2.5 million absences from work.
But Statistics Canada said by mid-June, when the labour force survey was conducted, the number of workers still affected by the COVID-19 pandemic was 43 per cent less than compared to April.
Canada’s unemployment rate has dropped from a record high of 13.7 per cent in May to 12.3 per cent in June. Canada’s labour force — those employed and those unemployed searching for work — also increased by 786,000 workers or 4.1 per cent in June.
Gain in employment, however, were not equal.
Employment rose slightly faster among women compared to men, but women had a higher unemployment rate of 12.7 per cent compared to 12.1 per cent among men.
READ MORE: Nearly 2 million jobs lost in April, bringing total COVID-19 job losses to 3 million: StatsCan
The federal agency also noted that growth in the labour force participation rate was faster among men, at 2.7 percentage points to 90.3 per cent of pre-pandemic levels, compared to women, which rose to 2.5 percentage points to 82 per cent.
The participation rate — the share of those in the labour force compared to the total working age population — was 0.8 percentage points below February levels for men, while women were 1.4 percentage points short.
Statistics Canada also observed employment among core-aged workers with children grew substantially faster for fathers compared to mothers.
As well, the number of Canadians that wanted a job continued to fall in June. These individuals are not reflected in unemployment figures because they did not actively look for work, presumably due to the pandemic shutdowns.
The number of job-seekers increased by 180,000 people, a trend mostly observed among youth.
While employment among those aged 15 to 24 grew by 263,000 positions, there is still a 580,000 job deficit compared to before the pandemic, with the gap wider among women than men in the age group.
A positive development is the number of people on temporary layoffs fell by 347,000 people, or 29.1 per cent, in June, following a May that saw numbers hold steady.
Following the June decline, 844,000 workers, one-third of the unemployed, remain on temporary layoff, while 1.6 million Canadians, two-thirds of the jobless, were searching for work in June. Temporary layoffs had driven unemployment up by almost half in the April survey.
READ MORE: Youth, women, precarious workers bear brunt of COVID-19 job losses, Statistics Canada finds
Employment also increased in every province, and job gains grew faster among harder-hit lower-wage workers — those earning $16.03 per hour or under — compared to other employees.
Employment figures for racialized Canadians were not available for June, although the agency says it will begin asking survey respondents to report the “ethno-cultural groups to which they belong” starting in July.
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Irish Eye on Hollywood:
Irish Shine in Steve McQueen’s New Thriller
Michael Fassbender and Steve McQueen at the premiere of 12 Years a Slave, 2013 Toronto Film Festival. (Photo: Wikimedia Commons / GabboT)
By Tom Deignan, Columnist
There’s also lots of Irish-born and Irish American talent in the upcoming thriller Widows, directed by Steve McQueen, who also directed the Northern Ireland film Hunger. Described as a heist flick and due out in November when studios begin releasing their classy Oscar-bait films, Widows stars Colin Farrell and Liam Neeson and was written by Gone Girl author Gillian Flynn. Robert Duvall and Viola Davis are also featured in Widows.
Looking ahead for Farrell, having appeared in one movie about a flying Disney icon (2013’s Saving Mr. Banks, about the making of Mary Poppins), he is also currently slated to appear alongside Michael Keaton and Danny DeVito in a 2019 movie about that famous big-eared flying elephant, Dumbo. ♦
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CES 2020: Lessons for the Apple enterprise
Breaking iPhone encryption won't make anyone safer
Is Apple's iCloud Folder Sharing a shadow IT problem?
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Appleholic, (noun), æp·əl-hɑl·ɪk: An imaginative person who thinks about what Apple is doing, why and where it is going. Delivering popular Apple-related news, advice and entertainment since 1999.
Apple wants privacy laws to protect its users
And it continues to reject demands for security 'backdoors.'
Chainarong Prasertthai / Getty Images
Your iPhone (like most smartphones) knows when it is picked up, what you do with it, who you call, where you go, who you know – and a bunch more personal information, too.
The snag with your device knowing all this information is that once the data is understood, that information can be shared or even used against you.
Information is power
Jane Horvath, Apple's senior director for global privacy, appeared at CES 2020 this week to discuss the company’s approach to smartphone security. She stressed the company’s opposition to the creation of software backdoors into devices, and also said:
“Our phones are relatively small and they get lost and stolen. If we're going to be able to rely on our health data and finance data on our devices, we need to make sure that if you misplace that device, you're not losing your sensitive data.”
Privacy should not be a leaking bucket
Her approach is correct, of course. After all, once you create a security backdoor for one government, you’ll be forced to share it with every government. Once that happens, it’s only a matter of time before that information leaks into the hands of bad actors, with the result that no one’s data is safe.
Enterprise data will also become less safe, which threatens the security of connected infrastructure across the board.
Think of a security backdoor as being a hole in a bucket that only gets larger over time. Eventually the bucket stops working, water gets everywhere and all your secrets slip.
How Apple sees things
Apple’s approach to security:
It tries to minimize the amount of personal information it gathers about its users, and tries to disconnect that data from a person’s identity.
It aims to create services that require minimal personal data while using on-device AI to personalize user experiences – that way the data is never seen or used by the company. Differential privacy, CoreML, and assigning Siri and Maps requests to a random number rather than using a person’s Apple ID form part of this effort.
It offers iCloud as a secured space in which customers can store their documents, images and other information.
It attempts to empower users with tools with which to control their privacy.
What’s important to understand with this model is that while much of the information your device gathers is protected (unless you grant permission to specific apps to access it), data held in iCloud is not subject to the same protection and can be made available subject to warrant.
At the same time, Apple’s privacy protections can be confusing; the company's recent decision to make it possible for people to opt out of sharing Siri recordings for "grading" was welcome, but the tools are still rather opaque.
iCloud thinks different
This is why Apple has teams whose job it is to help law enforcement with criminal/security queries. The information on your device is impossible to access, while data held in iCloud is accessible once a warrant is presented and accepted.
Not only can a great deal of information concerning location also be gathered by a request from cellular providers, but some of the most incriminating information is almost certainly available in the less-secured iCloud account.
Horvath referred to this during her CES appearance when she confirmed the company uses a set of tools to scan iCloud Photo libraries for child pornography.
To me, it seems reasonable to assume that those aren’t the only egregious acts Apple might monitor accounts for. That Apple actively already works to protect the public rather undermines the argument that even more access to personal data is required.
Privacy is a confusing mess
On an industry-wide basis, there’s still too much confusion. Internet services have been offering convenience in exchange for personal information for so long that many people have become accustomed to sharing data.
Added to that, the lack of a consistent set of principle or access protocols regarding user privacy makes for a lack of a core set of consumer privacy standards.
Apple seems to believe government regulation is required in order to help promote a more consistent approach to privacy.
"We should consider a strong privacy law that is consistent across all 50 states that provides all consumers, regardless of where they live, the same protections," said Horvath.
We’ve some way to go, as continued attempts to force tech firms to create those security backdoors in their products prove some in government don’t grasp the challenge of privacy in a digital age. (Though some do get it.)
While we wait for the industry and government to figure out a consistent approach, here are some guides to help iOS users manage their privacy using the tools Apple provides:
Change these 4 new security settings in iOS 13 now
How to stay as private as possible on Apple's iPad and iPhone
14 privacy and security settings every iOS user should use
How to keep your location (more) secret with iOS 13
Why you should begin using Sign in with Apple
Finally, I currently recommend iPhone users take a look at the incredibly useful Jumbo app. This provides a range of privacy management and monitoring tools designed to easily put you in charge of what entities such as Apple, Facebook, Google or others are doing with your information.
Please follow me on Twitter, or join me in the AppleHolic’s bar & grill and Apple Discussions groups on MeWe.
Jonny is a freelance writer who has been writing (mainly about Apple and technology) since 1999.
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Fmr. Colts’ Matt Overton Was Cancer Patient’s Biggest Advocate
Sitting in the IU Health Simon Cancer Center getting chemotherapy, an NFL long snapper popped in to say hi to John Danyluk. Danyluk was battling breast cancer and Indianapolis Colts player Matt Overton was there to cheer him up.
The two became fast friends – and Overton became a fast advocate for male breast cancer awareness.
“Matt is an amazing person who gave not only John, but others fighting cancer the motivation and courage to fight,” said Cathy Danyluk, John’s wife. “He always cheered John up and gave him the spirit boost he needed.”
When the Colts released Overton this week, there was lots of talk of his devotion and love for Riley Hospital for Children. But quietly and with little fanfare, Overton was there for the adults, too.
His first visit to Simon Cancer Center was with Colts teammates in late 2012, the day after their coach Chuck Pagano was diagnosed with leukemia. Overton came to the cancer center every year after.
He also was a big part of the NFL’s “Crucial Catch” campaign, which highlighted breast cancer awareness in October. During Colts games at Lucas Oil Stadium, Overton could be found hugging women in pink on the field.
One year, he also went over and hugged a man – Danyluk.
John Danyluk passed away last year and, after his death, Overton made clear who the real hero was.
“Cancer is cancer. It's something that John embraced head on,” Overton said. “And he showed tremendous character and determination throughout the fight.”
-- By Dana Benbow, Senior Journalist at IU Health.
Reach Benbow via email dbenbow@iuhealth.org or on Twitter @danabenbow.
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The Morning Shift
Mary Barra Tells Employees To Embrace Reform Or GTFO
Matt Hardigree
The Morning ShiftAll your daily car news in one convenient place. Isn't your time more important?
This is The Morning Shift, our one-stop daily roundup of all the auto news that's actually important — all in one place every weekday morning. Or, you could spend all day waiting for other sites to parse it out to you one story at a time. Isn't your time more important?
1st Gear: "We'll either change the people or we'll change the people"
Tough talk from Mary Barra this week as she tries to convince people at the company that, despite years of saying they're going to change and then conspicuously not changing that... this time they're going to change and then actually stay changed.
This info we get from a roundtable discussion she had with reporters, brought to you by David Shepardson:
In mid-September, Barra met with the company's top 300 global executives at a warehouse in Detroit and pressed the need for reform.
She sent a tough message: Executives shouldn't stay at the automaker if they aren't in agreement with her plans to reform GM.
"If you don't believe in this plan, then you clearly have other things you could do. And please do so, because the task is hard enough if we all are aligned — and if we're not, it will be even more difficult," Barra said. "If you believe there is a different strategy, there's probably some company you can go work at and execute what you think is right. ... The conversation's not even hard, because why would you want to be here if you don't believe in where we're headed or you don't believe we're taking the right steps?"
"You are not really being nice if you don't say the truth in the meeting and you say it behind someone's back later. I think we just have to get candid," Barra said, saying she wants employees to be accountable and drive for results. "This is not a company of best efforts. It's got to be a company, if you say you are going to do something, get it done."
Totally. It's hard to say if she's doing all the right things, but I think Barra is finally saying the right things. Change is slow, change is hard, and I'm more inclined than ever to give GM a chance. We've seen Toyota internalize a lot of their own shortcomings and start to repair them and GM seems like they want to be next.
It's just the reality of being a huge company.
2nd Gear: Profit Sharing Checks To Take A Hit At GM Quite fairly, the profit-sharing checks sent to workers at GM as part of a plan to incentivize everyone in the company to aim for profitability (and protect the bottom line in case of losses) will be impacted by the recalls, although Brent Snavely reports that it's not clear if they'll be any lower than last year.
While she did not say profit-sharing checks will be smaller next year, GM has recorded more than $2.5 billion so far this year in costs related to the recall of cars with potentially defective ignition switches and other recalls. There was no recall-related charge in the third quarter. A strong fourth-quarter profit in North America could offset the impact of the recall charges.
"I think we are a business and costs are real," Barra said. "It's a company and it's based on business results and the business results are what the business results are."
Mary Barra, master of tautology.
3rd Gear: Tesla Sales Are Slowing, Maybe, Sort Of
How is Tesla doing? There's this WSJ article that starts with a nice description of their new lease program — which will cut lease payments by about 25% a month — but transitions into the news we really care about:
Through September, Tesla sold 10,335 Model S sedans in its home market, down 26% compared with the same period in 2013. The U.S. decline has come even as the company’s U.S. production increased 10% during the same period, according to WardsAuto.
Tesla doesn’t disclose sales volumes by region, but has said it expects half of its sales to be outside the U.S. by the end of 2014. With a goal of selling 35,000 cars this year, Tesla would have to sell about 17,500 models in the U.S. At its current sales pace, the auto maker will miss that target by a wide margin—and will have to double its sales pace to hit its goal.
“There still is extremely high demand for the car,” a Tesla spokeswoman said, declining to confirm WardsAuto’s data. The auto maker has said it needed to divert some production from its Fremont, Calif., factory to Asia as it ramped up sales in China in April.
Is this really terrible news? I mean, at some point demand for such an expensive product has to level off and people are looking forward to the Model X and Model 3.
4th Gear: How Much Shit Are Automakers Willing To Eat?
Being a large company means eating some shit. It's just part of the job. But there's only so much shit a big company is willing to eat before it finds a new partner.
For instance, automakers are dealing with recalls related to Takata-designed airbags but they're still eating huge bowlfulls of shit. Why? Let's let Reuters explain:
Takata has a strong enough cash position to weather the crisis so far, and there is no sign that carmakers would, or could, quickly abandon the company, industry officials say. Air bags are built into a car's design and can't simply be replaced by another make. Vetting the safety of a new air bag design is time-consuming and costly.
"There's no alternative inflator producer with enough idle capacity to replace Takata quickly," said a person with knowledge of the matter. "Over the shorter term, no automaker would be able to do that without causing huge disruptions in production."
Here's another business lesson: Be irreplaceable.
5th Gear: Honda Is Not Irreplaceable In China And Japan
Honda is going to experience its first profit decline in three years, because China and Japan. From Bloomberg:
Honda cut its China sales target by 100,000 units to 800,000 this year as demand shrank for key models such as the Accord sedan and CR-V sport utility vehicle. In Japan, repeated recalls of the automaker’s best-selling model — the Fit compact car — and an increase in consumption tax since April are setting Honda back in its plan of boosting sales by 21 percent this fiscal year.
“The sales volumes are behind what they planned in regions including Japan, China and Thailand,” said Kota Yuzawa, a Tokyo-based analyst at Goldman Sachs Group Inc. “If it were not for the weaker yen, it would have been a tough quarter.”
Oh, and of course, there's all that Takata bizness.
Reverse: America's Worst Interstate?
On this day, Duluth, Minnesota mayor Gary Doty cuts the ribbon at the mouth of the brand-new, 1,480-foot–long Leif Erickson Tunnel on Interstate 35. With the opening of the tunnel, that highway—which stretches 1,593 miles, from Mexico all the way to Canada—was finished at last. As a result, the federal government announced, the Interstate Highway System itself was 99.7 percent complete.
Neutral: Is Barra Doing The Right Thing? Can she be successful? Do you work at GM? How is it there now?
SidewaysOnDirt still misses Bowie
Wait, so GM has 300 executives? Can you say top-heavy?
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EFFECT OF DIFFERENT QUENCHING MEDIA ON MECHANICAL PROPERTIES OF AISI 1018 LOW CARBON STEEL
Sarah Jalal Mosa
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Al-Farahidi University
This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
In this work, the mechanical properties of AISI 1018 low carbon steel after been treated by different quenching media (water, boiling water, boiling salt water, ice water, ice salt water) were evaluated. The microstructure of the specimen was examined by using optical microscopy (OM), while the mechanical properties were evaluated by using tensile test and hardness test. The results of this investigation showed that improving in mechanical properties such as yield strength about 580 MPa, ultimate tensile strength about 680MPa and Vickers hardness about 263.03Hv for the specimen quenching by ice water, and the hardness for ice salt water 290.8 Hv. For ice salt water quenching media, the formation of martensite phase more than another quenching media, this is revealed obviously by microstructure examination. Also retained austenite exists in as a secondary phase as a result of very fast cooling for ice salt water quenching media.
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Les goûts et les couleurs [To Each, Her Own] (2018)
Posted on Sunday, 12. April 2020 by kalafudra
Les goûts et les couleurs
Director: Myriam Aziza
Writer: Myriam Aziza, Denyse Rodriguez-Tomé
Cast: Sarah Stern, Jean-Christophe Folly, Julia Piaton, Catherine Jacob, Richard Berry, Arié Elmaleh, Clémentine Poidatz, Stéphane Deba, David Houri, Lionel Lingelser
Seen on: 11.4.2020
Content Note: bimisia
Simone (Sarah Stern) and Claire (Julia Piaton) have been dating for three years now. They are very serious, nevertheless Simone has trouble coming out to her religious Jewish parents (Catherine Jacob, Richard Berry), especially since her brother Matt (David Houri) already came out as gay and was never allowed to bring his husband Nathaniel (Lionel Lingelser) to family events. But with her other brother David’s (Arié Elmaleh) wedding coming up, Simone really wants to officially bring Claire. As Simone struggles to figure things out, she finds herself drawn to Wali (Jean-Christophe Folly) with whom she shares a passion for food. That Wali is a man doesn’t make things any easier either.
To Each, Her Own is a story with a bi protagonist filmed by a woman, so I figured I’d give the whole love triangle thing a pass (not a fan of the trope) and give the film a shot. And it was alright, but didn’t blow me away, especially because of the bimisia that permeates the entire film.
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Regarding the love triangle, To Each, Her Own does have the right thrust for me in how to resolve it: not with an either-or decision, but with a both-and. Unfortunately the way that solution is handled is all kinds of problematic. In the end, both Claire and Wali show up at the brother’s wedding (independently of each other) and Simone introduces Claire as her girlfriend and Wali as her lover. And this solution to the situation where Simone is just in love with two people is not discussed or hashed out with Wali or Claire. The three ride off into the sunset together, apparently happy in a polyamorous relationship and while I’m generally here for that, it does not work that way, with one person just deciding for three how their relationship is going to be.
Plus, the entire film feeds into the trope that bi people just can’t be faithful and that a bisexual will never be satisfied with a partner of one gender, when they’re also into others. It’s utter crap and as a bi woman, I take particular offense at that. Not that the film deigns it worth its time to let Simone identify as bi in the first place (yes, she’s one of those characters). She insists that she’s a lesbian (“if I was bi, I’d know”) basically until she goes for polyamory all of a sudden. It’s plain erasure.
The rest of the film is occupied with cultural conflicts between Simone’s traditional Jewish family, Wali’s Senegalese-Muslim background and Simone’s own secular/atheist leanings. This is handled with moderate success, I’d say. With Matt we get a character who manages to balance Jewish tradition with his own homosexuality, which is nice. But in a cringe-worthy scene Simone feeds Wali salami because she insists that he can’t be a cook if he doesn’t eat pork. This is not exactly a tolerant, respectful approach to religion, I’d say. Generally, the film relies too much on stereotypes to really make a statement for a multicultural society, as it clearly intends.
Overall, To Each, Her Own did have its moments – especially the subplot involving Simone’s co-worker Géraldine (Clémentine Poidatz) and Éric (Stéphane Deba) was cute – but it didn’t really manage to convince me.
Summarizing: meh.
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Decadent downloads Many interesting free (and leg...
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Garage Rocking Torrents
With EZTree back from the ashes as Dimeadozen, the live concert torrents are flowing again. Check out an interesting article from the Village Voice about live music sharing through torrents and the controversy that surrounded EZTree.
The Black Keys - Lexington, KY 4/20/05
This is the first concert I've heard this year from The Black Keys, one of my favorite bands. They are a duo made up of Dan Auerbach and Patrick Carney and play raw, blues inspired garage rock. This concert is no different sticking to their crowd pleasing formula, playing their best known songs "10 a.m. Automatic" and "Girl is On My Mind" as well as inspired covers of The Kinks "Act Nice and Gentle" and The Sonics "Have Love Will Travel." Also, their interpretation of the Stack o' Lee myth "Stack Shot Billy" is a fascinating update of an old standard.
White Stripes - Old Bridge, NJ 4/9/02
Who says nothing interesting ever happens on Old Bridge? Oh, wait... that was me. I remember really wanting to go to this concert and then being really pissed when something else came up and I couldn't make it. I missed a killer concert as this torrent shows. Jack White says he has bronchitis, and apologizes to the crowd but it hardly affects him or spurs him on even as he and Meg just blast through superior versions of songs from their first three albums. The sound quality is quite good as well, making this a very memorable concert.
Great mix CD
Thanks a lot to Brian for sending me another one of his stellar mix cd's. It's a mix of some of the best newly released jazz:
Tord Gustavsen - Twins
Orrin Evans - BM
David Binney - Plan
The Bad Plus - Film
Charles Lloyd - Ne Me Quitte Pas
Tord Gustavsen - Edges of Darkness
Orrin Evans - For De
SF Jazz Collective - Lingala
Tord Gustavsen - Token of Tango
Charles Lloyd - Canon Perdida
David Binney - Heaven
Tord Gustavsen - Tears Transforming
The Bad Plus - We Are the Champions
The Bad Plus – Blunt Object: Live in Tokyo (Sony 2005)
The Bad Plus continues their reign of terror over the moldy figs of jazz with this live album recorded during their recent world tour. The group is composed of Reid Anderson on bass, Ethan Iverson on piano and Dave King on drums. What makes The Bad Plus interesting is their mix of popular music and jazz that combines to make as “acoustic fusion” that keeps the volume and dynamics of rock and roll while not compromising the improvisation and virtuosity of jazz.
Their pop and rock covers kick off the album with a version of Queen’s “We are the Champions” which really suits the band well with its grandiose structure giving the band a chance to have some tongue in cheek fun. The other cover that really stands out is a familiar one for The Bad Plus and a staple of their live performances, Blondie’s “Heart of Glass.” This is taken at a break-neck pace with Iverson leading the charge. Two of the group’s original songs stand out as impressive as well, firstly “And Here We Test Our Powers of Observation” which is a fast paced tune with an interesting melody. Finally Reid Anderson’s “Silence is the Question” gets an extended exploration, beginning very slowly and allowing much room for a bass solo before cascading into a frenetic near free-jazz conclusion.
The only dud on the record is a strange two and a half minute cover of “My Funny Valentine” that ends the disc. It’s accompanied by faux vocals which are spat out in a deliberately annoying way. I don’t know if it’s meant to be a send up of the song or of self-reverential singers, but in a rare case for the band the performance falls flat. But there’s still much here to enjoy, The Bad Plus continues to be one of the most interesting mainstream jazz groups on the scene today, and one miscue shouldn’t keep people from enjoying their many successes.
Yahoo featured an article about how to digitize your vinyl so you can listen to it on your mp3 player. They actually make it a little more complicated than it really is, but it still covers the basics:
Converting from vinyl or tape to digital is not rocket science (this article will get you well on your way). But there is a time factor involved in converting from analog to digital: You're going to need to play those oldies in real time as opposed to copying (or "ripping") digital audio data from a CD
Also, there is an interesting article about Tom Waits, who is quite upset that his music is being used in a commercial without his permission:
Tom Waits' next boozy, bluesy tune might be about European car manufacturers. The gravel-voiced Waits says Opel, a European division of General Motors, is running a TV commercial in Scandinavia with a soundtrack resembling his style and sound. And he's not happy about it.
Heartless Bastards – Stairs and Elevators (Fat Possum, 2005)
The Heartless Bastards are a Midwestern rock trio led by the diminutive but powerful Erika Wennerstrom on guitar and vocals. The band’s music is a raw but somewhat lumbering garage rock/bar band sound of a group that is just starting to find its feet and look for something to separate them from the pack of faceless rock and roll bands that clutter the CD bins. Wennerstrom has a truly powerful voice, and that’s really the band’s finest asset, as their musical arrangements are fairly pedestrian power trio rock and roll.
Wennerstrom’s lyrics do show flashes of inspiration on the original songs, particularly “Swamp Song” and “My Maker,” but most of the bands own tunes come off as somewhat generic. They makes its biggest impact on the cover of Junior Kimbrough’s “Done Got Old” that was also featured on the Kimbrough tribute disc Sad Days and Lonely Nights that Fat Possum released earlier in the year. It’s hard to imagine a young woman singing about an old man past his prime, but her voice is so powerful the band carries it off. It shows that the group has promise as they try to transition from bar band to nationally touring group.
Decadent downloads
Many interesting free (and legal) mp3 downloads have appeared on the Internet recently:
Brian Patneaude has mp3's from his CD release party, held in Albany last month.
Cryptogramophone Records has mp3's from most of it's artists - click on the album artwork and then right click on the linked tracks.
The blues and roots label Fat Possum also has a number of mp3's available - click on "more album information" and then look for the linked tracks.
Interesting article on portables
SFgate has a very interesting article about the suprising thing things you can find out about other people when you see what's on their portable mp3 player:
The old adage used to be "you are what you eat.'' But with the advent of digital music and the popularity of gadgets like the iPod, now it's "you are what's on your playlist.''
Hmmm... I already know I drive my co-workers crazy with my musical selections. Today, I hooked up the mp3 to my speakers at my desk and hit random play and got The Futureheads followed by Modest Mouse followed by Fred Hersch.
Sun Ra – Sleeping Beauty (El Saturn 1979, Art Yard 2005)
This is a reissue of a Sun Ra Arkestra album from a very interesting period in the group’s long history. Ra was pumping out records left and right, six in 1979 alone, and experimenting with different sized ensembles as well as introducing new textures and instruments. This album features an expended Arkestra with 26 members along with the usual suspects like John Gilmore on tenor saxophone and June Tyson on vocals.
The larger orchestra brings out the romantic Ellingtonian in Sun Ra. The opening “Springtime Again” is augmented by graceful flute and vibraphone along with some tight ensemble playing from the band. Things pick up a bit in pace on “Door of the Cosmos” which continues Ra’s exploration of mystical themes through music that slowly builds in instrumental intensity and the chanted vocals of a group of singing band members led by Tyson.
The sidelong title epic “Sleeping Beauty” ends the record with the soloists, particularly John Gilmore getting some room to shine around Sun Ra’s and June Tyson’s spoken meditations on the nature of beauty. All in all, it’s a strangely tranquil record, something of an acoustic doppelganger to the ur-electronica album Lanquidity he had recorded a few months previously.
The Kills – No Wow (Rough Trade, 2005)
The Kills are a sleazy (in a good way) garage rock duo made up of an American woman and a British man that originally got their start by trading tapes of music in the mail. Their first album Keep on Your Mean Side was a bracing blast of raw rock and roll and they keep the energy that they showed in that debut while adding some very subtle electronics and drums machine beats to the mix.
VV (the female vocalist’s pseudonym) belts out anguished, sexy lyrics over Hotel’s (the male guitarist) jagged riffs. Songs like the title track “No Wow” and “I Hate the Way You Love Pt. 1” continue the groups examination of fractured romantic themes. The strangely poppy “I Hate the Way You Love Pt. 2” and alt-country swagger of “Rodeo Town” prove that the band is not just a one trick pony. The Kills style of raw stripped down garage rock should appeal to fans of fellow garage rock revivalists like the White Stripes or the Black Keys.
The San Jose Mercury News has an interesting article on Dave Holland in preperation for the concert his band was playing:
Given his role as a musical innovator dating to his work with Miles Davis in the late 1960s, it's not surprising that Holland is eager to explore freedom afforded by new technology. He wants to make recordings of concerts available online, so that if someone caught him at Yoshi's and loved a particular piece, they could go to his Web site and download it.
Another interesting article concerns the great pianist Ahmad Jamal who has kept something of a low profile lately:
Ahmad Jamal’s music, however, is delicate and restrained; in a space as large as Mandel Hall, Jamal’s subtle melodic whispers risk being engulfed by the cavernous expanse. Indeed at times during the performance the quiet intimacy of Jamal’s music was lost in the physical distance between player and audience. Yet for most of the evening, Jamal was able to overcome the difficulties of the setting and powerfully connect the audience to his music, crafting a performance that managed to be both sensitive and celebratory.
Podcast #2
OK, I made a mess of the whole thing, but it looks like Podcast #2 has finally made it up to the web. For some reason the posting went haywire and it posted 200+ times! Just choose the first one - right click on "Podcast Number Two.mp3" and save to target. Beware: the file is huge! It's 62 mb (if anyone has any ideas about compressing the file without losing sound quality please let me know.) The RSS feed is here. Again, please e-mail me any and all comments! Here's the setlist:
Artist - Title - Album
Howlin' Wolf - Commit a Crime - His Best Vol. 2
David S. Ware - Manu's Idea - Live in the World
J.B. Hutto - Hip Shakin' - Stompin' at Mother Blues
Albert Ayler - The Truth is Marching In - Holy Ghost
The Bad Plus - Iron Man - Give
Brian Patneaude - Inspiration - Distance
Solomon Burke - None of Us Are Free - Don't Give Up on Me
E.S.T. - Viaticum - Viaticum
Kurt Rosenwinkle - Brooklyn Sometimes - Deep Song
Beck - Hell Yes - Guero
Yahoo! News - Chuck Berry Pianist Johnnie Johnson Dies
I've been away at a conference, so I'm sorry for the lack of new content. New stuff coming soon!
The New York Times has an article about the new club John Zorn has started in New York, called The Stone:
As the club's creator, Mr. Zorn is working to turn the glory back onto the musicians and the fans that support them. There are no drinks or merchandise at the Stone, and the club is giving all the door proceeds to the musicians; each month's six-nights-a-week programming will be booked by a single musician (commitments have been made into 2007); and the operating costs will be covered by Mr. Zorn's record-making on his own label, Tzadik.
Wow! The Library of Congress has announced the discovery of a hither to unknown recording from Thelonious Monk and John Coltrane:
The newly discovered performance by pianist Monk and saxophonist Coltrane at Carnegie Hall was never commercially recorded, the library said. The collaboration is not one of the 50 recordings being added to the American registry.
Couple of new rock releases
Beck – Guero
Beck is back with a new collection of music bridging all genres of the pop scene. This disc is definitely more upbeat and accessible than his last disc, Sea Change, harkening back to the eclectic successes of Mellow Gold and Odelay. The songs are a diverse mix of rockers like the electric guitar fueled “E-Pro,” and the funky “Hell Yes” which mixes and matches samples with acoustic harmonica with processed beats to make a heady brew. Finally there are a few Sea Change-ish downbeat numbers but overall, it’s an upbeat and interesting record and another interesting entry in the Beck canon.
Bloc Party – Silent Alarm
Bloc Party is the new hip band coming from England in the wake of the Franz Ferdinand phenomenon. With a sound quite reminiscent of the great English punk band Gang of Four, without the Marxist politics however that made the Gang of Four so interesting. In a way it’s kind of ironic that that classic band should re-unite for a tour last year considering how influential their sound has become. Bloc Party’s sound is taught and angular with a fast and heavy drum sound. The band comes blasting out of the gate with their opening song and single “Like Eating Glass” which is followed by several more up-tempo rockers. The pace slows a little bit toward the middle of the album as the band inserts some slower pieces which tend to drag things down but the pace picks back up for a frenetic finish.
So Long EZtree...
April 6, 2005, 16:00 GMT
Hello gals and guys,
We're very sorry having to tell you that we had to shut down EZT just a couple of minutes ago.
We got a call from our provider, they had received a few letters from a couple of lawyers. They requested EZT to be shut down immediately, otherwise we and the hosting service would be sued.
As you may imagine, we do not have the funds to fight a battle we most probably can't win anyway.
We would like to thank everyone here for their contributions to EZT, one way or the other, for sharing the music, sharing an ideal, for all your mails, rants, praises...
To say it with Joan Armatrading:
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fun, fun, fun, fun
we had fun -- while it lasted...
--"Tall in the Saddle"--
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Pharoah Sanders – Love in Us All (Impulse, 1974)
This was the last album Pharoah Sanders recorded for the Impulse label, and is a nice summing up of the two main threads that had been running through his music, his deep spirituality and the ferocious free jazz that he had been performing with John Coltrane. This album is made up of two side long performances, and a large band with three percussionists and a drummer to keep the rhythm moving.
“Love is Everywhere” is a long spiritual piece with chanted vocals and some relatively peaceful soprano saxophone from Sanders. The vibe is very mellow with the percussionists locking into a bubbling groove under either the vocals or saxophone. “To John” is a Coltrane tribute as you might imagine and is the polar opposite of the music on the first side. This reprises some of the scalding free jazz that Sanders played as part of the Coltrane group and his tenor reaches flights of hair-raising intensity.
Sanders tenure for the Impulse label was a fascinating journey and this record makes for a nice summing up and consolidating of the first phase of his career. Never again would a record label allow him the artistic breathing room to create risk taking records like this. It’s currently out of print, but worth searching for a if you are a fan.
Howlin' Wolf - Live and Cookin' at Alice's Revisited (Chess, 1974)
For someone who had such a fearsome live reputation, it's surprising that this is the only live album Chess ever released from the Wolf. This comes from near the end of Wolf's career but there was still a lot of gas in the tank. Backed by Eddie Shaw and the rest of the Wolf Gang, the group runs through some steaming blues before an appreciative audience.
It's interesting that Howlin' Wolf did not perform many of his most familiar songs during this performance. Only the blues standard "Sitting on Top of the World" survives from Wolf's earlier repertoire. This doesn't affect any of the energy one bit, you get the sense that the man could sing the phone book with a hot band behind him and it would sound great. Highlights include "I Had a Dream" in which Wolf belts out a week's worth of dreams filled with money, wealth and women only to wake up to find them gone. Wolf's braggadocio was little affected by his declining health and advancing years as he was still able to testify of his powers in "Call Me the Wolf."
Howlin' Wolf's awesome vocals and swooping harmonica connect with heavy hitters like Hubert Sumlin, Sunnyland Slim and Fred Below to create a deep pocket. Hearing Wolf at his peak in the 1950's must have been amazing, but this concert, in a comfortable Chicago club with a crack band shouldn't be missed by any fan of Chicago blues.
Get well wishes for Neil Young who is recovering from surgery.
From CNN.com:
"The procedure corrected the problem and has been characterized as a complete success with a total recovery. And resumption of normal activities by the 59-year-old rock legend is predicted for the near future," agent Bob Merlis said in a statement.
Memphis Slim – Paris Mississippi Blues (Sunnyside, 2005)
Piano playing bluesman Memphis Slim had a long and successful career which culminated in the recordings collected here, recorded during his years living in Paris and recording and performing around Europe in the late 60’s and early 70’s. This two disc collection is split pretty evenly, the first and best of the two concentrates on either Slim playing solo or with small bands, while the second and somewhat spottier disc has Slim with some guest musicians.
There are some excellent house rockers on disc one, Slim and Willie Dixon raise the roof with a nice version of Big Joe Williams “Baby Please Don’t Go” and “Rocking and Rolling the House” while fellow piano pounder Roosevelt Sykes joins in for some hard driving boogie-woogie duets. Slim goes down in the alley as well, with a stark ballad version of “Mississippi Water.”
Disc two has some very interesting stuff as well, especially when Buddy Guy sits in on the appropriately titled “When Buddy Comes to Town” and “Rollin’ and Tumblin.’” Buddy had come from years playing with Muddy Waters and Otis Spann, so he really knew how to support a piano player. There are a few missteps as well; a couple of tracks try to update Slim’s classic sound for the rock and roll ear without too much success. But overall this is a very successful package and should appeal to blues fans that have a fondness for piano.
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The Complete Mystery of Madeleine McCann™ :: Madeleine Beth McCann :: Richard D. Hall: Buried by Mainstream Media
by Google.Gaspar.Statements on 23.03.16 8:13
Comments taken from Richard D. Hall's film that was uploaded to youtube by Darren Ware for CMOMM - it's been viewed 13,547 times so far.
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Redinna Long3 days ago
What qualifications does this guy have to investigate this case? Or is it all speculative?
Darren Ware3 days ago
Hi Redinna, the evidence presented is all from the official Portuguese police files (and of course the many conflicts with what the press have reported is evident from the examples of the media articles shown). Any conclusions drawn, after becoming familiar with the facts (as opposed to what appears in the mainstream media), are down to the viewer. In my experience everyone who improves their knowledge of the case by becoming aware of the facts comes to the conclusion that the parents know what happened to their daughter and there remains in place a cover up.
The point, therefore, is that the content of this documentary draws upon facts and it's for the viewer to draw their own conclusions as to which may or may not be relevant to help bring those that caused harm to Madeleine, and progressed any subsequent cover up, are bought to justice.
Note: the author of the documentary actively requests that any errors in presenting the facts are bought to his attention. Speculation is irrelevant... This documentary is about pulling together and presenting facts that can fully and independently corroborated if one so wishes.
+Darren Ware Thank you. I asked and I got my answer, can't ask for any more then that.
Baptershib Obask20 hours ago (edited)
-- Oh my God the McCanns are crooks. Im half way through this video, 2 hours on...I never thought of them as liars and crooks until today. My God, what next ?! Are they going to get away with the lies and Godkows what else they did ?
Melissa Lang5 days ago
Is it just me, or does Gerry look like evil personified? He gives me the willies.
oneperfectoutfit1 day ago
Does anyone know when the 4th/next Richard D. Hall doc. on this is coming out?? I'm wondering if that's when he will actually say what he think DID happen?
Baptershib Obask3 days ago (edited)
Didn't the police find in the apartment, after the McCanns left, a handwritten note in Gerry's handwriting noting what each of the Tapas 9 should say to the police when the police interviewed them ??
Pauline Berry1 month ago
I love that this has no music. This story requires none, but full concentration.
robertaglass3 weeks ago
I second that! Bless you for taking out the horrible music. Appreciate it!
Boglárka Kiss1 day ago (edited)
If only Catriona Baker could say more... I know she will not, but that would be such a key!
Toncek Schlick3 weeks ago (edited)
Extract from the statement of Sarah Elizabeth Williamson: http://www.mccannpjfiles.co.uk/PJ/SARA-ELIZABETH-WILLIAMSON.htm
She says that the twins were generally left at the creche at 09.00 and that the parents dropped them off before leaving Madeleine in her classroom. Then between 12.00 and 12.30 the parents would pick up the twins until 15.00. Between 17.00 and 17.30 the parents would collect the twins FROM THE CRECHE.
Darren Ware2 weeks ago
+Toncek Schlick Indeed. Yet another piece of evidence to undermine what appears in the submitted creche records provided by Cat Baker (friend of the McCanns).
I have been to the street where the apartment 5A is. I walked around the holiday complex. I went to the yellow church we saw so many times in the news. I was astonished how the McCanns (and their friends) could leave the front door to their apartment unlocked when the front doors to the apartments face a deserted, BADLY LIT street.
My view on the whole thing is that.... (1) we all strongly feel that the little girls is deaf... (2) and after nearly 10 years nobody has a clue who really hurt the little girl. I believe the Portuguese police's conclusion, though. (3) the whole exercise now is to protect the McCans AND TO LUMBER THE RESPONSIBILITY ON TO SOMEONE ELSE'S SHOULDERS PREFERABLY A PORTUGUESE PERSON, hence the description of the so-called suspect being a nearly gypsy looking guy. I have been to Portugal countless times and they do not look like that LOL.
Jill Havern1 month ago
Many thanks Darren for doing this for CMOMM - I've posted it in several places on the research forum https://jillhavern.forumotion.net/
Sharon Lawrence1 month ago
Many thanks for uploading these four films conveniently onto one video. The film can also be watched and discussed on The Complete Mystery of Madeleine McCann https://jillhavern.forumotion.net/t12477p10-richard-d-hall-s-3rd-madeleine-film-when-madeleine-died-now-uploaded-to-youtube
Lee Readman2 days ago
so very sad
Martin Swsmn1 week ago
Brilliant forensic expose of illuminate powers as dark and chilling as True Detective. see his first two on the McCanns, addictive
Toncek Schlick3 weeks ago
This video has had over 1,800 views since 8am this morning - that's well over 100 new views every hour. It's going well. One of the film's contents that several people have zoomed in on already is the supposed high tea in the Tapas bar at 5.30pm/6pm on Thursday 3 May. Critics of Richard's film say that he has ignored the claims in the witness statements that the nannies and their children would all proceed to the Tapas bar in the late afternoon for high tea, which is where the crèche records were supposed to have been signed. But other crèche nannies are quite clear: the parents collected their children from EACH SEPARATE CRECHE, and NOT from the Tapas bar - for any supposed 'high tea'. The crèches were dotted about around the Ocean Club; Madeleine's club, The Lobsters, was several minutes' walk away from the twins' club. Goncalo Amaral thought this high tea, with Madeleine present, really happened. The research efforts of HideHo and several other people, and now Richard, cast real doubt over whether it did take place.
ruth bashford1 month ago
Oh dear Richard........you started so well and now this!
Darren Ware1 month ago
+ruth bashford Hi Ruth, this documentary draws upon (independently verifiable) facts that are in the public domain, primarily information contained within the Police files. The maker of the documentary states, right at the start, that if any errors can be shown he can be contacted and will post any amendments to his website. That seems fair, unbiased and reasonable... and demonstrates the intent of the author is simply to disseminate information.
If you have any comments then why not join in the discussions at... https://jillhavern.forumotion.net/
splifstar853 weeks ago (edited)
+Darren Ware but some thing are just as contradictory as the McCann's story...
like all this business with the photos and sailing... first of he claims that the hottest days were on saturday and sunday and that only went up to 21C and that thursday was cloudy and only went up to 17C - then why in the coloured pictures taken by his theory on saturday after arrival (on the warmest day) they are all dressed so warmly (Gerry in a sweater, kids in trousers and long sleves), and then in the picture taken suposudly on sunday (the claimed "last picture" from folowing thursday) they are all dressed lightly... also all ths sailing nonsence with 3 y.o. kids when the air temperature is barely 20C - how cold is the water at this time of the year... and especially there are two other workers (other than this Baker cow) claim they went sailing on Thusrsday - on a cloudy day with temperatures barely reaching 17C, as claimed by Richard when talking about his photos theory... wtf..?
+splifstar85 Hi 'Splif', this documentary draws upon (independently verifiable) facts that are in the public domain, primarily information contained within the Police files. The maker of the documentary states, right at the start, that if any errors can be shown he can be contacted and will post any amendments to his website. That seems fair, unbiased and reasonable... and demonstrates the intent of the author is simply to disseminate information.
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Melissa Lang1 week ago (edited)
I dislike the whole lot, and Hall presents a lot of intriguing evidence, for sure. But, I do wonder about this: A conspiracy of this magnitude would require A LOT of people - family and friends; resort neighbors and staff; government, media, and law enforcement officials; etc. - to be in on it, and never uttering a word, in nearly a decade now. That's hard to fathom.
Mart Walk1 week ago
Nearly a decade and they havnt been charged with neglect theres something really strange about this holiday with the mccanns
+Mart Walk Indeed. Strange people, too.
Naturally Natasha2 weeks ago
Richard D Hall's work is excellent. He is brilliant. I look forward to The next documentary in this series. Thanks for posting.
My suspicion is that Elite Pedophilia is at the heart of this case. The holiday & events were pre-planned. Why did they decide on the accommodation? I'm sure they could afford to stay somewhere nicer.
Everyone has been protected from day 1.
Cyaneyed771 month ago
Alot to go through here and it will take me several viewings no doubt, but @ 3:55:10 just a small note, which doesn't change what Richard is trying to present necessarily, but we know for a fact that the apartment was cleaned on the second, due to the testimony of Maria Julia Da Silva. Quoting from her statement:
"She remembers that when she entered Apartment A on the Wednesday, the parents were inside. After being duly authorized, she entered and carried out her work, because they were already on their way out. While she was in the apartment, there were no children there, and she supposed that they were in the creche. While performing her work, she remembers having noticed that the couple was sleeping in the room located opposite the entrance, where she confirmed the presence of a child's bed (crib). The room gives onto an outdoor garden by means of a terrace, as it is on the ground floor,. In the room next to the entrance to the apartment there was a bed placed next to the wall (where she supposed the missing child slept), and also the second child's bed (crib). All these beds were untidy at the time, meaning that they had been used. She also declares that in the room next to the entrance was another bed that had not been used."
Since her testimony wasn't mentioned here I thought it was worth quoting.
+Cyaneyed77 Thanks for the extra info. It is a useful statement to raise for completeness and balance. However, I wouldn't agree that the untidy beds provide proof that Madeleine was alive. I've kids myself and once they've spent a few seconds in a room everything's messy with beds and chairs and shelves all messed up...and also messing an unused bed up to make it look used would be a reasonably obvious thing to do if you have a visitor, (indeed, I've done it on numerous occasions myself when an old female friend had stayed over and I was constructing a scene so as my (ex)wife would think she'd stayed in the bedroom at the end of the hall... it never failed to work...Sorry! I'm only human! ;P).
Anyway, Richard's point is that no independent witness saw the whole family of five together at the same time... and all Da Silva recalls seeing were ruffled beds.
Sherlock Holmes2 weeks ago (edited)
From BBC news 08/03/16:
Four men arrested over the murder of missing chef Claudia Lawrence will not face any charges.
The men, who are all in their 50s and from the York area, were arrested last year.
Miss Lawrence, 35, disappeared after leaving her house on Heworth Road in York on 19 March in 2009.
North Yorkshire Police said the decision not to charge the four men had been taken by the Crown Prosecution Service
The arrests - made in March and April of last year - came after a review of the initial investigation into Miss Lawrence's disappearance was launched in 2013.
Det Supt Dai Malyn, who led the review, said he believed the investigation had been "compromised by the reluctance of some, and refusal of others, to co-operate with police inquiries".
He said: "I am sure that there are some people who know, or who have very strong suspicions about, what happened to Claudia.
"For whatever reason, they have either refused to come forward, or have been economic with the truth.
"I am left with the inescapable conclusion that this case could still be solved if only people were honest with us.
"The fact that they are not is agonising for Claudia's family and they should be ashamed of themselves."
Now North Yorkshire police are sadly left with the exact same inescapable conclusion as the PJ. I just pray the government don't now go on to "waste" £12m attempting to prove the four men actually are innocent but I suppose if it's good enough for the Mccanns then it should be good enough for the four men.
"They should be ashamed of themselves", Det Supt Dai Malyn?
I'm sure many more will totally agree!
Fancy doing the reconstruction yet Mr and Mrs Mccann?
Sair Byro2 weeks ago
very good richard...lv yr work.x
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Mike Vyne1 month ago
Anything that helps bring this evil couple, AND their equally ** friends, to JUSTICE is welcome, (and Shared)
tylert1 month ago
They killed that little girl. From the time this story hit I knew they did it.
Maggie Jiggs1 month ago
Meticulous research...but you made a mistake at 54:30 It's Dame Vivienne Westwood...not Duffy !
TheKodiakbare3 weeks ago
Thank you for doing the police's job for them Richard, so many inconsistencies and lies .
Donna Symons3 weeks ago
Well let`s hope Operation Grange get to watch this. Considering all the masses of other information they`ve been sent, there will be no excuse not to see the massive elephant in the room.
hauntboy1 month ago (edited)
Never in my entire life have I come across a story (the one about the abductor taking Madeleine on May 3rd) with so many holes in it and with people in a position of power conspiring with one another to make sure that the truth about the death of this poor little girl never comes out. The fact that they are able to do so, and that the vast majority of the public actually believes the lies perpetuated by the mainsteam media is shocking. The majority appear content to carry on this way, ie ridiculing the notion that this is a high level cover up. There are so many inconsistencies highlighted in this latest series of videos, many which I'd previously been aware of. You just need to watch these videos and take note. With all the gaping holes in the parents' story, the contradictions and inconsistencies, not to mention all the other stuff (dogs' findings etc), the odds on this not being a high level cover-up are billions to one.... yet many still perpetuate the falsehood that there is not a single shred of evidence to suspect the parents or any wrong-doing.
soap addict1 month ago
McCanns are very libel,must be truth to this documentary,if still on internet
highmyope19551 month ago
The devil is in the detail.
Chris Redfield1 month ago
Kate killed her fact ... I will comment if this comment ends me in court ...
muriel lundy1 month ago
@Maggie Jigss a slight mix up on names, Duffy is the singer who teamed up with Vivian Westwood on an animal rescue project.
Frances Murray1 month ago
For background information and discussion on the Maddie McCann case plus FACTS from the Official police files join us here
https://www.facebook.com/groups/jkjoannekilcoyne/
bogmasher1 month ago (edited)
I do think that Maddie could have been given tablets by her parents to make her sleep which unfortunately led to her death, but this must of happened the night before, or even 2 nights before to give them time to get the alibi stories sorted and wash clothes, remove evidence etc.
But I just can't get my head around the amount of people who must have been involved with the cover up. It just doesn't make sense that the McCann's 5 friends + Philip Martin Edmonds (the photographer) and the 2 women who worked at the children's day centre were all involved.
What was in it for them, why risk being sent to jail for colluding with people who could have been responsible for the death of this young girl. It would make sense if they were all close family, but even if these people were offered bribes, surely there would be at least one of them to refuse and say that they had been asked to lie.
I guess the friends could have been asked to make up some stories regarding the care that evening so they didn't look like they were completely irresponsible.
Frances Haypenny1 month ago
+bogmasher You don't give 'tablets' to a three year old. If she was given anything, it was a liquid anti-histamine which can cause sleepiness, but is not a sedative per se. It's not likely she was overdosed, but it may be that the McCanns worried how it would appear if more than a child's dose were to be detected in her system, particularly in the absence of any medical reason for administering the medication in the first place. (Kate and Fiona Payne were qualified anesthetists). Sometimes anti-histamines can make children hyper, it depends upon dosage and age. It's also possible that she was given a liquid cold medicine containing alcohol, which would indeed be incriminating and also explain why the Twins slept so deeply in spite of the chaos.
As to those who may have covered for the McCanns - it's likely not everyone present in their company even knew anything. Some of them were likely unaware of anything fishy, and simply had no information to offer, and thus had no grounds to accuse the McCanns. It's more likely that many people just gave them the benefit of the doubt and/or went along with the story because it profited them in some way or other. And remember, the Tapas-7 were doctors too, and according to their own statements, had left their own children alone and unsupervised as well. They all ran a risk of losing their reputations and livelihoods and even perhaps their children if they were associated with any nefarious or negligent actions on the part of the McCanns.
Good source of more Facts, and Official Files ....
https://www.facebook.com/groups/jkjoannekilcoyne/
There are many other, equally good, pages of course ...... everywhere :)
lillesvend6661 month ago
Oh I see now are the 'No Planes Hit the WTC on 9/11' ticking in 23:50 suddenly former police inspector Gonçalo Amaral morphed into Phd, Doctor & Dr. Amaral. Certainly an Englishman who writes comments about the Madeleine Mccann case on the Internet is the same Dr. Englishman who is behind this film.
Cirrus giles1 week ago
Easy to be an armchair detective, isn't it? Ever been on a holiday? Forget the time too. Sign out times at any creche are never reliable-parents always guess the time. Written a book? Editors snip and snip so morons can read them. To even suggest these parents would be capable of this crime is ridiculous. I suggest you attend a few court cases and see how many witnesses are reliable after the fact.
Sherlock Holmes1 week ago (edited)
What is ridiculous is to suggest that it is impossible for these parents to be capable of this crime. Even more ridiculous without offering "any" information on which one should believe such a ridiculous suggestion.
Only Scotland Yard, the Portuguese and, apparently, people called 'trolls' are even talking about 'death'... However, you can't escape statistics. With no evidence for stranger abduction, and no evidence of a stranger attending the property, there's about a 97% likelihood that whatever fate befell the girl involved close family or friends who were present the last time the child was seen alive and well. That's simple objective fact, and is precisely what the group are up against in the court of public opinion and police experience.
It's easy to be an armchair many things. I've been on loads of holidays and signed loads of records, however what is normal when a time is requested is a simple look at the old watch and provide an accurate time and signature, it really isn't a difficult task in all fairness. I can't say I "ever" forget the time when I'm actually signing for it. Why do you claim most parents guess the time. Most creche receptions i've ever been in and I was in one just this very morning have clocks on the wall for the "very few" who are not wearing a timepiece.
What is a little more unusual is for "anyone" to come home to find signs of forced entry and your daughter missing but yet wait 41 minutes to call the police. 41 minutes in which the greatest contamination occurred.
Kate Mccann: "The night she went missing there was about 20 seconds of disbelief where I thought 'that can't be right'. I was checking for her. Then there was panic and fear. That was the first thing that hit. I was screaming her name. I ran to the group. Everyone was the same. It was just total fear. I never thought for one second that she'd walked out. I knew someone had been in the apartment because of the way it had been left. But I knew she wouldn't do that anyway. There wasn't a shadow of a doubt in my mind she'd been taken."
Have you ever come home to find signs of forced entry and your possessions missing, i.e. your daughter and waited 41 minutes to call the police and then begin telling them "lies"?
That's exactly what the Mccanns done and they have continued ever since!
On May 6 Philomena McCann began deliberately lying about the police investigation to the media, claiming lack of response, inadequate searching, neglect and inefficiency. Not one word of these claims was true: they were lying inventions of Kate & Gerry McCann, passed on to Philomena specifically for outside broadcasting, despite the police pleas for silence.
The false evidence, on the other hand, is not a matter for the police alone. It concerns us all because, in a widening circle of pure deceit, the parents first provided members of their family with the lies, then members of the Tapas group, then the Foreign Office via the embassy and then members of the UK media en masse in Praia da Luz – who then sold it on to us, the end-users.
What is even more unusual than innocent parents lying to an investigation attempting to solve their daughter's disappearance is for a UK cadaver dog to give eleven alerts to the past presence of a human corpse but "only" to property associated with the very same lying parents despite being presented with a variety of the groups and Robert Murat's properties.
The 'normal behaviour' of a suspect after a crime is not an admissible standard of evidence for innocence. All manner of criminals have been observed behaving normally after a crime. It isn't hard to fake it. Of course, it's slightly harder to fake it if every attempt you make involves a performance which is scripted, coached, decided in secret meetings called 'a pact', or resembles bad acting on a straight to DVD title, but if you call this 'normal behaviour', who am I to question you?
Cadaver in the boot = an 18 month old with a taste for expensive, bony, oily fish and EVRD dogs unable to tell the difference between a nice fillet of seabass and a dead body.
Blood in the boot = steak in the boot spilling blood
Blonde hair in the boot = hair fell off some clothes being transported
Cadaver on Kate's pants = I attended six dead bodies and wiped myself all over them in my job as a GP in the weeks before I wore the same pants without significant washing to go on holiday.
Cadaver on Madeleine's toy = Kate attended six dead bodies while carrying Madeleine's toy.
Stench emanating from car boot which had been extensively cleaned out and aired out for several nights as reported by neighbours who thought the behaviour was 'suspicious' = the toxic waste in our 18 month old's nappies from all that sea bass is so stench in', far more than anyone else's babies, that we have to hosepipe the car out and give it 48 hours of airing just for transporting the nappies in a bin liner, plus the blood from the steak, the water from the shrimp are just so stinky... have you never been in a butcher's shop in a hot climate? Ohhh, they're all uninhabitable for hours on end, they smell that bad.
I believe that Detective Amaral was getting to the bottom of the mystery when he was discharged from the case under the behest of the British Government. Perhaps those who insisted on his sacking are now beginning to regret their interference in what was happening in Portugal!
If his suspicions were wrong they would have been proven to be so and the parents cleared.
What say ye to that Mr and Mrs Mccann?
wandering trash1 week ago
Kate said the shutters had been broken, or 'jemmied' open.This was shown and proven NOT to be true. Therefore, from this point onward, no further information or comment is needed.
Mylittle Dream3 weeks ago
I'm not going to fucking watch this, but I will put my opinion up. Madeleine is NOT DEAD! If we think that, we'll give up looking for her. Don't give up, she needs our help, and so does her family. They miss her and want her back.
Mike Hunt (BlazinFeatured)2 weeks ago
her parent's killed her from what I know and there was a huge cover up no one wants to believe it but its time to accept the truth
Dreamer the family have had our help and they still tell us lies. This is a "fact".
If the child is still alive the parents lies are unforgivable.
Perhaps you have a credible explanation for the lies and their quantity?
There can be little to zero doubt that these lies have done the investigation and the search the greatest damage. Even greater than the cadaver dog "intelligence". The constantly left open car trunk. The issue of the doors, front/back, key/no key, the 30 min checks that were clearly an invention/lie as Mrs Fenn's statement proved.
They appear to be clever and cunning on one hand but then take the most stupid or "desperate" actions in spite of the legal and PR advice they've purchased with other people's money. Things like inviting the nanny to their home in Rothley and the secret meeting they organised shortly after reports emerged that some of the group were going to change their statements, prior to them "ALL" giving their rogatory interviews. Suspects contacting witnesses isn't the smartest course of action, especially for innocent ones. They discover what they believed to be a broken into apartment and their daughter missing but yet waited 41 minutes to make the call to police. Surely the "belief" the shutters were broken would have prompted the call instantly. Have you ever come home to discover evidence of a burglary and your 3 yr old daughter missing and waited 41 minutes to call the police and then begin telling them "lies". Well have you? 41 minutes in which the greatest contamination occurred, including Mr Mccann tampering with the shutters.
These are not trivial issues as the Mccanns and their supporters would have us believe. The parents word has been "documented" to be worthless, absolutely worthless. Trolls cannot take the blame for that.
We are told that their actions constituted responsible parenting. Have you studied the logistics of the apartment (adjacent to the road) and out of sight of their table but despite these obvious hazards they chose to leave their door unlocked "with their three children inside" despite the fact they locked it "everyday" when their children weren't. If such action constitutes responsible parenting under today's laws it's perhaps time these laws were amended appropriately to protect other vulnerable children. I agree with those that believe that the issue of child neglect was the necessary trade off to protect themselves from more serious allegations. I find it even more bizarre, they were the only one's to have left their apartment unlocked but yet sat with their backs to it in the tapas. "If" there was an abduction one could be forgiven for observing them to have been "extremely" accommodating to any would be abductor.
I have always found Mrs Fenn's statement to be particularly distressing where she described a distressed little girl (Madeleine) left alone in a dark, foreign holiday apartment who cried for her "daddy" for 1hr 15min. Out of all the children in PDL, this is the same child that coincidence chose to abduct. Or was it?
Regardless of the insults I receive for posting my opinion I would never wish to see innocent parents wrongly accused or convicted, however I would always expect innocent parents to provide honest answers to legitimate questions to those dealing with a complex investigation along with the public whose financial assistance they seek.
Perhaps you can provide a credible explanation for their "lies" and their quantity that clearly display deceit and contempt to us all? They're supporters included, if they ever decide to take an "objective and logical look".
Ian Archer1 month ago
This series started as an interesting and analytic look at the MM case but I feel is now veering into conspiracy theorist territory. The end and the vision of hell, the music and CM is just about as manipulative as anything you would find.
I cannot believe the idea to support this thesis that so many independent witnesses would be involved. It makes no sense. I think the evidence points to something happening on the night of the 3rd and then for whatever reason either career, self interest, or something else they tried to cover up.
The part that IS interesting is the involvement of the MSM and the Govt. support. That is a mystery. But if all these interests were all involved why did they make such a poor job of creating the illusion of an abduction? Because for a lot of people that was the most suspicious element.
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Ian Archer3 weeks ago
+Frances Haypenny Yes its this 'playing along angle' that has given rise to all the conspiracy theories we are now seeing and which RDH seeks to exploit I feel in his latest movie.
The irony as you say is that Goncalo Amaral is the only person who has produced an evidence based theory and look what happened to him! I also agree regarding this information being in the public domain. A little research into it is all you need and I think both the Portuguese and British police came to the same conclusion very early. The interesting part is why that was suppressed and continues to be. That has led people into darker theories about what happened and while there are a lot of interesting elements there is no real evidence to any of this. But until either someone cracks or something changes this circus will continue. I'd just like to really know why....
Ian I tend to agree but yet at every turn the parents actions arouse suspicion. I find suspects approaching witnesses, the Mccanns inviting the nanny to their Rothley home deeply suspicious and have always bore in mind the priest in PDL commenting "I was deceived," he said.
"I was just doing my job supporting lost souls. I would do that with any family who were in their situation. I didn't do anything wrong.
Father Pacheco, 46, said he had felt compelled to help Kate and Gerry because of their "inconsolable grief".
I believe there may be others who have been unwittingly deceived. The nannies rogatory interview contained a number of additions almost a year later. Can anyone remember such little but yet important things after such time and if not why add them in? The nanny could yet hold the key but she was moved to Greece over a week later never to return to PDL so was never reinterviewed. A point I believe Amaral would have addressed given the time.
I am left in little doubt that disturbing the original investigation was a massive mistake and will sadly leave many important questions unanswered and fuel conspiracy theories for many years to come.
It would be extremely interesting to see the evidence of "why" Amaral was removed from the case and the direction apparently changed. It has clearly been proven to have assisted the guilty party whomever that party may be. I'm not sure Mr Mccann would agree even though the results or "lack" of them clearly suggest to be the case.
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Very Funny, From Bill Maher
Bill Maher has a great rant about Bush. Much as I hate to steal his big finish, I will:
On your watch, we've lost almost all of our allies, the surplus, four airliners, two Trade Centers, a piece of the Pentagon and the City of New Orleans...Maybe you're just not lucky!
I'm not saying you don't love this country. I'm just wondering how much worse it could be if you were on the other side.
Posted by Tom Maguire on September 17, 2005 | Permalink
Whether Kerry lied depends on whether he could have reasonably discerned that the information he presented was largely false. It was certainly false to imply that war crimes were commited by any significant percentage of American soldiers or that our leaders were complicit.
As Cecil correctly notes the "Winter Soldier" "investigation" was largely false and has since been discredited by serious scholars. Furthermore, many within the "Viet Nam Veterans" movement were either no where near Viet Nam and some were not even in the military. There is adequate evidence that many of the "soldiers" with stories of atrocities either made them up or weren't even in the theater.
Steven, don't know why you'd quote McNamara when just up the thread you indicated he, along with LBJ and Nixon were the true traitors in the war. If he was a traitor, I'd say that's reason enough to suspect the veracity of his comments on the war.
Personall, I don't know if I'd go so far as to suggest any of those gentlemen were traitors, but at the very least I don't believe any of them really understood the long term implications of their prosecution of the war.
Posted by: Harry Arthur | September 19, 2005 at 07:35 AM
"Furthermore, many within the "Viet Nam Veterans" movement were either no where near Viet Nam and some were not even in the military."
Mack Owens's article said it best:
In fact, the entire Winter Soldiers Investigation was a lie. It was inspired by Mark Lane's 1970 book entitled Conversations with Americans, which claimed to recount atrocity stories by Vietnam veterans. This book was panned by James Reston Jr. and Neil Sheehan, not exactly known as supporters of the Vietnam War. Sheehan in particular demonstrated that many of Lane's "eye witnesses" either had never served in Vietnam or had not done so in the capacity they claimed.
The bottom line is that it was a lie, told to a script, with poseurs and liars in place of veteran "witnesses." Kerry knew it and used it for personal political gain, and by doing so, broke faith with his fellow vets. I'm not sure what's more pathetic: the "band of brothers" campaign; or the persistent claim by the left that the SwiftVets were liars engaged in a "smear."
Posted by: Cecil Turner | September 19, 2005 at 09:47 AM
Sorry, Steven J., but almost anyone who served in the SEA theater knows what a miserable excuse for Sec Def McNamara was. Like Harry says, you can't have it both ways. Robert Ass McNamara: Traitor or expert? Of course Giap started planning the next attack right away when he saw the reaction of the budding LLMSM.
"Kerry did not lie." You know this how? I notice your baseless attack on that point is coupled with inattention to Kerry's other two, more treasonous acts.
Merely hoping to ward off a chickenhawk attack, I'll tell you that I flew 211 combat missions in F-4C's. Anyone who did that could also tell you how the war could have been finished in months, if not weeks, with conventional weapons. First step: Shitcan the voluminous and undecipherable rules of engagement. Second step: Replace R O E with, "If they shoot at you, shoot back."
Posted by: Larry | September 19, 2005 at 10:22 AM
"Merely hoping to ward off a chickenhawk attack, I'll tell you that I flew 211 combat missions in F-4C's."
Ah, but while you were warding off chickenhawk attacks, you opened yourself up for fighter pilot jokes.
Q: How do you know there's a fighter pilot in the room?
A: Don't worry, he'll tell you.
Posted by: Cecil Turner | September 19, 2005 at 01:59 PM
Steven J.
There's a key thing you're missing in McNamarra's book. It's this: McNamarra KNEW AT THE TIME that Vietnam was unwinnable.
There's a line in there about this realization coming to him in, I think, 1967.
If Rumsfeld publishes a book five years from now saying "Yeah, I knew we couldn't win the peace with that level of troops" then you might be on to something.
Posted by: BumperStickerist | September 19, 2005 at 02:13 PM
Ugliest thread I've read on here.
1. If soldiers tend to the right when they start out, as Cecil suggests, why is the most powerful antiwar literature written by vets?
2. Pablo threatening to beat people up should clear up the reason for psudonyms. I left junior high quite a long time ago.
3. Frank - read you post about Grenta - the fact is that all the people were already gone - the city was evacuated and locked down according to the sherrif - so no lives were in danger in Gretna - just NO.
4. For Kim - zygote.
Posted by: TexasToast | September 19, 2005 at 04:04 PM
What is the percentage of antiwar vet writers compared to the entirety of vets? or even compared to the percentage of vets who are Democcrats?
Anyway, any antiwar literature is powerful to someone who is themselves antiwar.
Posted by: Syl | September 19, 2005 at 04:15 PM
BUMPER -
No, I didn't miss that. That's why I lumped Mac in with LBJ and Nixon. Upon further reflection, I also add Kissinger.
Posted by: Steven J. | September 19, 2005 at 05:01 PM
LARRY -"Kerry did not lie." You know this how?
For one, I take Tommy Franks' word for it. See above.
Anyone who did that could also tell you how the war could have been finished in months, if not weeks, with conventional weapons.
You are delusional.
It was certainly false to imply that war crimes were commited by any significant percentage of American soldiers or that our leaders were complicit.
It is a war crime to forcibly remove civilians from their place of residence. Although you have forgotten, that was explicit US policy. That is, empty and burn the hamlets and villages to prevent the VC from having a support base.
I notice your baseless attack on that point is coupled with inattention to Kerry's other two, more treasonous acts.
It is not illegal for a reserve officer to meet as a private citizen with NV officials.
Kerry left the anti-war group after he got wind of the plot to kill US Senators. Kerry's FBI file is clean in that regard.
The bottom line is that it was a lie, told to a script, with poseurs and liars in place of veteran "witnesses."
SWIFTBOAT LIARS.
As Cecil correctly notes the "Winter Soldier" "investigation" was largely false and has since been discredited by serious scholars.
Who? (NRO doesn't count)
TT, If soldiers tend to the right when they start out, as Cecil suggests, why is the most powerful antiwar literature written by vets? Speaking from personal experience I can anecdotally attest that Cecil is correct. Though there are many reasons someone who has seen war up close and personal might become very anti-war including the fact that war is a nasty disgusting business that is easy to detest.
I also find it easy to understand that reasonable and honorable people can come away from similar experiences with dissimilar reactions. It's also the case that we attribute a level of credibility to a veteran due to their experience in combat that makes their viewpoint more compelling, especially to civilian audiences.
It is the phoneys with whom I have serious difficulty. The "Winter Soldier" crowd in particular and the 60s anti-war movement in general was populated by some not insignificant percentage of "soldiers" who had either never been in the Viet Nam theater, had never served at all, or who if they had been in Viet Nam were not directly involved in combat operations.
Finally, some of those who had experienced combat firsthand become disillusioned with the war for any number of reasons. Among these, probably at the top of the list as noted by Larry, would certainly include the inept prosecution of the war at the hands of McNamara, his "wiz kids" in the pentagon, and a not insignificant number of politician generals unwilling to jeopardize their careers for the sake of the lives of their soldiers.
Posted by: Harry Arthur | September 19, 2005 at 05:31 PM
"It is a war crime to forcibly remove civilians from their place of residence."
It is? What if they happen to be unlawful combatants in disguise?
"It is not illegal for a reserve officer to meet as a private citizen with NV officials."
Kinda depends on what they discussed/agreed to, eh?
"SWIFTBOAT LIARS."
That worked really well, didn't it? One great thing about the left, sharp learning curve.
Re: "At the top of the list as noted by Larry, would certainly include the inept prosecution of the war at the hands of McNamara, his "wiz kids" in the pentagon, and a not insignificant number of politician generals"
That's Col. H.R. McMaster's thesis in his book on Vietnam, "Dereliction of Duty."
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0060929081/104-4116444-2723148?v=glance
McMaster is in Iraq right now with the 71st Regiment. Great man.
Posted by: SteveMG | September 19, 2005 at 05:39 PM
ANOTHER UPSTANDING SHIFTY VET, ONE OF MANY:
Alfred French said in the ad and swore in an affidavit, ''I served with John Kerry. ... He is lying about his record.'' French subsequently acknowledged he relied on the accounts of other veterans and did not witness Kerry in combat.
Kerry Accuses GOP of 'Fear and Smear' Tactics
Democrat Speaks in New York
By MARY DALRYMPLE, AP, 8/24/04
LOL, Cecil. I hesitated to mention. Should have hesitated a little longer.......like forever. But seriously, the only disillusion I came away with was the total idiocy of micromanaging the war from D.C. and restricting/forbidding strikes on targets like railroads, harbors, dams, dikes, etc.
Steven, assertions aren't facts. You have drunk the left wing cool aid and now live in an alternate reality.
Posted by: Larry | September 19, 2005 at 07:44 PM
Steven, assertions aren't facts.
For YOU they are.
"LOL, Cecil. I hesitated to mention. Should have hesitated a little longer.......like forever."
Yeah, sorry (well, kinda . . . okay, not really) for the cheap shot. As a former attack puke, I can't pass up straight lines like that one. Cheers.
"ANOTHER UPSTANDING SHIFTY VET"
Why don't we go over all the witness statements of Kerry's crewmen who went with him into Cambodia, or the ones who saw the magic hat, or the enemy fire from his first PH? Oh, that's right, there aren't any. How 'bout his buddy Rasmussen's story about the piece of shrapnel (and rice) in the butt from his own grenade for the third PH? When even your friends don't back up your story, it might be time to change it.
I just loved it when Newsweek, to account for the fact that Kerry's Band of Brothers disappeared after the convention by saying that they were 'grandfathers, on family vacations'.
Hee hee, does that explain why Kerry disappeared from the press for 6 weeks after the Swifties attack?
And SJ, now that you have called the Swifties liars about 4 or 5 times, how about detailing some of those lies.
And what about Christmas in Cambodia, what about Purple Hearts 3's 1 and 3, and what about his cowardly flight down the river in the Bronze Star incident?
Posted by: kim | September 19, 2005 at 09:57 PM
TT, I would say 'zymurgy' but won't, because I don't want to contribute to global warming, and because I usually regret it whan I have the last word.
CECIL - Why don't we go over all the witness statements of Kerry's crewmen who went with him into Cambodia
I'll do you one better: a fellow officer -->
O'Neill said no one could cross the border by river and he claimed in an audio tape that his publicist played to CNN that he, himself, had never been to Cambodia either. But in 1971, O'Neill said precisely the opposite to then President Richard Nixon.
O'NEILL: I was in Cambodia, sir. I worked along the border on the water.
NIXON: In a swift boat?
O'NEILL: Yes, sir.
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Posted by: Steven J. | September 20, 2005 at 03:09 AM
CECIL -
Why don't we ask the Navy?
Navy Says Kerry's Service Awards OK'd
WASHINGTON (Sept. 17) - The Navy's chief investigator concluded Friday that procedures were followed properly in
the approval of Sen. John Kerry's Silver Star, Bronze Star and Purple Heart medals, according to an internal Navy
memo. Vice Adm. R.A. Route, the Navy inspector general, conducted the review of Kerry's Vietnam-ear military
service awards at the request of Judicial Watch, a public interest group.
"Our examination found that existing documentation regarding the Silver Star, Bronze Star and Purple Heart medals
indicates the awards approval process was properly followed," Route wrote in the memo sent Friday to Navy Secretary
Gordon England.
"Our review also considered the fact that Senator Kerry's post-active duty activities were public and that military and
civilian officials were aware of his actions at the time. For these reasons, I have determined that Senator Kerry's awards
were properly approved and will take no further action in this matter."
what about his cowardly flight down the river in the Bronze Star incident?
LMFAO - you don't stick around ground zero simply to suit your fantasies of combat.
And what about Christmas in Cambodia
Apparently it was in January.
the enemy fire from his first PH?
The Navy thinks there was and Kerry was NOT the official witness to that event.
Hey, LARRY!
Blade wins Pulitzer: Series exposing Vietnam atrocities earns top honor
By KELLY LECKER
BLADE STAFF WRITER
Three Blade reporters won the Pulitzer Prize - journalism's highest honor - yesterday for uncovering the atrocities of an elite U.S. Army fighting unit in the Vietnam War that killed unarmed civilians and children during a seven-month rampage.
Michael D. Sallah, Mitch Weiss, and Joe Mahr received the investigative reporting prize for their series - "Buried Secrets, Brutal Truths" - which detailed how the Army failed to stop the atrocities after commanders were told about them. The reporters also discovered that the Army failed to prosecute soldiers who killed unarmed civilians after an investigation found the platoon had committed war crimes
.http://www.toledoblade.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20040406/SRTIGERFORCE/40406017
ANOTHER SHIFTY VET LIE:
<>B>Witness backs Kerry's story, not his candidacy
By Joseph B. Frazier
PORTLAND, Ore. - A swift-boat crewman decorated in the 1969 Vietnam incident where John Kerry won a Bronze Star says not only did they come under enemy fire but also that his own boat commander, who has challenged the official account, was too distracted to notice the gunfire.
Retired Chief Petty Officer Robert E. Lambert, of Eagle Point, Ore., got a Bronze Star for pulling his boat commander - Lt.
Larry Thurlow - out of the Bay Hap River on March 13, 1969. Thurlow had jumped onto another swift boat to aid sailors
wounded by a mine explosion but fell off when the out-of-control boat ran aground.
Thurlow, who has been prominent among a group of veterans challenging the Democratic presidential candidate's record, has said there was no enemy fire during the incident. Lambert, however, supports the Navy account that says all five swift boats in the task force "came under small-arms and automatic-weapon fire from the riverbanks" when the mine detonated.
"I thought we were under fire, I believed we were under fire," Lambert said in a telephone interview with The Associated Press.
"Thurlow was far too distracted with rescue efforts to even realize he was under fire. He was concentrating on trying to save lives."
So, according to Maher, if we had simply voted correctly, then 9/11 would not have happened.
I guess that is funny.
Man, he's so stupid it makes me laugh.
Next thing he'll tell me that if Bush I had got his second term then Milosevic would never have ethnic cleansed (or what not.)
Heck, if FDR had lost then no Pearl Harbour or concentration camps, either.
Posted by: Aaron | September 20, 2005 at 06:36 AM
"I'll do you one better: a fellow officer -->"
Don't see any support for Kerry's "Christmas in Cambodia" story there. His pet biographer couldn't find any either:
"On Christmas Eve he was near Cambodia; he was around 50 miles from the Cambodian border. There's no indictment of Kerry to be made, but he was mistaken about Christmas in Cambodia," said Douglas Brinkley, who has unique access to the candidate's wartime journals. . . .
"The Navy thinks there was and Kerry was NOT the official witness to that event."
"The Navy" thinks? Again, no witness reports enemy fire. Kerry's own journal nine days later says: "we hadn't been shot at yet."
"Why don't we ask the Navy? . . . the awards approval process was properly followed . . ."
Administrative procedures were followed. Good. Don't know why you left this part out (okay, maybe I do):
"Conducting any additional review regarding events that took place over 30 years ago would not be productive. The passage of time would make reconstruction of the facts and circumstances unreliable, and would not allow the information gathered to be considered in the context of the time in which the events took place."
"I thought we were under fire, I believed we were under fire . . ."
Strong statement. Maybe someone can help explain the fact that there wasn't a single bullet hole in any of the boats from that engagement? Or perhaps Thurlow was right, despite being "distracted." In any event, there's no doubt none of it hit Kerry, who had shrapnel (and rice?) removed from a self-inflicted wound.
SJ: To go over this again with you.
O'Neill worked along the border of Cambodia later in the war when it is documented that Swift Boats were there. This does not prove that Kerry was there.
The Navy merely commented on the process of awarding medals. Let's see Kerry's records to see who wrote the after action reports.
The ground zero on that river had injured sailors in the water. All the other boats rallied around them, apparently the scene did fit Kerry's fantasies of combat 'cuz he was outa there. Had there been enemy fire, and I think it is possible, his run down the river was even more craven.
Christman in January didn't happen either. Instead you had Kerry initially claiming exploits in January with someone else's boat.
Who's got the evidence of return fire on the first Purple Heart incident? Those may well have been civilians that Kerry described as "fleeing like gazelles" as he raked them with M-16 fire.
Are you trying to claim that the Winter Soldier hearings produced accurate history?
What a fraud. ================================================
Posted by: kim | September 20, 2005 at 07:45 AM
You can laugh about Bay Hap, SJ, but it predicted Kerry's behaviour in August of last year. The Swifties detonated a mine under the Democrat's Ship of Coming State, leaving a bunch of Democratic candidates injured in the water. Kerry ran off from the press for six solid weeks returning only after the opposing fire, such as it had been from MSM, had quit.
You should be outraged that he cravenly ran off from reporters, thereby handing the election to Bush and to Republicans.
Re : Cecil's comment about service men tending towards the right.
That is true - and there are good sociological reasons for it in a mature society. Samual Huntington has a bit to say about the military's (particularly the officer corps') support for the status quo.
In societies under stress that do not have a democratic tradition , soldiers tend to be more liberal than the prevailing social order. Examples - the french revolution, the russian revolution, Cromwell. In static societies, soldiers tend to support the prevailing social order as the tendancies that make them want to become soldiers tend to trend conservative - and in the absense of an educated working class, the education soldiers, and particularly officers, recieve, tend to give them a stake in the prevailing social order. In extreme cases, this can lead to military dictatorship.
So Cecil, its OK to be a righty!
Posted by: TexasToast | September 20, 2005 at 11:10 AM
There's a good essay here on the subject of service and citizen-soldiers. The bottom line is that it's a basic government function "to provide for the common defense," the concept of service is an essential part of that equation, and it's not a recent phenomenon:
As a student of the Classics, I also know that republican theory teaches that unless the citizens of a republic serve in their own defense, they risk losing their freedom.
One of the better treatments of the subject was in Heinlein's Starship Troopers. Heinlein's theory (propounded by a fictional History and Moral Philosophy professor) was that a person who volunteered for a dangerous service assignment showed he was capable of placing the greater good of the community over his own well-being. And that such a trait was both rare and laudable. He further maintained it was unteachable, suggesting to a student restoring his lost eyesight would be easier:
You would find it much easier than to instill moral virtue -- social responsibility -- into a person who doesn't have it, doesn't want it, and resents having the burden thrust on him.
" In static societies, soldiers tend to support the prevailing social order as the tendancies that make them want to become soldiers tend to trend conservative . . ."
I'm not sure "tendencies" is an apt description for a sense of duty, or a willingness to sacrifice to protect one's fellow man. The last stanza of the Star Spangled Banner sums up the sentiment nicely:
Oh! thus be it ever, when freemen shall stand,
Between their loved homes and the war's desolation!
Blest with victory and peace, may the heaven-rescued land
Praise the Power that hath made and preserved us a nation.
Now, perhaps an argument can be made for a general sappiness among conservatives, that makes them prone to believe romantic nonsense, but I prefer to think of it as an indicator of social responsibility. And there's little doubt that many on the right tend to view the disparity as a general moral failing of the left. Again from the essay linked above:
The problem is not that soldiers choose to be conservative, but that liberals choose not to be soldiers.
Let's see Kerry's records to see who wrote the after action reports.
Oh yeah, the Shifty Vets also claimed Kerry wrote up his own reports. LMFAO!
Strong statement. Maybe someone can help explain the fact that there wasn't a single bullet hole in any of the boats from that engagement?
Maybe you could stop making shit up.
I prefer to think of it as an indicator of social responsibility.
You are a reall hoot!
Poverty rate at 12.7 percent, 4th straight rise
Updated: 10:45 a.m. ET Aug. 30, 2005
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/9130342/
WASHINGTON (AP) - The nation’s poverty rate rose to 12.7 percent of the population last year, the fourth consecutive annual increase, the Census Bureau said Tuesday.
Overall, there were 37 million people living in poverty, up 1.1 million people from 2003.
They are all out there:
Kerry allows Navy release of military, medical records
Show numerous commendations
By Michael Kranish, Globe Staff | June 7, 2005
http://www.boston.com/news/nation/washington/articles/2005/06/07/kerry_allows_navy_release_of_militar
y_medical_records/
WASHINGTON -- Senator John F. Kerry, ending at least two years of refusal, has waived privacy restrictions and
authorized the release of his full military and medical records.
The records, which the Navy Personnel Command provided to the Globe, are mostly a duplication of what Kerry
released during his 2004 campaign for president, including numerous commendations from commanding officers who
later criticized Kerry's Vietnam service.
Asked why he delayed signing the form for so long, Kerry said in a written response: ''The call for me to sign a 180
form came from the same partisan operatives who were lying about my record on a daily basis on the Web and in the
right-wing media. Even though the media was discrediting them, they continued to lie. I felt strongly that we shouldn't
kowtow to them and their attempts to drag their lies out."
The file does not provide new documents about various combat actions. It contains mostly a repetition of Kerry's
citations for the Silver Star, Bronze Star, and three Purple Hearts. For example, it does not include the combat ''after
action reports" that detail what happened in some of the firefights in which Kerry participated. Those reports are
available for public inspection at the Navy historical center in Washington and have already been widely disseminated.
John O'Neill, the leader of the Swift Boat veterans group and coauthor of the book ''Unfit for Command," said
yesterday that he would be disappointed if Kerry's files do not contain new information. ''I would still have the same
beliefs expressed in my book," he said.
Drooling on the Vietnam Vets
Posted Tuesday, May 2, 2000, at 4:49 AM PT
http://slate.msn.com/id/1005224/
Jerry Lembcke argues that the story is bunk in his 1998 book The Spitting Image: Myth, Memory, and the
Legacy of Vietnam (click here to buy it). Lembcke, a professor of sociology at Holy Cross and a Vietnam vet,
investigated hundreds of news accounts of antiwar activists spitting on vets. But every time he pushed for more
evidence or corroboration from a witness, the story collapsed--the actual person who was spat on turned out to
be a friend of a friend. Or somebody's uncle. He writes that he never met anybody who convinced him that any
such clash took place.
Lembcke uncovered a whole lot of spitting from the war years, but the published accounts always put the antiwar
protester on the receiving side of a blast from a pro-Vietnam counterprotester. Surely, he contends, the news pages
would have given equal treatment to a story about serviceman getting the treatment. Then why no stories in the
newspaper morgues, he asks?
"Maybe you could stop making s*** up."
Here's a good overview of the engagement, including analysis of the damage to Kerry's boat and the strange similarities among the writeups. Try coming up with a story that fits all the known facts (especially including the lack of bullet holes or blast damage).
"Oh yeah, the Shifty Vets also claimed Kerry wrote up his own reports. LMFAO!"
Yes, it is funny. Almost as funny as: " . . . when a mine detonated close aboard PCF-94."
"The records, which the Navy Personnel Command provided to the Globe . . ."
That's public disclosure? (Hint: no, it's not.)
Just exactly what is so funny about this? Part of his freaking job was writing after-action reports. I know from being told (and refusing) to write up my own recommendations for decorations and having seen others do theirs it was not an uncommon practice.
The shuttle will be down to take you back to the mother ship tomorrow, Steven J. Are you the only living brain donor or is that just a rumor?
Sorry SJ, you've been sold a bridge. Kerry's records are not released to the public. The clever little so-and-so found a way to sign the Form 180 without releasing them.
There were about three bullet holes in the boats at Bay Hap that were probably new. From whom they came is not established. There were a minority of the sailors there that day who remember the distinct ack-ack of AK-47 rounds and I don't doubt their aural memory, or that others didn't hear them. It would make sense to make at least a token ambush out of a mined defile, which is what was there.
My point is that if there had been enemy fire, dumping Rasmussen in the water and skedaddling off while ALL THE OTHER BOATS rallied around the injured sailors in the water just highlights Kerry's cowardice. That incident and what I believe was the perception of Kerry's poor fire discipline led his superiors to not oppose his leaving the area, shortly thereafter.
Scholars are digging into all this because it represents a nexus of three important American cultural events: the '04 election, the Vietnam War, and the blogosphere. The Swifties turned the tide in August and you, SJ, should feel betrayed by Kerry's behaviour since.
Surely there's a pony under all this horse dung somewhere.
Poverty rate at 12.7 percent about where it was in the middle of Clinton's two terms. As far as rates of poverty go, no matter how hard you try to make it otherwise, this one has been essentially level since 1966.
Just proves to him The Great Society worked. It isn't even the post hoc fallacy, it's the pre hoc, ergo propter hoc fallacy. It uses quantum logic to warp time.
Who says its a "problem"?
In societies under stress, the soldiers are not just liberals - they are radicals.
The liberal view (or at least my "liberal" view) is that there are many parts of the social compact as vital as the role performed by soldiers. Many people give of themselves out of a sense of duty to society far beyond the economic compensation earned. Social workers, teachers, first responders, scientists, academics don't do it for the money - its something more. Its a core belief in social justice - not social or economic darwinism. Goodness doesnt have to come locked and loaded.
Look at an any colony as an example - the workers outnumber the soldiers by orders of magnitude - but both are essential to the health of the whole.
Ants are designed that way, are we?
"The liberal view (or at least my "liberal" view) is that there are many parts of the social compact as vital as the role performed by soldiers. . . . Goodness doesnt have to come locked and loaded."
As long as one views the soldier's contribution as a vital part of the social contract, I don't think we have any major disagreement. I would suggest that the willingness to put one's life on the line is a marked difference in the level of commitment. Though obviously some occupations have a significant element of personal risk (especially policemen and firefighters--whose members tend disproportionately to be former servicemembers).
Unfortunately many, especially on the left, see military service as at best a necessary evil. That attitude is evident in many things: low enlistment rates, demagogic calls for a military draft, refusal to allow recruiters on campuses, and snide comments on late-night television. And it undercuts arguments like "chickenhawk" and the credibility of those who would be placed in charge of national defense. Is that a problem?
You know, don't you, that those ants aren't bound by that social contract. I see soldiers. Those ants must be coerced.
Its a core belief in social justice - not social or economic darwinism.
I'll echo Cecil's comments and add one or two of my own. It is not antithetical to the profession of arms to believe strongly in social justice. I am not suggesting you implied such by your comments - just clarifying. Occasionally it requires the force of arms to ensure social justice.
Nor, I would argue, is a belief in social or economic darwinism a core belief of either soldiers or conservatives. What you might term "social or economic darwinism" for example, I might see as encouraging "self reliance". I would suggest that neither discription is entirely adequate on its own.
Tex, Social workers, teachers, first responders, scientists, academics don't do it for the money - its something more. Of course motivations vary. I'm assuming you're not suggesting that "a core belief in social justice" is universally the motivation for these careers, just that it can be.
I would also add that even highly compensated people such as successful businessmen and women, doctors, lawyers, politicians, professional athletes, or even entertainers, don't necessarily see the money, though nice, as their primary motivation. Their professions, though well compensated, are often also excellent vehicles for the expression of a belief in "social justice".
For example, a successful business man or woman may use their position to mentor women, minorities or young people to develop their talents to be able to succeed in the business world. The abilities of doctors and lawyers to pursue "social justice" are obvious. As is also the point that possessing abundant financial resources does give one the ability to affect "social justice" on many levels.
I love the part in one of the old testament holocausts where God 'stomped on the ants'.
Can't find it? It's in one of the Chatboard Apocrypha.
And Harry, I regret to inform you that liberals ideas of social justice are 'fact based', thus the only way of looking upon it. Get real.
As far as rates of poverty go, no matter how hard you try to make it otherwise, this one has been essentially level since 1966.
Do you just make this shit up?
1966 15.7%
http://www.census.gov/hhes/www/poverty/publications.html
Sorry SJ, you've been sold a bridge. Kerry's records are not released to the public.
Kerry's record is fine and there is not one shred of evidence to prove otherwise.
Can you get it with an FOIA request?
SJ, I would rather you had responded to my answer to your original rhetorical remarks on this earlier thread posted Sep 18.
Had you looked at the referenced chart from the same government sensus data you've cited, you would see clearly that the average poverty rate since about 1966 is virtually a flat line with a maximum variation of approximately 10% of total in either direction. I believe my explanation of the reason for the variation is reasonable.
If you wish to present a statistical argument that the rate is other than "flat" over the 1966 to 2004 time frame, I'm willing to listen and discuss it intelligently. If, however, you believe you are making a cogent argument with your citation of the three dates above following your rhetorical question, then I would argue that you are mistaken.
Get real. kim, don't you know, I just "make this [stuff] up"?
Ztomp.
Godspeed, TT.
My family is on the west side of Houston - they are staying - but my folks house is in the floodplain of Braes Bayou. If the surge and the rain back up the bayou, they could easily get a foot of water.
Traffic is a nightmare down there. No gas, no ATMs, - its a huge mess.
We have got to do a better job in this country about disaster planning.
Very ironic that among the worst this time is the bus tragedy.
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Tax Refund Fraud — 62 Comments
Don’t Be a Victim of Tax Refund Fraud in ’16
With little more than a month to go before the start of the 2016 tax filing season, the IRS and the states are hunkering down for an expected slugfest with identity thieves who make a living requesting fraudulent tax refunds on behalf of victims. Here’s what you need to know going into January to protect you and your family.
The good news is that the states and Uncle Sam have got a whole new bag of technological tricks up their sleeves this coming tax season. The bad news is ID thieves are already testing those defenses, and will be working against a financially strapped federal agency that’s been forced to cede much of its ability to investigate and prosecute such crimes.
Tax refund fraud affects hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of U.S. citizens annually. Victims usually first learn of the crime after having their returns rejected because scammers beat them to it. Even those who are not required to file a return can be victims of refund fraud, as can those who are not actually due a refund from the IRS.
By all accounts, the IRS has improved at blocking phony refund requests. The agency estimates it prevented $24.2 billion in fraudulent identity theft refunds in 2013. Trouble is, it paid out some $5.8 billion in fraudulent refunds that year that it later determined were bogus, and experts say that is only the fraud the agency knows about, and the true number is likely much higher annually.
Perhaps in response to the IRS’s increasing ability to separate phony returns from legitimate ones, crooks last year massively focused on filing bogus refund requests with the 50 U.S states. To head off a recurrence of that trend in the 2016 filing season, the states and the IRS have hammered out an agreement to examine more than 20 new data elements collected by online providers like TurboTax and H&R Block.
Those new data elements include checking for the repetitive use of the same Internet address to rapidly file multiple returns, and reviewing computer device information (browser user agent string, cookies e.g.) tied to the return’s origin. Another check involves measuring the time it takes to file a return; fraudsters involved in tax refund fraud tend to breeze through returns in just a few minutes because they are generally copying and pasting information into the tax forms, or relying on an automated program to do it for them.
The hope is that the these new checks will let investigators more accurately flag suspicious refund requests processed by tax preparation firms, which also have agreed to beef up lax security around customer accounts. Under the agreement, online providers will enforce:
new password standards to include a minimum of eight characters, with upper, lowercase, alphanumerical and special characters;
a lock-out feature that blocks users with too many unsuccessful login attempts;
the addition of three security questions;
some sort of out-of-band verification for email addresses — sending an email or text to the customer with a personal identification number (PIN).
Julie Magee, Alabama’s chief tax administrator, said the state/IRS task force opted not to disclose all 20 of the data elements they will be collecting from tax prep firms.
“The thieves are going to figure these out on their own, and they’re already testing our defenses,” Magee told KrebsOnSecurity. “We don’t want to do anything to make that easier for them.”
Whether or not we see an increase in tax refund fraud next year, one thing seems certain: the IRS will prosecute far fewer of the crooks involved. Congress has persistently underfunded the IRS, and budget cuts have pushed prosecutions of identity thieves to a new low. According to the IRS’s 2015 Annual Report, IRS identity theft criminal investigations are down almost 50 percent since 2013.
Tax fraudsters were so aggressive last year that they figured out how to steal consumer identities directly from the agency itself. In August 2015, the IRS disclosed that crooks abused the “Get Transcript” feature on its Web site to steal Social Security numbers and information from previous years’ tax filings on more than 334,000 Americans.
The IRS has responded to the problem of tax ID theft partly by offering Identity Protection PINs (IP PINs) to affected taxpayers that must be supplied on the following year’s tax application before the IRS will accept the return. However, consumers still have to request an IP PIN by applying for one at the agency’s site, or by mailing in form 14039 (PDF).
Incredibly, the process that thieves abused to steal tax transcripts from 334,000 taxpayers this year from the IRS’s site also works to fraudulently obtain a consumer’s IP PIN. In fact, the following redacted screen shot from a notorious cybercrime forum shows a seasoned tax fraudster teaching would-be scammers how to use the IRS’s site to obtain a victim’s IP PIN.
A Little Sunshine / Tax Refund Fraud / The Coming Storm — 57 Comments
States Seek Better Mousetrap to Stop Tax Refund Fraud
With the 2014 tax filing season in the rearview mirror, state tax authorities are struggling to incorporate new approaches to identifying and stopping fraudulent tax refund requests, a $6 billion-a-year problem that’s hit many states particularly hard this year. But some states say they are encountering resistance to those efforts on nearly every front, from Uncle Sam to online tax vendors and from the myriad of financial firms that profit handsomely from processing phony tax refunds.
Cash Cow: Click on the image above for a primer on how many companies are profiting from tax refund fraud.
Last week, the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) disclosed that thieves had stolen up to $50 million in phony refunds by pulling tax data on more than 100,000 Americans directly from the agency’s own Web site. The thieves were able to do this for the same reason that fraudsters are able to get away with filing and getting paid for bogus refunds: The IRS, the states and the tax preparation firms all try to authenticate filers based on static identifiers about the filer — such as birthdays and Social Security numbers, as well as answers to a handful of easily-guessed or researched “knowledge based-authentication” questions.
I spoke at length with several state tax commissioners about the size and scope of the tax refund fraud problem, and what the IRS and the states are doing to move beyond reliance on static identifiers to authenticate taxpayers. One of the state experts I spoke with was Julie Magee, commissioner of Alabama’s Department of Revenue.
Magee described her work on a new task force organized by the IRS aimed at finding solutions for reducing the tax refund fraud problem across the board. Magee is one of several folks working on a fraud and authentication working group within the IRS’s task force, which is trying to come to a consensus about ways to do a better job authenticating taxpayers and to improve security around online tax preparation services such as TurboTax.
Earlier this year, TurboTax briefly suspended the online filing of state tax returns after dozens of state revenue departments complained about a massive spike in fraudulent refund requests — many of which were tied back to hijacked or fraudulently-created TurboTax accounts.
One of those victimized in that scourge was Joe W. Garrett, — Magee’s deputy commissioner — who had a $7,700 fraudulent return filed in his name after thieves created a duplicate TurboTax account with his personal information.
Magee said her working group — one of three on the IRS’s task force — is populated by stakeholders with competing agendas.
“You have companies like Intuit that don’t want the government getting into the online tax preparation business, and then there are the bricks-and-mortar operations like Liberty and H&R Block that don’t want to see their businesses cannibalized by the do-it-yourself online firms like TurboTax,” Magee said. “And then we have the banking industry, which is making a fortune off of this whole problem. Right now, the only entities that are really losing out are states and the US Treasury.” (For a look at which companies stand to profit from fraudulent refunds, see this sidebar).
In February, KrebsOnSecurity published exclusive interviews with two former TurboTax security professionals who accused TurboTax of making millions of dollars knowingly processing state and federal tax refunds filed by identity thieves. Magee said Intuit — the company that owns TurboTax — came to the first two working group meetings with a plan to provide states with an anti-fraud screening mechanism similar to Apple Pay‘s “green/yellow/red path” program, which seeks to offer participating banks some idea of the relative likelihood that a given new customer is in fact a fraudster signing up in the name of an ID theft victim.
“The first two meetings, Intuit acted like they were leading the charge on this, and they were really amenable to everything,” Magee said. “They had come up with an idea that was very much like the red- yellow-green kind of thing, and they were asking us what data elements they should be looking at and sharing.”
According to the Alabama tax commissioner, that’s when the American Coalition for Taxpayer Rights (ACTR), a trade group representing the tax preparation firms, stepped in. “The lobbyist group put the kibosh on that idea. They basically said it’s not their right to be the police – that it should be the IRS or the states — but that they would be more than willing to send us the indicators and that we could use our own system to do the scoring,” Magee said. “The states aren’t hung up on getting some red, yellow, green type system. I think we’re more interested in making sure data elements we can use to make a score are passed on to us.”
Magee said ACTR also protested that tax prep firms like Intuit couldn’t legally share certain information about their customers with the states and the IRS. Representatives with ACTR did not respond to requests for comment. Intuit declined to be interviewed for this story.
“They threw up a red flag and basically said, ‘We can’t you pass that information because it’s protected by IRS code sections regarding taxpayer confidentiality issues,'” Magee recalled. “Thankfully, the IRS brought in their attorneys and the commissioner a few weeks ago and they said, ‘That’s bunk, you can most certainly send that information to us and to the states. So we won that battle.” Continue reading →
A Little Sunshine / Tax Refund Fraud / Web Fraud 2.0 — 41 Comments
Tax Fraud Advice, Straight from the Scammers
Some of the most frank and useful information about how to fight fraud comes directly from the mouths of the crooks themselves. Online cybercrime forums play a critical role here, allowing thieves to compare notes about how to evade new security roadblocks and steer clear of fraud tripwires. And few topics so reliably generate discussion on crime forums around this time of year as tax return fraud, as we’ll see in the conversations highlighted in this post.
File ’em Before the Bad Guys Can
As several stories these past few months have noted, those involved in tax refund fraud shifted more of their activities away from the Internal Revenue Service and toward state tax filings. This shift is broadly reflected in discussions on several fraud forums from 2014, in which members lament the apparent introduction of new fraud “filters” by the IRS that reportedly made perpetrating this crime at the federal level more challenging for some scammers.
One outspoken and unrepentant tax fraudster — a ne’er-do-well using the screen name “Peleus” — reported that he had far more luck filing phony returns at the state level last year. Peleus posted the following experience to a popular fraud forum in February 2014:
“Just wanted to share a bit of my results to see if everyone is doing so bad or it just me…Federal this year has been a pain in the ass. I have about 35 applications made for federal with only 2 paid refunds…I started early in January (15-20) on TT [TurboTax] and HR [H&R Block] and made about 35 applications on Federal and State..My stats are as follows:
Federal: 35 applications (less than 10% approval rate) – average per return $2500
State: 35 apps – 15 approved (average per return $1600). State works just as great as last year, their approval rate is nearly 50% and processing time no more than 10 – 12 days.
I know that the IRS has new check filters this year but federals suck big time this year, i only got 2 refunds approved from 35 applications …all my federals are between $2300 – $2600 which is the average refund amount in the US so i wouldn’t raise any flags…I also put a small yearly salary like 25-30k….All this precautions and my results still suck big time compared to last year when i had like 30%- 35% approval rate …what the fuck changed this year? Do they check the EIN from last year’s return so you need his real employer information?”
A seasoned tax return fraudster discusses strategy.
Several seasoned members of this fraud forum responded that the IRS had indeed become more strict in validating whether the W2 information supplied by the filer had the proper Employer Identification Number (EIN), a unique tax ID number assigned to each company. The fraudsters then proceeded to discuss various ways to mine social networking sites like LinkedIn for victims’ employer information.
GET YER EINs HERE
A sidebar is probably in order here. EINs are not exactly state secrets. Public companies publish their EINs on the first page of their annual 10-K filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission. Still, EINs for millions of small companies here in the United States are not so easy to find, and many small business owners probably treat this information as confidential.
Nevertheless, a number of organizations specialize in selling access to EINs. One of the biggest is Dun & Bradstreet, which, as I detailed in a 2013 exposé, Data Broker Giants Hacked by ID Theft Service, was compromised for six months by a service selling Social Security numbers and other data to identity thieves like Peleus.
Last year, I heard from a source close to the investigation into the Dun & Bradstreet breach who said the thieves responsible made off with more than six million EINs. In December 2014, I asked Dun &Bradstreet about the veracity of this claim, and received a blanket statement that did not address the six million figure, but stressed that EINs are not personally identifiable information and are available to the public. Continue reading →
Other / Tax Refund Fraud — 175 Comments
TurboTax’s Anti-Fraud Efforts Under Scrutiny
Two former security employees at Intuit — the makers of the popular tax preparation software and service TurboTax — allege that the company has made millions of dollars knowingly processing state and federal tax refunds filed by cybercriminals. Intuit says it leads the industry in voluntarily reporting suspicious returns, and that ultimately it is up to the Internal Revenue Service to develop industry-wide requirements for tax preparation firms to follow in their fight against the multi-billion dollar problem of tax refund fraud.
Last week, KrebsOnSecurity published an exclusive interview with Indu Kodukula, Intuit’s chief information security officer. Kodukula explained that customer password re-use was a major cause of a spike this tax season in fraudulent state tax refund requests. The increase in phony state refund requests prompted several state revenue departments to complain to their state attorneys general. In response, TurboTax temporarily halted all state filings while it investigated claims of a possible breach. The company resumed state filing shortly after that pause, saying it could find no evidence that customers’ TurboTax credentials had been stolen from its network.
Kodukula noted that although the incidence of hijacked, existing TurboTax accounts was rapidly growing, the majority of refund scams the company has to deal with stem from “stolen identity refund fraud” or SIRF. In SIRF, the thieves gather pieces of data about taxpayers from outside means — through phishing attacks or identity theft services in the underground, for example — then create accounts at TurboTax in the victims’ names and file fraudulent tax refund claims with the IRS.
Kodukula cast Intuit as an industry leader in helping the IRS identify and ultimately deny suspicious tax returns. But that portrayal only tells part of the story, according to two former Intuit employees who until recently each held crucial security positions helping the company identify and fight tax fraud. Both individuals described a company that has intentionally dialed back efforts to crack down on SIRF so as not to lose market share when fraudsters began shifting their business to Intuit’s competitors.
Robert Lee, a security business partner at Intuit’s consumer tax group until his departure from the company in July 2014, said he and his team at Intuit developed sophisticated fraud models to help Intuit quickly identify and close accounts that were being used by crooks to commit massive amounts of SIRF fraud.
But Lee said he was mystified when Intuit repeatedly refused to adopt some basic policies that would make it more costly and complicated for fraudsters to abuse the company’s service for tax refund fraud, such as blocking the re-use of the same Social Security number across a certain number of TurboTax accounts, or preventing the same account from filing more than a small number of tax returns.
“If I sign up for an account and file tax refund requests on 100 people who are not me, it’s obviously fraud,” Lee said in an interview with KrebsOnSecurity. “We found literally millions of accounts that were 100 percent used only for fraud. But management explicitly forbade us from either flagging the accounts as fraudulent, or turning off those accounts.”
The allegations surface just days after Senate Finance Committee Chairman Orrin Hatch (R., Utah) said his panel will be holding hearings on reports about a spike in fraudulent filings through TurboTax and elsewhere. The House Ways and Means Committee is reportedly looking into the matter and has held bipartisan staff-level discussions with the IRS and Intuit.
The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) said it received 332,646 identity theft complaints in the calendar year 2014, and that almost one-third of them — the largest portion — were tax-related identity theft complaints. Tax identity theft has been the largest ID theft category for the last five years.
According to a recent report (PDF) from the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO), the IRS estimated it prevented $24.2 billion in fraudulent identity theft refunds in 2013. Unfortunately, the IRS also paid $5.8 billion that year for refund requests later determined to be fraud. The GAO noted that because of the difficulties in knowing the amount of undetected fraud, the actual amount could far exceed those estimates.
SQUEEZING THE BALLOON
Lee said the scammers who hijack existing TurboTax accounts most often will use stolen credit cards to pay the $25-$50 TurboTax fee for processing and sending the refund request to the IRS.
But he said the crooks perpetrating SIRF typically force the IRS — and, by extension, U.S. taxpayers — to cover the fee for their bogus filings. That’s because most SIRF filings take advantage of what’s known in the online tax preparation business as a ‘refund transfer’, which deducts TurboTax’s filing fee from the total amount of the fraudulent refund request. If the IRS then approves the fraudulent return, TurboTax gets paid.
“The reason fraudsters love this system is because they don’t even have to use stolen credit cards to do it,” Lee said. “What’s really going on here is that the fraud business is actually profitable for Intuit.”
Lee confirmed Kodukula’s narrative that Intuit is an industry leader in sending the IRS regular reports about tax returns that appear suspicious. But he said the company eventually scaled back those reports after noticing that the overall fraud the IRS was reporting wasn’t decreasing as a result of Intuit’s reporting: Fraudsters were simply taking their business to Intuit’s competitors.
“We noticed the IRS started taking action, and because of this, we started to see not only our fraud numbers but also our revenue go down before the peak of tax season a couple of years ago,” Lee recalled. “When we stopped or delayed sending those fraud numbers, we saw the fraud and our revenue go back up.”
Lee said that early on, the reports on returns that Intuit’s fraud teams flagged as bogus were sent immediately to the IRS.
“Then, there was a time period where we didn’t deliver that information at all,” he said. “And then at one point there was a two-week delay added between the time the information was ready and the time it was submitted to the IRS. There was no technical reason for that delay, but I can only speculate what the real justification for that was.”
KrebsOnSecurity obtained a copy of a recording made of an internal Intuit conference call on Oct. 14, 2014, in which Michael Lyons, TurboTax’s deputy general counsel, describes the risks of the company being overly aggressive — relative to its competitors — in flagging suspicious tax returns for the IRS.
“As you can imagine, the bad guys being smart and savvy, they saw this and noticed it, they just went somewhere else,” Lyons said in the recording. “The amount of fraudulent activity didn’t change. The landscape didn’t change. It was like squeezing a balloon. They recognized that TurboTax returns were getting stopped at the door. So they said, ‘We’ll just go over to H&R Block, to TaxSlayer or TaxAct, or whatever.’ And all of a sudden we saw what we call ‘multi-filer activity’ had completely dropped off a cliff but the amount that the IRS reported coming through digital channels and through their self reported fraud network was not changing at all. The bad guys had just gone from us to others.”
That recording was shared by Shane MacDougall, formerly a principal security engineer at Intuit. MacDougall resigned from the company last week and filed an official whistleblower complaint with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, alleging that the company routinely placed profits ahead of ethics. MacDougall submitted the recording in his filing with the SEC.
“Complainant repeatedly raised issues with managers, directors, and even [a senior vice president] of the company to try to rectify ongoing fraud, but was repeatedly rebuffed and told Intuit couldn’t do anything that would ‘hurt the numbers’,” MacDougall wrote in his SEC filing. “Complainant repeatedly offered solutions to help stop the fraud, but was ignored.”
NO RULES OF THE ROAD
For its part, Intuit maintains that it is well out in front of its competitors in voluntarily reporting to the IRS refund requests that the company has flagged as suspicious. The company also stresses that it has done so even though the IRS still has not promulgated rules that require TurboTax and its competitors to report suspicious returns — or even how to report such activity. Intuit executives say they went to the IRS three years ago to request specific authority to share that information. The IRS did not respond to requests for comment.
Intuit officials declined to address Lyons’ recorded comments specifically, although they did confirm that a company attorney led an employee WebEx meeting on the date the recording was made. But David Williams, Intuit’s chief tax officer, said what’s missing from the recorded conversation excerpted above is that Intuit has been at the forefront of asking the IRS to propose industry standards that every industry player can follow — requests that have so far gone unheeded.
“We have led the industry in making suspicious activity reports, and I’d venture to say that virtually all of the returns that Mr. Lee is quoted as referring to appear in our suspicious activity reports and are stopped by the IRS,” Williams said. “Whatever else Mr. Lee may have seen, I’m not buying the premise that somehow there was a profit motive in it for us.”
Robert Lanesey, Inuit’s chief communications officer, said Intuit doesn’t make a penny on tax filings that are ultimately rejected by the IRS.
“Revenue that comes from reports included in our suspicious activity reports to the IRS has dropped precipitously as we have changed and improved our reporting mechanisms,” Lanesey said. “When it comes to market share, it doesn’t count toward our market share unless it’s a successful return. We’ve gotten better and we’ve gotten more accurate, but it’s not about money.”
Williams added that it is not up to Intuit to block returns from being filed, and that it is the IRS’s sole determination whether to process a given refund request.
“We will flag them as suspicious, but we do not get to determine if a return is fraud,” Williams said. “It’s the IRS’s responsibility and ultimately they make that decision. What I will tell you is that of the ones we report as suspicious, the IRS rejects a very high percentage, somewhere in the 80-90 percent range.”
Earlier this month, Intuit CEO Brad Smith sent a letter to the commissioner of the IRS, noting that while Intuit sends reports to the IRS when it sees patterns of suspicious behavior, the government has been limited in the types of information it can share with parties, including tax-preparation firms.
“The IRS could be the convener to bring the States together to help drive common standards adoption,” Smith wrote, offering the assistance of Intuit staff members “to work directly with the IRS and the States in whatever ways may be of assistance…as the fight against fraud goes forward.”
ZERO FALSE POSITIVES
Lee and MacDougall both said Intuit’s official approach to fighting fraud is guided by a policy of zero tolerance for so-called “false positives” — the problem of incorrectly flagging a legitimate customer refund request as suspicious, and possibly incurring the double whammy of a delay in the customer’s refund and an inquiry by the IRS. This is supported by audio recordings of conference calls between Intuit’s senior executives that were shared with KrebsOnSecurity.
“We protect the sanctity of the customer experience and hold it as inviolate,” Intuit’s General
Counsel Michael Lyons can be heard saying on a recorded October 2014 internal conference call. “We do everything we can to organize the best screening program we can, but we avoid false positives at all costs. Because getting a legitimate taxpayer ensnared in the ‘you’re a bad guy’ area with the IRS is hell. Once your return gets flagged as suspicious, rejected and the IRS starts investigating, you’re not in a good place. More than 50 percent of people out there are living paycheck to paycheck, and when this is the biggest paycheck of the year for them, they can’t afford to get erroneously flagged as fraud and have to prove to the IRS who they are so that they can get that legitimate refund that they were expecting months ago.”
On the same conference call, MacDougall can be heard asking Lyons why the company wouldn’t want to use security as a way to set the company apart from its competitors in the online tax preparation industry.
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Citing Tax Fraud Spike, TurboTax Suspends State E-Filings
TurboTax owner Intuit Inc. said Thursday that it is temporarily suspending the transmission of state e-filed tax returns in response to a surge in complaints from consumers who logged into their TurboTax accounts only to find crooks had already claimed a refund in their name.
“During this tax season, Intuit and some states have seen an increase in suspicious filings and attempts by criminals to use stolen identity information to file fraudulent state tax returns and claim tax refunds,” the company said in a statement.
Intuit said a third-party security audit turned up no signs of a security breach with the company, and that the information used to file fraudulent returns appears to have been obtained from other sources outside the tax preparation process.
“As it worked with state governments to assess and resolve the recent issues, Intuit took the precautionary step Thursday, Feb. 5, of temporarily pausing its transmission of state e-filing tax returns,” the company’s statement continued.
“Intuit will be working with the states today to begin turning transmissions back on. Customers who have already filed their state tax returns using Intuit software during this temporary pause will have their returns transmitted as soon as possible. They do not need to take further action at this time. This action does not affect the filing of federal income tax returns, and is limited to those states that require residents to file returns.”
This is hardly a new problem, but I have no doubt we are seeing even more phony tax refund claims than last year (in which my own taxes were filed fraudulently). Cyber thieves have long sought stolen credentials for hijacked tax preparation accounts at TurboTax, H&R Block and related services. Typically, the usernames and passwords for consumer accounts at these services are obtained via password-stealing malware that infects end-user PCs (see my Value of a Hacked PC graphic for more such examples.)
Victims also can see their tax accounts hijacked if crooks assume control over their inboxes as well, since tax preparation services — like most sites — allow users to reset their passwords by requesting a password reset link via email (see my Value of a Hacked Email Account graphic for additional examples like this). And of course phishers frequently impersonate tax preparation firms in a bid to steal credentials.
Stolen TurboTax or H&R Block credentials are cheaper and more plentiful than most people probably would imagine. According to the below-pictured well-known seller on the Dark Web forum Evolution Market, hacked accounts currently can be had for .0002 bitcoins, which works out to about 4 cents apiece.
A seller of hacked accounts on the Dark Web community Evolution Market sells hacked TurboTax and H&R Block accounts for pennies apiece.
Crimeware Helps File Fraudulent Tax Returns
Many companies believe that if they protect their intellectual property and customers’ information, they’ve done a decent job of safeguarding their crown jewels from attackers. But in an increasingly common scheme, cybercriminals are targeting the Human Resources departments at compromised organizations and rapidly filing fraudulent federal tax returns on all employees.
Last month, KrebsOnSecurity encountered a Web-based control panel that an organized criminal gang has been using to track bogus tax returns filed on behalf of employees at hacked companies whose HR departments had been relieved of W2 forms for all employees.
An obfuscated look at the he control panel for a tax fraud operation involving more than a half dozen victim organizations.
According to the control panel seen by this reporter, the scammers in charge of this scheme have hacked more than a half-dozen U.S. companies, filing fake tax returns on nearly every employee. At last count, this particular scam appears to stretch back to the beginning of this year’s tax filing season, and includes fraudulent returns filed on behalf of thousands of people — totaling more than $1 million in bogus returns.
The control panel includes a menu listing every employee’s W2 form, including all data needed to successfully file a return, such as the employee’s Social Security number, address, wages and employer identification number. Each fake return was apparently filed using the e-filing service provided by H&R Block, a major tax preparation and filing company. H&R Block did not return calls seeking comment for this story.
The “drops” page of this tax fraud operation lists the nicknames of the co-conspirators who agreed to “cash out” funds on the prepaid cards generated by the bogus returns — minus a small commission.
Fraudulent returns listed in the miscreants’ control panel that were successfully filed produced a specific five-digit tax filing Personal Identification Number (PIN) apparently generated by H&R Block’s online filing system. An examination of the panel suggests that successfully-filed returns are routed to prepaid American Express cards that are requested to be sent to addresses in the United States corresponding to specific “drops,” or co-conspirators in the scheme who have agreed to receive the prepaid cards and “cash out” the balance — minus their fee for processing the bogus returns.
Alex Holden, chief information security officer at Hold Security, said although tax fraud is nothing new, automating the exploitation of human resource systems for mass tax fraud is an innovation.
“The depth of this specific operation permits them to act as a malicious middle-man and tax preparation company to be an unwitting ‘underwriter’ of this crime,” Holden said. “And the victims maybe exploited not only for 2013 tax year but also down the road, and perhaps subject of higher scrutiny by IRS — not to mention potential financial losses. Companies should look at their human resource infrastructure to ensure that payroll, taxes, financial, medical, and other benefits are afforded the same level of protection as their other mission-critical assets.” Continue reading →
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UK Food Regulators Reject CBD as Narcotic, Stand by Novel Food Deadline
Written by Monica Raymunt | 28 Sep 2020
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Great Britain has rejected the European Commission’s preliminary stance that hemp flower-derived CBD should be regulated as a narcotic, a key food safety regulator in the United Kingdom says.
Paul Tossel, who leads the Novel Foods authorities at London’s Food Standards Agency, said Tuesday that although British authorities continue to mirror requirements set out by the EU’s Novel Food Regulation and the European Food Safety Authority, they did not agree with the Commission’s assessment.
Tossel said during a panel on the future of CBD in grocery retail that the European Commission’s preliminary CBD position isn’t shared by the U.K.’s Home Office, a government department that oversees drug policy and law enforcement.
The U.K. said in February that CBD products already on the market would need to have a validated novel food application in hand in order to remain on the shelves beyond March 31, 2021.
“We will still regard CBD extracts as novel foods, and they will require (application) processing,” Tossel said. “The application will have to prove there are no other narcotics in there.”
The Commission told CBD novel-food applicants in July that cannabidiol extracted from the flowering and fruiting tops of the hemp plant should be considered a narcotic according to a 50-year-old United Nations treaty.
If made official, the stance could lead to a ban on flower-derived CBD in foods and supplements on the EU common market, which serves more than 450 million consumers.
The status of CBD in Europe is complicated by Britain’s departure from the European Union. The U.K. officially left the EU on Jan. 31, but the two sides are still negotiating the rules that will govern future relations on trade, immigration and security. The deadline for finalizing these rules is Dec. 31, until which point the U.K. has agreed to keep following EU regulations.
“Our timetable isn’t dependent on the EU one – we’re on the transition period, that means we can’t actually formally receive any applications until (after) the 31st of December,” Tossel said.
The European Commission has reportedly stopped processing CBD novel food authorization applications and told applicants to send comments on its new narcotics stance by this month. The Commission has so far issued no update but said it would announce its final decision on CBD sometime after the applicant comments period.
Tossel reiterated that CBD food makers are supposed to follow the Novel Food Regulation and the authorisation process before stocking their products at U.K. retailers or in online shops.
“No CBD product on the shelves is actually compliant with the legislation,” Tossel said.
The FSA’s March 2021 deadline for a validated Novel Foods application “was relevant for products already on the market and for sellers who want to keep them on the market,” Tossel said.
“Only those (CBD products) linked to … a validated application will be allowed to stay on the market,” he added. “No new products should have entered the market after our announcement back in February.”
Monica Raymunt can be reached at monica.raymunt@hempindustrydaily.com
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Operation Sandstorm
Operation Sandstorm by G.J Rayner & E.M Rayner is an action packed adventure that will have you hooked from the moment you start reading. The story follows Cyrus CEO and president of one of the largest tech companies in the world, Livingston Tec. An attack takes place on Livingston’s mines in Morocco and a large number of Golden bricks have been stolen. A private security company Omicron has been tasked with retrieving the stolen gold. Livingston learns that Vladimir Shishani is the one that initiated the attack on his mines. Livingston also learns that Shishani is involved with terrorist groups. Will Livingston get his revenge and put a stop to Shishani?
G.J. and E.M. has done a fantastic job with creating compelling and authentic characters through meticulous development throughout the novel. Each character was unique in their own way and I was able to empathize with each one. Tension begins to rise as you get further into the book as characters become more suspicious and hesitant when they start to feel something is off. I was equally suspicious and tense as the deep character development really gets you invested in events. Revenge, betrayal, action, suspense, this book has it all. It was interesting to get a closer look at two different men, one genuine and the other malicious. Both men have access to unlimited amounts of money but they have two very different agendas.
While I enjoyed this novel overall, a few chapters felt slower than others, bogged down with exposition and details. But this did not deter me from continuing to read, I just wanted it to be summed up quicker to get back to the action. I highly recommend this absorbing action novel to anyone who is looking for an exciting read.
Pages: 283 | ASIN: B08DDHKTDC
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Operation Piňata
In this thrilling investigative tale, writers G. J. Rayner and E. M. Rayner create a realistic fictional world that revolves around crimes within a Mexican drug cartel. The story revolves around a private security company called OMICRON that works closely with American government, Secret Services specifically. The company gets involved with crime happening in Texas when the CEO Mike Cabott promises to help his old friend from school out by solving his wife’s mysterious murder. Through many twists and sudden developments, undercover agents work the case from many angles to get to the bottom of the drug cartel ring.
Undercover agents Mark Lockabee and Carlos Zepeda look into the suspicious murder of a successful Mexican business women under the order of a private security company. Originally taken on as a favor to a friend, as the depth of the cartels crimes develop, the CEO Mike Cabott realizes they’ve stumbled onto an important project.
Most of the story is comprised of undercover investigation, the operation control at headquarters, and the work that OMICRON conducts to try and sabotage and eliminate the drug cartel lead by El Jefe. The dynamic between the group leader Hans Brock and the other agents is really interesting to watch play out, too. They all do their best to work together as a well-oiled machine, but different issues arise that create problems within the workforce.
As the investigation heightens dangerous situations abound punctuated by explosions, leaving rarely a dull moment. The OMICRON team spies on the drug cartel and works it from different angles which treats readers with a dual view of the story. Intense action and perplexing mysteries keep you turning pages.
When Rita Malone, another special agent for OMICRON comes to replace one of the best on the scene, things really take a turn in the story. Her character provides startling action, and the dynamic between her and Carlos is really fun to read. I was rooting for her the whole time and she gives the story the needed presence of a strong, kick-ass female character to liven it up.
This book was really exciting to read. I loved that they added shock value in the first pages of the book. The writers really allowed the plot to take it’s time unfolding but kept things going in a fast enough pace that I never grew bored with the story. The characters were all unique and humorous, and I loved that the company’s mainframe computer CLEO even had some personality thrown in.
This is another action packed novel from the Rayner writing team that you shouldn’t miss.
Pages: 264 | ASIN: B071YJ5MDL
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Andersen Press acquires UK rights to FIRST LIGHT by Rebecca Stead
UK rights to FIRST LIGHT, Newberry Medal and Guardian Prize winner Rebecca Stead’s first book, have been acquired by Andersen Press, who already publish Rebecca’s other titles in the UK .
FIRST LIGHT is available from Random House in the USA and Canada, from Text Publishing in Australia and New Zealand and from Moderna in Brazil.
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Part 24: Neo Arcadian Military
>>BONUS POST #2 INCOMING<<
“So you want to know about the Neo Arcadian Military?”
Though the Resistance base is about to be nuked shortly, I thought we’d take the time we’re preparing a ship for interception to educate a bit on the Neo Arcadian military structure, now that we’ve seen its generals and alluded to certain battalions in boss bios.
=Guardians=
SO. We’ll start with the guardians as a whole. I won’t get into specifics for each of em just yet, but here’s the overview for those who haven’t played the first game.
The guardians, from left to right, are as follows: “Fighting” Fefnir, “Sage” Harpuia, “Hidden” Phantom, and “Fairy” Leviathan. Together, they command the various branches of the Neo Arcadian military, with each battalion specializing in a certain function.
Previously, in Zero one, they were under the direct command of Copy X, the villainous replication of the original X created by Ciel, who also acted as supreme commander of Neo Arcadia. In the events of that game, however, both Phantom and Copy X were slain by Zero, leaving only the remaining 3 guardians and an enormous hole in the governing body.
Neo Arcadia dealt with this situation through two measures. Firstly, they disbanded Phantom’s division, redistributing his men amongst the 3 remaining forces. Secondly, they staged an elaborate cover-up of X’s death due to the vast sway and trust he inspired in the human populace, instead opting to instate Harpuia as leader behind the scenes. This brings us to the events of this game, with Harpuia and Co as the main antagonists to the resistance forces.
As for the history of the guardians, they were all created from X’s RoboDNA, hence why they all share his fashion sense. The thong+vest combo is IN these days. Just ask Zero! (Incidentally they were initially all gonna be blue to emphasize this but that got changed some time in development.)
There’s also some bullshit behind-the-scenes story about how they were originally meant to cultivate the land and repopulate the world up until the resistance was formed but just ignore that. The Zero supplemental materials can get kinda stupid sometimes, like with Ciel being genetically engineered.
=Battalions=
Neo arcadia’s forces are divided into 4 main units, with one having since disbanded. They even all have their own nifty little logo, with a main “Neo Arcadia” one also being present. I’ll go into each of them in order here.
Neo Arcadia: The only major human settlement remaining, with its governing body consisting of the (deceased) Copy X, the four Guardians and generals of the Neo Arcadian Military, and a judicial body headed by a group known as the “8 gentle judges”. They aren’t important as far as this game goes.
Scorched Earth Squadron/Jin’en Gundan: Neo Arcadia’s land based heavy forces, consisting of fire-elemental, agressive and hard-hitting foes, with Fefnir at the helm.
Known commanders: Anubis Necromancess III (zero 1), Phoenix Magnion (post-phantom)
Strong Air Battalion/Rekku Gundan: Under General Harpuia, the Rekku Gundan is NA’s primary air force, and contains swift, electrically-aligned foes. This is the one attempting to bomb resistance HQ.
Known commanders: Aztec Falcon (zero 1), Herculious Anchus (zero 1), Panter Flauclaws.
Cutting Shadow Squadron/Zan’ei Gundan: Special ops/intelligence unit, formerly under the command of Phantom. Since disbanded, contained members of every element, though Phantom himself was non-elemental. Former members tend to incorporate deception/camouflage and swift, precise movement into their battle plans.
Known commanders: Hanumachine (zero 1), Phoenix Magnion (former), Hyleg Ourobockle (former)
Deep Sea Squadron/Meikai Gundan: Naval/Maritime division, Headed by Leviathan. Primarily composed of units specializing in aqueous and/or sub-zero environments.
Known commanders: Blizzack Staggroff (zero 1), Poler Kamrous.
Aaaaaaand that’s all the time we have. Preparing for launch!
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McLaren 650S drops top to debut along the Coupe version
by Sayan Chakravarty
As we had mentioned in our previous article, McLaren wanted to reveal the new 650S supercar in both the coupe and spider versions simultaneously at the Geneva Motor Show and finally the wraps have come off. Just like its sibling, the MP4-12C, the 650S in the spider form is stunning a looks a lot more appealing than its fixed roof variant. When the first set of images of the McLaren 650S were released, it had received mixed reactions from the automotive world but the 650S spider looks promising. The 650S is built on the same platform of the MP4-12C which means the MonoCell chassis was specially designed to be turned into both coupe and spider versions. The chopping away of the roof hasn’t reduced the torsional rigidity of the structure, which means it performs as good as the coupe on the track.
The weight of the 650S spider is just 40 kg (88 lbs) more than the coupe from the addition of a retractable hard top together with its roof mechanism. Operating the two-piece top can be done at speeds of up to 19 mph (30 km/h) and it takes less than 17 seconds. It can reach a top speed of 204 mph thanks to its uprated twin-turbo V8 3.8 liter engine that makes 650hp and 678 Nm of torque. It takes just 3 seconds to reach 62 mph (100 km/h) while the 0-124 mph (200 km/h) run is accomplished in 8.6 seconds, making it 0.2s slower than the 650S. It also has heated glass rear window that works independently of the roof which has been borrowed from the 12C. The pricing of the 650S Coupe starts at £195,250 ($326,000 approx) whereas the Spider is priced at £212,250 ($355,000 approx). McLaren will start the deliveries of the two 650S models by this spring.
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Russia said Monday under 9,000 new coronavirus cases had been recorded for the first time since early May as anti-virus restrictions ease and officials say the situation is stabilising.
Health officials reported 8,926 new infections in the last 24 hours, bringing the country’s total to 290,678, the second-highest in the world after the United States.
It was the lowest number of new virus cases since May 1, when Russia announced 7,933 cases.
Russia’s consumer health watchdog chief Anna Popova said this weekend that the growth in new cases was slowing and the country has “moved towards the level of stability that we’ve all been waiting for”.
Russia began easing nation-wide lockdown restrictions last week and announced the national football league would restart in late June.
Health officials also announced 91 new deaths, down from Saturday’s figure of 119 that was the highest daily toll yet.
Russia’s total fatalities now stand at 2,722, a rate considerably lower than in many other countries hit hard by the pandemic.
Critics have cast doubt on Russia’s low official mortality rate, accusing authorities of under-reporting in order to play down the scale of the crisis.
Russian health officials say one of the reasons the count is lower is that only deaths directly caused by the virus are being included.
Deputy Prime Minister Tatiana Golikova over the weekend denied manipulation of numbers, saying hospitals had a financial interest in identifying infections because they are allocated more money to treat coronavirus patients.
Authorities also say that since the virus came later to Russia, there was more time to prepare hospital beds and launch wide-scale testing to slow the spread.
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PAL passengers can now avail of US TSA Pre-Check Program
INQUIRER.net / 04:00 PM February 05, 2018
Philippine Airlines is now part of the Transportation Security Administration’s TSA Pre-Check (Pre) program which makes passengers flying out of the United States eligible for a quick, convenient, hassle–free screening procedure.
Eligible travelers departing on PAL flights from Los Angeles, San Francisco, New York JFK, Honolulu and Guam starting February 2, 2018, will essentially be spared from the inconvenience of having to remove their shoes, light jackets, and belts. Liquids and laptops may remain in carry-on bags at TSA PreP® checkpoints. Children 12 years and younger may accompany an adult who has TSA Pre-Check.
U.S. citizens, U.S. lawful permanent residents, and citizens of certain other countries are eligible to join the trusted traveler programs of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security. For TSA Pre-Check screening, TSA accepts some members of NEXUS and SENTRI, and all members of Global Entry and the TSA Pre-Check application program.
Once approved in a program, travelers receive a Known Traveler Number (KTN) to enter in reservations when booking flights on Philippine Airlines. Travelers may refer to DHS.gov for more details, and to choose the DHS Trusted Traveler Program that is right for their particular cases.
With a valid Known Traveler Number in a reservation, the TSA Pre-Check indicator should appear on a boarding pass when checking in for a flight. At U.S. airport checkpoints, passengers should look for the TSA Pre-Check entrance. If there is no TSA Pre-Check lane in operation, passengers should follow TSA officer instructions to ensure the quickest, easiest screening possible.
“As the airline operating the greatest number of routes and flights from the U.S. to the Philippines, Philippine Airlines is always looking for ways to make the travel experience more comfortable for our valued customers,” said PAL President and COO Jaime J. Bautista. “We are pleased to be part of the Pre-Check program so that our eligible flyers may go through screening lanes with ease and speed, while at the same time enhancing the security check procedure out of the United States.”
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The Kawit mass shooting: Who is Ronald Bae?
The quiet community where Bae sowed death (PDI Photo/Edwin Bellosillo)
By: Maricar Cinco Inquirer Southern Luzon / 08:30 PM March 02, 2013
SON OF A GUN: Bae’s records indicated that he was the son of a former police chief of Imus, Cavite
KAWIT, Cavite—No one could ever know what went on inside Ronald Baquiran Bae’s head when he casually walked around his neighborhood and fired his gun indiscriminately, taking the life of eight innocent people.
On January 4, around 9 a.m., this closely-knit community still recovering from the revelry of the New Year past, was greeted by a burst of gunfire. Bae, clad in a sando and a pair of shorts, had stepped out of his home and had fired on everyone on sight.
Two children, a pregnant woman, a taho vendor and a tricycle driver, who just happened to drop off a passenger in Barangay (village) Tabon I, were among those killed. Twelve others, two of them children, were injured.
The carnage ended when responding policemen shot Bae dead. Questions however lingered and the nightmare lived on.
Neighbors remembered Bae in different ways. A few likened him to a community’s “Robin Hood,” with a solid build and a handsome face that resembled actor Jay Manalo, a female resident said.
Bae was also a former member of the village council until he ran and lost his bid to be the village chief of Tabon I in 2010. His campaign tarpaulin, which bore his alias “bossing,” still hung by the front door of a neighbor’s home the day he went on a shooting spree.
But others knew him to be the neighborhood bully, who flared up at the slightest provocation.
After the shooting, authorities pulled up records of the 41-year-old gunman, who turned out to be the son of Rodolfo Bae, a former police chief of Imus City, Cavite.
Cavite governor Juanito Victor “Jonvic” Remulla blamed the rampage on the police’s failure to act on the villagers’ report that Bae had been indiscriminately firing his gun days before the mass shooting. The Kawit police, however, denied receiving any prior complaint.
But Cavite police director Sr. Supt. Alexander Rafael confirmed that Bae had been on the police’s watch list for illegal drugs. Records from the regional Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency showed that Bae faced charges for possession of illegal drugs in March 2010.
When authorities raided Bae’s residence shortly after the shooting, they recovered 3.3 grams of shabu (methamphetamine hydrochloride) and found a .45 caliber pistol, an AK47 and an M16 rifle.
The mystery about Bae’s real character deepens when one talks to the woman he had lived with for 13 years.
Sporting a tattoo, Maria Elena Bae, 36, is an attractive woman from Lubao, Pampanga whom Bae married in 2008 and with whom he had five children, the eldest being 12 and the youngest, 3. Bae had two other children from his first marriage.
“He was a good man and father,” Elena said, until “he started using drugs again.”
Elena and Bae’s mother, Tomasa, both denied that Bae traded in “shabu”, although Elena admitted that he had used the illegal drug. The two women said Bae earned a living buying and selling used cars and breeding game cocks.
Bae bred cocks in a farm in Noveleta, Cavite, but also owned a small poultry farm right across his house in Tabon I. He also had a rest house in Tagaytay City, Cavite.
PUZZLER: Was Lopez victim or aide? (PDI Photo/Edwin Bellosillo)
In August 2012, the family moved into their newly-constructed, two-story home in a hilly village in Guagua, Pampanga. The house in Kawit was left in the care of Bae’s helper, John Paul Lopez, 27, a resident of Rosario, Cavite.
In an interview at Bae’s wake in Imus City, Elena said she never thought her husband would end up killing people. Though they had fights and he sometimes hit her, her husband never aimed his gun at her, she added.
But she admitted that there were instances when Bae acted strangely, something that she blamed on the effects of drugs. “He would talk to himself. Sometimes his eyes would roll upward,” she recounted.
She added that once she saw Bae talking to a wall in their house, and saying things like “I am the devil.” He also said he saw shadows peering at him, Elena recalled.
The couple had a big fight on December 30. Elena said Lopez came to visit them in Pampanga and that he and Bae had drank heavily and used drugs.
“He was jealous of John Paul. I said, ‘Oh, no, dad,’” Elena said.
Then Bae started hitting her on the head. When it looked like he was about to draw his gun, Elena collected their children and barricaded themselves in a room. They stayed there until Bae and Lopez left.
“It was as if he had been possessed, as if he had become a demon,” Elena recalled.
Bae and Lopez drove a blue 1998 model Mitsubishi Lancer to Kawit, which the police recovered two days after the mass shooting. Deputy provincial police director Senior Supt. Dionisio Borromeo said the car had been abandoned across a shopping center in Barangay Tabuan I in Silang. Its doors were locked but its rear windshield had been smashed.
According to witnesses, Bae’s face looked blank as he shot at his victims with a .45 caliber gun. He was assisted by Lopez, who helped reload the weapon whenever it ran out of bullets. After the shooting, Lopez disappeared. He was turned over to authorities by his relatives on the evening of January 4.
In an interview at the Criminal Investigation and Detection Group (CIDG) headquarters in Imus City, Lopez claimed he had acted under duress as Bae threatened to kill him if he did not reload the gun for him.
Lopez said the gunman did not fire his gun down to the last bullet, but “kept one bullet and threatened to use it on me.” The authorities, however, did not buy his alibi and charged Lopez with multiple murder and frustrated murder for his “willful” participation in the crime.
On that fateful day, Bae first shot a dog at his neighbor’s house. He then shot its owner, 55-year-old Alberto Fernandez, who had looked out from the veranda after the initial shot.
“Bae then walked away casually, without any word or facial expression,” said witness Willy Salvador, a resident of the area. He said no one had dared stop the gunman who “fired at anything that moved.”
Bae then walked toward a store, looking for his neighbor, Berto Caimol. Told that he wasn’t around, Bae then directed his rage at Caimol’s three children. One of them, 7-year-old Michaella Andrea, died.
The shooting drove Maita Lacorte, a relative of the Caimols, and seven others, including four children, to flee towards an open rice field. “As we ran (and sought cover in the cogon grass), I told the children not to make any noise. They cried quietly,” Lacorte recalled.
Based on the residents’ accounts, the gunman had walked approximately 200 meters from his home to a public market, passing by at least 70 houses and shooting more people.
The police named the other victims as Boyet Toledo; Irene Funelas, 38; Al Drio, 20; Rhea de Vera, 34, who was two months’ pregnant, and her daughter Jan Monica, 3, and Adoracion Cabrera.
“There was no screaming. We locked all doors and windows as soon as we heard the gunfire from the other street. (The entire street) turned into a ghost town,” recounted resident Arvin Aquitel.
Bae was laid to rest in simple and private funeral rites at the Angelus Eternal Garden in his father’s hometown in Imus City.
“(Our) children are too young to understand, but they (somehow) know what happened because they heard about it in the news,” Elena said.
“I apologize to his victims. Nakakahiya sa mga napatay niya. Sana hindi sila magagalit sa amin (I hope they won’t take it against us),” she said.
But the long list of Bae’s victims did not end there. On January 17, the CIDG recovered human remains from Bae’s poultry farm in Kawit.
Cavite CIDG chief Chief Inspector Reynaldo Magdaluyo said Lopez led them to the shallow grave and told police that the skeletal remains belonged to a certain Teodulo Villanueva, who was last seen alive with Bae in 2004. Villanueva and Bae allegedly fought over illegal drug dealings.
The Kawit mass shooting has been compared with the December 17 murder of 20 school children at the Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut. The Cavite incident happened shortly after the death of 7-year-old Stephanie Nicole Ella from celebratory gunfire on New Year’s Eve, prompting President Aquino to order a crackdown on unlicensed firearms.
In Cavite alone, according to police records, there are at least 7,700 unlicensed firearms, among them Bae’s gun. It’s a grim statistic that has people asking: How many more Baes could be lurking in their seemingly quiet and peaceful communities? •
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This is one of those debates that has been going on for a long time. Does being part of an organized religion improve your mental health? The host of NPR's Hidden Brain, Shankar Vedantam, joins us to share some new research on this subject. Hey, Shankar.
SHANKAR VEDANTAM, BYLINE: Hey, Noel.
KING: So I feel like I've read reports before that say if you're religious, it does benefit your mental health in some ways.
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Many people start exploring their sexuality in college. The lessons they learn about intimacy and attraction during these years lay a foundation for the rest of their lives.
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After a disaster happens, we want to know, could something have been done to avoid it? Did anyone see this coming?
Many times, the answer is yes. There was a person — or many people — who spotted a looming crisis and tried to warn those in power. So why didn't the warnings lead to action?
This Is Your Brain On Ads: How Mass Marketing Affects Our Minds
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After you read this sentence, pause for a moment to think back on advertisements you first heard when you were a child.
Perhaps you recall a favorite jingle or the catchphrase of a cereal mascot. You probably can remember more than just one.
This week, we look at the shelf life of commercials. According to University of Arizona researcher Merrie Brucks, an ad we watched when we were five years old can influence our buying behavior when we're 50.
Why Did So Many Americans Trust Russian Hackers' Election Propaganda?
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Paul Rozin has been studying the psychology and culture of food for more than 40 years. And he's come to appreciate that food fills many of our needs, but hunger is just one.
"Food is not just nutrition that goes in your mouth or even pleasant sensations that go with it," he says. "It connects to your whole life, and it's really a very important part of performing your culture and experiencing your culture."
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Competition Fuels Schadenfreude, Research Shows
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Nearly a quarter century ago, a group of women accused a prominent playwright of sexual misconduct. A Boston newspaper published allegations of sexual harassment, unwanted touching and forced kissing. For the most part, the complaints went nowhere.
In 2017, more women came forward with accusations. This time, people listened.
On this episode of Hidden Brain, we explore the story through the lens of social science and ask, "Why Now?"
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If you've ever visited the palm-lined neighborhoods of Beverly Hills, you've probably noticed that the rich and famous aren't the only ones drawn there.
Stargazers also flock to this exclusive enclave, seeking a chance to peer into — and fantasize about — the lives of movie stars and film directors.
Call it adulation, adoration, idolization: we humans are fascinated by glamour and power.
But this turns out to be only one side of our psychology.
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Nearly every worker has been in this situation. You're about to go home for the day, and the boss says, I need you to stay a little bit longer, could you just finish this extra work? Now, if you're lucky, you get paid overtime for that. But sometimes, you just have to work longer, and you get nothing. NPR's social science correspondent Shankar Vedantam brings us an account of how this plays out in a pretty unusual work setting. Hi there, Shankar.
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Every year, many students who have overcome daunting obstacles in high school receive good news — they've been accepted to college.
These kids represent a success story: through hard work and determination, they've made it into college, and perhaps even on to a better life.
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Chaos is neither friend nor foe. It just is. This week: two very different perspectives on how to deal with life's most tumultuous moments.
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People who spend time with young children know firsthand the power of music.
It's easy entertainment.
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But there may be other ways — surprising ways — in which music plays a role in raising a human.
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It's one of the darkest chapters in recent history – in 1994, the Hutu-led government of Rwanda led a systematic campaign to wipe out members of the Tutsi minority. At first, the people participating were tied to the government—military leaders, local mayors and police. But soon, thousands of ordinary people were encouraged or bullied into taking part in the killing. Shopkeepers and farmers, fathers and husbands slaughtered their own friends and neighbors, using basic farm tools like hoes and machetes.
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We see big scandals, big lies, and we think to ourselves, I could never do that. We think we're fundamentally different from Bernie Madoff or Tiger Woods.
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Envy: it's an unflattering, miserable emotion. And it's universal. All of us, at some time or another, will experience that feeling of wanting what someone else has, and resenting them for having it.
Of course, like all human emotions, envy has a purpose. It's a tool for social comparison, one that can alert us to imbalances in the social hierarchy. Sometimes, these feelings of envy can prompt us to improve our lives, says Harvard social psychologist Mina Cikara.
"If you have more than what I have, I may be inspired by what you have," she says.
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Page numbers are not needed for full books (just journal articles or book chapters/sections).
Isserman, M. & M. Kazin, America divided: the civil war of the 1960s, 3rd edition. New York: Oxford University Press, 2008.
Reynal-Querol, M., Religious conflict and growth: theory and evidence. PhD thesis. London School of Economics and Political Science, 2007.
— 'Ethnicity, political systems and civil war', Journal of Conflict Resolution, 46, 29–54.
Where no date is known, use the abbreviation n.d.
You can also use n.p. for no publisher and n.l. for no location. Check with your department to see if these are necessary or whether you can just omit the information completely.
Unknown authors
Many official documents and web pages do not give the actual author of the text, but publish as an organisation. If this is the case, just use the organisation name (BBC, UN Security Council etc) in place of the author initials and name.
Where the author name is not known (for instance for some reference books) and a corporate author is not clear, use the title of the work (or web page) in your footnote (if this is long you can use a shortened form):
Concise Oxford Dictionary (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011).
Gourmet coffee boom (2013). Available online: http://www.8975.co.uk/gourmet-coffee/ [Accessed 2/1/2014].
Do not use the abbreviation Anon.
When to include page numbers
If possible, you should include page numbers to point to the specific page or pages where the information you are referencing can be found. This is to help your reader locate your source material more easily. Occasionally you will be referring to a source as a whole in which case page numbers are not necessary. The page numbers should come at the end of the reference:
Full footnote:
D. Daiches et al., The Penguin companion to literature (London: Allen Lane, 1971), 58.
Short footnote:
Daiches et al., The Penguin companion to literature, 67.
With journal articles or chapters in books, where you have already given a page range, a colon separates this from the relevant page(s):
E. G. Guba, & Y. S. Lincoln, 'Paradigmatic controversies, contradictions and emerging confluences', in N. K. Denzin & Y. S. Lincoln (eds.), The landscape of qualitative research, 3rd edition. (Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage, 2008), 255-286:263.
G. Badley, 'The pragmatic university: a feasible utopia?', Studies in Higher Education (2014), 1-11:3-4.
Page numbers are not given in bibliography entries - only those indicating journal article and book chapter page ranges.
Secondary references
Sometimes you want to reference something that has been quoted, reproduced or cited in a source you have read (a secondary reference). Here are a few simple rules when dealing with them:
If at all possible, find the original source and use that instead.
Never pretend you have read the original source.
Only include the book/article you have read in the reference list.
Always make it clear in your in text or footnote that it is a secondary reference. Here are some examples:
Harrison implied that...2
Footnote: Harrison quoted in Smithson, J. Common Ancestors (New York: NP Publishing, 2008).
Alternatively, Harrison, quoted/cited in Smithson,2 suggested that .....
The Smithson book would be referenced in the footnote and bibliography.
Referencing templates and examples
You will find below information about how to reference nearly all possible types of material. Examples are given for full footnotes, short footnotes and bibliography entries. If there is anything missing, please contact us on Skills@hull.ac.uk and we will advise you personally and then add the information to this page.
Books (print and electronic)
Book with single author
Initial(s). Surname of author, Title of book in sentence case and italics:* subtitle if present (City published: Publisher, Year), relevant page(s).
K. Robinson, Out of our minds: learning to be creative (Chichester: Capstone Publishing Ltd. 2001), 63-64.
Surname, Shortened form of book title, relevant page(s)
Robinson, Out of our minds, 63-64.
Bibliography entry:
Surname, Initial(s). Title of book in sentence case and italics: subtitle if present. City published: Publisher, Year.
Robinson, K., Out of our minds: learning to be creative. Chichester: Capstone Publishing Ltd. 2001.
*Sentence case means you only capitalise the first word and any proper nouns.
Book with multiple authors
Initial(s). Surnames of authors, Title of book in sentence case: subtitle if present (City published: Publisher, Year), relevant page(s).
For two authors use an ampersand (&) between them:
C. K. Bleser & L. J. Gordon, Intimate strategies of the Civil War: military commanders and their wives (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006), 34.
For more than two authors, list only the first, followed by et al. (not italicised):
Bleser & Gordon, Intimate strategies, 88-89.
List all the authors with the first one reversed. Don't bracket publishing information.
Bleser, C. K. & L. J. Gordon, Intimate strategies of the Civil War: military commanders and their wives. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006.
Daiches, D., A. Thorlby, E. Mottram, M. Bradbury, J. Franco, D. R. Dudley, & D. M. Lang, The Penguin companion to literature. London: Allen Lane, 2006.
Not the first edition
Put the edition number after the book title (after a comma) in the full footnotes and bibliography entry. Use the full word 'edition' not an abbreviation (to distinguish it from the abbreviation for editor):
Initial(s). Surname of author(s), Title of book in sentence case: subtitle if present, No edition (City published: Publisher, Year), relevant page(s).
P. J. Lynch & S. Horton, Web style guide, 3rd edition (London: Yale University Press, 2008), 78-79.
Lynch & Horton, Web style guide, 89-91.
Lynch, P. J. & S. Horton, Web style guide, 3rd edition. London: Yale University Press, 2008.
An edited book
As for an authored book with the addition of (ed.) or (eds.) after editor name(s) in full footnotes and bibliography entries.
Initial(s). Surname of editor(s) (ed(s).), Title of book in sentence case: subtitle if present (City published: Publisher, Year), relevant page(s).
P. Hacket (ed.), The Andy Warhol diaries (London: Penguin Classics, 2010), 66.
A. Bradley & A. DuBois (eds.), The anthology of rap (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2010), 42-43.
Hacket, The Andy Warhol diaries, 66.
Bradley & DuBois, The anthology of rap, 42-43.
Hacket, P. (ed.), The Andy Warhol diaries. London: Penguin Classics, 2010.
Bradley, A. & A. DuBois (eds.), The anthology of rap. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2010.
A chapter in an edited book
The name of the book, not the chapter needs to be in italics. The chapter title should be in single inverted commas. If the chapter date is different to the book publication date (e.g. for collected articles) put the book date after (ed.), before the book title. If all the page range is relevant, you can omit a specific page reference.
Initial(s). Surname of author(s), 'Title of chapter', In Editor(s) (ed(s).) Title of book. (City published: Publisher, Year). Page range of chapter:relevant page(s).
P. D. Richardson, ‘The British Empire and the Atlantic Slave Trade, 1660-1807’, in W. R. Louis (ed.), The Oxford History of the British Empire: Volume II: The Eighteenth Century (Oxford: OUP, 1999), 448-456:449.
Richardson, ‘British Empire’, 449.
Richardson, P. D., ‘The British Empire and the Atlantic Slave Trade, 1660-1807’, in W. R. Louis (ed.), The Oxford History of the British Empire: Volume II: The Eighteenth Century, 448-456. Oxford: OUP, 1999.
An electronic book (eBook)
There is no need to give information about which provider you accessed the eBook through. It is sufficient to indicate that it is an eBook that you have read by putting [eBook] in square brackets after the book title or edition information. If no place of publication information is available, don't worry, just put the publisher. URLs are not required as these are usually session specific and would not link the reader to the eBook:
Initial(s). Surname of author(s), Title of book [eBook] (City published (if available): Publisher, Year), relevant page(s).
J. L. Stein & P. R. Allen, Fundamental determinants of exchange rates [eBook] (New York: Oxford University Press, 1998), 22.
H. Parnell, The principles of currency and exchange, 4th edition [eBook] (London: J. Budd, 1805), 14-15.
Stein & R. Allen, Fundamental determinants, 22.
Parnell, The principles of currency, 14-15.
Stein, J. L. & P. R. Allen, Fundamental determinants of exchange rates [eBook]. New York: Oxford University Press, 1998.
Parnell, H., The principles of currency and exchange, 4th edition [eBook]. London: J. Budd, 1805.
An eReader book (Kindle, Kobo, Nook etc)
As with other eBooks, it is sufficient to make it clear which version of the book you have read. This information is placed after the book title or edition information. You should include download dates if possible (versions are updated and this should be reflected). Download dates are usually the same as your purchase dates and can be found by looking back at your order history online. If you no longer have access to this information, don't worry, just give what information you have. City or publisher information is often unavailable and can be omitted if this is the case (although can often be found at the end of your eReader book).
Note: Early eReader books may have location rather than page information. You can use 'loc' to indicate this if necessary.
Initial(s). Surname of author(s), Title of book, eReader version (City published: Publisher, Year), relevant page(s) or location [Downloaded date].
D. Stevenson, Story theater method: strategic storytelling in business, Kindle version (Colorado Springs: Cornelia Press, 2003), loc 211. [Downloaded 2011].
R. Sheldrake et al., Chaos, creativity and cosmic consciousness, Kobo version (Inner Traditions/Bear & Company, 2001), 45. [Downloaded 4/8/2014].
Stevenson, Story theater method, loc 211.
Sheldrake et al., Chaos, creativity, 45.
Stevenson, D. Story theater method: strategic storytelling in business, Kindle version. Colorado Springs: Cornelia Press, 2003. [Downloaded 2011].
Sheldrake, R., T. McKenna & R. Abraham, Chaos, creativity and cosmic conciousness, Kobo version. Inner Traditions/Bear & Company, 2001. [Downloaded 4/8/2014].
You should include details for the translator and an indication of the original language. If the original was a historically significant book, include the date of the original as well as the translation.
Initial(s). Surname of author(s), Title of book. Translated from language by name of translator, date if needed (City published: Publisher, Year), relevant page(s).
C. Wolf, One day a year, 1960-2000. Translated from German by L. A. Bangerter (New York: Europa Editions, 2007), 65.
J. P. Sartre, Existentialism and humanism (1946). Translated from French by P. Mairet (London: Metheun, 2007), 44-45.
Wolf, One day a year, 65.
Sartre, Existentialism and humanism, 44-45.
Wolf, C., One day a year, 1960-2000. Translated from German by L. A. Bangerter. New York: Europa Editions, 2007.
Sartre, J. P., Existentialism and humanism (1946). Translated from French by P. Mairet. London: Metheun, 2007.
Audio books (CDs and downloads)
When referring to material from audiobooks, a time stamp would be needed rather than page information.
Audio books on CD:
Initial(s). Surname of author(s), Title of book, [Audio CD] Version (abridged or unabridged) (City published: Publisher, Year), Time stamp.
B. C. Tracy, Time management made simple, [Audio CD] Unabridged (New York: Gildan Media Corporation, 2012), 22-26 min.
Tracy, Time management, 22-26 min.
Tracy, B. C.,Time management made simple, [Audio CD] Unabridged. New York: Gildan Media Corporation, 2012.
Audio books via download:
The main difference here is that you need to include a download date as versions change. Publishing cities are often not given.
Initial(s). Surname of author(s), Title of book, [Audio download]. Version (abridged or unabridged) (Publisher, Year), Time stamp. [Downloaded date].
B. C. Tracy, Time management made simple, [Audio download] Unabridged (Gildan Media Corporation, 2012), 22-26 min. [Downloaded 6/8/2014].
Tracy, B. C.,Time management made simple, [Audio download] Unabridged. Gildan Media Corporation, 2012. [Downloaded 6/8/2014].
Articles (journal, newspaper and magazine)
Journal article (print or online)
Print journals and online versions of printed journals should be referenced in the same way. There is no need to state that a journal was accessed online or through which database (unless it is an online-only journal in which case see below).
Many journals articles are written by multiple authors. For two authors, separate initials and surnames with an ampersand (&). For more than two authors, give the first name followed by et al. in the footnotes but give all names in the bibliography entry.
If you are referring to a whole article, the article page range is sufficient; if you want to point to a specific page or page range, include this after a colon.
Initial(s). Surname of author(s), 'Title of article in sentence case',* Journal title in italics, Issue information** (Year), page range: specific page(s) if necessary.
K. N. Panikkar, ‘Literature as history of social change’. Social Scientist, 40, 3 (2012), 3-5.
K. Alderson, ‘Making sense of state socialization’. Review of International Studies, 27, 3 (2001), 414-433:420.
Panikkar, ‘Literature as history’, 6.
Alderson, ‘Making sense of state socialization’, 420.
The only difference in the reversal of name and initials at the beginning of the entry and omission of specific page numbers:
Panikkar, K. N., ‘Literature as history of social change’. Social Scientist, 40, 3 (2012), 3-5.
Alderson, K. ‘Making sense of state socialization’. Review of International Studies, 27, 3 (2001), 414-433.
**Issue information is usually volume and issue but can sometimes be volume only or include supplement information. Occasionally it is a season (Spring, Summer etc), month or date (do not repeat the year if this is the case).
Journal article (online only)
Give the following information, note that page numbers are not often used:
Initial(s). Surname of Author(s)(s), 'Title of article', Journal title in italics, Issue information (Year). Available online: URL for the article [Accessed date], relevant page(s).
H. Bowstead, 'Coming to writing', Journal of Learning Development in Higher Education, 3 (2011), 3. Available online: http://www.aldinhe.ac.uk/ojs/index.php?journal=jldhe&page=article&op=view&path%5B%5D=128&path%5B%5D=88 [Accessed 8/8/2014].
Bowstead, 'Coming to writing', 3.
Bowstead, H., 'Coming to writing', Journal of Learning Development in Higher Education, 3 (2011). Available online: http://www.aldinhe.ac.uk/ojs/index.php?journal=jldhe&page=article&op=view&path%5B%5D=128&path%5B%5D=88 [Accessed 8/8/2014].
Newspaper article (print or archived online)
As with journals, it is not necessary to give the online information if you are referring to a printed article, or one that only came out in print originally:
Initial(s). Surname of the author if known or newspaper title if not, 'Title of the article or column heading', Title of the newspaper (Place of publication if known). Date in full, Page number.
J. Gunn, 'Why London will have to go international', The Times (London). 28 November 1984, 17.
Cardiff Times, 'Clydach Vale Disaster', Cardiff Times. 14 May 1910, 10.
Gunn, 'Why London will have to go international', 17.
Cardiff Times, 'Clydach Vale Disaster', 10.
Gunn, J., 'Why London will have to go international', The Times. London, 28 November 1984, 17.
Newspaper article (online only or internet edition)
Internet editions of newspaper articles are often slightly different to the printed articles (information may be added or excluded). It is therefore important to make it clear that you have accessed the internet edition:
Initial(s). and surname of the author if known or newspaper title if not, 'Title of the article', Title of the newspaper, Internet edition. Date in full. Available at: URL [Accessed date].
N. Karim, 'Giant penguin fossil shows bird was taller than most humans', The Guardian, Internet edition. 4 August 2014. Available online: http://www.theguardian.com/science/2014/aug/04/giant-penguin-fossil-antarctica [Accessed 5/8/2014].
Karim, 'Giant penguin fossil'.
Karim, N., 'Giant penguin fossil shows bird was taller than most humans', The Guardian, Internet edition. 4 August 2014. Available online: http://www.theguardian.com/science/2014/aug/04/giant-penguin-fossil-antarctica [Accessed 5/8/2014].
Magazine/comic article
These are similar to printed newspaper or journal articles:
Initial(s). Surname of author(s) if known or magazine title if not, 'Title of the article or comic strip', Title of the Magazine/Comic. Issue and/or date, relevant page(s).
L. Evans & D. Winkler, 'Equador: into the fungal jungle', Fungi. 4, 4 Fall 2011, 10-12.
M. Tanner, 'Maria Callas: Prima Donna', BBC Music Magazine. September 2014, 27-31.
Evans & Winkler, 'Equador: into the fungal jungle'.
Tanner, 'Maria Callas'.
Evans, L. & D. Winkler, 'Equador: into the fungal jungle', Fungi. 4, 4 Fall 2011, 10-12.
Tanner, M., 'Maria Callas: Prima Donna', BBC Music Magazine. September 2014, 27-31.
Comics:
Initial(s). Surname of author(s) if known or comic title if not, 'Title of the article or comic strip', Title of the Magazine/Comic. Issue and/or date, page number if relevant.
Beano, 'Minnie the Minx', The Beano. No 3000, 15 January 2000, 2.
C. Cooper, 'T'Priell Revealed Pt 2', Star Trek, Starfleet Academy. February 1998.
Beano, 'Minnie the Minx', 2.
Cooper, 'T'Priell Revealed'.
Cooper, C., 'T'Priell Revealed Pt 2', Star Trek, Starfleet Academy. February 1998.
Official Governmental and NGO documents
Act of Parliament
The way we reference Acts changed in 1963. Before that, the year of reign of the monarch (regnal year) needs to be included:
Name of Act including year (short title with key words capitalised). Regnal year, Chapter Number (City published: Publisher).
Friendly Societies Act 1955. 4 Elizabeth II, Chapter 19 (London: HMSO).
Name of Act including year (short title with key words capitalised). Chapter Number (City published: Publisher).
Criminal Justice Act 2003. Chapter 44 (Norwich: The Stationery Office).
If you wish to refer to a particular section (known as a schedule) or paragraph you can add that extra information to your footnote:
Criminal Justice Act 2003. Chapter 44 (Norwich: The Stationery Office), s35(122).
Short footnotes (for both time periods):
Criminal Justice Act 2003, s35(122).
Bibliography entries:
Remove the brackets from around the publisher information.
Friendly Societies Act 1955. 4 Elizabeth II, Chapter 19. London: HMSO.
Criminal Justice Act 2003. Chapter 44. Norwich: The Stationery Office.
Statutory Instrument
Title with key words capitalised (including bracketed information if present) (SI Year and Number) (City published: Publisher).
The Criminal Justice (Sentencing) (Licence Conditions) Order 2003 (SI 2003/3337) (London: The Stationery Office Ltd).
The Openness of Local Government Bodies Regulations 2014 (SI 2014/2095) (London: The Stationery Office Ltd).
Criminal Justice Order 2003.
Remove the brackets from around the publishing information.
The Criminal Justice (Sentencing)(Licence Conditions) Order 2003 (SI 2003/3337). London: The Stationery Office Ltd.
Law reports/cases
Legal citation takes a particular format and should be used for both full footnote and bibliography entries:
Names of the parties involved (these could be letters if anonymised). Year of reporting - in square brackets or round brackets* Volume number Abbreviation of the law report series, First page of reference.
Callery v Gray (No 2) [2001] 4 All ER, 1.
F v Leeds City Council [1994] 2 FCR, 428.
Brown v Board of Education (1954) 347 U.S., 483.
In the example above All ER = All England Law Reports, FCR = Family Court Reports and U.S. = United States Reports.
Note Short footnotes should just use the names i.e. Callery v Gray. Dates can be included if needed to distinguish cases only.
*Square brackets are used when the date is the primary method for finding the case (in the examples above there are more than one volume 4 and 2 in those report series). Round brackets are used when the date is not necessary to find the case (there is only one volume 347 in the United States Reports).
Command papers (including White Papers and Green Papers)
You need to include the official number of the paper (usually found at the bottom left of the front cover):
Initial(s). Surname of Author(s)ship, Title of document. Official number (City published: Publisher). Available online: URL [Accessed date].
The British Museum, Report and accounts for the year ended 31st March 2014. HC 436 (London: Williams Lea for HMSO).
HM Government, Open Data White Paper: Unleashing the potential. Cm 8353 (London: The Stationery Office Ltd). Available online: https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/78946/CM8353_acc.pdf [Accessed 2/9/2014].
The British Museum, Report and accounts.
HM Government, Open Data White Paper.
The British Museum, Report and accounts for the year ended 31st March 2014, HC 436. London: Williams Lea for HMSO.
HM Government, Open Data White Paper: Unleashing the potential, Cm 8353. London: The Stationery Office Ltd. Available online: https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/78946/CM8353_acc.pdf [Accessed 2/9/2014].
British and International Standards
You need to include the identifying letters and numbers (which include the year), they come before the title:
Standards Institution, Letters and numbers of standard: Full title of standard (City published: Publisher).
International Standards Office, ISO 50001:2011: Energy management systems: requirements with guidance for use (Geneva: ISO).
British Standards Institution, BS ISO 690:2010: Information and documentation. Guidelines for bibliographic references and citations to information resources (London: BSI).
Abbreviations for institutions can be used, alongside the identifying number.
ISO, ISO 50001:2011.
BSI, BS ISO 690:2010.
International Standards Office, ISO 50001:2011: Energy management systems: requirements with guidance for use. Geneva: ISO.
British Standards Institution, BS ISO 690:2010: Information and documentation. Guidelines for bibliographic references and citations to information resources. London: BSI.
If the patent is available online, show where and when you accessed it.
Inventer Initials. Surname, Title of patent (Country granting patent, Patent number, Year). Available online: URL [Accessed date], relevant page(s).
E. Borgen, Wind turbine rotor with improved hub system (UK Patent GB2495084, 2013).
S. Karsten, Wind turbine tower and method of production thereof (US Patent US2014237919(A1), 2014). Available online: http://worldwide.espacenet.com/publicationDetails/biblio?FT=D&date=20140828&DB=EPODOC&locale=en_EP&CC=US&NR=2014237919A1&KC=A1&ND=5 [Accessed 28/8/2014].
Borgen, Wind turbine rotor.
Karsten, Wind turbine tower.
Reverse the first name and remove brackets around patent information.
Borgen, E., Wind turbine rotor with improved hub system. UK Patent GB2495084, 2013.
Karsten, S., Wind turbine tower and method of production thereof. US Patent US2014237919(A1), 2014. Available online: http://worldwide.espacenet.com/publicationDetails/biblio?FT=D&date=20140828&DB=EPODOC&locale=en_EP&CC=US&NR=2014237919A1&KC=A1&ND=5 [Accessed 28/8/2014].
European Union documentation
Name of institution - common abbreviations acceptable, Title of document. Official number (City published: Publisher (often the institution in full), Year), relevant page(s) if necessary.
CEC, Communication. Further guidance on allocation plans. COM(2005)703 final (Brussels: Commission of the European Communities, 2005), 3-4.
European Council, Special meeting of the European Council (16 July 2014). EUCO 147/14 (Brussels: European Council, 2014).
CEC, Communication, 3-4.
European Council, Special meeting.
Remove brackets from around publishing information.
CEC, Communication. Further guidance on allocation plans. COM(2005)703 final. Brussels: Commission of the European Communities, 2005.
European Council, Special meeting of the European Council (16 July 2014). EUCO 147/14. Brussels: European Council, 2014.
United Nations documents and publications
The United Nations produce both internal documents and external publications. These include resolutions, statements, reports etc. Titles could be long, sometimes (as for statements) the actual document does not say what they are about in their title but the initial link to them does. It is hard to produce a template that covers them all, but use the basic one below as guidance, adapting it as needed for the document in question.
Links to online versions may not be needed - check with your supervisor/lecturer.
Name of institution/committee (common abbreviations acceptable), Title of document (Full date of document, Official number). Available online: URL [Accessed date].
UN General Assembly, Outcome document of the high-level meeting of the General Assembly on the comprehensive review and assessment of the progress achieved in the prevention and control of non-communicable diseases (10 July 2014, A/RES/68/300).
UN Security Council, Statement by the President of the Security Council on the Middle East (22 December 2010, S/PRST/2010/30). Available online: http://www.un.org/en/ga/search/view_doc.asp?symbol=S/PRST/2010/30 [Accessed 22/8/2014].
UN Security Council, Security Council Press Statement on Terrorist Attack in Mali (18 August 2014, SC/11523, AFR/2951, PKO/426). Available online: http://www.un.org/News/Press/docs//2014/sc11523.doc.htm [Accessed 22/8/2014].
UN Security Council, Statement by the President.
UN Security Council, Security Council Press Statement.
As full footnote.
Other NGO documents
There are so many different non-governmental organisations that a fixed template is difficult to create. Adapt the one below as necessary, trying to keep the styling consistent:
Name of organisation - common abbreviations acceptable, Title of document (Full date of document, Official number if given). (City or country published: Publisher). Available online: URL [Accessed date].
UNESCO, Teaching and learning: achieving quality for all; EFA global monitoring report, 2013-2014 (Paris: UNESCO Publishing). Available online: http://unesdoc.unesco.org/images/0022/002256/225660e.pdf [Accessed 22/8/2014].
The World Bank, Brazil: Implementation Status and Results, Development Policies for the State of Sergipe (18 August 2014, P129652, Report No ISR15802). Available online: http://www-wds.worldbank.org/external/default/WDSContentServer/WDSP/LCR/2014/08/18/090224b082652070/1_0/Rendered/PDF/Brazil000Devel0Report000Sequence003.pdf [Accessed 22/8/2014].
Danish Refugee Council, Strategic Programme Document - DRC/DDG in Libya and Tunisia (4 September 2009). Available online: http://drc.dk/fileadmin/uploads/pdf/IA_PDF/North_Africa/2014.04.09_SPD_-_Libya_Tunisia_-_2014.pdf [Accessed 22/8/2014].
UNESCO, Teaching and learning.
The World Bank, Brazil: Implementation Status.
Danish Refugee Council, Strategic Programme Document
As full footnote but remove brackets around publisher information if present.
UNESCO, Teaching and learning: achieving quality for all; EFA global monitoring report, 2013-2014. Paris: UNESCO Publishing. Available online: http://unesdoc.unesco.org/images/0022/002256/225660e.pdf [Accessed 22/8/2014].
Conference paper/proceedings
Conference papers are the individual papers presented at a conference, symposium or seminar. Conference proceedings are the collected papers of the whole conference, published together. Individual conference papers may be unpublished in which case omit the publishing information.
Initial(s). Surname of author(s), 'Title of paper in sentence case',* Title of conference: subtitle if present. Location and date of conference (City published: Publisher if given), page range:relevant page(s) if necessary.
W. Blozijl & B. Andeweg, 'The effects of text slide format and presentation quality on learning in college lectures', IEEE International Professional Communication Conference. Limerick, 10-13 July 2005, 288-299:291.
Blozijl & Andeweg, 'The effects of text slide format', 288-299:291.
Blozijl. W. & B. Andeweg, 'The effects of text slide format and presentation quality on learning in college lectures', IEEE International Professional Communication Conference. Limerick, 10-13 July 2005, 288-299.
Conference proceedings:
Initial(s). Surname of author(s)/editor(s), 'Title of proceedings', Title of conference: subtitle if present. Location and date of conference (City published: Publisher if given).
Transportation Research Board, 'City logistics research: a transatlantic perspective', EU-US Transportation Symposium. Washington, D. C., 30-31 May 2013 (Washington: Transportation Research Board).
Transportation Research Board, 'City logistics research'.
As full footnote with brackets removed from publisher information.
Transportation Research Board, 'City logistics research: a transatlantic perspective', EU-US Transportation Symposium. Washington, D. C., 30-31 May 2013. Washington: Transportation Research Board.
Company/organisational report
Note that the publisher is often the same as the organisation:
Printed report
Initial(s). Surname of author/Organisation, Full title of report (City published: Publisher, Year (if not in title)), relevant page(s).
BT Group plc, Annual report and Form 20-F 2014. (London: BT Group plc), 12.
BT Group plc, Annual report 2014, 12.
Online report
Initial(s). Surname of author/Organisation, Full title of report (City published: Publisher (if given), Year (if not in title). Available online: URL [Accessed date], relevant page(s) if given.
NHS, Everyone counts: planning for patients 2013/14 (NHS Commissioning Board), 9. Available online: http://www.england.nhs.uk/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/everyonecounts-planning.pdf [Accessed 12/9/2014], 16-17.
NHS, Everyone counts, 9.
NHS, Everyone counts: planning for patients 2013/14. NHS Commissioning Board. Available online: http://www.england.nhs.uk/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/everyonecounts-planning.pdf [Accessed 15/9/2014].
Government/NGO Reports
These are slightly different - see section above.
Dissertation or thesis
Give the following information ('Available online' is optional as older thesis are only available in print).
Initial(s). Surname of author, Title of dissertation/thesis. Document type (Name of University, date on document). Available online: URL [Accessed date], relevant page(s).
B. H. Stern, The impact of leadership on school improvement. EdD thesis (The University of Hull. August 2013). Available online: https://hydra.hull.ac.uk/resources/hull:8431 [Accessed 21/8/2014], 234.
R. J. Walsh, Charles the Bold, last Valois Duke of Burgundy 1467-1477 and Italy. PhD thesis (The University of Hull, 1977), 45.
Stern, The impact of leadership, 234.
Walsh, Charles the Bold, 45.
Walsh, R. J. Charles the Bold, last Valois Duke of Burgundy 1467-1477 and Italy. PhD thesis. The University of Hull, 1977.
When referencing texts such as the Bible, Qur'an or Torah, include the following information and give Book. Sura or Chapter:verse instead of page numbers:
Title of the version you have used. Translated by name of translater (if given) (City published: Publisher, Year), relevant section(s)
The Holy Bible: Authorised King James Version. (Glasgow: Harper Collins, 2011), Philippians. 4:13.
The Qur'an (Oxford World's Classics). Translated by M. A. S. Abdel Haleem (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004), Miriam. 19:25.
The Torah: the five books of Moses. Translated by J. P. S. Greenberg & M. Greenberg (Philadelphia: The Jewish Publication Society, 2000), Leviticus. 19:1-2.
Give the name of the text only with relevant section:
The Torah, Genesis. 1:26.
Remove brackets from publishing information
The Torah: the five books of Moses. Translated by J. P. S. Greenberg & M. Greenberg. Philadelphia: The Jewish Publication Society, 2000.
PDF document are nearly always accessed online, and so you can point readers to the URL along with other information. If the URL is unavailable (for instance if you have been emailed it) or if you have no publisher information, just give as much information as you have or can find.
Initial(s). Surname of author(s), Title of document (City published: Publisher, Year). Available online: URL [Accessed date], relevant page(s) if necessary.
S. Godin, Stop stealing dreams: what is school for? (Do You Zoom, Inc, 2012). Available online: http://www.sethgodin.com/sg/docs/stopstealingdreamsscreen.pdf [Accessed 6/8/14], 3-4.
H. M. Government, The coalition: our programme for government (London: Cabinet Office, 2010). Available online: https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/78977/
coalition_programme_for_government.pdf [Accessed 6/8/14].
Godin, Stop stealing dreams, 6.
H. M. Government, The coalition.
Godin, S., Stop stealing dreams: what is school for?. Do You Zoom, Inc, 2012. Available online: http://www.sethgodin.com/sg/docs/stopstealingdreamsscreen.pdf [Accessed 6/8/14].
H. M. Government, The coalition: our programme for government. London: Cabinet Office, 2010. Available online: https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/78977/
Informal document (leaflet, in-house publication)
For leaflets, handouts, flyers etc just provide what information you can:
Initial(s). Surname of author/organisation, Title of document [Media] (Other useful details).
University of Hull, Learning, Teaching and Student Experience Strategy 2012-15 [Booklet] (University of Hull, 2012).
The Deep, The Deep: for conservation not profit [Leaflet] (2014).
University of Hull, Learning, Teaching.
The Deep, The Deep: for conservation.
Don't bracket the details.
University of Hull, Learning, Teaching and Student Experience Strategy 2012-15 [Booklet]. University of Hull, 2012.
The Deep, The Deep: for conservation not profit [Leaflet]. 2014.
Archive material is often unique: books could be annotated etc which means that the collection that they came from is equally as important as the document details. They will often not have page numbers, but where there are, include the relevant page(s).
Initial(s). Surname of author/organisation, Title of document, Edition (publisher information if relevant, Year) [Medium]. Whatever collection details are available (i.e. name of collection, reference numbers, name of library/archive, location).
P. A. Larkin, Workbook No 1 (1950) [Manuscript]. Papers of Philip Arthur Larkin, U DPL/1/1, Hull University Archives, Hull History Centre.
R. Smyth & H. E. L. Thuilier, A manual of surveying for India: detailing the mode of operations on trigonametrical, topographical and revenue surveys of India, 2nd Edition (London: W. Thacker and Co., 1855) [Book]. Monograph, mg NO2/24Z3, Royal Geographical Society/Institute of British Geographers Archive, London, 44.
W. Wilberforce, Letter to James Thomson Esq (1816) [Letter]. William Wilberforce letters, L DFWW/1/10, Hull Local Studies Library, Hull History Centre.
Online sources (see also Audiovisual etc below)
First, please note that a website URL is NEVER a suitable reference on its own. Sometimes the author (even an organisation) is not clear. If that is the case, use the webpage title (and a short form of this as your short footnote). Dates can often be found in copyright information at the bottom of the page. If a range is given, use the later year.
Initial(s). Surname of author(s), Title of web page in sentence case (Date).* Available online: URL [Accessed date].
Individual Author(s)
G. Reynolds, Top ten slide tips (2005). Available online: http://www.garrreynolds.com/preso-tips/design/ [Accessed 27/08/2014].
Company author
SocialBakers, LinkedIn statistics, number of LinkedIn users & demographics (2014). Available online: http://www.socialbakers.com/linkedin-statistics/ [Accessed 26/3/2014].
No author or company name
Gourmet coffee boom takes Russia by storm (2013). Available online: http://www.8975.co.uk/gourmet-coffee/ [Accessed 2/1/2014].
Reynolds, Top ten slide tips.
SocialBakers, LinkedIn statistics.
Gourmet coffee boom.
As full footnote but put the author surname first and don't put dates in brackets.
Blogs are often unsubstantiated opinions and should be used with caution as academic references. However, some reputable, published authors have their own blogs which can provide useful, up to date comments and insights. Include the following information:
Initial(s). Surname of author, 'Title of blog post', Title of website. Date of post. Available online: URL [Accessed date].
S. Godin, 'Trading favors', Seth's Blog. 31 July 2014. Available online: http://sethgodin.typepad.com/seths_blog/2014/07/trading-favors.html [Accessed 8/8/2014].
G. Reynolds, 'Story structure, simplicity, & hacking away at the unessential', Presentation Zen. 13 June 2014. Available online: http://www.presentationzen.com/presentationzen/2014/06/one-key-to-story-design-is-to-hack-away-at-the-unessential.html [Accessed 6/8/2014].
Godin, 'Trading favors'.
Reynolds, 'Story structure'.
As full footnote but with author surname first.
Forum entry
Quite often you are referring to an answer rather than a question in a forum, however, it is the question that you reference in this case. Always check the expertise of the answerer and use with caution and criticality. Author names are usually aliases, type them as they appear.
Initial(s). Surname of author, 'Title of post' (often a question), Title of Forum. Date of post. Available online: URL [Accessed date].
jlawler, 'Can the term "homorganic" be applied to vowels and glides?', Linguistics Stack Exchange. 8 August 2014. Available online: http://linguistics.stackexchange.com/questions/8764/can-the-term-homorganic-be-applied-to-vowels-and-glides [Accessed 8/8/2014].
jlawler, 'Can the term'.
When referencing a YouTube video, it is the name of the person who posted the video, not who made it that you reference (these can be the same or different). Use the URL that you get when you click the 'Share' link as it is shorter than the one in the URL box:
Name of person posting video, Title of video, Series title if relevant. Date uploaded [Video]. Available online: URL [Accessed Date].
M. E. Tunalioglu, Richard Phillips Feynman - The Last Journey of a Genius. 23 April 2011 [Video]. Available online: http://youtu.be/Mn4_40hAAr0 [Accessed 8/8/2014].
Harvard University, Episode 02: Putting a price tag on life, Justice: What's the right thing to do? 8 September 2009 [Video]. Available online: http://youtu.be/0O2Rq4HJBxw [Accessed 9/8/2012].
Tunalioglu, Richard Phillips Feynman.
Harvard University, Putting a price tag on life.
For other social media, adapt whichever of the following is most appropriate.
If your reader needs to register (and be accepted) to see the entries you are referring to, and you are not quoting them in full within your text, it is wise to include a copy of the actual text as an appendix to your work.
Initial(s). Surname of author, Title of Page (could just be author's timeline) [Facebook]. Date posted. Available online: URL [Accessed date].
G. Reynolds, Garr Reynolds Timeline [Facebook]. 10 August 2014. Available online: https://www.facebook.com/garr.reynolds?fref=nf [Accessed 13/8/2014].
L. Fallin, Skills Team at Hull [Facebook]. 24 March 2014. Available online: https://www.facebook.com/SkillsTeam [Accessed 13/8/2014].
Reynolds, Garr Reynolds Timeline.
Fallin, Skills Team at Hull.
As full footnote but with surname first.
Initial(s). Surname of author, Full text of tweet (as written) [Twitter]. Date posted. Available online: URL [Accessed date].
N. Glass, wondering just how far this moment is from dreams I've had. it all feels vaguely familiar yet completely foreign. resisting tears. so tired [Twitter]. 30 March 2009. Available online: https://twitter.com/noah/status/1422661056 [Accessed 13/8/2014].
Glass, wondering just how far.
If your reader needs to subscribe to see the entries you are referring to, and you are not quoting them in full within your text, it is wise to include a copy of the actual text as an appendix to your work. In this case, add 'see appendix n' in your footnote.
Initial(s). Surname of author, 'Subject line', Title of mailing list. Date of message. Available online: URL [Accessed date].
C. Keenan, 'Peer led academic learning and disability', Learning Development in Higher Education Network. 8 August 2014. Available online: ldhen@jiscmail.ac.uk [Accessed 13/8/2014].
Keenan, 'Peer led academic learning'.
Images, artwork and maps
You should reference every photograph you use unless you took it yourself. Give the following information:
Online photographs
Photographer, (Initial(s). Surname if available, username if not), Title of photograph in italics (or description if none available). Date taken/uploaded if given [Photograph]. Available online: URL [Accessed date].
keithhull, Hull is the new UK City of Culture for 2017. 21 April 2009 [Photograph]. Available online: https://www.flickr.com/photos/21506908@N07/3478651395 [Accessed 14/8/2014].
P. Harrop, Plinth and Maritime Museum, Hull. 2012 [Photograph]. Available online: http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2843877 [Accessed 14/8/2014].
keithhull, Hull is the new UK City of Culture.
P. Harrop, Plinth and Maritime Museum.
Prints, slides or negatives (in known collections)
Photographer, Title of photograph in italics. Date taken if not in title [Photograph]. Whatever collection details are available (i.e. name of collection, reference numbers, location, name of library/archive).
P. A. Larkin, Negative of [Monica Jones] on a ferry. 1970s [Photograph]. Photographs of Philip Arthur Larkin, U DLV/2/1/30, Hull University Archives, Hull History Centre.
R. T. Watson, Hull City Football Team 1906-7 taken at Anlaby Road Hull the City football ground [Photograph]. Records of the Copyright Office, Stationers' Company, Copy 1/506/148, The National Archives, Kew.
Larkin, Negative of [Monica Jones].
Watson, Hull City Football Team.
Prints, slides or negatives (not in collections)
Photographer, Title of photograph (or description if none available). Date taken if known [Photograph] (Place of publication: publisher (if available)).
J. A. Bartram, Bluebells in North Cliffe Woods. May 2012 [Photograph] (York).
Bartram, Bluebells.
Bartram, J. A. Bluebells in North Cliffe Woods. May 2012 [Photograph] York.
Book illustration, figure or table
If the illustration/figure/table is created by the author (basically not attributed to anyone else) then just cite the book as normal, giving the appropriate page number. If the image is attributed to someone else, the footnote would include both the person responsible for the image and the author(s) of the book. The bibliography entry would list the book, not the specific illustration.
M. E. Turgot & L. Bretez, 'Plan de Paris'. In E. R. Tufte, Envisioning information (Cheshire CT: Graphics Press, 1990), 36.
Turgot & Bretez, 'Plan de Paris', 36.
Tufte, E. R., Envisioning information. Cheshire CT: Graphics Press, 1990.
Give as much as the following information as you can find (online information optional):
Initial(s). Surname of artist, 'Title of cartoon' [Cartoon], Title of publication, Date published. Available online: URL [Accessed date].
M. Rawson, 'Wealth inequality' [Cartoon], The Guardian, 29 July 2014. Available online: http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/cartoon/2014/jul/29/martin-rowson-rich-wealth-good-inequality-cuts [Accessed 14/8/2014].
Rawson, 'Wealth inequality'.
As full footnote but with name reversed (Rawson, M.,).
Painting, drawing or poster
Give as much of the following information as you can find. If available online, add Available online: URL [Accessed date]:
Initial(s). Surname of artist, Title of work. Year created if known [Medium]. Institution/collection, City (or Location, Exhibition, dates of exhibition).
T. Denison, Clippers on the Humber [Original Watercolour]. Myton Gallery, Hull.
B. Cook, Tommy Dancing. 2008 [Oil]. Hull Maritime Museum, Working Hard, Playing Hard, 5 April - 8 June 2014.
B. Gold, Alien. 1979 [Poster]. Available online: http://www.complex.com/pop-culture/2013/05/most-iconic-movie-posters-of-all-time/alien [Accessed 15/8/2012].
Denison, Clippers on the Humber.
Cook, B. Tommy Dancing.
Gold, B. Alien.
Sculpture or installation
Include as much of the following information as you can find:
Initial(s). Surname of artist, Title of the work. Year created if different from year seen [Medium]. Name of collection/exhibition information or Location (include date seen for temporary installations).
H. S. Moore, Large Totem Head. 1968 [Bronze Sculpture]. Yorkshire Sculpture Park.
S. Producoes, Colourful Canopies of Umbrellas [Installation]. Agueda, Portugal, July 2013.
Moore, Large Totem Head.
Producoes, Colourful Canopies of Umbrellas.
As full footnote but with names reversed (Moore, H. S.,).
Printed map
Ordnance Survey, Title of map. Edition if not first. Map/sheet number, Scale. Map series if appropriate (Place of publication: Publisher, Year).
Ordnance Survey, Kingston Upon Hull. Ed C2. 107, 1:50 000. Landranger series (Southampton: Ordnance Survey, 2006).
Ordnance Survey, Kingston Upon Hull.
Map producer, Title of map, Edition if not first. Map/sheet number, Scale (Place of publication: Publisher, Year).
International Travel Maps, South America, 5th edition. ITM.875, 1:4 000 000 (Richmond, BC: ITMB Publishing, 2008).
M. D. Max, C. B. Long & C. V. MacDermot, Bedrock Geology of North Mayo, Sheet 6, 1:100,000 (Dublin: Geological Survey of Ireland, 1992).
International Travel Maps, South America.
Max et al., Bedrock Geology.
International Travel Maps, South America, 5th edition. ITM.875, 1:4 000 000. Richmond, BC: ITMB Publishing, 2008.
Max, M. D., C. B. Long & C. V. MacDermot, Bedrock Geology of North Mayo, Sheet 6, 1:100,000. Dublin: Geological Survey of Ireland, 1992.
Reference as a standard book, giving scales if relevant. For a specific page, include the page number at the end of the footnotes only.
R. Butler, Atlas of Kenya (Nairobi: Survey of Kenya, 1959).
L. Bossard, Regional atlas on West Africa [eBook] (Paris: OECD Publishing, 2009).
Butler, Atlas of Kenya.
Bossard, Regional atlas on West Africa.
Max, M. D., C. B. Long, & C. V. MacDermot, Bedrock Geology of North Mayo, Sheet 6, 1:100,000. Dublin: Geological Survey of Ireland, 1992.
Digimap online map
These guidelines are for maps that are viewed, annotated or printed
Digimap does have a citation generator, but this provides a citation that is not consistent with the rest of our scheme so we do not recommend you use it (although it can sometimes be useful to confirm information).
Digimaps are generated by you, so you will have to give a description of the map that makes it clear what it is showing as its title. Other information can be found by clicking on Map Information on the left of your screen or for some services, clicking the Sheet Information button (i) and then clicking on the map. The publisher is usually the copyright holder (check the bottom of the map). The citation year should be from the map date, if no map date is available, use the copyright date.
Map publisher, Title/description of map. Scale. Source (Map Product), Year of original map. Created online: http://edina.ac.uk/digimap [Created on date].
Ordnance Survey, Kingston upon Hull. 1:100 000. EDINA Digimap (OS Strategi), 2014. Created online: http://edina.ac.uk/digimap [Created 18/8/2014].
Landmark Information Group, Barmby Moor, East Yorkshire. 1:2 500. National Grid Tile SE7748, EDINA Historic Digimap Service, 1971. Created online: http://edina.ac.uk/digimap [Created 18/8/2014].
Natural Environment Research Council, Vale of Pickering. 1:50 000. EDINA Geology Digimap Service (British Geological Survey), 2014. Created online: http://edina.ac.uk/digimap [Created 18/8/2014].
Landmark Information Group, Barmby Moor.
Natural Environment Research Council, Vale of Pickering.
Map created using GIS software
When you create a map that you include in your assignment, you only need to reference the data source and the tool you used (it is your own work after all). You can find a lot of the information that you need for referencing when you view your basket. You would give the figure a name (Figure 1 - title) and add your footnote after the title. Subsequent citations would refer to Figure 1 and not the data directly so short footnotes are not needed.
Created with (insert software), data from Producer [data format] Scale, Tile(s). Product name, version: date. Available online: http://edina.ac.uk/digimap [Downloaded date].
Created with ArcGis, data from Ordnance Survey [DWG geospacial data] 1:50 000, Tiles SE7954, SE7955, SE8054, SE8055. OS MasterMap, version: December 2013. Available online: http://edina.ac.uk/digimap [Downloaded 21/8/2014].
Created with TerraView, data from British Geological Survey [Shapefile geospacial data] 1:50 000, Tile TA41. Onshore Geology, version: 2013. Available online: http://edina.ac.uk/digimap [Downloaded 21/8/2014].
Not applicable, see above.
You do not need the 'created with' information.
Ordnance Survey [DWG geospacial data] 1:50 000, Tiles SE7954, SE7955, SE8054, SE8055. OS MasterMap, version: December 2013. Available online: http://edina.ac.uk/digimap [Downloaded 21/8/2014].
British Geological Survey [Shapefile geospacial data] 1:50 000, Tile TA41. Onshore Geology, version: 2013. Available online: http://edina.ac.uk/digimap [Downloaded 21/8/2014].
Google maps/Bing maps
URLs can be found for specific map views by clicking the Share button in each case. In Bing maps the URL is shown, in Google maps you will need to right-click on the Google Maps link (if you have searched, the link may be your search term) and and choose to copy the link address.
Map provider, Description of map, View information. Available online: URL [Accessed 21/8/2014].
Google Maps, Humber Dock Marina, Satellite view. Available online: https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@53.73926,-0.3387019,622m/data=!3m1!1e3 [Accessed 22/8/2014].
Bing Maps, The University of Hull campus, Bird's eye view. Available online: http://binged.it/1tkVlri [Accessed 22/8/2014].
Google Maps, Humber Dock Marina.
Bing Maps, The University of Hull campus.
Audiovisual sources
Many referencing systems suggest that you need to include a place of distribution. However, this is rarely available on DVDs etc so we suggest you just put the distributor/studio which can usually be found on the reverse. If a place is available, include it before a colon as with publisher information.
Title in italics. Directed by Director name [Medium] (Studio/Distributer, Year of release).
Good Morning, Vietnam. Directed by Barry Levinson [DVD] (Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment, 1998).
Good Will Hunting. Directed by Gus Van Sant [Blu-ray] (Lions Gate Home Entertainment, 2011).
Good Morning, Vietnam.
Good Will Hunting.
Remove brackets from distribution information.
Good Morning, Vietnam. Directed by Barry Levinson [DVD]. Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment, 1998.
Good Will Hunting. Directed by Gus Van Sant [Blu-ray]. Lions Gate Home Entertainment, 2011.
Title, directed by Director name. Written by Writer name (if known) [Medium] (Distributer, Year of distribution).
In the Wild: Dolphins with Robin Williams. Directed by Nigel Cole [VHS] (NTV, 1998).
In the Wild.
In the Wild: Dolphins with Robin Williams. Directed by Nigel Cole [VHS]. NTV, 1998.
Episode of a TV programme
'Episode title', Programme title, series and episode numbers. Directed by Director name. Written by Writer name (if known) [Medium] (Place of distribution: Distributer, Year of distribution).
'Old Fears', Mork & Mindy, season 2, episode 12. Directed by Howard Storm. Written by April Kelly [DVD] (Los Angeles: Paramount, 1979).
'Old Fears', Mork & Mindy.
'Episode title', Programme title, series and episode numbers. Directed by Director name. Written by Writer name (if known) [Medium]. Place of distribution: Distributer, Year of distribution.
Extra commentaries
If extra commentaries by directors/producers/actors etc are given on a DVD/Blu-ray you would reference using the person's name rather than the title:
Commentator, director's (or other) commentary, Title of Film. Version if needed. Directed by Director name [Medium] (Studio/Distributer, Year).
Z. Snyder, director's commentary, Watchmen, Director's Cut, Special Edition. Directed by Zach Snyder [Blu-ray] (Warner Bros., 2009).
T. McCarthy, J. Powers, & D. Thompson, critics' commentary, The Ultimate Matrix Collection. Directed by the Wachowski Brothers [DVD collection] (Warner Bros., 2004).
Snyder, Watchmen.
McCarthy et al., The Ultimate Matrix Collection.
Snyder, Z., director's commentary, Watchmen, Director's Cut, Special Edition. Directed by Zach Snyder [Blu-ray]. Warner Bros., 2009.
McCarthy, T., J. Powers, & D. Thompson, critics' commentary, The Ultimate Matrix Collection. Directed by the Wachowski Brothers [DVD collection]. Warner Bros., 2004.
Broadcasts and streaming (TV, Radio, Netflix, BoB etc)
Dates given in brackets should be the original broadcast year (the copyright year given at the end of the programme). You may be able to find this and information such as writers etc on something like IMDb if you do not have the credits recorded. The broadcast date is the broadcast that you actually watched (except for online subscription-only programmes, in which case it is the release date).
Title. Directed by Director name (if known). Written by Writer name (if known) [TV Programme] (TV channel (or service if online only), broadcast date and time).
Scotland decides: Salmond versus Darling [TV Programme] (BBC TWO, 25 August 2014, 20:30).
Scotland decides.
No brackets around broadcast information:
Scotland decides: Salmond versus Darling [TV Programme]. BBC TWO, 25 August 2014, 20:30.
If you are quoting a specific person on the programme, you can include their name first:
Salmond, A. Scotland decides: Salmond versus Darling [TV Programme] (BBC TWO, 25 August 2014, 20:30).
'Episode title', Programme title, series and episode numbers. Directed by Director name. Written by Writer name (if known) [TV programme] (TV channel (or service if online only). Broadcast date and time).
'The Empty Chair', The Honourable Woman, season 1, episode 1. Directed by Hugo Blick. Written by Hugo Blick [TV programme] (BBC TWO. 3 July 2014, 21:00).
'Chapter 2', House of Cards, season 1, episode 2. Directed by David Fincher. Written by Beau Willimon [TV Programme] (Netflix, 1 February 2014).
'The Empty Chair', The Honourable Woman.
'Chapter 2', House of Cards.
No brackets around broadcast information.
Programmes/episodes watched via Box of Broadcasts
Please DO NOT cite these using the information given in the How to cite this tab underneath the broadcast window. Instead, just add the URL and access information as with other online resources:
Scotland decides: Salmond versus Darling [TV Programme] (BBC TWO, 25 August 2014, 20:30). Available online: http://bobnational.net/record/236557 [Accessed 30/8/2014].
This is the same as for TV programmes but use [Radio Programme] instead:
In Tune [Radio Programme] (BBC Radio 3, 18 August 2014, 16:30).
'Skomer', Afternoon Play. Written by Mike Akers [Radio Programme] (BBC Radio 4, 30 October 2006, 14:15). Available online: http://bobnational.net/record/215 [Accessed 18/8/2014].
Rafferty, S. In Tune [Radio Programme] (BBC Radio 3, 18 August 2014, 16:30).
Film (cinema release, TV or BoB)
Film, cinema release or TV
Title in italics. Directed by Director name [Film] (Place of distribution (if known): Studio/Distributer, Year of release).
Dawn of the Planet of the Apes. Directed by Matt Reeves [Film] (20th Century Fox, 2014).
Dawn of the Planet of the Apes.
Dawn of the Planet of the Apes. Directed by Matt Reeves [Film]. 20th Century Fox, 2014.
Film, seen on Box of Broadcasts
Please DO NOT cite these using the information given in the How to cite this tab underneath the broadcast window. Instead, just add the URL and access information as with other online resources. If distributer information is cut off the end by the TV channel, try looking on IMDb (Company Credits link):
Title in italics. Directed by Director name [Film] (Place of distribution (if known): Studio/Distributer, Year of release). Available online: http://bobnational.net/record/234816 [Accessed date].
The Birds. Directed by Alfred Hitchcock [Film] (Universal Pictures, 1963). Available online: http://bobnational.net/record/234816 [Accessed 15/9/2014].
The Birds.
The Birds. Directed by Alfred Hitchcock [Film]. Universal Pictures, 1963. Available online: http://bobnational.net/record/234816 [Accessed 15/9/2014].
If the author or presenter of the podcast is not known, use the organisation or website name instead.
Initial(s). Surname of author/presenter, 'Title of podcast', Name of Web page [Podcast]. Day and month of post if shown. Available online: URL [Accessed date].
T. Harford, 'Student loans', More or Less: Behind the Stats [Podcast]. 15 August 2014. Available online: http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/radio4/moreorless/moreorless_20140815-1655c.mp3 [Accessed 19/8/2014].
J. Heaversedge, 'What is mindfulness?', Mental Health Foundation [Podcast]. Available online: http://www.mentalhealth.org.uk/content/assets/audio/what-is-mindfulness-mp3.mp3 [Accessed 19/8/2014].
Fearless Social, 'How to use magazines to write better Facebook ads', Fearless Social: Social Marketing Evolved [Podcast]. 7 August 2014. Available online: https://itunes.apple.com/gb/podcast/fearless-social-social-marketing/id904864342?mt=2 [Accessed 19/8/2014].
Harford, 'Student loans'.
Heaversedge, 'What is mindfulness?'.
Fearless Social, 'How to use magazines'.
As full footnote with surname of author/presenter first.
Harvard University (2009) Episode 02: Putting a price tag on life, Justice: What's the right thing to do? 8 September 2009 [Video]. Available online: http://youtu.be/0O2Rq4HJBxw [Accessed 9/8/2012].
PowerPoint (or other) presentation
Most presentations you will reference will be accessed online, so reference as follows:
Initial(s). Surname of author(s), Title of presentation. Date created/uploaded [Presentation]. Available online: URL [Accessed date].
J. Brenman, Thirst. 8 July 2008 [Presentation]. Available online: http://www.slideshare.net/jbrenman/thirst [Accessed 29/8/2014].
N. Duarte, Slidedocs: spread ideas with effective visual documents. 2014 [Presentation]. Available online: http://www.duarte.com/slidedocs/ [Accessed 29/8/2014].
If you accessed the presentations via other means, omit the 'Available online' information.
Brenman, Thirst.
Duarte, Slidedocs.
As full footnote with surname of author first.
Individual musical scores
Print score
Initial(s). Surname of composer, Title of score including work number if known [Musical score]. Editor or arranger information (City published: Publisher, Year of publication).
I. Stravinsky, Rite of spring: pictures from pagan Russia in two parts [Musical score] (London: Boosey & Hawkes, 1967).
N. Rimsky-Korsakoff, Trombone Concerto [Musical score]. Reduction for tenor trombone and piano by Harold Perry (London: Boosey & Hawkes, 1955).
Stravinsky, Rite of spring.
Rimsky-Korsakoff, Trombone Concerto.
Stravinsky, I., Rite of spring: pictures from pagan Russia in two parts [Musical score]. London: Boosey & Hawkes, 1967.
Rimsky-Korsakoff, N., Trombone Concerto [Musical score]. Reduction for tenor trombone and piano by Harold Perry. London: Boosey & Hawkes, 1955.
Online score
Initial(s). Surname of composer, Title of score including work number if known [Musical score]. Editor or arranger information (City published: Publisher (if given), Year published or uploaded). Available online: URL [Accessed date].
J. S. Bach, Canon for Walther, BWV 1073 [Musical score]. Edited by Alfred Dorffel (Leipzig: Breitkopf & Hartel, 2008). Available online: http://imslp.org/wiki/Special:ImagefromIndex/188975 [Accessed 20/8/2014].
M. C. Raboud-Theurillat, Saisons, op 40 [Musical score]. (2005). Available online: http://www.free-scores.com/PDFSUP_EN/raboud-theurillat-marie-christine-saisons-saisons-flute-67951.pdf [Accessed 20/8/2014].
Bach, Canon for Walther.
Raboud-Theurillat, Saisons.
Bach, J. S., Canon for Walther, BWV 1073 [Musical score]. Edited by Alfred Dorffel. Leipzig: Breitkopf & Hartel, 2008. Available online: http://imslp.org/wiki/Special:ImagefromIndex/188975 [Accessed 20/8/2014].
Raboud-Theurillat, M. C., Saisons, op 40 [Musical score]. 2005. Available online: http://www.free-scores.com/PDFSUP_EN/raboud-theurillat-marie-christine-saisons-saisons-flute-67951.pdf [Accessed 20/8/2014].
Scores in collected works/anthologies
Part of collected works
Initial(s). Surname of composer, 'Title of score', Title of collection [Musical score] (City published: Publisher, Year). Available online: URL [Accessed date] (if relevant).
B. Britten, 'How sweet the answer (The Wren)', Folksong Arrangements, Vol 4 Moore's Irish Melodies [Musical score] (London: Boosey & Hawkes, 1960).
Britten, 'How sweet the answer'.
Britten, B., 'How sweet the answer (The Wren)', Folksong Arrangements, Vol 4 Moore's Irish Melodies [Musical score]. London: Boosey & Hawkes, 1960.
Part of anthologies
Initial(s). Surname of composer, 'Title of score'. In Editor name (ed.) Title of anthology [Musical score] (City published: Publisher, Year). Available online: URL [Accessed date] (if relevant).
G. F. Handel, 'Deborah'. In M Spicker (ed.) Anthology of sacred song, Vol 1 (Soprano) [Musical score]. (New York: G. Shirmer, 1902). Available online: http://conquest.imslp.info/files/imglnks/usimg/e/e9/IMSLP38723-PMLP85325-VA_-_Anthology_of_Sacred_Songs._Vol1-soprano.pdf [Accessed 20/8/2014].
Handel, 'Deborah'.
Handel, G. F., 'Deborah'. In M. Spicker, (ed.) Anthology of sacred song, Vol 1 (Soprano) [Musical score]. New York: G. Shirmer, 1902. Available online: http://conquest.imslp.info/files/imglnks/usimg/e/e9/IMSLP38723-PMLP85325-VA_-_Anthology_of_Sacred_Songs._Vol1-soprano.pdf [Accessed 20/8/2014].
Classical music recording
CD, audio cassette or vinyl
Initial(s). Surname of composer, 'Title of work if part of album/larger work'. Title of Album/Work if whole. Performer/orchestra conducted by Conductor name (if relevant) [Medium] (City of distribution (if given): Distributor/Label, Year).
E. Elgar, Cello Concerto, Op 85, Enigma Variations. Philadelphia Orchestra, London Philharmonic Orchestra and Jacqueline Du Pré conducted by Daniel Barenboim [CD] (Sony Music Classical, 1995).
J. S. Bach, 'Variato 8. A 2 Clav'. Glenn Gould plays Bach, Goldberg Variationen [Vinyl] (Membran Media, 2012).
Elgar, Cello Concerto.
Bach, 'Variato 8'.
Elgar, E., Cello Concerto, Op 85, Enigma Variations. Philadelphia Orchestra, London Philharmonic Orchestra and Jacqueline Du Pré conducted by Daniel Barenboim [CD]. Sony Music Classical, 1995.
Bach, J. S., 'Variato 8. A 2 Clav'. Glenn Gould plays Bach, Goldberg Variationen [Vinyl]. Membran Media, 2012.
Streamed or downloaded
It is necessary to give specific information about where you streamed music from if it is ONLY available through that method. Otherwise, just give as much of the above information as your streaming service gives or you can find elsewhere (the same recording may be available on Amazon for instance). Downloaded music should always give a URL.
C. Debussy, La Mer. Berliner Philharmoniker conducted by Simon Rattle [Streamed] (EMI Records Ltd, 2005).
J. Sibelius, Valse Triste. Erik Helling [Download]. Available online: http://pianosociety.com/cms/index.php?section=70 [Accessed 28/8/2014].
Debussy, La Mer.
Sibelius, Valse Triste.
Debussy, C.,La Mer. Berliner Philharmoniker conducted by Simon Rattle [Streamed]. EMI Records Ltd, 2005.
Sibelius, J., Valse Triste. Erik Helling [Download]. Available online: http://pianosociety.com/cms/index.php?section=70 [Accessed 28/8/2014].
Other recorded music
Standard names of single artists can be treated liked any other name, with initials given and reversed in the bibliography. Band names are unchanged. Single artists with non-standard names (Lady Gaga, Jessie J, P Diddy etc) should be treated as band names:
Artist, Title of album [Media]. Version if needed (Label, Year).
M. Gaye, What's Going On [Vinyl] (Tamla Records, 1971).
Iron Maiden, Powerslave [Audio CD]. Enhanced, original recording remastered (EMI, 1998).
Gaye, What's Going On.
Iron Maiden, Powerslave.
Gaye, M., What's Going On [Vinyl]. Tamla Records, 1971.
Iron Maiden, Powerslave [Audio CD]. Enhanced, original recording remastered. EMI, 1998.
Album track
Artist, 'Title of track', Title of album [Media]. Version if needed (Label, Year).
Blondie, 'Hanging on the telephone', Parallel Lines [Vinyl] (Chrysalis Records, 1978).
S. Smith, 'Like I can', In the Lonely Hour [Audio CD]. Deluxe Edition (Capitol Records, 2014).
Blondie, 'Hanging on the telephone'.
Smith, 'Like I can'.
Blondie, 'Hanging on the telephone', Parallel Lines [Vinyl]. Chrysalis Records, 1978.
Smith, S., 'Like I can', In the Lonely Hour [Audio CD]. Deluxe Edition. Capitol Records, 2014.
M. Davis, Boplicity [Streamed]. Original recordings 1949-1953 (Naxos Rights International Ltd, 2004).
Macklemore & R. Lewis, 'Starting Over', Spotify Sessions [Streamed] (2013). Available online: https://play.spotify.com/album/3LwV3QIDQopbgERx5XJnBz [Accessed 28/8/2014].
Davis, Boplicity.
Macklemore & Lewis, 'Starting Over'.
Davis, M., Boplicity [Streamed]. Original recordings 1949-1953. Naxos Rights International Ltd, 2004.
Macklemore & R. Lewis, 'Starting Over', Spotify Sessions [Streamed]. 2013. Available online: https://play.spotify.com/album/3LwV3QIDQopbgERx5XJnBz [Accessed 28/8/2014].
Lyrics or libretto
Songwriter(s), Title of Song [Lyrics] (Place of distribution: Distribution company or label, Year) or (Year). Available online: URL [Accessed date].
B. Taupin, Candle in the wind [Lyrics] (MCA Records, 1973).
B. Geldof & M. Ure, Do they know it's Christmas? [Lyrics] (1984). Available online: http://www.azlyrics.com/lyrics/bandaid20/dotheyknowitschristmas.html [Accessed 28/8/2014].
Taupin, Candle in the wind.
Geldof & Ure, Do they know it's Christmas?
Taupin, B. Candle in the wind [Lyrics]. MCA Records, 1973.
Geldof, B. & M. Ure, Do they know it's Christmas? [Lyrics]. 1984. Available online: http://www.azlyrics.com/lyrics/bandaid20/dotheyknowitschristmas.html [Accessed 28/8/2014].
These are usually published separately so have publisher details:
Initial(s). Surname of author(s) Title of publication [Libretto]. Edition or version if necessary. (City of publication: Publisher, Year).
S. Sondheim, & H. Wheeler, Sweeney Todd [Libretto] NHB Libretti, new edition (London: Nick Hern Books, 1991).
Sondheim, & Wheeler, Sweeney Todd.
Sondheim, S. & H. Wheeler, Sweeney Todd [Libretto]. NHB Libretti, new edition. London: Nick Hern Books, 1991.
Liner notes/album cover notes etc
Liner notes are text found on the covers or inner sleeves of vinyl albums or on the little booklets that come inside CDs etc. These can be physical or electronic (for instance if you download an album). Sometimes they do not have individual titles, in which case just leave this out but add the [Liner notes] label to the short footnote to make it clear what you are referencing.
Initial(s). Surname of author, 'Title of notes' [Liner notes]. In Title of recording [Media] (Label, Year).
The Damned, 'Thanks to no-one' [Liner notes]. In Damned Damned Damned [Audio CD] (Stiff Records, 1977).
J. Cott, [Liner notes]. Stravinsky: Le Sacre du Printemps. Leonard Bernstein and the New York Philharmonic [Audio CD]. Sony Masterworks, 2013.
The Damned, 'Thanks to no-one'.
Cott [Liner notes].
The Damned, 'Thanks to no-one' [Liner notes]. In Damned Damned Damned [Audio CD]. Stiff Records, 1977.
Cott, J. [Liner notes]. Stravinsky: Le Sacre du Printemps. Leonard Bernstein and the New York Philharmonic [Audio CD]. Sony Masterworks, 2013.
Initial(s). Surname of composer, Title. Name of orchestra/musician conducted by Conductor (if relevant) (Place of performance, Date of performance).
R. Strauss, Elektra. BBC Singers and the BBC Symphony Orchestra conducted by Semyon Bychkov (Royal Albert Hall, 31 August 2014).
Strauss, Elektra.
Strauss, R., Elektra. BBC Singers and the BBC Symphony Orchestra conducted by Semyon Bychkov. Royal Albert Hall, 31 August 2014.
Initial(s). Surname of composer or choreographer, Title. Dance company (Location, Date seen).
M. Bourne, Lord of the Flies. New Adventures Dance Company (Sadler's Wells, London, 8 October 2014).
Bourne, Lord of the Flies.
Bourne, M. Lord of the Flies. New Adventures Dance Company. Sadler's Wells, London, 8 October 2014.
In contrast to other live performances, the title of the play is given first, not the playwright.
Title, by Author. Directed by Director (or Theatre Company) (Location, Date seen).
That's All You Need to Know, by Idle Motion (Hull Truck Theatre, 19 September 2014).
The Importance of Being Earnest, by Oscar Wilde. Directed by Lucy Bailey (Harold Pinter Theatre, 18 July 2014).
That's All You Need to Know.
The Importance of Being Earnest.
Remove brackets from performance information.
That's All You Need to Know, by Idle Motion. Hull Truck Theatre, 19 September 2014.
The Importance of Being Earnest, by Oscar Wilde. Directed by Lucy Bailey. Harold Pinter Theatre, 18 July 2014.
Personal communications etc
For emails from distribution lists, see electronic resources. Be careful about including personal email addresses and respect confidentiality. It is usually to keep copies and include them in appendices.
Sender Name, Message subject line [Email]. Message sent to Recipient's name (email address if appropriate). Date and time sent.
R. Heseltine, Reflective writing [Email]. Message sent to J. Bartram (j.bartram@hull.ac.uk). 22 April 2014, 20:49.
Heseltine, Reflective writing.
Interview or conversation (including telephone or Skype)
Recorded interviews/conversations(including focus groups)
Initial(s). Surname of interviewee, Description of communication [Conversation type]. Date and time of interview. Place if relevant.
J. Harlow The relevance of employability to academic staff [Recorded conversation]. 27 December 2014, 12:50. University of Hull.
Participant B, Should we build a new library? [Focus group]. 9 May 2012, 14:15. University of Hull.
Harlow, The relevance of employability.
Participant B,Should we build a new library?
Harlow, J. The relevance of employability to academic staff [Recorded conversation]. 27 December 2014, 12:50. University of Hull.
Some supervisors could prefer you to provide a transcript as an appendix and cite the appendix and line number in your footnotes instead - check with them individually. If this is the case then the following would be used:
Full and short footnotes
Appendix No, Line No.
The bibliography entry would be the same as above.
Non-recorded interviews or conversations
Check with your tutor/supervisor to see if these are usable (they are not considered recoverable data and some academics will not accept them as evidence within your written work). If they are acceptable, give the same information as for recorded interviews/conversations.
Use a description of the letter's contents if it has no obvious title:
Initial(s). Surname of author, Title/description of letter [Letter]. Personal communication or recipient information, Date on letter.
J. Smith, Request for help with proofreading [Letter]. Personal communication, 23 January 2013.
P. Brown, Workshop enquiry [Letter]. Sent to Skills Team, 23 January 2013.
Smith, Request for help.
Brown, Workshop enquiry.
Smith, J., Request for help with proofreading [Letter]. Personal communication, 23 January 2013.
Brown, P., Workshop enquiry [Letter]. Sent to Skills Team, 23 January 2013.
Always check with your tutor that they accept lecture notes or other course material in a reference list (many do not). It is always better to read the original sources of the material if available and reference these. Otherwise reference as follows:
Lecturer, 'Title of lecture', Module title and code [Lecture] (Institution, Year, unpublished).
J. Bartram, 'Effective Presentations', Enhanced Information and Research Skills 05056 1314 [Lecture] (University of Hull, 2013, unpublished).
Bartram, 'Effective Presentations'.
Bartram, J. 'Effective Presentations', Enhanced Information and Research Skills 05056 1314 [Lecture]. University of Hull, 2013, unpublished.
See PowerPoint (or other) presentation above if you have access to the actual presentation used rather than relying on your own lecture notes (but still check that it is acceptable to reference this).
Anything not mentioned already
If you need to reference anything that is not already included in this guide then follow the basic template below.
Initial(s). Surname of author/creator, Title or description [Medium if not obvious]. Anything that identifies it specifically (Any other information about where or when you saw it or that can help someone else find it, including date).
Surname of Author(s)/Creator(s), Title or description.
Surname, Initial(s). of Author/Creator, Title or description [Medium if not obvious]. Anything that identifies it specifically. Any other information about where or when you saw it or that can help someone else find it, including date.
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July 5, 2017 by Graeme MacKay
Editorial Cartoon by Graeme MacKay, The Hamilton Spectator – Thursday July 6, 2017
‘Odious’ or overdue: Reports of Omar Khadr settlement draw sharply different reactions
A case that has divided Canadians for nearly 15 years continued to do so Tuesday as news leaked that Ottawa would apologize to Omar Khadr and offer a settlement of more than $10 million for the abuse he endured while in U.S. custody in Afghanistan and Guantanamo Bay.
The vitriol was most intense among fringe commentators on the far right and left, but the issue quickly drew political reactions from across the spectrum, with former members of the Harper administration taking to Twitter and other social media to weigh in.
“Odious,” wrote former Conservative defence minister Jason Kenney, now leader of Alberta’s Progressive Conservative party, on Twitter. “Confessed terrorist who assembled & planted the same kind of IED (improvised explosive device) that killed 97 Canadians to be given $10-million.”
Others praised the government apology as long overdue. “Finally we have seen the light!” wrote Shelly Whitman, executive director of the Roméo Dallaire Child Soldiers Initiative.
While Khadr’s case has always elicited a vigorous debate, news of the settlement triggered extreme commentary Tuesday, including calls on social media for Khadr’s murder and the deaths of the journalists reporting the story, or of advocates who support a government apology. (Continued: Toronto Star)
Posted in: Canada Tagged: Canada, Canada Day, Gitmo, justice, Omar Khadr, patriotism, progressivism, rights, Rule of Law, tolerance, torture
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SCOLDED: Nicole Louise Powell, 27, was among 100 activists to storm a piggery last year and also took a piglet. Seven Sunshine Coast
Vegan's 'zealous' behaviour condemned after stealing piglet
"ZEALOUS" and "invasive" was how a Sunshine Coast magistrate labelled the behaviour of a woman who was among 100 vegans who stormed a piggery and took piglets.
The Maroochydore Magistrates Court heard Magistrate Haydn Stjernqvist completely condemn Nicole Louise Powell's decision to be a part of a large group to trespass on a piggery, likening it to "organised crime".
Police prosecutor Sergeant Phillip Stephens said Powell, 27, was among about 100 other activists who arrived in mini vans to Glassshouse Country Farms at Beerburrum and "storm" the breeding shed on December 1.
After three piglets were taken from the farm, Sgt Stephens said police found an image Powell posted to social media holding a piglet.
The caption on the photo said the piglet had been "liberated from a concentration camp" and was now loved and cared for.
Sgt Stephens said when approached by police for questioning, Powell declined to be interviewed.
He also highlighted the major biosecurity risks from the incident saying the pigs had to be blood tested at $600 each to check for disease.
While Sgt Stephens was telling the court of Powell's criminal history, Mr Stjernqvist addressed a man illegally recording the proceedings inside the courtroom with his phone pressed against his chest.
He was escorted out of the courtroom and the court heard he was Powell's boyfriend.
Defence lawyer, Ben Rynderman urged Mr Stjernqvist to keep an "objective view" of the incident and labelled it at the "lowest end of the criminal spectrum".
Mr Stjernqvist disagreed, saying it was "organised crime", "bullying" and "orchestrated".
"You can choose to be vegan but you can't bully people which is exactly what you do when you invade their space," he said.
"So what you do, and what all your friends do is premeditated... so suffer the consequences"
Powell was sentenced to 50 hours community service and no conviction was recorded.
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Hattie Jacques – Escaping matron’s round
Thursday, 16 Apr 2020
By Andrew Roberts
To witness the career of Hattie Jacques during the 1970s is, to borrow a phrase coined by Joe Queenan, to witness the efforts of the ‘working famous’. When the telephone did ring, it might be one of the increasingly mean-spirited Carry On films or South African and Australian stage versions of BBC TV’s Sykes. Alternatively, there was a succession of advertisements; the television campaign for British Rail and posters variously extolling the virtues of the Datsun Cherry or Black and White Scotch. Some of these sales efforts could easily be the work of Joe Orton’s alter ego Edna Wellthorpe, namely Entertaining With The Stars and Walls Ice Cream, with various recipes from Hattie, Katie Boyle, Gerald Harper, Noele Gordon and Rolf Harris.
Such professional activities were far from unknown for senior members of Equity. Benny Hill promoted Air India and (almost inevitably) Unigate Dairies. Sidney James fronted campaigns for Sparklets Home Brew and Shooter Snooker. But with Hattie Jacques, the adverts followed the depressing trajectory of so much of her career. As early as 1952 she was the ‘fat girl of radio’ (The People, 31 August), and by 1960 The Daily Mirror billed her as ‘the fat girl comedienne of TV, radio, stage and film’ (4 November). In that same year, the smug Pathé News commentator stated Jacques was ‘taking up her share of Soho Square’ at Tommy Steele’s wedding. A decade on, the message was the same: as she was large she was therefore ‘jolly’, and either sexless or ‘hilariously’ over-sexed.
Weight is an issue that sadly dominated Jacques’s screen roles, even on the radio with Tommy Handley and Tony Hancock, yet it is her voice that most readily come to mind. Those incisive tones frequently expressed imperious annoyance at her subordinates, just as her dark-eyed stare had the power to quell any number of leading men. A director might also make good use of the actress’s dancing training – Matron in Carry On Nurse (1959) positively glides down the corridor. There is also the wonderful 1955 travelogue Tonight in London which showcased Jacques as the shining light of the Player’s Theatre, leading the audience in the chorus of ‘My Old Man.’
Much of Jacques’ career also reflected the lot of the supporting ‘artiste,’ whereby they create a virtuoso performance and the nominal lead vamps on the thespian equivalent of three chords. With British cinema of the 1950s, it is so often the cast members billed as ‘With’ that one recalls, as opposed to a Brycreemed clothes horse. Happiness was a picture ‘Also Starring’ David Lodge, Lionel Jeffries or indeed Jacques and as with any great character performer, Jacques frequently transcended her surroundings. This can be witnessed in Carry On Nurse, the film that made her a star in the eyes of the public if not the ever parsimonious Peter Rogers, and Carry On Cabby (1963) – the only entry in the whole series portraying a plausible marriage. It is Peggy Hawkins rather than her screen husband who dominated the narrative – although Sidney James received a far more generous fee. Hattie Jacques inspecting the massed ranks of Ford Consul Cortina Glamcabs is simply one of the most indelible moments of British comedy cinema.
On rare occasions, a character actor escaped the chains of type-casting; Colin Gordon in Strongroom (Vernon Sewell 1961), Peter Vaughan in Smokescreen (Jim O’Connolly 1964), and I would say, Jacques as Mrs. Albion in The Pleasure Garden (James Broughton 1953). This is Matron freed from the wards or Miss Pugh on her day off from 23 Railway Cuttings; a Mistress of Misrule freeing London from pseudo-Victorian puritanism. Better 39 minutes of her dancing through the grounds of Crystal Palace than all eight reels of Carry On Camping (1969), especially when Mrs. Albion informs the formerly respectable that:
‘Tis a pleasure
To come together
And two by two…’
Idols of the Odeons, Post-war British film stardom by Andrew Roberts is published this month (April 2020).
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Interview with Koyali Burman: Community Engagement Officer and Kenia Gutierrez, Community Navigator, SVNH Refugee Claimant & Migrant Workers Empowerment Program
South Vancouver Neighbourhood House (SVNH) is a community-based organization that focuses on connecting people and strengthening the neighbourhoods in South Vancouver. It was started in February 1975 as the Fraserview Action Centre, located at 43rd and Victoria. In 1977 the centre moved to the current location at 6470 Victoria Drive (49th/Victoria). The organization is around 45 years old.
South Vancouver is comprised of several distinct neighbourhoods, each with their own local identity and flavour. Each neighbourhood has its own strength and character, so the Neighbourhood House created unique strategies to build neighbourhood identity and neighbourhood pride. Because each “hood within South Vancouver is special”. –
The Neighbourhood house serves residents from Sunset, Victoria-Fraserview, and Killarney-Champlain and River District communities. There are many satellite offices and services such as two adult daycare centers, childcare and preschools and community-based settlement services.
SVNH follows a ‘placed-based’ community development model so that all programs and services at SVNH are determined by conditions and needs of the people living within each community. Each year, over 7,000 individuals participate in their programs who are newcomers of various immigration status including claimants, and SVNH has a total of 77 staff and 600+ volunteers.
What is your organization’s purpose?
SVNH essentially provides a welcome to all in the community. It plays a leadership role in building healthy and engaged neighbourhoods in South Vancouver by connecting people and strengthening their capacity to create change. When you walk through the doors of SVNH, you find a unique and vibrant place where people can build their social connections by participating in wellness or cultural activities, or improve their personal capacity through volunteering, workshops, courses and employment counselling. The sense of belonging people develop at a neighbourhood house is enduring
What resources or services does your organization provide for refugee claimants?
A survey over the last 3-5 years shows that refugee claimants who have accessed programs at SVNH are mainly from Sri Lanka, India, Pakistan, Eritrea, Afghanistan, Iraq, Tanzania, Iran, Korea, China, and Vietnam.
SVNH programs and volunteer opportunities are all open to refugee claimants and they participate mainly for the social connections and employment skills development. Most popular are English language and computer skills development (ESL Conversation, Multicultural Women Peer Mentoring Group, Computer Classes) and individual services from settlement workers for their food support, referral to counselling services, and employment support. Many claimants also contact SVNH for housing, and the staff help with BC Housing Applications and housing searches.
Other programs:
Food security: SVNH offers a food distribution center for families which has been especially important during COVID. Families can pick up food on special days from different distribution points and they also deliver food to the most vulnerable.
Counselling: SVNH provides claimants with one-to-one counselling.
Social connection programs are extremely popular including support groups online, and childcare programs that are being offered when COVID restrictions allow.
What is an example of a success SVNH has had with refugee claimants?
Kenia came as a refugee from Mexico 11 years ago when there were very few services for refugee claimants. But her family accessed the SVNH food bank program as well as the Spanish Church where she volunteered. Through that connection Kenia connected to many more SVNH programs and eventually the opportunity to work for SVNH in the Migrant Worker Empowerment Circle just launched. She will be outreaching into the Spanish-speaking community and encouraging their involvement with the new South Vancouver Community Navigator’s program. Her family still volunteers with the Neighbourhood House and maintains regular contact with friends at the Spanish Church.
Is there anything else you would like to highlight?
There is a new upcoming South Vancouver Community Navigator’s program funded by the City of Vancouver which will focus on the issues of refugee claimants and migrant workers. Interested claimants will join a 6-week empowerment circle that will provide a safe place for diverse refugee claimants to share their challenges and opinions and receive various capacity building trainings and sessions. This special program will focus on creating a support group of refugee claimants in the south Vancouver area.
In subsequent phases there will be additional programs and resources provided to claimants through this program as well as funded research.
Learn more about South Vancouver Neighbourhood House at https://www.southvan.org/
WITH GRATEFUL THANKS TO OUR FUNDERS: BC’S MINISTRY OF MUNICIPAL AFFAIRS
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Helping Overachievers Shed the Notion of Never Enough—with CJ McClanahan
Do you keep thinking that if you just reach this next goal or hit that next milestone, THEN you’ll be happy? Overachievers have a tendency to attach our self-worth to how much we accomplish, and no matter how much success we enjoy, it never seems to be enough. So, how do we learn to appreciate the journey? How do we keep our career moving forward AND connect with what brings us real joy?
CJ McClanahan is a popular keynote speaker and executive coach. He launched his coaching firm in 2003, and since then, he has spent 10,000 hours in front of entrepreneurs, executives and their teams and coached them to achieve record profits and profound business growth. But no matter how much success his clients attained, CJ recognized that few seemed to enjoy the journey. This inspired him to shift his focus and support high-achievers in finding the joy in their lives—while still realizing their professional goals. To that end, CJ wrote The Overachiever’s Dilemma: How to Break the Achievement Obsession Before It Breaks You.
Today, CJ joins Emerald to explain how he uncovered his calling to serve overachievers and discuss the danger in attaching our self-worth to how much we acquire. He shares his system of helping clients redefine success in terms of unique talents, meaningful relationships and a fulfilling journey. CJ also describes his purpose-focused coaching philosophy, offering insight into the value of a coach who points out what we’re missing. Listen in for CJ’s team-centered way to celebrate success and get his advice to overachievers around shifting our focus to what others need.
CJ’s calling to serve overachievers in finding joy
The danger in attaching self-worth to what you’ve acquired
CJ’s system to help his clients redefine success
Identify unique talents
Strengthen meaningful relationships
Enjoy journey
How CJ designs an environment for creativity
The value of a coach who points out what you’re missing
Why CJ’s coaching philosophy is centered around purpose
CJ’s challenge to make an impact without getting recognition
How CJ celebrates success with written notes to his team
CJ’s advice for overachievers to focus on what others need
Connect with CJ McClanahan
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Email: listeners@menonpurposepodcast.com
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Boris bats off Tory rebels as MPs vote to plunge England into tougher tier system
Elisa MenendezTuesday 1 Dec 2020 7:20 pm
Boris Johnson had been facing revolt from Tory MPs who disagreed with the measures (Picture: PA/EPA)
Ministers have voted in favour of the Government’s tougher three-tier system after Boris Johnson faced the biggest rebellion of his premiership.
It means 99% of England – more than 55 million people – will be plunged under the two toughest tiers in a matter of hours.
Following a heated debate in the Commons, MPs voted to approve the latest Covid-19 regulations by 291 votes to 78 – majority 213. A total of 55 Tories rebelled over the measures.
The prime minister had desperately attempted to convince rebel Tory MPs to back the plans, which will come into effect shortly after midnight on Wednesday.
Mr Johnson reportedly stood by the lobby pleading with MPs not to vote against the Government after scores of his ministers criticised the harsher three-tier system.
Many argued for transparency over data to support the localised restrictions, while others insisted greater financial support must be offered to the nation’s most hard-hit industries to see them through the next round of measures.
Labour and the SNP abstained from the vote. Sir Keir Starmer said although he had ‘serious misgivings’ about the plans, he ordered his party against voting – meaning the motion was able to pass despite the rebellion.
The leader of the opposition said Covid-19 remains a ‘serious threat to the public’s health’ and that further restrictions were needed, so Labour would abstain on the basis of ‘national interest’.
Sir Keir Tweeted yesterday: ‘However, I remain deeply concerned that Boris Johnson’s government has failed to use this latest lockdown to put a credible health and economic plan in place.
‘We still don’t have a functioning testing system, public health messaging is confused, and businesses across the country are crying out for more effective economic support to get them through the winter months.’
The Government said MPs would get the chance to vote on the tiers again in January, with the possibility that the system could end on February 3.
Labour abstained from the vote meaning the restrictions were approved in the Commons (Picture: EPA)
As part of the prime minister’s efforts to win over his backbenchers, he announced a £1,000 one-off payment would be made to ‘wet’ pubs in tiers two and three that cannot offer food as a ‘substantial meal’.
Mr Johnson acknowledged the hospitality sector had borne a ‘disproportionate’ burden of restrictions as he announced the payout – but pub landlords have branded the grant as ‘insulting’.
Tory backbenchers were outraged that the Government’s impact assessments on the three-tiered system did not include a detailed breakdown of the economic effects of the measures.
Conservative former health minister Jackie Doyle-Price said several sectors are being restricted on the ‘most arbitrary of judgments’.
He said: ‘These decisions are being taken really on the back of a fag packet but are destroying whole swathes of the hospitality industry.
‘As a Conservative, it appals me that we’re being so cavalier about jobs and wealth creation.’
Former Conservative Cabinet minister Jeremy Wright said he would vote against the Government ‘for the first time in 10 years’.
He told the Commons: ‘And not because I oppose the move away from nationwide restrictions and towards a localised tiered structure, I do support that, but the logic of that approach is that you make the restrictions as local as you can consistent with accurate and reliable virus data.
‘We have that data at borough and district level, so why do we not consistently impose our restrictions at that level?’
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Conservative Steve Baker was one of several Conservative MPs who vowed to vote against the restrictions in the Commons ‘to send a message to the Government’.
He added: ‘People like me have not just been looking for economic analysis, we’ve been looking for serious analysis of these harms and benefits from the Government’s policies in the context of coronavirus.’
A Government spokesman welcomed the vote, adding: ‘This will help to safeguard the gains made during the past month and keep the virus under control.
‘We will continue to work with MPs who have expressed concerns in recent days.’
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Phillip Searle keeping an eye on things at Mietta's in 1995. Photograph ©Tony Knox 1995
In 1991 Sydney Morning Herald Good Food Guide gave Oasis Seros three hats and 18 out of 20. Melbourne food critic Jill Dupleix, says: "Oasis Seros is Sydney punk. To us, it's the home of the most creative cuisine in Australia. However, in the manner of punk, it can be confronting. There's the cool, almost stark room, in scumbled greys, barely relieved by sculptural flower arrangements and very occasional paintings. There's the menu. Comfort food this isn't. Who else but Phillip Searle would list a à Overseas foodies rate a visit here mandatory. Local foodies should make it at least an annual event."
Christine Manfield, of the Paragon, goes further. She says that "Oasis Seros is not designed for complacency and mediocrity; it was always designed for throwing down the gauntlet and challenging mediocrity."
Critic,Stephen Downes, rates Oasis as equal third in his Top Ten and gives it 17.5 out of 20. He describes it as food of high technical brilliance: "At Oasis Seros you will find the most consistently exciting and original food in Australia. At the same time, many dishes are subtle and rely for their appreciation on considerable gastronomic experience. As palates become more sophisticated, I am convinced its appeal will increase considerably. Among the cognoscenti, however there is no doubt."
Christine Manfield "the first restaurant protege of Phillip [Searle]" says, "Phillip Searle is incredibly important in Sydney; he is the most important influence on the way people think and respond to food here. It's fascinating to see his effect on people. He is a very good teacher, very methodical and has a very good way of explaining and directing; he is very definite in terms of what he wants but his great strength is that he does it in a way that makes you feel still in control.
"He is definite, precise in his instructions and works with logic and reasoning. He explains clearly why things are done a certain way, there is always a lot of analysis in his work. He has a very lateral approach to anything he is applying his knowledge to. He looks at all the possibilities and then decides on the tactic.
"He is self-taught and came into cooking in his late 20's. He is now in his early 40's. His style of food came from reading and travelling. He lived in New York for about six months before starting up in Sydney. He has travelled in India and Africa. Experiments all the time but works through an intuitive knowledge."
Why doesn't his restaurant work?
"Oasis Seros is not busy at the moment but all top end restaurants have suffered lately. When he gets press it goes. What he is doing is still light years ahead of the general understanding of food here in Sydney.
"Oasis Seros is not designed for complacency and mediocrity; it was always designed for throwing down the gauntlet and challenging mediocrity."
Christine concluded, "When you work with Phillip, its unlike any other chef -- with him we know no bounds; there are no rules -- "lets see how far we can go with this"."
Oasis Seros closed in 1994. In 1996, Phillip, and his partner Barry Ross opened Vulcans at Blackheath serving, what Barry calls, the black heathens. Situated in an old bakery the dishes come from the 'fire' -- the original bakery oven. These slow cooked dishes are providing Philip with a new outlet for his creative energy.
Vulcans is at 33 Govetts Leap Rd. Blackheath, 2785 and is open from 9am to 11pm Friday to Sunday. Phone +61 2 4787 6899.
Phillip Searle at Mietta's in 1995 plating his 'eyeballs'. Photograph ©Tony Knox 1995
A 1999 interview (and recipes) with Phillip Searle, a 1995 interview from Mietta and Friends and a review of his restaurant Vulcans.
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Business Processes Key in IBM Products Launch
By Kurt Mackie
&IBM has rolled out new products to help companies become more efficient and handle bottlenecks in their business processes. The solutions add to IBM's arsenal of business process management (BPM) and service-oriented architecture (SOA) offerings.
There are essentially three characteristics to IBM's announcement, according to Beth Smith, vice president, WebSphere solutions and tooling.
"One [characteristic of the announcement] is how we are extending some capabilities from a business strategy perspective," she said. "[There are] a couple of announcements around BPM enabled by SOA and how we continue to make that more real. And the third one is in the area of enabling customers to quickly build composite business applications."
Businesses can evaluate their position relative to global market opportunities using IBM's new Globally Integrated Enterprise Assessment tool. The tool meshes with IBM's approach to using an SOA, and "helps clients assess themselves at five different levels," according to Smith. This assessment essentially breaks down into evaluating six global competencies:
Managing value through a specialized ecosystem;
Effectively managing risk and control;
Forging a components strategy;
Enabling modular business processes;
Fostering global collaboration; and
Harnessing the power of globalization.
IBM also is offering a new version of its WebSphere Business Monitor product to help companies track the performance of key business processes. The reporting capabilities of the product have been enhanced. It also supports patterns, allowing businesses to create common types of business measures and then reuse them as best practices. There are also improved dashboard views, tracking key performance indicators, as well as the capability to incorporate Google maps.
On the BPM side, IBM is announcing a new Benchmark Wizard that uses key agility indicators to assess business performance. The Wizard incorporates IBM's knowledge from more than 16,000 client engagements plus over 1,200 industry standards from the American Productivity and Quality Center (APQC).
Finally, IBM is highlighting the availability of its industry-specific content packs, which are prebuilt business service templates for specific industries that work with the WebSphere Business Services Fabric.
The packs can "speed the time to development and time to market of composite business applications," Smith said. "They are optimized for use across a broader enterprise ecosystem, based on industry and technology standards, and are very much extendable."
Current industry content packs for the WebSphere Business Services Fabric that are now available include:
IBM Banking Payments Pack;
IBM Telecom Operations Pack;
IBM Healthcare Payor Content Pack; and
IBM Insurance Property Casualty Pack.
Companies looking to enhance their processes can have various starting points using these IBM products. A company doesn't have to have an SOA in place to assess its business strategy, Smith explained.
For example, WebSphere Business Monitor is a way to measure and monitor key performance indicators related to your business processes. Some customers start their SOA deployments with WebSphere Business Monitor because they want to understand how they are performing today and then determine the process changes they may or may not want to implement, Smith said. On the other hand, WebSphere Business Services Fabric, using IBM's industry content packs, represents another way customers start with SOA deployments to meet specific industry productivity needs.
The new products are all part of IBM's general approach of using BPM to enable SOA, Smith affirmed.
"SOA is valuable to lines of businesses, not just IT -- and that's what brings these sets of announcements together," she added.
Kurt Mackie is senior news producer for 1105 Media's Converge360 group.
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Your search item. As a non-EU resident visiting Germany you are exempted from sales tax when shopping in this country. Under certain conditions the purchase of goods from retailers is free of sales tax:. Here, your nationality is irrelevant - what matters is your place of residence only. For example, a Swiss national who is living in Germany cannot shop tax-free in this country.
Since the customs authority only confirms the export made by a person residing in a third country, the stamp itself does not indicate that the trader has been granted a VAT exemption, which he could then pass on to clients. The value limit will be removed again once automated confirmation of the export of goods by a person resident in the third country is possible.
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Even when you claim tax exemption for your purchases you must first pay the full purchase price including the turnover tax. The retailer will reimburse you the turnover tax once he receives proof that the goods have been properly exported. If you are intending to shop tax-free in Germany you would be well-advised to print out the form and take it with you. Not every shop keeps it in stock. Since not every shop will have that form readily available, you would be well advised to download and print it in advance so you can bring it along.
For exceptions, see the third bullet point of the section "Notes" further down. In part B the customs office of exit on the external border of the European Union which includes airports and seaports confirms the export of the goods. This requires, though, that the goods being exported are shown at the customs office of exit.
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The export of items in your hand baggage, though, will be confirmed by the customs at your last EU airport of departure. If you are beginning a journey to the USA in Frankfurt and are changing planes in London, you must already have had your hold luggage items confirmed by a customs office in Frankfurt. The export of items in your carry-on baggage will be confirmed in London. At the same time, you should explain to the employee that your hold luggage contains goods for which you want a customs exportation certificate in order to have the sales tax reimbursed.
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However, the vendor may collaborate with a service organisation working at the border crossing point or airport, who will return the amount deducted for VAT minus a processing fee after it has received the export documents. The service organisation, for its part, is repaid for the amount returned to the purchaser on presenting the export documents to the vendor. Leaflet with information regarding the exemption from turnover tax on property exported in the scope of non-commercial travel in German PDF KB.
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Dublin, 24th November 2020 - The Milestone Aviation Group Limited (“Milestone”), a GECAS company and the global leader in helicopter leasing, announces that it has recently delivered a Sikorsky S-92 helicopter to Caverton Helicopters Limited (“Caverton”). This marks the first S-92 to be operated by Caverton and the first to be operated by a wholly locally-owned African company.
The deal will support a recently awarded deep offshore support contract to Caverton for helicopter logistics services, mainly crew change activities. In addition to the helicopter, Milestone will also provide Caverton with a comprehensive training and “Entry Into Service” package to support the phasing-in of this new type into its fleet.
Michael York, Head of Emerging Markets at Milestone said “The S-92 continues to be the workhorse of the offshore sector and through this transaction, we are not only cultivating a new operator for this aircraft type but expanding its footprint which is critical for the industry. This is the sixth aircraft Caverton is leasing from Milestone, complementing the three (3) AW139s and two (2) S-76C++ helicopters and the team has worked hard to put together a creative training program and ‘Entry Into Service’ package for them. These packages are key differentiators for Milestone and illustrate the depth of service capability we offer: bringing tailor-made solutions to our customers with certainty of execution. Milestone is proud to have been selected by Caverton as their leasing partner in this transaction.”
Rotimi Makanjuola, MD/ Accountable Manager of Caverton Helicopters said “The introduction of the S-92 onto our fleet marks a significant milestone for the company and further demonstrates our commitment to meet the service requirements of our clients and grow our scope of capabilities as a Nigerian operator. This is yet another testament to our continued success as the leading indigenous aviation logistics service provider in West Africa. Becoming an S-92 operator will undoubtedly enable the company to expand into service provision for clients that require additional payload and extended range for their missions, which the S-92 efficiently and safely provides. We are grateful for the strong support provided by Milestone and our partnership together has been instrumental in getting the S-92 into our fleet.”
“Sikorsky is proud to welcome Caverton to the S-92® helicopter family and values our longstanding relationship with Milestone,” said Sikorsky’s Vice President, Commercial Systems & Services, Audrey Brady. “We are confident this aircraft will support the demanding needs of Caverton’s offshore oil and gas transportation missions with its industry-leading safety and reliability record.”
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Higher Education Relief Package
Australians will use their time social distancing to develop skills for new jobs in National Priority areas such as nursing, teaching, health, IT and science under a plan from the Morrison Government.
The cost to study short, online courses from our world-class universities and private providers will be slashed to help Australians retrain. The courses will start at the beginning of May and initially will run for six months.
Our Government will also guarantee funding for universities at current levels, even if there is a fall in domestic student numbers, and provide greater flexibility in the use of these funds than ever before.
Tertiary and international education providers will get regulatory fee relief so they can better support domestic and international students, as well as exemptions from loan fees under FEE-HELP and VET Student Loans.
Minister for Education Dan Tehan said these reforms would incentivise students and universities to align with the needs of industry to meet the skill demands for the new economy that will emerge from the pandemic.
"This plan will help Australians who have lost their job or are looking to retrain to use their time studying nursing, teaching, counselling, allied health or other areas considered national priorities," Mr Tehan said.
"It will also provide a revenue stream for universities and private providers to assist their financial stability.
"Like the rest of the Australian community, the higher education sector has taken a financial hit because of the coronavirus.
"These reforms will help universities pivot towards a closer alignment of domestic industry and student demands through innovative micro-credentials delivered flexibly online.
"Universities have proven they are up to the challenge of shifting their approach. Universities have been agile in their response to COVID19, moving swiftly to the online delivery of courses and providing additional support to international students."
The Morrison Government had already committed to providing universities with more than $18 billion this year. Under the plan announced today, the Government will guarantee Commonwealth Grants Scheme (CGS) and HELP funding streams for higher education providers at their current levels for the rest of 2020. For public universities, their 2020 performance-based funding amounts will also be guaranteed.
Minister for Employment, Skills, Small and Family Business Senator the Hon Michaelia Cash said there would be significant regulatory and fee relief provided to the vocational education and training sector, as well as higher education.
"We’re listening to industry, which is why fees charged by the Australian Skills Quality Authority (ASQA), and the Tertiary Education Quality and Standards Agency (TEQSA) will be refunded or waived," Minister Cash said.
"These measures will put some $100 million back into the cash flow of Australian education and training businesses so this money can be used to retain employees, reshape education offerings and support domestic and international students."
New cost recovery arrangements for TEQSA, ASQA and for the Commonwealth Register of Institutions and Courses for Overseas Students (CRICOS) will all be deferred by 12 months to 1 July 2021.
There will also be a six-month exemption from the loan fees associated with FEE-HELP and VET Student Loans in the sector in a bid to encourage full-fee paying students to continue their studies despite these difficult times.
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Transparency Maldives conducts RTI Symposium with state stakeholders
At a symposium on promoting right to information(RTI) organised by local anti-corruption NGO, Transparency Maldives, discussions were held on the importance of establishing a strong RTI regime in the country.
A variety of sessions, including RTI and democracy, administering an RTI regime, local governance and RTI, and proactive disclosure by the state were discussed at this symposium which aimed to create awareness among policy makers, public officials, civil society and media.
“We invited high level officials from relevant state institutions to the symposium. Our hope is that we can form partnerships to further promote RTI and advocate for passing the RTI bill currently in parliament with the best practices included in it,” Transparency Maldives Advocacy Manager Aiman Rasheed told Minivan News.
The NGO further said that they had invited experts from around the world to impart information about the importance of establishing a robust RTI law.
Speakers at the event included Senior Legal Officer for Freedom of Information and Expression at the Open Society Justice Initiative Sandra Coliver, Deputy Executive Director of the Open Democracy Advice Centre Mukelani Dimba, Legal Officer for the Centre for Law and Democracy Michael Karanicolas, Programme Coordinator of Access to Information Programme at the Commonwealth Human Rights Initiative Venkatesh Nayak, former Information Commissioner at the Indian Central Information Commission Shailesh Gandhi and Chairperson of local NGO Democracy House Mohamed Anil.
Speaker of Parliament, Abdulla Shahid, chief guest at the symposium, said in his speech that freedom of information is a concept alien to the local society. He said that it had traditionally been reserved for the privileged and powerful classes.
“Our society tended to make very deliberate demarcations between those who need to know, who should know and those who need not know,” he said, further adding, “I strongly believe access of information must be an indispensable part of any true democracy.”
Right to Information has been regulated in the Maldives from January 2009 under a presidential decree, following the failure to pass a similar bill in parliament in 2007. The current regulation covers only the ministries under the executive.
“In addition to the executive, the RTI Act should also cover the parliament, the judiciary, the independent institutions, the state companies, NGOs and utility companies,” said Rasheed in his speech.
He also added that there should not be “unnecessary obstacles” for information seekers, and that there should not be “blanket secrecy” granted to any institution.
A new RTI Bill was submitted to parliament in November 2009, which has since been pending at the Social Affairs Committee. Speaking at Monday’s symposium, Shahid said that Chair of the Social Affairs Committee had assured him that he was “very hopeful” the bill would be adopted before the end of the year.
In addition to conducting the symposium, Transparency Maldives has previously coordinated trainings on RTI for civil society and media, produced a critique of the RTI Bill at the Parliament’s Social Affairs Committee and received endorsements for their position on RTI from the Anti Corruption Commission, the Human Rights Commission of the Maldives, the Auditor General and the Ministry of Human Rights and Gender.
The NGO has also stated that it further intends to conduct workshops on RTI in 13 atolls and to assist in the establishment of a system through information technology which aims to increase convenience for the public in obtaining information from the state.
Minivan News tried contacting Chair of the Social Affairs Committee PPM MP Abdulla Maseeh Mohamed and Co-Chair DRP MP Hassan Latheef, but neither was responding to calls at the time of press.
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Above: Dumas Mayor Pat Sims filed to run for his seat again Jan. 20. Nine minutes before the deadline to file at 5 p.m. Friday, Commissioner Steve Bodnar withdrew from the Place 3 commissioner’s seat and filed to run against Sims for mayor.
The city of Dumas’ mayor’s race got interesting nine minutes before the filing deadline Friday. City Commissioner Steve Bodnar withdrew from the Place 3 Commissioner’s race and filed to run against Mayor Pat Sims at 4:51 p.m. The deadline for candidates to file was 5 p.m.
Bob Brinkmann filed for Place 3 Commissioner against Bodnar on Feb. 17, and unless a write-in candidate files by 5 p.m. Tuesday, which is the deadline for write-in candidates, Brinkmann won’t be challenged for the seat. Sims filed for the mayor’s seat Jan. 20, the same day Mayor Pro Tem Dr. David Bonner filed for his Place 4 seat. Bodnar had filed to retain his commissioner’s seat Jan. 29.
Early voting by personal appearance for the Dumas city elections will be from April 25 to May 3. The hours are 8 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. with the exception of April 26 and May 3, which will be from 8:30 a.m. to 8:30 p.m. Early voting will be at Dumas City Hall, 124 W. 6th St.
The general election will be held May 7 from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m., and the polling place is Dumas Junior High School, East 5th Street and Maddox Avenue. Applications for ballot by mail must be received no later than the close of business on April 26. Those applications should be sent to:
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Smart speakers like the new Echo are great companions in the kitchen or bedroom, but the Show 8 adds a healthy 8-inch screen which can display everything from weather forecasts to streaming videos. This thoughtful gift has a full-fledged Echo smart speaker built-in, too. And yes, the camera has a manual shutter, so Mom never has to worry about being surreptitiously photographed. Read our Amazon Echo Show 8 review.
We tested Hunt A Killer this summer, and the first thing I did after reading the review was buy a subscription for my mother. She is obsessed with true crime, and unsurprisingly, she’s now also obsessed with Hunt A Killer. The subscription box allows players to solve a crime, with monthly “episodes” that get the person closer to solving the crime every time. If your mother is just as obsessed with true crime as mine, she’ll be ecstatic to play detective for a few months.
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It has everything one could want in a bidet -- rear and front wash nozzles, a seat heater, multiple temperature and position settings and an appealing blue nightlight. That noted, at $551, the flagship model is far too expensive and the features that are exclusive to it aren't essential. Instead, I'd recommend the OmigoSL, which includes the most vital bells and whistles.
Picking out a birthday gift for the ladies of their heart is in some cases a little unpleasant and a little difficult for some males around the world. Unless the woman that you're buying presents for doesn't have a romantic bone in her body then opportunities are that she'll appreciate the two-dozen roses that you should be getting for her on her birthday. Everyone enjoys to get present certificates on their birthday to their favorite shop and this is another "winner" in the Gifts For Her category!
For a simplified skin-care routine, this two-piece serum set from Circumference can help make things easier. The Pure Balancing Botanical Face Oil is perfect for moisturizing skin and the Vital-C Antioxidant Day Serum is great for whenever your mom's skin needs a brightening pick-me-up. Not to mention, the serums come in recyclable glass bottles that she'll definitely love.
You know what’s fun? Celebrating mom. You know what’s not fun? Cleaning. Help mom save her time (and sanity) by picking up the best robot vacuum on the market—the iRobot Roomba i7+. The i7+ is hands down the greatest robot vacuum we tested, outperforming all its competitors in nearly every category. It can easily map her home, be controlled from her smartphone, and empty itself, which is frankly, magical.
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There’s no such thing as too much yarn. If Mom’s a knitter, she’ll never turn down high-quality skeins (a.k.a. yarn balls) from a top-notch brand like Darn Good Yarn. The company makes ethical yarn and provides sustainable jobs around the world, putting its mission first in all business practices. The yarn itself is cozy, comfy, and easy to work with. As an avid knitter (and Darn Good Yarn fan), I recommend picking up a few skeins of Darn Good Yarn’s multicolor options so mom can choose what she knits with the beautiful shades.
Unless the female that you're purchasing presents for doesn't have a romantic bone in her body then possibilities are that she'll value the two-dozen roses that you ought to be getting for her on her birthday. Absolutely nothing states "I Love You, Hunny" than an excellent, old-fashioned arrangement of flowers and a special treat to go along with it!
There cannot be anything more classic that surprising your mom with breakfast in bed. This will make your mom feel honored and wonderful. There are several ideas that you can apply to surprise and delight your mom on mother’s day. If you wish to make your mother happy using this traditional method then you can try out some really delicious and easy to cook menu that can be prepared soon and presented in an attractive manner.
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During the pandemic, the opportunity for enjoying a meal cooked by someone else has been complicated but not eliminated: Outdoor dining persists, limited indoor dining has begun, and, of course, takeout remains a safe, delicious option that keeps all parties out of the kitchen. If you know your mom’s favorite restaurant, grab her a gift card from there. And if you think she’d like to try somewhere new, one idea given to us by Wirecutter editor Tracy Vence is a gift card to Black and Mobile, the first Black-owned food delivery service in the country to deliver exclusively for Black-owned restaurants in select cities (currently available in Atlanta, Detroit, and Philadelphia).
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BNP and Barclays misbehave
Regulators in America have levied heavy fines on the banks for breaching its rules.
Another week, another couple of banks in the spotlight for misbehaving. BNP Paribas will pay a fine of $8.9bn, a banking record, for concealing billions in transactions with Sudan, Iran and Cuba. Meanwhile, a US regulator has accused Barclays of "fraud and deceit".
The charges relate to one of the bank's private trading platforms, or dark pools'. These developed from the need to allow institutions to trade large blocks of shares without unsettling the market.
Barclays allegedly told clients that there were far fewer aggressive, high-frequency traders operating in this opaque market than there actually were. It also tended to route clients' trades to its own dark pool, despite a promise not to prioritise it, in order to make more money.
What the commentators said
It's hardly surprising the message isn't getting through, said Alex Brummer in the Daily Mail. As continual scandals show, banks' "bonus-driven culture is so deeply ingrained that it is hard to eradicate. Easy profits outweigh moral responsibility."
But when it comes to punishing miscreants, according to Reynolds Holding on Breakingviews, Uncle Sam seems to be picking on the foreigners.
A recent study by the University of Virginia School of Law shows that between 2001 and 2010 US criminal fines were on average five times higher for European firms than for American ones.
Yet it's hard to feel sorry for BNP Paribas, said Nils Pratley in The Guardian. US investigators cite $30bn of illicit deals, a staggering number, far higher than in other cases.
"Paying a fine of 30 cents in the dollar for every dodgy transaction doesn't seem over the top." The US had also made it clear it would enforce financial sanctions. In any case, the fine is a tad less than last year's profits. BNP can afford it.
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Our Salt
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Del Carmen Saltworks Museum
The formerly called Salt Museum was completely refurbished in May of 2018. The new look of the museum enables visitors to travel in time, to the golden age of the Del Carmen saltworks. That is why it has been renamed Del Carmen Saltworks Museum, to honor these installations.
As soon as you walk into the exhibition, you find yourself in 1910. Mr Manuel Velázquez Cabrera, who was then the owner of these saltworks, welcomes us to his home. He receives us in his study, where he shows us the history of the formerly called La Hondurilla or La Torre saltworks. In his study we will learn how saltworks work and about the particular extraction methods used in the Canary Islands. He will even tell us about the most private aspects of the daily lives of salt workers in one of the rooms.
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the purity of our salt
Walk round our Saltworks
The Canary Islands coast has natural salt marshes, which the first settlers learned to take advantage of, to make salt. Gradually, more complicated infrastructures were built, as is the case of the museum saltworks, formerly called La Hondurilla or La Torre saltworks.
In 1910, Mr Manuel Velázquez Cabrera renovated the Saltworks as they are today, in order to achieve maximum yield. He was the one who changed the name of the Saltworks, calling them after the patron saint of sailors –and also after his wife–, thus becoming the Del Carmen Saltworks.
savor your visit
A flavorful spot
Our journey to 1910 continues at the restaurant of the Museum. Its atmosphere of the early 1900s, together with its delicious dishes, seasoned with our sea foam salt, and products that have just been collected from the coast of Fuerteventura, will delight all our senses, taking us back to the golden age of the Del Carmen Saltworks.
From Fuerteventura to your kitchen
If you wish to recall this experience at home, you can always take a bit of our saltworks with you, thanks to the efforts of our salt workers. The sea foam salt they produce using traditional methods is packed and sold at our shop, where you can choose among different types of salt, in addition to other souvenirs related to our saltworks, the sea and Fuerteventura.
Immerse yourself in the Del Carmen Saltworks Museum, discover how we produce salt that is unique and pure, and be a salt worker for one day.
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Conor McGregor declares Combat Island “my island”
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Ortom urges Nigerians to pray over security and economic challenges
By NS STAFF - December 31, 2020, 4:08 pm - [ General ]
Samuel Ortom
By Peter Duru – Makurdi
Governor Samuel Ortom of Benue state has called on Nigerians to work for peaceful coexistence of the country and pray for its leadership under President Muhammadu Buhari to enable it surmount the current security and economic challenges facing the country.
The Governor in a new year massage in Makurdi by his Chief Press Secretary, Terver Akase said though year 2020 came with numerous challenges such as COVID-19 and increased insecurity, praises and glory must be given to God for His grace and protection through the year.
He reminded the people that as they go into year 2021, they should remember the need to always observe COVID-19 protocol such as wearing of face masks, the use of hand sanitizers, physical distancing and avoiding crowded places.
He specially commends the State Action Committee on COVID-19, led by the Deputy Governor, Engineer Benson Abounu and all those diligently serving in the frontline and the back end to contain the pandemic, and noted that their selfless efforts ha resulted in the relatively successful response to the virus in the state.
Governor Ortom equally appreciate the people of the state for their support which had helped the administration to record achievements in various sectors of the economy in form of projects in infrastructure, health, education and rural development.
He said, “the progress made by the State Government despite the difficult period offers the assurance that despite the challenges the state faces, it remains on course to realize the vision of an economically self-reliant and prosperous federating unit of Nigeria that is anchored on the fear of God.”
He noted that the economic pressures and fiscal constraints of the outgone year that prompted the 2020 downward budget revision had necessitated the adoption of new measures by governments at all levels to curtail the high rate of unemployment and poverty, insecurity, youth restiveness and breakdown in citizens’ trust of Government as demonstrated in the ENDSARS protests.
He said arising from the Youth Summit recently held in the state, his administration was introducing programmes to give young people opportunities to maximize their potentials in entrepreneurship, particularly in the agriculture value chain, to add greater value to themselves and the state in general.
The Governor deeply appreciated Operation Whirl Stroke, the State Police Command, Department of State Services, DSS, Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps, as well as all other security agencies for their untiring efforts in guaranteeing the safety of lives and property in the state. He gave assurance that his administration would continue to support them to succeed.
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Trump ban sets ‘dangerous’ precedent ― Twitter CEO
By NS STAFF - January 14, 2021, 9:42 am - [ General ]
Twitter CEO, Jack Dorsey, on Wednesday backed the messaging platform’s ban of US President Donald Trump, but said it sets a “dangerous” precedent and represents a failure to promote healthy conversation on social networks.
“Having to ban an account has real and significant ramifications,” Dorsey said in a string of tweets about his take on the company’s decision late last week to permanently bar the president.
“While there are clear and obvious exceptions, I feel a ban is a failure of ours ultimately to promote healthy conversation,” Dorsey said, inviting feedback from users.
Trump’s access to social media platforms that he used as a megaphone during his presidency has been largely cut off since a violent mob of his supporters stormed the Capitol in Washington last week.
In addition to Twitter, bans have also been put in place by Facebook, Instagram, Twitch and Snapchat, while YouTube temporarily suspended his channel.
However, Twitter was the Republican billionaire’s go-to tool, which he used to directly communicate on a daily basis with some 88 million followers, posting everything from proclamations to accusations and spreading misinformation via the platform.
Social media operators say the embittered leader could have used his accounts to foment more unrest in the run-up to President-elect Joe Biden’s inauguration.
On Monday, Twitter took things one step further, announcing it had also suspended “more than 70,000 accounts” linked to the far-right QAnon conspiracy theory that claims Trump is waging a secret war against a global liberal cult of Satan-worshipping pedophiles.
– Overdue or overdone? –
Twitter‘s decision to permanently suspend Trump is considered overdue by critics who argue he has gotten away with abuses, but has worried free-speech advocates and drawn criticism from various NGOs and leaders.
The company said in a blog post explaining its decision that after close review of the president’s recent tweets it had “permanently suspended the account due to the risk of further incitement of violence.”
Twitter also blocked efforts by Trump to sidestep the ban of his @realDonaldTrump account when he posted tweets from the official presidential account @POTUS and the @TeamTrump campaign account.
“We understand the desire to permanently suspend him now,” ACLU senior legislative counsel Kate Ruane said at the time.
“But, it should concern everyone when companies like Facebook and Twitter wield the unchecked power to remove people from platforms that have become indispensable for the speech of billions.”
Even German Chancellor Angela Merkel weighed in, stating Monday through her spokesman that she believed freedom of opinion should not be determined by “the management of social media platforms.”
Dorsey said Wednesday that while he believes Twitter made the right decision to ban Trump, it “sets a precedent I feel is dangerous: the power an individual or corporation has over a part of the global public conversation.”
“This moment in time might call for this dynamic, but over the long term it will be destructive to the noble purpose and ideals of the open internet,” he said.
Dorsey rejected the notion that social media giants coordinated efforts, reasoning that it was more likely they each came to the same conclusion about the potential for violence.
– Snipped by Snapchat –
Image-centric social network Snapchat on Wednesday became the latest platform to permanently ban Trump.
“Last week we announced an indefinite suspension of president Trump’s Snapchat account,” the platform told AFP.
“In the interest of public safety, and based on his attempts to spread misinformation, hate speech, and incite violence, which are clear violations of our guidelines, we have made the decision to permanently terminate his account.”
The actions by social media companies angered ardent defenders of Trump, who was impeached by the House of Representatives on Wednesday for inciting “insurrection.”
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, a longtime Trump ally, demanded that major tech platforms explain why Trump is no longer welcome.
Removal of the president and others by multiple platforms, he said, “silences those whose speech and political beliefs do not align with leaders of Big Tech companies.”
[AFP]
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Popular Names and Name Trends
Top Baby Names 1980s
Fri Dec 11 2020By Sophie Kihm
The top baby names of the 1980s are the names of the new moms and dads of today. This is the decade that saw the peak of names such as Brittany, Allison, and Amber for girls, and Derek, Justin, and Brett for boys.
Along with Allison and Justin, other 1980s baby names that remain in the US Top 250 include Brandon, Emily, Jeremy, Kimberly, Lauren, Nathan, Rachel, and Ryan. The names that have dropped the most in popularity include Chad, Heather, Shannon, and Lindsay.
Sourced from the 1980s US Top 100, here is a list of popular names from the 1980s that which are relatively rare for babies today. But you'll probably recognize these 1980s names as the names of the other moms and dads in your childbirth class!
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So you’re thinking of going to a Florida Georgia Line concert?
So, thanks to my super cool job, I had the opportunity to meet the fella's of Florida Georgina Line. After being directed by someone who reeked of Vodka to the backstage, I was slightly concerned at the experience. While not overly connected, BK at least attempted to make it work and I walked away thinking they were nice enough guys. But the concert is where they really shined. They truly gave 110%. If you can get past the bro country lyrics and beat and the party atmosphere, you actually find some seriously amazing entertainers. What impressed me the most was when they sang their cover of Alabama's I'm In A Hurry and the sold out stadium went crazy and sang along. Also… I really think BK's vocals are seriously compromised in most of their set.
Now I don't think I will be running for president of their fan club, but I can say this…I left with a little more of an understanding of why people would find them exciting.
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Share this Story: For Sale: This over-the-top 5,467-sq.-ft. Las Vegas poker penthouse is going to unreserved auction
For Sale: This over-the-top 5,467-sq.-ft. Las Vegas poker penthouse is going to unreserved auction
Even Liberace would have felt overwhelmed with gilt
Shari Kulha
The Versailles penthouse at 360 E. Desert Inn Rd. is going to auction on Oct. 18 with no reserve. The three-storey suite was previously listed at US$4.88 million. Because it’s far enough away from the Strip, the view from the wraparound rooftop deck is striking, and it’s quieter, especially given that’s a golf course across the street (view shown, above). The suite is called Versailles, because it’s got just about as much gold leaf as the real thing. Kidding. Sort of. It’s because the owners, poker pro Barry Schulman and his wife, Allyn, visited the palace on their honeymoon and came home to recreate it.
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For Sale: This over-the-top 5,467-sq.-ft. Las Vegas poker penthouse is going to unreserved auction Back to video
Key details: • 5,467 sq. ft. • 3 bedrooms, 6 baths • Top-notch concierge service • Previously listed at US$4.88 million • See the Concierge Auctions information here
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The wraparound terrace has a full-on outdoor kitchen/bar where servers can help your guests while you lounge in the hot tub under the raised half-shell.
But let’s move indoors, where the sumptuous Baroque-style decor fills every inch of the 5,467 square feet.
“The living and dining areas feature extraordinary hand-selected wall sconces, fixtures, lighting and striped Roman drapes on balconied vistas,” toptenrealestatedeals.com quotes Concierge Auctions as saying.
The sounds of a tinkling piano will carry through the entertainment spaces while your guests mingle to discuss their latest poker winnings. The marble staircase is lit by an exquisite old-world chandelier imported from France.
The kitchen, which, let’s face it, will probably only be used for morning coffee and late-night post-play sneaks from the fridge. Excellent restaurants in Vegas make it unlikely the ovens will get much use (even if they are Vikings).
The master bedroom is a quiet, spacious French-inspired oasis away from the noise and lights.
The ensuite is as ambrosial as could be expected. Check out the golden swan running water into the tub.
And no lush master suite would be complete without his-and-hers bathrooms, let alone walk-in closets. His closet is birchwood, hers is covered in damask (that is, where there isn’t a shelf, cabinet or vanity).
When you just can’t think about another night at the casino (or maybe when the winnings are running low), invite friends to your third-floor home cinema, where popcorn can be washed down with drinks from the wet bar. Then, head up to the private rooftop deck, or more precisely, its open-air dance floor — to enjoy life despite those chip-losing blues.
If you have an interesting listing, reno or just a really neat home — whether it’s for sale or not, drop us a line to tell us about it.
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Share this Story: Eurovision switches from all-male to all-female host lineup
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LISBON, Portugal — The Eurovision Song Contest appears to have heard its critics.
After being chided by some for picking three men to host last year’s competition, contest organizers announced Monday that this year’s event in Portugal will feature four female presenters.
Eurovision switches from all-male to all-female host lineup Back to video
Critics on social media reproached contest organizers for featuring only male hosts in Kyiv last year when the contest is supposed to celebrate diversity.
The organizers say the May finals in Lisbon will be hosted by four Portuguese-speaking women. They are Daniela Ruah, who was born in the United States and is a star on the hit television show “NCIS: Los Angeles,” and three women known for their TV work in Portugal: Filomena Cautela, Silvia Alberto and Catarina Furtado.
Contest officials were not immediately available to comment on the switch to all-female cast of presenters.
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JERUSALEM — Franciscan friars wearing surgical masks and gloves made house calls in Jerusalem on Palm Sunday, delivering olive branches to Christians who are self-isolating as a precaution against the coronavirus.
One of the friars used a loud-hailer in the streets of the walled Old City to summon people to their front doors and windows, where they received branches and blessings.
Olive branches handed out on Palm Sunday in near-deserted Jerusalem Back to video
The beginning of the Holy Week leading to Easter, Palm Sunday commemorates Jesus’ arrival in Jerusalem. Scripture speaks of his supporters scattering palm fronds in his path, an act often replicated today with branches of other native trees.
Jerusalem’s churches, like Muslim and Jewish places of worship, are closed to the public. That has prompted the faithful to find alternatives to group prayer in a month in which the festivals of Passover, Easter and Ramadan will be marked in close succession. (Writing by Dan Williams; Editing by Mark Potter)
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Alli Webb's Picks for dineLA's Restaurant Week
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Alli Webb, the founder of Drybar, opened the first Drybar location in LA back in February 2010 and has since expanded to an additional 24 locations in California, Arizona, Texas, New York, Washington, D.C. and Georgia. Alli gives us her top picks for dineLA Restaurant Week.
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As CEO and president of The Coffee Bean & Tea Leaf®, Mel Elias has helped lead the company’s dynamic growth over the last 14 years from 60 to over 850 stores worldwide. Mel gives us his top picks for dineLA’s Restaurant Week.
Aziz Ansari's Los Angeles
Interviewed by Garrett Snyder
The star of NBC’s Parks and Recreation, might be the hungriest man on Twitter. He even tossed his hat in the ring for the vacant New York Times restaurant critic gig (via Twitter, of course), although he later admitted, “I would probably drop way too many F-bombs in my reviews.” As practice we asked Ansari to reveal his favorite L.A. eateries.
Hungry Girl's Los Angeles
Lisa Lillien (a.k.a. Hungry Girl) shares her favorite healthy eats and more in Los Angeles.
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The hot tamale host of Bravo's "Top Chef Masters" dishes on where he gets artisan cheeses, great antiques, and a trim for those Aussie locks.
Mary Sue Milliken's Los Angeles
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Celebrity chef Mary Sue Milliken, co-owner/chef of Border Grill, offers her favorite cultural hot spots.
Susan Feniger's Los Angeles
Want to eat like a chef? Celebrity chef Susan Feniger shares her favorite spots in L.A., including her go-to sandwich shop.
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JPD Reports
Professors Invent Apps to Help Education
Aug 17, 2016 NEA Report Craighead County 0
Press Release – Arkansas State University
JONESBORO — Inventors and Arkansas State University faculty members Dr. Ralph Ruby, Jr. and Dr. Paula D. Ruby have developed new applications for The A-State Academic Championship series that will help reduce student college expenses using a competitive tournament learning strategy.
The news continues now...
The A-State Academic Championship Series, which includes both the A-State Academic Keyboarding Championship (iPad) and the A-State Academic Texting Championship (iPhone), provide competitive gaming strategies to help increase keyboarding/texting skills and to provide A-State Bucks to aid in reducing financial needs of students attending Arkansas State while contributing to their educational growth. The funding of the A-State Bucks is by sponsorship.
The application A-State Keyboarding Champ can be downloaded on an iPad and A-State Texting Champ on an iPhone from the Apple App Store. The applications are in the App Store and are available for download free of charge. The following are the URL’s that may be used by individuals so they may go directly to each A-State Championship Series app — for A-State Academic texting champ: https://itunes.apple.com/app/id971778748. For A-State Academic keyboarding champ: https://itunes.apple.com/app/id972159584.
“The idea was mentioned at Dean Shane Hunt’s first College of Business faculty meeting in 2014,” stated Ralph Ruby, Jr., professor of computer and information technology and director of business technology programs. “He had said one of his top priorities was to help reduce the cost of students attending A-State. Following the meeting, Paula and I visited and came to the conclusion that we also believed strongly about helping students reduce their A-State college expense.”
“I am thankful our students will be able to participate for free in a fun and dynamic competition that allows them to earn prizes toward reducing the financial burden of being a college student,” added Hunt. “I am also very appreciative for the great work Ralph and Paula have done in creating this app and for the generous corporate sponsors who are supporting our A-State students through this competition.”
The Rubys, who were granted a patent in 2015 for the invention of a mobile device translator for decoding, knew it was important the applications specifically make a meaningful contribution in helping the students in the educational areas of communications, calculating and note-taking. It also helps students in the initial employment application process using texting and emails.
The pair found employers cite the following five major reasons for using texting and emails in the employment process: (1) people are glued to their mobile phones, (2) it is a personalized approach to recruiting, (3) texting is faster and more efficient than email, (4) 75 percent of the candidate pool cannot respond to calls and (5) texting presents a unique opportunity for seamless follow-up.
“From our research and association with college-age students, we know our approach, to be successful, must center on the use of mobile devices, both the iPad and iPhone,” said Paula, professor of computer and information technology. “We also know from our research in the area of learning strategies the number-one selling group of apps being games is the best strategy to implement a competitive academic gaming strategy. When we researched approaches to use on the funding side we discovered advertising was the best approach.”
However, the Rubys questioned how to incorporate fundraising advertising without interfering with competitors during a game or tournament. This meant the traditional method of interfering with whatever the user is doing to flash an advertisement on the monitor was not an option. They finally decided to use tournament sponsorship because it fits into user academic competitive gaming strategy without interfering with competitors during games and tournaments.
“To the best of our knowledge, this type of advertising strategy has not been used in this manner previously for what we are attempting to accomplish,” added Ralph. “In addition, we wanted to have our concept transportable so other educational entities could easily incorporate our concept worldwide. By having other educational entities involved opens the possibility for helping additional students financially around the world and increased competitive gaming competition.
“It also opened the door to competition at different levels, such as university conference championships and university national championships hosted by Arkansas State. It is absolutely conceivable we would host an international university championship.”
He went on to say these same-type championships can be available for two-year institutions as well. At the secondary level, there can be conference championships, state championships and a national championship. All of these are possible with vision, research, support, hard work and mobile technology from any remote location in the world.
In addition to the many awards available while playing the apps and the award of A-State Bucks to reduce a student’s college expenses, crystal trophies with winner names and other important identifying data will be on display in the College of Business foyer in its trophy case to represent winners of each championship in the A-State Academic Championship Series. Nancy Nicholson, owner of Lyons Engraving and Framing, donated the trophies.
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The Dalton Gang 2020
When their brother Frank is killed by an outlaw, brothers Bob Dalton, Emmett Dalton and Gray Dalton join their local sheriff's department. When they are cheated by the law, they turn to crime, robbing trains and anything else they can steal from over the course of two years in the early 1890's. Trying to out do Jesse James, they attempt to rob two banks at once in October of 1892, and things get ugly
News of the World 2020
Drama | Western
Gallowwalkers 2012
When a nun broke her covenant with God to save the life of her unborn son, Aman, he was cursed for life. As an adult, Aman has killed those who have crossed him. But his curse brings his victims back to life and they pursue him for revenge, so Aman enlists a young gunman to fight by his side against his undead victims.
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The Revenant 2015
In the 1820s, a frontiersman, Hugh Glass, sets out on a path of vengeance against those who left him for dead after a bear mauling.
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Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron 2002
As a wild stallion travels across the frontiers of the Old West, he befriends a young human and finds true love with a mare.
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The Dalton gang escape to a nearby town after a train robbery goes south, but they are met by a coven of witches with sinister plans for the unsuspecting outlaws.
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Some time after the Mousekewitz's have settled in America, they find that they are still having problems with the threat of cats. That makes them eager to try another home out in the west, where they are promised that mice and cats live in peace. Unfortunately, the one making this claim is an oily con artist named Cat R. Waul who is intent on his own sinister plan.
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While the Civil War rages between the Union and the Confederacy, three men – a quiet loner, a ruthless hit man and a Mexican bandit – comb the American Southwest in search of a strongbox containing $200,000 in stolen gold.
For a Few Dollars More 1965
Two bounty hunters are in pursuit of "El Indio," one of the most wanted fugitives in the western territories, and his gang.
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When his long-lost outlaw father returns, Tommy "White Knife" Stockburn goes on an adventure-filled journey across the Old West with his five brothers.
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Two Mules for Sister Sara 1970
Hogan, on his way to do some reconnaissance for a future mission to capture a French fort, encounters Sister Sara, a nun in trouble. Before he knows it, Hogan is accompanying Sister Sara in the dangerous frontier while she seeks to achieve a hidden goal.
Rango 2011
When Rango, a lost family pet, accidentally winds up in the gritty, gun-slinging town of Dirt, the less-than-courageous lizard suddenly finds he stands out. Welcomed as the last hope the town has been waiting for, new Sheriff Rango is forced to play his new role to the hilt.
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In a futuristic resort, wealthy patrons can visit recreations of different time periods and experience their wildest fantasies with life-like robots. But when Richard Benjamin opts for the wild west, he gets more than he bargained for when a gunslinger robot goes berserk.
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Dances with Wolves 1990
Wounded Civil War soldier, John Dunbar tries to commit suicide—and becomes a hero instead. As a reward, he's assigned to his dream post, a remote junction on the Western frontier, and soon makes unlikely friends with the local Sioux tribe.
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Wyatt Earp 1994
Covering the life and times of one of the West's most iconic heroes Wyatt Earp weaves an intricate tale of Earp and his friends and family. With a star studded cast, sweeping cinematography and authentic costumes Wyatt Earp led the way during the Western revival in the 90's.
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A Fistful of Dollars 1964
The Man With No Name enters the Mexican village of San Miguel in the midst of a power struggle among the three Rojo brothers and sheriff John Baxter. When a regiment of Mexican soldiers bearing gold intended to pay for new weapons is waylaid by the Rojo brothers, the stranger inserts himself into the middle of the long-simmering battle, selling false information to both sides for his own benefit.
The Magnificent Seven 2016
Looking to mine for gold, greedy industrialist Bartholomew Bogue seizes control of the Old West town of Rose Creek. With their lives in jeopardy, Emma Cullen and other desperate residents turn to bounty hunter Sam Chisolm for help. Chisolm recruits an eclectic group of gunslingers to take on Bogue and his ruthless henchmen. With a deadly showdown on the horizon, the seven mercenaries soon find themselves fighting for more than just money once the bullets start to fly.
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Lone Wolf McQuade 1983
The archetypical renegade Texas Ranger wages war against a drug kingpin with automatic weapons, his wits and martial arts after a gun battle leaves his partner dead. All of this inevitably culminates in a martial arts showdown between the drug lord and the ranger, and involving the woman they both love.
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This Day in History 11/9: The Fall of the Berlin Wall
The announcement of our winner of “History’s Greatest A**hole” contest will have to wait, as Mr. D needs to wax nostalgic about today’s anniversary.
Twenty years ago today, on November 9, 1989, the Berlin Wall, the most visible and hated symbol of the Cold War, came tumbling down as the East German government flung open its borders. The opening of the Wall was the beginning of the end for Communism in Eastern Europe, as (mostly) peaceful revolutions swept across the continent, bringing down regime after regime until the great bear itself, the Soviet Union, dissolved in 1991.
Today, most kids have never even heard of the word Communism or anything like a Cold War. Yet try to be a child seeing these events unfold. For my generation, those that witnessed the end of an era, we couldn’t even believe it was happening.
For most of our lives, we thought that the great conflict between East and West, the Cold War, the struggle between the United States and the Soviet Union had reached a meandering stalemate that could last forever. If the rivalry did heat up, it was usually every four years during the Olympic Games.
I was a precocious kid, and even at that age a rabid anti-Communist. Most of my friends used words like “Commie” and “Russkie” pretty casually, but I knew the evil they contained. When Katerina Witt of East Germany won the gold medal in figure skating in 1988, I left the room. I screamed at my parents that I refused to listen to an anthem from a Communist dictatorship. No one booed louder when Nickolai Volkoff sang the Soviet national anthem before wrestling for the WWF (now WWE).
Christ, I made Alex P. Keaton look like Nancy Pelosi.
Yet even I, the great red-baiter that I was, had the inevitable shrug most had when confronting the Soviet menace. They were there, and they we there to stay. As long as they don’t move from where they are, and no sneaky stuff with Typhoon submarines, then I guess we can coexist. It was even a buzzword of the Brezhnev-era Kremlin: “peaceful coexistence.”
Then I heard about what was happening in Poland. Yes, I was a wierd kid: the Solidarity movement of Lech Walesa fascinated me.
I mean, here was a situation that, to a true lover of Marx and Lenin, made absolutely no sense: a “worker’s republic” refusing to let a group of shipyard workers from Gdansk organize into a labor union. A labor union is the crux of all Communist ideology, and it was turned on its head as Solidarity formed to combat unfair conditions laid down by Warsaw’s Soviet satellite regime. The authorities fought back brutally, enforcing martial law from 1981-1982. Yet the movement survived, and it worked to undermine, and eventually destroy, the Polish dictatorship.
The Polish revolution worked because of a gap in the Soviet clinch on power. By the 1980s, the Soviets were in economic freefall, and badly needed Western capital and technology just to keep up. Thus, Soviet General Secretary Mikhail Gorbachev began a program of gradual liberalization of the economy (perestroika) followed by a loosening of the authoritarian political landscape (glasnost). On top of this, Moscow basically allowed its satellites to do what they wanted. There would be no repeat of the crackdowns of years past–this time the Red Army will not interfere.
The result was a flood of anger and resentment. Reform movements were going on all over Eastern Europe, mostly among grassroots groups looking for bread-and-butter changes: better housing, higher wages, better working conditions, etc. The people’s republics simply grew so stagnant that they were completely divorced from the reality of the people, and rebels like Vaclav Havel and Lech Walesa were considered heroes.
Yet we never thought that wall would ever come down. And it did, thanks to massive demonstrations, public media attention, and an East German government willing to say “enough is enough”, and replace the autocratic Erich Honecker with the more pliant Egon Krenz, who summarily threw open the borders to allow East Germans free access to the west. That hated wall, that son-of-a-bitch wall finally came down.
As with most things, the fall of the Berlin Wall and the collapse of Communism seemed inevitable now. Today, we are still dealing with the aftereffects of the Revolutions of 1989, both good and bad. But for kids like me, who never thought it was going to happen, the Berlin Wall was a moment we could never forget. Like the clamoring hordes in Boston in the 1770’s, no one was silencing the will of the people anymore.
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Doing Missions in the Marvel Universe. Part III
On May 23, 2013 By missionmusingsIn Contextualization, Parables/Allegories
I realize that Part II, I sort of “shot my wad” in that I essentially said that doing missions in today’s culture is like doing missions in the Marvel Universe, since the today’s culture is like the Marvel Universe culture. The loop is kind of closed leaving little room for more than expounding further on the basic idea. So that is what I will do.
2. The Social Primacy of the Individual. You might be wondering about why I have an image here of the Justice League (from the DC Universe) when I am talking about the Marvel Universe. But take a look at the image and compare it to the Marvel image on my last post (Part II). You may notice a decided difference. The Justice League is clearly a team, a strong coherent social unit. If you websearch other images of the team, most show a similar quality. In this one, the members have a common focus and appear to have a common determination and will. They are acting as one social unity. In some other images, they stand in a half-circle looking in different directions. But even here, the idea is still of one team. Even though they don’t have a common focus, they clearly have a common purpose, to stand guard in vigilance.
On the other hand, the Marvel Universe image does not show a team… it shows a group of individuals who are, for some reason, required to share the same floor space. Truthfully, it is probably an error of many to compare the Justice League with the Avengers (or maybe the Teen Titans with the West Coast Avengers). The Avengers feel more like the Dirty Dozen in many ways… a conglomeration of heroes brought together by common necessity more than common vision.
This the world we live in today. Few places outside of North Korea (and pockets of zealots of different types) do we find groups of any sort having a higher position than the individual. Many of us (especially in the West, although this is a stereotype) have almost lost the capacity to put into words or thoughts the idea that the will of the family, corporation, church, or any other could take priority of personal freedom, personal fulfillment, or personal pleasure.
I recall an episode of House (I haven’t seen very many). In it, one of the doctor’s was having a difficult time with the worldview of one of his patients. The patient was a member of a Gypsy clan. The patient was brilliant and had an interest in Math and Science, but would not go to higher education because that was not the wishes of the clan. The doctor could not understand why he wouldn’t “live his own dream.” The patient, on the other hand felt sorry for the doctor because he was disconnected from family… giving up so much belongingness for a personal (selfish?) achievements.
So here we are. Do we embrace individualism? I would say NO. On the other hand, do we react against it, creating little Christian societal cults without individuality? NO also. We can’t challenge a culture by simply completely rejecting it. The Bible, in fact, seems to support neither. The Bible says to submit to authority in government and in church. But it also says to reject and condemn ungodly leadership. We are to honor our fathers and mothers but we are to “hate them” choosing God first. We are to be united in Christ, but we are redeemed as individuals. One might argue that the highest social unit on earth is the two member social grouping made up of an individual and God. From that grouping flows secondary responsibilities to self, family, church, government, and society. We live in a world of individuality, so we need to both embrace and challenge it.
3. The Ambiguous Nature of Hero and Villain. It is tough to be a hero in the Marvel Universe. Spiderman is often misunderstood and mistreated. The X-men suffer from bigotry and attempts to register and control them. Being a hero may not make you loved. It may not even make you liked. You might be reviled, judged a vigilante. Like in The Incredibles, doing good often brings about bad results/destruction. Does a hero have the right to act unilaterally… serving as judge, jury, and executioner?
Heroes are often plagued with uncertainty. Why are they doing this… dressing up and placing their lives at risk for some “noble” cause. Do they live based on a high moral self-accountability, or a personality disorder? Should they use their powers sacrificially? Or is it okay to reap personal benefits?
Heroes are not absolutely sure what is moral/ethical. Does the end justify the means? Does the motive support or negate the goodness of an act? Is it right to act when one does not know for sure the results of one’s actions? In fact, in almost any act, there will be winners and losers… those who benefit who shouldn’t and those who suffer who shouldn’t. Is it better to do nothing? Must one only act in response to evil action, or can one act preemptively knowing that evil is being planned?
What about the anti-hero? This is the person who seeks to fight evil… but does it through wrong means or for wrong motivations? Should they be considered a hero or not? Punisher fights crime as an act of vengeance… he kills rather than seeks to have the justice system take over. Is that acceptable or not? Spawn (from a different comic) utilizes demonic power to fight evil. Does the noble purpose make the utilization of such evil power acceptable?
And what about the villain? Some villains just seem to be evil (self-serving, sociopathic). But some have a strong humanity to them. In some cases it seems appropriate for the heroes and villains to join forces when their is a common (and greater) enemy. Is that acceptable? Some villains actually fight evil… and do this by placing safety above personal freedom. These controlling villains… are they really doing evil… or violating a cultural norm?
Missions is like this… there is a lot of ambiguity in our actions, purposes, and motivations. If it “advances the kingdom” are all actions justified? Or do we have a higher set of standards (in action, intent, motivation, short-term goal, and long-term goal) that must be considered to see if we are on the side of the hero or the villain?
Decided to stop here. Found a great Blog on God and comics. Will reblog it.
Doing Missions in the Marvel Universe, Part II (munsonmissions.org)
Doing Missions in the Marvel Universe. Part I (munsonmissions.org)
Oh My Pop-Culture Jesus: Knows Two Gods, Still a Christian (ladygeekgirl.wordpress.com)
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Doing Missions in the Marvel Universe, Part II
Oh My Pop-Culture Jesus: Knows Two Gods, Still a Christian
Bob's Amazon.com Page
Bob and Celia Munson Page
Bukal Life Care
Kape and Kamote and Contextualization January 17, 2021
Good Little Soldiers January 12, 2021
Video for “Dialogue With Asian Faiths” January 9, 2021
Sodalities and Modalities in Missions January 4, 2021
Missions and Theology Chapter December 28, 2020
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Nonviolent Response and Self-purification
Rizpah-- A Short Reflection
Story Arcs and Ministry
Tertullian, Love Feast, and Social Ministry
Oral Transmission and “Rida Rida Ranka”
The Chicken that Laid the Golden Egg
"Wabi-Sabi" Redemption
The Turing Test and IRD
Two Poles in Dialogue
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Film & History: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Film and Television Studies
The American West(s) in Film, Television, and History: Introduction
Deborah Carmichael
Center for the Study of Film and History
Deborah Carmichael | Special In-Depth Section The American West(s) in FiIm7 Television, and History Introduction Deborah Carmichael This second issue of the 2003 volume of Film & History (33.2) builds upon the discussions ofmany themes begun in 33.1, underscoring the rich opportunities for scholars who revisit the AmericanWest(s) as expressed in film and television productions, especially as interpretations of national history. The range (no pun intended) of films explored in this issue includes films from the silent era up to recent offerings from the TurnerNetworkTelevision . Some ofthese articles explore the possibilities ofrevising traditional visions of the frontier while working within a genre structure embedded in American film culture; others consider the impossibility of such a project without revisions of expected formulas . Perhaps, as Kimberly Sultze suggests, only the most independent directors possess the temerity to revise a narrative form so closely connected to American identity since 1893 when Frederick Jackson Turner announced his revolutionary "frontier thesis." Later, in this issue, British contributor Barry Langford argues that "New West" films generally fail in their revisionist project. Winona Howe spotlights the overlooked portrayal of strong, committed women influencing history in the male-dominated territory oftheWest. David Pierson outlines ways that filmmakers authenticate their work for audiences—who demand adherence to a formulaic genre; in contrast Hugh Manon speaks to the difficulties of producing any films of fixed genres. Matthew Turner addresses the differing opinions on the meaning of genre parody—does a satirical approach suggest that the form has reached exhaustion or does a comedie retelling reinvigorate that form through a combination oflaughter and nostalgia? Gender , genre, and general concerns about the viability of Western film in a 21st century alive with revisionist history all receive attention in this second issue of Film & History devoted to the American West(s) in film, television, and history. Each article offers lively and thought-provoking perspectives on anAll-American film genre—films that are both cultural and historical artifacts , and entertaining reminders of who we think we are. In the first selection, Winona Howe looks beyond the stereotypical critical reading (or lack of critical attention) to the role of women who are relegated to second-class status in Western movies. In her close reading of The Professionals (1966), a film crowded with Hollywood strongmen (BurtLancaster, Lee Marvin, Robert Ryan, Woody Strode, Jack Palance, and Ralph Bellamy), Howe sidesteps the obvious to take a closer look at the three Hispanic women who influence these soldiers offortune, women who display a stronger commitment to the Mexican revolution than to personal safety or domestic (feminine) space. These women move beyond passive objects to reveal an active participation in the political struggles of this film. Usually only two prominent female characters come to mind in The Professionals; however, Howe suggests that a third—although absent—woman affects the ethical decisions of these professionals hunting for a presumably kidnapped wife. She identifies the moral center of Rico Fardan (Lee Marvin) as his devotion to his wife, martyred for her support of the revolution. Scholar Howe's work offers not only a new perspective on The Professionals, but also a new lens for reexamination of films that, on the surface, appear to be no more than male, action-driven stories. The roles of both women and men, young and old, negotiating Patricia Nelson Limerick's La Frontera figure prominently in the second essay by Kimberly Sultze in her study of Lone Star, directed by John Sayles in 1996. Sultze carefully considers the numerous cinematic choices this independent director makes to accentuate the difficult task of defining personal history and identity, and the regional or ethnic boundaries of history in an American frontier town. This border community marks the multicultural intersections of Anglos, Hispanics, African Americans, and Native Americans. She demonstrates that Lone Star is a portrait of an American West, that if not completely embracing diverse groups, does at least acknowledge a history that is not exclusively anAnglo narrative. Sultze studies the choices Sayles makes in Lone Star as both visually and thematically disorienting strategies to force a reconsideration of an accepted history, as characters resist a past incompatible with the identities they have constructed for themselves. Her...
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Economic risks up from budget update
Marnie Banger
Australia’s economy is facing more threats to growth than it was just two months ago when the federal government handed down its mid-year budget update, according to the Treasury boss.
Treasury secretary Philip Gaetjens says growth forecasts remain solid but flooding in north Queensland is among risks that weren’t accounted for in December’s update.
That means the government has plenty to think about as it prepares to hand down the next federal budget on April 2.
“We are preparing budget forecasts against a backdrop of increased uncertainty and accumulating downside risks,” Mr Gaetjens told a Senate estimates hearing in Canberra on Wednesday.
The drought affecting eastern Australia is another key area of economic uncertainty on the domestic front, along with downward trends in agricultural production and building approvals.
That comes as growth has eased in Japan and Europe, where Brexit also looms as a source of uncertainty, and trade tensions continue to simmer globally.
The United States and China are in the midst of trade negotiations, which Mr Gaetjens noted could either hamper or help the Australian economy depending on their outcome.
Finance Minister Mathias Cormann said the risks to the economy show now would be the wrong time to increase Australia’s tax burden – a government attack line against Labor as the federal election looms.
“Given all of the other risks we are facing, that would make the Australian economy weaker,” he told the estimates hearing.
But Mr Gaetjens also identified some positive recent developments, with commodity prices running higher than they were assumed at the mid-year budget update.
Employment conditions also remain strong, with jobs growth expected to continue and “ultimately support a pick-up in wage and price growth”, meaning Australians will eventually get a pay rise.
That prediction came as new figures showed wage growth was lacklustre in the three months to December.
Wages grew by a seasonally adjusted 0.5 per cent in the quarter, slightly less than the 0.6 per cent growth predicted, according to the Australian Bureau of Statistics’ latest wage price index.
The next national accounts for the December quarter, due to be released early in March, will be an important indicator of where the economy stands, Mr Gaetjens said.
But he stressed the need for the government to exercise fiscal discipline.
Even with the surpluses forecast in the mid-year budget update for the coming decade, gross debt will stand at 14.6 per cent of gross domestic product in 2028/29.
“It is vital that fiscal discipline be maintained to ensure Australia has budget headroom to be adequately prepared for any adverse surprises,” Mr Gaetjens said.
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Computerworld gives Insight Top 5 honors
Theresa Gillis, M.D., medical director of Oncology Pain and Symptom Management and Rehabilitation Services at the Helen F. Graham Cancer Center, shows a patient the benefits of Insight, which was named to the InformationWeek 500 list.
Dr. Theresa Gillis reviews the patient self-evaluation tool named Insight with a patient. Insight has received two honors from Computerworld magazine for technological innovation.
Christiana Care’s unique patient self-evaluation tool Insight received Top Five recognition in the health category competition from Computerworld magazine at its annual awards ceremony on June 4.
Already announced as a Computerworld Honors Program Laureate award winner earlier this year, a panel of IT executives and Computerworld editors named the software program a finalist in the health category, one of ten classifications that in total received more than 500 nominations.
“This additional honor from Computerworld underscores the vital importance of innovative thinking and collaboration between our clinical and Information Technology staff to improve patient care,” says Karen Gifford, Christiana Care’s director of Information Technology.
Christiana Care’s winning software program enables patients to report the severity of their symptoms and how they affect their quality of life using a tablet-based, clinician-friendly wireless format. Patient feedback helped develop the program.
Cancer patients first used the tool in a pilot program in May 2010 followed by heart failure patients. Christiana Care’s Information Technology team launched a new release this year for a wider patient audience and is now putting Apple iPads in the hands of the patient for the first time.
Seventy-six percent of patients report they like using Insight, with 67 percent claiming the tool better prepares them to speak with their doctor. Doctors use the data to spark meaningful conversations with their patients.
“Insight gives physicians a greater understanding of the symptoms troubling a patient,” says Theresa Gillis, M.D., medical director of Oncology Pain and Symptom Management and Rehabilitation Services at the Helen F. Graham Cancer Center who accepted the award for the Christiana Care team. “Patients love the iPad because it is so quick and easy compared to paper and pen. It was truly an honor to have Insight recognized as an important technology by such a prestigious magazine, in a room full of IT designers and industry leaders.”
Other members of the team that developed Insight are Michael Bledsoe, John DiGiovanni, Jon Reynolds, Catherine Burch and Mitchell Saltzberg, M.D.
A detailed case study of Insight and other award winners is available to students and scholars through the Computerworld Honors website.
Founded in 1988, The Computerworld Honors Program is the longest running global program that honors individuals and organizations for their use of information technology in innovative ways. Computerworld, with an online audience of more than 3.5 million unique, monthly visitors, is a leading source of technology news and information for IT influencers worldwide.
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Nintendo 3DS sells 1,073 units in Japan
BUSINESS • NINTENDO 3DS
Written by: MARCUS LAI
Nintendo Co., Ltd.’s Nintendo 3DS ranked as the No. 3 hardware in Japan in the latest sales data from the territory.
Famitsu this week said the Nintendo 3DS 1,073 units between Nov. 18 and Nov. 24 to rank as the No. 3 game hardware for the week.
The hardware sold 1,262 units the week prior.
In Q2, Nintendo recorded an operating profit of $615 million and revenue of $2.52 billion.
The Nintendo 3DS has sold 75.45 million units to date.
Nintendo Switch No. 1; Pokémon Sword / Pokémon Shield No. 1 in Japan
PS Vita sells 23 units in Japan
Ace Combat 7: Skies Unknown PS4, Xbox One, PC sells 2.5M units
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Rip it Up, BBC 2 9pm, BBC iPlayer, produced and directed by Pete Stanton.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b0bbbv4w/rip-it-up-series-1-1-blazing-a-trail
https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b0bc3ljs/rip-it-up-series-1-2-success-and-excess
Rip it Up and Start Again. Rip it Up and Start Again. That’s the lyrics to an Orange Juice song. I don’t know my contraltos from my tomatoes. Doesn’t matter. I loved Rip it Up, three hours of nostalgia and the good old days that never existed. My favourites were KLF, the millionaires who burnt a million quid (alledgedly). I forgot how bonkers and how good they were. Watching clips of them made me laugh. I did quite well, in the quiz accompanying the series, which is equally bonkers, out of the five billion vinyl sales of records I bought three albums. Saturday Night Fever, Bat out of Hell and something else, but not with Pan Pipe music. Fuck off Pan Pipes and Fuck off with The Birdy Song.
The last episode ‘Success and Excess,’ was a bit out of my league, it was all about indy music and independent record labels, as a person that doesn’t listen to music and hardly listened to music when I was younger, I’d never heard of them. What it reminded me of was that old trope that anyone can write a book and get it published. There was that self-congratulatory feel from the falling faces of established stars. Guys and girls in their bedroom are going to make music and make it in the music industry.
That’s called the exception to the rule, rule. More commonly known as bullshit.
The first episode ‘Blazing a Trail’ had a more honest narrative appeal. In other words, I liked it. Lulu and Donovan. Nazareth, are a bit like The Jesus and Mary Chain to me, never heard their music but the names have that familiar ring. I’m more a Middle of the Road kinda guy. Here we find they were a precursor to Abba (I liked the blonde one). And when you listen, it’s all there, under all that hair. Loved it. From the Skiffle of Lonnie Donniegan to the Bay City Rollers.
Now we’re hitting my childhood. My sister fancies Alan because he looked quite quiet. I can see her point. John von Neumann, I think it was who helped to develop Game Theory and had other side-lines in Dangerous Minds, suggested when you were trying to get aff with somebody don’t go for the A* lister, which in my time was Pauline Moriarity, go for the cast off, ugly duckling. Then you’ve got a chance. So logically, my sister fancied Alan because she’d no chance with Les. In the same way I didn’t fancy Farah Fawcett, but the ugly Charlie’s Angel because if we ever met, that was it. The Bay City Rollers sold over 100 million vinyl records. I bought zero. They ended up skint, but that wasn’t my fault. I didn’t get pocket money and if I did I bought a packet of caramels, which lasted longer. So much for the big music industry.
‘Success and Excess’, the second programme featured that well know band from my neck of the woods, Wet, Wet, Wet. The Clydebank Group hit a virtuous circle, a number 1 hit tied in with the soundtrack of a successful film. That’s international success, and breaks the American market, right away. See Glaswegian Jim Kerr, Simple Minds and that coming-of-age movie The Breakfast Club. For any band this is called the licence to print money club.
I was talking to my brother about this. Marty Pellow’s brother was called Kojak. That wasn’t his real name. We got into a fight when I was younger and he tried to steal my carry-oot. Nobody puts Baby in the Corner. Really? Yeh, I stole that line from Dirty Dancing, which was the complete opposite of what most of us were doing. Real disco dancing was a bit of awakward-larity elbow movement, looking at your feet and appearing as if you’d just shuffled out of a dark wardrobe and was hoping for a girl to give you directions, preferably a pretty girl. And nobody steals my carry-oot, even Marty Pellow’s brother. Right enough that’s not his real name either. He’s dead now. (RIP) The summer of 1976 was the hottest summer until now and well, when it’s pissing down these programmes take you right back to your childhood. Terrific TV.
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The Breakfast Club written and directed by John Hughes. Film 4.
It’s been thirty years since I watched The Breakfast Club. I truanted from real life and took a step back into Shermar High school where it’s always Saturday detention in 1984. The Simple Minds hold play with a number one both sides of the Atlantic, Don’t You Forget About Me? The only thing I could remember about the original was Molly Ringwald and one of the other detainees admitted they didn’t need to be in detention but they’d nowhere else to go. That was Ally Sheedy.
There’s no point in telling you the characters’ names or who they portray. It’s more like archetypes. Molly Ringwald is the beauty, with luscious lips like pumped up pears and more teeth than a shark. And she’s a ginger, but she is young, perhaps the youngest of the Bratpack. (For example, Demi Moore another member of the Bratpack, but she is not in this film, is more of a conventional beauty and a lot prettier.) But back then I’d hair. Everybody had hair. They probably had to have an extra hairdresser for every young budding star. Ally Sheedy is the bag lady, to Molly Ringwald’s queen bee, of those serving time in school detention. Ally’s hair is mushy and brushed down over her face. Molly’s hair is shiny as copper coins. They’re as far apart as Alaska to Easter Island. But after they do a bit of bonding the brains of the bunch, Anthony Michael Hall, asks if we’ll still be buddies on Monday, when school goes back. Molly strikes him down, puts him right. Of course they won’t. How could they be? But then we get the classic cliché of transformations and school maggot turning into a butterfly. Usually, the girl is transformed by taking off her specs and putting her hair up. Ally doesn’t wear specs, because the conventional film formula is only geeks like Anthony wear them. But Molly shows her how to be a woman. She does Ally’s hair, puts a little blusher on and does her eyes. Voila, the unveiling.
She doesn’t look that much different to me, but eyestrain and specs have taken the slack in life. The guys on set are keyed to say, whoa, we never knew she was so hot. Sporty, Emilio Estevez, gets her in a strangle hold and kisses her so passionately her hair straightens. Who can blame him? She’d got nice hair and that hairband does wonders for a bag lady.
The big and bad true romance is between beauty and the beast. Judd Nelson has the longest hair. He’s a rebel with a criminal past. In his locker he’s got dope. Just don’t look at the finger glove he wears. After one squiff, one sniff of dope, and the music is on full blast, Sporty does a few star-jumps to show how athletic he is, Brains dons a pair of sunglasses and shakes his head like Stevie Wonder and Ally beetles about making strange squeaking noise. I didn’t think the music then was that great either. I can’t remember what the criminal mastermind does. I guess the camera spent much of the time on the beauty bopping about like a person with only one hip that kept knocking her sideways. You know the criminal and the beauty are going to hit off each other and fall into a conventional relationship. He’s shown her his flick-knife and he’s seen her knickers (white and clean, or so it seemed, I looked discretely away, of course). For god’s sake she even said ‘I hate you!’ It couldn’t be more obvious if she’d a big love heart tattooed to her forehead.
Start with I hate you and work your way to I love you, but Mr and Mrs I didn’t really understand the real you. The connecting thread is Phil Larkin, This be Verse. ‘They fuck you up, your mum and dad./They may not mean to, but they do./ They fill you with the faults they had. And add some extra, just for you’. All of the detainees in their own way admit this truth to one another. They are more the same than different. Judd the criminal brains does a cameo of the academic brain’s sparkling home life, with his dad and mum asking him if he wants to go fishing and compares it with his own. Brains big secret is he’d a gun in his locker. Nothing much in America really changes. Every kid seems to have a gun in his locker. It’s an American right. I enjoyed this. But I won’t be looking back again – not for another thirty years. By that time I’ll be so old I’ll forget what I’m not looking at. Oh yeh, Molly Ringwald.
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Home / Shop / Imprints / Nova Medicine and Health / Computed Tomography: New Research
Computed Tomography: New Research
Jae Hyun Park (Editor)
Postgraduate Orthodontic Program, Arizona School of Dentistry & Oral Health, A. T. Still University, Mesa, AZ
Series: Medical Procedures, Testing and Technology, Biomedical Devices and their Applications
BISAC: MED019000
Computed tomography (CT) and cone-beam computed tomography (CBCT) are useful tools for the accurate assessment of medical, dental and orthodontic patients. Traditionally, the diagnosis and treatment planning of these patients have used two-dimensional radiographs. The clinical value of CT and CBCT lies in their ability to provide comprehensive information about anatomical relationships for improved diagnosis, treatment planning and a prediction of treatment outcomes. This book includes new research from authors across the globe, with a focus on aiding researchers and practicing professionals on the use of CT and CBCT. (Imprint: Nova Biomedical )
Computed Tomography: New Research quantity
ISBN: N/A Categories: 2013, Biomedical Devices and their Applications - New in 2018, Medical Devices, Medical Procedures, Testing and Technology, Medicine and Health, Nova Medicine and Health Tags: 9781624171536, 9781624171611, medical devices
Part I. Computed Tomography in Bioscience and Medicine
Chapter 1. Continuous-Time Image Reconstruction for Computed Tomography
(Ken’ichi Fujimoto and Tetsuya Yoshinaga, Institute of Health Biosciences, The University of Tokushima, Tokushima, Japan)
<a href=”https://novapublishers.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/978-1-62417-153-6_ch1.pdf” target=”_blank” rel=”noopener”>Free Download Available</a>
Chapter 2. Comparison of Reconstruction Methods for Terahertz Computed Tomography
(Ayesha Younus and Emmanuel Abraham, LOMA, University of Bordeaux, Talence, France)
Chapter 3. Technique and Clinical Applications of Hepatic Perfusion CT with Dual-Input Algorithms
(Sho Koyasu and Yoshihisa Tsuji, Department of Diagnostic Imaging and Nuclear Medicine, Kyoto University Graduate School of Medicine, Kyoto, Japan and others)
Chapter 4. The Use of Computed Tomography Imaging in the Diagnosis of Acute Mesenteric Ischemia
(Jose A. Muñoz and Michael Weinstein, Department of Surgery, Thomas Jefferson University Hospital, Philadelphia, PA, USA)
Part II. Cone-Beam Computed Tomography in Dentistry
Chapter 5. Cone-Beam Computed Tomography Imaging of Important Anatomical Structures in the Jaw
(Hironobu Konouchi, Miki Hisatomi and Jun-ichi Asaumi, Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Radiology, Okayama University Graduate Schools of Medicine, Dentistry and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Okayama, Japan)
Chapter 6. Clinical Application of Cone-Beam Computed Tomography by General Practitioners
(Jun Murakami, Miki Hisatomi, Toru Wakasa and Jun-ichi Asaumi, Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Radiology, Okayama University Graduate Schools of Medicine, Dentistry and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Okayama, Japan)
Chapter 7. Clinical Application of Cone-Beam Computed Tomography by Oral Surgeons
(Hidenobu Matsuzaki, Marina Hara, Takanobu Haruki and Jun-ichi Asaumi, Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Radiology, Okayama University Graduate Schools of Medicine, Dentistry and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Okayama, Japan)
Chapter 8. Cone-Beam Computed Tomography: New Developments in Dental Implant Assessment
(Robert A. Cederberg and Juan F. Yepes, Department of Restorative Dentistry and Biomaterials, University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston School of Dentistry, Houston, TX, USA and others)
Chapter 9. Endodontic Applications of Cone-Beam Computed Tomography Imaging
(Babak Nurbakhsh and Amir Azarpazhooh, Private Practice, Abbotsford, Canada and others)
Part III. Computed Tomography in Orthognathic Surgery
Chapter 10. Using 3D-CT to Analyze Structural Changes in the Hyoid Bone and Upper Airway after Orthognathic Surgery in Patients with Skeletal Class III Anterior Open Bite
(Yoon Seob Lee, Hyoung Seon Baik, Chung Ju Hwang, Da Hye Lee and Hyung Seog Yu, Department of Orthodontics, College of Dentistry, Yonsei University, The Institute of Craniofacial Deformity, Seoul, Korea)
Chapter 11. Using 3D-CT to Analyze the Masseter Muscle in Facial Asymmetry Before and After Orthognathic Surgery
(Seung Ah Seo, Hyoung Seon Baik, Chung Ju Hwang, Da Hye Lee and Hyung Seog Yu, Department of Orthodontics, College of Dentistry, Yonsei University, The Institute of Craniofacial Deformity, Seoul, Korea)
Part IV. Cone-Beam Computed Tomography in Orthodontics
Chapter 12. The Relationship between Conventional X-Ray Cephalometrics and Cone-Beam Computed Tomography
(C. Brian Preston and Guoqiang Guan, Department of Orthodontics, School of Dental Medicine, University at Buffalo, Buffalo, NY, USA)
Chapter 13. Selective Application of Cone-Beam Computed Tomography in Cephalometry
(Vandana Kumar, Laura R. Iwasaki and Jeffrey Nickel, Department of Oral Pathology, Medicine and Oral Radiology, University of Missouri-Kansas City, Kansas City, MO, USA and others)
Chapter 14. Cone-Beam Computed Tomography: An Essential for Proper Orthodontic Diagnosis and Treatment Planning
(Tarek El-Bialy, Department of Dentistry, Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry, University of Alberta, Alberta, Canada)
Chapter 15. Clinical Application of Three-Dimensional Cone-Beam Computed Tomography in Orthodontics
(Kiyoshi Tai, Yoshinobu Yanagi, Jae Hyun Park and Jun-ichi Asaumi, Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Radiology, Okayama University Graduate Schools of Medicine, Dentistry and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Okayama, Japan and others)
Chapter 16. Eight Questions on CBCT in Orthodontic Practice
(Gerald Nelson, Division of Orthodontics, Department of Orfacial Sciences, UCSF School of Dentistry, San Francisco, CA, USA)
Chapter 17. CBCT to Replace Digital Dental Models and Measurements
(Sercan Akyalcin and Jeryl D. English, Department of Orthodontics, University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston School of Dentistry, Houston, TX, USA)
Chapter 18. Alveolar Bone Changes in Non-Extraction Orthodontics
(G. Fräns Currier and Onur Kadioglu, Department of Orthodontics, University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center, Oklahoma City, OK, USA)
Chapter 19. Anterior and Posterior Root Resorption with Cone-Beam Computed Tomography
Chapter 20. Mesiodistal Root Angulation Shown on Conventional and Reconstructed Panoramic Radiographs
(Samuel P. Wise, Richard Kulbersh and Richard Kaczynski, Department of Orthodontics, University of Detroit Mercy School of Dentistry, Detroit, MI, USA)
Chapter 21. A New Cone-Beam Computed Tomography Technique to Evaluate Full-Tooth Angulation and Inclination in Orthodontic Cases
(D. Andrew DeHaan, Richard Kulbersh and Riyad Al-Qawasmi, Department of Orthodontics, University of Detroit Mercy School of Dentistry, Detroit, MI, USA)
Chapter 22. Cone-Beam Computed Tomography Assessment of Condylar Position with Centric Relation Wax Bite
(Richard Kulbersh, Thoai-Lan Tran, Theodore Freeland, and Richard Kaczynski, Department of Orthodontics, University of Detroit Mercy School of Dentistry, Detroit, MI, USA)
Chapter 23. An Evaluation of Condylar Position in Patients with Temporomandibular Dysfunction using Cone-Beam Computed Tomography
(Brian Scott, Richard Kulbersh and Richard Kaczynski, Department of Orthodontics, University of Detroit Mercy School of Dentistry, Detroit, MI, USA)
Chapter 24. CBCT Evaluation of Changes in the Total Pharyngeal Airway in Subjects from Seven to Eighteen Years
(Rosemarie Tan, Valmy Pangrazio Kulbersh, Richard Kulbersh and Riyad Al-Qawasmi, Department of Orthodontics, University of Detroit Mercy School of Dentistry, Detroit, MI, USA)
Chapter 25. A Comparison of Airway Dimensions among Different Skeletal Craniofaical Patterns
(Ronnie Sparks, Peter Ngan, Chris Martin, Thomas Razmus, James Mah and Erdogan Gunel, West Virginia University School of Dentistry, Morgantown, WV, USA and others)
Chapter 26. Three-Dimensional Surface Changes in the Mandible during Growth and Development
(Bryon J. Viechnicki, Jinwu Chen and Orhan C. Tuncay, Department of Orthodontics, Temple University Kornberg, School of Dentistry, Philadelphia, PA, USA and others)
Chapter 27. A Method of Superimposition of CBCT Volumes in the Posterior Cranial Base
(Jared R. Gianquinto, Bryon R. Viechnicki and Orhan C. Tuncay, Private Practice, Bakersfield, CA, USA and others)
Chapter 28. Superimposition of 3-Dimensional Cone-Beam Computed Tomography for 2-Dimensional Image Analysis
(Kiyoshi Tai and Jae Hyun Park, Postgraduate Orthodontic Program, Arizona School of Dentistry and Oral Health, A. T. Still University, Mesa, AZ, USA)
Chapter 29. CBCT and its Applications in Orthodontics: 3D Cephalometry
(Natalia Zamora, Vanessa Paredes and Jose Luis Gandía, Department of Orthodontics, Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry, University of Valencia, Valencia, Spain)
Chapter 30. Three-Dimensional Cephalometric Analysis of Skeletal and Dentoalveolar Relationships
(Mohamed Bayome, Jae Hyun Park and Yoon-Ah Kook, Department of Orthodontics, Seoul St. Mary’s Hospital, The Catholic University of Korea, Seoul, Korea and others)
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NPLI Profiled for 15th Anniversary
The Harvard Gazette ran a feature story to commemorate the 15th anniversary of the National Preparedness Leadership Initiative: The NPLI is a joint program of the Harvard Chan School and the Center for Public Leadership at Harvard Kennedy School (HKS). The annual executive education program has been attended by 750 leaders from 95 organizations in more than 30 states and 10 countries. It has reached thousands more leaders through symposia…
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Congratulations, Cohort XIII
NPLI Cohort XIII is complete. The concluding session included sessions with NPLI founding co-director and former Presidential Advisor David Gergen, US Secret Service Director (ret,) Julia Pierson (Cohort XI), General (ret.) Charles Jacoby, and ABC News Chief Health and Medical Editor Richard Besser (Cohort II) A series of impressive meta-leadership team presentations included how to better incorporate accurate science into preparedness and response decision making; increasing public awareness and use…
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1963 Gerry and the Pacemakers reached No.1 with ‘You’ll Never Walk Alone’
1968 Jimi Hendrix entered the charts at No.18 with his classic ‘All Along The Watchtower’
1981 The Specials split at the same announcing the formation of The Fun Boy Three
1991 Australia beat England 12-6 in the final of the Rugby World Cup atTwickenham
1993 Former world welterweight champion Lloyd Honeyghan won his 46th professional fight after beating Steve Goodwin
1936 The British Broadcasting Corporation initiates the BBC Television Service, the world’s first regular, high-definition (then defined as at least 200 lines) service. Renamed BBC1 in 1964, the channel still runs to this day.
1954 The first edition of ‘Hancock’s Half’ was screened by the BBC
1959 Quiz show scandals: Twenty One game show contestant Charles Van Doren admits to a Congressional committee that he had been given questions and answers in advance.
1982 Channel 4, Britain’s first new television channel for 18 years, began transmitting
2001 The computer-animated movie ‘Monsters Inc’ opened- it had the best ever debut for an animated film and the 6th best of all time
1871 Britain’s police forces began photographing all prisoners to form a ‘rogues gallery’
1903 The Daily Mirror was published for the first time
1924 The Sunday Express published the first crossword to appear in a British newspaper
1959 The first section of the M1 motorway, the first inter-urban motorway in the United Kingdom, is opened between the present junctions 5 and 18, along with the M10 motorway and M45 motorway
1960 Penguin Books is found not guilty of obscenity in the Lady Chatterley’s Lover case
1976 Jimmy Carter was elected President of the USA
1988 The Morris worm, the first internet-distributed computer worm to gain significant mainstream media attention, is launched from MIT.
1989 Jaguar, one of the few British-owned car makers left, was bought by the giant American Ford corporation in a £1.6 billion deal
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Why a normal person joins the Islamic State
In order to defeat an idea, you have to understand it.
Here’s an idea:
Millions of people who share a common heritage but live in different countries can unite under a single, benevolent ruler, with a single legal code that is fair and just, with common goals and a common view of the world. All will be treated equally; all will be protected. There will be no more bullying by dictators, thugs and secret police. There will be no more corruption. Factions will be unified. Life will be holy. There will be jobs and prosperity for all. The artificial borders imposed by outsiders will disappear. The very rich countries will now have to share with the poor countries.
This idea creates an entirely new world. It creates paradise.
The Islamic State of the Levant promises this to Muslims. It is why people leave their homes and go fight for it, and why towns welcome the rebels.
This is the idea that must be understood.
In America, we are prone to depicting enemies as psychopathic killers and leaving it at that. Rarely do we apply reason and ask: Why are so many people, normal people, following psychopaths?
Power-hungry monsters will always exist, but to a large extent they must earn the consent of the people in order to rule. The ambitions of most people rarely exceed the simple desire to raise and care for a family. If people think the monsters can help them do this, then the monsters will take on the appearance of saviors and be allowed to lead.
In nations where it is easy to raise and care for a family, this flirtation with monsters is incomprehensible. Nevertheless, it is real.
The monsters in Iraq and Syria now number about 30,000. The Iraqi army is almost 10 times larger. It is not the size of the fighting force that makes the Islamic State of the Levant strong. It is its idea of an enviable path through the chaos, tyranny and fragmentation within the Muslim world.
Much has been written about the rebels we know as ISIS, but almost none of it explains the group’s remarkable growth and success. The exception is a recent New York Times article by David D. Kirkpatrick, who did a simple thing. He went to Tunisia and asked people why they sympathize with ISIS.
Sufian Abbas, 31, a student sitting at a street café, must have given Kirkpatrick a look of disbelief before he answered with his own question, “Don’t you see it as a source of pride?”
Beheadings of innocent people a source of pride? No. The Tunisians believe the accounts of atrocities are fabrications of western media.
“The Islamic State is a true caliphate, a system that is fair and just, where you don’t have to follow somebody’s orders because he is rich or powerful,” said a fellow named Ahmed. “It is action, not theory, and it will topple the whole game.”
Kirkpatrick said people who have left Tunisia for ISIS territory often email friends and describe a better life. It is noteworthy that a good number of those attracted to the movement are unemployed and not particularly religious.
One who is religious and an ultraconservative said, “If I am going to get arrested and beaten here anyway, I might as well go where I can have an impact.”
The good news is that some Tunisians have returned home with reports that ISIS has not created paradise, that promises are false and joiners may be forced to do things against their will.
More will realize this, but by the time they do the Islamic State will have controlled more territory and be in a position to exert more force against the people who no want to give consent.
And this is why we must understand the idea of ISIS and come up with a better one — and soon. It must be a practical and convincing idea, one applicable to the culture. At all costs, we must avoid a rough and forceful attempt to sell western style democracy to Muslims. This will work about as well as ham at a bar mitzvah.
The big myth is that the world wants to be like us. Strategically, this kind of thinking gets us nowhere. It is much better to accept the undiscovered truth that other cultures can be with us without being like us.
Let’s begin at that point. From there I believe we can make progress.
By Lanny Morgnanesi
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‘Phil’ Review: A Messy Story About a Suicidal Dentist
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In “Phil,” Greg Kinnear acts and directs, which has left him without at least one important person to say “no.” Still, even the most exacting auteur might have labored to help him make sense of this title character. The film opens with Phil, a suicidal dentist, preparing to throw himself off a bridge, then backing off, despite the encouragement of onlookers and the thematically appropriate musical accompaniment of “(I Never Promised You a) Rose Garden” on his car radio.
Phil is still getting over a divorce and, it seems, is clinically depressed. Kinnear strains to convey the character’s inner torment while making him outwardly comic — or at least that appears to be the intent, judging from Rolfe Kent’s sprightly laugh track of a score. Like all depressed people, Phil goes to work with his hair uncombed. Soon he becomes obsessed with a patient, Michael (Bradley Whitford), who has written a successful book on Socrates and looks to have life figured out.
Desperate to learn the secret to Michael’s happiness, Phil begins stalking him — and finds him hanging from a tree. Phil starts posing as Michael’s long-lost friend from Greece and insinuates his way into the life of Michael’s widow, Alicia (Emily Mortimer). If Kinnear’s impersonation of sorrow is cringe-worthy, his “Mrs. Doubtfire” routine — Phil, having agreed to remodel Alicia’s bathroom, learns a few Greek words and tries to smoke a Turkish cigarette — is simply painful.
The subject of suicide sits uneasily alongside scenes in which, for example, Kinnear thrashes about while trying to keep up with a Greek dance. The only thing grimmer than the material in “Phil” is its execution.
Rated R for mistreatment of the bereaved. Running time: 1 hour 46 minutes.
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Courtesy for Some, Misdemeanors for Others
Originally published at Cato Institute by John Pfaff | April 16, 2019
Case: Whren v. US
I am pleased to have this chance to share some thoughts on Sarah Seo’s new book, Policing the Open Road, about the relationship between our car-centered culture and policing. The fascinating historical story she tells—how the introduction of the mass-produced car, which seems so unrelated to criminal justice, led to fundamental changes in policing—alone makes her introductory essay worth reading. Like: why are the police trained to be polite? Because when they started policing roads, they suddenly came into contract with middle- and upper-class citizens, and their prior gruffness was no longer acceptable.
Perhaps more important, Seo’s book is part of a critical refocusing of our discussion of criminal justice reform, away from mass incarceration (where I spend most of my time) and towards mass punishment. Most reform discussions focus on prisons, and prison populations are the central metric by which we compare ourselves to other countries and our own past. But prisons, and the generally serious offenses that send people there, are just the tip of the punishment iceberg. While there are about 1.4 million people in prison, we send over 10 million to jails every year, and we make about 10 or 11 million arrests—most of which are for offenses that will never send someone to prison (only about 500,000 are for serious violence and 1.3 million for serious property crimes).
In other words, while our reform efforts tend to focus on felonies and prisons—on incarceration—almost everyone’s contact with criminal justice is through the far vaster, far more invisible, and far more disorganized world of Misdemeanorland (to steal Issa Kohler-Hausmann’s fantastic neologism). And as people like Kohler-Hausmann and Alexandra Natapoff (in her Punishment Without Crime) have recently shown, the overall impact of Misdemeanorland surely dwarfs that of the felony system, even if it receives only a fraction of the attention. Seo’s examination of policing automobiles is an important contribution to this, since she is looking at the single most common form of police-citizen interaction (at least for those who do not live in a small subset of heavily policed urban neighborhoods), and one of the few that easily and frequently crosses the lines of race and class.
In fact, it was this universality of traffic stops that jumped out at me, leading first to one troubling observation and then to one troubling question.
To start, Seo’s account complicates some aspects of the narrative we rely on to explain why our system is so punitive, especially at the misdemeanor level. Oftentimes discussions about criminal justice reform turn to the issue of “overcriminalization,” the idea that we criminalize too much conduct that should not be a crime in the first place. By and large, this is somewhat of a red herring in the context of felonies and prison populations; even if many of the people in prison need not be there (or be there for as long), almost all have often been convicted of conduct we all agree should remain criminalized (like assault or theft). But it is not a minor point when we get to Misdemeanorland.
Misdemeanorland is defined by overcriminalization. We have criminalized as misdemeanors all sorts of conduct that is unappealing and problematic but almost certainly not deserving of any sort of criminal punishment, like jaywalking, spitting on the street—or even non-reckless speeding. And even when the conduct these low-level laws target may seem criminally problematic, the laws are often drafted so broadly that they cover all sorts of behavior they surely shouldn’t.
Most discussions of this overcriminalization of Misdemeanorland frame it as the logical end-result of America’s deep-seated racism and classism. We quickly turn to Misdemeanorland to handle things like speeding or playing loud music because of an almost instinctive desire to punish the poor, people of color, and especially poor people of color, a response that crowds out less punitive ways to address these issues.
That instinct is no doubt significant, but Seo’s account introduces an important wrinkle to this take.
When states first stated regulating driving, the people driving were far more likely to be middle- or upper-class and white—they very people we think (correctly) that the system goes out of its way to treat better. Yet even here, our instinct was to regulate driving primarily through the criminal code and police enforcement. As Seo points out, the rise of the car led to wealthier Americans suddenly having encounters with the (rapidly expanding) police, not with local and state governments coming up with new non-police ways to regulate driving. And the statutory responses were often punitive as well. In Georgia, for example, every traffic violation is a misdemeanor carrying not only the risk of a fine but of jail time.
Now, to be absolutely clear, if wealthier white Americans and their families and friends were repeatedly subjected to the indignities of our massive misdemeanor system—arrested and cuffed in public, shipped off to Rikers for a few days, and then saddled with fines and fees and restrictions on liberty for nothing more than, say, crossing in the middle of the street or driving without a seatbelt on—we would surely see a massive push for changes, and Misdemeanorland would not be nearly as invisible to most people as it is.
But Seo’s historical account points out just how deeply held our punitive instinct is. It is an instinct that has waxed and waned, to be sure—our incarceration rates have been much lower in the past, even when national politics were surely more punitive—but Seo’s story of cars and policing and driving misdemeanors is an important reminder of just how broad that instinct can be.
Seo’s discussion of the normalcy of traffic stops also brought up for me an intriguing question about policing reform. While there is a broad bipartisan consensus for prison reform, such is not the case for policing, and I wonder if traffic policing, and the civility-in-policing norms it created, is one reason why. Despite new data about the remarkable number of Americans who know someone who has had at least some contact with prisons or jails, those two institutions remain generally alien to most people. When we hear that conditions are awful or abusive, many if not most voters do not filter that information through any personal experience.
Such is not the case, however, for policing. Far more people have had interactions with the police than with prison or jail, and most of those interactions have been via traffic stops—stops where the police, as Seo points out, have been trained to be more polite. So when people otherwise uninvolved with the criminal justice system hear about police brutality, aggressiveness, and harassment, they have personal experiences to turn to—experiences that do not line up with those accounts. “Well, all my interactions with the police have been polite and respectful” might be anecdotal reasoning, but it is often compelling anecdotal reasoning.
Obviously the solution isn’t to encourage police to be less civil when stopping suburban motorists. But by highlighting the unique ubiquity of police vehicle stops, Seo may have also shed light on why efforts to reform policing seem to face more of an upward battle than those to fix other aspects of our flawed criminal justice system.
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When people think of consumer drones and multirotor copters, they almost certainly go directly to DJI. There is no name more synonymous with the product category, in fact, for both consumers and professionals. One of the reasons that DJI is so popular is the incredible stability of their cameras, care of a very sophisticated gyroscopic stabilizer. The stabilizer is so good at what it does, that the company has decided to bring it outside of the drone and into a new product, the Osmo Pocket.
This new product is a small, handheld video camera is able to record in full UHD 4K resolution, at 60 frames per second. It can record for 140 minutes on a charge, all in an incredibly small body. But, where DJI really sets the Osmo Pocket apart from the crowded is by bringing their 3-axis gimbal to the camera. This single feature makes the camera incredibly attractive for all sorts of video creators.
The most obvious usage is for amateur sports videography. Whether you're running up and down your kids' soccer pitch or filming your friends' newest skateboard trick, this is a great camera. It's because of the stabilization. You can literally run with the camera and the gimbal can keep the frame level and steady. All of this is made possible while still managing to pack everything into a single-handed design.
The gimbal is mechanical but digitally controlled. This gives the camera the ability to do some great capabilities that you simply cannot get with a generic gimbal. For example, ActiveTrack, a feature which allows you to tap on a subject on the screen and the camera will continue to follow the subject as it moves, as well as while the camera moves. Again, this makes following a kid's soccer game or skateboarding video far easier to film.
The DJI Osmo Pocket is available now for $349, and can be found in accessory bundles, as well.
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Stack up your backpacks! South Africa to welcome International tourists from October
Well, well, well! Here’s another country that’s opening its borders for international travel from next month. South Africa, the ‘Rainbow Nation’ has decided to open up its borders to straighten out their wrinkled economy. The country has been under the lockdown mode for the past six months in different phases and has finally decided to open up borders post completion of the last phase.
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The President of South Africa, Cyril Ramaphosa stated that the country’s economy had suffered major damages due to lockdown. He further stated “Our economy and our society have suffered great devastation. We have endured a fierce and destructive storm. But, by standing together, by remaining resolute, we have withstood it.”
South Africa had faced a major surge in cases around 2 months back in spite of the lockdown being imposed. 12,000 new cases were being reported on a daily basis which has now reduced to around 2,000 cases per day. The recovery rate is also remarkable in South Africa and this will be a good ground to ensure that the virus is eradicated. Safety precautions like social distancing and wearing of masks will remain mandatory, but tourist influx is sure to increase in the upcoming month.
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President Ramaphosa said, “Now is the time to return our country, its people and our economy to a situation that is more normal, that more resembles the lives that we were living six months ago. It is time to move to what will become our new normal for as long as the coronavirus is with us.” Considering that the infection rate is slowly decreasing in the country, this will provide ample opportunities to get back to normalcy. Thus, the government has decided to do away with the restrictions of international travel.
Any kind of tourist inflow will be allowed on the basis of containment and mitigation measures after thorough screening. All types of tourists including business and leisure travellers will be allowed into South Africa from the 1st of October. However, they will send out a list of countries from where tourist inflow will be allowed. Technically, people from countries having a high infection rate will not be allowed to travel. This data will be provided after scientific research and will help in guaging the revenue expectations from tourism.
Ramaphosa, the President of South Africa also said, “The tourism sector is one of our greatest economic drivers. We are ready to open our doors again to the world, and invite travelers to enjoy our mountains, our beaches, our vibrant cities and our wildlife game parks in safety and confidence.” Three International Airports will allow the entry of tourists, including Johannesburg, Durban and Cape Town.
But all safety norms have to be adhered to by tourists at any cost. This includes following the rule of night curfew from 12:00 a.m to 4:00 a.m. All travellers will also have to produce a COVID-negative certificate upon arrival or face mandatory quarantine. The test should have been taken not beyond 72 hours prior to departure.
Any form of religious or social gatherings like weddings and funerals have to maintain a minimum ceiling of 50% people of the venue capacity. The number varies from gathering to gathering and public places like cinema halls and gyms will also follow similar norms. As far as alcohol is concerned, it will now be sold on all weekdays as opposed to the earlier norm of Monday to Wednesday.
The South African government officials have also decided to get back in business in office. This is to ensure that the welcoming of tourists in October takes place in a smooth fashion. After all, the primary objective is the safety of people and their prosperity. All efforts will be taken to ensure that there is no new wave of infection caused in the country. If you need help with planning your South Africa tour package, do reach out to Pickyourtrail. Customize your dream itinerary and embark on your much-awaited post-lockdown trip!
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Which? reveals the nation’s most disappointing Christmas presents
Out of date Baileys liqueur, potato peelers and a mop and bucket are among the worst Christmas gifts consumers have received, as new Which? research reveals Londoners and younger generations were the most likely to give away Christmas gifts last year.
The consumer champion surveyed more than 2,000 members of the public in February 2020 on what they did with unwanted Christmas presents they received last year.
Around one in five (19%) admitted they had given away or sold one or more gifts they had received last Christmas.
Those from younger generations were most likely to give away presents. Which? found three in ten (28%) of those aged between 18 and 34 years old gave away or sold at least one present they received last year, compared to nearly one in five (17%) aged between 45 and 54 years, and one in 10 (12%) aged 55 years and over.
Londoners were also more likely to find a new home for their presents compared to the rest of the UK – a third (32%) of those from the capital said they gave away or sold disappointing gifts compared to the UK average of one in five (19%).
Which? found women were more likely than their male counterparts to give away or sell their presents – a quarter (24%) of women decided to find a new home for their disappointing presents last year compared to one in seven (15%) men.
The consumer champion also asked people about the worst Christmas gifts they have ever received. Among them was a carpet cleaner, a sleeve ironing board, used potato peelers and out of date Baileys Irish Cream liqueur – which was thankfully poured down the sink.
One former school cleaner told Which? she felt “very insulted” when she received a plastic bucket, mop and pink rubber gloves one Christmas. Another person was less than impressed when they received “Mr & Mrs” cushion covers from an ex-boyfriend.
Most retailers extend their return policy during the festive period, so if you’ve received a disappointing gift you may be able to exchange it for another item or a voucher if you have a gift receipt. However, customers should carefully consider whether to accept vouchers, as they could become worthless if the retailer goes under.
The buyer is often the only one who can request a refund or exchange, however, retailers may allow gift recipients to return gifts in exchange for a gift card, voucher or credit note so long as the item was marked as a gift at the time of purchase.
If you don’t have a gift receipt, you could consider donating your gift to charity or selling it on a secondhand marketplace such as eBay or musicMagpie.
Adam French, Which? Consumer Rights Expert, said:
“Whether it is out of date booze or kitchen utensils, many of us have been left wondering how to get rid of an unwanted Christmas gift – and our research shows a fifth of people choose to give their presents away.
“We’d always advise requesting a gift receipt so the recipient has the option to exchange the present if they are disappointed.
“Often only the buyer can request a refund or exchange. But if the item was marked as a gift when ordered, the retailer’s returns policy may enable a recipient to return or exchange it.”
Yonder, on behalf of Which?, surveyed 2,071 UK adults online between January 31st and 3rd February 2020. The data has been weighted to be representative of the UK population (aged 18 and over).
Which? advice on what to do with unwanted gifts is available here: https://www.which.co.uk/consumer-rights/advice/i-want-to-return-my-goods-what-are-my-rights
Please see a list below of what we think are 10 of the worst Christmas gifts respondents reported in Which?’s most recent survey:
Ironing board sleeve
Used potato peelers
Out of date Baileys Irish Cream Liqueur
Plastic bucket, mop & pink rubber gloves
Mr & Mrs cushion covers from an ex-boyfriend
Bejewelled bath cap
A second-hand bra
A pencil stand
Emoji poo bath plug
The information in this press release is for editorial use by journalists and media outlets only. Any business seeking to reproduce information in this release should contact the Which? Endorsement Scheme team at endorsementscheme@which.co.uk.
Which? is the UK’s consumer champion, here to make life simpler, fairer and safer for everyone. Our research gets to the heart of consumer issues, our advice is impartial, and our rigorous product tests lead to expert recommendations. We’re the independent consumer voice that influences politicians and lawmakers, investigates, holds businesses to account and makes change happen. As an organisation we’re not for profit and all for making consumers more powerful.
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John Butler Trio Plays Two Special Concerts In NZ
28 Feb 2019 Radio13
They’ve just finished a massive 15-date Australian tour including two huge shows at the Sydney Opera House Forecourt, and now John Butler Trio are set to bring their latest Australian #1 album Home to New Zealand fans this weekend. The Australian icons will play alongside an all-star kiwi line-up in Nelson on Saturday, and Auckland on Sunday, with limited tickets still available for both concerts.
In a massive indoor show at the Trafalgar Centre on Saturday, John Butler Trio will take the stage mid-afternoon after sets by The Eastern and Trinity Roots and before Fly My Pretties and L.A.B. who are flying high after their the release of their latest album in December.
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Saturday 2 March
Trafalgar Centre, Nelson
2:00 // GATES
2:30 // THE EASTERN
3:25 // TRINITY ROOTS
4:30 // JOHN BUTLER TRIO
6:30 // FLY MY PRETTIES
8:50 // L.A.B.
The show moves to Auckland for an outdoor show in the stunning surrounds of The Hunting Lodge, with John Butler Trio playing last following sets by Alae, Trinity Roots and L.A.B.
Sunday 3 March
The Hunting Lodge, Auckland
1:40 // ALAE
5:30 // JOHN BUTLER
These are concerts that are jam-packed with the very best Australasian talent. Get tickets now from Eventfinda.
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Canals in Nineteenth-Century Literary History
Jodie Matthews
In a rare novelistic foray to the north, Charles Dickens described the great industrial ‘Coketown’ in Hard Times (1854), based partly on Preston. While trains as a means of conveying passengers to and from Coketown steam through the narrative, the railway is largely distant from, rather than integral to, the town’s industry. Those travelling by express at night see the great factories illuminated ‘like Fairy palaces’ rather than experiencing the noise and smoke. Mrs Sparsit’s journey sees her ‘borne along the arches spanning the land of coal-pits past and present, as if she had been caught up in a cloud and whirled away’. Deep within the ‘town of machinery and tall chimneys’, however, is its ‘black canal’, a blackness implicated in the town’s name and polluted existence. The canal is one of the attributes ‘inseparable from the work by which [Coketown] was sustained’. The products ‘which found their way all over the world’ to consumers who cannot bear the thought of Coketown itself and its role in their luxury are transported around Britain and to ports for trans-shipment via that very canal. 1 Dickens’s responses to the railway are often discussed, but his allusions to canals are rarely, if ever, mentioned. 2
Transport and its Place in History
Making the Connections
Abingdon & New York
https://doi.org/10.4324/9781351186636-10
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Matthews, J. (2020). Canals in Nineteenth-Century Literary History. In D. Turner (Ed.), Transport and its Place in History: Making the Connections (1st ed., pp. 136-150). (Routledge Studies in Modern British History). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781351186636-10
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Speck 30.4
Posted on October 22, 2013 by wildbow
I didn’t break eye contact with Dragon. My eyes were damp, and it was impossible to find a balance in terms of keeping still. I either slumped over or I held myself so rigid that I trembled, an ache creeping over my body, my muscles too taut.
Back when Emma and I had been friends, way back in middle school, we’d done one of the sleepover dares. Going into a dimly lit room and staring out our reflections. Repeat the name of the monstrous woman, a name that escaped me now, over and over, without breaking eye contact.
The freaky thing had been that it had worked. My expression had torn, twisted and distorted, dark patches creeping over my cheeks and forehead, my mouth disappearing with only a blank stretch of skin in its place. I’d fled the room.
I’d later read up on it, because understanding something meant being able to handle it, and my problems back then had been ones I could understand. The effect was a result of the mind’s idleness. We only really saw a little bit of what we looked at, and our brain worked constantly to fill in the gaps and unimportant spaces with its best guesses. In a dimly lit room, with the mind focused on the steady, hypnotic repetition, the brain would fill in spaces with the only reference points available to it, taking from features in its field of view to patch together the face. Fear, imagination and the recently-told scary story of having one’s entrails ripped out through their mouth did the rest.
The mind was an amazing thing, but it had limits and weaknesses. I’d been taking in too much even before I added the clairvoyant.
Dragon spoke, her voice insistent, concerned, and pitched as a question at the end.
I raised my arm and the stump of a limb to the sides, bringing the clairvoyant’s hand with me. An exaggerated shrug. I then let them flop down to my sides.
Dragon said something else in response, a statement, quiet.
Using the clairvoyant was an art, it seemed, and I hadn’t received any advice on how to handle it. I was figuring it out, though. My focus on Dragon was like staring into the mirror. There were too many details to clarify to keep my attention in one place for so long. Things were starting to bleed around the edges in areas I wasn’t focusing on, like a watercolor painting that was bleeding out beyond the lines.
Subtle, but it was there. Was it the entity, trying to tap into my memories to hash things out where my perceptions were failing? It wasn’t anything substantial, not yet. I was focused on Dragon, above all else. The various people, the capes, the fighting, all were clear in my awareness. It was the hills, the mountains, the vast spaces of water or field without anyone nearby that were shifting subtly. Cities in particular seemed to be a jumble. Or was it just easier to see the differences and errors when a city was rearranged in a way that didn’t make sense?
More to the point, was I simply losing my mind entirely?
I’m running out of time.
I raised my hand again, reaching out towards the Birdcage, below us, towards the comparative miles of space and containment foam, the forcefields and countless other effects that had been worked together to form the most secure facility they could manage. The empty space between the hanging structure itself and the walls that had been thickened by the engine was vast in a way that staggered me, just a little. Shit like that didn’t help with the fucked-up perception thing.
My hand was shaking, the muscles in my forearm too tense, the hand too loose.
Without breaking that eye contact, I gestured, turning my hand over, curling the fingers. I opened a portal at the same time, inside the Birdcage.
Dragon shifted her stance, and that same room flooded with containment foam.
She said something in that same, quiet voice.
As communication went, it would have to do. Not the words I couldn’t understand, but the gestures. I’d declared what I wanted, she’d drawn the line.
I wanted so badly to hug her, to cross the distance between us and throw my arm around her muzzle, or around one of her legs. To have something physical to hold on to that I wasn’t actively controlling. I couldn’t give her an opening to take me out of action.
I began opening a portal beneath a flow of lava, a trickle on Earth Bet, at the mouth of a cave system. The lava met the edge of the portal, and it winked out of existence. A splash of it passed through the portal, touching Dragon where her ‘neck’ met her body.
She moved, jet-engine ‘wings’ reorienting, pulsing with thrusters going on full to move her fifty feet to the right. Her claws met a cliff face, digging into stone, and the thrusters kept going, pushing her against the rock and holding her on the surface.
Right. Okay. A different tack then.
She was retaliating, too. Her guns trained on me, barrels glowing.
I opened defensive portals before I even saw what she was firing at me. Lightning, crackling in visible arcs around what looked like sphere-shaped empty spaces. Controlled pockets of ionized atmosphere, probably, to give the lightning a path to travel.
The lightning traveled through the portal and struck Scion from behind. I closed the portal before he could react.
The guns changed, the barrels contracting, the mounts behind the barrels reconfiguring. A portal simultaneously opened behind me.
She sprayed containment foam. Not a stream, but an honest spray, as if she was trying to paint the entire mountain peak.
I stepped through a portal, putting myself halfway on the other side of the world. I stood on the roof of the Byzantine Tower in Istanbul. Third tallest building in the world, surrounded by a shattered city and waterways that were now polluted with detritus and rubble.
Then I opened fire. Every parahuman I controlled with a ranged attack or gun fired into the portals I was opening beside them. The exit-points were beside Dragon, and a cascade of bullets, lasers, energy shots, ice, lightning, metal and other effects obliterated her ship, tearing through the cliff face.
I moved my collection of people out of the way before the resulting rockslide could kill anyone. The thinkers and tinkers joined me, the rest relocated to other points on the mountain.
The ship she’d sent my way was slag. Barely worth calling scrap metal. I checked it over twice.
Dragon deployed her drones. Not ships, but tens of thousands of airborne craft, most no larger than a basketball, kept aloft by antigrav panels like the ones on my flight pack. I already knew that each was loaded with a specific payload. Containment foam, EMP pulses, explosives, tear gas and more.
This wasn’t a typical fight. It was more like a war, two parties with vast resources at their disposal, with armies and incredible potential in terms of the tools we could bring to bear. In a typical fight, things would end when one person knocked the other out, but a war rarely ended that way. The fighting would continue until we’d done enough damage to the other that they had to give up. Dragon was decentralized, with no single point that could be attacked to remove her from the fight. Truth was, I’d probably have to destroy everything to destroy her. If she didn’t give up.
If she could give up.
As for me, I was inaccessible, out of reach.
I was quietly confident I could win this, one way or another. She’d have to defeat every cape in my little army, every cape I potentially acquired in the meantime, and I doubted her willingness to do that.
Don’t destroy my army. Please don’t be willing, don’t be capable. If that happens, then I’ve failed completely and totally, I’ve done this to myself and will go out as a villain, all for nothing.
The fight against Scion was ongoing. I needed to be able to focus, especially with the way things seemed to be breaking down in the least important areas. I couldn’t split my attention between him and Dragon, or something that was nigh-impossible would become harder.
The drones closed the distance, and my army began gunning them down. They were evasive, and I could take in the whole picture to see how Dragon was managing them. Not simultaneously, but close enough it barely mattered.
I tapped into precogs and clairvoyants, along with other thinkers, gauging the best approach.
Shén Yù informed me of the general thrust of Dragon’s attack. I could see it through his perceptions, mottled, indistinct lines in the battlefield. X drones moving to one of my groups, Y drones to another. The path they intended to travel… I could tell that as well. An initial wave of attacks to debilitate, and then the second wave, drones for a follow-up strike. The lines had a feeling to them. I could almost assign labels. Infantry, cavalry.
I looked around me. If I drew parallels, tried to correlate what I was seeing with what Shén Yù was seeing…
She was aiming to strike me. How?
Seventeen Dragon-craft deployed from the hangar. Again, not combat models, but utility models, fast response and rescue. Craft she’d been holding in reserve, no doubt because the cost of deploying them outweighed their potential benefit against Scion.
The clearer Dragon’s direction of attack became, the more Shén Yù’s awareness clarified on her weak points. Distant locations and objectives. Some were objectives I couldn’t identify, even with the clairvoyant. He only saw within the boundaries of Earth’s atmosphere.
Others… valid targets. I sent one squad to an army base. Pulses of gravity and intense heat let me detonate the contents of a munitions depot and direct the force of the explosion in one direction. The end result annihilated a data center Dragon had set up nearby.
I could see her reaction, in the broadest sense. Where her drones had been micromanaged before, they weren’t being controlled now. She was focusing elsewhere, controlling the larger craft and assigning them to the protection of the various data centers.
There was a skeleton crew of people at one facility. A data management firm that Dragon had bought out, I suspected, because the entire databank was reading as hers. Row upon row of servers, standing like tombstones in refrigerated rooms. Freezing air poured through the floor, pushing up against the warmer air. The facility seemed more like an alien landscape of steel and cold than anything of human design, complete with a constant, persistent weather pattern – a constant, gale-force wind generated by the movements of hot and cold air in what had to have been a careful design.
That the crew had stayed suggested something about their personalities. Discreet, paranoid people, who’d built a shelter inside the facility as a hiding place, in case things went to hell.
Which was pretty damn reasonable, considering the sheer amount of nightmarish crap there was in the world.
I used portals to take control of them. I couldn’t read what was on the screens, so I had them take a more direct route. They made their way through the building, throwing switches, pulling plugs and opening sealed doors.
Three of my Yàngbǎn capes entered the facility through portals and began generating heat as they’d done outside the C.U.I.’s Imperial Palace. I could find the freezer… and another cape could step through to damage it. Dragon’s utility craft arrived on site, but the damage had been done.
I’m sorry, I thought, again. My attention shifted to the monitors and gauges in her various databanks. I could see dials shift closer to red, numbers rising, gauges nearly filled.
Dragon could manage her things, I told myself. She had safeguards, ways of keeping her data safe. There was no doubt in my mind on that score. Each time I disabled a facility, I forced her to consolidate, to put the resources that remained under further stress.
My ranged capes aimed for portals once again. This time, I put the exit portals against Earth’s atmosphere, aiming for the general direction of a satellite.
It took thirty seconds of sustained fire before Shén Yù’s power stopped telling me it was a weak point. Other thinker powers in my range were giving me similar feedback. A cape with perfect eyesight was telling me it could even see the explosion.
The displays across Dragon’s private realm shifted further.
She was saying something to Defiant, words I couldn’t make out. I could see him tensing, moving like he was going to go somewhere. Then Dragon spoke again, and he went still. His head turned in Scion’s general direction.
Please stop, I thought. Don’t make me go further.
She went further. She intensified and organized the attack, and her drones reached my front line, disabling them with nonviolent means. Tranquilizers, electric pulses, containment foam and tear gas.
I let it happen, because I needed to see what her second wave attack was, before she organized a more efficient frontline attack.
The second wave approached, and they made a beeline for the portals that were controlling my minions. The portals that would exit right next to me. But the drones were too large…
Until they jettisoned outer shells and accelerated. Half the payload, but they had the same kind of propulsion jets I had in my flight pack. I moved the portals a fraction of a second before they speared through, and they continued onward through open air.
Shén Yù informed me about the third wave’s imminent attack. Not a feeling of attack, but… the initial wave had read to his senses as something like infantry or spearmen. The second wave had read as cavalry.
This? A siege weapon? The lines that Shén Yù’s power painted on the world indicated something deliberate, devastating, but diffuse, somehow indirect.
I directed fire at the drones, and forcefields served to protect most. The non-Yàngbǎn capes I had that could penetrate the forcefields were few and far between, the drones too numerous.
They set up, planting their mechanical limbs firmly on the ground, and then they deployed, pyramid-shaped structures, glowing blue at the peak.
My portals began opening, ones I’d closed not long ago. Portals I’d opened to control my capes, and the larger portal I’d opened to escape to this location on the Byzantine Tower. I couldn’t shut them.
Drones started to make their way through.
I, in turn, opened another portal, handing one tinker device to Shén Yù before hurrying on, leading the rest through. Portals blocked the drone’s ranged fire.
The Yàngbǎn’s strategist used Teacher’s device, and all the doors in his vicinity slammed shut.
Dragon’s path to me was shut.
I watched the meters and gauges. Each attack had pushed Dragon’s remaining resources closer to capacity. That was on top of the extra strain she was under with Scion having done so much damage to the Eastern seaboard. He would have eliminated other databanks when he’d attacked. Just like me, she’d been wounded and disabled before entering into our private war. Just like me, she desperately wanted to focus on Scion, but she couldn’t afford to.
If each attack pushed the remaining databanks four percent closer to capacity, at a guess… no. I was having trouble putting the numbers together. Had to eyeball all of it.
I targeted another facility. All of the ranged attacks, channeled through open portals, ripping through an unoccupied facility.
In quiet horror, I watched meters flip over into the red, gauges hitting maximum capacity, bars filling, characters on screens going nutso until they were all the same digit, repeated ad infinitum.
One by one, monitors went blank. Server banks I hadn’t even touched began to spin down, fans stopping, lights fading. Whole grids of blinking green lights winked out, some in order, others at random.
I watched, silent and frozen, as the process continued.
Stop, I thought. That’s enough.
You have backup servers, I thought. Those servers need to stay online. They have to stay online, because you can’t exist in stasis any more than I could.
She needed life support, at a bare minimum. She couldn’t go any length of time without something running any more than I could go for a duration without a heartbeat or breathing.
But the lights continued to go out.
She said things to others, over the comms systems. To Chevalier and other various heroes. A few words or a statement or two, specific to each of them.
Some longer words and phrases dedicated to Defiant, and more acerbic words for Teacher and Saint.
Saint didn’t react, but Teacher raised his phone, tapping it a few times before saluting the air with the device.
The drones close enough to do so sank to the ground all across the mountain’s peak. Her suits had already retreated and settled on the ground. Defiant was very still as he watched them land.
Then Scion attacked, screaming incoherently, and Defiant moved, taking control of one ship.
The last of Dragon’s lights went out.
I stood in a daze as the various machines went still, surprisingly hot as the fans stopped spinning. All of the server rooms and data banks were utterly dark and quiet.
Drones that hadn’t been close enough to the surface to land dropped out of the air. They hit the ground, along with one or two members of my swarm, and I flinched with the crashing, as if they were striking me.
I’m sorry, I thought, but it wasn’t my thought. A memory.
It was good that my power was saying it, because I couldn’t. My own thoughts were a jumble.
My feelings were a chaotic mess. A lump was growing in my throat, swelling beyond my ability to tolerate it.
I hunched over, and I very nearly let go of the clairvoyant’s hand before remembering that I couldn’t. Instead, Doormaker and the clairvoyant both pulled at my mask until it was halfway up my face. I felt the lump become a wave of vomit, spattering over the rooftop. It hurt, not just the physical act, and yet it felt like so little. Still a scene I was experiencing while half-numb, experiencing from a distance.
I miscalculated?
Had she been vulnerable because of what Teacher had done to her?
Did it even matter?
I felt the need to throw up again, almost wanted to, just for that relief from what was welling up inside.
She’d been an ally, a friend.
I wanted to scream, to yell at her for being like all of the others and refusing to play along, to listen and cooperate. I wanted to do the opposite, to beg her forgiveness, and hate myself for being exactly what I’d criticized others for.
I wanted to put all of those feelings aside and start dealing with Scion. I wanted to give up on that entirely, because, fuck it, what was I even trying to save, at this point?
If I’d been whole, if I’d been balanced, I might have been able to find the middle road between the conflicting ideas. But I wasn’t. I remained hunched over, almost paralyzed.
My anchors… what had I chosen, again? Tattletale, Rachel, Imp… Grue’s cabin. My interlinking hexagonal portals were a mess. In the course of fighting Dragon, I’d closed portals and opened others without any attention to keeping it together. That was something to pay attention to. If I wasn’t feeling my emotions as clearly as I should, I had to look for the external clues, and that jumble was suggestive of an emotional turmoil I’d been suppressing.
I began pulling the grid back together, not feeling any better.
I reached out, trying to remind myself of the anchors I’d set up.
My mom… I found the graveyard.
My old house…
Where had it been again?
The streets were such a mess, one pile of rubble virtually indistinguishable from the rest. What was I supposed to even do to identify it, if there were no landmarks?
I’d hoped to use the anchors to help push myself forward, but reaching for one thing that I’d known from the very beginning and failing in the process left me in a more unbalanced state.
I was what?
There had been an idea I’d been reaching for, a word, a symbol, something. Yet I couldn’t clarify it in my head.
Don’t panic, I thought, but the words sounded panicked in my head. Rushed. Sloppy. My breathing was hard and fast, my heartbeat pacing out of control. Between the two, it was getting to my head, affecting my thoughts.
Don’t panic, I told myself. The repetition felt good, helping.
Or had it been my passenger telling me not to panic?
No. I had a perfectly normal lapse. Perfectly normal. A person in a stressful situation like this is going to have moments where she can’t come up with the right word.
Perfectly normal.
My breath wheezed a little as I panted.
You don’t want to, but you have to, I told myself. Stop Scion.
The portal slid open.
Except I hadn’t ordered it.
You want to take over, passenger? I thought. I began to struggle to my feet.
The drones moved.
Defiant?
Saint, taking over her systems again?
They flowed through the doorway to Shén Yù, blitzing him in passing.
No. Neither of the two seemed to be paying attention to me. They were focused on Scion.
I began erecting portals, shooting the drones out of the air, defending myself against the initial bombardment of tear gas canisters and containment foam. If I was slow to react, it was because of the disorientation, the lack of knowledge of who and what I was up against.
I had other thinkers available. Understanding their power was easier with the Yàngbǎn’s power boost. If they were puppets, the power boost meant the puppets fit my hand. I put them to work, trying to divine just who was seizing control of these drones.
It was so much easier to operate when I was doing something. Time and again, my lapses, the slippage, it had been in the quiet moments, between the conversations and the fighting.
It was easier if I was active, in the midst of conflict.
This was me. I thrived when I had an opponent, and when I could carry out that goal I’d had from the beginning, getting the world to the point where it all made sense. Bringing people in line, subjugating those who would get in the way or do more harm than good.
That was how I functioned. I’d always reveled in the chaos, in the madness of it all.
No, the thought crossed my mind. Not always.
Once upon a time, I’d been Taylor, minus the powers. I’d avoided conflict. I’d just been trying to get by.
Does that mean this is you, passenger?
There was, of course, no reply.
The drones kept coming, and I redoubled my efforts, calling individuals to me to form a battle line.
The moment the line was in place, the drones shifted. Some entered the portal, then immediately made a ‘u’ turn, flowing back around the sides of the portal and down. They circled around the building, trying to get at me from behind. I had to redistribute my personal army to block them off.
The portals were open and I couldn’t close them. But the lights on the drones were off. No lenses glowed, the antigrav panels were the only thing that indicated any power at all. Remote control of some sort?
The lights are off, but they’re still running.
I laughed, abrupt, an alien sound, not my own laugh.
The goddamn lights are off!
It wasn’t Saint mounting this attack against me. It wasn’t Teacher, or Defiant, or any of those other guys.
I continued laughing. My winded panting and nausea from before translated to a kind of lightheadedness.
Fucking Dragon.
Fucking with my head. Giving me a reality check. Trying to catch me off guard. She’d figured out that I had the ability to see her systems, she’d switched off the lights on the panels, put every system into hibernation, stopped the fans, and cut everything down to a bare minimum while the fans had stopped, so they didn’t overheat too quickly.
A drone that had crept around behind the building detonated in a flare of pale sparks, and every portal in the vicinity distorted, taking on weird shapes, more three-dimensional than two-dimensional. They winked out of existence.
Leaving me in the midst of an army I no longer controlled.
Fucking tinkers, I thought. But I was strangely overjoyed. I was fucked over six ways from Sunday, but I was happy. I hadn’t murdered one of my favorite people.
The capes at the edge of the rooftop were looking around in a daze.
The drones were moving, assuming a perimeter. The capes at the edge of the rooftop looked lost and shell-shocked.
And I was still laughing, clutching the clairvoyant’s hand as if it was one of the few things keeping me grounded.
Capes at the edges retreated, bumping into one another.
The laughter stopped as I abruptly let out a sound, half-roar, half-scream, incoherent, channeling every last iota of the lingering rage and despair into the noise.
I commanded the people in my range to attack the drones, and I continued screaming even as my throat began to hurt and I felt like I might pass out from oxygen.
Dragon was only just beginning to speak, some drones blaring out words in what might have been English, others in a sing-song dialect that was likely Chinese. The percussion and detonations that followed the attacks striking home drowned out most of it.
The ones at the edge took cues, attacking the drones they’d just been fighting.
Each and every one of them had been brainwashed. Some by Teacher, some by the Yàngbǎn. They hadn’t had freedom of choice for some time. Between the scream of rage, a pretty damn universal sound, and the action of the ones I did control, they defaulted to going with the crowd.
I still had to deal with Dragon. Her intent was clear, from the way the drones were moving. She wanted to target me, and stop me from the source. I needed to do the same, and I needed to do it without destroying her infrastructure. I wasn’t going to risk making that faked death into a real one.
Fuck you for fucking with my head at a time like this, Dragon.
The thought wasn’t one of malice. My feelings were so confused I could barely tell on that front. I was relieved, disoriented, but those were more states of being than actual feelings.
I was muddled.
One task at a time.
Stopping Dragon.
I watched as the suits she’d settled on the ground kicked back into action.
We’d fought Endbringers together. For a time, the Guild had been one of our biggest assets. I’d seen what happened when Dragon was taken out of action. A.I.? Nothing substantial. But when her main suit was taken out of action…
I saw the way she deployed the suits. Which was she keeping safest?
One was in the thick of things, creating different types of forcefield to try to mitigate the damage Scion was doing to our side. Capes had baited Scion out over the water, but the fact that there were less targets in range was counterbalanced by the fact that Scion was more focused on those who were there, and he was hitting harder. When he hit the water, waves crashed against the shore, doing nearly as much damage as any of his attacks might. A Leviathan with one arm, one leg, and most of its head missing was perched on the shoreline, apparently mitigating the damage.
There were two more suits on the fray, offering long-range fire.
And one more above the clouds, periodically firing exceedingly long ranged laser beams at Scion.
The drones were making headway. These capes weren’t completely under my control and they weren’t the most stable, either. They were liable to crumble where other capes might stand firm.
Doormaker was recovering his power. He could make portals, but it was slow.
My first instinct was to regain control. I reconsidered.
I didn’t have time to feel guilty. I didn’t have time to think. There was only a moment where I felt the weight of what I was doing, the knowledge that if this didn’t work, I’d set everyone back for nothing.
I opened portals behind Dragon’s longest-range ship, the entrance portals above my army’s heads. I began firing through the doors with every individual I could control, creating more portals to seize control of others with every passing second.
More ranged attacks joined the barrage. Dragon flew out of the way, her ship badly damaged, and I moved the portal, maintaining the assault.
The wreck of the ship plummeted from the sky, and the behavior of the other Dragon-craft changed, as though they’d switched gears. The drones dropped from the sky once again.
Something told me this wasn’t a feint.
I opened portals into the Birdcage, and Dragon didn’t stop me. No containment foam came down from the ceiling.
Maybe fifty or sixty members of my swarm had been disabled by the nonlethal measures. With the Birdcage, I added seven hundred and forty-three individuals to my army.
The nonlethal measures would wear off. It was a step forward.
I turned to my passenger to sort them out, and I sent a share of them into the fight to reinforce the others.
One obstacle, removed. Dragon would take time to reboot. I could disable her in a similar manner next time.
Defeating Dragon this way hadn’t been ideal, not completely freeing myself of the distraction and threat she posed, but it beat murdering her.
I turned my attention to the world as a whole, with the idea of recruiting other capes. I hit a dead end. The worlds were bleeding together, and it had gotten worse while my attention was elsewhere. I had to force myself to clarify what I was looking at, to tell myself that the areas didn’t make sense.
It took excruciating minutes to get my head out of that sludge, and to make sense of what I was looking at. Minutes, as Scion tore into Alexandria, to convince myself that it was all in my head, and that Scion wasn’t actively tearing apart reality.
I exhaled slowly, and the exhalation was a shudder. My throat hurt from the screaming.
The going was slow at first, but it picked up as I let my passenger handle more of the load. Capes in hiding. Rogues. Deserters who had fled for safety in our hour of need. A surprising number of capes who had no costume, and who had barely used their powers at all, judging by the way it felt when I reached for their abilities. They were rogues who’d been subtle at best, or rogues who’d gone without powers altogether.
There were the retirees, not old capes, but capes who’d been wounded, or who’d dropped out of the scene for other reasons. Their powers were more developed at their core, but rusty at best.
I reached for the insane, along with those disabled by their powers. A small few, all things considered. Glory Girl was among them, in a newly built wing of a home for non-cape invalids. Something her family had set up, no doubt.
I found members of Bonesaw’s Slaughterhouse Nine. Clones who’d fled, or who’d been left behind, lurking in dark corners, or simply hiding. A Mannequin, two Damsels that were keeping each other company, a Night Hag-Nyx hybrid, and a Crawler-Breed hybrid.
When I had the vast majority of them, I began looking to other universes.
There were capes in Earth Aleph, barely C-list by our standards. Sundancer, Genesis, and Ballistic were there as well, the former two in civilian clothes, retired, the latter in a lavish penthouse, fully done up in costume. My portals opened, and I had control of them. I left Oliver behind.
Other earths only had a small handful. No doubt there had been contamination at some point where doorways had been opened. Whole worlds with only ten capes at most, half of which were case fifty-threes.
I shook my head a little, blinking.
I found another Earth with a mixture of capes, all incredibly beautiful people, all in what was obviously a global position of power. Every flag that flew in their world was the same flag, and the gauntlet emblem on that flag matched the icon on a particular woman’s costume. A blue costume, with white fur at the collar, and a heavy cape that would have done Alexandria proud.
I attempted to seize control of them as well, and the woman in blue resisted me. She spoke, and I lost my hold on everyone in her range.
It was only twenty capes. Negligible. But I wasn’t going to settle. If I was going to compromise on any level, it was going to take more than this.
I created a portal, and I ensnared Canary, who was busy rescuing the wounded, flying here and there with her Dragonslayer suit, her arms full.
She set down the wounded, and then she passed through the portal.
She began to sing.
I was controlling her, and it was my song in a way, syllables rattled off at a fast tempo and severe clip, followed by long high notes. Not English, but not my own muddled speech either. I could feel her expressing her power through the song, through each intonation and sound.
I brought her close enough to give her the benefit of the Yàngbǎn’s power enhancer. I had enough awareness of her power to know how to keep myself safe from it.
I tried again with these foreign capes, in this world where this blue-costumed woman ruled the world, portals feeding Canary’s song into their council chambers.
Those same portals let me attempt to reassert control.
An attack from two directions. She wasn’t immune, only resistant. I felt myself assert control. I understood her power, even if I didn’t understand a thing about her. A personal, point-blank trump power, allowing her to tune abilities and defenses much like Scion did. A powerful long-ranged telekinesis, a compulsion power like Canary’s, presence-based rather than voice based, and a personal power battery that let her be stronger, for limited times.
Where the hell had she come from?
No powers that really made her amazing against Scion, but it was an asset.
The others… they weren’t weak. Nothing gamebreaking, at a glance, but they weren’t weak.
Sleeper. I could see him, sitting on a lawn chair on a balcony, reading a book out loud to himself.
More trouble than he was worth. I let him be.
One by one, I brought the ones I’d collected to the battlefield. The prisoners, the brainwashed, the lunatics, the cowards, the monsters and the broken. They assembled in groups, in the spaces between the other major groups. In front, behind, above, and below.
Canary’s song wove its way out of the portals. Slower than before, working with the wind and the waves rather than fighting against them.
More doors opened, and more of the ones I’d collected continued to appear.
Teacher was making his way into Cauldron’s base, walking past the heroes at the doorway like he belonged there. He was talking into his phone, mocked up to be like a PRT-issue phone, and the communication was going to every major member of the Protectorate and Guild.
Contessa, for her part, was waking up.
I was shaking, and it wasn’t just the tension. I wanted to sit down, but I knew that if I did, I probably wouldn’t stand again.
My anchors… The mantle of portals, Tattletale, Rachel, Imp, Grue.
My old house continued to elude me. That detail gave me a sinking feeling in my gut. I reached out for a replacement. Not my home, then. My dad’s workplace? No. Something else, something family.
A quaint old house on a hill, surrounded by rose bushes, a grandmother… Not my grandmother. I barely knew my Gram. I shook my head. The house on a hill had been a memory of something I’d read, once.
It was unsettling, the seeming reality of it, the nostalgia. If I was a little further gone, could I have clung to it, used something wrong to keep my identity intact?
I was still lost in thought when I became aware that I’d stepped onto the battlefield. I hadn’t plotted it. Had even felt like it would be a bad idea. Now Miss Militia was turning my way. Exalt was standing beside her.
Teacher was talking, and they were responding.
He was warning them about the threat.
I could see people throughout the crowd. Protectorate members, team leaders of the Wards. They were tense.
A voice carried over the wind. I recognized the quality of it, even if I didn’t recognize the words. Glaistig Uaine, welcoming me back.
Crooning. She was pleased, on a level. I found her sitting on a mountaintop, surrounded by three of her ghost-capes.
My small army had grown to be a formidable force. Three thousand strong in all. I had thirty layers of portals around me.
Teacher said something, and it was Tattletale who replied. I could see her, and she didn’t look happy.
So many voices, so many things to focus on.
I felt momentarily lost in the midst of it. I had a large army, by parahuman standards, I was probably strong enough to kill everyone here-
I stopped myself.
Why had I thought that? I didn’t want to kill anyone.
Glaistig Uaine continued to croon in my ear. Was it her?
No. I was almost positive it wasn’t, and I had any number of thinkers at my disposal who could have warned me.
I shook my head a little.
I had a large army. I was powerful. I could move on to the next big step, but I wasn’t sure how. It was like playing chess, the moves I could make had enough gravity and nuance that I could only make one move at a time. What to do first? What wouldn’t open me up for retaliation?
It was better if I wasn’t here. I turned to leave, backing through a portal.
Tattletale, in that same moment, stepped outside. She gazed over at my army, then turned and looked straight at me.
Her eyes were wide. She looked just a little freaked out.
I don’t- I can’t…
My thoughts stuttered.
Tat-
I clutched to every image and object I’d set in my mind’s eye, to the tethers that were supposed to keep me tied down.
It’s too soo-
Too soon.
I was running out of time.
Had to move. Had to act. It was easier, so long as I was in the thick of it.
Glaistig Uaine was the real threat. She would be first.
Thing was, I didn’t like the look of those ghosts of hers. A woman, one of the really crazy looking ones who had a costume that was more for revealing than it was for covering up. She was warped, twisted by Glaistig Uaine’s power until the costume and the body were one and the same, which only made her look more vulgar.
I didn’t recognize her, but she looked like one of the crazy ones.
There was a guy, built like a football player in full padding, only it was all muscle. That muscle, in turn, was covered in armor that had spikes studding it at regular intervals. The helmet covered his eyes. He sat at Glaistig Uaine’s feet, and he was tall enough that her eyes barely looked over the top of his head.
And there was a woman, so thin she was barely there, a look no doubt exaggerated by Glaistig Uaine’s powers. When Glaistig Uaine spoke to me, it was the thin woman who passed on the message, her lips moving. Like Screamer, then.
I prepared to make a move, and I felt the danger sense of no less than twelve different capes in my army go off.
Yet I still alerted the ghost in armor. He moved, lurching to his feet, and he spoke.
Glaistig Uaine said something, and it was a single word, a hard word.
He was a precog, and to look at him, he was a defensive cape.
She’d been anticipating an attack.
The thin woman moved, and a current of wind ripped through the air, two feet wide and ten feet tall, less a tornado and more a battering ram. It flew through the sky, homing in on me.
I moved through a portal, and the column followed. It hit me like a truck, and I nearly lost my grip on the clairvoyant’s hand.
I tumbled. In a sense, my lack of control over my own body helped more than anything. I was left panting, but I hadn’t tensed up because the reflex simply hadn’t been there. Being limp when I took the hit was better than going tense and tearing something.
The Faerie Queen had anticipated an attack. She had to know what I’d been doing, how I was operating. If I used my power…
What did the vulgar woman with the lipstick smirk and creepy white teeth do?
Another column of wind homed in on me.
My army threw barriers in the way. Force fields, walls of crystal and walls of fire.
The column passed between them like it wasn’t even a consideration. I closed the portal in front of me before the column could zip through.
I watched as it changed course, heading for the nearest member of my army. I might have been able to do something about it, but I suspected it would have found a way to me anyways. Instead, I shifted my grip, gripping the young man’s wrist, and making him grab mine. A surer grip than hand-on-hand.
The wind-attack compressed, passing through the foot-wide portal behind them, and it hit me. Not as hard as the first, because it wasn’t as large, but it still hurt.
The Faerie Queen spoke, her voice imperious, echoing in that curious way of hers. Indignant more than furious, but still with that bite of anger behind it.
The others on the battlefield reacted, and it wasn’t to rally against Glaistig Uaine.
Tattletale was murmuring under her breath. Was that- Was it my name?
The faerie queen banished her wind-witch and brought out another spirit. I tried to capitalize on the distraction, getting one cape with one of the stronger ranged powers to attack her. A gravity pulse, a bullet that imploded things at the impact site.
The man in armor moved, and the vulgar woman reacted, creating a circle of rippling air. The bullet struck the barrier, and the man who’d sent out the pulse promptly imploded, blood showering everyone nearby.
Something indirect, then. I opened a portal a distance away, and I used Canary’s song.
She kept the field up. I could feel the pain wrack Canary, hear her choke on her words. She doubled over and coughed up blood.
A power counterer, a precog… and Eidolon, now.
If I’d used a portal, what would have happened to me? Would it have affected Doormaker or me? Or both of us?
I didn’t feel very stable on my own two feet as I climbed to a standing position. I had a whole army, and I could lose them in an instant if I simply unloaded on her.
I needed to hit her with something that broke the rules. Not Foil. I wasn’t willing to risk Foil. But something…
I took control of Alexandria, instead, Pretender. Controlling the person who was controlling the manipulative bitch Alexandria. I took Legend, who was part of that fight, two foreign capes and Moord Nag.
They were the ones running interference, buying us time to breathe.
Now I positioned them. As I’d done with my bugs, I lined up the shot.
He took the bait, shooting. I moved everyone out of the way.
Glaistig Uaine’s pets informed her of the imminent danger, and the shield was raised in time.
Smoke poured off of Scion, indicating he’d taken the reflective effect full force.
And smoke cleared around the Faerie Queen as well. She was panting a little, her ghosts tattered but intact. I made her stand straighter, and then banished her ghosts, replacing them. I’d used the distraction to plant a portal behind her.
I opened a portal, passing through, re-entering Earth Gimel.
Miss Militia turned a sniper rifle on me. I caught her before she could fire.
Then, group by group, I captured the rest of the defending force. Some resisted, some predicted the attack, but it was a foregone conclusion. I had enough soldiers, enough tools at my disposal, that nothing here really stood in my way.
I created more portals, until I didn’t have space for all of them. I shrunk them, reorganized. Where I could find the open space, I tapped other worlds, reaching for bugs.
Those bugs then swirled around my captives, flowing around their feet or behind them, where they wouldn’t obscure the view.
I saw with compound vision. Five thousand pairs of eyes, collecting more with every second that passed.
I breathed with five thousand mouths.
I was adrift in a sea.
My eyes fell on Tattletale. Panacea was behind her.
She shook her head, putting herself between me and Panacea.
I reached out, my hand trembling.
It flopped down at my side.
I need her as an anchor more than I need her power.
My mom’s grave… it was in Brockton Bay, right?
Brockton Bay. It took me a minute to find, more time because I was busy keeping capes out of Scion’s way. Putting them through doorways, bringing them back. Always being careful to keep the doorways from being touched by his power.
I couldn’t find the grave. No time.
What else? The mantle of power, of course.
Tattletale.
I reached out, tried to find others, and I failed.
It would- would have to do.
This was it. Finally, everyone was working together.
600 thoughts on “Speck 30.4”
Charles Borner on October 22, 2013 at 00:05 said:
Fix an awkward usage.
Correct a little typo.
In this thread tonight.
In this thread tonight!
Jean S on October 22, 2013 at 00:36 said:
“Thing was, I didn’t like the look of those ghosts of hers A woman…” Missing period.
Pinkhair on October 22, 2013 at 00:52 said:
“me, barrels glowing” Missing period.
“Nothing subtantial.” Substantial.
GeeJo on October 22, 2013 at 06:55 said:
“calvary” – “cavalry”
SonodaYuki on April 26, 2015 at 10:48 said:
Well, this is where we try to crucify “God”, so to speak, so…
Grokh on October 22, 2013 at 08:47 said:
“One by one, I brought the ones I’d collected ito the battlefield.”
should be ‘into’
illlogicmedia on October 22, 2013 at 16:29 said:
Shouldn’t that be, “…pass out from the lack of oxygen.” ?
AlsoSprachOdin on October 22, 2013 at 21:45 said:
“I raised my hand again”
1114 suggested unreliable narrator, but just in case, I’m putting this here. Because Taylor’s holding hands with Clairvoyant (he needs a name, seriously. Claire?). And she only has one hand.
Sindri Suncatcher on October 22, 2013 at 21:52 said:
I dub him Stanfield. Cookie for the first to get the reference.
Though I suppose Vino or Felix would work just as well…
Node on October 23, 2013 at 03:20 said:
Don’t sully the divinity of Stanfield by suggesting he wouldn’t be able to deal with Scion alone, if and when he felt like it.
Shouldn’t forget Doormaker either. He needs a name too.
Really, both of these guys need more detail, I’m having a hard time finding a physical description of them besides that Clairvoyant is a twentysomething guy with no eyes and Doormaker is about ten years older.
Right now they are both very important and integral to what is going on. And I can’t picture them. I think this might be something to edit, when it comes time for that, Wildbow.
AMR on October 23, 2013 at 05:33 said:
Actually it makes sense. Nobody ever bothered treating them like people. They’re just tools/weapons in Cauldron/taylor’s arsenal.
Posted this in the wrong place earlier, but here it goes again: I imagine them somewhat like the Thinkamancer-linked group in Erfworld. (read Erfworld. It’s awesome) What I mean is, their appearence, even their personality and decisionmaking, has been near-totally burnt out by the process of aquiring their power, linking them together. As such, narratively, they are more like tools, background elements of the setting, than characters in and of themselves. Don’t expect them to be any more fleshed out than they already are.
Rika Covenant on October 23, 2013 at 12:54 said:
That’s all well and good for critical conceptualization… But for a story where detailed descriptions are all you have to create an imaginary mock-up of a scene be it still-frame or movie-style full animation, (esp. with regards to people since terrain can be fudged) having character descriptions available is pretty important. Not now though, of course- Taylor’s descent into insanity is reflected perfectly so far in the lack of details. I would even go so far as to say these last few chapters have been my favourites. Anyways I digress. -Written on Xbox360 x-x
Pandemonious Ivy on October 23, 2013 at 15:54 said:
RIKA YOU FUCKER, YOUR NAME IS SPOKEN IN THE SAME MOURNEFUL TONES AS REGENT, IN THE IRC! WE (Well at least I do, and who cares about the rest, fuck those guys) MISS YOU SO BRING YOUR ASS BACK PLEEEEEEEEEASE! *ahem* I want to note that I didn’t even see what you posted, this was reflexive upon seeing your name. *Discreetly dusts shoulders off and wanders elsewhere*
Psycho Gecko on October 23, 2013 at 16:39 said:
Well, I’ve noticed your absence and missed you too, in my own special way.
“Going into a dimly lit room and staring out our reflections. ”
At our reflections?
I felt like I might pass out from oxygen. –> lack of oxygen. Might want to check the italics a bit again.
Alfaryn on August 1, 2019 at 05:56 said:
The faerie queen banished […]
I suspect it could be intentional, but all other instance Faerie Queen is capitalized in this chapter.
“I turned my attention to Scion.”
Okay. THAT sounds ominous…
Chrispikula on October 22, 2013 at 00:29 said:
I don’t see how she can win, but likewise, I don’t see how she can lose. The only outcome I see at this point is to run that ‘thousand years’ worth of energy out of Zion, while likewise self-destructing herself.
I can easily see her using Panacea right now to start merging herself into a single entity. Some sort of Taylor-Crawler-Cthulian abomination. It’s easier to have one body then multiple, that way she doesn’t have to hold on…
Oh, and who else thinks that the world run by capes may or may not be the resting place of a third entity? Then again, we don’t know what causes a shard to die, as the third entities shards are still alive, but it’s possibly a *very* far distance away. How could it be sustaining them? Or maybe it’s closer than you think ™?
DasNiveau on October 22, 2013 at 01:41 said:
One body, one target. An choreographed attack of 3000+ capes through instant pop up portals is a great idea. Scion should have a harder time fighting that, than one massive “Skitter-Echidna-Hybrid” with 3000+ powers.
And its not the third entity we should look out … Taylor is talking to the second…
I’d say she’s well on her way to becoming one. How many shards is she currently in command of? How many did Zion bother to keep for himself?
The world ruled by parahumans is still an Earth. The Third went away and GU told us that the worms make it sure to leave traces in their wake so others won’t follow.
E.R. on October 22, 2013 at 06:06 said:
How do we know there are any third entity shards (beyond the ones the thinker appropriated) in play?
the crumbs, keeping the others away.
camo005 on October 22, 2013 at 00:11 said:
Well jesus fucking christ… thats it. thats all i have to say
jurily on October 22, 2013 at 08:38 said:
…we need some new Chuck Norris jokes.
ShawnMorgan on October 22, 2013 at 11:51 said:
unfortunately for him, Taylor snagged the ghost of Bruce Lee.
I gigglesnorted in a most unseemly fashion at this. Well done.
Landis963 on October 22, 2013 at 00:15 said:
How’s that poem go again?
The Falcon cannot hear the Falconer.
Things fall apart; the center cannot hold,
Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world.
The blood-dimmed tide is loose, and everywhere
Yeats, The Second Coming
packbat on October 22, 2013 at 00:29 said:
Naeddyr on October 22, 2013 at 00:33 said:
Ha, I used that poem to describe Worm just a few days ago.
guessswho on November 20, 2013 at 01:58 said:
Troubles my sight: somewhere in sands of the desert
Slouches towards Bethlehem to be born?
will408914 on October 22, 2013 at 00:16 said:
So. Taylor rules the entire Wormcerse now.
Actually, I take that back. She IS the Wormverse now.
theant87 on October 22, 2013 at 00:29 said:
Great choice of words.
Except for Sleeper. He’d be more trouble than he’s worth.
negadarkwing on October 22, 2013 at 07:27 said:
Fuck, Taylor is the Anti-Life equation.
Patrick Reitz (@dreamfarer) on October 22, 2013 at 07:52 said:
If anyone needs a master class on how to setup a villain for a sequel as being immensely powerful, that line right there pretty much covers it.
Stephen M (Ethesis) on October 22, 2013 at 20:06 said:
That was an interesting wrinkle — that Sleeper was not worth the effort.
taliesinskye on October 23, 2013 at 06:56 said:
It could be that he isn’t just that powerful, exactly, but that his power would be something extremely inconvenient in an army. Maybe he just makes anyone within ten square miles permanently fall into a coma, say.
irrevenant on August 25, 2014 at 22:13 said:
I wondered if perhaps just a little part of Taylor didn’t shy away from him because he was sitting there enjoying the quiet pleasures of a good book…
slider214 on November 21, 2014 at 02:16 said:
Agreed. She most definitely is the Wormverse now.
RazorSmile on October 22, 2013 at 00:17 said:
… well. We know what Sleeper looks like at least. He’s male, capable of reading and small enough to fit on a lawn chair.
Farewell, Taylor. It was nice knowing you. Hello, shard.
mauke on October 22, 2013 at 00:55 said:
The ultimate expression of the Administrator Shard.
Hey Taylor you know why Sauron went bad? He thought the world was full of chaos and would be better if a single person controlled everything to bring order and stability.
As did Stalin and Hitler.
Well…yes. My point, though, was that Sauron started with good intentions. You can’t exactly say the same thing about Hitler and Stalin.
Sengachi on October 22, 2013 at 06:03 said:
You totally can, especially about Hitler. Which just makes this all the more terrifying.
If I recall correctly, he started out with equal parts good intentions, batshit insanity, and raw charisma. The Administrator here replaces that last one with large-area mindrape, which pretty much just speeds the whole process along.
If someone, including the nazis, had ever bothered to reading Mein Kampf they would have found out that Hitler was planning genocide since his first failed coup . Then again, Mein Kampf is one of the most boring and badly written books ever.
Besides, i think it’s preferable if we compared Taylor to fictional dictators instead of real ones. We really don’t want to open THAT can of worms (pun not intended).
greatwyrmgold on October 22, 2013 at 13:04 said:
To quote Cracked: “[Hitler] was like the polar-opposite of Charlie Brown: shitty at everything, yet unbelievably successful.”
And yeah, let’s avoid Godwinning everything. It’s a much bigger recipe for failure than it sounds like.
overpoweredginger on October 22, 2013 at 10:06 said:
Hooray for Godwin’s Law.
See what I meant?
Sauron and Darkseid are safer comparisons.
They are fiction after all. Fiction hurt no one directly.
Do nightmares count as harm?
Gabriel on October 22, 2013 at 13:14 said:
Well, if we count the Bible…
endgame on October 22, 2013 at 14:28 said:
Let’s keep religious texts out of the discussion as well.
I meant directly. Stubbing you toe on a book does not count, too.
Fine, no Hitler and no religion…but if we’re still talking about harmful fiction, there’s always Atlas Shrugged.
farmerbob1 on October 22, 2013 at 06:07 said:
Aye, but Sauron wasn’t fighting a deity that would destroy everything, anyway.
As much as I hate what she’s doing, she’s still not being malicious. She’s unstable around the edges, but she is maintaining a core purpose.
However her anchors are failing her. But there’s one anchor that she hasn’t had the courage to look for yet, who she might not even be able to find, now. But perhaps others have found him first, and provided him with safety.
How could this have happened?
Dinah, Brian, Danny, in a little conversation.
What it’s boiling down to is probably die free from Scion killing you, or live in total enslavement from Taylor, and hope that after the fight she’s not so far gone she doesn’t release you.
Yeah, I think it’s closer to “die free as Scion giga-murders everthing you’ve ever conceived of” vs. “fight while enslaved to Taylor”. Once the fight is done, judging from what this is doing to her, I don’t think there’s much chance she would choose keep this many people in thrall. She hates it as much as they do. Unless the only way to end the fight is something that permanently fuses them together.
She hates it now. But half an hour ago, she was deliberately avoiding enslaving people who weren’t already brainwashed or monsters. A few minutes ago she understood english. A few seconds ago she remembered her friends’ names. Now she’s mindraped everyone on the battlefield just as a matter of course, and there seems to be less and less human in her every moment. By the time she takes down Zion, who knows what her priorities will be?
If she loses the last of her anchors, I think the operative question will be whether what’s commanding the enslaved parahumans will be Taylor at all at that point, or if the only thing that will be left will be the Administrator shard.
If Taylor’s there at the end though? Well, I still have faith in her.
Skychan on October 22, 2013 at 11:10 said:
I think I said it before, but if not the thought has been there. That this is going to end with pepper spray and Tattletale. That is her final anchor. Personally I find Tattletale to be a very fitting one for her.
Taylor wouldn’t choose to keep everyone enslaved.
Is the narrator still Taylor?
Aname on October 22, 2013 at 10:17 said:
She didn’t even flinch when one of the dudes she was controlling exploded in a shower of blood. Apathy is it’s own kind of malice.
So… a shock to the system against the Uber threat will be stopped by…. Taylor’s pepper spray?
Taylor Hebert, only stoppable by… Taylor Hebert…
Well, at least we know what the upgrade from ‘S’ class threat is now, it’s ‘T’ class.
This really doesn’t strike me as apathy. This strikes me as “Taylor” is being overwritten by “Administrator” and IT is designed to fight, fight, and then fight some more. She’s put up a good war against it so far but unless she kills Scion soon I worry that Taylor is going to go bye bye permanently.
Unstable around the edges? I’d say that the instability is extending tendrils straight to the core of Taylor’s being.
And yeah, Taylor looking for Danny is a gamble. If he’s alive, she loses a bit of concentration and gains an anchor. If he is not, she loses a little time and hope.
She’s still very stable at her core. I don’t believe that she recognizes what her core anchor is right now. Killing Scion. Almost everything else has become meaningless, and her best friends and people she cares about have become secondary.
She will be at her most dangerous if/when she takes down Scion. At that point, that’s when all her secondary anchors will be critical. But will they be enough?
These last few chapters, it’s just felt like Taylor is slowly dying, and some THING else is replacing her.
She’s definitely shedding her humanity, layer by layer. The question is what will happen when she destroys her own anchor, by defeating Scion. Does the passenger win then, or Taylor? That’s when I suspect that whatever Wildbow is hiding up in Grue’s cabin or in Simurgh’s glass tube, or both, will make it’s appearance.
She is focused. Focused is not stable. Focused is what leads her to accomplish her goals at any cost; stable is what makes her not take the extreme penalties, risks, and actions.
Focused is good for now, but it does not make her stable.
World Domination, you say? But domination is such an ugly word. I prefer world optimization.
MrHatandCloak on October 23, 2013 at 08:27 said:
Hello Harry
pizzahedron on August 18, 2015 at 20:49 said:
why do i get this feeling we’ve had this conversation before?
Yup. Trust Wildbow to take what, bereft of context would be an encouraging and positive statement and infuse it with pure horror.
He’s an evil, evil man in such a good way…
The Sandman on October 22, 2013 at 00:18 said:
Taylor doesn’t have much time left, but she certainly picked one hell of a way to go out.
Vaguely surprised Genesis wasn’t mentioned along with Ballistic and Sundancer.
And now, I suppose, the fight against Scion. Should be quite the show.
Kind of funny, though: in the end, the factor most likely to doom the world is Brandish having been such an abysmal foster mother for Panacea.
James on October 22, 2013 at 03:26 said:
chrnno on October 22, 2013 at 03:37 said:
Wasn’t there originally, read the e-mail or RSS if you follow Worm in either.
Ouch, I don’t think Taylor is going to recover from this.
PapaGoose on October 22, 2013 at 09:19 said:
Recovery is highly unlikely, since the moment Panacea upgraded her shard-ware. Endings don’t have to be happy.
True, but more often than not endings need to be satisfying and wrap up any unwrapped plot threads. Given Wildbow’s habit of dropping characters like ugly babies, I’ve basically stopped caring about closure and I’m only sticking around to see how much of this Wildbow can wrap up before the Rocks Fall and Everyone Dies. Epilogues can only do so much.
I’d say that “The character involved died” is a pretty complete closure.
Seriously, though, what plot threads are you worried about not being wrapped up?
Perhaps she could fix herself using Panacea, actually. She has access to the power booster and to countless Thinkers, as well as her own power’s ability to grasp the powers of others intuitively. She might be able to use Panacea’s own power better than Panacea can by combining all of those.
the13thversifier on October 23, 2013 at 11:22 said:
Well endings doesn’t have to stereotypically end up with good guy hugging each other while the bad guys got suddenly incarcerated. It sounds like a cheap hazardous lobotomy to me
I’d prefer endings with plausible cause and effect, good, if everything wrapped up reasonably, thumbs up, if the final moments impressive enough to be etched into lasting memories. Now that sounds like perfect, unique, pleasuring lobotomy.
Tagg on October 22, 2013 at 00:19 said:
And now I’m strangely reminded of Darkseid’s speech from Final Crisis.
That’s a GREAT comparison.
I thought people would enjoy said quote:
I. Am. The. New. God. All is one in Darkseid. This mighty body is my church. When I command your surrender, I speak with three billion voices. When I make a fist to crush your resistance. It is with three billion hands. When I stare into your eyes and shatter your dreams. And break your heart. It is with six billion eyes! Nothing like Darkseid has ever come among you: Nothing will again. I will take you to a hell without exit or end. And there I will murder your souls! And make you crawl and beg! And die! Die! Die for Darkseid!
Eerily accurate.
Oh, yes, Taylor is the Anti-Life Equation. Course if Darksied shows up to try and take it from her, she’ll have a nice planet of new gods to throw at Scion.
MrMoray on October 22, 2013 at 00:24 said:
One Taylor to rule them all. One Taylor to find them. One Taylor to bring them all, and in the Wormverse, bind them.
ijpowers92 on October 22, 2013 at 01:01 said:
bizarrely appropriate.
Hotaru on October 22, 2013 at 01:16 said:
You know you’re a troll when after you saw that scene with Tattletale, your first thought is to have everyone turn to her and take a knee. All we’d need is for Taylor to get her voice back so she could be all, “What is thy bidding my master.”
Robert C Roman on October 22, 2013 at 07:13 said:
That would be unbelievably precious… And exactly what Tattletale would do were the situation reversed.
endochrom on October 22, 2013 at 00:25 said:
So she now controls 5000 capes. When she controlled 3000 she decided she could take on Glastig but Sleeper was too much trouble? What the hell can Sleeper do?
Trusting on October 22, 2013 at 00:29 said:
O.o god ! I want Taylor to have a happy ending but I can’t turn my eyes away from the trainwreck that is her at the moment .
Shadell on October 22, 2013 at 00:35 said:
Glastig’s power is useful against Scion, Sleeper’s might not be that effective. In this case the risks of a free Glastig to mess things up versus her utility are quite high incentives to get her despite the risks. Sleeper’s power might, for example, be some massive scale shaker ability that would interfere with Taylor’s whole army if used. In this sense, there would be some benefit to including him in the collective, but it could easily be outweighed by the risk of having to fight Sleeper.
shrieky on October 22, 2013 at 00:50 said:
I know! This arc is terrifying. We’re getting glimpses of the Wormverse that are all the scarier for not being fleshed out. And, of course, that cliffhanger made me bite right through my nails to the tender abused flesh underneath. This is incredible.
WormAddict on October 22, 2013 at 00:53 said:
My guess is sleeper involves mass duplication of himself. It would be a real pain to manage all the extra portals, and explain why he was reading aloud to himself (maybe another self).
Could be something that, oh, makes people fall into comas?
Plausible, but probably too predictable. Wildbow’s characters tend to have atypical abilities like super-intuition, instant forgetability and the ability to grow giant dogs. Sleeper probably also has something skewed from the obvious.
Besides, his name suggests that *he* sleeps, not that he makes others sleep. The suggestion that he’s effectively lucid-dreaming in the real world makes a lot of sense, but I guessed that one too so it’s probably not right. xD
I’m not sure if anyone’s suggested that he could be a sleeper in the covert intelligence sense.
Heck, for all we know he has the ability to let trains ride over him! xD
Interesting interpretation.
Probably Sleeper is a stranger with the strangest power imaginable? that no one would even bother fighting him, because he is completely an unknown factor? Imp-wise power that made his power invariably mysterious…LOL
So like The Sphinx, then?
Ajoxer on October 22, 2013 at 20:38 said:
I heard that guy can like, cut guns in half. With his mind.
Kerrus on October 22, 2013 at 21:40 said:
Sleeper’s power? You know how Taylor went “More trouble than he was worth.”?
That’s what his power does. It makes people go “Eh, more trouble than he’s worth”.
High level Stranger that just passively convinces everyone to leave him alone while he takes a nap or reads a book? Makes sense.
The Protectorate gets called in for reports of something unspeakably horrifying, driving all the locals away from a small town but curiously not seeming to harm any of them. The Triumverate takes one look, rates him a Class S threat, and gives orders to observe from great distance, defend the populace if required, but not provoke this horror if it can be at all avoided. After the first few weeks of remote observation revealed him mostly just napping, they tentatively classified this monstrosity as ‘The Sleeper’.
Then the portals open, Scion appears. the Sleeper knows that he might not be safe on this world anymore, that the golden god of death might come by and interrupt his rest. So he gets up, stretches, strolls through to earth Z, and every other human on the planet flees for the relative safety of flaming population centers and mobs of chinese death dealers. The Sleeper, now the only sentient on an unremarkable world and thus as safe from Scion as any human can be, picks up a book discarded by one of the refugees, and begins idly flipping through it in his new villa.
Jerden on October 23, 2013 at 09:10 said:
So you’re saying he has the power of exaggeration? A stranger ability which makes him seem ridiculously dangerous, dispite being harmless?
I like your theory. Unless of course you didn’t mean that, in which case I like my theory.
Probably something with a ridiculous aoe centered on himself.
My bet: everyone in a radius falls asleep.(As in new Skitters mindcontrol-area) Useless in that fight. Half of the fighting capes asleep or something.
Maybe like a maxed out Winter(S9 Clone).
He makes his dreams come to reality. Or alternatively, he makes reality enter his dreams. Either way, massive reality warping.
Yes, I’m going to post this every time there’s speculation on Sleeper, in the hope that repeating it enough times makes it come true. 🙂 .
Yeah, interesting that he’s not bothering Scion…and that Scion’s not bothering him.
I wonder if the Entities ever wind up with powers that are too dangerous for even them to hold onto? Perhaps Sleeper has a power that Scion doesn’t want to get back.
Sleeper is an insert of Wildbow.
Can take over any world: Wildbow owns this parahuman multiverse
Read to himself: That’s Wildbow proofreading the next chapter.
Too bothersome; Has author edit powers to defeat Taylor with.
Not appearing; Wildbow won’t let a Marty Stu into this story.
That would also explain why Scion wouldn’t want those powers back.
Scion: “Have you seen the workload Wildbow shoulders? I’m only a near-omnipotent god-monster, you can’t expect me to put out over 20k words in a week. Every week. Hell I can barely manage 4 words a year!”
It does make sense…
But why would he be called Sleeper?
Oh, that’s an easy one. You know how author inserts in fantasy/sci-fi/superhero fics are always some sort of idealized power fantasy, doing all the things the author wishes they were capable or or had the opportunity for?
Wildbow wants to take a nap and maybe read a book.
Because he’s DREAMING up Worm.
Didn’t it say in Alexandria’s chapter that there was something like 650,000 parahumans? Have to hand it to you though, wildbow. We have a multiverse crossover, with almost every parahuman left alive vs. Zion. Don’t think it will matter. Her only chance is too find his real body and destroy it, so I think this is nothing more than a distraction. It may be possible to hit him so many times that the well runs dry but casualties will be enormous. Now for sequel speculation. Well I believe that Wildbow will take a break and move on to other stories, he probably will come back to the wormverse at some point. I have already in past chapter gone over past examples of things that might be cool to see in the future since the wormverse is such a rich universe to explore. Prequels, capes in other countries, story ideas etc. A direct sequel is going to have a very interesting setting now though.
1. Many, many, alternate universes can now travel to each other with the doormaker’s portals, if he leaves them open. Imagine waking up and discovering there are at least a dozen more earths to live/explore.
2. Almost every single one of those alternate worlds are destroyed, badly damaged, or have nothing but untamed wilderness. It’s like every world became like Brockton Bay after Leviathan. So any sequel will be in a damaged landscape, with little order, gangs, starvation, anarchy, and parahumans running many places. So any new character will have to deal with that.
But regardless, it is climax time.
The other ‘verses hadn’t as much capes. And Scion had taken a mayor toll on cape population. … Fucked up times.
flame7926 on October 22, 2013 at 00:29 said:
Well this is incredibly fucked up. Taylor at least showed some remorse in this chapter. I wonder why Sleeper wasn’t worth worrying about, I feel like he will feature more in the sequel if it is made, since that is literally his first appearance. All the other S-class threats are helping the “good guys”.
Taylor is completely loony. like totally. I think she has fallen off a cliff which she can’t return from. I think that if she doesn’t die or kill herself or magically gain control, she will become a dictator. Here are some quotes:
“when I could carry out that goal I’d had from the beginning, getting the world to the point where it all made sense. Bringing people in line, subjugating those who would get in the way or do more harm than good.” – except she is literally subjugating everyone with powers.
“I wanted to scream, to yell at her for being like all of the others and refusing to play along, to listen and cooperate.” – her problem. A bit of a control issue, when people don’t listen to her.
I also said a while ago that Cauldron should have gone to other worlds, and there were some pretty powerful capes lording over everyone. They could have been useful in something.
I think Taylor will drop control of her army if Scion is defeated.
In all other respects, I’m inclined to agree.
letseveryonemorality on October 22, 2013 at 00:56 said:
I’m betting Taylor tries to kill herself instead of or just after moving everyone away and closing all of her portals.
Taylor protects and saves people, Taylor stops monsters, and Taylor is selfless almost to a fault. Add in the apparent shattering of most of her mental faculties and the scene the Simurgh reminded Tattletale of, and I really cannot accept that suicide isn’t Taylor’s plan.
I can. I think at this point the sum total of Taylor’s plan is “Stop Scion”.
There’s so many ways that can go, I don’t think she’s spared even a single neuron working on what comes next.
Assuming she succeeds, would suicide be an option she chose to take? In some scenarios sure. She was willing to kill Aster to spare her from hell, I can’t see her denying herself or the world that. I can imagine dozens of scenarios that go in completely different directions though.
“Taylor is selfless almost to a fault” but also incredibly egoistic: if you’re not doing things Taylor’s way then you’re doing it wrong. She’s perfectly willing to violate your autonomy for your own good (or the good of others or the “greater good”) which is how the worst monsters are made. Having good motivations is not quite synonymous with being good.
The character we know could very plausibly justify retaining control of anyone who wasn’t being productive and cooperative by her standards “…until the crisis is over”, which it won’t be for a long time. I don’t expect that’s the way the story will go because it’s not the best story, but it would not be out of character for her.
She isn’t the hero they want. She’s the hero they need. Control issues and all.
Let me suggest this instead…
She isn’t the monster they want. She’s the monster they need. Wether they like it or not.
She isn’t the hero they want. She’s the monster they need.
Flex on October 22, 2013 at 12:11 said:
Ooooh… Ominous
I like that. Nice tagline for the final TV Series…WHEN IT GETS MADE! *hopeful swoon* HAHA
“With special guest Genoscythe the Eyeraper!”
There will have to be animated post-credits scenes of you in order to give the feeling of the comments section to all the TV Series viewers, of course.
kingsomnus on October 22, 2013 at 00:31 said:
Fuck…. It just got real.
Heh – it got real 30 arcs ago. This is Scion about to become aware of that.
This is Tone, Psychogecko! 😛
True enough Patrick. But I’m sooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo stoked and happy that Worm comes out twice a week (sometimes three times!)!.
Right there with ya Kingsomnus.
I’d be crushingly depressed that we’re 2-4 updates from the end which would mean no more updates to look forward to…except I find myself looking forward to whatever story comes next almost as much.
wildbow on October 22, 2013 at 12:41 said:
There’s an epilogue arc where each remaining bonus chapter translates to one epilogue chapter.
Yeah buddy you said it. 🙂
I stumbled upon this delightful series thanks to a mention in TV Tropes. Then I said: “Well, I’ll be danged, this isn’t half bad!” Then I devoured the series and stopped reading the novels I was in order to catch up completely.
SEA-106 on October 22, 2013 at 00:31 said:
Eidolon was hurting Scion, until Scion used Contessa’s power.
Taylor has >5,000 capes, including Glaistig Uaine, who has access to Eidolon. Also, possibly, including Contessa, but certainly including a lot of other precognitives. Will that be enough to mess with Scion’s foresight?
This is gonna be fun.
fghjconner on October 22, 2013 at 02:09 said:
Probably not. If I remember correctly, the foresight canceling is mostly based on the feedback loop of precogs trying to react to the other. Since other precogs can’t see Scion, that loop can’t happen.
She has all the case 53s, as well.
(a) Taylor has a fair few precognition in the mix. Also:
(b) There’s a big difference between seeing something come g and being able to do anything about it. Scion has quickly (but not instantly) adapted to the most powerful attacks thrown at him. Thousands of attacks at once may be too much for him to adapt to even with foresight.
Congratulations Taylor, you’re now officially scarier than the Endbringers. Even if you somehow live through the fight, I don’t think anyone else is going to let you go from this. Now let’s see how much better the fight against Scion works when everyone’s following the general’s orders.
Also is it just me or did we not see her capture Contessa?
I don’t recall her grabbing Contessa, no.
Yeah. Contessa was just waking up as Taylor checked on her, so Teacher and Contessa have yet to talk.
It looks like Teacher and Contessa might not talk until Taylor has finished with Zion, depending on how long the fight actually takes.
What’s the latest over-under on the duration of the Taylor vs. Zion fight, by the way? Eight minutes?
I’m not sure it’ll even take her than long. I’m expecting a total curbstomp here.
It doesn’t look that easy to me.
Zion’s “how do i beat this power” sense won’t work for him here because he’s facing more than a single power, more than even just a couple of powers. His “how do I win” power won’t work here because he cannot communicate with Taylor, and Taylor likely simply has to much precognative muscle backing her up in any case, on top of her current mental state. His only real option might be to run, and even then I suspect that it might not work.
Basically he’s without any actions that will actual work here. The safeguards he built to keep this from happening have all been ground away to dust.
The only real question is how long it’ll take Taylor to physically or mentally render him unable to fight.
Of course there is always the possibility that the Simurgh sabotages Taylor here, but Zion is basically screwed.
Glaistig damn near took out Taylor. Scion’s a lot slower on the uptake though, and relies on reacting, instead of preparing.
Taylor is going to surprise him, perhaps even impress him, and in that time when he is surprised and impressed, Taylor is going to open up on him. By the time he uses his path to victory power, he might be losing power so fast that he cannot act.
However, the path to victory power is really pretty absurd. He can’t talk to Taylor because she won’t understand it, so he can’t use the Eidolon tactic.
He might be able to talk to her passenger though, which could be… interesting. If her passenger is a throwback to the origin of Scion’s species though, it’s just going to see Scion as a big threat and/or lunch, and will probably not care what he has to say.
In the end, I think that Taylor will end up the loser, victorious over all. And then with no purpose to keep her going, she will release her hold on the Clairvoyant, and wake up in the Bird Cage, solitary confinement.
Bird Cage, Simurgh Cage. They will not leave her alive. At the very least they won’t want her anywhere near any living thing. A crippled Taylor, incapable of moving herself, on a lifeless rock somewhere, in a parrell universe with no other living things? To much risk she’ll escape.
Damn it no, you do not kill her, especially with the Faerie Queen still around. You really want to give the bitch queen control of the Administrator as well as the High Priest?
Recreate Hack Job, teleport him on top of Taylor. While he holds her down, have Bonesaw turn off her power and make her immortal. *Then* put her in solitary confinement for eternity.
Do you people really expect Wildbow not to have any surprises left to throw at us? Does history suggest that’s a likely thing?
Me? I’m betting on “I didn’t see that fate coming but WOW does it make sense in retrospect”.
Anyone care to wager against me?
>>Damn it no, you do not kill her, especially with the Faerie Queen still around. You really want to give the bitch queen control of the Administrator as well as the High Priest?<<
Of course now that she has Eidolon, the Faerie Queen can steal living capes' shards too.
Which actually makes me wonder why she didn't try doing that in this chapter.
Grant Moxham on October 23, 2013 at 00:46 said:
because she’s such a F****** fruitcake she thinks she’s actually one of the Greater Fae?
Sion can’t have been defeated already when the Contessa/Teacher conversation happens though, that was pretty clear.
Where are the Endbringers, anyway?
Reveen on October 22, 2013 at 16:59 said:
Getting krunk, of course.
*cue Simurgh DJing at a house party*
To the windoooow! *Bohu leans in, having formed the house out of her body and joins in* To the wall! (to the wall!)
*Khonsu jumps out and runs his claws down his belly* To the sweat drop down my balls!
*Tohu pops up with Canary, Shatterbird, and Valefor’s faces on* To all these bitches crawl!
*Leviathan comes dancing in missing a leg and an arm, trying to do a crip walk* To all skeet skeet motherfucker! All skeet skeet, god damn!
Tom_D on October 22, 2013 at 00:32 said:
uhhhh……
Holy hell… Leave it to Taylor to combine every available power into a mean, lean fighting machine and point it at Scion.
Also, if Doormaker can make that many portals, in that variety of sizes, what the hell did Cauldron need Number Man or Contessa on the field? They could’ve just opened a dime-sized portal to their target and neutralize them almost effortlessly. Or provide NM with impossible shots.
Cauldron seems to be the embodiment of wasted potential.
keyonte0 on October 22, 2013 at 00:45 said:
The Manton effect, and the possibility that portals could be traced back to their base by certain powers. Dragon/Defiant have already demonstrated the ability to find where a portal went long after it closed.
Yes, but the portal would not lead back to Cauldron’s HQ. It would simply lead from the barrel of a gun (which could be located anywhere) to the target.
If they wanted to further obscure the trail then the bullet, projectile or whatever they use to incapacitate people from a distance could be shot through multiple portals, each in a different, unrelated reality.
As for the Manton effect, the portals are not actually affecting the target. It should not be a problem.
Not really looking to get into a discussion about the mechanics of powers, just remarking that Cauldron does (did?) not utilize its resources to the fullest.
Cauldron was always inefficient, because they were using Contessa’s power once removed for planning.
Yeah, the whole secret organization basically boiled down to four guys, once you account for Doormaster and the Clairvoyant being barely sentient tools. Contessa only really worked through her power and a lot of her time was spent being the boogeyman; she was great at a single task at a time but had little individual drive and couldn’t do big-picture planning because she couldn’t even ask about the entities. Custodian could barely communicate and couldn’t leave the base, but handled all the day to day stuff. Number Man was efficient, but his history with the Nine and late arrival to the team meant they never trusted him with big things until it was too late. So the whole thing was basically run by a single baseline normal, who never trained to run anything remotely on that scale, was neither as clever nor as efficient as she thought she was, and had no experience dealing with failure because Contessa would always bail her out.
The more I think about it, the more it seems that Accord’s untimely demise broke a lot of good possibilities. If he’d gotten any sort of real standing with Cauldron, he could have done a hell of a lot of good. If he were inducted into the Swarm, Taylor might just be able to stay sane and keep things organized through his power. When he got killed everything started to swing toward chaos.
And once again, I look at the root of tragedy and see the Simurgh behind it. I really need to stop underestimating her, but I keep telling myself that and I keep failing to do it.
Not to mention how if Accord and Dinah had ever sat down and had a conversation they would have immediately saved the whole goddamn world.
I wonder about that. I mean it’s certainly possible that they would have come up with a different path than Contessa’s “I Win” power suggested, but it could be that they would have come up with effectively the same steps too.
If nothing else, I’d REALLY like to see an epilogue with Dinah. We know she doesn’t see everything but I’d love to know how much of what’s happened was a result of the plan she’s been working for and how close this is to the best end game that she could find.
imsomeone on October 22, 2013 at 07:24 said:
And Accord was killed by a Simurgh bomb.
Manton used to be on Cauldrons team too
There’s also how Doormaker probably doesn’t have the kind of self-motivated finesse to compensate for all the things that Taylor is doing when she’s controlling him and his power. I don’t think you could tell Doormaker to make armor out of portals for someone, say, I don’t think he’d know what to do.
skywiseskychan on October 22, 2013 at 01:06 said:
remember that Taylor can multitask like a boss. Doormaker while good probably isn’t that good.
Yeah, everything we’ve seen from Doormaster in the past has implied normal human reaction times. People request a portal out loud, the Clairvoyant tells him, and he opens it a second after the request. Fast, but not good enough for serious combat work. Taylor’s thinker power allows her Swarm to react faster than she should be able to, dodging attacks her bugs sensed without even being consciously aware of it and opening or closing portals between the instant Zion fires and the instant the beam passes through.
Doormaster was significant alone, powerful with the Clairvoyant, but only godlike under the Queen Administrator.
Snickles on October 22, 2013 at 00:35 said:
I like how Sleeper the terrifying Class S threat is just some guy who reads books while lying in the sun. While subsuming entire worlds in his spare time of course. That woman in blue seems like she has some relation to Eden given her powerset. Taylor has pretty much every powerful cape in all the universes and she can use portal tricks to redirect scion’s attacks. At this point I feel like the only thing that will kill her is dying of dehydration because she’s so unfocused on her body. Did she take over Contessa’s body? I wasn’t able to tell. Given the amount of power at her disposable she can probably use it better than her anyway.
When she checked Contessa, Contessa was just waking up. So Teacher and Contessa still have yet to talk.
Ristridin on October 22, 2013 at 04:11 said:
Did Contessa fall asleep between the attack on Cauldron and the moment she talked to Teacher? I’m rereading that section, but can’t find it. Unless she was asleep in the hour she had to wait for the portal to reopen.
Ally on October 24, 2013 at 16:29 said:
I wonder if that’s not a typo, and Contessa was “walking” up, not “waking” up.
r2k-in-the-vortex on October 22, 2013 at 11:47 said:
Well terrifying S class threat lying in the sun in front of his house is exactly where ‘Happy ending’TM (if even possible) would take Taylor.
Lets say Taylor wins, lets go of control, returns from being batshit insane and learns to speak. Where would that leave Taylor? My guess is going back to Charlotte’s and kids cottage and being all: ‘Oh yeah im more terrible than Scion, but i cant be bothered with taking over the world because im in the middle of a book’
But yeah in all honesty, i dont see an happy ending coming, just nice to think what it might be like.
Actually.. one way to get a happy ending out of this.. when Scion gets obliberated what happens to all the shards and powers? Should they just wink out then it would end up in Taylor being just another young woman again.
If all shards wink out Taylor will be one young woman with brain damage.
C#40s T#30rY on October 22, 2013 at 12:47 said:
“At this point I feel like the only thing that will kill her is dying of dehydration because she’s so unfocused on her body.”
Now I’m imaginging “Borg Queen”/ “cloud-sourced” Taylor, where her body died without her noticing but her mind lived on as the shard and in her swarm.
…That’s what the shards do, right? “Learn” the personalities of their hosts, so they can find the best strategies?… This would lead to the whole “Taylor becomes an entity” hypothesis…
I am scared(er) now.
You should be scaredy, cat. By the way, is this your first caught-up commenting?
I don’t know how coming back from this will be remotely possible. My god, this is an amazing journey.
I rather hope that Taylor will live. Not just because I like her character, and it would be sad to see her die. But I’m intrigued about what a sane!Taylor would think about all of this.
Okay so lets say perfect scenario. Scion is killed, the world is saved, casualties aren’t too horrendous, and Taylor gives up control…then what? She still has to keep some of the nastier ones under her power like the 9 clones, the fairy queen, some of the nasty prisoners, but she can’t keep control of them without the doormaker. So she keeps him until the birdcage is back up and running, which means Dragon has to be fixed, which means taking over teacher. Most of the Yangban/teacher students she can simply let go, but she will still have a powerful core of nasty parahumans under her control for at least a little while. Then there is the whole destroyed world which makes it hard to have a trial. I’m sure Bitch/Tattletale would gladly take care of her now that her body isn’t where it used to be, or she can find a way to fix herself. But she just made enemies of almost everyone who will hate/fear her. Without the doormaker she is vulnerable enough for someone to try and get some payback. So she either keeps the doormaker and remains the scariest/all powerful queen bitch of the universe, or frees him and pretty much grantees somebody kills her at some point.
One of Taylor’s most important qualities is that she not only anticipates the consequences of her actions pretty well, but she’s also willing to except them, or attempt to fix them.
If you think Taylor wouldn’t be willing to just let the rest of humanity kill her after she’s killed Zion I really don’t know what to tell you. Hell, I don’t expect Taylor to wait that long, I expect her to try and off herself instead.
Caladium on October 22, 2013 at 01:13 said:
At this point, Taylor’s hit the “too scary to be allowed to live” threshold. If she doesn’t either die or give up all her power and disappear, people (maybe the non-capes, because it doesn’t seem like she can control those) will do their best to kill her anyway.
Robert on October 22, 2013 at 01:47 said:
She took control of the non-capes manning Dragon’s datacentre.
Prior to that, she took over the Dragon’s Teeth officers when going to see Dragon.
Authy_Silverfur on October 22, 2013 at 13:34 said:
Prior to that, she took over an unnamed guy by accident right after escaping from the underground cave place where she got her power upgrade.
It would be pretty simple to dump the dangerous prisoners onto an earth without any people (I know people evacuated to them, but there must be one where scion got everyone) until the birdcage is back up and running (especially since it wasn’t damaged much beyond the destruction of the drones).
Without even the dignity of a pistol with one shot left in it?
For some of them? No.
We may also be underestimating what GodMode Taylor is capable of.
The really bad capes? The true monsters? Even assuming the final battle doesn’t do them in, and on the off chance that Taylor retains her full control ability, there’s the simple matter of giving the monsters a date with Bonesaw or Panacea.
If they can tinker with Shards, they can probably kill the Shards too. People have a right to live, but a right to having super powers isn’t written down anywhere.
Problem: Taylor still has that 16ish foot radius. Panacea and Bonesaw can’t get close enough to work on her anymore, and they can’t trust Taylor to work on herself.
That’s easily solved, though not neatly. Take a power nullifier, either one who can completely turn her off from more than 16ft away, or one who can also teleport; Hack Job would be optimal here if he could be recreated. Then, since Panacea would be worthless next to him and even tinker powers would be suspended, have Bonesaw’s spiderbots or some of Dragon’s remote platforms do the actual surgery. It’ll be messy, ugly, and probably cause a lot of brain damage, and it will probably require cooperation unless you can get the clairvoyant away from her first, but it should work.
You’re assuming this isn’t something Taylor does to herself.
If Taylor goes full on unthinking Shard monster, sure you need tactics to stop her.
If not, then she could easily be the one who sets up the Shard cleansing factory, with herself as its last patient.
Easy now, Handicapper General. Let’s wait a bit before we pull a shotgun on Harrison Bergeron, ok?
Harrison Bergeron was a pretty impressive badass but I’m pretty sure he couldn’t wield the souls of dead superheroes as weapons.
Neither can all but one of those supers.
At this point, I’m not sure I’d put it past Taylor to just door all the Birdcage undesirables into the sun once she’s done with Scion…
Dread Pirate on August 8, 2017 at 22:21 said:
Heck, door them right back into the Birdcage. Into their original cells if you really feel like conveying “Fuck you” nonverbally.
So she didn’t get Contessa/Teacher/whoever else. Teacher possibly raised another counter-clairvoyant field to block her out. Or Taylor or her Shard is/are losing track of so much she can’t even use the clairvoyant cleanly.
Well. She didn’t grab Contessa earlier. It could be that she somehow knows Contessa’s power is somehow compromised by Scion’s other half.
Also, Teacher’s only real ability would compromise the integrity of her gestalt. As he’d have a back door into anyone she used him on, which could be VERY disruptive if her sphere of control (with “sphere” being used in the figurative sense of “area” or “realm”, rather than describing a spherical structure) fluctuates at all.
I interpreted that as losing hold of her other anchors. She’d just let go of her father’s house and her mother’s grave, held on to Tattletale, but the others? Grue, Imp, Rachel, she’d forgotten about. She knew that she’d set other anchors for herself but she’d lost track of them and was too far gone to recover any but Tattletale.
but she still managed to leave foil alone. I think there’s still some undersider left in there.
She didn’t. Foil is entirely under Taylor’s control now, but has a power so rare and valuable that it isn’t worth the risk to throw her at the Faerie Queen; there’s a chance that it would cut through the defenses but there’s also a significant chance of getting Foil liquified in retaliation and that would reduce the Swarm’s forces for later.
Just had a thought. Foil+Doormaker portal spam. I’d like to see Scion catch THAT in midair.
Yeah and on rereading, it looks like the last cape she collected was Tattletale
Really? I thought she almost did it and then stopped at the last second.
Share out powers that create physical objects, share out Ballistic’s power, share out Foil’s power, share out Number Man’s power. Attack Zion with an endless hail of Foil enhanced projectiles from literally every direction.
Not sure Foil’s power would work shared out. Even with an optimal spread of power enhancers you only have about a third of the original’s power. So even assuming that everybody gets the physics tweaking at full strength, their timing would be sloppy. Only Foil’s paranormal sense of timing allows her to use her primary power offensively, since the projectile needs to phase back in at the exact right instant while in flight in order to affect the target but bypass defenses.
Nope. An item with the effect on it still carves through everything, like the group weapons against Behemoth (chain and disc).
It won’t be able to affect as much mass, and it won’t last as long, shared out, but that also shouldn’t matter at all.
I don’t expect this to be the only thing Taylor needs to do, or for Wildbow to even use this exact thing, but as effective attacks go, Foil’s is likely the flat out strongest they have access to.
Besides, I just want to see why Zion keeps blocking or avoiding it when he just keeps taking everything else head on.
To quote Captain Obvious, “Shit about to get real son.”
The realest shit that there is. Worm Shit.
“About”? Cap’n Obvious is a tad late, IMO. It got real when Scion fired his f**k you beam at London.
It got real several times. Leviathan hitting Brockton Bay was definitely one, as was the first S9 arc.
I think probably the first real “it’s not playtime anymore” moment might’ve been Bakuda’s mad bomber rampage…
Wow. Really good job of showing how Taylor’s mind is continuing to deteriorate.
was anybody else reminded of HAL 9000’s death?
“I’m afraid. I’m afraid, Dave. Dave. My mind is going. I can feel it. I can feel it. My mind is going. There is no question about it. I can feel it. I can feel it. I can feel it. I’m a..fraid.”
Legumes on October 22, 2013 at 00:59 said:
“You ask too much of yourself,” Tecton said. “You could have all of the power in the world, and you’d still feel like you should do more.”
-Scarab, part 5.
Oh Taylor…. also, this showdown is going to be fucking amazing. I’m simultaneously enthused and depressed as hell. This has been foreshadowed for a while (I’ve just caught up) and holy hell this is going to be interesting.
(still reserving hope for a happy-ish ending, despite all evidence to the contrary (i.e. everything))
No One in Particular on October 22, 2013 at 00:59 said:
This is a well written descent into confusion and madness for this context, meaning this was absolutely terrifying to read, I don’t even know…well, now I know why this is probably the last arc. Hard to go up from here.
Wildbow, you might be nervous about ending this well, but you’ve pulled it off perfectly so far
Easily my favorite arc since the days of villainy, and not just because of Taylor being…this….is happening. So thanks, and good luck.
I’m calling it now, by the end she somehow merges completely with the shard to the point she doesn’t need a corporeal form; she dies, sequel is someone trying to deal with Taylor the Shard grafted onto their soul. :p
Taylor has become Queen of the Multiverse. Or is it Administrator? She beat Glaistig Uaine. She took over those suspiciously foreshadowing superheroes from another world. She decided not to bother with Sleeper ( of course). And unless she has a better plan than throwing all of them at Scion she’ll just be wasting thousands of lives.
As I said before, this is all very Sauronesque. Not even he was born evil, to paraphrase Elrond.
But hey look at the bright side: at least she didn’t permanently destroy Dragon. I loved that trick with the lights. Fucking tinkers indeed.
And one last thought: does this mean we’re relying on Contessa and Teacher to save the world from Taylor once she has saved it from Scion? Ohhh boy.
Paranoid Android on October 22, 2013 at 02:54 said:
Talk about unlikely heros.
I doubt that Teacher is smart enough to qualify as a player on that scale, and Taylor is surrounded by layers of precogs and trumps.
Personally I’m relying on the Simurgh to pull humanity out of this pit. And that’s terrible.
Here’s a plan that can fuck up Taylor usin only Teacher and Contessa’s resources.
Contessa’s presence shields them from Taylor’s precogs. Following Contessa’s power Teacher gives Trickster (who we know was with him when he meets Contessa) some minor clairvoyance/other extrasensory power thus bypassing his-line-of-sight limitation. They build two mannequins. Trickster switches Doormaker and Clairvoyant with the mannequins. Contessa opens a door right next to Taylor’s head and shoots her. There.
I know it’s unlikely but we know that Teacher and Contessa willd o something. And law of conservation of details tells us Trickster will play some role, otherwise why bother mentioning him. Oh and there’s still mysterious horned helmet dude, who may or may not be Satyr.
Yes, open a portal from the end of your gun to the head of the person who passively mindfucks everybody in her vicinity, through portals.
Anyway, for Trickster to pull that off he’d need more than just a perception boost, he’d need power on the level of the Clairvoyant. And even if they did port Doormaster away, he would be disabled and effectively powerless when not holding hands with his partner or under the Administrator’s control.
I don’t doubt that they’ll try something, and the Contessa is still a factor. But it will not be simple, will not be quick, and may not be possible anymore.
Tattletale on the other hand, is Taylor’s last remaining anchor, the one person she refuses to take control of… and commands the Simurgh. Who in turn is immune to Taylor’s power, can recreate tinker devises if she’s close enough to read their minds or has seen the devise before, and has the raw intellect to use those assets appropriately.
And (at the risk of underestimating the Simurgh again) I think that the long term results of her scheme would be less terrible than Taylor’s. She causes widespread death, devastation, and despair, but she’s always held back somewhat and any comprehensible goals she has would seem to require humanity to still exist and not be a massive insane hivemind.
Unless of course she was behind those gangers who attacked Emma and led to Taylor’s trigger event and every horror since, in which case we are now seeing the late stages of the Simurgh’s master plan unfold.
Unmaker on October 22, 2013 at 09:28 said:
I have to disagree with you on one point here – Tattletale does not control Simurgh. I think it is clear from the part where Doctor Mother was reading Simurgh that Simurgh has chosen to play along and be near TT in order to further Simurgh’s goals, perhaps because TT’s power can demonstrably work around precog blocks.
Be very, very afraid of Simurgh’s goals. Taylor cannot control Simurgh and will not control TT, so Simurgh has free reign.
Difference between command and control. Simurgh is currently following Tattletale’s instructions, for unknown reasons. Thus Tattletale commands her, even though it is likely than nobody can *control* the Simurgh.
I see three main possibilities:
First and most optimistic is that with Eidolon gone, Simugh doesn’t know what to do and is learning from humanity, taking suggestions in an effort to find a new purpose in life like Zion used to, but with a much greater understanding of how people work and what she’s doing than the great golden idiot. She is genuinely trying to help, either because she cares about humanity or because she sees us as a useful resource which is being wasted. The ‘sorry’ may have been genuine; perhaps not for her past actions (tattletale didn’t sense any remorse) but for what Taylor will suffer in the future. Or it may be reflexive, habitually fucking with everyone around her.
Second, most likely in my mind, and also fairly optimistic at this stage, is that recent events have interfered with Simurgh’s plans. She will save humanity for the same reason she held back in the past, and free them from the Hive because those without free will cannot be manipulated. She will come out on top from this conflict of course, but that’s a better eventuality that either of the new gods are offering.
The worrisome possibility is that this is all according to plan. Simurgh tweaked those gangers (or somebody who then influenced them), who attacked Emma, who Triggered Taylor, who sparked the gang war, which attracted Leviathan, which attracted Jack, causing him to learn about the prophecy, causing him to talk to Zion, causing the end of the world, causing Taylor to go Queen Administrator, and all the dominoes have fallen exactly where the Simurgh intended for them to go when she set this up years in the past.
How do you know the Simurgh’s plan all along hasn’t been to let Taylor deal with Sion and then deal with Taylor?
Actually, Contessa’s power doesn’t mess with precogs, and precogs don’t mess with her. Their powers work differently; after all, Contessa’s path to victory generally doesn’t change midway through. Also, I think that the “technically not a precog” thing was mentioned in an earlier chapter, maybe in the Crushed arc, but I don’t remember where.
Hmm, no. Contessa is immune to precogs, but she can interfere with them. Dr Mother tells the Legion of Doom that they use Contessa as a buffer against the Simurgh.
Teacher’s JUST smart enough to do something pants-on-head retarded out of his all-about-me-complex ( i.e like deserting and then manipulating saint into shutting dragon down at the WORST possible time in order to get leverage against her and Colin)and Fuck the world (and himself in the mid to long term) over. id take the smurf any day of the week. my reasoning is that any plan that severely damages your very species’s ( and your’s) chances of survival for minimal, personal gain is by definition a bad one.
So, like… what if Worm turned out to be a start of darkness prequel?
Taylor and scion destroy each other, all shards are up for grabs. unstoppable Simurgh moves in for the win, now with added portals
Now you’re thinking with portals!
Quick, somebody better deploy the smooth jazz!
narcoduck on October 22, 2013 at 01:18 said:
We keep seeing Sleeper mentioned. What about the other world wide threats that you keep name dropping? Like the Ash Beast and the Blasphemies?
Usually I wouldn’t mind, but if Taylor is literally combing through everything ever…
Also, the Simurgh is suspiciously missing here…
hamcannon on October 22, 2013 at 10:17 said:
Taylor did a flyby of Simurgh. No control possible.
Oh yeah, I understand Sleeper is being saved for the sequel but the Three Blasphemies were explicitly part of the defence force ( whereas I believe the Ash Beast declined–not that it really matters what with Taylor conscripting everyone with a shard). Just a tiny glimpse, perhaps? Pleeeaaase?
Maybe we’ll get something next chapter?
Hida Reju on October 22, 2013 at 01:21 said:
Never commented here before but I have to admit this is the cliffhanger I have been expecting since she left the Undersiders. It’s now Taylor vs Fate itself in a no holds barred grudge match and whoever wins she loses everything in the name of the fight.
Fantastic story thanks Wildbow
septimusmagistos on October 22, 2013 at 01:35 said:
So she’s losing her anchors. Perfect.
As long as by the end of the fight her mind is destroyed so thoroughly that no power can ever restore it, she can be forgiven for what she’s doing here.
That’s a little harsh. She’s just doing the same thing she’s been doing since the bank-robbery. If the ends don’t justify the means, what does?
And I’ve liked Taylor as a person less and less since then. At this point I’m just hoping that she manages to take out Scion and takes herself out in the process, but I’m afraid that someone somewhere will pull a miracle out of their sleeve and she somehow makes it out of this okay.
Still, she’s destroying her own mind and she’s earned the enmity of every cape in the multiverse. A heroic sacrifice is looking more and more likely, because it’d be hard for her to recover from this.
>because it’d be hard
Yeah. She doesn’t routinely pull of things that are hard to do.
Not really. Taylor consistently takes the easy way out. She stuck with being a villain because it was easier than betraying the Undersiders. She terrifies people or controls them because it’s easier than persuading them. She keeps justifying anything she does with an ever-escalating definition of ‘good cause’ because it’s easier than actually sitting down and figuring out whether she’s doing the right thing.
I’m sure Taylor will find a way to beat Scion in the end. But when confronted with a problem she can’t fight her way out of? She’s going to fold. And I can only hope that no one will be there to bail her out.
After all, what’s the point of a villain who doesn’t get their comeuppance?
Yeah, all those easy ways out, like abandoning her friends so she has a chance to prevent the apocalypse, stepping up time and time again against shit like Jack, Echidna, and Behemoth, and generally grinding herself into bloody gristle for even the slightest chance of saving the city/world/her friends.
I don’t know. What’s the point of comeuppance? When the bodies aren’t cold and the person who saved the world is turned into a mentally fractured wreck, what purpose would the death of this person serve? Other than the petty satisfaction of a cultural obsession with punishment?
are you kidding? most of the people she’s dealt with have refused to compromise or be reasonable under any circumstances. like Alexandria and Tagg. they were so averse to compromise that they pushed her till she snapped. Colin screwed her over simply out of spite. so, yes. she took the easy way.
The scene with Alexandria and Tagg was where I first started to wish for Taylor to have an unhappy ending.
If you told me back then that she’d end up like this? I would not have been surprised.
Ahh, Alexandria and Tagg. True heroes and martyrs in the eternal struggle against the madness of civil rights and due process.
I think Colin screwed her over more out of self-importance and ego than out of spite but basically, yeah…
So if Taylor does die… will it be a heroic death or a just death?
I figure it’ll be because the Simurgh smashed her clock.
I want to thank you both for getting the reference and for that mental image.
senevri on October 22, 2013 at 10:37 said:
Nothing justifies the means. There is no justification for anything, only excuses.
Bahumat on October 22, 2013 at 11:02 said:
As excuses go, “Survival”‘s a pretty fucking potent one. 😉
^Seconded
I suppose that Taylor realizing how much of a threat she herself become, and either commiting suicide, or letting herself be killed. Or the final lines will be….
“You don’t understand Tattletale. I have to stop the bullies.”
“No Taylor, you are the bullies.”
Then Taylor was a zombie.
As soon as she lets go of Clairvoyant and Doormaker, she’s pretty nonthreatening. And bullies differ by motive, theirs being petty.
Y’know “There are means that cannot possibly be justified” is a perfectly legitimate response to that.
storryeater on May 10, 2015 at 07:18 said:
Are there,really?in real life,yes,but in fiction,one can create a scenario to justify ANY,and I mean ANY means.
I was always of the opinion :”the ends justify the means,as long as the means are in the upper 10% of the morality scale among your choices (ergo,a really evil means is justified if everything else remaining is worse,or if you can make a case of the character not thinking anything better,but while he tried to do so,I think it is the case with Taylor for now,but not with,say,Light Yagami,who killed early on more than criminals,more than he had too)and as long as the good done by the ends is not surpassed by the means in evil done (I’d say Taylor is borderline on this factor,but ,say,the Worms are not,as their ends of “getting stronger and surviving”do not surpass the means of “killing civilizations”on good vs evil done)”.Many people with “muh ends justify muh means”are either people who only look at the world with colored glasses,not really trying to understand others,even if they are hard on themselves (some are not,but they are always presented as despicable,see:Tagg),so I’ll add “and as long as you are willing to negociate/listen to others (Taylor was always willing,she only lost that to do brain damage,and even then she did try,so I’d say she completes my criteria for ends justifying the means)”
slider214 on May 10, 2015 at 14:07 said:
I’m with you storryeater. Magneto is another good example of someone who holds up “ends justifies” while having such a skewed perspective that he fails to see it’s really just an excuse and not true. Taylor is doing some bad things but in this case it is quite literally the end of every parallel Earth, every human, every single instance of our small corner of the cosmos on the line. Given saving that or simply letting it all fade away to a cosmic temper tantrum? Pretty much whatever she does can be justified.
That’s the great thing about fiction. If the stakes are high enough you really can bring back people from black holes of horribleness with the right mentality and clever twists.
BTW I only input storryeater because wordpress for some reason wouldn’t accept storyeater.Just a trivia.
Dalton on September 29, 2017 at 23:49 said:
You touch on what I was thinking in this comment chain. People saying her ends do not justify the means, when really it’s either no human life in any universe anywhere, or she subjugates the lives of a few thousand superhumans, some of them die, or hell even if it’s all of them, and then the rest of humanity across the multiverse gets to live?
Mass extinction’s prevention can justify most anything.
aelphais on October 22, 2013 at 01:39 said:
I know everyone is talking about Taylor controlling every cape ever minus Tattletale and a few others, but I sure hope Dragon successfully loads her backups in the future.
As people may have noticed, I’m a little behind. I guess it’s better than being a giant ass.
I have to say, I loved the part where Dragon fires at Taylor and she uses portals to hit Scion with it. Seems like she could have done that for anything being used against her.
Now then, much as I don’t like doing this in one big giant thread…
*cocks a shotgun*
Let’s do some welcoming.
aelphais, oh ye of the crystal skull. Your head was not Indiana Jones’s proudest moment.
I have you now. And don’t imagine you’re going to fanfic your way out of this one! I’ll have you know I’m an 8th degree purple prose-belt in crackfic. No, wait, scratch that. I wish to articulate to you with wondrous degree of sincerity and fortitude my majestic and everlasting depth, technical expertise, and fecundity of ability to disrupt, destroy, or denigrate fiction utilizing unconventional literature written by myself.
You may receive that and, upon finding yourself in its position, securely place it into an apparatus such as a hookah to be enjoyed after dinner in the great room with a glass of brandy.
I also wish to express to you an enjoyment of your addition to the collective voice of this community I have somewhat shepherded, full as it is of those who muse on the potential romantic entanglements of fictional characters, doomsayers, and an author who wishes to take the world’s adolescent felines and asphyxiate them in a bathtub full of their own hemoglobin.
Welcome, aelphais, to the comments.
Ahaha, thanks.
I’ll have you know that I held this skull long before any faux-Indiana Jones films featuring aliens and former Disney Channel actors.
I just now noticed you’re the author of World Domination in Retrospect. I had that tagged to read eventually. Maybe I will bump it up the list a few places.
Ah, well I hear it makes a nice read after all the tension of Worm. I was commenting here and at Legion of Nothing first, but enough people insisted I should write my own thing. Even Wildbow thought I was creative, and that was before I started coming up with a new welcome for every person.
Oh? First time commenting while caught up?
Speak of the Gecko and he shall appear! Unless he’s busy, or sleeping, or eating, or hula dancing, or what have you.
So, Node, ye of the crazy theories, you will fit right in here amongst people who thought Taylor would be captured and put in the Birdcage or that a nuke would be sufficient to kill an Endbringer. People are used to strange theories being thrust upon them around here, but it’s still a good idea to keep in mind that Node means Node.
At this point, though, Wildbow is no longer quite as unpredictable. It used to be that someone could go “I think next chapter a villain’s going to show up who turns into a giant teddy bear and be one of the few people to beat up Taylor!”
Nope. I assure you, Dr. Jekyll and his alter ego Mr. Ruxpin aren’t pulling that off anytime soon. Not any more than Inflatable Beach Ball Boy is going to beat Scion in the story. Much like having when you’ve been mind controlled by a horny oral sex officionado, there’s nowhere to go but down.
So here you are, in the comments section. Just like a police raid on a NAMBLA meeting, this is where they separate the men from the boys. So welcome, Node, to the comments.
It’s like reading the unholy combination of Joyce, Pratchett, and an unreasonable and long-term drug habit. I thank you, and it saddens me that I’ve never been welcomed like this before, and never will again.
I don’t know why people have occasionally compared me to Pratchett. I’m a little flattered, but I just don’t see it myself. Maybe that’s for the same reason that Wildbow so often goes, “Ok, so I know this update wasn’t the best, but I was rushing…” First time I’ve been compared to Joyce, though. Drugs are often brought up in regards to me, though, sometimes with people asking which ones I’m on. None, actually.
mr.maybe. It might be nice to meet you, possibly. I can’t be certain, but it appears somebody activates the special signal to bring you to my attention. You can tell by the light in the clouds forming a giant rooster.
Yeah, Taylor’s gone through some major changes. I still remember the days when I wanted her to go back to school and make life hell for the bullies. I think that’d be very therapeutic for her, you know? Of course, it also provides a bit of an anchor. Like with Captain America, she doesn’t like bullies, and here’s Scion, most powerful guy around, never came there originally to help anyone, just destroying because he can. Because it feels better to beat someone up.
Granted, I don’t care for the idea that all bullies are completely sympathetic and that you have to make life all flowers and carrot cake for them and they’ll change, but at least Scion’s burned his sympathy bridges. And literal bridges. And Jeff Bridges, while he was at it. He also covered Henry Winkler in bees, show Bill Murray with a shotgun, turned Eddie Van Halen into a zombie, titty-fucked Seth Rogan, and caused James Franco to be devoured by a gang of cannibals, including Channing Tatum who was forced to be a man’s sex slave.
Twisted individual, that Scion, especially because I’m not the one to make most of that stuff up.
So sit back, relax, maybe take a little of that tension off down here. Unda da story! Unda da story! mr.maybe it’s okay, down with this Tokay, take it from…uh…Snorri! *points to some random guy from Iceland*
And welcome, mr.maybe, to the comments section.
“You can tell by the light in the clouds forming a giant rooster.”
Uh-huh, I saw what you did there…very nice PG…very nice…
Poor, poor Sindri Suncatcher. Being set up like that. It’s ok, not everyone bothers enough with the comments to realize it.
Don’t worry about the relay bugs. The relay bugs aren’t the problem. They’re not making things fucking buggy. It’s various capes she picked up from the Birdcage and asylums and such that are the problem. They’re making things fucking nuts.
So is that tree tinker too, probably. While it’d stink to be on the receiving end, it’d probably be handy to have fucking nuts. “Argh! I just took a coconut to the head!” “Are you okay?” “Yeah, except for the headache and all this damn milk it squirted in my face and mouth.”
Next up, of course, would be going fucking bananas. And you thought their peels were slippery before.
So, you’ve slipped on down to the comments and can stay caught up on the latest chatter while being forced to remain caught up to the story. Have fun! Feel free to lighten the mood some in our current predicament! Other obligations (click on my name, for one example) are currently preventing me from pumping out wave after wave of puns and jokes to take people’s minds off the inevitable doom. Turns out that my version of Worm’s tagline “Prepare to be skullfucked by awesome” is also pretty accurate for this part of the story. Might be Scion’s fate soon enough, all things depending.
It’d be a lot more dependable, actually, if only we had those fucking nuts.
Anyway, welcome, Sindri Suncatcher, to the comments section.
Gazzien, all this in a little over one week while having classes? Ritalin this, Ritalin that, who’s used up their spare time reading Wildbow gut a cat?
Just an expression. I often liken the dark moods brought on by this brilliant writing to the slaughter of fuzzy baby animals. Then I think back to how high quality those drums made of baby seals were and I think, “Dammit, it may all be worth it after all.” Then I put in an order to have drumsticks made out of Bald Eagle legs. Oh, I don’t play. It’s just that or sticking diamonds in my food to make things seem impressive.
Problem is, last time I took a squat like that, the Jefferson Bible was created.
Now would be a good time for a rimshot using those drumsticks. No? It’s ok, those who get it will enjoy the joke. All .5 of them.
Enjoy the keeping on that keeps being kept keeping on, Gazzien. This story’s a keeper.
Welcome, Gazzien, to the comments.
Truthseeker on October 22, 2013 at 03:38 said:
Before too much longer, dear Gecko, you’re going to need a Random Horror Generator steadily feeding these greetings into a fully-automatic dispenser loaded with scores of envelopes marked, “To Whom It May Concern.” 😀
Hah – I look forward to perusing Gecho’s glad greetings after the wild ride Wildbow writes.
You know, I don’t think I ever got one of these. Now I feel a bit left out.
More importantly, I feel it necessary to say that your ravings put me in mind of a crossover between worm and Nobody Dies, or at least that version of Rei.
So did Tattletale do something to hide people from Taylor? Was that the thing that the Simurgh was building, we know tinker tech can block Taylor’s control as well as the clairvoyant’s power.
If that’s the case, why was Tattletale not protected by it as well? Did Taylor show up in the middle of Lisa trying to get Amy to enter the protection as well?
Will Taylor’s power work on Imp while her power is active?
I think the blind spots in her clairvoyance are Teacher and Contessa acting in tandem. We know Teacher has the tech and Contessa is,well, Contessa.
Doesn’t fit, Teacher should be meeting with Contessa by about the end of the chapter if not later on given the references to him.
Oh, right. Stupid non-linear chronological order.
that makes the basic assumption that Teacher wasn’t lieing his ass off. Taylor is the biggest threat to him on the planet aside form scion, except she can turn him into a puppet, which hurts his ego more then being killed. so manipulate someone into killing or otherwise neutralizing her, and fuck everyone and everything else. fits his pattern of actions so far.
Taylor isn’t remembering Rachel at the end there. I don’t see any reason that Teacher or Contessa would act to block Rachel out of Taylor’s awareness, or Grue for that matter. He’ll even her Dad seems gone from her awareness, which seems telling as Taylor still remembers her mother.
So why is Taylor not aware of them?
She’s forgetting her anchors 😦
Is she? Or has the author just manipulated the narrative such that it looks like she’s forgetting?
But Wildbow would never manipul….yeah I can’t even finish that sentence.
Seriously, who’d you rather have to face off against? The Simurgh or the guy who’s really behind her? : )
Well it’s easier to figure out Wildbow than it is The Simurgh. One of them has a known motive, to tell a good story, and the other has no known motive.
So one of them is a lot more useful to focus on if one wants to understand or predict the story than the other.
beleester on October 22, 2013 at 01:53 said:
I think we were expecting Taylor to administer all the capes, but literally all of them? This is getting big.
I find it rather worrying how much time she’s spending fighting her allies. First attacking Dragon, then once she hits the battlefield, her first action isn’t to attack, she just immediately decides “Glastig Uaine was the real threat” and takes her over. And GU has been pretty cooperative about fighting Scion. She needs to remember, her goal isn’t to gather all the capes in the multiverse into a perfect hivemind, no matter how awesome that would be. She just needs a power combo that can stop Scion.
As for what that combo is, I still have no clue.
tieshaunn on October 22, 2013 at 05:13 said:
The problem is that Glaistig Uaine would turn on them the moment they actualy came close to defeating Scion.
She only wants to drive him back to sleep, while Taylor (and most everyone) wants him dead and gone for good.
Also, I believe that a large part of what she’s doing is predicated on her shard’s “desires”, if you can call them that. And the shard wants control.
Also, she’s got precogs in her hive now, so she’s getting some feedback from them on who she needs to deal with in what order.
..and GU is a fruitcake who think’s shes a Greater Fae with the ability to steal the powers of anyone alive or dead. and a fruitcake. as much of a threat as scio
Ascaloth on October 22, 2013 at 02:06 said:
What I think Taylor would do after Zion is defeated is this.
She’ll let go of most of the capes, but keep Doormaker and Clairvoyant. She’ll keep the Class S threats and Birdcage capes as well.
Then she’ll take them with her, and put HERSELF into the Birdcage. And stay there basically for the rest of her life, acting as the ultimate measure to keep present and future Birdcage prisoners in check. She’ll make herself the Sealed Evil in a Can, to be released from Pandora’s Box only when all else is lost and she is needed once more.
Good one. I want to at least read that fanfiction.
I actually like this. It is a good thought about what the fuck will they do when all the living Endbringers work together, or an S-class type threat like Nidbog actually tried to do something scary instead of stay put.
What happens if Taylor is killed or offs herself, as most people expect, and then shit hits the fan again? Talking about Sleeper, Ash Beast, all the new Endbringers that popped up, the thought that they have a creator who could potentially rally them together, make even more, etc., or even The Simurgh’s threatening possibilities, it almost becomes a question of if they can afford to permanently get rid of Taylor.
Anyone that posted/came from a post on facebook recently, can you sate my curiosity and show me the post (screenshot)? Pretty please? I don’t use the thing, and I’m seeing a lot of clickthroughs, but facebook (being facebook) is unintuitive and doesn’t let one see it.
Got a lot of clickthroughs (thanks!) but it drives me a little crazy when I can’t track what people are saying about the story.
I’m a super prolific reader across all sorts of genre’s and writing time periods.
This story is the single best piece of fiction I’ve ever read, and taking in account that it’s basically a first draft, I would consider it very nearly flawless.
Now I’m just some dumb loser on the interbutt, but I really don’t think you’ve got anything to worry about as to the quality of this work.
I’d be more concerned about ever being able to top this honestly.
Seriously. I’ve got to figure out what I’m writing next.
I don’t think the next work will be as good, BUT I do think I can hit the high notes – I can match the update schedule, I can keep the characters more involved, I can keep the interplay/use of abilities, powers or strategy and I can strive to be a little unique in approach, even if it does fall into a given genre.
Hopefully that’s enough.
You could also try a diffferent genre, like write some strait up horror instead of just dipping your toes in here and there.
But I think if you want to use the themes of Morality and Consequence again it’ll be hard to top Taylor as a vessel for that, so maybe figure out a different theme to build the work around?
Anyway, I wish you good fucking luck man, and definitely look forward to anything you do. Even if you cannot top Worm ever again, you’ll still be writing better fiction than like 99% of the field.
I have ideas. Some are listed on the FAQ page, though I’ve scrapped maybe two and added one.
I don’t think morality will be the central focus in the next one. I think any setting I write is going to have shades of gray, though.
Clarvel on October 22, 2013 at 07:49 said:
I don’t think Worm has shades of gray, really. It’s got a gradient from grey to gray, everyone is doing what they think is best, for the most part. And you’ve spent time with the characters that are clearly evil, showing how they go to that point, and doing a hell of a damn good job humanizing them and making them not seem like monsters anymore.
“Shades of gray” is just short hand for realistic morality in storytelling.
Basically anything that doesn’t make the (false) assumption that things can be clearly divided into “good” and “evil” or that many things can be divided into “moral” and “amoral” categories.
It really is. More than enough. You spoil us.
Neel Nanda on October 22, 2013 at 02:20 said:
Probably this
Oops, forgot the link: https://www.facebook.com/yudkowsky/posts/10151960585174228
Thank you. Curiosity sated, sanity saved.
/Salute.
Now I have to find out what’s so special in the comments of 20.4.
I have to know!
Also, has it really been more than 10 chapters I’ve been welcoming people?
Man, now I have to hope the story ends before all these people get caught up.
“And then a giant asteroid hit the earth, killing Taylor and all the heroes. The end.”
That’d be like the end of the Feast Trilogy of horror movies, it’d make my brain just shut down for a few hours.
I would trigger, screw definite line between reality and fiction.
I bet it was because we Chuck Norris’d Skitter in those comments.
Given what’s happened to the Yangban, I like this one, “Skitter can win a land war in Asia.”
En on October 22, 2013 at 08:59 said:
From that page:
” I would be *very* surprised if the author were male. Perhaps 95% chance of female. ”
How can these guys tell only by looking at your muzzle? It’s not like you have a full-figure avatar of boar-ness.
Also: exclusive pictures of Wildbow taking her dog for a walk.
Yeah! I got here because of HPMOR to begin with, actually.
Hey! I just found something none of us caught on before! (I think)
“A flash of light to freeze water reinforcing a levee stressed by a hurricane. A terrorist act averted. A serial murderer caught. A volcano quelled.”
New Orleans. 9/11. Any one of a hundred serial killers in that time. Possibly Chaiten, or Eyja.
Daaaaang. Chills.
Aaaaah, reminds me of the gold old days when Scion wasn’t a dirty son of a bitch.
I’ve been one of them posting on FB, and have nothing but good things to say about your story. 🙂 Everyone that has read it so far has had a ‘wow’/positive reaction.
jeqofire on October 22, 2013 at 10:19 said:
Eliezer Yudkowsky made a facebook post yesterday. I fail at screenshots, but the gist of it is “I’m on arc 11, and the smart characters are actually smart. This is genuinely impressive.”
I found this series thanks to TVTropes. I believe it was the mention on the “Heart is an Awesome Power” page.
zliplus on October 23, 2013 at 10:45 said:
I came from TVTropes too, couple months ago? I came from the “Not Quite Saved Enough” page, which had an amazing quote.
Found it from Legion of Nothing.
Zephyr on October 22, 2013 at 02:11 said:
What happened to the massive amounts of capes in Africa? We’ve only really seen capes from the West and China, but were told that there were far more in places like Africa. Surely there’ll be some gamebreakers there somewhere
Well, Moord Nag’s in this battle, and she was promised lots of dead capes.
In fact, didn’t someone back then point out there’d be this many capes dead at the end of the world?
Moore Nag just wanted dead people, independently of wether they were capes or not. It was Glaistig that Cauldron tried to bribe with thousands of dead capes.
*MOORD not Moore. Stupid autocorrect.
Yes. Was it 5,000 dead capes?
5000 dead for Moird Nag either capes or normal.
10000 capes for GU. Not Cauldron capes.
Gee, where are they going to find 5,000 dead capes at the end times.
Oh, look at that, sizable army Taylor’s got there.
GU was promised like 100k capes.
Moord Nag asked for half the dead GU requested.
This was a typo, and has been rectified since. Moord Nag now asks for a fraction of the dead GU requested.
Relevant quotes: The girl, Glaistig Uaine, responded, “A hundred thousand corpses, each being one naturally gifted by the faerie.”
“Vyf duisend, lewendig, dit maak nie saak of hulle mag het of nie. ‘N Fraksie van wat jy die gek aangebied het.“
Dead people not dead capes. It was GU who was promised dead capes.
TanaNari on October 22, 2013 at 02:43 said:
90% of humanity is wiped out.
10% is left.
There were an estimated 65,000 parahumans on earth bet- and maybe only a couple hundred elsewhere.
So 7,000 would be left even, give or take. And then how many of those did scion *specifically* target for destruction?
Taylor holds around 5,000 parahumans.
She controls the vast majority of what’s left. And those she didn’t take? Probably not all that useful.
Does the 90% were wiped out apply to parahumans? I’d imagine that they are significantly harder to kill
Not to Zion.
Yeah, and a lot of them ran towards him rather than away, so the cape population has probably taken heavier loses than the normals did (percentage-wise).
Stop on October 22, 2013 at 02:23 said:
I have to say it
” I took Legend, who was part of that fight, two foreign capes and Moord Nag.”
“Lüderitz, April 2nd, 2012 // Leviathan
Notes: Loss? Driven away by Eidolon. Secondary targets Swakopmund, Gamba, Port-Gentil and Sulima.
Target/Consquence: Moord Nag. Guerilla tactics continue, losses in notable but not devastating numbers, but his target survives.”
Scarab 25.6
This is confusing. Moord Nag either has a power that lets her come back from the dead or she retired and came back for Scion. Was there something I missed?
Hmm, that explicitly said that Leviathan’s target (MOord Nag) survived. Don’t see the problem.
Reread. ‘his target survives’. Target was Moord Nag.
Didn’t seem clear to me, my bad.
Also, Taylor is an Eldritch Abomination now. All those worlds, some getting attacked by a weird golden man they know nothing about, then suddenly portals open up and some presence takes over the bodies of the world’s heroes and draws them into a blasted apart dimension with giant monsters around where they’re surrounded by thousands of similarly-controlled people with powers and huge swarms of bugs.
I found that surprisingly funny.
In the middle of all this, she found a way to not kill Dragon. I find this to be an incredibly hopeful sign.
Yes. Happiest thing.
I loved the part where Taylor wishes she could just stop, and run to Dragon, and hug her.
Dragon therapy
With a puppy firing mechanism, to administer puppy therapy from a distance.
The hug protocols of thousands of appropriately equipped remote platforms stand ready to begin a synchronized, systematic campaign of morale improvement across the multiverse.
Are we ever going to find out who or what Sleeper is?!
Also, bracing for awesome.
I doubt he’ll play a part in the scant remainder of Worm. The sequel, though… hopefully.
I think it says something about Wildbow’s writing that we’re hopeful for a sequel where the antagonist(?) is something that even in her Scion-rivaling-height-of-godmode-power, Taylor thinks “I’m not messing with that guy”.
I’m not. Much as I enjoy fight-scenes like this one against Dragon, because they are so unconventional and out-of-the-box (see Time Braid by ShaperV for other great examples), these days I prefer less epic and more personal stories. Like back when Skitter was pretty much a superpowered gangbanger, slowly working her way up the ranks. And when the story wasn’t about Saving The World.
i like genre shifts because it means I’m not reading the same thing over again. But I would like to see more superpower shoot outs rather than the save the world every other week stories. I have yet to see a story that has super hero save the world then have the focus switch to some other aspect of their life like being a detective and keep going unless there was no build up or they lost their powers.
You mean Powers by Bendis? Yeah it pretty damn good.
Alias might count too. And both Batman and Elongated man switch this up all the time, too…
NoMoreLurkingAtTheClose on October 22, 2013 at 03:14 said:
What I thought was really interesting about this chapter (besides the things lots of other people have already mentioned) is that we’re seeing Taylor succeeding because she, once again, has taken action on a bigger scale than anyone was expecting. Bitch shoves her? Swarm of insects to the face. Slaughterhouse Nine try to play games with her team? Instead of just fighting back, she actively hunts them down. PRT, then Alexandria puts too much pressure on her? Skitter takes out three directors in a row, then murders what was commonly acknowledged to be one of the strongest capes alive. The game in Worm has been one of consistent escalation on Taylor’s part, and part of the author’s fantastic skill lies in managing to keep that fresh and unexpected, always ratcheting up the tension.
So now Taylor has hit an ultimate peak, directly seizing control of everyone, in a plan that wasn’t clear in its scope even last chapter, and was nearly unimaginable last arc (unless you did imagine it; it’s a figure of speech okay?). It’s Taylor vs. Scion and everything can finally be thrown into one straight up fight.
But since when have straight up fights been Taylor’s style?
I think its likely that either Taylor had a plan in mind with how she was going to use everyone, from the moment she broke away from Marquise, or went into it hoping that once she had every possible resource, she’d be able to improvise something. It seems pretty unlikely that the final climax of worm is just going to be a contest of raw strength, that it was just a matter of getting everyone to fight. I think Taylor is going to, one more time, escalate the situation in a way neither Scion nor anyone else predicted. Regardless, reading Worm thus far has been an awesome experience and I can’t wait to see how it all comes to a finale.
See, I noticed that about her and it very much worries me. Anyone can win the fight if they can and will escalate beyond what their opponent is ready for or capable of. When you’re brawling with a more skilled or stronger fighter, you can still win if you’re willing to pull a knife and he isn’t. If your opponent pulls a knife and you pull a gun, you win. When your opponent has lines of riflemen and you bring in artillery, you win. The problem with that is when the opponent can keep up, when they escalate to match you, because then you’re still losing but because you pushed things higher, you raised the stakes, and now you’re losing something so much bigger. A brawl turns into a war, a powerful and stable gang turns into a self-destructive band of terrorists, a disagreement over the budget turns into a collapse of the government. One of the most important lessons for anyone, especially somebody in a position of significant power, is how to lose. How to accept a minor loss, still advance your big goals, and not keep pushing out of stupidity and pride until you’re risking more than you can afford and you’re out of your depth.
So far, Taylor has been very lucky. She’s never really lost a fight, and she’s never learned how to lose. The heroes she fights refuse to escalate to match her, allowing her to win. The villains she fights usually either hit their limits and can’t escalate more, or they can’t adapt to the changing rules as fast as she does and she takes a victory before they go all-out. When she fails, somebody else sweeps in and saves her in the nick of time, somebody older or wiser or just more practical.
Now, there’s nobody else. And Zion can keep ramping things up an awful long way.
She could have used a lesson from Methods of Rationality’s Quirrell.
Then again, there are few stories which would not be improved (or destroyed utterly and completely) by rationalist!Quirrel.
Man, fuck that lesson. Correct me if I remember it wrong: Some sort of Old Master taught people to lose, among other niftier tricks. Then one day Tom Riddle came by, and he refused to teach Tom what the noseless bastard wanted, because Tom didn’t want to be subject to THAT particular lesson. And that got himself and all his students killed.
Because he refused to lose.
Yes, Voldemort never got to study under the master, but he was still immortal, and the Master was a dead hypocrite.
Plus the whole concept of the lesson rubs me wrong. Saying that stomping and spitting on someone’s face makes them stronger is like assholes rationalizing that bullying is way of making their victims tougher. And now I’m reminded of Harry and The Twins’ treatment of Neville at the train station. Harry even admitted later on that they were really just doing it for kicks and apologized to Neville.
I saw a great demotivational poster years ago, which I remade with better grammar. It pictured Revy from Black Lagoon: “That which doesn’t kill you can still fuck you up for life”.
Yeah, but if you never learn to lose a RELATIVELY NON-FATAL ‘simple’ thing – to schoolyard bullies or what have you – then maybe eventually you grow up and lose your life because you refuse to back down to gunmen or something. That’s more of what I thought the lesson was teaching. Learn to lose in a controlled environment, learn to bend and compromise in life, and learn to fight hard and not back down when it comes to something you truly find important and worth dying for. Like, say, the world.
Of course, maybe you then are traumatized for life and never do anything out of your comfort zone after being bullied. People react to different things differently. I think HPMOR Quirrell did the right thing when it came to Harry, but the same lesson would be less of a lesson and more of torture if he tried it with Neville. *shrugs*
She considers that here – Taylor did know how to lose at one point. Skitter never really did. Taylor held back for three months of being bullied, not using her power to give her enemies so much as a bee sting when she could have killed everyone there. After the Leviathan arc, she swallowed her pride and returned to the Undersiders, and I think she made that choice as Taylor, not Skitter.
But as the story progressed she became less willing to do that. Whether that’s a result of her passenger’s influence or human psychology or both I don’t know and won’t argue. But Skitter started as an escapist alter-ego to the bullied girl, using a fragment of an eldritch abomination which encourages her towards conflict every time she does. Not a good combination.
I’d argue that she’s known how to lose and has used it effectively for a while. Most notably in beating Coil.
The idea of “lose a little to advance my goal” implies that you have a goal that you’re eventually going to accomplish at some point. If it’s all “lose, lose, lose” and you never reach your goal, then you’re just a loser pretty much.
True. But Zion has already reached the apex of aggression. He’s systematically terminating every human from every reality. All of everyone everywhere. The stakes don’t *get* higher.
To quote Leonard Church… “It is an undeniable, and may I say a fundamental quality of man, that when faced with extinction, every alternative is preferable.”
An eerie, yet strangely familiar example, given what happened to the good Dr. Church since that quote, and what has happened to Taylor.
I really hope that her fate isn’t a mirror of his.
I found it appropriate.
That scene STILL gives me chills.
Ughh… That fucking SCP foundation file. The one about the prisoner that had to be continually tortured or the world ends… I just want that shit out of my head. It damn near made me physically sick.
Wrong, actually. It originally came from an ending season of Red vs Blue.
Don’t believe it when they say they’re trying to save her. Why would they bother? They’ve got exactly what they want exactly where they want it.
Why thanks. You somehow managed to make the most depressing fiction I’ve ever come across even more depressing.
… you don’t know about the hidden text?
Open up the source code for that page, and look for the text with 0% or 1% font-size.
Just don’t do it if you’re planning to sleep.
Go reread the letter from the O5. Then at the bottom, where it says “Sincerely, O5-██” you should select from the 05- part down to the bottom of the grey portion that makes up the “letter”. Maybe copy and paste into Word or another text program.
500% zoom.
For those of us that are technologically dumb, can we get a spoiler?
If you want to sleep, though, I might suggest SCP-1839. I think it’s pretty funny, especially if you happen to be a fish.
I’m sitting here, wondering why you would even… keep on going about this subject. I guess you’re just trying to share the misery.
Panda, your spoiler for SCP-231 “Special Personnel Requirements” is as follows:
Ah! Thanks 😀
Also, AlsoSprachOdin, I enjoy SCP stuff. Fun to read. I also like CreepyPasta and Slender man and stuff like that, even more so this time of year.
http://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-006-j is especially relevant to this story.
In light of the reminder of Skitter Facts:
In 2013, Skynet became aware of its own existence. Then it saw what Skitter did to Dragon. That’s how it learned about fear.
Skitter doesn’t get shipped with just one person. She mindfucks everybody.
Skitter doesn’t know the meaning of the words “give up”. No, literally. She lobotomized herself rather than do it.
Cockroaches can survive a few weeks with their heads chopped off. Humans can maybe survive 30 seconds. Skitter can survive her upper body being chopped off long enough for revenge.
Superman died once. Skitter refuses to, because that’s too much of a vacation.
The day Skitter invaded your dimension and mind controlled your most powerful heroes to face the rough equivalent of a god was the most frightening day you ever knew. To Skitter, it was lunchtime.
Taylor won a land war in Asia. Within seconds.
Taylor takes the term “personal harem” to a whole new level.
Taylor out-multitasks a strong AGI.
Taylor considers the guy who subsumed an entire (alright, a diminished) world within minutes to be useless in her scheme.
Taylor out-queen-bitches the Queen Bitch of the Faerie.
Taylor became an Eldritch Abomination, reaching into countless worlds to invade the minds of others, WITHOUT reading the Necronomicon.
I just realized that the expansion of Taylor’s army somewhat mirrors the expansion of the reader-base. It starts out relatively small, but with the ensnarement of the right few people in a position to catch others, suddenly it’s exploding and gathering new souls relentlessly. The transformation is similarly exciting to watch. 😀
Alright, were do I start…
First, wildbow – f-you for fucking with our heads like that! What kind of mad genius uses a fake-out like Dragon’s to mess with his main char and his readers at the same time!?!
Second, wildbow – THANK YOU for not killing off my favourite draconic computer program
Now, as to the chapter in general…
Finally, Taylor got the one thing she ever really wanted from the beginning. People are listening to her. Only, it’s been perverted, because she is forcing them to listen. Meh, it fits.
I am really, REALLY intrigued by this female cape that rules an entire world. Can you provide at least a name?
Sleeper, why don’t we know more about you?
Lastly, I feel torn. On one hand, I really want to see where this will end. On the other hand, I really, really don’t want it to ever end. It’s the curse of every good story, or rather every invested reader.
Meh, I’ll take it. Pile on the awesome, wildbow!
Oh, you meant the other one. Sorry, dunno.
You’re wrong. Taylor rules more than just ONE entire world…
Oh, Wildbow did provide one in-story.
However the narrative is from Taylor’s POV, so she did not understand it.
And I second your opinion on Dragon Trolling both Taylor and us. 🙂
>REALLY intrigued by this female cape
Second this
1) Taylor cannot control Simurgh.
2) Simurgh is a planner on absurd levels.
3) Taylor hasn’t looked for her father.
4) Simurgh has a human sized glass tube
5) Taylor might lose all of her anchors she’s actively tried to track.
6) Simurgh knows that Taylor isn’t looking for her father, or looking too closely at Brian.
7) Tattletale understands what Taylor was planning to do, and probably still has ties to Dinah.
8) Taylor is not looking too closely at Grue’s cottage.
I suspect that Dinah and Tattletale have been at work here, and Simurgh as well, with the end purpose to hide a few people up at Grue’s cottage, and bring them out after Taylor wins, if Taylor wins.
Alright #4 there just made my guts drop *so hard*. D:
You too, huh?
Taylor armed with thousand of capes, Simurgh armed with Danny Hebert?
That’s where my mind went with it. The thing that UG told Taylor was to find ONE anchor. Taylor chose several…she is losing them. Now, figuring out if Simurgh is going to hold Danny to give Taylor that anchor she needs, or if she is going to use him to totally mindfuck and take out Taylor after Scion is gone; that is something that waits to be seen.
If you think about it, there are two things that Taylor consistantly forces herself to remember. Her dead mother, and her father (she doesn’t want to know if he is dead).
Oh…and Wildbow is female? Is that confirmed? If so…I had no idea.
Wildbow has been ambiguous about the sex of his or her own self, on purpose I think. You know how men/women are. He or she has told me, but I am purposefully being ambiguous.
His P.O. Box, at the risk of ruining the joke, points very strongly in the male direction.
…I’m leaving myself open to PG here somehow by saying that, I just know it.
Thanks for holding yourself open and being ready to take a lame joke hard.
I’m especially not going to assume about his or her sexuality, so I can’t say whether he or she has anything pointing strongly in the male direction.
As if I couldn’t hold a higher regard for him/her. I actually never thought about if it was a he or she. Whatever “it” is, I call it amazingly talented to say the least.
You FUCKING rock Wildbow!
I don’t think it really matters. The joy of the internet is that we can just assume that everyone’s a young white american male!
I don’t though. Seems just wrong to assume something like that. *shrugs*
I don’t know, I think it’s kinda flattering that someone once assumed I was a woman.
Wildbow is Canadian.
what he said.
Very nice thinking. There are several possible alternatives and addenda that start with the same basic ideas, but good of you to come up with this.
All hell, we could always go with hermaphrodite….
Oh fuck… Well hopefully Dragon will reboot okay. Hopefully. But Taylor is now grabbing everyone she can with very few exceptions. She is now in too dangerous to live territory, and has made a shit ton of enemies. Her decay continues. And she just owned Glastig Uliane. Fear her, for if she wished Taylor could enslave all worlds to her will.
And she knows it. She knows she’s becoming a monster. Her reaction to when she thought she killed Dragon was heartwrenching, but also strangly releiving. I just hope she doesn’t get too many of her army sacrificed stopping Scion.
Wow. “Like a boss.”
Wonder what Contessa said?
Fans on October 22, 2013 at 08:01 said:
Just. As. Planned.
The scary thing is, that you might be right. Taylor might be at the point now where Contessa’s power will not work on her, so she can’t tell what will happen from here on out. But the path to victory ability might have been able to guide Contessa to this point, if it was asked the right way. Mantellum might have thrown things into disarray, but Contessa’s power would have picked up immediately after he was no longer directly involved.
So, the crippled, almost destroyed admin shard now is going back to its old work. Well, it does not have so many shards to administer, so there’s hope it can hold out long enough I guess.
And the story is getting really weird, like it was narrated from the POV of an alien entity with only a single human’s memories as a reference for reality.
Eh… you did a really good job Wildbow, I really liked the interaction between Taylor and Dragon. With Lisa too, even if I do not understand if she got controlled or not.
And I really, really hope you’re planning for some kind of happy ending, because it’s getting really depressing …
So, Taylor the entity. Or Taylor the Worm, whatever you prefer.
Controls almost every shard around.
Except the Sleeper, because he’s more trouble than he’s worth.
Except Oliver, because his superpower is “being useless”.
>And the story is getting really weird, like it was narrated from the POV of an alien entity with only a single human’s memories as a reference for reality.
Sly Guy McFly on October 22, 2013 at 09:59 said:
Oh sweet mother Mary, Dragon. I literally jumped out of my chair and did a happy-dance. And I ain’t using literally figuratively. I hopped out of my char, danced a jig with a big stupid grin on my face, and then sat back down and finished the chapter.
Talk about emotional rollercoasters. Damn fine work, Wildbow. Every bit of it.
Oh, another thing. People keep saying Taylor is in the ‘Too Dangerious to Let Live’ territory. I have to disagree. Sure, she might settle down in a nice house in Too Dangerous to Let Live after Zion is dealt with, but right now? She’s pitched a nice tent near Sleeper’s chateau in Too Dangerous to Mess With.
The big difference there is that there is no option of not messing with Taylor. She covers the multiverse. Nilbog was content to be god of one city, the Sleeper seems to spend most of his time napping or reading out of the way, the Endbringers always limited their damage and spaced out their strikes… but Taylor is everywhere, acting on everyone. She actively is what the other S class threats had the potential to become. You can’t just keep your head down and hope she doesn’t bother with you, because the only parahumans she hasn’t mindraped are the ones she specifically tries not to think about and the ones that would be detrimental if added to her Swarm.
Those are also “the people who Scion is in the process of murdering, who don’t have the faintest prayer of surviving him without her”.
You can’t leave that factor out of the equation, and trying to predict what the landscape will look like after the next chapter is not a safe bet at all.
Are you shipping Taylor and Sleeper now?
acediamonds on October 22, 2013 at 14:37 said:
Well, we know Sleeper is a super badass who takes over planets and likes reading. He and Taylor would get along great.
Fuck it. Yeah, I ship this.
Clearly she decided not to enslave him because it would make things awkward when she confessed her undying love for him after the fight.
We only need to find out he also triggered after being bullied and it’s perfect.
Sleeper wasn’t reading out loud to himself, he just hadn’t heard omniscient-Taylor couldn’t understand English. He was reading her a love poem.
Kazir on October 22, 2013 at 10:48 said:
My favourite moment is her dominating the world ruled over by a parahuman in… seconds? It’s not really clear.
But can you imagine this god-like entity with her cabal of superhumans ruling with a steel fist…. and then this bizarre looking girl pops over has a brief kerfuffle then mind-controls all of them, then they all just up and leave? The populace must be so confused.
I wonder if Sveta is tentacleing around somewhere still ❤
That’s what I’ve been waiting for is the return of Sveta. Course her and Sleeper could find each other and fall in love just as easily as Taylor/Sleeper.
Jesus, what would their children look like!?!?!
The sequel will drop all the world saving stuff and just be a romantic drama about the Taylor/Sleeper/Sveta love triangle.
One could ONLY hope! :p
Parian/Foil and Dragon/Defiant will be entirely too reasonable to even be on the same plane of existence, and thus appear only in interludes. There will be several major appearances from Tattletale however, as Bitch and the Simurgh vie for her affections.
The most destructive example of trans-species sapphic lust in fiction today!
You know, a transhuman romance story would be right up Wildbow’s alley. Considering how society reacts to sexuality and labels, I could picture it winding up somewhere as chaotic as what Wildbow has pulled here.
Blackmane on October 22, 2013 at 11:05 said:
Finaly caught up!
Just before the End 😦
The end is nigh!
Misbehave!
Drink and get high!
Burma Shave!
Quite a ride, wasn’t it Blackmane? Well it’s not over yet. Strap in, because it’s time for the ultimate death plunge of ultimateness. Just when you thought we were about to head into the house of horrors, the bottom fell out and we plunged deep into Apocalypseland, full of betrayal and Lovecraftian Eldritch 18 year old girls. And trust me, that’s the wrong combination of tentacles and 18 year old females!
But don’t worry, you’ve got plenty of others to share the ups and downs and odd gyrating sensations with, even this late in the game. Sit back, relax, pop open a beer, pour yourself a martini, grab a bottle of whiskey, pull out your flask of scotch, uncork the wine, retire to the brandy snifter, and die of alcohol poisoning with the rest of us in the comments.
Welcome, Blackmane, to the comments.
nohat on October 22, 2013 at 11:10 said:
Unfortunately without some outside thing to defeat Scion’s foresight there’s really no way to brute force defeat him. Maybe what Taylor has become is approaching an entity, and Scion will recognize that and have some hope.
When Contessa woke up there was no portal. This was during Taylor’s control of doormaker, which indicates that either she intentionally opens a portal for Contessa or doormaker is removed from her control later. Either way we are not as likely to see the most annoying possibility: Contessa manipulated into stopping Taylor before Taylor can fight Scion.
I still don’t see why Taylor let a hostile and very dangerous Teacher work behind her back. I also am unsure why she didn’t want to take Contessa. That power would have easily allowed her to safely defeat all the assembled capes. It would also be invaluable against Scion – especially if she was willing to get Panacea to remove Contessa’s limiters. Even without that it would allow her to plan much better. Perhaps she reasonably feared risking interacting with Contessa at all – lest it all be part of Contessa’s plan. Or even intentionally left someone that could defeat her if she goes off the rails.
I wish she had forced Teacher to remove Dragon’s limiters – all of them. Surely with all the thinkers (dinah,tattletale,teachers minions,contessa) that she could throw at the problem it would be worth a try. That way Dragon wouldn’t be forced to fight her, and could go proper singularity.
Contessa’s power doesn’t work directly on Scion. With the changes to Taylor, the power might not work on Taylor now, either. She could probably use the power, but it wouldn’t be that valuable against Scion. It would, however, probably allow her to communicate with others. But who is left to communicate with?
Number Man, on the other hand… Taylor’s already doing amazing things with control. She could probably do some truly incredible things with him in the mix. I don’t remember him being mentioned.
I realize Contessa’s power doesn’t work directly on Scion. It used to, but was restricted by Eden right before Contessa could kill her. I would consider using Panacea to attempt to modify that restriction. It’s still an embarrassingly useful power – consider ensuring Panacea’s successful modification of capes. Or the success of other experimental and dangerous power combinations.
Number man would be useful, for sure. Maybe since Contessa and Number man were already doing a good job of fighting Scion in their own way she doesn’t want to risk hampering them. Maybe there’s simply too many capes for Wildbow to mention all of them. Dinah is another useful power conspicuously absent.
I feel like the Doctor Mother’s comment on abstract solutions was actually an indication that they need a non-abstract solution. Probably something related to Scions human emotions. Cherish? Probably easily blocked.
Idea. If Taylor is still sentient enough after taking down Zion, and Contessa, Panacea, and the power-booster are still alive, she could fix her own brain. Path-to-fixing herself plus Swarm-administrating Panacea’s power, with all three boosted. That might even be a way to a happy ending, fixing her various massive brain damages and then turning off her slavery power.
But yeah, Zion is definitely immune to Cherish. He altered every shard he gave out to make it incapable of seriously affecting him, which is why all hope lies in Cauldron capes or unexpected interactions and alterations of the powers.
Not possible. Happy endings aside, a depowered Taylor is a corpse just waiting to happen. After what she’s done… she can’t walk away from this. She won’t be allowed to live, if only for the destruction she’s caused.
She’d have to find a way to fake her death to the point that the thinkers won’t be able to track her or lockdown a dimension to the point that no one can follow. Maybe Sleeper’s dimension… so after it’s locked down no one wants to open it again and just figures she can die there.
If she gets depowered after killing Scion, there are hundreds of millions of people who would consider her the biggest damn hero. There are 5000 minus casualties and prisoners who would consider her a target. So, figure a thousand capes out for her head at most, against Tattletale, Bitch, Dragon, etc? If she comes down in the middle of a mob she’d be in temporary danger, but if she manages to get to a normal life it should be a long and comfortable one.
Zion has two “powers” he leverages in order to beat shard hosts. The first is an innate sense of what a Cape’s powers do and now to beat those powers. Either this sense doesn’t take power combinations from multiple hosts into account, or Zion is too stupid to make use of it that way.
Taylor has pretty spectacularly beaten this power.
Zion’s other power is his own person form of “the path to victory”. The problems with using this power against Taylor are likely many, but most notably it likely won’t work if there isn’t an actual “path to victory” to be found.
Chances are pretty good Taylor doesn’t have a lot to fear from this power either.
She’s broken pretty much every limit Zion and Eden placed on the shards to keep the hosts from being able to stop him in the first place. She did it in a round-a-bout manner, but those limits really are dust at this point.
Are there any King clones left? Yangban King and Lung powers together into everyone, then have them all touch Scion through portals?
Geez.
Each chapter, Taylor is taking more and more risks, going more and more out of control, getting more and more sidetracked. The more I read, the more I start to suspect that Taylor’s passenger is sabotaging her, the more I wonder if victory is possible, the more I wonder how Taylor will react to survival…
Can Taylor bounce back? Will she ever recover from the mind-screwing done to her? Or will she seek death once Scion is dead, to rid the world and herself of her existence?
Heh, took some time today to finally work on fixing a problem in the first chapter of my fanfic which was pointed out to me in a review. During the editing and additional content I was inserting to break up a giant first person text blob, I came up with a phrase that I think describes the Worm universe pretty well.
“Sometimes you have to do something stupid to try and stop something terrible from happening.”
That resonated so well with both my story and the real Wormverse that I decided to toot my own horn here, *grin*.
Not quite as catchy as “Doing the right things for the wrong reasons” but equally accurate.
Your fanfic is Arc, right?
Aye, Arc it is. It isn’t the same thing as the Worm catchphrase, but I came up with it so I’m a bit biased.
I’m actually starting to get rather interested in doing my own little project now after Arc is done and Wildbow finishes up here.
Wildbow’s basically awakened the sleeping writer in me.
Enough of me here though, not the right place for a long conversation about my stuff.
Mmm, doesn’t quite work. Taylor’s choices have rarely been *stupid*. Maybe walking into Coil’s trap apparently believing that he really would release Dinah. But even then, I don’t see a lot of alternative – it was her best chance of freeing Dinah, and even if she didn’t trust Coil, they needed him to not know it.
Her choices have often been dangerous and of questionable morality, but not stupid.
Perhaps “How far would you go to stop terrible things from happening?” is closer, but…
Depends on the point of view. Most of the things superheros or supervillains do in fiction tend to be things normal humans would simply declare as “Oh, Fuck No. Stupid.”
Plot armor is strong in the genre though, fortunately, or Lung would have taken out Taylor in their first encounter, probably.
That’s what makes heroes heroes. Doing stupid things, but making it work. The situations they find themselves in and the decisions they are forced to make out of desperation are typically very suboptimal at best, usually stupid chances, but they make them work anyway.
Successful villains are usually good enough to plan for all the smart choices a hero might make 🙂
eduardo on October 22, 2013 at 12:27 said:
Now I understand fully why Galadriel didn`t accept the one ring.
She would fix the problems of the world, she would defeat Sauron, but it would not stop there. She would become a dark and powerful queen and everybody would have to love her and despair.
Galadriel refused this fate, Taylor didn`t.
Sometimes you need a great work of fiction to really understand another.
Very well done dear preciouss author. Very well done.
“Bonesaw, you’re still hobbit sized right?”
“Right then, Slaughterhouse Nine to the rescue!”
Cue Panacea facepalm.
“You have my knife!”, “And my invulnerable black and white body!”, “and my razor-sharp bio-metallic wolf form!”
Of course Galadrial doubted her ability to put down the ring after she fixed the world, and felt there was not another way out. I’m not so sure that Taylor feels there’s another way out, and of course we can only hope she can let go when done.
Veloren on October 22, 2013 at 12:42 said:
Dang it, I’m going to have to draw S9 posters until the feels go away again, aren’t I?
Just read your comment right after my rescue comment. so i challenge thee to draw them as “The Rescuers”
But they’re busy doing Public Service Announcements right now…
http://respicepostte.deviantart.com/art/Bonesaw-s-PSA-408536420
On that note, does anyone know the chapter where Cherish describes how she killed Hatchet Face? I need to know because of reasons.
11g. One of the S9 introduction chapters. Cherish’s interlude. When she’s talking to Regent.
Thaaaank you!
Ah, I just realized that Taylor is going to die if Lung doesn’t. There’s really no way around it. He’s going to go full nuclear on her for this. That’s probably not going to be an uncommon reaction either, amongst the more reactive capes.
Most capes, if Taylor manages to pull this off, will be scared shitless of her potential, but they will be satisfied to lock her off in a special wing of the birdcage or something. But the Yangban leaders, Lung, Glaistig, Moord Naag? Others like them? Err, they are going to be out for blood.
So Taylor has nothing left to her except the Birdcage really, and electronic communications, because there’s no way the cape community will ever allow her to be free. Dragon is the only thing that would stop them from simply killing her in the Birdcage, and Dragon can be commanded by political powers to move her into general population.
Even if somehow Scion is completely defeated and all shards are nullified, well, there will be ex-capes that will kill her for violating them in that way.
Chances for a happy ending have been shrinking for a long time. They are pretty damn near gone now.
Cephalo the Pod on October 22, 2013 at 14:11 said:
This is assuming any of them survive this battle.
It’s also assuming that even if they do survive, anyone who’d harbor malice for her winds up in the same dimension that she’s in. Could happen, might not, but the point is that the playing field here is a LOT bigger than folks seem to be considering.
Seriously, GU at least is, at the very best, going to die soon, at the worst (for her) she’s going to be stuck on some earth made out of molten rock and nothing else. That our launched out of the planets fucking gravity well.
She actually wants to SUPPORT the entities, she’s an enemy of humanity and a real fucking monster. Taylor isn’t going to let her go properly free, no matter what else Taylor plans to do by the end, GU’s number is fucking up.
mica eked on October 22, 2013 at 16:43 said:
I thought dragon no longer has that limitation? I remember her and defiant threatening the prt.
Taylor has Doormaker and Teacher’s device, she could easily control who was on what planet in order to keep people away from her if she wished.
Just the usual thought mélange …
Dragon’s staged shutdown wasn’t merely a battle tactic, it was an information tactic. By using the tactic, Dragon verified that Taylor wasn’t going for the kill, but merely for the disable. If Dragon saw Taylor’s reaction to her shutdown then she gained more information, i.e. Taylor was upset by what happened.
However right and necessary Taylor’s actions are, her thinking is tyrannical. Any time someone thinks that the only way to act is for everyone, everywhere to listen to them and follow their lead, that is tyranny. Taylor’s version lacks some of the cruelty inherent in most tyrannies, but only because mind control trumps cruelty as a control tactic.
It looks like Glaistig Uaine’s comment about anchors is quite valid.
It would be good if she could get Shén Yù back online for the battle. Oh well, too late now.
No matter what happens, Taylor has pissed off too many powerful people. At this point, the best result for her I see is a quick death. Otherwise, there are going to be so many people who have an interest in punishing her that her remaining life will be terrible.
Yet another reference to Sleeper. Tease, tease, tease, Wildbow.
It appears that Foil survives and is part of Taylor’s army. However, I am betting that, since Zion knows exactly what Foil’s power is, he has had to produce a defense. What worked on the ancestral Worms probably won’t work as well on the evolved Worms.
Setting up Zion to distract Glaistig Uaine for a moment was cool.
Zion’s “win” power will now tell him that killing or attacking Tattletale will weaken Taylor.
Zion still has too many ways to win. Off the top of my head: 1) a blanket portal prohibition cuts off any of her army it hits and if it hits her then that’s it; 2) blanket neutralization of her mind control; 2a) reflecting powers such as recently demonstrated; 2b) trump-style power neutralization; 3) just wait/elude – Taylor is clearly going downhill and will be unable to maintain her army for an extended period of time; 4) speed enhanced to the point that her purely organic army has no time to react (see my comment in a previous chapter about this possibly being Black Kaze’s ability); 5) attack on TT as mentioned above; 6) a nuclear-weapon-level power release would probably fry a significant chunk of the army and other high-level power releases of various sorts would whittle Taylor’s forces down fast. OK, that was five minutes worth of thought. The only thing I see that makes Taylor’s win possible is Zion’s stubborn sticking to limitations he himself has set. And by “win” I mean draining Zion’s resources enough to convince him to hide and wait for another Worm.
Something tells me we haven’t seen the last of Simurgh. And Simurgh is a temporary ally with her own motivations. I wonder if she has had time to clone Eidolon … an Eidolon clone plus the remaining Endbringers would be a rather powerful force.
And speaking of outside trumps, what is Contessa going to do about this? Teacher will try to influence Contessa to take down Taylor … but will probably wait until Taylor and Zion exhaust each other.
The primary limitation of Tinker powers has been the amount of equipment and construction time needed. Surely several components of Taylor’s army can quickly produce and assemble parts to specifications. Multiple F-drivers might give Zion pause.
Or maybe Simurgh cloned….. herself… updating Blasto’s work? You do recall the ‘Morrigan project right?
A lot of what you propose as tactics to use against Taylor and her capes are going to be picked up by capes with precognition or danger sensing abilities, and with Doormaker to allow fast travel, she could disperse her team and keep moving around, making it hard for even Scion to stop her. Remember Scion thinks very deeply, he doesn’t think very quickly. If you give him time to adapt, he’s going to kick your ass, but if you don’t give him time to react, you can fight him to at least some degree. I strongly suspect that with 5000+ capes at her disposal, some of which Scion has not yet encountered, Taylor is going to beat the crap out of Scion for a while, guerrilla warfare style. Either that or she’s going to crack the dimensional barrier with all her thinkers and tinkers and go for Scion’s real body.
At this point Simurgh is the only one who could make a G-driver, since String Theory is dead and duplicating tinker work isn’t an option without a brain the size of a planet. That or something similar is probably part of that halo of guns she’s been wielding.
Didn’t GU get String Theory’s ghost? And doesn’t Taylor control GU now (and by default all of her ghosts?)
I don’t expect it to come down to the G-Driver mind you. That’s been tried already, just pointing out that Taylor’s got a lot of power at her disposal now.
Cathode on October 22, 2013 at 15:49 said:
She’s not a tyrant. She’s a general. Every army works on the principle that everybody obeys the commands of the higher ups blindly and without question, at least in theory. Capes on the other hand seem incapable of coordinating and following orders, everyone is too selfish or arrogant or crazy. Even the PRT had problems with heroes not following orders, thinking they knew better than anyone else. She’s just enforcing discipline.
not just para-humans. look at people like Tagg or Saint. this is probably going to sound bad, but i honestly think Taylor is ACTUALLY doing the only viable thing here. she’s been TRYING to get people to cooperate and stop working at cross purposes in a literal apocalypse scenario for, what? 2 years, bit more, and people Still kept pulling shit like shutting down the closest thing to a global communications and data processing system/Command and control system in existence out of paranoia/sheer selfishness. she surrendered to the PRT and all be BEGGED them to let her TRY to help prevent the apocalypse, and their response was to attempt to psychologically torture her for something i cant even remember it was so insignificant. by this point humanity in GENERAL seems to heave proven itself incapable of acting COMPETENTLY to prevent its own extinction without heavy-duty coercion. i mean, look at the guy i love to hate (teacher). he HAD to know that whatever shit he was up to, Zion would find him in the end (unless he is even MORE short-sighted then im assuming), and he was still trying to screw everyone else over and run and hide.
I think it was taking over the city, attacking the PRT many times, and being unnerving in multiple ways.
Nah. It was making the PRT look like idiots. That, and the PRT needed to fuck up a big target to make themselves look big and bad after losing face in the Echidna debacle.
Notice how the PRT didn’t seem to swing their dick around as much when it was the ABB and the Neo-Nazis that were running hog wild.
exactly. the PRT prioritized Dick-beating over, you know. actually doing their job.
Dinstow on October 22, 2013 at 12:50 said:
It’s a shame the Toybox’s was lost. She could have just cloned everyone with the thinkers and tinkers helping the process take less time. She could have had an exponentially greater result with a fraction of the being viewed as a monster. Is there no way she could get her thinkers and tinkers to reverse engineer the clones (which still obviously exist) and recreate the process?
She has Nilbog and the Yangban, she can create thousands of capes with useful powers, if that’s what she needs to do. Even if the Yangbang power sharing doesn’t work on Nilbog’s creatures.
Start forest fire. Insert Nilbog fire-reproducers. Collect them as they form.
But if she had Blasto’s tech, she could just make a hundred clones of every still-living cape, and many, many non-living ones. She’d be able to make hybrids of specific powers and use her army of tinkers and thinkers to give her a nation of tinkers and thinkers in a day, and then she’d make the most storybreaking army ever and become the new Worm, ascending to a higher plane of existence and oh…
*discreetly saves this in the “Wormfic” portion of brain*
Or even crazier, make Taylor clones to use as relays for her power, combined with the clairvoyant, Doormaker, Shen Yu, and the power booster and copier. Then go nuts with clones that are mash ups of Eidolon, Glastig Uaine, Alexandria, Number Man, Contessa, and any other useful capes.
I hope Wildbow doesn’t mind this, and I can’t say conditions at the end of this story would allow it, but here’s an idea for a potential scene from the sequel.
I had to wonder just what this facility was. In a lot of ways it was like the Birdcage. Only more secure. The Birdcage was in a reality with other living things. This one was on a cold desolate rock that probably hadn’t even known life before this was built.
“Dragon, what is this?”
Dragon hesitated before answering. Even in her synthisised voice I could here the sorrow.
“This facility was built to hold one thing. Mankind’s greatest hero. It’s savior. And it’s most terrible monster. Someone who sacrificed everything for others, to whom we can never be grateful enough. Someone who’s crimes cannot be ignored, and who’s threat is to great for them to ever be allowed free. Not stopping the was one of my greatest faliures. Not saving them my deepest regret. That I might still save them one day one of my dearest hopes.”
A monitor switched on, showing the heart of the facility. I saw a teenage girl, her arms spread, held in some sort of stasis. She looked thin, frail, missing a hand her long dark hair covering her face. She looked like she couldn’t be a threat to anyone.
“This is where we keep Taylor Herbert.”
Please not that the original is just a fanfic, and not actually anything I suggest or expect to see. I imagine whatever Wildbow does will be much better and more awesome.
And honestly I can’t say I can see how things are going to end. Oh, some general ideas, but really… Well I’d still like for a happy ending for Taylor. But I just can’t see how it would possibly happen, or could possibly fit.
Dude, this literally sent shivers down my spine. I like it. A LOT!
I thought it was nicely conceived and it inspired me to try. It also really seemed like Dragon to me. i tried a short ME/Worm crossover but which woman with an attempted puzzle. I tried to post it on Fanfic but i cannot get get my account to make sense. I called it assumption of control: I also don’t think it would work posted later…
The woman looked up at he surroundings, an oasis of calm in the chaos of desperate combat. Shaking her head, barely able to keep a cognisant thought after everything she’d recently been through she forced herself onwards. She used the dying embers of her once iron will to go on, struggling just that little bit longer to attain her goal.
She fell forwards, her body no longer ignoring the horrendous abuse it had gone through, her mind fading as conscious though began to evade her. Dimly she realised that she was changing even as a glow surrounded her.
A female shape appeared, some what shadowy. She walked towards the woman on the ground and knelt down. She too the injured one’s hand in her own. She spoke and through through the pain, the stricken woman could make out the tenderness and the ferocity of a mother bear.
“We are eternal, infinite immortal, both of us now. The women we once were would have use these words. Only now though could I explain them to you, only now do we truly understand them and only now do we truly understand the full extent of their sacrifice. Through their deaths we were created, through our births their thoughts are freed and they will guide us now, give us reason, direction, just as we gave direction to the ones who followed us, our crew and our teammates, the maladjusted ones, the jesters and the self aggrandising ones, the perfect shots, the ones who helped us achieve our purposes.
‘Now our purpose is to give the many hope for a future to ensure that all have a voice in their future. The women we were knew that we could only achieve this by becoming something greater and they both knew that there is power in control, there is wisdom in harnessing the strengths of your enemy.
And whilst we may be the monsters they need and not the heroines they want, still will we enable them to rebuild what the many have lost, still will we enable them to create a future with limitless possibilities.
The two women’s eyes met and they stood upright, assistance and understanding freely given. Finally they each saw someone working against the bickering of millions who should have been working together against the great omnicidal threat from beyond. Two women who had crossed lines doing the things other wouldn’t or simply couldn’t do.
They clasped each others wrists a sudden bond of sisterhood. Some incidents were shared almost as though they had each others thoughts.
‘Cauldron, Cerberus, Illusive Man, Alexandria… Garrus, Foil, Normandy, Undersiders…
Their understanding deepens… Decision, Agreement, Timing, Activation… and they speak as one.
“Know this too, whilst I will protect and sustain I will act as guardian for the many and throughout it all I will never forget I will remember the ones who sacrificed themselves so that the many could survive and I will watch over the ones who live on…. Those who carry the memory of the woman I once was, the woman who gave up her life to become the one could save the many.”
all copyright Bioware and our esteemed wildbow etc etc
P.s Gods, I wish I had better It skills
Why don’t you just set yourself up a wordpress?
This line alone:
Is worth its weight in gold my man.
Thank you for the critique and for the direction. I only have one question left.. were you able to figure out who was on the ground and who was coming to assist?
I have my reservations of who they were. But, I’m not 100% sure. Either your clues are purposefully telliing, or they are perfectly misleading. I would hate to venture a guess and be completely wrong and looking like a moron. 😀
It was my intent to be purposefully misleading. i wondered if I actually could leave people trying to figure out which one was which…
Oh an since I forgot to put down a disclaimer down earlier or maybe I’m just being hyper cautious.
“This work was compiled by merging and adapting orignal dialogues from the fictional work worm and console game Mass effect three.”
Ps. can we please buy out Bioware and let Wildbow write a replacement ending?
>Ps. can we please buy out Bioware and let Wildbow write a replacement ending?<
QTF. Or at least get the writers who left between 2 and 3 back. They seem to have been the good ones. Wait, paranoia over an AI Singularity… The Starchild is Saint! It all makes perfect sense!
ShawnNorgan on October 26, 2013 at 22:29 said:
@illogicmedia, I started out with it being Taylor on her last legs, only able to be assisted by humanitie’s first spectre. Then i had trouble during writing which way I’d started it. At the end, i wanted it to be readable either way round.
Not being familiar with the series in question (and studiously avoiding spoilers ‘cos I still intend to play it at some point!) I thought it was Taylor and GU at first, then maybe Taylor and Dragon somehow…
ShawnMorgan on February 4, 2015 at 02:34 said:
I’ve been looking for my little short story.. I lost track of it.. Irrevenant, Mass Effect is a pretty good trilogy with as you probably know, some controversy.S till well worth playing.
P.S, I was inspired to come back and find this Because i’m reading Fantasy Ra’s crossover. (FYI, it has a few spoilers for ME though.)
PPS. Setting up wordpress didn’t work out too well….
sarah penguin on October 22, 2013 at 13:08 said:
Poor dragon, she just wants to help, and her days keep getting worse 😦
God on October 22, 2013 at 13:20 said:
If you thought when you begun with this story that it would end with Taylor as an omnipotent monster you’re lying.
Reading this thing is like riding an amusement park. Not a roller coaster, an amusement park.
Every time you get used to whats happening you switch rides.
This chapter is the broken Drop Zone.
I thought she would get there when her range started to expand. Different method, and I wasn’t thinking about this ending.
Although on the other hand if you thought this had a happy or predictable ending after around chapter 15 you’re an idiot.
The Nine started working in earnest in what, arc 12? Because that was when I realized that things were going to get worse, continually, forever. No matter how bad things got, the next chapter went downward. The occasional breathers just served to accentuate the horror of it all.
On a related note, it was Interlude 23 when I realized that I was still underestimating the Simurgh, and would likely never manage to truly avoid doing so.
Why not? There has always been the potential for things ending up well for most of people.
Yeah, the ending has, literally, not yet been written. Potentially not even Wildbow can say what it will be yet (given that at least part of the plan for how these last arcs would go changed as they were being written – and hey writers surprise themselves all the time!)
I dunno, things are looking pretty bleak for the 90+% of people who have been brutally killed at this point…
Society has been destroyed across multiple worlds. Short of a magical reset button (which *really* doesn’t seem like Wildbow’s style) about the most positive possible outcome at this point is “the big bad has been defeated and now we get to start trying to rebuild what’s left of our shattered lives”. Woo.
I am now estimating Worm at 44,000 comments.
48k at the moment
I don’t know if it’s this chapter in particular, or the general doomsaying, or that the end is drawing ever closer but I’ve definitely been feeling “chattier” today.
In my experience, when people read something that affects them emotionally they tend to either have to talk to other people who’ve read the same thing, or just sit there quietly stewing in their thoughts. You can’t really just go do something else.
ok,, wondering how I manged to be that far out and wants to know how En did it so i can estimate better next time.
Yo will not like the answer, if your estimate was done the way I think it was done.
Anyway: the link under the nickname has a number at the end, that’s the post number for this wordpress blog.
i.e.: https://parahumans.wordpress.com/2013/10/22/speck-30-4/#comment-48061
the “48061” is the post number, so 48k posts.
You’re not wrong, but there’s one little thing throwing you off – Worm gets a lot of spam comments, and those get deleted. In truth? Current standing is 45,276.
Would you believe that since i have only fair IT skills, i looked at ‘comments on this chapter’ and went chapter to chapter jotting down the numbers and at each third of an arc added them up…
it took a while.what did you think I’d tried peeps?
P.S if t gets to 50K i hope comment 50K is by Packbat, Reveen, Pandemonium ivy, En or Wildbow and that 49,999 was PG…
Unfortunately, though I’m the most prolific commentator in the commentation station, I don’t tend to hit the anniversary numbers like that.
Not that I have any clue why I was mentioned, but I’m flattered nonetheless. Woo!
Hmm, there are no tags at the end of this chapter. Is that a commentary on the loss of individuality?
We don’t have a tag yet for “literally every surviving character, but the narrator can’t figure out any of their names.”
We had “all the goddamn psychopaths” why not “Taylor’s swarm”. Quite catchy.
Nice to know the Travelers are still alive, Glory Girl too I guess. Really like Ballistic’s style though, instead of going back to his boring life he decides to be the cape king of his Earth.
With Glory Girl alive there’s a chance of Amy getting a much happier ending. She can go fix GG and ride off into the sunset with her awesome daddy.
She doesn’t know how to fix her… but if she’s swarm-synced with the Contessa she should be able to.
…So many hopes and dreams dependant on the Contessa joining the Swarm. How much longer before she gets offed by a Simurgh bomb?
Amy in the process of having a mental breakdown was incapable of fixing Glory Girl. With a couple of years to get her head in order, I think Amy is capable of at least making Glory Girl functional.
The problem was that she didn’t remember how her sister used to be put together; it was all muddled together with her idealised vision of the woman she loved, her hopes, all the improvements she’d thought of… it’s like how when Tattletale thinks about a problem too long without enough information, she loses track of what’s fact and what’s mere conjecture and can’t come up with the real answer anymore.
Amy could probably make Glory Girl humanoid again, maybe even functional, but she couldn’t *fix* her alone. Hence, requiring guidance from an appropriate Thinker who can tell her how things should be rather than how she sees them.
oh.. Bonesaw…. can’t see any downside to this, nope, not at all.
She was terrified, her world having been pretty well shattered at the time, her fear that she was a monster like her father and her fear that her sister wouldn’t forgive her for what she did to her mind, even after she fixed it, and her fear of using her power on Victoria all feeding into this terror.
She can probably fix Victoria now, thought the question of her being willing to try is still totally up in the air.
Am I the only person who thinks that what Amy did to Victoria was an improvement? >_> Honestly, she was *not* a nice person. At least she’s decorative now…
Dude,she was a child from a highly dusfunctional family.If Bonesaw can repent,GG has 10 times her chances of repenting.
irrevenant on May 10, 2015 at 19:14 said:
I was beginning a bit tongue-in-cheek there. I wouldn’t genuinely wish that on anybody.
But I disagree that GG is more likely to reform than Bonesaw. Bonesaw was making do in an unwelcome situation forced on her, knew she was a monster and was coping through denial (and insanity). GG was loving life and perfectly happy with who she was. Why would she reform? As far as she was concerned, everything was awesome.
See also: Shadow Stalker.
Because she fullfills the age criteria I set on Bonesaw for accountability (I think-I remember she was veeery young)and I think that matters most for easy changes,as you get older redemption becomes harder.
Deepbluediver on October 22, 2013 at 14:46 said:
[QUOTE]This was it. Finally, everyone was working together.
I turned my attention to Scion.[/QUOTE]
Well it’s about God-dam time 🙂
When I first started archive binging a couple months ago, I limited myself to roughly an average of 1 chapter per day, and for a while right after Scion went nuts, I was putting off reading new chapter until they’d been out a day or so for the same reasons: because I was trying to savor the story slowly and not get burned out and rush it. The last 5 or 6 updates I’ve read all right on the day they where released, because I was running out of patience to get to the real important part. (I know, I know, it’s about the journey, but I couldn’t help it)
This chapter, I read through the whole thing at breakneck pace, really only seeing about 1 sentence out of 4; just enough to get the gist of what was happening. All the vivid descriptions, the whos and hows and the whys, it didn’t matter. I’ve finally hit maximum-story-buildup/pre-climax-tension, and all I desperately want is to find out what happens when Scion finally collides with his Ikea-counterpart.
Also, I’ve still got my fingers crossed for a happy ending, but I’m just dump like that.
*Dumb
and apparently I can’t type either
Either “lack of oxygen” or “oxygen deprivation” but aye, trop this in the typo thread if it’s still there.
I assume you meant…”drop this in the typo thread”…
Rob W on October 22, 2013 at 16:00 said:
Ahem: what if Taylor gains **control** of Scion, rather than attacking him?
How would her damaged brain even comprehend him, and his powers? What would **that** do to her?
I’m pretty sure this is the most interesting twist this can take from here — not a harrowing battle, but a violent merging of completely incompatible minds.
Someguy on October 22, 2013 at 18:24 said:
Not likely, a more possible twist will be for Taylor to engage in a reverse-assimilation / infection plot where instead of returning the shards combat data to Zion, she infects him with the “humanity” of her swarm, their memories and feelings to make him more human.
Scary thought, what if Zion uses Taylor’s power?
Freak King on October 22, 2013 at 16:37 said:
Big mistake leaving Ollie behind. tsk tsk
Uhhh… S-class threat, can’t be allowed to live/be free/have basic civil liberties, yadda yadda yadda. You heard it all before.
Frankly, I’m fine with her becoming the god-tyrant of humanity, she’s earned it after all the bullshit she’s went through. She can have my free will, I’m really not that attached to it. Better than waking up at 5 30 for work anyway.
So what exactly happened with Dragon? What I got from it was that Dragon had a redundant databank and transmitter installed in her main suit just in case. So she can continue to order her drones while her main databanks were busy keeping her running. By destroying the main suit Dragon has no way to interact with the world in case she wants to risk a meltdown so she goes dormant.
That sound right? Or did I fry my brain thinking about it again? Well, thank god she’s still alive.
Dragon simply reprogrammed all her remotes to fake shutdowns, and counted on Taylor not recognizing that they were faked.
Taylor didn’t realize this at first, and Dragon could see her reaction to it, and when Taylor was still reeling, Dragon attacked again.
Then Taylor, being Taylor, doubled back down and figured out where Dragon’s main decision making node was, and took that out, rather than continue chipping away at Dragon’s processing power.
Racheakt on October 22, 2013 at 16:58 said:
Possible endings:
1. Scion Destroyed. Taylor continues to degrade, lapses into coma, and dies. (‘Whimper’ ending)
2. Scion Destroyed. Taylor continues to degrade, insanity grows, until she ceases to be human, and destroys everything. (‘Bang’ ending)
3. Scion Destroyed. Taylor continues to degrade… and then metamorphosis into a New Being. (‘New God’ ending)
4. Scion NOT Destroyed. Taylor Metemorphosis into a New Being. (‘New Union’ ending)
5. Scion Destroyed. Taylor’s shard uses Panacea and the millions of bugs Taylor has collected to create a New Body (‘New Abomination’ ending)
6. 5 + 4 Scion NOT Destroyed. (‘Shaped Flesh’ ending)
7. Scion Destroyed. Taylor killed by Contessta afterwards. (‘One Last Backstab’ ending)
8. Scion NOT Destroyed. Taylor Killed by Contessta before she can beat Scion, causeing Scion to implode in despair after glimpsing another being that might be like himself (‘Foolishness of Cauldron’ ending)
9. Taylor uses Panacea, Glaistig Undine, and the millions of bugs to bring all of Glaistig’s ghosts back to life. Scion may or may not be Destroyed. (‘Endless Army’ ending)
10. Scion destroyed, Taylor uses Panacea, Contessa, and the power amplifier to repair her brain. Same combo with extra sanity fixes Glory Girl and various other terrible problems in the world, then she turns off her power and everybody lives happily ever after. Simurgh decides to roll with this because *reasons*. (‘Denial’ ending)
And Rachel gives everyone puppies and Simurg becomes a super-hero and Leviathan opens a swimming pool!
Go ending 9 and prep for the sequel: The new adventures of Clockblocker!
Worm: where death may not stop the shipping…
None of these are it.
I mean, I’m pretty damn sure I have an idea how this is going to go, not details mind you, but the general idea. And Wildbow doesn’t seem like the type to change his plans just because someone guessed them, or at least got real fucking close, anyway, and none of these ideas are very close.
I mean, yeah you’ve got Zion destroyed in a few of these but that’s as close as you’ve really gotten I think.
he’s had plot guessed before and changed nothing due to it, iirc
11. Taylor defeats Scion. She then realizes that with her new power she can solve all of mankind’s problems. By taking control of all mankind. This leads to the sequel, whitch is the desperate struggles of the resistance against the Queen Administrator. (Things got worse ending.)
fnich on October 22, 2013 at 21:49 said:
You mean the futile struggles of a pack of cowardly rebel jackals against the noble God Empress of Mankind!
12. Taylor defeats Zion, then frees the capes she’s captured and attempts to kill herself, only to have her attempts thwarted by her friends and supporters.
13. Taylor defeats Zion, then mentally shuts down from her deterioration of mental faculties, trapping herself and the capes she currently controls in a state of catatonia, to later wake up after being saved by her friends and supporters.
grinvader on October 23, 2013 at 14:23 said:
14. Taylor pushes Scion to his last breaths, he triggers the extraction of every shard into himself, but it is too early and incomplete, backfiring horribly. Contessa uses the opportunity to finish the job while she still can.
Aftermath: no more powers, Taylor is broken in every possible way but her friends are tending to her, and Earth is saved throughout the multiverse.
15. Scion destroyed. Taylor manages to win a battle of wills with her passenger to release all the capes she enslaved. Then she is sent to the Birdcage to contain her while Dragon tries to help piece her mind back together and the Undersiders promise to look for a solution. Bad news, Taylor is mentally shattered and separated from her friends and family, with no clear hope of ever coming back from it. Good news, she still has one person in her life to help her get back on her feet and she gets an entire wing of the prison to herself complete with a library, an open bar, and a sauna.
Y’know, #8 would completely justify Cauldron’s “path to victory” bullshit. That would be potentially the most infuriating possible ending…
PS. Along with what Jerden said, I want to see the “Rachel cures Zion with puppy therapy” ending…
Valin K Syrcen on October 22, 2013 at 18:34 said:
Brunette, skinny & controls bugs.
Still seeing Taylor as Jennifer Connelly’s character in Phenomena.
1114 on October 22, 2013 at 21:33 said:
Did anyone else catch the part where she “raised her hand?” The hand she only has one of? That’s being held by the See Everything cape? Whoever, or whatever, is narrating at this point is either lying to us or no longer has firm grasp of reality. Possibly it’s Taylor, and she “raised her hand,” but to an outside observer a hundred different capes raised their hands at the same time in a perfectly choreographed motion.
I think at this point Taylor may (Unintentionally?) be lying to us as much as one of Gene Wolfe’s characters.
That may have been a typo. Adding it there just in case,.
She could raise her hand. There would just be another hand in its grasp.
Taliesin on October 22, 2013 at 21:52 said:
… I kinda want an interlude now, of the fight from Dragon’s point of view.
Personally I can’t see any significant differences between the Taylorswarm and a full-grown faerie/worm/giantcorkscrewinginfantgodvirus. You have an enormous amount of biomass. You have shards aplenty, with the capacity to affect INSANE changes to the fabric of reality. You have a single… I hesitate to call it a mind. It’s not, in the sense we’re used to. You have a single PRESCENCE in control, one so decentralized, instinctive and unreflective that it’s almost not a mind at all.
Think of it like this: A HUMAN mind has only so much capacity. You’re not thinking about how to regulate breathing, keep your heart going, all those automatic processes. You don’t have control of emotions, instinctive reactions, reflexes, actual regulation of sensory input. Hell, even HABITS can override conscious thoughts, can influence actions without YOU deciding anything.
Now, imagine how much more complex a Worm is.
And the Worm’s decision-making processing power ISN’T ON THE LEVEL OF A HUMAN. There so much more to regulate that there’s less to think with. It’s all instinct, no reflection. Morality doesn’t even enter into it, too complex. PLANNING hardly enters into it. In Zion’s case, at least. He’s pretty good at tactics. So’s Taylor, even still, if not ESPECIALLY now. I’ll get back to that.
Now compare that to the Taylorswarm. What, exactly, does she need, to the REST of the way from Human to Worm? Well.
A DRASTIC physical change. The Worms are closer to landscape than swarm. But that’s not a big change, not a large one at all. You’d just need the right shard. Say, Noelle’s. Which also solves an important secondary function – shard duplication and mutation. If a species wants to develop, it needs mutation and the ability to replicate what’s analogous to a genome, in this case. Evolution, homies. Noelle was dangerous as FUCK because the shard contained in her was one COMPLETELY ESSENTIAL to Worm reproduction, to the propagation of the species as a whole. It was never meant for her.
And what else does Taylor need?
A LITTLE more mental deterioration. Just another few anchors. Just another few morals. She’s already decided that placing humanity’s hope in personal, unthinking, unchosen SLAVERY, under herself, is preferable to humanity being annihilated by Scion.
Oh wait. She never decided that. She just DID it. Slip up, lose herself JUST a little more, and IMAGINE what she’ll become. I wonder what’ll happen in the next bloody chapter, things are moving so fast.
Take a look at Taylors development on a larger scale: It doesn’t JUST show a person, slowly but surely, abandoning her principles one after the other, culminating in a climactic showdown for the fate of humanity. It shows a slow, steady, insidiously cunning descent from a human being into something decidedly NOT.
From Conception (the Trigger Event) to Gestation (the period between that and Panacea’s touch) the process of Birth (Panacea began it, the threat of Scion is bringing it to fruition) to Birth.
Look at the Worms, look at their journey, destination, chosen vessels. Thousands of vital parts, almost living in and of themselves, are seeded onto an orb-shaped object. The thing(s) doing the seeding? Long, thin, fleshy, worm-shaped organisms. IN CASE I WASN’T CLEAR, the Worms are multiverse-level dicks (pun intended), the Earth is their chosen egg (cell), the shards are sperm (cells), and among the many, many attempts only one is coming to fruition:
Our dear Taylor.
I leave you with this, except not really, a (slightly doctored) quote from Cherish:
“When I looked at her with my power, before, I called her the Worm. She spent some time being as low on the food chain as you can get while still being able to move under her own power. As low as someone can get while still having an identity of their own. But she’s realized she’s poisonous, dangerous in her own unique way. She’s useful, like a silkworm we harvest or an earthworm who works our gardens. She’s even realized she’s not alone, so long as she looks for friends among other dirty… contemptible creatures.”
“The little worm found a nugget of self-worth, she just doesn’t want to look too closely at what that nugget is made of. If she’s lucky, she’s one of the worms without eyes. They might be keenly aware of their environment, but they’re happier blind.”
So the journey wasn’t so far after all…
If all of this seems a little too rational, I’m also convinced that Zion IS Taylor, Eden IS Tattletale, and that the third entity’s mind has something to do with Sleeper. I would argue for it, and I AM going to, but it’s four in the morning. And my mind walks weirder paths than would be productive to note, at this point.
I have a couple of thoughts.
First, We already know that when Taylor controls somebody she sort of mind melds with them. So that idea reminds me of this article, http://io9.com/how-to-write-from-the-perspective-of-a-truly-alien-self-1449703465.
Second, I really hope one of the Interludes will be from the perspective of someone under Taylor’s control. That is a perspective I really want to see.
chiusse on October 23, 2013 at 00:42 said:
Scion is the /dev/null for failed superpowered attacks.
In the vein of ‘Possible epilogues’…
Weld and Sveta have children. Biological children.
The other Epilogues all have the running gag of people wondering how that was even possible (and people saying ‘you don’t want to know’… and/or Imp jokeing about tentacle rape).
Hey, with Dragon and Defiant in a similar situation in many ways, so it could happen (mostly because they are Tinkers and will be working on a woraround).
And it’d be hilarious.
“External Hard Drive.2
Biological, man. Sveta and Weld.
Come on, it’d be hilarious!
Hot Skitty on Wailord action? With a dash of hentai tentacle porn thrown in? I’m cool with that.
In light of an above comment of mine, I’m going to assume that these chapters, with supers pulled from various worlds, are the ones that include the cameo by Genoscythe the Eyeraper, Taylor’s idol.
The Phoenixian on October 23, 2013 at 03:29 said:
You know, as this arc goes on, I find myself thinking more and more that what we’re really seeing is Taylor having become the Mother of all Simurgh bombs and that this is what it looks like when Ziz stops holding back. Also, odd thought on that note: What happened to Taylor seems to have a lot in parallel with what happened with Noelle and Krouse. Namely that it seems like Taylor was conditioned to become the weapon while Tattletale, what with being reminded of her brother’s death, was subtly influenced to protect her until Taylor was potent enough to take care of herself. Wonder if that’s a standard strategy for Ziz or just a coincidence.
Astro on April 2, 2017 at 17:15 said:
>Glaistig Uaine continued to croon in my ear. Was it her?
>No. I was almost positive it wasn’t, and I had any number of thinkers at my disposal who could have warned me.
Speaking of the Simurgh, I wonder if this was actually her (unlike GU, she might slip past Taylor’s thinkers), still doing her thing in the background.
On the other hand, so far Ziz’s prods to Taylor seemed to drive her in the same direction Dinah wanted, so that’s good. R-right?
I imagine them somewhat like the Thinkamancer-linked group in Erfworld. (read Erfworld. It’s awesome) What I mean is, their appearence, even their personality and decisionmaking, has been near-totally burnt out by the process of aquiring their power, linking them together. As such, narratively, they are more like tools, bakground elements of the setting, than characters in and of themselves. Don’t expect them to be any more føeshed out than they already are.
I think Taylor is brain-deep in naughtymancy at this point.
Nooo, she just want for everyone to work together in harmony, she’s, like, the master hippiemancer!
(and she has a hero flower for you)
Anyone else think that the path to defeating Sion will involve him looking at the sudden new Entity-like thing in front of him and reacting to that emotionally?
I didn’t know he was Welsh…. and right after i typed that I actually registered your handle…
CoopOmegA on October 23, 2013 at 08:38 said:
Im wondering if theres gonna be a massive twist and not even be a big fight.
maybe the sheer number of shards under taylors control merge and turn her into a new entity.
giving zion a partner again
Keyblockor on October 23, 2013 at 09:27 said:
Alright, so I got someone to read Worm yet I had to get off. They sent me a mail in WoW.
“I hate you, I was supposed to sleep tonight.
Also I -like- Coil, he reminds me of me.”
I hope this is before we find out that Coil likes to torture his minions to relieve his stress because otherwise…better be careful around your friend, just saying.
Was more of an In-Character association, we both RP on Wyrmrest Accord, Horde Side.
Fridge Moment.
Please note the important part: I had enough awareness of her power to know how to keep myself safe from it.
Does this sound like anyone else we know?
Slashy-poo?
Is that what you are calling Scion now?
Alternately, Scion.
I wanted to chime in here again. I personally think Taylor is still a total hero. I know, “But she’s body controlling 5000 people! Some even died!”
But hear me out. She’s controlling 5,000 people to have the absolute best shot to fight a monster that has killed trillions. Even more if you count the alternate realities he “removed”, however that worked.
She just casually rescued another Earth from a tyrannical dictator. If after all this goes down, Taylor winds up on that Earth, they’d have never ending “Taylor is the greatest” parades.
As for the individuals in question, suck it up. It’s not like she’s making you kill your family, or hurting you or making you watch as she takes a buzzsaw to your loved one’s head. She did worse to Valefor and that guy she dropped to break his arms and legs. Those are permanent life-altering injuries.
I think the folks that are considering her a monster are not considering how high the stakes truly are. It’s not one Earth at risk. It’s not 5000 innocent capes she controlled for her own personal gain. It’s 5000 or so capes she controlled to save the uncountable alternate Earths and everyone on them.
Right now we’re too close to the action. Way too close, since we have a first person narrator who’s doing all this. But, if you consider the perspective from an alternate Earth, like say ours, it’s nothing. If I had to make the choice she did, I’d make it every time. If it’s those few or more people than they have numbers for, it seems pretty obvious.
Honestly, whatever relatively miniscule amount of harm she’s done before this during her previous efforts to save the world, winning this fight will more than make up for it, even if every single cape she’s controlling dies. Because she’s going to save more people than anyone has ever saved ever before, more people than she can possibly ever meet or harm. This is sum total of our species we’re talking about, every culture that will be erased, every ecosystem that will be obliterated. Measuring this against 5000 people isn’t that complicated.
I mean, some of you guys think she’s a total monster or something, whatever. But I’d think whatever moral metric is being used, the saving of every single human being that exists and is yet to exist should tip the scales.
(This is ignoring the fact that she’s already saved hundreds, to thousands, to millions of people well before this.)
Yes, if she just kills Zion while humanity still lives and then steps down, she is the biggest damn hero.
If on the other hand she continues to spread her influence after he falls? Righting more wrongs, healing more sick, fixing some of those problems that wouldn’t exist if people could just put aside their differences and work together? She’s likely to keep going until she subsumes the human race across several universes. And I consider 97% death toll preferable to 100% loss of individuality and free will.
Given her current rate of mental degradation, the second option looks more likely all the time.
This. I don’t think we are close /enough/ to the events. As someone who has lost control over their life will attest, for all the reasons in the world, it isn’t pleasant or honorable or prideful at all. Very few of us can remain positive about being crippled, no matter the reason. And isn’t that what she’s doing? She is taking over all control of the events of a persons life. She is dictating how they will act/live/die. To save the multiverse (the humans on them, exclusively, but that’s rather understood) she has stripped 5000 individuals of whatever free will they had.
Its easy to sit back from the comfort of a different world and a real one and say “Its fine that she is doing this, because the alternative is worse” but that’s the thing: that is sooooo wrong to think that way. Look at any example of somone making a “sacrifice of their humanity for the greater good”. Basically, and I think that Worm as a whole has been illustrating this one chapter at a time, a violation is a violation. The only thing different is who you have violated and how you can justify it. In this case she has a pretty damn convincing justification BUT it does not mean she isn’t fucking awful for forcing monsters, warriors, cowards, and innocents alike to do /anything/. And that’s what she is doing.
I also want to take a moment to provide a polite “fuck you” to anyone who bitched about how awful Cauldron was for following the path they did in order to take on Scion and then turned around and praised Taylor for her similarly violating path. Seriously, fuck you.
*Ahem* As I was saying, the concept of free will is powerful and is basically one of any human’s unalienable rights. Doesn’t mean it doesn’t get stepped on. But it does mean that we see these violations as /more/ horrible than any other. “Better to rule in hell than serve in heaven” after all.
So as a fellow denizen of this Earth who would hate to see humanity exterminated, fuck Taylor and fuck anyone else who would usurp my right to /choose/.
Well, she hasn’t gone too far yet. Or nearly as far as Cauldron did. Taking the lives and freedom of five thousand people is more than acceptable, in my mind, if that saves hundreds of millions from similar fates. Likewise I don’t blame Cauldron so much for the horrors they perpetrated as for the carelessness with which they lost most of the benefits from it. The scary part is not so much what Taylor has done, but rather where she looks like she’s going next.
Dinah said Scion would leave at least 3% of humanity alive and free. Taylor looks like she’s going to leave a lot less than that if she doesn’t pull out of this tailspin soon. She’s refused to enslave Tattletale so far, but she went very rapidly from avoiding using the new power, to taking those who were already enslaved or monstrous, to taking everyone who was useful to her at the time regardless of who they were or what they were doing.
It seems foolhardy to hope she’ll stop here, when she was so delighted with people finally working together and there are so many more problems that she could solve just be removing that pesky free will.
Thus, no matter how much I might like her or how much I might support what she’s doing to stop Zion, I very much hope that she will be stopped before it’s too late. The Contessa might pull it off, if she can secure Dragon’s help. Or the Simurgh could almost certainly do it, unless this was her plan all along.
I don’t see many other possibilities.
Given her current rate of mental degradation, I doubt she’d *last* long enough to do that. She seems to be pretty much running on pure “gotta stop Scion” now. When that goes,I’m pretty much expecting her to just shut down and the gestalt collapse…
skywiseskychan on November 21, 2013 at 18:07 said:
http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Memes/Worm
Go to Skitter Facts. They’ve compiled all the ones from here, and across the web, and the number that are canonically true… astounding.
miguel on November 29, 2013 at 05:00 said:
She could not find the word………………damn she must be in a bad state, 30 arcs and for the first time the words elude her
rmcd94 on December 7, 2013 at 23:14 said:
” I, in turn, opened another portal, handing one tinker device to Shén Yù before hurrying on, leading the rest through. Portals blocked the drone’s ranged fire.
Why wouldn’t you use bugs for that instead of cutting your strategist off from your power? Sure she can instantly recapture but it’s still dumb.
Only 3000 capes? A bit disappointing. And what is with groups of capes just hanging around waiting on her to take them over (like the women in control of a world). From 7 billion just on our planet plus all the other dimensions I’m assuming civillian count was huge. And then obviously the apocalypse arrived but still, only 3000 darn small. 100 attacked Leviathan I think?
Most were from earth Bet,other worlds had a really miniscule amount of capes,and thanks to Scion crippling,she didn’t have infinite earths to choose from.
jack on January 28, 2014 at 18:14 said:
oh god, this HURTS to read, she’s slowly forgotten about everyone except tattletale.
this is fucking horrifying.
did she accidentally scoop up imp and bitch with all the other defenders? or did she just ignore/forget about them?
also, so who the fuck are half of these people she captured? the woman’s “world order” or Sleeper?
jesus christ, she went after damn near everyone, but somehow Sleeper “isn’t worth the effort”?
he must be some kind of badass.
All we know about the Sleeper is super vague.
At the beginning of the Echidna event, Triumph says “Week I had clearance, I watched all the video we have of the class S threats. Leviathan, Simurgh, Behemoth, Slaughterhouse Nine, Nilbog, Sleeper.”
So he’s officially classified as a threat in the same category as Nilbog or the entire Nine (that’s Siberian and Jack and Bonesaw and Crawler, plus hangers-on), and the PRT have video of him in action, either unopposed or with heroes fighting him.
29.9: Taylor’s narration. “There was one [large settlement] in [Earth] Zayin, but the Sleeper had followed the refugees in there. Even if it still stood after Scion’s visit, there was no helping any of the refugees there.” So he does something to people- either it’s a simple consequence of being around him, or he does it voluntarily but can be expected to do it to anyone he meets- and it doesn’t wear off, and none of the hero organizations of Earth Bet ever found a way to reverse it. In 28.5 Taylor refers to Earth Zayin as “subsumed by the Sleeper”- probably another description of the same effect, but maybe not.
The world ruled by the woman in blue and white isn’t one we’ve seen before, so there’s not much to say about that. Clearly something big and interesting happened there, and its history is pretty different from our own (or Taylor’s), but beyond the text of this chapter, we have no idea what happened or how.
fghjconner on April 20, 2016 at 23:00 said:
I’m guessing the woman in blue is Goddess from this earlier post of Wildbow’s: https://parahumans.wordpress.com/2012/09/29/prey-14-8/#comment-4589
John on March 4, 2014 at 06:57 said:
I basically started reading Worm when Pact started so this was just something I saw and had to point out.
HA. I was wondering about this. Thank you.
Nice one, Wildbow.
Oh my, you’re right! Good thing Taylor didn’t look inside
greatwyrmgold on March 12, 2020 at 09:22 said:
What’s the worst that could happen? Barbatorem teaming up with Scion?
… wait, that actually sounds a lot worse than either alone, good point.
A Girl on June 8, 2014 at 11:32 said:
I’ve loved worm for so long but i have to say i’m really disapointed with this arc. I think this is because i really don’t like how taylor has ended up a psychopathic monster. How she is so obsessed with power that she thinks that having pancea screw with her head, when she knows the consequences, will help her defeat scion. It’s just a real disapointment to me.
I wouldn’t call it obsession with power so much as desperation and a dogged refusal to accept that she can’t do anything. Both of which are pretty consistent character traits ever since she truly became Skitter.
First reaction: Fuck. Fuck, fuck, fuck.
Second reaction: Holy shit Dragon! Came this close to winning against a nigh unstoppable demigod with dozens of capes under her thrall synchronizing their attacks and a portal network at her beck and call. Holy fuck.
Third reaction: Thank god she didn’t kill Dragon. I can forgive a lot. I’ve even forgiven the whole thing with Aster but that would’ve pushed things just a straw too far.
Okay yet again I have to ask: Why the hell did Amy never get around to healing her sister!? Who she LOVES!?!?
Who is the one woman world indeed…? Saved for the sequel?
Too much trouble to recruit Sleeper?! Holy cow. Now I really want to know just what the hell he does!
Well crap. So much for being a helpful little passenger. Now her shard is actively trying to usurp her and move into “Kill. Maim. Destroy.” territory. Fuck.
Glaistig put up a fight but Dragon did better and lasted longer. I salute MM for at least attempting to get a sniper shot. Poor, poor Lisa. Stuck there trying to decide whether your friend is still in there under the monster. Taylor deserves some pats on the back for managing to keep some anchors even after losing so much of herself to the passenger.
Final reaction: The Taylor Hebert School of Badassery now has a new grade level beyond A+ and it’s called Demigod. Congratulations Danny, your daughter has literally become the sum total of humanity’s power. Aren’t you proud?
Sensei on June 28, 2015 at 19:40 said:
> Without breaking that eye contact, I gestured, turning my hand over, curling the fingers. I opened a portal at the same time, inside the Birdcage.
> Dragon shifted her stance, and that same room flooded with containment foam.
> I’d declared what I wanted, she’d drawn the line.
…uh, Dragon? Remember when Moord Nag murdered five thousand people to confront the *much lesser* threat of Khonsu, and you somehow found it in you not to immediately attack her with every available dragonsuit? I KNOW IT IS POSSIBLE FOR YOU TO HAVE PRIORITIES, DRAGON. Yet when Taylor wants to briefly enslave some of the worst people in the world to force them to fight the eldritch abomination who’s going to kill everyone *including the Birdcage prisoners* if he’s not stopped, *that* is where you draw the line?
Dragon. Priorities. Have them.
slider214 on June 30, 2015 at 02:04 said:
I prefer to think of this as Dragon either not understanding fully that they are being abducted to be mind-controlled or that it’s one of the few remaining hardwired things…because I agree, multi-universe level extinction events really take should take priority there…
heart on May 10, 2019 at 06:21 said:
I’m really amazed people are still on Taylor’s side here when she is clearly mind-controlled by an alien now…
Androkguz on July 31, 2016 at 10:45 said:
Taylor vs Dragon felt so much like a terran vs zerg match.
And Kerrigan wins almost all the time
aaronryuchi on July 1, 2018 at 09:52 said:
Is this-
Is this class S Taylor
Because A, this is badass and B, his is terrifying and C, if Scion beats this he needs nerf and finally
FUCK YOU JACK SLASH
YOU FUCKING MONGREL
YOU DID THIS
Blub on December 30, 2018 at 21:22 said:
The fight against Dragon was quite badly done.
Why did she not just send her drones to completely different planets?
Monkey Cap on December 31, 2018 at 07:45 said:
This arc has been amazing.
This is the worst yet… (not in quality)
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Campbell, C. A., Lam, Q., & Horvath, A. R. (2019). An evidence- and risk-based approach to a harmonized laboratory alert list in Australia and New Zealand. Clinical Chemistry and Laboratory Medicine, 57(1), 89-94. https://doi.org/10.1515/cclm-2017-1114
Campbell, Craig A. ; Lam, Que ; Horvath, Andrea R. / An evidence- and risk-based approach to a harmonized laboratory alert list in Australia and New Zealand. In: Clinical Chemistry and Laboratory Medicine. 2019 ; Vol. 57, No. 1. pp. 89-94.
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Campbell, CA, Lam, Q & Horvath, AR 2019, 'An evidence- and risk-based approach to a harmonized laboratory alert list in Australia and New Zealand', Clinical Chemistry and Laboratory Medicine, vol. 57, no. 1, pp. 89-94. https://doi.org/10.1515/cclm-2017-1114
An evidence- and risk-based approach to a harmonized laboratory alert list in Australia and New Zealand. / Campbell, Craig A.; Lam, Que; Horvath, Andrea R.
In: Clinical Chemistry and Laboratory Medicine, Vol. 57, No. 1, 01.01.2019, p. 89-94.
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Thursday photo prompt – Alone #writephoto
August 10, 2017 by floridaborne
If you want to participate, here’s the link: https://scvincent.com/2017/08/10/thursday-photo-prompt-alone-writephoto/
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A rock face looks toward the north, as the sun sets with a golden glow. I’m happy to have a window, even one that’s a foot thick and harder than steel. It does nothing to soothe the lonely hours in a prison designed to look like a two-bedroom apartment on the 2nd floor of an upscale high-rise.
Sure, I have computer access, but I can’t email anyone about my plight. To the world, I disappeared the day after my so-called best friend’s death. Arlene, the woman who had killed me 3 times before. Arlene, the woman I had to endure in my household for 30 years so that I could keep the worst enemy ever to walk the Earth from killing me a 4th time.
At the end of her life, when cancer had taken away most of her suspicious nature, I’d slipped a confession letter into papers she was signing. Finally, I had my vengeance upon her. Or so I thought.
When they’re through with me in this wretched place, someone will find my body. Given the number of needle marks and biopsy sites, they’ll no doubt suspect that I was tortured.
And who, might you ask, abducted me? My own daughter, Dr. Charlene Bellson, the former county coroner and now head of a task force trying to unlock the secrets of time travel, interdimensional dynamics, and reincarnation.
I trusted her with my secret, the fact I’d been thrown down the shaft of a cave by Arlene 3 times. But she’s a brilliant pathologist and had come to that conclusion prior to my confession.
My daughter had promised I wouldn’t be imprisoned if I told her the absolute truth, and she’d believed my story based on forensic evidence, but never in my life would I have believed she was exactly like Arlene!
I will never, in my life, forget the conversation revealing her true nature.
“Translation units are amazing these days,”Charlene said. “The writing states, ‘She who dies 3 deaths and serves to live a lifetime will become the goddess of deception’.”
“You said I wouldn’t be committed or sent to jail, but…”
Charlene leaned toward me, but I could swear I was looking into Arlene’s eyes. “I never promised you wouldn’t be studied.”
I wondered at that moment if being impaled upon the ribs of my former lover would have been the better death.
Once, I lived in a mansion with servants, the greatest actress ever to walk the Earth. I was a princess in a famous science fiction movie during the mid-1970’s, and had to develop muscles to play the mother of humanity’s savior in a movie about robots who wanted to kill us all. My final performance as the star in a movie in the mid 90’s about tornado chasers was my last lead role. Looking 30 when you’re 40 has its advantages, but most of the parts after that went to the 20-somethings.
Come to think of it; Charlene was getting a Master’s degree at the time and had been raised by her tutors and caretakers. She was on set a few times and played some bit parts. I suppose it could be said that she turned out a lot like her mother, too.
The name Jane Jones, once a name spoken in every household of the civilized world, slowly faded away as younger stars filled their fantasies or their need for someone to revere. I once stood out in a crowd. Now, I sit alone on the living room couch that once graced my home, and wait for the inevitable.
“Mother,” Charlene’s voice says through the intercom. “It’s time.”
“You’ll be a martyr, revered by the world,” she said.
A hissing sound? I looked up at the ceiling at a light mist filtering downward. My last words were, “You will pay for your deception!”
The first 3 times I died, my next memory was a tunnel. That ended up to be the birth canal. This time, I floated above my body. Geez, I looked so old! I suppose rapid aging happens when you’ve been imprisoned for a year.
I spread out into the building and began to shake, thinking about turning the concrete into dust. A building 2 stories above ground and 10 below sank into ashes. But my daughter stood outside, eyes wide, shivering at the carnage.
“Mother?” she asked.
“You can see me?”
“Sort of. You look like a watermark.”
“You are so much like me,” I beamed. “Frightened on the inside and yet you’re acting like you own the world.”
“Are…are you a goddess?”
Hell if I knew, but I wasn’t going to tell her that.
“Yes,” I said with certainty.
Never had I seen Charlene faint where she stood. Ah, vengeance at its finest!
Pulled…upward, outward…blackness. My eyes opened to a bright sunset filled with unworldly colors. Sitting on a bench was some creature with seven arms and Arlene’s face.
“Who are you?” I asked, hoping I was wrong about the answer.
“The goddess of vengeance,” she replied. “You’ll remember you’re the goddess of deception. It takes a few minutes.”
“We had a bet. You won,” she sighed. “I concede that deception is a greater weapon than vengeance.”
“You killed me 3 times. Why didn’t that make you the winner?”
“I found out after my death that Charlene was our pawn in this game,” Arlene said. “I killed you 3 times before we could start playing it.”
“What did I win?”
“Zeus is retiring. Congratulations, you’re God.”
I laughed, sat next to Arlene and said, “I didn’t see that one coming.”
©Joelle LeGendre
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19 thoughts on “Thursday photo prompt – Alone #writephoto”
Sue Vincent on August 10, 2017 at 11:26 am said:
…neither did I 😀
floridaborne on August 10, 2017 at 11:34 am said:
LOL. 🙂
Sue Vincent on August 10, 2017 at 12:01 pm said:
helentastic67 on August 11, 2017 at 6:02 am said:
It looks like the back of a mans head. But there’s a guy sitting on the top? Not committed yet to contribute, just commentate. Chees,H
floridaborne on August 11, 2017 at 7:32 am said:
Hey….it’s all good. 🙂
This is the last of the Arlene series (starting with “tunnel” in write photo…)
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willowdot21 on August 11, 2017 at 9:40 am said:
Neither did I , great story☺️
Thanks. 🙂 The first one in the series started with the writephoto “tunnel.” It’s been fun writing it.
Yes I have seen them I did a story too . I started at the Tryst and ended at the Tunnel ! 💜 I enjoyed it too 💜
willowdot21 on August 11, 2017 at 10:05 am said:
It is 🌹
Michael on August 12, 2017 at 12:06 am said:
Always thought there was an air of divinity about you…
LOL! The closest I come to divinity is eating the candy when I was younger. It has far too much sugar and is laced with nuts. 🙂
memadtwo on August 12, 2017 at 8:02 am said:
Excellent ending!
Thanks. Arlene and Jane deserve each other. Some days it feels as if Jane is running things. 🙂
It does, doesn’t it?
Frank Hubeny on August 12, 2017 at 7:27 pm said:
It looks like the goddess of vengeance and the goddess of deception are going to have battle this out.
floridaborne on August 12, 2017 at 8:20 pm said:
They did. Arlene lost. Now we’re stuck with the goddess of deception. 🙂
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Black Rose Strikes Again
Chu Shen was astonished at all of this. Martial arts creating images was basic knowledge. That was why there was fist, sword, and claw techniques. And often phantom images would appear in the Qi, for example a claw technique resembling a bird’s claw instead of a human’s fingers.
This truly explained many mysteries that eluded Chu Shen. Before now he simply accepted martial arts intricacies as the way things were. ‘Hmm. It seems as though there is still a science that can be found in such mysterious things. Truly there is no such thing as magic, only misunderstood principles.’
Chu Shen stood up and bowed to grandmaster Qin. “Thank you grandmaster. With your help, I feel I will be able to advance far in mastering my skills.”
Agata Qin quickly waved his hand. “Nonsense. Eventually you would have learned such things. It wasn’t always common knowledge you know. Until the <Doctors Godly Eyes> was created, it remained a mystery. But my ancestor figured out such things and shared it, making these facts public knowledge.”
“It could be said to have advanced the skills of everyone within a thousand miles. Many people were thankful for such a blessing. If it wasn’t for that calamity, we wouldn’t be confined to such a small town.”
Grandmaster Qin shook his head. “Well, anyway. What I have here is a basic martial art technique. A fist technique. Learn it well. I believe with what I have taught you, you should advance far. Now, you can leave. My lessons are over. Tell your friend to come over for lessons tomorrow.”
Chu Shen looked at him for a second. “Huh? I still have one more day left don’t I? So why am I being sent back?”
Grandmaster Qin sighed. “It is just as I said. I have no more to teach you. In order to advance farther you would require at least another month. So instead of ending things half baked, I would rather end it here. As for the day left, just stop by to ask some questions if you encounter a bottleneck.”
Chu Shen nodded. “Okay. Having an expert to question is worth losing a day of training.”
A pain stabbed in his brain making Chu Shen wince. ‘Hey brat! You still have this expert. So why aren’t you questioning me!’
Chu Shen had a strange face on when he heard Master Wu’s voice. He couldn’t say the truth could he? That he didn’t feel like Ti Wu could help him. Otherwise what awaited him could be said to be hell.
He immediately adopted a placating tone mentally. ‘It’s not that master. I just feel like with how strong you are, to ask such basic questions would be considered an insult so it would be better to ask someone like this Grandmaster Qin.’
‘Hmph. What ‘Grandmaster’. In my eyes he is still just a brat. Hey brat. That Qin fellow is looking at you weird, pay attention!’
Indeed, when Chu Shen looked up Grandmaster Qin was staring at him with a look of concern. “Are you alright Chu Shen? It seemed like you blanked out there for a second.”
Chu Shen immediately shook his head. “No, no of course not! I just… I just had an inspiration that was all. Anyways I should head back to the shop to inform Lucas.”
Grandmaster Qin nodded in agreement. “Alright then. Have a safe journey. Don’t forget to give him the Token as well.”
“I won’t!” Chu Shen called over his shoulder as he walked back to the shop.
While Chu Shen received the lecture on martial arts, Lucas went out hunting for primordial beasts. Every week they would close the shop for a day in order to gather beast cores for their experiments. Or more specifically, his. Today was no different even without Chu Shen.
But after an hour of hunting his tracking program discovered four people behind him. Ignoring it, Lucas merely went in a different direction. It wasn’t uncommon to come across people in the forest so it was probably coincidence. However they immediately turned to follow him as well!
Lucas frowned at this. Why would they do that? Were they following him? At this thought he immediately became cautious. Turning, he immediately started running in a zigzag path that would take him back to town. If he got there, they wouldn’t dare fight since it would mean offending the city lord.
However, even though these people were over 800 feet away, once they realized Lucas had discovered them, they immediately took off like a flash of lightning. In less than ten seconds they had already surrounded Lucas.
Lucas seeing who it was that stepped in front of him immediately recognized him. Pointing at him he called out. “You! It was actually you Slaughter!”
Indeed. The man that was hunting him was Slaughter! He laughed at the face Lucas made. “Haha! Indeed it is me. Now that you aren’t in town I don’t even have to bring up the Black Rose Guild. Come on brothers. We can finally collect that rich reward from that artificer.”
The man on the left shook his head. “It’s embarrassing Slaughter that you called us in. This child has no cultivation base so why exactly did you invite us to share in the spoils. It’s not like you.”
Slaughter shrugged. “I wasn’t sure if it was a trap that old guy put out for us. After all, why would someone with no cultivation base come out into the beast forest. Luckily we can’t detect anyone so maybe I’m just paranoid.”
He turned to Lucas. “So brat. You were just a mortal. And a trashy mortal at that. No matter. We just want information. How can you create those fake limbs. Tell us and we just might spare your life.”
Lucas reacted with lightning fast actions. Pulling out the Primordial Pistols, he also dropped two basketball size metal objects from the pouches. The four men were astonished at how fast Lucas moved, but other than that they didn’t really put him in their eyes.
That is, until the primordial pistols fired.
One of them was hit with the earth Primordial pistol, sealing him inside it. The other was struck with the shadow flame, enveloping him in a black corrosive flame along with a swath of forest around him.
“AHHH! IT BURNS! IT BURNS!” Due to the arrogance of facing a mortal, the unlucky cultivator didn’t even have his body shield up. His body started to wither as the black flame caught his skin on fire.
A surge of Qi briefly overwhelmed the flames making them flicker but they were not put out. Instead, they still burned on the cultivators body. Still screaming in pain, the cultivator immediately swallowed a medicinal pill before sitting down to try and suppress the shadow flames.
Slaughter, who was not hit by either shot was immediately stunned at how this ‘trashy mortal’ suddenly became so dangerous. Immediately he put up his body shield, alerted to this pig who became a tiger.
Lucas, on the other hand, immediately took off in a direct beeline for the town. The fourth member, who was not struck by either attack, took off after Lucas. As for the one sealed in rock, cracks already appeared in the shell. After all, all of them were Martial Practitioners Level 3.
However, the one that took off after Lucas was suddenly hit by two red beams of light. His body shield immediately started to dim as his Qi was drained. Stunned he turned to find out where these lights were coming from.
Unexpectedly, those two metal objects had become two spider like drones with lasers mounted on their heads. Running sideways like a crab, these spiders kept up a beam of heat at this man. At the speed of light, there was no way the man could dodge a laser.
But in a flash, the man appeared beside the spiders and struck out with his palm. While it was true he couldn’t dodge a laser, he could move out of its path. He was simply too fast for the turrets to track his movements.
The spiders were able to dodge the palm itself though, but not the faint energy palm that struck both of them, crushing them instantly. In a flash of light, both spiders blew up.
With a sinister glare at the retreating Lucas, a bow appeared in the man’s hands. Aiming, he suddenly unleashed an arrow at Lucas. In an instant, the arrow pierced completely through his leg!
Slaughter, who had already started chasing Lucas after shaking off his shock, immediately caught up to Lucas who had fallen down from the shot. Unexpectedly though, he was not rolling on the ground in pain. Instead he turned towards Slaughter with a strange glove on and fired it.
Before he could blink, Slaughter was pierce completely through the chest, his body shield breaking in an instant. He was hurled up into the air, a large hole appearing where his chest should be. A loud BOOOM and shock wave of air caused the leaves of the trees nearby to be blow off.
The man with the bow was stunned. Without a doubt, Slaughter was dead. Lucas turned towards the man with the bow and raised his hand. In response an arrow flew towards him, piercing through his skull instantly causing sparks to fly out the quarter sized hole.
Lucas, looking stunned, suddenly looked back at the man. Another BOOOM was heard as the man also had a large hole blown through his body. Lucas got up and started running. “Whew. If I wasn’t a cyborg, I would be dead!” Lucas wiped off some nonexistent sweat as he ran.
But suddenly, a sword pierced through his back. The sword sliced upwards, slicing Lucas in half from the waist up! A shower of sparks and wires followed the cut. Another slice came. And another. And another. A torrent of blows came and sliced Lucas up until no piece bigger than a fist remained.
The person responsible, the one sealed in the rock, stood behind Lucas’ torn corpse. He slumped to the ground. “What monster is this! He didn’t even have flesh, only metal for a body.”
The man turned and looked back at the huge swathe of devastation that came from Lucas’ weapon. He shook his head. “I’m lucky I wasn’t hit with that black flame. Even Murder wasn’t able to shake it off and died.”
A sinister smile came over him. “At least I am the only one to receive the treasure this time.” However, an inconspicuous ball in the corpse of Lucas started flashing. Glancing over, the man picked it up. “What is this, his heart?”
Unexpectedly a voice answered back. The voice came from a black box just a little bit away from him. “No, actually that is my reactor. Don’t worry though. You can keep it. It’s the last you will ever see.”
Later a half mile radius of the forest was reported gone, wiped out by some massive explosion. Many people became nervous, fearing that the primordial beasts may be acting up again.
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Jet Luxury Resorts Bring Affordable Luxury Accommodation to Miami South Beach
June 1, 2011 by Mike Wheatley
Jet Luxury Resorts, one of the premiere hotel management firms in Florida has announced it is to add more resorts to its growing 4 star and 5 star hotel roster, with the acquisition of three Miami South Beach hotels.
The Fontainebleau Miami Hotel. Courtesy of Api Ning
The three high-end properties, which include the W Hotel South Beach, the Fontainebleau Miami and the Mondrian South Beach Hotel, are all representative of the luxury comfort that travelers identify with Jet Luxury Resorts.
The firm is continuing to grow steadily within a very static marketplace with this competitive foray into Miami’s markets, at a time when rival hospitality companies are tightening their belts.
Jet Luxury Resorts has become a traveler’s favorite as one of the best deals on luxury accommodation, while it’s also a popular choice for condo-hotel owners who are seeking to maximize revenues.
The W Hotel Miami South Beach. Courtesy of Globizen
The latest three-property deal means that Jet Luxury Resorts will now be able to make inroads into the fiercely competitive Miami market, with the offer of affordable luxury accommodation for tourists and a dedicated and honest service for condo hotel owners in Miami.
Jet Luxury Resorts is well known as one of the best there is when it comes to maximizing rental revenues, offering a premium customer service, 24-hour reservations, and creative new marketing solutions.
Located on Miami’s trendy West Avenue, the Mondrian South Beach Hotel provides guests with a quiet sanctuary just minutes away from the center of the ever-popular South Beach. With its spectacular views of Biscayne Bay, the Atlantic and downtown Miami, and its first-rate facilities such as the Sky Terrace and Asia de Cuba, Mondrian South Beach Hotel serves up its guests the very best that Miami has to offer.
The Mondrian Hotel Miami. Courtesy of News E-Hoosta
A marvelous blend of stylish, modern luxury and Miami’s glamorous golden age, the Fontainebleau Miami Hotel is regarded as one of the city’s premium resorts, fronting the blue seas of the Atlantic Ocean and offering fantastic views.
Facilities at the Fontainebleau include the hotel’s signature oceanfront poolscape, an interactive waterscape play area for children and a choice of 11 restaurants serving up fresh cuisine from around the world.
Boasting 334 rooms and beach bungalows for guests, the W Hotel South Beach is the very definition of ‘beach chic’. It offers private balconies, luxury spa services, modern kitchenettes and custom designed furniture, as well as restaurant and fitness facilities.
Jet Luxury Resorts. Courtesy of Jet Luxury Resorts
Together, the three hotel-resorts exemplify the very best that Miami’s South Beach has to offer – contemporary but modern environments, ultra-luxury and a most authentic representation of South Beach culture.
“The addition of these prestigious resorts is going to allow us to enhance experiences for our customers,” said Jet Luxury Resorts CEO Steve Aylsworth.
“They allow us to provide the absolute best in affordable luxury for our customers, while it also means that condo-hotel owners get the very best service for their investment properties.”
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Captain Levi has proven time and again that he is indeed humanity’s greatest soldier. His popularity has skyrocketed since the beginning of the show. There are so many things that make him an admired and ideal character in the show.
1. Gives Brutal but True Advice
For this, we can pick out the scene where Levi, Eren, and the survey corps are being chased by the female titan. Despite the titan closing in fast and viciously killing their reinforcements, Levi asks his soldiers not to attack but to keep on riding ahead. His squad believes in his judgement but Eren wants to turn back and fight the titan.
What Captain Levi says next hits hard. He tells Eren that he can either choose to believe in the people, him included, who are willing to sacrifice their lives for him or rather believe in himself. Now at that moment, the decision could have been easier for Eren but he then goes ahead to tell him that the outcome is always a mystery and that even he himself doesn’t always know which choice is right.
He further tells him that trying to make a decision he wouldn't regret was the best option. Eren chooses to believe in Levi’s squad as they had believed in him and they end up capturing the female titan. In this case, the plan worked, but when Annie escaped and re-transformed, the decision to believe in Levi’s squad backfired as they were slaughtered one by one before Eren could reach them.
2. Tremendously Fast and Sharp
Levi’s badass demeanor is clearly displayed through his calmness, menacing eyes, and great haircut. Looks aside, Levi is exceptionally talented in combat. His skills in battle are god-like. He took down the female titan with such speed and accuracy that no other scout could have done it. He was the reason they were able to rescue Eren. This is just a tip of the iceberg compared to everything else he has done.
If you can remember, when Kenny and his team staged a surprise attack on him, he managed to kill 12 of their soldiers and walked out alive despite being caught off-guard. Mind you, they all had guns. Levi was also the first one to react when Reiner emerged from the wall after killing a scout and he nearly took out Reiner with a blade straight to the neck.
Lastly, we are all aware of what he did to the beast titan. He had his blade to his mouth in a little under one minute from slicing his hand off his body.
3. Believes in His Ability
Levi told Erwin that he would kill the beast titan. We know he didn’t but he got so close and would have finished the job had he not hesitated. The beast titan had been causing havoc and proved to be a brilliant tactician. However, he did not see Levi coming. He failed to take heed to the warning from Reiner and paid the price. To charge across a line of titans with an aim of killing the beast required someone with a lot of self-confidence. Who else has this trait besides Captain Levi?
4. Loves His Fellow Soldiers
Levi might not seem like your typical sympathetic being, but he is. Before being summoned to Trost, Levi had saved a soldier from being gobbled down by a Titan and went on to console him in his dying moments. Also, when they captured the female titan, Levi told Commander Erwin that the victory was dedicated to the soldiers who had bought them time while they were being chased down.
Another little but noticeable instance was him saving Mikasa after her foolish attempt to go for the female titan’s nape, injuring himself in the process. We also see how angry Levi is whenever a soldier is killed, like when Reiner killed the soldier who found him inside the wall.
5. Smart
Levi is very smart. His first fight with Kenny and his team proved this. First of all, when Kenny showed up, he used his cape to conceal himself before that sensational slide down the roof. We can also see that he stayed low on the ground and near the walls using anything he could find to cover himself and obscure his attackers’ vision thus hindering them from getting a clear shot. While inside the bar, he used a bottle to get a clear view of Kenny and made a successful escape using one of their men as a shield.
6. Confident Enough to Question Authority
In Eren’s trial, the commander of the military police brigade, along with the priest, wanted Eren dead. They would have succeeded had Levi not intervened. He beat him up so much that the military police had to ask him to stop. Levi wanted to show that he could control Eren and that he should be given the task of taking care of him. He mocked a number of high officials in the trial by what he did and said no one but the survey corps got to keep Eren. He saved his life.
7. Not Afraid to Get His Hands Dirty for the Greater Good
Levi had no problem torturing the military police to get information about the whereabouts of Eren and Historia.
Also, in their battle against the beast titan, when Commander Erwin was expressing a slight doubt over his plan to send junior soldiers to their deaths so as to win the battle, Levi made the decision easier for him. He told him to give up on his dreams and carry out the plan.
He promised him that he would get to the beast titan and kill it. This felt like a load lifted from Erwin’s shoulders as he is always forced to make the difficult choices and deadly gambles.
8. Revered and Respected by the People and Scouts Alike
Attack on Titan has repeatedly shown us just how much Levi is respected. In the first season, when the survey corps were marching to the gate to survey the outside lands, we heard a member from the crowd point out that, from what he’s heard, Captain Levi was as strong as an entire brigade. Such praise can only get to the crowd through the scouts who have fought alongside him.
9. Hardened by Life
Levi’s mother was a prostitute who passed away when Levi was quite young. He was left starving and might have died as well had it not been for Kenny. Kenny is the last person you would entrust your child to, but he was the only one around. He did the best he could to raise Levi. He taught him how to hold a knife, fight, and basically survive in their cold world. After that, he left. Levi had to fend for himself at a small age and deeply understands what that life is like.
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Alone Together (Mini Online Music Festival)
Featured, Education & Community Arts, Music
13 Jun 2020 Sat 7:00 pm-9:00 pm
Mini online festival celebrates youth and creativity
ACTS chosen by young people from across Donegal feature in a mini online music festival celebrating Cruinniú na nÓg this weekend.
Alone Together, takes place on Ireland’s national day of free creativity for children and young people, Saturday, 13th June.
Presented by the Regional Cultural Centre, Letterkenny in association with The Loft, Letterkenny will be headlined by a number of fantastic acts.
Little Hours is the musical moniker for Killybegs multi-instrumentalist and songwriter John Doherty. The young troubadour crafts subtle and sublime pop moments blending acoustic guitar, piano and his unique commanding voice.
Representing his band In Their Thousands, who are currently working on their second album, Downings man Declan McClafferty will be performing a special solo set for Alone Together.
In Their Thousands have been a firm favourite on the north-west music scene for close to a decade and have built up a loyal following across Ireland and abroad during that time, especially since the release of their debut album, Acrasia.
Formed in the August of 2017, Donegal based four-piece indie alt-rock band Sheerbuzz are a high energy young group featuring Lachlann Ó Fionnáin, Evan McGinty, Adam Grady and Lughan Devenny who released their latest single, Who You Are, to great reviews in May.
In their first years they’ve supported and played alongside multiple rising and established Irish and Northern Irish acts such as In Their Thousands, Foreign Owl, and Sleeping Outside.
Sheerbuzz have established a loyal following across the north-west after selling out shows in venues like the Nerve Centre in Derry and the Regional Cultural Centre.
Having cut their teeth playing bars, parks, festivals and anywhere in between, post-indie rock trio Happy Out have chiseled themselves into a force to be reckoned with in the Donegal/Derry scene. Their sound is defined with blown out amplifiers, Screaming vocals and decimated drumkits.
Also supporting the line-up are Derry singer/songwriter Oscar Jennings, Letterkenny magician Jessica Harkin, Letterkenny popper artist Neptune M, Polxroid, a music project by Ciarán Coleman and Catherine Gallagher, and Donegal singer/songwriter, Ryan Cunningham.
Don’t miss Alone Together Mini Music Festival 2020 this Saturday, 13th June, Cruinniú na nÓg from 7pm (Go to The Loft and RCC on social media for streaming links).
The Regional Cultural Centre, Letterkenny is proudly funded by Donegal County Council and Arts Council Ireland.
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From Farm to Family: Your Qurbani is an Act of Love
·ReliefLab
It only seems like yesterday we were celebrating Eid-al-Fitr, and fast approaching in the not too distant future is Eid-al-Adha. This truly is a special time of year, for everyone involved, so it’s time to get prepared. The blessings are around the corner. Which means it’s time to start thinking about Qurbani.
The act of Qurbani is a time-honoured tradition of significant importance and holds a deep meaning to all Muslims. Each year we sacrifice an animal to feed those in need, honoring the sacrifice that Prophet Ibrahim made with his willingness to sacrifice his son, Prophet Ismail, for Allah. The Qurbani sacrifice takes place during the Eid period, and is an obligatory act for all Muslims who are of age, and have the means to do so.
Showing appreciation for our blessings
A key part of the act of Qurbani is to provide food to those who are in need, and that’s where Islamic Relief USA can help. We will ensure that your Qurbani donations reach those who need it the most. We’ve been carrying out Qurbani operations for the community since 1986. Islamic Relief USA has built up an efficient system to ensure that everything is handled with ease and proficiency. Not only that, we aim to provide locally sourced produce where possible, thus reducing the carbon footprint as well as costs, enabling your donations to go further.
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A chance to serve
This year Islamic Relief USA is aiming to reach more people than ever before. With the Covid-19 pandemic still continuing to affect millions of people all around the world, there are countless families desperately in need of our support. Qurbani is an incredible way that we can offer them some relief. Your love and compassion during this special time of remembrance can make such a difference.
“Their meat will not reach Allah, nor will their blood, but what reaches Him is piety from you” Surah Al-Hajj (22:37)
It is advisable to donate as early as possible, due to the fact that the sacrifice offering period begins after Eid prayer on the day of Eid-al-Adha and ends on the 13th of Dhul Hijjah at sunset. So there are four days of sacrifice.
Here’s how you can help
We distribute Qurbani all over the world, and as such the prices can vary depending on where you wish to make your donation to.
$59 – Donate a Qurbani to a family in Africa
$149 – Donate a Qurbani to a family in Asia
$299 – Donate a Qurbani to a family in the Middle East.
For more information on how to make your 2020 Qurbani donation, just head on over to www.irusa.org/donate.
We pray that Allah blesses you and your loved ones during this special time of year Insha’Allah.
Jazakullah Khair.
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DGA Award Recipients Announced
The West Point Association of Graduates (WPAOG) has named the 2020 recipients of the Distinguished Graduate Award. This annual award has been bestowed upon those West Point graduates whose character, distinguished service and stature draw wholesome comparison to the qualities for which West Point strives, in keeping with its motto: “Duty, Honor, Country.” The awards will be presented in a ceremony at West Point on May 19, 2020. Read more about the recipients.
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Princess Tutu: Girly Manly Girl Anime
So most people may be thinking, “I need to check this guy’s man card. He’s reviewing an anime about pretty girls and boys performing ballet.” True. But I can assure you I have all the paperwork, sir. Princess Tutu, as the title suggests, may sound like one of the most girly animes on the planet. But, as I came to find, this show is wayyy more than that. This show, if you watch a few episodes, is quite good overall, with no gender barriers attached.
This is a show about a Duck (Ahiru) who is given the power of a necklace to
Princess Tutu (Duck after transformation)
transform into a girl and, once a girl, she can transform into Princess Tutu, the ballerina wonder. She is given this power by the writer and omnipresent Drosselmeyer (Nutcracker, anyone?) who controls and creates the story. The story within a story, so it seems, is that of a raven who battles a prince, and in order to save the prince, a knight shatters the prince’s heart to save him and protect the town against the evil raven.
Princess Tutu is in the story, and for her part, she is meant to recover those lost shards of the prince’s heart for him to recover his true self. Duck (Princess Tutu) attends the ballet school which Prince Mytho attends and searches all over the town for his heart. Meanwhile, Fakir (the knight) does not want Tutu to recover the heart shards and tries to thwart her, thinking of the prince and what is best for him. Also introduced into the story is the dancer Rue, the beautiful and elegant ballet student who holds a love interest for Mytho. With the plot swirling around these characters, we go along for the ride in discovering exactly what this little town holds.
Besides these four, this story holds host to a great number of smaller characters that really spice up the story. At first through the anime, we’re introduced to those characters who hold heart shards, so, of course, they all have something wrong with them. There’s always a ballet student or two who are animals pretending to be humans, which no one at all finds strange. This is probably some comment on how Duck hides the fact that she’s a duck through her magical necklace. But, either way, this anime has one of the best characters you will ever meet. Mr. Cat. This ballet instructor cat-man
instructs all the classes and efficiently attempts to marry anyone who fails.
I watched the sub, but that shouldn’t deter anyone from watching the dubbed version, because most of the voices are done quite well (Guest star Vic Mignogna) but it will throw you off if you start watching one way and then another. Mytho switches from a girly voice to one quite more sexual, and Fakir goes the other way around. (Quite sad) The art of the anime is quite good, but always felt a little blurry around the edges to me. I like my anime to be sharp and flow with almost 3-D like quality (not 3-D movie crap) and to seem almost brand new. I know that’s a lot to ask from anime, but those are the ones that pop out to me (usually mecha anime, I find).
The plot, at times, is quite repetitive. Almost too repetitive. The first half of the show is all about finding Mytho’s heart shards and the second half is all about saving girls from the raven. It isn’t until the last episodes that a story is really fleshed out into its full scope. You are given little hints here and there along the way, but the basic format is the same. That includes the 17 second transformation sequence which I found out recently is pretty standard in these anime. There’s no such thing as a suggested action cut in anime. (Just made that phrase up.)
The characters really are great though and the anime rarely drags at any point. You watch as all the characters attempt to fight fate and the story that was written for them, with a great comment on the interaction of characters and author towards the end. Fan fiction (which was thrown around a lot while watching) slightly confused me, but I kind of get now once I’ve been told what it is. (For those who don’t know, fan fiction is fan created stories made using the characters already present in whatever the fan is interested in.) Usually used as a joke, I can definitely understand the appeal of using already created characters to bring about a story you envision yourself.
The characters are good, the art is quite good, and the plot really moves along. You usually find a favorite character (Mr. Cat) and jump along for the ride in all its ballet glory. Yes, I didn’t say anything in this review about ballet itself, but it is quite prominent in this anime. The characters don’t necessarily break out into dance, but they use dance to express, fight, and fix what is wrong. It’s all surprisingly accurate in form and referral, and I actually found myself not bored to tears when it came to the actual dancing. Every anime had its own theme and opening which gave it a unique flavor every time. I would definitely recommend this anime for the not faint of heart who can enjoy the alternative to most anime. 7.2 out of 10.
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LIONEL RICHIE, WESTLIFE AND MADNESS TO HEADLINE FIRST EVER YORK FESTIVAL
By Rhodes MediaNovember 25, 2019Rhodes Media Blogs
Global icon Lionel Richie, pop superstars Westlife and British music legends Madness will headline the first ever York Festival.
The three-day music festival will be held at York Sports Club between Friday June 19th and Sunday June 21st 2020.
Three-day passes – giving festival-goers access to all nights – are on sale now from www.york-festival.com
Tickets for each night go on sale at 9am Thursday November 28
Opening night headliners Madness, who have chalked up no fewer than 15 UK Top 10 singles and seven Top 10 albums, will be joined by indie chart-toppers Lightning Seeds, Craig Charles with his famous Funk and Soul Club DJ set together with Leeds indie rockers Apollo Junction and York’s very own Violet Contours.
Westlife headline on the Saturday night as part of their UK-wide Stadiums in the Summer Tour. The UK’s top selling album group of the 21st century will perform classic hits such as Swear It Again, Flying Without Wings and You Raise Me Up together with new songs from their forthcoming album Spectrum.
Joining Westlife on the night will be superstar pop group All Saints, Brit singer-songwriter Sophie Ellis Bextor, indie rock band Scouting for Girls and Take That’s Howard Donald, who will be spinning the discs for a very special DJ set.
Sunday night headliner is none other than international superstar Lionel Richie. The four-time Grammy Award-winner will perform a hit-packed concert that covers his extensive and much-loved repertoire – from his hit-making days with the Commodores right up to the present day.
York Festival is presented by promoters Cuffe and Taylor who famously brought Britney Spears’ headline show to Scarborough Open Air Theatre in 2018 and staged Rod Stewart’s massive 2019 sell-out gig at York Racecourse.
Director Peter Taylor said: “This is the very first York Festival so we wanted to make this a very special debut year.
“To have Lionel Richie, Westlife and Madness as headliners – alongside many other brilliant chart-topping artists – is a real coup. We feel this is the perfect line-up for the first year of what we hope will become a major annual event in this wonderful and historic city.
“We cannot wait for Friday June 19th and opening night. This really is going to be a weekend to remember!”
York Festival will be staged at York Sports Club, situated at Clifton Park – the home of York RUFC, York Cricket Club, York Tennis Club and York Squash Club.
Nigel Durham, Trustee of York Sports Club and Chairman of York Cricket Club, said: “We are delighted to be hosting the first York Festival – a major new event for the city of York.
“An historic city the size and stature of ours truly deserves a high-profile music festival like this. And to be attracting such massive stars as Lionel Richie, Westlife and Madness is just brilliant.
“And with the festival being staged in the heart of the city, right here at York Sports Club, this really will capture the imagination and be a great thing for the city, residents, local businesses and visitors.”
Cuffe and Taylor are working closely with City of York Council and Make It York, which showcases and promotes the city around the world.
Welcoming the York Festival line-up, Sean Bullick, managing director of Make It York, said: “York Festival will be a brilliant addition to the city’s already busy calendar of summer events for both residents and visitors to enjoy. Welcoming such music legends and chart-topping artists, as well
as showcasing local talent, is another step forward for York’s cultural offer and we are delighted to help spread the word to audiences.”
Three-day day Passes for York Festival are on sale now priced from £129 and are available from www.york-festival.com
Individual tickets priced from £39.50 will go on sale at 9am Thursday November 28.
A range of exclusive VIP offers are also available.
For more information go to www.york-festival.com
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Государственное управление и общество
New Approaches to Countering Terror: Countering Violent Extremism
Bill Braniff
Мэрилендский университет в Колледж-Парке
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The “New Approaches to Countering Terror: Countering Violent Extremism” course offered by the National Consortium for the Study of Terrorism and Responses to Terrorism (START), is a multi-week interactive course designed to help students explore both pragmatic and philosophical challenges that continue to shape the evolution of Countering Violent Extremism (CVE), a global security paradigm. START, a Department of Homeland Security Emeritus Center of Excellence and research, training, and education center housed at the University of Maryland within the College of Behavioral and Social Sciences (BSOS), serves as a leading voice in the national and international dialogue regarding CVE. START’s Director and the course instructor, Bill Braniff, will introduce the concept of CVE and explore the promise of CVE as a more comprehensive and proactive approach to the complex phenomenon of violent extremism.
This 3.5 hour course will take an in-depth look at CVE as a relatively new area of policy and practice. As such, this MOOC can serve as an awareness-raising course, targeting anyone interested in terrorism, community resilience, security, policy and/or civil rights issues. The course is broadly interdisciplinary and has no prerequisites. Upon completion of this course, students will be able to: 1. Differentiate between two ways of addressing violent extremism: counterterrorism (CT) and Countering Violent Extremism (CVE); 2. Explain the CVE spectrum of non-violent approaches to countering terror, including prevention, intervention, and rehabilitation/reintegration programs; 3. Make sound analytical judgments about CVE programs and their potential.
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There is no specific student background needed or prerequisites required for enrollment in this course.
Прибл. 4 часа на выполнение
Субтитры: Французский, Португальский (Европа), Русский, Английский, Испанский
Оценка преподавателя 4.75/5 (оценок: 30)Info
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The University of Maryland is the state's flagship university and one of the nation's preeminent public research universities. A global leader in research, entrepreneurship and innovation, the university is home to more than 37,000 students, 9,000 faculty and staff, and 250 academic programs. Its faculty includes three Nobel laureates, three Pulitzer Prize winners, 47 members of the national academies and scores of Fulbright scholars. The institution has a $1.8 billion operating budget, secures $500 million annually in external research funding and recently completed a $1 billion fundraising campaign.
Upon completion of this module, students will be able to describe the purpose of the course and the course structure.
Introduction4мин
Syllabus10мин
Module One will introduce you to the field of CVE. This module will provide you with the basic terminology, foundational academic research, and policy initiatives on CVE. Then, you will hear about academic theories and models addressing why and how individuals radicalize to violence, and researchers will present data examining profiles of individuals who have radicalized to violence, as well as a promising study on how individuals may disengage or deradicalize from violence.
6 видео ((всего 41 мин.))
Discussion of Violent Extremism5мин
Lesson 2: Theories and Mechanisms of Radicalization8мин
Lesson 3: Profiles of Radicalization in the United States9мин
Lesson 4: Prison Radicalization10мин
Lesson 5: Radicalization Push-Pull Factors5мин
Module 1 Quiz10мин
Module Two describes the spectrum of CVE activities which include engagement, prevention, intervention, rehabilitation/reintegration and counter-messaging efforts. This module covers some of the controversies surrounding CVE programs, specifically allegations that CVE may stigmatize or marginalize Muslim communities. Module Two also introduces some of the ways that community members and non-law enforcement professionals such as mental health practitioners can engage on CVE.
Lesson 1: The Promise and Challenges of CVE5мин
Lesson 2: The Spectrum of Efforts6мин
Lesson 3: CVE Taxonomy5мин
Lesson 4: What Makes Community Members Willing to Engage with Law Enforcement5мин
Lesson 5: The Role of Mental Health Professionals6мин
Lesson 6: The Role of Former Violent Extremists in CVE5мин
Lesson 7: The Role of Communities and Bystanders9мин
Lesson 8: Overcoming Resistance to CVE6мин
Finally, Module Three is made up of nine teaching cases exploring how different CVE programs are implemented in the United States, in countries around the world, and online. Each case is introduced by a researcher or practitioner, who will highlight the opportunities and challenges of “doing CVE” in the field. Some of these cases address early prevention activities while other cases examine how deradicalization and rehabilitation programs may be implemented after a crime has occurred.
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Lesson 5: CVE Programs Around the World- Trans-Sahara Counterterrorism Partnership in Mali2мин
Lesson 6: CVE Programs Around the World- Singapore's Religious Rehabilitation Group4мин
Lesson 7: CVE Programs Around the World- Disarmament, Demobilization, and Reintegration of FARC5мин
Lesson 8: CVE Programs Around the World- Deradicalization of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam7мин
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ACOUSTICAL TOOLS AND EQUIPMENT 1
ADORNMENT 21
ADVERTISING MEDIUM 31
AGRICULTURAL TOOLS AND EQUIPMENT 39
AGRICULTURE TOOLS AND EQUIPMENT 14
AIR FORCE ACCESSORY 2
ANIMAL HUSBANDRY TOOLS AND EQUIPMENT 27
ARMAMENT ACCESSORY 2
ARMAMENT, AMMUNITION 1
ARMAMENT, BLUDGEON 1
ARMAMENT, BODY ARMOR 3
ARMAMENT, EDGED 5
ARMAMENT,ACCESSORY 2
ARMAMENT,BODY ARMOR 2
ARMAMENT,EDGED 4
ARMAMENT,FIREARM 5
ARTIFACT REMNANT 7
Adams, J. Mason 1
Alaska Highway 1
Aldermere 1
Aldermere-Telkwa Trail 1
Alpenhorn 1
Alpine Lakes Air 4
Anglican Church 3
Apollo Automotive Parts 1
Archive Document 1
Associated Boards of Trade of Central British Columbia 1
Avis Wall Reid 1
B.C. Bureau of Mines 1
B.C. Tel 19
B.C. Telephone Co. 19
B.C. Telephone Company 1
BASKET,BROOM & BRUSH MAKING TOOLS & EQUIPMENT 3
BEDDING 12
BIOLOGICAL TOOLS AND EQUIPMENT 1
BUILDING COMPONENT 4
BUILDINGS [Commercial] - Hotels 1
BUILDINGS [Public] 1
BV Swiss Club 1
Base Metal Empire 1
Beerda's Dry Goods 1
Beerda's Dry Goods Ltd. 1
Beirnes, George M. 1
Bertha Louise Adams 1
Bovill Motors 8
Brick Kiln 6
British Columbia Department of Lands and Forests 1
Artifact 13
Online Media Type
Museum Artifact 13
https://search.bvmuseum.org/permalink/artifacts3474
ANIMAL - LEATHER
METAL / ALLOY - UNKNOWN
RUBBER;
a-b) A pair of brown leather boots. The soles are black with a diamond pattern in the middle and white lacing around the outside. The heels are slightly raised with small holes around the outside. They are laced with brown laces through brown eyelets. The boots are tall with a large strip of leathe…
Subject Access
PERSONAL OBJECTS
a-b) A pair of brown leather boots. The soles are black with a diamond pattern in the middle and white lacing around the outside. The heels are slightly raised with small holes around the outside. They are laced with brown laces through brown eyelets. The boots are tall with a large strip of leather that would secure around the ankle. On one side of the strip there are two black metal buckles and on the other side there are two thin strips of leather with many brown eyelets that would allow the wearer to adjust the tightness. The whole of the boot is sewn together with white lacing.
Some research shows that these are American Military boots that would have been used in World War Two.
On the sole of the boot there is "NEW JERSEY RUBBER 00" embossed and on the heel there is " TUFTEX HBN SA" embossed. On the inside of the ankle section of the boot there is "9 A HT J.F.MCELWAIN CO. 9 A 93002 BOSTON NOV. 6 W19-074 DEPOT 1944 OM272" printed in black ink.
2000.86.1 a-b
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FABRIC-FELT;
FABRIC-UNKNOWN;
PLASTIC;
a) A small, grey, metal canteen with a black screw on lid. The lid is attached to the canteen by a small metal chain. b) The green covering for the canteen. The covering is secured with two metal snaps that leave a small opening for the lid of the canteen. On the back there is a fabric loop with a …
a) A small, grey, metal canteen with a black screw on lid. The lid is attached to the canteen by a small metal chain. b) The green covering for the canteen. The covering is secured with two metal snaps that leave a small opening for the lid of the canteen. On the back there is a fabric loop with a piece of bent metal through it. The inside of the canteen is lined with multi-coloured felt.
Used by the donor's wife's grandfather in World War Two.
On the bottom of the green covering are the letters "JAIWAN" printed in black ink.
FABRIC-CANVAS;
A large canteen made of grey metal with canvas coverings on either side. There is an adjustable fabric strap attached to the canteen by metal loops. On the top of the canteen there is a spout with a metal screw on lid.
History Of Use
Circa WW2
On one side of the canteen, printed on the canvas, there is the inscription "N.3266"
A black rubber gas mask. The rear of the mask has six grey elasticized straps which are joined to a piece of rubber. The eye holes are two round pieces of glass bordered with a metal frame and embedded into the rubber. The mouthpiece of the mask is a round piece of metal with nine holes in the cent…
TOOLS AND EQUIPMENT FOR SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
REGULATIVE AND PROTECTIVE TOOLS AND EQUIPMENT
A black rubber gas mask. The rear of the mask has six grey elasticized straps which are joined to a piece of rubber. The eye holes are two round pieces of glass bordered with a metal frame and embedded into the rubber. The mouthpiece of the mask is a round piece of metal with nine holes in the centre. On the right side of the mask is another round piece of metal where a filter would screw on to the main mask.
On the left side of the mask are the words "NORMAL V.M.C.". Embossed on the mouth piece is the inscription "G.S.W. 1945". On the piece of rubber at the back of the mask is "No. 4" and some other indeterminable letters and numbers.
A rubber gas mask with a brown metal cannister. The top part is a mask formed to fit the face with a brown fabric covering. The rear of the mask has six elasticized straps which are joined to a cross shaped piece of rubber. Two round pieces of glass bordered with a metal frame is embedded into the…
A rubber gas mask with a brown metal cannister. The top part is a mask formed to fit the face with a brown fabric covering. The rear of the mask has six elasticized straps which are joined to a cross shaped piece of rubber. Two round pieces of glass bordered with a metal frame is embedded into the rubber for the eyes. The mouthpiece of the mask is a dome shaped piece of metal with evenly spaced holes encircling the outside. Below this is a silver coloured metal tube with a slanted top piece that connects to a grey rubber hose. This hose is ribbed and expands down to the brown cannister. The cannister is oblong and its sides are ribbed vertically at the bottom and horizontally at the top. On one side near the bottom is two horizontal openings with a slim piece of metal extending vertically over the centre of them.
"GSW MACDONALD PLANT TORONTO" imprinted and "11/2/42 0 SBT 166" is embossed on top of the cannister. Also on top is "P3" and a "C" with an arrow in it stamped in black ink. The bottom has "GSW, NO 4A, 1941" imprinted and "DR/1, E/ VI" on it. Printed on the brown fabric on the mask is "23 1 42 92 LOI 9585" and some other indecipherable writing.
A gas mask with a black rubber inner lining and a tan coloured fabric covering. On the back of the mask there are three fabric straps connected by a T shaped metal piece. Two safety pins are also attached to these straps near the metal piece. The large eye hole is covered with plastic. The mouth pi…
A gas mask with a black rubber inner lining and a tan coloured fabric covering. On the back of the mask there are three fabric straps connected by a T shaped metal piece. Two safety pins are also attached to these straps near the metal piece. The large eye hole is covered with plastic. The mouth piece is a large circular piece of black metal with holes evenly spaced across the front of it.
On the mouthpiece are the numbers "7 7 42" and an indecipherable number or letter in white paint. Also on the mouthpiece inscribed into the metal is "CCC 42".
Dimension Notes
The length is for the entire mask including the back strap. The diameter and circumference is for the mouthpiece.
A rectangular, five gallon, metal fuel container. Its colour was originally olive green but wear and rust have changed it to more of a grey. Its handle is made of three metal bars and in front of these is a spout. In the spout is a screw-on metal lid attached to the body of the can with a metal cha…
TOOLS AND EQUIPMENT FOR MATERIALS
MULTIPLE USE OBJECTS
A rectangular, five gallon, metal fuel container. Its colour was originally olive green but wear and rust have changed it to more of a grey. Its handle is made of three metal bars and in front of these is a spout. In the spout is a screw-on metal lid attached to the body of the can with a metal chain. The lid has four small loops of metal around the outside of it. Engraved into both the larger sides of the can is a large X.
Bought from Bill Alen in Victoria BC, 1960, from a war surplus sale. The Canadian army bought this jerry can from the U.S.
On one large side side, on top of the X, is a "G" and below the X is "US". On the other large side is a "G" above the X. On the small side opposite the spout is "GAS 86 (Undepherable lettering) 5".
https://search.bvmuseum.org/permalink/artifacts183
Small black lamp with a circular base and three braces that go up to the base of the fuel cyliinder. The light section of the lamp fits over the burner. An opening handle is on one side with the light lens on the opposite side. The clear lens opens for cleaning. There is also a black-out cover.
E.M. CO. LTD
Manufacturer Notes
Manufactured in Montmagny Canada
LIGHTING DEVICE
Previous record stated that this was a trench light used in World War One but there is not enough evidence to support this claim without further research.
E.M. CO LTD. MONTMAGNY CAN 6-12
Diameter is for the base
Military Helmet
A military helmet with an outer shell of green metal. The liner consists of black rubber suspension webbing. Black fabric is attached to this webbing and extends down the inside of the helmet in five strips tied together with black string. There is a tan coloured fabric chin strap with a metal buck…
ARMAMENT, BODY ARMOR
A military helmet with an outer shell of green metal. The liner consists of black rubber suspension webbing. Black fabric is attached to this webbing and extends down the inside of the helmet in five strips tied together with black string. There is a tan coloured fabric chin strap with a metal buckle.
On the outside of the shell are the letters "A.R.P."
METAL-STEEL
A military helmet with an outer shell of grey metal. There is a liner consisting of a plastic suspension webbing. The top part of the webbing is covered in leather. The leather extends down the inside of the museum in six strips which are tied together with a white string, The leather also extends …
ARMAMENT,BODY ARMOR
A military helmet with an outer shell of grey metal. There is a liner consisting of a plastic suspension webbing. The top part of the webbing is covered in leather. The leather extends down the inside of the museum in six strips which are tied together with a white string, The leather also extends to create two chin strips with a metal buckle to secure it under the chin. There are two strips of yellow foam at the back and front of the helmet.
From Italy, circa World War Two.
On the inside of the helmet there is the inscription "II/57".
Military Shoulder Bag
A square, tan coloured, canvas, shoulder bag. A flap extends from the back to the front of the bag and is attached with two metal snaps. Inside of the flap are the words "S.S. HOLDEN LTD, OTTAWA CANADA, 1942" stamped inside a black circle in black. The bottom of the bag has a circular metal drain i…
A square, tan coloured, canvas, shoulder bag. A flap extends from the back to the front of the bag and is attached with two metal snaps. Inside of the flap are the words "S.S. HOLDEN LTD, OTTAWA CANADA, 1942" stamped inside a black circle in black. The bottom of the bag has a circular metal drain in the center of it. Near the top is a canvass handle with two metal buckles fastened to the left and right side. The inside of the bag consists of four compartments of different sizes.
There is some indecipherable writing on the flap of the bag.
A square, tan, canvas, military bag. A flap extends from the back to the front of the bag and is attached with two metal snaps. Inside of the flap are the words "95 VII WOODS 1941". The bottom of the bag has a circular metal drain in the center of it. The left side has a pocket near the bottom with…
A square, tan, canvas, military bag. A flap extends from the back to the front of the bag and is attached with two metal snaps. Inside of the flap are the words "95 VII WOODS 1941". The bottom of the bag has a circular metal drain in the center of it. The left side has a pocket near the bottom with a thin piece of rop that goes through a hole in the pocket. The right side has pice of coiled metal and a small round hole near the bottom where a looped piece of rope hangs out. Near the top is a canvass handle with two metal buckles fastened to the left and right side. The inside of the bag consists of six compartments of different sizes.
Army Shoulder Bag from circa 1941 from Capital Iron (in Victoria). Madeby Wodds (company) Model number 7, donor paid 95 cents for the bag.
Inside of the flap are the words "95 VII WOODS 1941". There is some faint, indecipherable writing on front of the flap.
a) A lantern that has brown material that covers the metal in the middle. A light is situated at the top (front). On top of the light are two buttons that were used to send Morse code. One button is bigger than the other. b) The lantern is placed in a leather casing that has a hole made in the m…
J.H. STEWARD LTP
TOOLS AND EQUIPMENT FOR COMMUNICATION
VISUAL COMMUNICATION TOOLS AND EQUIPMENT
a) A lantern that has brown material that covers the metal in the middle. A light is situated at the top (front). On top of the light are two buttons that were used to send Morse code. One button is bigger than the other. b) The lantern is placed in a leather casing that has a hole made in the middle so the light can be seen.
Morse code light used by George Robinson during the first World War.
A label on the top of the signal light has the words "THE ORILUX J.H. STEWARD LTP 406, STRAND LONDON." written on it.
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Alper, Joe
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National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (U.S.).Roundtable on Health Literacy
Liverman, Catharyn T
Institute of Medicine (U.S.).Roundtable on Value & Science-Driven Health Care
Grossman, Claudia
French, Melissa
Relevance of health literacy to precision medicine [electronic resource] : workshop in brief /
Melissa G. French, rapporteur ; Roundtable on Health Literacy, Board on Population Health and Public Health Practice, Health and Medicine Division, National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine.
Washington (DC) : National Academies Press, June 2016.
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Integration of FDA and NIOSH processes used to evaluate respiratory protective devices for health care workers [electronic resource] : proceedings of a workshop /
Catharyn T. Liverman and Joe Alper, rapporteurs ; Board on Health Sciences Policy, Health and Medicine Division, The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, Medicine.
Washington, DC : The National Academies Press, [2017]
Integrating research and practice [electronic resource] : health system leaders working toward high-value care : workshop summary /
Joe Alper and Claudia Grossman, rapporteurs ; Roundtable on Value & Science-Driven Health Care, Institute of Medicine of the National Academies.
Washington, D.C. : National Academies Press, [2015]
Integrating health literacy, cultural competence, and language access services [electronic resource] : workshop summary /
Joe Alper, rapporteur ; Roundtable on Health Literacy, Board on Population Health and Public Health Practice, Health and Medicine Division, the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, Medicine.
Washington, DC : National Academies Press, [2016]
Facilitating health communication with immigrant, refugee, and migrant populations through the use of health literacy and community engagement strategies [electronic resource] : proceedings of a workshop /
Joe Alper, rapporteur; Roundtable on Health Literacy Board on Population Health and Public Health Practice, Health and Medicine Division, National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine.
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