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Error code: DatasetGenerationError
Exception: ArrowInvalid
Message: JSON parse error: Missing a closing quotation mark in string. in row 189
Traceback: Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/src/services/worker/.venv/lib/python3.9/site-packages/datasets/packaged_modules/json/json.py", line 145, in _generate_tables
dataset = json.load(f)
File "/usr/local/lib/python3.9/json/__init__.py", line 293, in load
return loads(fp.read(),
File "/usr/local/lib/python3.9/json/__init__.py", line 346, in loads
return _default_decoder.decode(s)
File "/usr/local/lib/python3.9/json/decoder.py", line 340, in decode
raise JSONDecodeError("Extra data", s, end)
json.decoder.JSONDecodeError: Extra data: line 2 column 1 (char 7680)
During handling of the above exception, another exception occurred:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/src/services/worker/.venv/lib/python3.9/site-packages/datasets/builder.py", line 1995, in _prepare_split_single
for _, table in generator:
File "/src/services/worker/.venv/lib/python3.9/site-packages/datasets/packaged_modules/json/json.py", line 148, in _generate_tables
raise e
File "/src/services/worker/.venv/lib/python3.9/site-packages/datasets/packaged_modules/json/json.py", line 122, in _generate_tables
pa_table = paj.read_json(
File "pyarrow/_json.pyx", line 308, in pyarrow._json.read_json
File "pyarrow/error.pxi", line 154, in pyarrow.lib.pyarrow_internal_check_status
File "pyarrow/error.pxi", line 91, in pyarrow.lib.check_status
pyarrow.lib.ArrowInvalid: JSON parse error: Missing a closing quotation mark in string. in row 189
The above exception was the direct cause of the following exception:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/src/services/worker/src/worker/job_runners/config/parquet_and_info.py", line 1529, in compute_config_parquet_and_info_response
parquet_operations = convert_to_parquet(builder)
File "/src/services/worker/src/worker/job_runners/config/parquet_and_info.py", line 1154, in convert_to_parquet
builder.download_and_prepare(
File "/src/services/worker/.venv/lib/python3.9/site-packages/datasets/builder.py", line 1027, in download_and_prepare
self._download_and_prepare(
File "/src/services/worker/.venv/lib/python3.9/site-packages/datasets/builder.py", line 1122, in _download_and_prepare
self._prepare_split(split_generator, **prepare_split_kwargs)
File "/src/services/worker/.venv/lib/python3.9/site-packages/datasets/builder.py", line 1882, in _prepare_split
for job_id, done, content in self._prepare_split_single(
File "/src/services/worker/.venv/lib/python3.9/site-packages/datasets/builder.py", line 2038, in _prepare_split_single
raise DatasetGenerationError("An error occurred while generating the dataset") from e
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Youth Licensing Grant Program
ARRL Youth Licensing Grant Program Information
Beginning April 19, 2022, ARRL will cover the one-time $35 application fee for new license candidates younger than 18-years old for tests administered under the ARRL Volunteer Examiner Coordinator (ARRL VEC) program. The $35 FCC application fee will be reimbursed after the ARRL VEC receives the completed reimbursement form and the new license has been issued by the FCC. The reimbursement check will be mailed to the fee payer. Also, candidates younger than 18-years old would pay a reduced exam session fee of $5 to the ARRL VEC VE team at the time of the exam. The $5 fee is for all candidates under the age of 18 regardless of the exam level taken. Proof of under 18 status is required at the session (what to bring to an exam session).
ARRL VE Team Instructions and Information
Candidates younger than 18-years old will pay a reduced exam session fee of $5 to the ARRL VEC VE team when taking an exam. Proper identification must be presented to and verified by the team, per the procedures for all exam candidates (what to bring to an exam session). The $5 fee is for all candidates under the age of 18 regardless of the exam level taken. Please indicate the number of youth candidates in the notes section of the test report or the notes section of the session upload page (eg: 2 youth out of 10 candidates). A new ARRL VEC Test Report displaying the youth fee information is available. An interactive version of the report is also offered.
VE teams may continue to retain up to $7 per candidate for necessary and prudent expenses specifically related to exam administration. Only the amount needed to offset out-of-pocket expenses incurred can be retained. Fees may not be kept if no expenses were incurred.
Additionally, ARRL will cover the one-time $35 application fee for new license candidates younger than 18-years old for tests administered under the ARRL VEC. The $35 FCC application fee will be reimbursed after the ARRL receives the completed grant reimbursement form and the new license has been issued by the FCC. The reimbursement check will be mailed to the fee payer listed on the form.
The completed grant reimbursement form can be uploaded by the VE team with their e-filed exam session or mailed with their exam session package. The form can also be faxed (860-594-0339) or emailed to the ARRL VEC department by the candidate, the payer, or the team.
Visit the ARRL’s FCC application fees webpage for additional instructions and information about the $35 FCC fee.
Youth Examinee Instructions and Information
ARRL will cover the one-time $35 application fee for new license candidates younger than 18-years old for tests taken with the ARRL Volunteer Examiner Coordinator (ARRL VEC). The $35 FCC application fee will be reimbursed after the ARRL VEC receives the completed grant reimbursement form and the new license has been issued by the FCC. The reimbursement check will be mailed to the fee payer listed on the form.
Also, candidates younger than 18-years old would pay a reduced exam session fee of $5 to the ARRL VEC VE team at the time of the exam. Proof of under 18 status is required at the session (what to bring to an exam session). The $5 fee is for all candidates under the age of 18 regardless of the exam level taken.
Payer Instructions and Information
The applicant or individual paying the $35 application fee on behalf of the applicant will pay the FCC directly by using the CORES FRN Registration system (CORES - Login). CORES payment system information.
When the FCC receives the candidate’s examination information from the ARRL VEC, they will email a link with payment instructions to each qualifying candidate and issue an application file number. The candidate will have 10 calendar days, from the date of the application file number being issued, to pay the $35 FCC application fee.
After the fee is paid, and the FCC has processed an application, examinees will receive a second email from the FCC with a link to their new official license or, in very rare instances, an explanation for why the application was dismissed or denied. The link will be valid for 30 days.
The $35 FCC application fee will be reimbursed after the ARRL receives the completed grant reimbursement form and the new license has been issued by the FCC. The reimbursement check will be mailed to the fee payer.
Multiple Fee Reimbursements
Unfortunately, the FCC does not offer batch or multiple payments. The payer will have to login to each youth’s CORES/FRN record with each youth’s password and FRN and pay each application fee separately. See payment instructions above.
However, the payer can request multiple reimbursements on one reimbursement form.
Program Reimbursement Form
Youth Licensing Grant Program Reimbursement Form (2022 version) interactive version
Youth Licensing Grant Program Reimbursement Form (2022 version) not interactive
ARRL Board Establishes Youth Licensing Grant Program
ARRL Board Establishes Program to Cover Initial FCC License Fee for Young Applicants
The ARRL Board of Directors has formally endorsed a proposed program calling on ARRL to cover the $35 application fee for license candidates younger than 18 years old. The FCC is expected to implement the $35 application fee schedule on April 19, 2022. The Board approved the “Youth Licensing Grant Program” at its July 2021 meeting in Hartford, Connecticut. The program concept, first raised at the Board’s annual meeting in January, was reviewed by an ad-hoc committee, which expanded the scope of the original motion by ARRL Southeastern Division Director Mickey Baker, N4MB.
Goals of the program include expanding the reservoir of trained operators, technicians, and electronics experts within the amateur radio community, and removing a financial obstacle to young people who wish to acquire an amateur radio license, as a means of encouraging potential careers in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics.
Under the program, ARRL would cover the one-time $35 application fee for each qualified candidate who passes one or more amateur radio exams taken for a new license on the same day at a single examination session. Tests would have to be administered by a Volunteer Examiner (VE) team working under the auspices of the ARRL Volunteer Examiner Coordinator (ARRL VEC). Qualified candidates also would pay a reduced exam session fee of $5 to the ARRL VEC.
The new program also would “enhance ARRL’s position as the leader in volunteer testing,” the Board motion said. “The Board believes that the recruitment and training of young amateur radio operators is a necessary and proper mission of the ARRL, and that subsidization of the $35 fee will reduce the number of new amateurs that otherwise would be lost from these groups,” the Board said.
The new program initially would serve up to 1,000 new license applicants younger than 18 years old.
The motion gave ARRL staff “complete latitude” to determine how to reimburse eligible applicants. This program length is indefinite; it may be renewed or terminated by the Administration and Finance Committee or by the Board of Directors. The motion carried with applause from Board members.
Licensing, Education & Training >> Youth Licensing Grant Program
What is Ham Radio
Getting Licensed
Get on the Air
FCC License Info and Forms
Volunteer Examiners
Volunteer Instructors/Mentors
Amateur Radio in the Classroom
License Certificates
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Posted on July 1, 2019 July 1, 2019 by Conor
Episode 47 – So do Albanian cars have seatbelts or what?
As we wrap up our deep dive into EL James’ “The Mister”, we have a lot of questions. Well, one question really: What the hell?
But also: Why was absolutely nothing resolved? Why do Maxim and Alessia treat her father like his opinion should matter at all? How much were they paying that translator? Is that another half-finished hotel? Do automobiles actually qualify as a “fun theme”? Why is our hero thinking about his mother during sex? Tickety-boo????
We’ll address some of these questions, but we’ve also got a ton of listener emails, Dumb Sentences, an Amazon review quiz, a Goodreads review quiz, a look at the role of Albanian translators in perilous situations throughout history, as well as a listen as to what Alessia’s father’s wedding toast might have sounded like.
Our Patreon supporters have a chance to win our copies of The Mister, in addition to getting every episode early and other things nobody else gets to see. Enter to win and join them here!
We ALSO have a very fun anacrostic puzzle that listener Amanda made for us. Download it and give it a shot here!
Thank you for reading along with us on The Mister, especially everyone who wrote in, created fanfic and memes, and shared their comments here! This one was a lot of fun. We’ll take next week off for the fourth but will have a book giveaway and a Trucking Through Time assignment soon!
2 Replies to “Episode 47 – So do Albanian cars have seatbelts or what?”
Joshua J. Slone says:
Solved the puzzle, good fun. One part on the second line I was sure I’d made a mistake, until Google assured me it was a relevant proper noun.
Waffles says:
(I listened to the audiobook, so forgive my misspellings of names and lack of perfectly mimicking the original paragraph layout.)
I found E.L. James’ depiction of handguns very confusing. In one of the last chapters, when Alyssia and Anatoli are at one of their hotel stops, Alyssia disarms Anatoli’s handgun while he’s asleep:
“Beside her duffel, she spies Anatoli’s suitcase… Carefully, she unzips it… There are some clothes, and his gun. *The gun!* She fishes it out… The PISTOL is weighty in her hand…
“She unclips the magazine, and is surprised to find only four bullets in it. She removes them, and then sharply pulls the slide back and catches the remaining round as it’s ejected from the chamber. She reloads the magazine into the gun and pockets the bullets.”
So not only has Alyssia suddenly developed a snarky sarcastic attitude, but she’s also suddenly become a badass at handling firearms.
Then, during the final confrontation, Anatoli tries to put his handgun to use only to be stopped by its lack of bullets:
“From his coat pocket he whisks out his REVOLVER and takes aim at Maxim’s face… ‘I have enough bullets for all of you!’
“‘No, you don’t,’ Alyssia retorts.
“Anatoli frowns. ‘What?’ And he measures the weight of the gun in his hand.
“‘This morning, in Zagreb, I took the bullets out while you were sleeping.’
“…seething, Anatoli takes aim again, this time at her father, and pulls the trigger.
“‘No!’ Alyssia and her mother shout in unison. But nothing happens. The hammer clicks and echos against an empty chamber.”
I’m not a firearms expert, but I’m quite certain there’s no such thing as a REVOLVER that makes use of a magazine and slide, as a revolver has a REVLOVING cylinder. Either Anatoli has some sort of magic gun that can change its form or E.L. James doesn’t know what she’s writing about, as anybody who’s “watched a lot of American television” should know the difference between a revolver and a pistol since so many shows have exhibited the cylinder of a revolver dramatically revolving as the trigger is slowly pulled or the hammer is cocked by a thumb pulling back a lever. Heck, play any shooter video game from the last 20 years and you can see that there’s an obvious difference between pistols and revolvers. I’m surprised it wasn’t described as a “fully semi-automatic” weapon.
This also begs the question: If Anatoli is such a bad man who likely uses a handgun in great frequency to do his bad work, why would he sleep with his gun zipped up in suitcase in a different room, especially while kidnapping a woman, then carry it in his coat pocket after getting dressed? It seems that this kind of person would always keep his gun close by and most likely wear a holster — if not simply stuff the gun down his pants — for convenient access.
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By Aimee Cunningham 9 hours ago
News Climate
Climate change could turn some blue lakes to green or brown
Scientists analyzed more than 85,000 lakes worldwide in the first global tally of lake color
Roughly one-third of the world’s lakes are blue, but rising temperatures could change that. ianwool/iStock/Getty Images Plus
By Jennifer Schmidt
Some picturesque blue lakes may not be so blue in the future, thanks to climate change.
In the first global tally of lake color, researchers estimate that . But, should average summer air temperatures rise by a few degrees, some of those crystal waters could turn a murky green or brown, the team reports in the Sept. 28 Geophysical Research Letters.
The changing hues could alter how people use those waters and offer clues about the stability of lake ecosystems. Lake color depends in part on what’s in the water, but factors such as water depth and surrounding land use also matter. Compared with blue lakes, green or brown lakes have more algae, sediment and organic matter, says Xiao Yang, a hydrologist at Southern Methodist University in Dallas.
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Yang and colleagues used satellite photos from 2013 to 2020 to analyze the color of more than 85,000 lakes around the world. Because storms and seasons can temporarily affect a lake’s color, the researchers focused on the most frequent color observed for each lake over the seven-year period. The researchers also created that can be used to explore the colors of these lakes. The approach is “super cool,” says Dina Leech, an aquatic ecologist at Longwood University in Farmville, Va., who was not involved with the study. These satellite data are “just so powerful.” The scientists then looked at local climates during that time to see how they may be linked to lake color around the world. For many small or remote water bodies, records of temperature and precipitation don’t exist. Instead, the researchers also relied on climate “hindcasts” calculated for every spot on the globe, which are pieced together from relatively sparse records.
Lakes in places with average summer air temperatures that were below 19° Celsius were more likely to be blue than lakes with warmer summers, the researchers found. But up to 14 percent of the blue lakes they studied are near that threshold. If average summer temperatures increase another 3 degrees Celsius — an amount that scientists think is plausible by the end of the century — those 3,800 lakes could turn green or brown (SN: 8/9/21 ). That’s because warmer water helps algae bloom more, which changes the properties of the water, giving it a green-brown tint, Yang says.
Extrapolating beyond this sample of lakes is a bit tricky. “We don’t even know how many lakes there are in the world,” says study coauthor Catherine O’Reilly, an aquatic ecologist at Illinois State University in Normal. Many lakes are too small to reliably detect via satellite, but by some estimates, tens of thousands of larger lakes could lose their blue hue. If some lakes do become less blue, people will probably lose some of the resources they have come to value, O’Reilly says. Lakes are often used for drinking water, food or recreation. If the water is more clogged with algae, it could be unappealing for play or more costly to clean for drinking.
But the color changes wouldn’t necessarily mean that the lakes are any less healthy. “[Humans] don’t value lots of algae in a lake, but if you’re a certain type of fish species, you might be like ‘this is great,’” O’Reilly says. Lake color can hint at the stability of a lake’s ecosystem, with shifting shades indicating changing conditions for the critters living in the water. One benefit of the new study is that it gives scientists a baseline for assessing how climate change is affecting Earth’s freshwater resources. Continued monitoring of lakes could help scientists detect future changes. “[The study] sets a marker that we can compare future results to,” says Mike Pace, an aquatic ecologist at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville, who was not involved with the study. “That’s, to me, the great power of this study.”
X. Yang et al. . Geophysical Research Letters. Vol. 49, September 28, 2022, e2022GL098925. doi: 10.1029/2022GL098925.
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Current: Customs Intercepts Truckload of Petrol being Smuggled out of Nigeria.
Customs Intercepts Truckload of Petrol being Smuggled out of Nigeria.
Officers of the Oyo and Osun Command of the Nigeria Customs Service have intercepted truck load of Premium Motor Spirit, otherwise known as petrol, being smuggled out of Nigeria, with the duty paid value of #5,079,800.
The Customs Area Controller, Comptroller Babajide Jaiyeoba, who briefed journalists on the command's achievements within the past few weeks, at the headquarters of the command in Ibadan, said the commodity was intercepted in some communities on the Oke-Ogun axis of Oyo State, where Nigeria shares borders with a neighbouring country.
Correspondent Kunle Ojo reports that the petrol, according to him, was concealed in 210 drums of 200 litres each, and 629 kegs of 25 litres each, totalling 57,725 litres.
He added that 141 drums of the commodity, totalling 28,200 litres, were intercepted in one fell swoop. The commodity, he said, would be auctioned in accordance with relevant laws.
Track up, Babajide Jaiyeoba, Area Controller, Oyo and Osun Command, Nigeria Customs Service, sound 1.
Jaiyeoba, who stated that the command also generated over N5.4billion in April 2022 alone, which represents an increase of over N905.9million when compared to the collection of the same period in 2021, disclosed that the command has generated over N19,031billion in the first four months of 2022.
The command, according to him, also made seizures of 2,198 bags of rice of 50 kilogrammes each, with DPV of an N38,648,800.
He added that 67 compressed wraps of Cannabis Sativa were also intercepted, along with three suspects, saying the suspects and the offending items have been handed over to the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) for further investigation and prosecution in line with statutory regulations.
Fuel Scarcity Hits Akure,the Ondo State Capital.
Customs Intercepts 19 Boat Engines, 8-Trailer Loads Of Rice In Ogun State
Osinbajo Harps on Efficient Service Delivery through Public Service
Itunu Babalola: Nigerian Lady Who Died In Ivory Coast Prison Buried in Oyo (Photo)
Court Sentences Auto Mechanic to Community Service for Cyber Fraud
Impeachment; Olaniyan's lawyer faults Oyo CJ
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After Aleph
rating: +15+–x
- HALSEY -
His friends only ever called him Doctor Halsey. Not that they tried to give him another name, a callsign of sorts among comrades. He insisted he was just "Doctor Halsey." He didn't mean to seem distant, in fact, he was probably one of the nicer colleagues you could meet in Item Retrieval - one among the rare breed of field researchers who did stupidly funny shit like hiding cardboard cutouts of dangerous anomalies where people would least expect them. It got him into serious trouble a handful of times, although his corpus of research on temporo-spatial displacement earned him the patience of his Alpha-level superiors. Enough time to be promoted to Gamma-level himself and handle projects on his own.
That was the extent to which anyone at Base Six knew him. A jovial prankster, a workaholic scientist. Work and play. Test and jest. There was little else to define him as a human being, for whenever his buddies would even begin to delve into their personal lives, Doctor Halsey simply smiled, shut up and sipped on his helping of Mountain Dew. Even those closest to him - like Victor Strate with his infectious grin and comically shiny, bald head - had learned little over the years. He almost certainly worked for the Foundation at one point - he knew quite a few of their anomalies, and the most perceptive could see him tense up whenever they were involved. But Doctor Halsey wouldn't confirm or deny anything about his past.
"Just the assurance of a bright, shining future," Halsey completed the phrase as he inspected the shell in his hand. It was a glossy brown spiral that seemed to glisten with the light of faded galaxies. The Snail Sentry hadn't so much as poked an eyestalk out of its shell ever since he took it with him from his office, likely sensing the threats nearby, for inside the massive testing chamber, echoes still rang from the firefights raging elsewhere in Base Six.
Halsey couldn't deny that he'd grown fond of the mollusc; over the years, he noticed several colleagues becoming attached to their early Items as well. There was Strate and his creepy Terrorbite pets, Bray and his Polapup sanctuary, and Caduceus attempting to elope with a goddamned satellite. It just seemed that, one day, a snail on his office desk decided to stand guard over the room and Halsey forever, displacing anyone who tried to remove it backwards in time; in effect, creating multiverses that branched off from his reality… as far as he understood it. The anomaly sent you further back in time the more aggressively you tried to take it from its rightful spot. Halsey spent the last two years alone working out the exact relationships between the force of removal and the level of displacement. When he found the data he was looking for, it was merely a matter of obtaining an Item powerful enough to test his hypothesis.
The Crystalline Incinerator was restricted to ALPHA-level research. However, by a stroke of luck, a fragment of it had been shipped off to Base Six, and its storage chamber was accessible to a few researchers with BETA clearance. It would take far too long to get himself promoted, but the Falchion Resurgence provided the perfect opportunity. In the turmoil, he called in a favor from one of his colleagues with BETA clearance and had them change his designation to Administration and Command. Within minutes, he had reached the fragment's testing chamber and locked himself in with the Snail Sentry.
The Crystalline Incinerator fragment had already been affixed on a massive emplacement, poised to amplify any light that passes through it into an immensely-concentrated beam of energy. The turret was aimed at the platform at the center of the chamber. Doctor Halsey placed the Snail Sentry atop the platform. He stroked its shell one final time, then turned to run calculations on the console. The machine whirred to life. The room filled with a deep, golden luminance as the beam struck and the fragment lit up like a second sun. The Snail Sentry's eyestalks poked out just in time to meet the death ray coming directly towards it. That was when Halsey realized: it took the miniaturized wrath of a supernova to dry his tears in the rain. It would be his last thought.
When he opened his eyes again, it was already dark. He was indoors. By the familiar feel of the cushions and how easily his arms settled on the armrests, he deduced that he was seated on his favorite chair. It was his room. Just then, he caught the sound of a creature coming from the hallway. He hadn't heard barking that coarse or lovable in years. Kappa leaped into Doctor Halsey's lap and excitedly licked his face. Without a thought, Halsey simply held the dog tightly in his arms. Then, he heard two sets of footsteps.
Henry. He wore his favorite blue cap. He spun as he entered the room, "Happy 6th Birthday, Tommy!" lovingly hand-stitched on his cape. Thomas, in pursuit of the cape thief, followed inside and commandeered one of the doctor's armrests.
"Oh, so there you've been! The boys just couldn't stop talking about those great white sharks, right? I think we'll be having a couple of marine biologists in our hands in a few years." The voice, the perfume. The concern. The roar of juvenile arguments filling the space with life. As his wife came into the room, Halsey did everything to hold back his tears. He couldn't even pull himself to speak when Thomas asked why Dad suddenly had so many wrinkles. He simply took a deep breath and smiled at what he saw. His family. Then, he closed his eyes.
- HOCKENBERRY -
Horrific sounds reverberated throughout the base from all sides as the Falchion's forces and anomalies continued to wreak havoc. It was over, so clearly over. Most of the loyalists had already surrendered, yet many of them still hid inside Base Four's labyrinthine complex, desperately clinging to the hope that Creed, Mark, or even Kahler could turn the tide.
Agent Hockenberry—a long-shafted, golden weapon in hand—led his squad into the deepest levels of the mountain base. Even then, they could still hear the carnage coming from their beast-soldiers and clock-tipedes; the shrieking, both human and inhuman; the pleading, the automatic weapon fire, and the eerie bouts of silence thereafter. So much talk of Base Four being the weapons capital of the North American cells. In the end, the loyalists failed to use that strength when they needed it the most. That was pretty much representative of the whole, bloody ordeal, really.
Hockenberry's team breached through the doors of the Inner Sanctum—the thick, blast-proof material absorbed into the Supermassive Spear in bright, horrific ribbons of light—finally emerging into view of a frightened throng of Alpha Command remnants and their security personnel. Several bursts of fire followed. The guards died where they stood. He recognized a few of the assholes. Blackout, Fatum, Hailstorm, Rowan. The men who approved careless operations, banned projects, and treated their Teal allies like trash, he'd happily kill. However, as he circled the room, he couldn't help but notice the grand trophy was absent.
"Where is Creed?" He asked one of the researchers.
"I don't have a bloody cl-" The Alpha felt his sternum began to crack, so he changed his mind.
"NO! STOP! I'LL TELL YOU!" The agent took his boot off from the man's chest. "The Director… He's at the lowest level of the facility. Absolute Sanctum. Been there since the attack began. You'll need my credentials to access the elevator." Hockenberry took the man's keycard. He turned to one of his sergeants.
"I'm going after the Director. Take these Alphas to the surface. We don't want them to miss the grand send-off ceremony we're throwing at the hangar."
"Good hunting down there, Captain." The sergeant said. Hockenberry smiled back at the inside gag as he ran down the hallway to the Absolute Sanctum elevator. As he entered, his eyes met garish symbols on the walls—no doubt written in Creed's own blood—that he recognized as warding runes. Superstitions that were sadly doing nothing to keep his hands from finding and wringing the Director's neck.
"I warned you Creed. It's Agent, always Agent. Only God and my dear, old Mama can call me Kenneth Hockenberry." He muttered, then adding more thoughtfully, "Long live the Falchion."
- NOUVA -
Nouva was just beginning to shake away the drowsiness of his nap. He had laid down on the soft, wind-swept grass, his hands under his head like a pillow. The quickness of his pulse and the numbness of his skin meant that the antitoxins that relaxed his Hunter-Tracker glands were still running their course through his system. Even now, he could feel his hirsute arms becoming smooth again, the hair being shed to the ground.
At the distance, an oily, black smoke was rising steadily, punctuated by random flashes of light and whitish streaks of machine gun fire. He could still hear magazines' worth of bullets being emptied into their targets by automatic rifles. Targets that have been corpses for a good solid hour now. And he could hear the shrieking and the pleading. He should still be there, on-site, contributing to the carnage.
The remains of Base One were just a five or ten minutes' sprint away.
"Feh." The agent sighed. "Looks like this new regime is going to be as needlessly cruel and vengeful as the last."
The wind itched his nose. "I'd be perfectly fine with that, though." He said aloud. Quaesitor's position in orbit was still fixed to the campaigns in the region, and she was most likely near enough to track a wayward agent's monologue. Nouva didn't want to risk it.
Despite his peaceful surroundings, Nouva's mind was quite active, thoughts coming and going with the periodic peals of thunder resonating from the Base.
"One blast." He said aloud as a bomb dropped, his mind coming to the first memory.
Concealing one's anomalous abilities as an operative of the Chaos Insurgency was a fairly common practice. In his first assignment alone, at that accursed outpost in Montana, about six of his twenty colleagues harbored some odd mutation. Most of them were clearly meant to maim and kill. They kept quiet, however, preferring to be researchers than field agents. It invited less danger in the mortal sense. If you were exposed, you weren't actually tortured or killed, but you'd usually be treated as pathetic for refusing to help the CI with your anomalies. Nouva's own hyper-enhanced senses made it futile to hide such traits from him, though.
"Another blast." The Hunter Tracker project had been in a precarious position throughout its life. It was, perhaps, Nouva's first sign of the imminent change in the organization - an initiative to train special reconnaissance agents from non-combat personnel with physiodynamic abilities. Nouva, naively, volunteered immediately. As the first generation of HT's, his team frequently faced their demise during assignments. There were no HT-specific combat stimulants back then, before Cad and Strate went to work on them. But the big wigs of Alpha Command still used them to retrieve intel for situations too risky to deploy expensive drones and too difficult for baseline humans. Of his team, only Nouva remained alive now.
"And another blast." The Falchions. He felt embarrassed. He defected to their side so quickly, it made him look disingenuous. Cad, Hock, and the rest of the 55th Field Observations Unit - even Strate - joined him. But he had seen the way its commanders treated the Hunter Trackers, actually sending them into missions that suited their skills. The rebel HT's revealed hidden sites and hunted down fleeing high-value targets. They were given support crews, specialized medical bays, a squad of transport ships, and more. For him, it was a sold deal.
And yet, the carnage that the Falchion was inflicting to their former brethren reminded him that their project's loyalty had simply been bought for the time being. The Falchion and their leader - this eccentric Haos - were still vicious and impenitent. They would do terrible things to projects that become useless. Nouva hoped he wouldn't let the Hunter Trackers fall into such a state.
But for now, the battle was won. The HT's fought on the winning side. That would give Nouva time to prepare and make the right connections. Perhaps, one day, the Hunter Trackers would even rise as rivals to Teal Division.
- STRATE -
Before the freight truck even came to a full stop, Doctor Strate's limp body fell from its cockpit like a disgraced ragdoll, collapsing like mush on the sizzlingly hot asphalt of the desert road.
The burning of his left cheek restored some semblance of consciousness in him, and he cursed an inappropriate amount as he stood and regained his bearings. It must have been a day since he drove off from Base Four's extension facility, glad that the place saw far less violence than what he heard went down at the actual Base. Upon Hockenberry's request, he gave the assault force two colonies of his hungering Terrorbites. Hock really had a bone to pick with the Alphas.
Victor fell into a panic there as he rummaged the inside of his lab coat. The panic quickly subsided and gave way to elation as he took out the handheld glass case that contained Terry, his personal Terrorbite pet.
"Six times as powerful, nine times as durable. You will be the undisputed king of the Terrorbites, my little arachnid ally. As soon as we find a good place to stay, I'll find you seventy-two house spiders to mate with. Your babies and grandbabies will be our minions, and we'll use our personal army of enhanced spiders to rule the Insurgency!" Victor said, cackling giddily. "I just hope nobody else beats me to that plan."
Victor rounded the truck, puckering his lips as he realized the left-side tires were flat. He inspected the back side next, catching sight of the white tarpaulin with the words, "So Long, Suckers!" that swayed lazily in the breeze. He cut the message out. It was funny for the first three hours but was now blatantly a security risk.
"That reminds me! The Items!" He said to Terry as he opened the back of the truck. "I got to scram with a ton of them in their shipping crates. I don't know exactly which Items I managed to take with me since we were in a rush back there, but hopefully we've spirited away some helpful ones. Help me bring that one down, please." He released Terry from his case. The cybernetic insect lifted the crate to which Victor pointed and placed it on the dry, cracked ground.
"Oh man, I sure hope we get the Staff of Hermes in here!" Victor said as he took a crowbar from the truck and began prying off one side of the crate, only for it to come off and reveal the Candle Wax Child curled inside like a malnourished ghoul.
- STEFFIE -
The NVC Anomalocaris emerged onto the stormy waters of the Pacific Ocean, its huge form momentarily breaking apart the sea like a surfacing whale. The waves around the submarine were turning a grisly red as its drain ports regurgitated the remains of its loyalist crew members. Already, their ruined blood and guts were becoming chum to some fish on their migratory paths.
Falchion-aligned agents climbed out of the submarine's escape hatch. Despite themselves, some of the rebels had elected to revel in their act of betrayal by enjoying the raging storm outside, the torrential rains washing away all the blood from their uniforms. Even Dr. Kojcewska came to see the view, still clad in a stolen suit of tactical armor. She hugged a jar to her chest, the bubbling flesh of the colorful jellyfish, Mitokondria, floating within.
She undid the seals of her helmet, uncovering her head to feel the force of the raindrops on her face. After hours spent coordinating the takeover, moving through hot, claustrophobic hallways to reach one safe area after another, and personally executing tens of her colleagues, it was quite a refreshing feeling.
Storms at sea were typically regarded as perilous and bleak, but Steffie viewed them differently. In the dance of lightning above she saw countless battle groups snaking across their enemies' lines, delivering death within the span of single moment. The rain was a raging downpour of their anomalous weapons, eroding away at the pristine defenses of the Farce until nothing of them remained. This was a vision of the Insurgency reinvigorated.
Steffie recalled a moment from her time as a Junior scientist. The Senior researcher - her superior - often spoke fondly of his time as one of Dr. Mung Fionggio's students. Steffie's young eyes would light up at her supervisor's stories of dissecting insect-human hybrids and discovering the tissue alterations in each of their organ systems. The Skirn Cell was still alive back then, their skittering minions and viral weapons research contributing to the CI's once-fearsome reputation.
The malaise of the Insurgency was starkly visible when she was recruited. She had expected mad-scientist types to be commonplace at the lab. She found incompetents, neurotic researchers, and rival organization rejects. She expected their bloodshot eyes to be twinkling with excitement over optimizing the best uses for their Items. She found only her own eyes bloodshot looking at diminishing Item retrieval reports month after month.
Ineffectual people had been leading them for over a decade now. In the Anomalocaris' case, they had spent far too long at sea doing inane studies on anomalies that legends like Dr. Fionggio would've never even considered examining. If the Farce wanted to sabotage the Insurgency, they need only to let idiots run the CI to the ground for a few more years, or, if they felt indulgent, sneak said idiots into their ranks in the first place.
As another spear of lightning flashed above the submarine, Steffie could see the shadowed outlines of six vessels on the horizon. Her face darkened. "We'll pay them back," she muttered, unsealing the lid off Mitokrandia's jar. The invertebrate seemed to pulse with orange light within its flesh as an ultrasonic message began to be broadcast.
"Mitoka, it seems our cousins at the Foundation are noticing this little revolution. Recall Charybdis from its playtime at Area 09.01.P in ten minutes. I'm sure both of you have been missing the taste of Mobile Task Force armor for a while now. Isn't that true?"
From inside its jar, the tumorous jellyfish happily pulsed blood-red.
Agent Hugh decided to let the waters lap at his feet for a little while longer. He heard the Ecstatic's horn blasting from far off in the horizon. The agent sighed deeply. In a short while, the transport would be docking at the beach, waiting to carry him and his new team, fresh from their seminar, off to their next assignment.
Hugh had scant understanding of where their next assignment would take them. All the dossiers had been redacted to the point where they resembled Sigma-class documents. He felt unused to this. Being an operations lead for so long, he usually had the enjoyment of knowing way more than his colleagues. If this new assignment was a lesson in humility, it was surely taking an effect.
Of course, many things were lessons in humility in the months following the Resurgence. Agent Hugh's colleagues had all disappeared, the last communications being sent during the final assault. But even those were redacted when he found them. In the seminar facility, he always found that everyone talked down to him - not quite as if he were a subordinate, but as if he had been a brain-panned patient.
Truth be told, Hugh hadn't been feeling like himself for a while now, although he knew it was due to the extensive injuries he sustained during the Aleph operation. His physician had been straightforward with the causes. Exposure to several cognitohazards and brain trauma inflicted by neuropredatory organisms. A few of them still lived symbiotically inside him, altering him in ways yet-observed. Hugh's head struggled to wrap around such complicated words. He was still no researcher, after all.
He was told he had a 25% chance of surviving when he was found by first aid personnel. The medical crews worked on him and others like him for days. During his convalescence, he was told the crews had been personally sent by Haos to recover everyone who had fought fiercely for the Falchion. Hugh cried when he heard that. In his heart, he had nothing but gratitude for their new leader.
Hugh heard someone step onto the sandy beach, their footsteps accompanied by the grainy sound of their cane landing on the rough sand. He instantly recognized who was approaching him. The man - the research lead - had been his only steadfast friend at the facility.
"That'll be enough lying down, Hugh. Finish your preparations for your next assignment and meet your new team at the quadrangle. We have arranged for a small send-off ceremony to celebrate your recoveries." Dr. Deny said. Rather than a cane, he was holding an old, wooden scythe. He was an eccentric man.
"Of course, Doctor!" Hugh said, wiping off the sand from his clothes as he rose to his feet. Just then, he was overcome with a sense of thankfulness at the simple fact he was alive and well. He suddenly made to hug the doctor, only to be stopped in his tearful approach with a curt tap on the head by Deny's scythe.
"This is not the place for sentimentality, Agent. Remember that I am your superior first and foremost, not your friend."
"Will we meet again, Doctor?" Hugh said.
Deny regarded him coldly. "We've already met one too many times."
An hour later, Hugh and his team were already sailing away from the island. He was out standing against the railing on the starboard side, looking at the dusk creeping over the sea.
Just then, the jagged shadow of some sea creature came rising onto the surface. The creature had a long, blade-like snout and bore small, spiny teeth set onto a large expanse of gums. Several of these creatures had also surfaced a distance away, but this particular specimen wore several scars on its body to distinguish it from its fellows. Its snout was similarly broken. It seemed to be watching Hugh with unnatural intelligence in its eyes.
This strange shark recognized him. It was an unusual thought - transient, but strong.
Hugh's attention on them was interrupted by the sound of an alarm as Item Retrieval agents moved to capture these wild anomalies, but by the time his view returned to the sea, the creatures were already gone.
With his back to the setting sun, Agent Hugh silently bid farewell to the Imperial Sharks.
- CREED -
"I entered into the Aetheric Temples. I made my name known to a thousand deities across dozens of belief systems, and consorted with the likes of Anubis, Dionysius, and Torngasoak. Entire cults of lesser daemons worship me as a font of power in the material plane…"
Creed rose from the floor, his wild eyes fixed on the bloodied tome at his feet. He stood in the center of a wide circle, splattered in crimson and flecks of salt and sage. This chamber - Absolute Sanctum - was enormous and empty, its polished, bronze walls and ceiling contrasting sharply with the grisly exhibit at the center.
"So give me a little credit here," he said, addressing no one in particular. The guards that accompanied him were all strewn around the chamber, their blood drained to use as ink for the ritual inscriptions. "Partake of my sanguine sacrifice and heed my command!"
The Director of Base Four knew his end was coming. He could sense the being descending into the hallways of Absolute Sanctum. He knew it was Hockenberry. That insufferable curmudgeon now had to cross through a quarter-mile of phasmic bolt turrets, ectogamma rays, and soul traps to reach the end of the Base's most esoteric sublevel. Creed didn't want to take his chances, however, and deigned to find aid from his Necronomicon to escape from the Base.
Suddenly the temperature in the chamber turned ice-cold. Creed knelt down and tried to concentrate as aetheric energies from the surroundings poured into the ritual circle. The spell was working. He threw his arms into the air, crying out the cant of the dark gods, supplicating himself to them as otherworldly winds blew around. The lights that had been flickering were now shattering to pieces.
The Director crouched on the floor in an inhuman way. Amid a flurry of growing teeth and tongues, he recited the Nine Blasphemous Oaths, and then declared his plea to the gods who listened.
"Your undying servant asks for a reprieve from these usurpers." Creed said, spitting out each word with rivulets of inky corruption and vomitus pooling on the floor.
Creed braced himself for the gods' reply, closing his eyes as tightly as he could. For one frightful, fleeting moment, his very soul felt a truly massive, overwhelming presence loom above him and sweep away any of his conceptions of power and authority. In the face of such a being, he was no more than a miniscule worm, and yet he asked of them so much. He had half a mind to weep aloud, this High Priest of thousands of cults, and beg for a swift death.
Then, in the next instant, Creed felt himself crashing onto the floor. Around him, Absolute Sanctum regained its footing in realspace, and the gods' gift manifested itself to him at the far corner of the chamber. And the sight of this gift caused Creed's smile to falter, then fade, and ultimately curdle his entire face. "The gods…" he said, almost mewingly, "have sealed my fate."
Sobbing openly, Creed brought the benighted guitar with him and sat on the steps to the central platform of the chamber. The instrument bore exquisite craftsmanship - its headstock was formed from soot-black East Indian Rosewood, the neck out of varnished mahogany, and the tuning pedals in pearlescent ivory. The strings were made of metal; each string a fine coil or strand of copper, bronze, silver, gold, platinum, or palladium. The frets were bleached bone studded with diamonds.
And yet, when Creed plucked at the strings, the sound immediately ruptured his inner ear. All the beauty in the world couldn't compensate for the sheer ugliness of the noise the guitar could make. Creed bit his tongue as he plucked another string, and another, and then another, forcing himself to play the notes of a song he decided he wanted to die with.
Hockenberry found him like this two minutes later, almost skeletal, almost ready to be loosed from the mortal coil, and playing the tabs to Johnny Cash's Hurt with the stumps of his fingers.
- ED -
"He's been humming like that for two days now." Dr. Habanchi 's aide said.
The two regarded the man on the other side of the observation window. The patient's eyes - bulging halves of ping-pong balls with tiny pinpoints for irises - were firmly planted on the ceiling. His cracked mouth was open and drawn into a permanently placid smile. The light from above reflected generously on the thick streak of drool that collected near his chin, forming a wet depression on the pillow.
"Any idea who he is yet?" Habanchi yawned as he consulted the sheaf of papers in his hands. His breath fogged up the glass, leaving a bitter scent that smelled of too little caffeine to fully rouse the doctor from his prolonged lack of sleep.
"Not a word, sir. The order from The Progressor yesterday is the only reason this man is still here under our care. We would've reclaimed his body parts by now if he wasn't being personally vetted by Haos himself to stay here playing my grandma's elevator music." The aide said.
Habanchi groaned. "All this secrecy is coming across as a tad comical. I mean, look at him."
His aide viewed him quizzically. "With all due respect, Doctor, if it weren't for my suspicions that this man was actually a highly-destructive Item that could easily bust out of this room on a whim, I would be laughing beside you." He paused for a moment, staring expectantly at the bedridden man. "As it is, though…"
"My thoughts exactly." Habanchi said.
The two fell into an abrupt silence as they continued to examine the man for any changes to his behavior. The man could not feed or clean himself, nor did he register any response from being connected to a line of IVs to ensure he didn't waste away in his stupor. He did not blink; a plastic tube running down his forehead administered a steady drip of fluids to moisten his eyeballs. He gave no actionable answer when spoken to, never breaking off from a single note of his curious little jingle. For all intents and purposes, the man was trapped in his own, unseen world.
Habanchi heard a faint, but distinct clicking sound behind them. He almost brushed it off before noticing that the aide heard it, too. They looked back to find the towering form of one of Haos' Illogicals behind them, its grotesque, cybernetically-enhanced body covered carelessly with bandages soaked in blood and oil. Its polished, red lenses betrayed no motive, although Habanchi was sure it was studying him thoroughly. In its exposed hand, the abomination held out a packet of papers addressed to his office.
The doctor wordlessly accepted the new intelligence, stiffening as the Illogical emitted another clicking noise that paralyzed their muscles and forced them to look upwards as the light from its lenses grew in intensity until their vision was overwhelmed in a brilliant, red flash. While the pair were blinded, the Illogical simply vanished.
Habanchi rubbed the back of his head as his vision returned, pulling out a handkerchief to wipe away the blood seeping from his eyes. His aide did the same.
"Was I bringing this packet with me this whole time?" He asked. The aide shook his head, the look of alarm clearly etched on his face. The two momentarily exchanged a dreadful look of speculation before turning their attention to the papers. Habanchi carefully tore open the packet and frowned. Most of the words swam in the paper, psychically locked until the doctor received the appropriate brainwaves from a cleared operative. He sifted through each page for the few words they were able to read. There were references to something called the "Scythe of Lethe," the names of a few Loyalist facilities, and a handful of other names. Habanchi glowered as he found Caduceus' name among them, and…
"Edison Denhai." The doctor said, as he pulled up a personnel report of a researcher who plainly resembled the man in the cell.
As he put the papers back into the packet, he found Denhai's lurid face pressed against the observation window, his gaze burning past the doctor.
"THAT NAME IS DENIED. ACCESS IS DENIED. I AM INSCRUTABLE. I AM THE BRIDGE OVER THE RIVER IN WHICH EVERYONE ELSE IS DROWNING. THERE IS NOBODY ELSE THERE BUT ME. YOU MUST NOT DENY ME, CADUCEUS, MY GOOD DOCTOR. I SEE YOU WITHOUT SEEING YOU. THERE SHALL BE NOTHING FOR YOU TO ACCESS INSIDE MY LABYRINTHINE MIND. ACCESS IS NOW AND FOREVER SHALL BE DENIED, DENIED, DENIED, DENIED, DENIED, DENIED, DENIED, DENIED, DENIED!"
Ed's loud reverie - so lively and animated despite the tinny audio of the intercom - startled the pair, but only for a brief moment as the aide hastily adjusted some knobs on a control panel beside the lunatic's cell, lowering the volume of his ramblings substantially.
"Well, this development both complicates and clears up some of our questions." The doctor said. His aide stared at him with concern. By the hunch of his back and the lazy drooping of his eyelids, Habanchi was visibly exhausted. He scribbled a few notes on his clipboard, placed it inside the packet, and checked his watch. It was early morning. All the while, Edison Denhai continued mouthing gibberish from his cell, sullying the window with his spittle. Behind him, there were lines of detached IVs snaked across the floor. There was also a distinct lack of any anomalous capacity from the man, who had resolved to clawing fruitlessly at the reinforced window.
By the time Habanchi said he was going to the cafeteria for coffee and breakfast, his aide had already dispatched a tranquilization team to administer to the patient with due haste. The pair steeled themselves for the rest of the day's unpalatable agenda as they walked out of the hospice arm of the facility. Nobody looked forward to testing the latest refinements to the Human Serum, but like everyone in Base Eleven, both researches believed in Haos' grand scientific direction. Together with their sister site, Base Six, they would do their part to consolidate His power as members of the nascent Nucleolus.
- CHUMAGEN -
It was a bright and beautiful day, early in the spring, and Director Heaton was walking along a footpath of warm-colored bricks to pay a visit to phantoms.
The Insurgent leader was accompanied by a large, portly man - bald, save for the spiky shocks of red hair behind his ears. Ten minutes ago, as he descended from the VTOL transport, Heaton noticed that the phantoms had sent this one man by his lonesome self along to escort him to their headquarters. As they began their promenade to the secretive group's headquarters, however, Heaton had learned the error in his perception.
It was still quite cold. The two were wearing dark trenchcoats and gloves. Although the sun bore down on them, the seasonal breeze still carried the frosts of the past winter. It became apparent to Heaton that the shimmering air around them was not simply the heat haze evocative of the warm months to come, but the illusory body-cloaks of ShaDES Technologies' Corvidines at work. They stood in a line alongside the footpath. A show of might, as subtle as ShaDES itself.
The portly fellow - the senior liaison officer of the start-up - noticed Heaton's discovery. It had taken the Director eighty-six seconds to detect the guards' presence. He reached into his coat to retrieve something, handing him a strange-looking visor. "It'll make anything concealed by our cloaking technologies slightly more visible to you." He placed the visor on his head, his vision supplanted with a violet-hued electronic display. The life energies of many organisms - the grass, the bees, the squirrels - could be seen through the reverse-engineered VERITAS set. The air over the footpath still shimmered as before, empty of any human outline.
"That's our point, Director." The liaison said as he removed the visor from Heaton's head. "Nothing can see past our cloaking technologies, which we have been constantly refining over these months thanks to the Insurgency's generous investments. As long as we continue to confound our enemies with the question of our absence or presence, we will remain in business. That has been our lives' work."
"You could have given me a bugged VERITAS, for all we know."
The liaison simply patted Heaton strongly on the shoulder and laughed in his jovial, jostling manner. Wordlessly, he continued their tour of the company's headquarters.
The object of Heaton's visit did not precisely concern a tour. In the turmoil of the Aleph-11-Tango procedure, Heaton had far less altruistic reasons for meeting with this burgeoning provider of anomalous tech. He declared for the Falchion, after all; every stroke of treachery and violence that his faction propagated in Haos' name now granted Heaton uncontested authority over the Spanish Branch. As such, it was vital that he obtain new and powerful partners. First among all other potential partners would be ShaDES.
Heaton needed the fledgling company's unparalleled achievements in cloak technologies to strengthen his control and deter the ambitions of other branches. This would give him the security to let his other plans unfold. With their expertise, he would reform the Spanish Branch into a legion of shadows and silent killers. And in doing so, perhaps he might even earn the Branch a place at Haos' side as his chosen enforcers. They would be capable of securing the Falchion's dominance for years to come. His branch would be irreplaceable.
"So now, we arrive to the actual point of your visit, good Director." The liaison said as they entered the back portion of the campus, climbing atop a raised platform to get a better view of the spacious area there. "The inspection of the assets we have prepared according to your wishes."
A handful of armored personnel carriers drove into view, followed by a column of main battle tanks. The air around each vehicle shimmered - this time, not from their cloaks, but from the heat dissipating in the cloak-reactors. The military vehicles assembled in front of the platform. They were awaiting an unknown signal.
"I suggest you avoid direct line of sight when they activate their cloaks." The liaison warned.
"No." Heaton responded. "I'm seeing this for myself."
"Very well." Replied the liaison, turning his gaze skyward. He pressed the mic on his collar. "Enshroud on my mark. Three… two… one…."
Heaton couldn't tell if his eyes were closed or not, so sudden was the impact of the cloaking devices on his optic nerves. For an achingly long moment, it looked like he was transported to the inside of a prism. Bands of blinding light in trillions of colors filled his vision entirely, not only obscuring his view of the vehicles, but the rest of his surroundings as well. Such sensory overload caused excruciating pain shooting up his spinal cord. He could even feel the nagging, piercing pain deep in his brain. Without his sight, Heaton instinctively touched a ring on his right hand. There was a stir of strange energy. The ring's cheap gemstone broke into pieces, and he slowly regained his vision.
Heaton wiped away tears and cerebrospinal fluid from his eyes. Before him stood an empty field. The liaison was folding his arms, regarding the Director with bemusement etched on his face. "No." He said, anticipating something. "No tricks, my good friend. They will be unshrouding now."
With the order given, the vehicles returned to visible wavelengths. "Currently, all vehicular reactors are capable of sustaining XI-class cloaking for eighteen hours at full capacity. We will send maintenance crews to you following each order to ensure your hardware is operational and secure. The Corvidines will also join your recovery crews to retrieve or destroy any reactor lost in battle. I trust everything else in our agreement is to your satisfaction?"
Heaton nodded and shook hands with the senior officer.
"Ah, but there is one more demonstration you wish to see, right? I regret that we need more time to engineer a cloaking reactor to its size and specifications, but perhaps you'd like to see the progress." The liaison said. "If you'll follow me…"
Within minutes, Heaton found himself in the control room at one of ShaDES' headquarters' sub-level storage bays. Outside, he could see the mechanic team tinkering on various parts of the TEL missile vehicle stationed there. Although bulky and imposing, the TEL was, itself, a non-descript vehicle in comparison to its cargo.
Barely visible in the dim lights was the silhouette of a Topol-M intercontinental ballistic missile. Most of the mechanics were busy augmenting, repairing and retrofitting the components therein, especially its slate-grey, steely biceps, which seemed to pulse with virile, radioactive energy.
Heaton nearly shed a tear witnessing its majesty.
- DEBOUT, DEBOUT LES MORTS -
"Cad."
Opening his eyes was a pain, but Caduceus wanted to see the dead that was calling to him.
"Brooke?"
The figure of a girl knelt beside him. Smiling, that was clear. No visible injuries. No grime, or machine oil, or blood caking her wavy brown hair.
Brooke was the only apparition to accompany him on his death delusions, it seems. Cad thought to give her a thank-you note once he joined her in the great place beyond. He slowly shut his eyes once more.
He felt an incessant tapping against his right cheek. To his irritation, the poking was interrupting his smooth transition into a corpse.
"Do you think both of us died, Cad?" The former agent asked.
"Do we all become as philosophical as you once we reach Heaven, Brooke?"
His face twitched as he felt a sharp flick to the tip of his nose. Cad abruptly sneezed.
"Always like you to go for the bloody weak spot." He said, trying to soothe his ruffled nose. He was certain it remained broken. He could feel the itch to sneeze again. "For the love of Wiggins, you know full well that-" Suddenly, he felt her press a silken handkerchief gently against his nostrils.
"Shush." Brooke said. "I know. I just want to see that stupid expression of yours one last time."
By now, Martin had regained some energy to move. He propped himself up a little by his elbows. He looked at Brooke with a scrutinizing gaze. "What did you just say?"
"Caduceus! Crosscomb!" Someone else yelled from far away. It was Wiggins. Seadrus was tagging alongside him.
"Guys?" Cad asked out. "Where did you come from? Where are we?"
"Right, that seems the most pressing thing to ask right now, but you've got weightier matters to personally attend to." Wiggins said as he arrived before the two. Cad squinted. The Item Retrieval specialist looked perfectly healthy and well. Seadrus wasn't missing an arm. This was glaringly inconsistent with his last, grim memories of them.
"Just me? What about you guys?" Cad asked.
"There's someone here who wants to meet you." Seadrus simply replied. He and Brooke helped Caduceus stand on his feet. The doctor was surprised he could even work his legs again.
"Hold on." Cad said, straightening himself. "Who, exactly? Have you re-established contact with Cavendish?" He paused to try and regard his surroundings, failing to see anything but a warm, diffuse light around them.
"Relax, Marty. These are Insurgent orders. From Command, to be precise." Seadrus said.
Cad pressed the question. "From the Falchion?"
Wiggins shook his head. "From Command, Cad. There isn't a simpler way to put it. I don't think the old coot even knows about the Falchion yet." He gestured to the route from which they arrived. "Come on, we have to move."
"Pardon my indolence," Cad said, rubbing his temples, "but I can't go with you unless I know where we are."
The two field agents stared at him. "Don't you recognize this place?" Seadrus asked, a note of concern in his voice.
"All I see is the bright blankness of St. Peter's backrooms, and I'm pretty sure this is my first time here, so explain to me exactly what you can see that I can't."
Wiggins shook his head. "We're in the thick of a truly ancient forest. The pines alone are enormous. And the view here is pretty nice, to say the least. The old man built a cabin in a clearing up ahead, and that's where he told us he wanted to meet you at." He raised his head, tracking something unseen in the sky. "You don't have much time, mate. Let's move."
Sensing Caduceus' unease, Brooke said. "Cad and I will be right behind you. Please lead the way, sergeant." Wiggins curtly nodded, and he and Seadrus started walking back along an invisible path. The two IRUS agents followed close behind.
It would never become evident to him to Caduceus later, but Field Research Unit 116 had regrouped for the final time.
- CADUCEUS -
Although Director Cavendish was old and weary from administrating one of the Insurgency's most critical central sites in North America, he maintained a sense of vitality thanks to his gruff appearance. With a long, blonde mustache, a grizzled beard, and perpetually-furrowed eyebrows, he appeared, at all times, to be one moment away from pulling out a flintlock and blasting away at any miscreant that crossed him. But all of those features had withered by the time he wrested Base Six from loyalist control, and now the only reminder people had of his sanguine self was the tall, ash-colored cowboy's hat he wore everywhere he went.
Nevertheless, he regarded Caduceus with characteristic scrutiny. Being the only recovered survivor of his field unit, it fell to the young researcher to deliver the report of their exploits during the Procedure. Caduceus, for the most part, provided inventories and intelligence on the Items retrieved from other sites with cool composure. He didn't act like the still-healing wounds pockmarking all over his skin underneath his bandages ached with every movement. He certainly didn't treat his immobilized leg as anything worse than a minor impediment.
Just like with his previous unit, Cavendish knew that Martin was fond of the 116th FRU. He was dissembling all of his losses over the year admirably.
Caduceus concluded his after-action report about thirty minutes ago. The conversation had since shifted to one of future prospects. Despite the losses, Base Six stood at a formidable position in terms of Items and manpower, and had the distinction of being one of Haos' first declarants. The Director activated one of his lobotomized menials in the Inner Sanctum to help the researcher sit on his chair.
The junior scientist's request was reasonable, given the degree of expertise and care with which he handled the several Items that the 116th 'liberated' during the Procedure. Caduceus' unit surprised Cavendish. He didn't expect them to rescue so many Teals from Creed's twisted internment camps. The doctor personally tended to the Ward's wounds and escaped with an entire company of initiates under the Obelisk's protective barrier. If the researcher could be as prodigious as Dr. Kuhli from Base Eleven, Cavendish might install him as a loyal operative leading the site's Item Research, Usage and Storage Department in the near future.
For Caduceus' part, he assured Cavendish that the new BETA-class credentials would be enough recompense for his service, and would be the best way to help him serve the Insurgency after Aleph. Having the Items he helped retrieve in his immediate oversight would unlock plenty of opportunities in the future. There was no need to weaken Cavendish's trust in him by raising more requests.
After saying his goodbyes to the leader of Base Six, Caduceus entered the lift to descend from Inner Sanctum. On the way down, he studied the sinusoidal forms of the twin reptiles that coiled around each of his arms. He willed them away for now, and allowed himself a little more time to muse.
Cavendish, he understood, rewarded loyalty. That was a principal reason why he flourished as a Base Director, when most of his contemporaries had been usurped over the decades. But his patronage would never amount to anything more than a means to an end.
Haos had what he truly wanted, and Dr. Caduceus wouldn't retrieve such a reward from The Progressor by remaining loyal.
Recording starts..
Our work is just beginning - the realization of a billion dreams since the age of Man dawned over the world. The liberation from the corrupt and ineffectual Foundation brought upon a change to us all - a strengthening of our spirit and our resolve, and the hope for a bright, new era of scientific discovery.
Dr. Fillius likened our journey to Moses, how he led the slaves to freedom from their Egyptian masters. He had a sense for the Biblical that I'm afraid I would never fully appreciate, like when he referred to the act of killing an Overseer as "the hurried blow of a bare-fisted angel".
But I suppose it is an apt metaphor. The Insurgency has cast aside many chains to bring our race to the "Promised Land;" ethics and containment no longer lord over our work, and our anomalies are now loyal because they are free. By embracing the world's chaos, we are on the way to accomplishing Moses' work a second time.
By that, I mean—and I hope you lend me your Old Testament gravitas, Emerson—this Insurgency will be able to "Shepherd the Chosen unto Paradise."
- from "The Recorded Memoirs of Dr. Angus Remidi, 1947 Original Release"
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Gen Z and younger millennials’ unexpected obsession
(Symbol credit score: Esther Abrami, Getty Pictures)
An intensive new wave of artists are sweeping the prior to now elite global of classical track – with somewhat lend a hand from Squid Sport, Darkish Academia and model. Daisy Woodward explores how classical were given cool.
If requested to bet what beneath 25-year-olds are taking note of, it is not going that many people would land upon orchestral track. And but a survey revealed in December 2022 via the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra (RPO) discovered that 74% of UK citizens elderly beneath 25 had been prone to be tuning into simply that at Christmas-time, when compared with an insignificant 46% of other folks elderly 55 or extra. Those figures mirror no longer handiest the RPO’s broader discovering that beneath 35-year-olds are much more likely to hear orchestral track than their oldsters, but in addition the popular surge in approval for classical track typically, specifically amongst more youthful generations.
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There are many causes for this, from the playlist tradition spawned via streaming platforms that make it simple for listeners to find new artists and varieties of track to suit their temper, to the solace it equipped all the way through the pandemic, to not point out the great quantity of classical track in popular culture hits like Squid Sport. However possibly perfect at the listing is the worldwide wave of Gen Z and younger millennial classical artists who’re discovering new tactics to be noticed and heard, and – simply as vitally – new method of modernising what has lengthy been branded track’s maximum elite and stuffy style.
Model emblem Zits Studios’ more youthful sub-label Face just lately created composer-themed sweaters and baggage (Credit score: Zits Studios/ Face)
Unsurprisingly, social media has performed an enormous section on this, as a snappy seek of the preferred TikTok hashtag “classictok” (these days at 53.8 million perspectives) attests. There, in addition to on Instagram, younger classical artists had been applying the virtual realm’s democratic possible to boost the heavy velvet curtains on their artwork shape, presenting classical track and its storied historical past in tactics which can be obtainable, unintimidating and, most significantly, amusing.
For French violinist Esther Abrami – who has greater than 250,000 fans on Instagram, greater than 380,000 on TikTok, and used to be the primary classical musician to be nominated within the Social Media Celebrity class on the International Awards – the adventure to social media repute stemmed from a want to proportion her interest extra extensively. “I used to be learning at a best establishment and more often than not I used to be practicing for checks, so the entire pleasure of sharing used to be taken away. Then, on the only a few concert events I did play, there used to be an overly particular form of target market that wasn’t very numerous,” Abrami tells BBC Tradition.
She spotted {that a} handful of classical musicians had taken to Instagram to increase their very own achieve, and determined to do the similar. “I began posting a couple of issues, and used to be shocked via the response that I were given. Abruptly you will have other folks from around the globe taking note of you and telling you it brightens their day to observe you taking part in the violin,” she enthuses. “It opened this door to a fully new global.”
Nigerian-US baritone and lifetime hip-hop fan Babatunde Akinboboye loved a in a similar fashion swift and unexpected upward push to social media repute when he posted a video of himself making a song Rossini’s famend aria Largo al factotum excessive of Kendrick Lamar’s monitor Humble. “I used to be in my automobile and I realised that the 2 items labored in combination musically, so I began making a song on best of the beat,” he tells BBC Tradition. He documented the instant on his telephone and posted the video on his private Fb account, guessing that his pals would experience it greater than his opera friends. “However I went to sleep, awoke the following morning, and it had expanded to my opera community, and some distance past that,” he laughs, explaining that inside two days, his self-dubbed emblem of “hip-hopera” had stuck the eye of The Ellen Display, The united states’s Were given Skill and Time mag.
Nigerian-US baritone Babatunde Akinboboye sings “hip-hopera” – he first of all was recognized for his rendition of Rossini combined with Kendrick Lamar (Credit score: J Demetrie)
Each Abrami and Akinboboye got here to classical track of their teenagers, past due via standard requirements, and cultivated their interest for the style independently. This stays a using issue of their want to succeed in new audiences, which they have accomplished on an excellent scale, in large part simply by being themselves. “I stopped up turning into an opera influencer via sharing the portions of me I felt at ease sharing, which is so much,” says Akinboboye, whose playful hip-hopera and opera movies and posts – taking audience at the back of the scenes of a global nonetheless shrouded in thriller – have garnered him some 688,000 TikTok fans. “It is a lot about how I relate to opera; my musical background used to be from hip-hop, however I nonetheless discovered a courting with opera and that resonated with other folks,” he explains. “Virtually on a daily basis I am getting a unique message announcing, ‘I went to my first opera lately’. I feel this is because they are seeing anyone they really feel at ease or accustomed to.”
‘Complicated and profound’
Abrami, a in a similar fashion enthusiastic content material writer, is of the same opinion: “I feel striking the face of someone no longer thus far clear of them to the style is a large factor. That is what I am looking to do, to succeed in various kinds of other folks and create bridges, to turn them that this track can truly transfer you. It is complicated and profound and sure, it could take somewhat of time to know however whenever you do, it is superb.”
British live performance pianist Harriet Stubbs is any other avid proponent of classical track for contemporary audiences who has been discovering her personal tactics of drawing in new listeners. All over lockdown, the musician, who in most cases splits her time between London and New York, carried out more than one 20-minute concert events from her ground-floor flat in West Kensington, opening the home windows and the use of an amplifier to succeed in listeners outdoor. “I gave 250 concert events,” Stubbs, who used to be awarded a British Empire Medal via the Queen for this mood-boosting act of provider, tells BBC Tradition. “I did a variety of repertoire from my upcoming album, and likewise such things as All By means of Myself, which I selected paradoxically for that target market. And the item is, individuals who idea they did not take care of classical track got here again on a daily basis as a result of the facility of that track.”
The fusion of classical track with different genres is a significant aspect of Stubbs’s follow and, certainly, that of many others a number of the new technology of classical artists (see additionally the React to the Okay YouTube channel, the place classical artists steadily reimagine Okay-pop songs with creative effects, or Kris Bowers’ good orchestral preparations of contemporary pop songs for the much-buzzed-about Bridgerton soundtrack). Stubbs’s leading edge first album, Heaven & Hell: The Doorways of Belief (2018), used to be impressed via William Blake and lines musical icon Marianne Faithfull. “I all the time sought after to tie rock’n’roll and classical track in combination and put them in the similar area, supported via literature and philosophy and different disciplines,” she explains, including that her subsequent album, which she’s making with pianist and previous Bowie collaborator Mike Garson, might be a “Bowie meets Rachmaninoff” affair.
Live performance pianist Harriet Stubbs has collaborated with Marianne Faithfull, and is these days operating on a “Bowie meets Rachmaninoff” album (Credit score: Russ Titelman)
Apparently, the present swell of enthusiasm for classical track has branched out to turn into as a lot of a classy motion as this can be a musical one. Virtual microtrends Darkish Academia and Gentle Academia – devoted as they’re to the romanticisation of a keenness for artwork and data via imagery – each make rousing use of classical track with a purpose to create the specified atmosphere. Ascendant Polish countertenor Jakub Józef Orliński, in the meantime, makes use of atmospheric visuals as a formidable method of contemporising the baroque revel in. Depressed via the loss of investment for track video manufacturing within the classical realm, he drummed up non-public sponsorship to make a 21-minute film to accompany his 2021 rendition of Vivaldi’s Stabat Mater. The ensuing movie conjures a compelling and suitably brutal situation for the haunting 18th-century hymn, which The New York Occasions describes as “such as a Polish remake of The Sopranos”.
“I am truly excited about storytelling. I all the time construct a complete thought for my albums – the narrative, the pictures, the movies,” Orliński tells BBC Tradition. “I feel now there’s this entire new technology of people that truly wish to upload to what classical track can also be, to move past the making a song and be challenged. You simply have to understand that the top product might be just right, and that what you are doing will serve the tale,” he provides. That is definitely one thing Orliński has accomplished in his personal profession: an completed sportsman and breakdancer, he wowed critics together with his 2022 Royal Opera Space debut, which discovered him pole-dancing in a spangled get dressed as Didymus in Katie Mitchell’s manufacturing of Handel’s Theodora. Different fresh initiatives have incorporated recording baroque tracks for coming near near video video games which, he says, used to be “an out of this world revel in” and is one thing he is being requested to do an increasing number of steadily, because the Metaverse beckons. “Every now and then you want classical track to the touch the strings of someone’s soul – a pop music would possibly not paintings.”
Classical track’s ongoing and steadily tough intersection with popular culture is being foregrounded as a part of the burgeoning pastime within the style, each outside and inside its famously guarded gates. The all-teen contributors of the United Kingdom’s Nationwide Adolescence Orchestra have simply finished a mini excursion that incorporated a efficiency of Richard Strauss’s Additionally Sprach Zarathustra, replete with its opening symphonic dawn eternalised via Stanley Kubrick in 2001: A House Odyssey. Remaining August noticed the BBC Proms release its first gaming-themed programme wherein the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra took on one of the vital best-loved songs in online game historical past. Whilst the hot autumn/wintry weather assortment from Zits Studios’ more youthful sub-label Face presented up one of the vital direct sartorial tributes to classical track to this point, presenting crew-neck sweaters, T-shirts and tote baggage adorned with the faces of Handel, Mozart and Bach in party of “the concept that a keenness for classical track is essentially the most left-field transfer possible for a modern day teen”.
Polish countertenor Jakub Józef Orliński wowed critics together with his efficiency as Didymus in Handel’s Theodora, which incorporated a pole-dance (Credit score: Michael Sharkey)
Orliński is of the same opinion that classical track has accomplished an “virtually hipstery” standing of past due. “It is cool to visit the opera, to understand one thing, and that is the reason as a result of there are a large number of younger artists turning in track at the perfect stage, whilst making it very entertaining,” he enthuses. There’s, he observes, a revived pastime in classical track personalities comparable to Maria Callas and Pavarotti, in addition to “other folks like Yuja Wang” who’re promoting out live performance halls, all of which he feels bodes neatly for the artwork shape. “We have now an extended option to move to develop up to different genres of track, however we are transferring ahead.” Akinboboye, too, is tentatively hopeful. “I feel opera is undoubtedly being much more daring, and I’m hoping that it continues as a result of I feel we will be able to catch up,” he concludes. “[Classical music needs to] be courageous, to do the feared factor. And it’s going to figure out, as a result of audiences are able.”
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The book i have just started reading is about this girl named Macey who lives in her hometown, conneticut. Macey is suppose to do a research paper and she decides to write about this barn that was burned down in 1959 wich is across the street from her grandparents. But the thing is is when she asks her relatives who lived long enough to remember what happened to the barn and the story behind it, no one wants to answer the questions she asks them. But when one of her friends becomes the victim of the city they live in, something inside of macey clicks. She starts to think twice about people in that town and she has to discover her own true colors and face the truth about that barn that burned down.
2:35 pm 10 April 2015
Thomas is trying to do his part in the group so he goes out in the woods to collect soil for the plants they grow. Suddenly he walks upon skeleton bones from people that have died in the tribe and he starts to worry about it. But all of a sudden there's a person who is a runner that is standing behind him acting all strange by having a different color of tone to his skin and he looks possessed because he was "stung" by a greiver, the creatures inside the maze that kills people who are in the maze after a certain time of day. He looks at Thomas and says "it was you! your the reason why where here!" and he charges at Thomas and tackles him and he's about to kill Thomas until Thomas grabs a skull and hits it across his head. Thomas is trying to run away while the other guy is chasing him. Thomas is yelling for help and everyone hears and see's them running through the woods and everybody goes and help Thomas out by knocking the other guy out. Later on Ben, the one who was chasing Thomas, is sent out into the maze to survive by themselves otherwise other members of the group would be harmed.
2:51 pm 2 April 2015
In this book there is this arena where certain people are taken and put in for an experiment doe this thing called W.I.C.K.D. The main character,Thomas, is riding the elevator to the arena because he's one of them now. While he arrives he freaks out because he doesn't remember anything like his name, where he's from, etc. and he gets out of the elevator and takes off running falls flat on his face and everybody starts laughing at him. The leader of the group of kids named Alby talks to Thomas and explains everything about the arena which is actually a maze in which they have to escape. He shows him around and introduces him to the certain groups of the people in the maze. There's the runners,who run the maze when the walls open and maps and memorizes the maze so they can escape, then there's the farmers, who grow and manage the food supplies, and finally there's the construction people who build forts and places to sleep along with weapons. Thomas is very curious about whats behind the wall so he keeps his eye out. Maybe he will become a "runner".
The Eye of Minds
1:44 pm 26 March 2015
I just started reading this book so there's really not much i can tell here except that there is this game called VirtNet where u can live in a game and if u die in the game you come back alive as yourself but the bad thing about the game is that you feel every inch of pain that leads toward your death. Michael is one of the kids who play's the game because only rich people can afford this type of technology. It ends up where when he is playing the game, he interacts with a girl trying to kill herself by jumping off a bridge. The girl whose playing this game is really smart because she's the only one who knows how to take out the chip that's installed in her body in order to play the game. So Micheal is trying to convince herself not to kill herself because if she does, then she will never come back because the chip is the only thing that keeps you alive. well she starts to cut open her arm and she finds the chip and rips it out and by the time Michael has a hold of her so she doesn't fall but she lets go of her grip and they both go down crashing to the ground. But Michael obviously comes back to life while the girl is dead and never coming back.
In this book there is a kid named Mitch who is a school reporter in Seattle who reports in sports. His dream is to be a famous reporter when he grows up. But to achieve this goal,he has to catch the biggest story of all. There's this guy named Michael and he plays middle line backer on the football team, but the weirdest thing is that he is probably the best on the football team but the coach benches him most of the time until the actually need him. That's when a girl named Kimi comes along and Mitch and Kimi become partners in the reporting progress. Kimi takes the pictures and Mitch writes the story. Kimi and Mitch try to find out the real reason why the coach keeps Michael on the bench most of the game. Kimi and Mitch are doing all these researches on Michael to see who he truly is but all his records are destroyed because it turns out that there are people at Michael's school who want to kill him because the people who wanted to kill him were gang members and Michael was a witness of one of there killings. So Kimi and Mitch are finding all these things out about Michael and his past. The schools football team end up going to the championship and it turns out that the gang members are there waiting for Michael to get out of the locker room after they get done celebrating their win. But before anything happens Mitch crawls under the gang members car and slashed their tire so that they would be able to go far in they killed Michael.The gang members never get a hold of Michael and he gets sent off to some college with a football scholarship. But when he does go to that college he has to change his name so that they cant trace him again.
Divergent #1
I am starting to read the book called Divergent. So far what has happened in this book is that the main character,Beatrice, and her brother Caleb go off into this room to have a test done to them to see which district they belong to. Caleb ends up picking the Erudite district which means that he is leaving his family. Beatrice ends up picking the Dauntless district so now the whole family is separated except their parents. Beatrice ends up getting on the train to go to her district but the thing is is that they have to jump off the train to get to the place they are suppose to be. Everyone makes it except for this one girl who misses the ledge and falls to her death. Everyone in the Dauntless district doesn't really like Beatrice because she's from a district whom no one likes. A guy named "four" ends up coming to were they are on top of the roof and tells all the new members the rules and guide lines. When that is over he tells the members to jump off the roof to see which one of them is the bravest. None of the members no whats below the roof because it's covered in fog. No one volunteers so Beatrice ends up volunteering. When she jumps off, she ends up landing in some type of fish net where the village is. and that's when people start liking her because she was the bravest one out of the group. Everyone asks her what her name is so she decides to have a total different life in that district so she changes her name to Tris. Then when everyone else jumps off they go to the headquarters and have a tour around the place they stay at.
Holes#3
2:47 pm 5 December 2014
I finished up reading up the book called "Holes" and when Stanley goes off to the camp, he hardley talks and nobody really talks to him but when Stanley goes to dig his first hole it was the hardest for him and he finishes up as the last one done and he has major blisters on his hand. After he's done digging he goes into this wreck room type thing and while he wasn't paying attention he trips over the mean looking dudes leg and the big guy gets up and pushes Stanley. All of the kids from Stanley's group goes over and tries to protect Stanley and that's when he gets the nickname "caveman". While Stanley reads his letters he got from his mom Zero stands behind him and Stanley doesn't like it because he doesn't like it when people read over his shoulder. But no worries Zero can't read. So Stanley and Zero make a deal were if Zero digs part of Stanley's hole everyday,Stanley could teach Zero how to read since Stanley won't be so tired. But that only goes so far. When other people start figuring out Zero is digging part of Stanley's hole, they start to disown Stanley. When the counselor comes down to refill the kid's canteens and give them stuff to eat, a kid named zigzag starts stuff with Stanley. Stanley and Zigzag get into a fight and Zero comes up and jumps on Zigzag and starts to choke him to protect Stanley. When they get broken up the warden comes down to see what went on. Zigzag and his crew tell her what all happened and how Zero is digging some of Stanley's hole. the counselor and her talk to Zero about how it's a waste of time teaching Zero because he is dumb. The counselor says letters for Zero to see if he can spell it. Zero is irritated by this, so when the counselor spells out d-i-g, Zero takes his shovel and wacks it against the counselors head and Zero gets over him and says "dig" and he takes off running away. The next day when one of the other counselors comes and delivers water, Stanley steals the truck and tries to drive it to Zero. But he ends up driving it into a hole so Stanley takes off running away to catch Zero. They eventually end up meeting up with eachother while Zero was under a boat. They see this mountain that looks like the shape of a thumb so they march up the mountain and Zero faints and Stanley carries him up the hill while singing the song his great great grandfather was suppose to sing to Madam Zeroni. When they get up to the top they find water and onions. They stay up there for a couple of days and hed back to camp secretly because Stanley knows were possibly the treasure could be. At night when they sneak back into camp and get to their hole they start digging and while digging they here a "thump" and they dig up around that area. What they found was the treasure. But the warden and the counselors catch them but while they get out if the hole and the warden tries to take the treasure away from them because she thinks it's hers, Zero yells "it has Stanleys name on it!" and it sure does right on the side so when Stanley's attorney comes for him to take him home because he was proved innocent, he tells her he's not leaving without Hector (Zero) so his attorney asks for Hectors files and they don' have any of them because they destroyed them. So Hector and Stanley get to go home happy. But before they do it starts to rain again at the camp because Stanley broke the hidden curse. When they leave the camp, they become neighbors.
Holes #2
2:44 pm 14 November 2014
In my book The character Stanley Yelnats is walking home from school and he ends up at the wrong spot at the wrong time because because anything happens to him there is this kid named Zero who's mom abandoned him so he is on his own. Well he ends up going to this shelter for the homeless and he see's these sneakers that were worn by this famous baseball player Clyde Livingston. He ends up taking them because he needs shoes and he doesn't think that there special shoes that were to be auctioned off. Zero is walking on this bridge and the next thing he knows is that there is cop sirens going off and they are heading his way. He gets scared so he takes off the shoes and throws them off the bridge and that's when Stanley ends up at the wrong place at the wrong time. The shoes come down and hit him in the head. Stanley knows who's shoes they are because there is big red x's in the back of the shoe and he is a major Clyde Livingston fan. The cops end up catching Stanley with the shoes so he is ordered to go to court. The only reason the police think he is guilty is because in Stanley's room, there is posters of Clyde hanging on his wall. The court orders Stanley to either go to Camp Green Lake, or Jail and Stanley says "well I've never been to a camp before?" so he ends up going to the camp.
2:23 pm 7 November 2014
I have just recently started this book so there's really nothing i can tell you at this moment except that there's this kid named Stanley Yelnats who's family lives in this apartment and that his dad is trying to find a cure for making stinky shoes smell good. He's trying all sorts of things but nothing has worked out for him just quite yet.
Don't Turn Around #3
1:43 pm 31 October 2014
I finished the book finally, but how it ended was really crazy! TO begin with Peter and Noa are together trying to find out all about this project people have been trying to do called PERSOPHONE. People who are interacted in the project are taking kids off the street because they think nobody cares about them anymore. So, Peter and Noa drive to this warehouse out in New Jersey. When they arrive, Peter leaves the keys in the car just in case something bad happens where they can just run back to the car, jump in and go. They jump over the fence and see that these two guys were on a crab boat and the two people in the crab boat go inside because its to cold by the rain. When they are in the warehouse, Noa goes into that same boat they were in and see these two coolers that have blood on the top of the lids. So she opes them and see's plastic wrapping in them. She starts to unwrap them and she finds a human foot and when she see's it she drops it because of the shock she got and the foot made a loud thump sound because it was frozen. So when they take off to the car, they get in and it turns out the keys are gone. Someone comes up to the window and dangles the keys in the passenger window and say's "needing these?" and it turns out it that the person who took the keys were sombody who is on Mason's team who are trying to capture those two. So the bad guy gets in the backseat and tells Peter to drive to this warehouse. When they arrive there, they both go inside and Dru (the bad guy) is talking to them in this room. All of a sudden the lights bust out and Noa and Peter get away. Then all of a sudden molitovs are being thrown. Noa and Peter are split and they never see eachother again, But they do still email eachother.
On my last post i told you how Mason doesn't do something without a reason. Well after that Peter's parents were really mad at him and his parents start to fight with each other. His dad is getting really furious about how Peter's mom spoils Peter by getting him whatever he wants and stuff like that and how Peter just goes behind their back and doesn't do what he is told. So his dad is just going off and he finally says "your other son wouldn't have acted like this" but the thing is is that Peter's brother died because of PEMA. So his mom gets really sad and the whole room just gets quiet. But once Peter hears that he gets really hurt inside and he goes up to his room, packs some of his stuff, and runs away by sneaking out of his bedroom window. He ends up going to his girlfriends, Amanda, dorm in the college, it ends up that she isn't there in her room yet but eventually she comes. But when she comes shes's walking with another guy named Dru. When Peter see's that, he gets mad and he questions Amanda about her and him when Dru leaves and they end up going into her room. Peter is trying to see if she was cheating on him but she always refuses and say's they are just friends. Peter ends up staying the night with Amanda because he has no where else to sleep, but the thing is is that he can't sleep. Peter randomly asks Amanda if they are still dating and Amanda hears his question but doesn't reply so Peter gets up, packs his stuff, and says "i loved you Amanda!" and she replies "I loved..." and Peter interrupts her and says "don't....just don't" then he leaves the dorm.
Don't Turn Around
The book I am presently reading is called Don't Turn Around by Michelle Gagnon. So far there are these two kids named Peter and Noa. They are both about the age of six-teen and the book starts off on how Noa wakes up in this abandoned boat warehouse on an operating table. When she wakes up she has no clue what has happened because she doesn't remember anything except walking on the sidewalk. Well when she wakes up she hears voices of doctors talking to each other in another room about how the head guy of the operation is gonna like what they found out. Noa tries to break out and when she does she's being chased by the doctors and there making up lies about how she was in a severe accident so she would stop running. Well when she is being chased, she runs out of the warehouse and she cute the bottom of her foot with glass but its not a severe gash and while the pain of her foot is slowing her down, her chest starts to hurt from where they cut her open. so she eventually outruns the doctors and she hides in a boat where they cant find her.So she finds a radio in the boat that works and she calls the fire department and tells them that there is a "fire" at this warehouse, which there isn't. So when the fire department shows up they check out the building so that's when Noa thinks she has a perfect time to escape, she climbs aboard the fire truck and when the fire crew is done checking, they take off with Noa on the truck. Now onto peter. Peter is a rich kid who is a geek with computers by hacking and is dating this girl named Amanda and his parents are into this project where know one can know about it. Well Peters parents take off and leave him at home all alone. So peter decides to go into his dads office and dig through his desk. peter first finds a bottle of whiskey that he ends up drinking. Later on he see's this folder that reads " PROJECT PERSOPHONE" and he starts to look up more about him and he tries to hack into the system. But the next thing he knows is that his door breaks down with a whole bunch of guys dressed in black. And then Peter gets thrown onto the ground with a knee in the back of his head and a guy named Mason takes his laptop and he tells Peter to let his parents know he stopped by. So now Peter is ticked and he calls his parents and he tells them what has happened and they are shocked and Peter asks "who is this guy anyways?" and his dad replies " don't woory about that right now. But what did u do because Mason doesn't do something unless he has a reason" and that's as far as i got
Burning Up #3
2:35 pm 26 September 2014
Well after my last blog, lots of things have changed that was going on in my book from then til now. To start off Macey and Austin are still having love connections with each other but the thing is is that Austin is having family issues with his parents having a type of divorce but it hasn't been settled yet. Macey on the other hand has kinda the same issue with her parents. Macey and Austin find someone who has pictures of the fire who put Mr. Wibley on the streets because people were racist back then. When they go meet the people with the pictures they were astonished by how everyone stood around and watch the fire go up in flames like nothing bad was happening. Sooner or later Austin got tired of missing his family so he gets a hold of his dad and he tells him that he wants to go back home. But instead Austin's Dad comes down to visit him and Austin tells Macey that he doesn't want to be involved with finding out who started the fire and he also tells Macey that he is going back home. So macey is heart broken because she doesn't want him to go home So now macey is stuck doing the research all by herself. But before anything happens she calls her mom who lives out of Conneticut that she needs her now. So Macey's parents go to her right away and they meet Macey at her Grandparents. When they get all settled Macey shows and her parents the pictures of the barn burning down and she questions them about it and they still try to change the subject when she asks but Macey won't let that happen again. Macey finally gets through her parents about telling the truth about what happened and they told her that they did nothing besides going back inside after seeing what was happening. Macey is upset with her parents that they didnt do anything, so Macey goes to the school library the next day and looks up phone numbers and right before the library closes, she finds the right number to call so she goes and finds a telephone in the school since they have at least six phones in the school. Well when shes done dialing the number and when someone on they other end says "hello?" she replies "is this Mr.Sibley" and then he replies "yes, this is him". So finally after all her hard work she finds the person she's been looking for.
So far after my last book log, Macey and Austin are still going around finding people who know about the fire in 1959. But instead of being turned down all the time their actually finding people who will actually tell them information about it. So their getting all excited especially Macey. Macey use to be a girl who use to love and care about the community, but after what some accidents happened such as the church starting on fire when they were painting, Macey became a person who just doesn't care about really anything except important things/people and she also doesn't care what people think of her. But on the other hand Austin is someone who just does his thing and when Macey asks him to do something, he just ends up doing anything she does because he's having a "special" connection with Macey so he loves to be around her. But overall those two kids are not gonna give up until they find out the true story about why the barn caught on fire.
My book that I'm reading is about this girl named Macey and she lives in this town in Connecticut. Well this boy named Austin moves in and she starts to like him in a crushing way. Well anyways she has to do this research paper in her history class so she decides to write about this barn that burned down in 1959 involving the first black guy who taught in the town back then, Mr.weebly, who lives in there. She goes around asking questions to people who lived long enough to witness the fire but none of them wants to answer the questions so she wonders if their trying to hide something. While she is so uptight with her history project one of her friends gets killed by a gang fight by a gun shot. So she has to learn her true colors in order to get along with people in the city. But she continues to learn more about the barn fire and the true story behind it.
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As their fathers were winegrowers and neighbors, they grew up together in the middle of the vines and never left each other since. Here is the story of a friendship that has been existing for almost 60 years.
Gilles Musset and Serge Roullier grew in La Pommeraye*, a town located in the south of Anjou where the rumor said that hundreds of now disappeared apple trees were planted many decades before their birth (*meaning: apple orchard). Both of them were sons of winegrowers, sat next to each other at school, neighbors and friends in real life.
When his studies were over in 1972, Serge Roullier joined his father’s winery called Domaine du Pélican; this family wine estate founded in 1920 and farming 14 hectares of vineyards, was specialized in producing wine in bulk and bottle made of Gamay noir, Grolleau, or Chenin.
On another side, Gilles founded his family Domaine du Chaumier wine estate in 1984 with his mother. They produced Crémant de Loire, Anjou Coteaux de la Loire, or medium rosé. As a connoisseur of Cabernet Franc, Gilles discovered his passion for vinification at that time.
Serge and Gilles were used to help each other and provided determining mutual support when both of their vineyards dramatically suffered from the frost in 1991.
At that time, they started to have grand plans for their wines and began to really consider the possibility to work together.
When their parents retired in 1993, the two friends merged their family boutique wine estates and founded Vignoble Musset-Roullier with Lydia Musset, Gilles’s wife. Their goal was obvious: let their passion, knowledge and skills express at best, in order to produce real gems to uncork served at prestigious tables. More ambitious than their parents who didn’t look for complexity, Gilles Musset and Serge Roullier wanted to produce terroir-driven and handcrafted wines, tasty, refined, and precise from the first sip.
To achieve at best this purpose, they started by dividing the tasks between them; to Serge, the mastery of vines and grapes, to Gilles the meticulousness of vinification.
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You can check it out if you want, but if you haven’t played Zelda, or you’re not at that point in the game, then it won’t mean much to you. Go to the left and pass between the pair of posts just to the left of the fire wall, and you can reach the switch. Dashing allows Link to traverse the environment by moving faster, running up walls to reach higher ledges, and is required for Links trademark somersault. You may need to backflip into the token to reach it. Well, it can be input-overload for the player and seem like handholding, and one mechanic may end up seeming unnecessary. The game designer gives the player an ability but the ability makes the player too powerful if it is used consistently, so the game designer gives the ability a cost from a restrictive resource. If a game designer is concerned about this, why not use both?
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Architecture notebook 10: Old Town Historic District, Huntsville, Ala.
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Halifax Central Library
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Third public consultation meeting for the Central Library: Sustainability to be discussed
For immediate release Monday, Aug. 23, 2010
The design process for the Halifax Central Library continues with the third meeting in a series of five public meetings on Wednesday, Aug. 25. The theme of the third meeting is: Let’s make the Halifax Central Library green and sustainable.
"One of the strongest themes we’ve heard at the public meetings so far is that people want this new library to be sustainable. People have told us they want to see things like natural light, lasting design and a green roof,” said George Cotaras, lead architect with Fowler, Bauld & Mitchell. “At Wednesday’s meeting we’ll discuss this further and share some of our ideas.”
Local firm Fowler Bauld & Mitchell (FBM) is the lead team on the design of the library. FBM have been responsible for a number of environmentally-innovative buildings in Halifax, including the LEED Silver-certified Citadel High, which uses steam from the adjacent QEII Hospital as the source of heating. FBM also designed the Dalhousie New Academic Building, which features a water source heat pump system, low-energy lighting systems and controls, low-water consumption washroom fixtures and hands-free controls at sinks as well as using the exposed concrete structure as thermal mass to reduce peak cooling and heating loads.
FBM’s partner is schmidt hammer lassen, a highly-regarded European firm with a reputation of creating sustainable and innovative public buildings. Design architect Morten Schmidt will discuss the design progress to date and explain how sustainability has informed the design of the library.
The design consultation phase is part of the total $57.6-million budget for the Central Library project. Future public meetings in the design consultation phase will take place on September 30 and November 4, when a design concept will be presented.
The green and sustainable-themed meeting will take place on Wednesday, August 25, from 7-9 p.m. at Pier 21, in Heritage Hall, 1055 Marginal Rd. Doors will open at 6:30 p.m. for a live flamenco guitar performance and tea and coffee. Staff-led sessions will happen simultaneously at the Keshen Goodman, Tantallon and Woodlawn branches. The meeting will also be broadcast live at halifaxcentrallibrary.ca For more information about the Central Library, visit halifaxcentrallibrary.ca For those unable to attend the public meetings, input about the Central Library can be given via Facebook, Twitter (@hfxpublib)or in person at any branch
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Instruments Information
Instrument types – Indian Music School
Raagas – Indian Music School
A hand drum is a type of drum that is played with bare hands instead of sticks, mallets, hammers, or other type of beaters. It comprises of one or more membranes stretched over a hollow body. Sounds are produced by striking the membrane, which is commonly called the head or skin.
The simplest type of hand drum is the frame drum, which is a shallow cylindrical shell with a drumhead attached to one its ends.
Hand drums assume different structures in different regions around the world. They also have unique names in each area. Following are popular type of hand drums across various countries:
Africa: Drums here are large and goblet shaped, called Djembe.
Brazil: Framed drums with metal jingles are most popular here and are called Pandeiro.
Cuba: Tall and narrow shaped drums are referred to as Tongos, while a set of two small drums are called Bongos.
India: Tabla is the most popular hand drum used here. It comprises of one small wood drum and one larger metal drum.
Ireland: Bodhran, a circular frame drum, is commonly played in this region.
Japan: Taiko consists of different variations of large-shell drums.
Middle East: Doumbek is a small goblet shaped hand drum which is common to its music culture.
North America: Circular frame drums called Hoop Drums have a significant presence here.
Peru: Cajon, which is essentially a wooden box is used to play music here.
Thailand: long goblet shaped drums here are referred as Klong Yao.
Hand drums in India
Even though the exact date when Indian drums first appeared is not clear, it is generally agreed that hand drums date back to at least 6,000 years. In the Sanskrit classic, Panchatantra (2OO BC), 49 types of rhythms are said to have existed. Ancient Indian sage and musician, Bharata Muni, claimed in his, now classic, Natya Shastra (200-400 BC) that music comprises of seven notes, three scales, twenty-one modulations, forty-nine rhythms and three speeds.
Types of popular hand drums in India
1.Tabla: The Tabla consists of two hand drums (dayan and bayan, which literally mean “left” and “right” respectively) whose tones complement each other. The dayan is slightly conical in shape and made of hollow wood such as teak, rosewood or oak. The head is made of a stretched and layered leather membrane, which is held in place by leather braces. The instrument is tuned by adjusting the tension with wooden pegs between the braces and the drum. The bayan is larger than the dayan and provides the bass.
2. Mridangam: The Mridangam is an ancient two-headed Indian hand drum with a wooden shell that is approximately 27 inches long. In Sanskrit the words ‘mrda’ and ‘anga’ refer to ‘clay’ and ‘body’, as a result of which, it’s generally accepted that this Indian drum was originally made of clay.
3. Ghatam: The Ghatam is a bulbou pot which is open at the top and has a narrow neck. The instrument resembles an ordinary clay pot, but is designed in a manner that makes it produce even tones. It can be positioned either on the lap, or on a table ring. It is played with both hands to strike the surface.
4. Kanjira: The kanjira is a frame drum which is used primarily in Carnatic music, in support of the mridangam. The wooden frame of the kanjira is about 8 inches, and is made using the jackfruit tree.
Other types of hand drums in India
1.Dhadd
2. Damaru
3. Dholak
4. Duggi
5. Ghumot
6. Khol
7. Maddale
8. Maram
9. Mizhavu
10. Pakhavaj
11. Panchamukha Vadyam
12. Madhalam
13. Tabla tarang
14. Thanthi Panai
15. Thimila
16. Tumbak
Dhadd
Damaru
Dhol or Dholak
Duggi
Ghumot
Khol
Maddale
Mizhavu kept in Mizhavana (wooden box made especially to keep the mizhavu).
Pakhavaj
Madhalam
Tabla tarang
Thanthi Panai
Thimila
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Nick Carter Turns Mexico Upside Down
Contributed by elgato:
Gamaliel Luna of Reforma.com reviewed Nick Carter’s concert at the Metropolitan Theatre in Mexico last week and concluded that the Backstreet Boys star “turned the Metropolitan upside down.” Nick returned to Mexico after coming to the country 2 months ago to promote his solo album ‘Now or Never.’ And the fans were ecstatic to have him back. Luna observed that “each time Nicholas (sic) Gene Carter visits Mexico he is surprised, like the first time, by the reception of his fans; and now it appears either as a soloist or as a member of the Backstreet Boys, he will begin or end his tours here, like he once claimed.” Nick, much slimmer now, addressed the crowd saying, “First and foremost let me introduce myself… I am Nick Carter and it’s great to be in Mexico again… I love tequila, do you like tequila?” He did the typical ‘Nick Carter’ stage antics: spraying the crowd with water, rapping, climbing the stage, etc. And the fans who were “completely aware of their hysteria, behaved in a manner without regard to the fact that they didn’t have earplugs, because for them all that mattered was to be in the world of the 23-year-old.” Aftr Nick’s set, there were “3,200 satisfied fans, 6,400 ears damaged, and an echo of “Nick, Nick, Nick” in the Metropolitan Theatre.”
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Justice in Jeopardy
Lady Justice has for ages donned a blindfold balancing the scales of truth and fairness. However have we been able to uphold her quintessential essence?
Our Judicial system is in doldrums. In March 2010, Justice V V Rao, erstwhile Andhra Pradesh High Court judge, is known to have said that it would take around 320 years to clear more than 31 million cases pending in the various courts across the country. Also, it was said at the time of independence by the then chief justice that around 5% of the judiciary is corrupt; the last chief justice raised the number to 65%! That certainly clears the picture, doesn’t it?
Earl Warren quoted ‘It is the spirit and not the form of law that keeps justice alive’; question is do we have the spirit? The state of affairs within India is not what our freedom fighters might have envisioned. However, here we are today, living in a society which is fragile with much to retrospect and improve upon; our judicial system certainly being one. Yes it needs a complete overhaul which we can proudly pass on.
Never ending wait for Justice!
If you file a lawsuit or are even indicted in one; it more or less goes on for the better part of your life. Needless to say if you are a politician or the progeny of a rich industrialist; it would only be a matter of days before you would be off to some foreign country under some false pretext while your lawyer keeps making appearances for you in the ‘temple of justice’. But if unfortunately you are a commoner; you would need to take time out of your struggle for a decent life to attend the proceedings; which believe me would go nowhere. That apart you would be looked at skeptically by those around you. Yes that pretty much sums up the judiciary and the so called ‘judicial system’ that we Indians inherited!
Is the talk of justice just a facade?
We have been witness to several incidents happening all around the country; cases of corruption or murder, going on for years but only a handful of those guilty being convicted. It’s a norm to see a glaring red ticker across our television screens, screaming breaking news every hour – rapes, murders, molestations, corruption, and a plethora of crime but seldom punishment. The predicament is so appalling that nobody fears the law as Justice in this country can be cheaply bought or easily abused.
Repulsive Judicial System!
Our Judicial structure is being taken advantage of; abused by those that commit heinous transgressions and break laws. The tale doesn’t end there; we have the judges and lawyers, with exceptions ofcourse, that have bartered their integrity for immoral and unethical benefits. To top it all we Indians have this innate quality to first break laws irrespective of its magnitude; then ridicule people, making their lives a living hell if entangled with the police and judiciary.
Apart from that our system repels witnesses and hence a lot of cases end up in the wrong spiraling loop as Langdale very aptly noted that ‘If witnesses are in this way deterred from coming forward in aid of legal proceedings, it would be impossible that justice can be administered. It would be better that the doors of the Courts of justice were at once closed.’
‘Laws are like cobwebs, which may catch small flies, but let wasps and hornets break through’- Jonathan Swift.
A few months back, a pregnant woman Kshama Chopra was killed when a BMW rammed the car she was travelling in. Do you recall what happened to the accused? He was granted bail by submitting a bond of Rs 50,000; yes the paltry price of lives of ordinary people these days. Doesn’t it poorly reflect on the mere context of ‘justice’ in our society today? Why is it so horribly easy to dodge and play with the laws in this country!
Justice Delayed is Justice Denied!!
Remember the Jessica Lal Murder, it was an open and shut case but it took around eleven years for the sentence to stand. Killed in the presence of ample witnesses, it took death of both her parents and complete upheaval of her sister’s life before some sort of justice could be done. Ofcourse, even that is debatable as Manu Sharma still gets parole at his whims and fancies. Faulty laws, most definitely! Infact the conviction came around when the media fought along with the family and the rest of the country for a valid outcome; doesn’t it make you wonder what would happen to you and me if entangled in this knotty judicial system?
A powerful and wealthy man in India is not guilty till charges are proved against him but similar is not the fate of hoi polloi like you and me. Our lives are as good as over the moment we get tangled in this messy trinity of courts, lawyers and investigative agencies. Is this what happens when the system is fault and bias free? I certainly think not!
Is our Judiciary truly independent?
Our Judiciary is supposed to be Independent of executive and legislative branches. Well is it really? What independence do we talk about where politics hinders a straight off execution of justice? Ajmal Kasab is the biggest example of what utter nonsense goes on within the Halls of Justice and how the political authorities of the country control it. He has been caught on camera killing innocent civilians; he was on a mission to carnage and by now should have been hanged for good! Would it be blasphemous to expedite his trial atleast to give a befitting answer to the blatant attack we were subjected to? If Sadam Husain could be executed why can’t Kasab? What is the Supreme Court waiting for to uphold his death penalty? This paralysis, this sheer inaction doesn’t it enunciate the despicable state of our Judiciary?
The fading light of Justice!
Ruma Pal a well known emissary of Indian Judicial system slammed the courts for what she christened ‘seven sins’. In her words, Injudicious conduct; hypocrisy; exploited secrecy; plagiarism and prolixity; self arrogance; professional arrogance and Nepotism is what is the decree of our judges and courts.
We have heard over and over again how there is the need for reforms; to enforce public belief in the system and to set the wrong to right. Generations have passed but the only thing that has happened is an increase in the backlog! Is it so hard to bring a change in India? Other nations have done it; why can’t we? Is it merely the scale of reforms that is required or is it that we just do not have the will to do it? Are we so apathetic towards such an important aspect of our life as citizens of this nation?
What is the need of the hour?
An efficient judiciary with unbiased and honest judges; an investigating agency that doesn’t harass the witnesses or anybody involved in the case; laws that cannot be evaded easily by those guilty and a system in which a lawsuit doesn’t become a family inheritance; a swift and competent judicial system- yes all these are ingredients that could pave way to an order we as a nation deserve. Will this ever be achieved or will it always remain a Utopian dream; I don’t know! But I certainly know that this will form the basis of a socio-political and legal system that will create the society that is most definitely the need of the hour.
Our Dream!!
Having said all that, I must also acknowledge that there is a section of the Judiciary which has still kept alive a glimmer of hope; that someday the system as a whole will mend its ways. We need the dawn when one doesn’t have to spend one’s entire life and still not see justice being done. We need the sun to rise on the horizon on a day when Justice is not anybody’s to buy. We need to awake and breathe in the air which is fragrant with the droplets of hope for a fairer society; for a just society and for a system in the form of our courts, lawyers and judges which upholds these.
Let us beckon an India where ‘Case Closed’ is heard more often and the guilty however powerful are punished! Let our Courts become Courts of Justice instead of Hollow Corridors of Confused Laws where equality stands tall as William Penn rightly said ‘Justice is justly represented blind, because she sees no difference in the parties concerned. She has but one scale and weight, for rich and poor, great and small.’
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Demo continues at a historic school site in Shaw
Kayla Clarke
Developers continue gutting the inside of Grimke School, which will hold the new African American Civil War Memorial Museum, office space, and residential living.
Developers in the Shaw neighborhood continue construction at a historic building that will house the new African American Civil War Memorial Museum.
Built in 1887, Grimke Elementary School once operated as a school but was later used for the DC Department of Corrections and the DC Fire and EMS.
On Sept. 9, Community Three Development Team began the demo phase, which is scheduled to be done by the end of the year.
The 9½ St. Initiative Project will redevelop Grimke School into office space and more.
“The program will consist of new offices and cultural uses, the African American Civil War museum new space and residential uses as well,” said Mwangi Gathinji, the vice president of development at Community Three.
The 13,000 square foot space at the bottom of the new building will hold the museum, which will separate into four exhibit spaces.
The four exhibits will focus on the Civil Rights Movement, the voting legacy of the U.S. Colored Trips, First Lady Michelle Obama’s Civil War ancestors and the causes and consequences of the Civil War.
Since the museum is expanding, they do plan to bring in more historical pieces.
The African American Civil War Museum was first opened in January 1999 but is now being permanently moved to Grimke School. The museum will face the East Side of Vermont. Ave. (Architectural drawing courtesy of the African American Civil War Museum)
“The museum will display voting booths from the Civil War, Civil War-era school books and multiple interactives throughout the new space including a searchable database for Civil War records,” said Edwin Gasaway, the Operations Manager at the African American Civil War Memorial Museum.
The project will consist of three total buildings: the Grimke School site building, the current annex building, which will be converted into work and living spaces, and a new residential building that will be six-stories consisting of 40 housing units and 12 of those affordable units at the rear site off the alley of 9 ½ St. NW, according to Gathinji.
Director and Curator of the American University Museum at the Katzen Arts Center John Rasmussen said that this move will bring the museum more visibility.
“Obviously it hasn’t been very visible before because I have never heard of it and I am surprised I have never heard of it, “Rasmussen said. “This is a great subject and I am glad they are doing a lot more work around the Civil War.”
Residents will be able to see the remodeled Grimke School Building in October 2020. The entire project will be completely finished in October 2021.
I am a multimedia journalist based in Washington, D.C., with a passion for innovative methods such as infographics and design. I am pursuing my Master's degree at American University in journalism and public affairs.
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Review: Oratory - Inner Pyre
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Inner Pyre
Genre: Death Metal
Review online: May 31, 2022
Reviewed by: Michel Renaud
Rated 4/5 (80%) (3 Votes)
This is Oratory’s debut EP and it’s on the short side at just under 11 minutes, but it’s probably better that was because it packs a hell of a punch in that short running time. The vocals are more shouted than growled and sound a bit hellish by not being too forward in the mix and the result is great. There’s heaviness aplenty here, especially when things are slow to mid-paced, that crushing feeling that’s pretty addictive, largely courtesy of sharp and heavy guitar work. I found all three songs pretty catchy and there are some thrash and doomier influences here as well as hints of just straightforward heavy metal. I hear a lot of death metal, but Oratory have something here that’s different from "the usual" and doesn’t have that feeling of deja vu, and that’s saying something in a crowded genre.
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