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OK, September 7

Cover Story -- Cher’s dream wedding at 74

Page 1: Big Pic -- Katy Perry got dolled up in an array of funky ensembles to promote her song What Makes a Woman

Page 2: Contents

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Page 4: Melissa McCarthy thriving at 50 -- after her milestone birthday Melissa’s opening up about how she overcame hardships to come out on top

Page 5: For years Prince William and wife Duchess Kate Middleton have watched from the sidelines as Prince Harry and Meghan Markle have dominated headlines but the couple are finally ready to tell their side of the story in a sit-down TV interview -- it won’t be a scandalous interview but it will certainly right a few wrongs and misconceptions

Page 6: As Drew Barrymore gears up for her talk show premiere she’s counting on her famous friends to bring in more viewers, as Kim Kardashian and Kanye West struggle to keep their marriage afloat Caitlyn Jenner has been sending them well-wishes but Kim would rather Caitlyn just keep her lips zipped -- Kim’s told everyone to keep their opinions to themselves while she works through this crisis one-on-one with Kanye but Cait’s been sounding off and telling anyone who’ll listen how she believes he’s gotten a raw deal, Chrishell Stause is out to destroy ex Justin Hartley’s reputation and his new romance with Sofia Pernas -- Chrishell is bitter and is calling out Justin as a liar and a cheater and telling friends that his new girlfriend should be careful

Page 10: Red Hot on the Red Carpet -- stars sparkle in champagne hues -- Elizabeth Chambers, Angela Bassett, Kim Kardashian West

Page 11: Jennifer Lopez, Scarlett Johansson

Page 12: Who Wore It Better? Thandie Newton vs. Georgia May Jagger

Page 16 -- News in Photos -- Cara Santana celebrated her birthday on the beach in Malibu

Page 18: Rita Ora vacationing in Corfu in Greece, Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson and his daughters Jasmine and Tiana, Pete Wentz plays tennis

Page 20: Nick Barrotta got in a workout while shooting scenes for The Oval, Ireland Baldwin spent the day at the beach with her uncle Stephen Baldwin

Page 21: Sofia Richie paddleboarding, Alessandra Ambrosio playing volleyball, Gavin Rossdale takes a shirtless stroll on the beach

Page 23: RHOBH star Brandi Glanville helping wash a friend’s car, Adam Sandler shooting hoops on the street

Page 24: Inside My Home -- Brittany Snow’s selling her home in Studio City for $2.7 million

Page 26: The Property Brothers double baby joy -- Drew Scott and his wife Linda Phan are finally expecting and his twin Jonathan Scott’s girlfriend Zooey Deschanel is also pregnant

Page 27: Ben Affleck is being kept on a tight leash by girlfriend Ana de Armas as she wants to know where Ben goes and who he’s with at all times and she gave him a 9 p.m. sharp curfew, Rachael Ray and husband John Cusimano have found a silver lining in the wake of their devastating house fire as it made them appreciate what really matters most is each other so for their 15th anniversary they’re going to renew their vows with a few added words inspired by what they’ve learned in the aftermath of this tragedy, Bindi Irwin and husband Chandler Powell already have themselves a cash cow in their unborn child because the demand for an interview with Bindi and Chandler about their pregnancy news is huge right now and they’ve learned from her mom Terri Irwin that cashing in at the right time is key plus they could really use some extra money right now since the family business Australia Zoo isn’t doing so well

Page 28: Ever since Melanie Griffith got word that ex Antonio Banderas had tested positive for Covid-19 she has made it her mission to help nurse him back to health by calling at all hours and texting him with tons of advice to keep his strength up and although Antonio appreciates her acts of kindness his girlfriend Nicole Kimpel feels the two are getting too close for comfort especially since she’s been at his side throughout the ordeal, while the rest of the world is in chaos Cameron Diaz and Benji Madden are keeping cool calm and collected as they dote on daughter Raddix and Cameron is looking for answers about how to raise a child in these crazy times and she’s found crystals and psychics to be so helpful, Love Bites -- Chrissy Teigen and John Legend are expecting baby no. 3, Miley Cyrus and Cody Simpson split, Jesse Metcalfe and Corin Jamie Lee Clark are dating

Page 29: Meg Ryan and John Mellencamp ended their on-off romance last October and John moved on with Jamie Sherrill but lately Meg has been blowing up John’s phone and he’s happily answering -- Meg’s recent move to Montecito in California brought her closer to John who’s been in L.A. a lot more since that’s where Jamie’s skincare business is -- John thinks Jamie is a lovely lady but he and Meg are soulmates and it’s a matter of when not if they’ll get back together

Page 30: Cover Story -- Cher is getting married -- the legendary star is set to stay I Do to her 27-year-old rocker beau

Page 34: Lifestyles of the Young and Famous -- the plush and pampered lives of billion-dollar celebrity kids -- North West, Emme Muniz

Page 35: Blue Ivy Carter, Harper Beckham, Princess Charlotte

Page 36: Louis Bullock, Penelope Disick, Shiloh Jolie-Pitt

Page 37: Moroccan and Monroe Cannon, Apple Martin, Mom Knows Best -- a few of the best mommas in Hollywood -- Jennifer Garner, Reese Witherspoon, Gwen Stefani

Page 38: Interview -- Selena Gomez dishes it out

Page 40: How Cindy Crawford stays in tip-top shape

Page 41: Like Mother, Like Daughter -- Kaia Gerber is a chip off the old block in the health and wellness department

Page 44: Style Week -- Megan Thee Stallion is Revlon’s new face

Page 46: Run errands in style with a superchic totally sleek tiny phone purse -- Zoey Deutch

Page 47: 5 minutes with Tiffani Thiessen

Page 48: Fashion -- the classic post earring gets a bold and stylish upgrade -- Margot Robbie

Page 50: Beauty -- beauty booty from around the world

Page 52: Entertainment

Page 53: Fall TV preview, Q&A with Mister E

Page 58: Buzz -- in living color -- these stars recently transformed their dresses -- Jesse Williams goes blue, Lady Gaga in green called Ocean Blonde, Jim Parsons goes blond

Page 59: Emily Ratajkowski goes blonde, Sarah Hyland goes red, Faith Hill goes pink, Joe Jonas goes platinum, Ariel Winter goes blonde, Gigi Hadid goes darker, Kaia Gerber goes pink

Page 60: Sound Bites -- Olivia Colman on portraying Queen Elizabeth II on The Crown, Andy Cohen on which Real Housewives he’d trust to babysit his son Ben, Angelina Jolie on quarantining with her six kids, Luke Bryan roasting pal Blake Shelton

Page 61: Adele responding to a fan who asked when she’d be releasing her next album, Jennifer Aniston on playing a celebrity news anchor on The Morning Show, David Arquette on teaming up with ex Courteney Cox for Scream 5, Kelly Ripa to daughter Lola on her habit of stealing her mom’s crop tops

Page 62: Horoscope -- Virgo Zendaya turned 24 on September 1

Page 64: By the Numbers -- Olivia Culpo

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stevecoleridge-posts · 4 years

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Day 6 ..Friday Struggling .. which is why i did nt see the news or spend time on Social Media yesterday.. I thought it would be a breeze and after a little concentration id have it down .. but no , even the first part…known as lumpedy lump was proving tough , because of the triplet walk up from the V to the 1.. and i think thats the part Jimmy Reed himself is playing… If you ve read previous episodes you will know i refer to Honest I Do….the song. Im learning it on a You Tube lesson , now a lot of people who think of themselves as pros , seem to think there s some sort of stigma ro learning stuff on You Tube, but i know a French guy , of Spanish descent , who is a really hot Flamenco guitarist who has mastered nearly all the Palos , and all on You Tube They are right, if you dedicate yourself to different songs at the same time, but it s like working form home…you need time and discipline ..and take the lessons very slowly and don’t move on till you can play it 20 times with your eyes shut..preferably standing up .. then move on up. Yesterday was the first time i managed to do this. There is a different tone on Social media today .. angrier , more prone to blame others, more censorious…and on one group forum i saw they were going to ban Humour..well , i don’t personally know the Group leader.. but it does nt take much imagination to know she s not someone you d want to be quarantined with. The only thing to fear is fear itself.. well i certainly don’t think that applies in this situation, quite the reverse, the more frightened we are the less we will venture forth on errands that are not strictly necessary..i was on my way out the door , literally, when my mobile rang…it was the charming woman from the bank.. she d got my message .. id gone way over my limit.. which was why i could nt withdraw funds…She , and i won’t name her, is working from Home and sorted it all out on her laptop..no need for me to go to town.. Is nt that great?..well , I thought it was..and a good thing too,as she has not been provided with any masks..and we are talking about a Bank..if they cant get basic stuff like that no wonder the Government are nt testing people .. they don’t have the wherewithal…it is nt as though this has nt been on the News everyday since December the something. .I remember listening to Radio Four as i was driving through Slough, in December,… don’t ask … the M4 was closed..and i was listening to a woman in Wuhan describing how her parents were dying in the Street.. that really got my attention. It did nt seem to get the attention of the people in charge here however, as when the inevitable arrived nearly three months later , they had done nothing to prepare for it. The Spanish Disease is politics, it creeps into every corner of life and spreads its poison , a bit like you know what,..and in the past when people got fed up with their venal politicians there was a Military Coup , and then they realised maybe life was better before with democracy … and the cycle starts again. This model has been exported successfully to Latin America.. with the possible exception of Mexico. and Costa Rica Its all very well for us stodgy Northerners with our bad weather , to criticise, but Sun affects people,and when things are good they seem so much better in the Sunshine..but something about Sunny weather produces Volatility, and an @ i won’t fix the roof as its not raining @ World View… and Italys colossal death rate is the price to be paid .. not that it is nt sunny in China..or South Korea..but they do a lot more than just fix the roof..and to put it down to Confucianism .. well maybe best not to start on that. Australia will be interesting, they have lots of sun , but its a pretty organised place ..and i don’t see them making this sort of Balls up.. also they have the experience of natural disasters,,and pulling together, and will not let Politics interfere…any country that had leaders with names like Abbott and Costello doesn’t waste too energy on petty politics. The Current Classic example of petty minded, spiteful, pointless, negative ,oppurtunism , is the attempt on social media and what sup groups to denigrate the Royal Family organising people to rattle saucepans at a given time, because apparently the current King s father had a rather large amount of money in a Swiss Account..well, it was Saudi Money , not money stolen from the Spanish taxpayer, unlike the billions stolen by the previous administration , the PP .The idea for this stupidity was inspired by the Custom of applauding the Medical profession every night at eight o clock.. an excellent morale boosting , bringing everyone together kind of gesture..well everything has its opposite and this is an excellent way to breed more discontent and fracture an all ready pretty fractured society.. it beggars belief and you really have to have lived here to see these Barca Madrid idiocies at first hand. Barca Madrid is a term used to describe the divide and conquer ,us and them , attitudes that have stopped Spains progress since the collapse of their Empire, culminating in the most vicious Civil War in recent European History, and one would have hoped that after 40 plus years of Democracy it would have disappeared , but sadly, like in the USA and a lot of other democracies , it seems to be on the increase.The anger on Social Media which results from the claustrophobic frustration of a lockdown will hopefully not boil over into something with unpleasant political consequences, which would be very sad , as after Francos death and the adoption of constitution that is the envy of many countries, Spain was a beacon of hope in the last quarter of the 20 th century… how the mighty are fallen .. one hopes not.. SPANISH LOCKDOWN DAY 7 Slept really well , but then I remember reading that people on Death row sleep 16 hours a day so possibly not a good sign. Last Night i watched the Spanish news ,on the main channel and things are looking up , relatively speaking, in the sense that testing has arrived ..someone, or some country, has sent several thousand, or may be half a million test kits.. which is obviously excellent news , and testing in Galicia is going full steam ahead. There was the obligatory item about a vaccine..which I think one can take with a pinch of salt. .Military erecting field hospitals next to various main hospitals…the eight o clock applause of medical staff…all in all well put together not too desperately pessimistic, and generally not as disheartening as Facebook.. afterwards i felt like some light relief so we watched eleven episodes of 2 and half men, in Spanish ,to cheer ourselves up before going to bed. .. Today i decided to live a normal day .. if such a thing were possible , so , after taking Tina for a walk i got the Old TV and DVD working and put on Marty Schwarz s Intermediate Blues Guitar Course part one…and it started raining .. so that was encouraging as it took away any temptation to venture outside.. except for firewood that is. I worked through the course without rushing , but also without too much pausing , as i d done those lessons before, and all that repetition of Honest I do is paying off.. On going outside for firewood i could not ignore the noise of the generator that kicked in yesterday evening, as we ve had not Sun for several days, so i decided to fill it up with diesel, and see how much 15 hours constant running had used,only half the 20 litre can to fill up the tank…but was it full to begin with?..anyway it s very rare to have 4 days without sun , so even if it did use 13 euros of diesel Im not going to freak out as that was expensive diesel.. and I’m entitled to use the cheaper stuff .Of cause i spilled Diesel over my hands , and shoes , and when i spent a good 5 minutes trying to wash the smell out i realised this was the ultimate anti virus test.. so i will leave a bowl of Diesel outside every time i go to town and use that as first part of the disinfection process , yet another excuse not to go to town. My neighbour M. rang and suggested i look at his scheme on Facebook to institute Food Deliveries , so one does nt have to go to the Supermarket in person and infect and be infected… a good idea of course , but like so many , i don’t see it happening…I pointed out several objections , lack of drivers, expense, one would need a sort of Uber program which will probably not be ready for a year .. etc..and the Supermarkets are making so much money i doubt they need this sort of input.I promised to look at it later , which I will , as Lunch was ready. We ve run out of Bread ,Oranges and Chocolate, Aurora has broken a nail and the nail bars are closed till further notice…but otherwise we can probably get through till Monday without suffering too much ..on the other hand Monday is probably the worst day to go shopping..Im toying with the idea of going to the small Supermarket, at 8 am Sunday morning, and hopefully having it to myself , as i cant face the idea of a queue. I know English people are supposed to love queueing but i must be an exception, and queuing nowadays is a High Risk Activity. The Sun is out and i did one of the jobs from a month old to do list… pumping the water out the flooded pump room , it all went very well , and i felt very worthy , and now , with the Sunshine it s time for a walk , with Tina , of course. I return , feeling optimistic .. and the phone rings, i assume it s my neighbour asking if I’ve read his article.it isn’t , it s C another near neighbour, with some very bad news . The police are in Quarantine…and the Army will soon be here. No Tobacco..as they will close the Tobacconist. A completely different ball game I rang M, and gave him the news…I f he d had a kalashnikov he d have been checking the magazine I rang another neighbour F, whose office is next to the Police Station , to warn him. .When the Rumour , comes to your Town , It Grows and Grows, Where it Started No-one Knows…*Robbie Robertson I rang my source in the Town Hall G…no , it s only one cop , and he has nt got the results yet.. I rang M again…he had spoken to his friend who is a Guardia Civil .no , it was nt a Cop it was a Guardia Civil..he also told me the Cuban woman who cleans houses had been stopped, by the Police and they checked the receipt for her shopping I rang the first neighbour and corrected the original story I opened Facebook .. and there was the original story , which had started a firestorm of comments along the likes of whats your source? etc as though we were in the Watergate hearings, not only that, the people reading the story imagined it referred to Mojacar , not Carboneras , and were all frantically ringing the Police Staion , The Town Hall and each other to see if it were true. The tones of the respective comments went from shrill outrage that anyone should suggest such a story without due documentation , to fear , to I knew this would happen, all these irresponsible idiots .. blah blah It began to increasingly resemble an episode of Dads Army with a false alarm about a German Landing.., which Facebook does anyway There is the Captain Mainwaring..@While i was out today making sure everyone was behaving themselves i saw these irresponsible panic shoppers, and these people walking around without a good reason @ The Fraser .. We Re Doomed The Air raid Warden…Its all the fault of the Ruling Class, and rules are rules etc Jones ..Dont Panic... in a tone of complete hysteria Pikes mother…Be sure to wear your gloves , motorcycle helmet , hazchem suit, mask..galoshes, .Do you have your hand sanitiser , all clothes must be burnt on reentry etc By this time Auroras original alarm had been replaced by hilarity, as she was sitting by the fire hearing one side of these conversations.. I went out for some more wood and we relaxed by watching a Documentary about the Boeing 737 MAX..complete with simulation in the Pilots cockpit The best part was the CEO of Boeing trying to justify his 30 million Dollar salary at a Congressional hearing..…i wondered what the Shareholders thought about that , i know what the victims families thought , as they were being interviewed and did nt sound too impressed

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rajkot-patrika · 5 years

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Ride-hailing service Shopicab is commencing its operations in Pune

Namaste India! We are glad to announce the launch of our operations in your city. Whether you need to make a business trip, a factory visit or run errands within the city, you can now count on Shopicab to get you there!

Shopicab the online cab booking has already commenced driver on-boarding in Pune and Kolkata.

Introducing Shopicab, a superior cab service with a motto of “Customers First” coupled with on-time services and low fares, ride after ride.

Shopicab will offer you reliable and affordable transportation options for everyone, everywhere at the tap of a button.

Over the years, commuters have not been offered stress-free alternatives nor has the industry been able to unlock the potential of ridesharing in India. Get ready; we are coming, now you no longer have to worry about booking a car in advance and coordinating multiple times with the driver. Just open your Shopicab app and get a car at the tap of a button.

Shopizio E-Commerce Ltd., the group company of Shopicab, has successfully established itself over the course of 25 years in Kolkata and is now here in Pune to set new standards as “cab booking aggregator” catering timely pick and drop, pocket-friendly as loaded with discounts, unique business model and innovative tech app.

Shopizio E-Commerce Limited incorporated its operations on 6th March 1995 in Kolkata and is registered with Ministry of Corporate Affairs and is the group company with subsidiaries in cab aggregator services, Agro Commodity trading, tele-shopping, Food Supplement Products, IT services & ITES, BPO, International Staffing & E- Commerce Marketplace.

Shopizio takes pride in mentioning that it is a “Debt Free Company” from its inception in 1995 till current day and is in the process of listing it equity shares on the BSE - SME exchange in the coming months.

Mr. Chittaranjan Roy – Managing Director & Promoter of Shopicab said, “The Company is launched with the sole purpose of bringing customers and drivers on a latest user-friendly mobile technology platform, ensuring convenient, safe, affordable, and comfortable personal transport for commuters. Shopicab is concentrating on leveraging the best technology and building innovative mobility solutions from scratch, which are going to be instrumental in revolutionizing the market by taking the commuting experience to an unprecedented level.

He appended, “In line with achieving set “GOALS”, within timelines, we invite investors to partner our success by funding our growth i.e. Venture capitalists, Angel Investors, Car Manufacturers, Law firms, Investment bankers and other strategic collaborators, are most welcome to join the journey.”

Shopicab app is for Android as well as iOS devices and uses Geo-location services to show the location of the cabs in real-time, enabling users to actually see their position and call for them immediately.

What make Shopicab stand out?

Team Shopicab has evolved strategies enabling us to stand- out with an industrial edge in our business segment, some unique highlights are :

● No surge pricing

● Customer-first approach

● 24X7 Helpline

● Innovative app

● Fares as low as Rs. 7.00 per Kilometer

● Safety ensured rides

● Latest GPS technology installed in every vehicle.

● Dedicated pick up and drop facilities for school students

● Ambulance services

● CCTV in each vehicle

● Eco-friendly operations

● Electric Mobility

● Pink Car’s - Women empowerment

● Specialized training for drivers

● Clean Cabs

● On- Time Cabs

● Multiple Payment Options

● ShopiCab Wallet

● Automated Instant Invoice

● Best Rated & Trained Drivers

● Skill Development of the drivers in association with various Government initiatives

● Corporate responsibility towards Cab drivers and their associates by providing them with accommodation, food mess, training, Insurance and medical insurance, car washing & Maintenance, Educational Facilities for their Children & many other initiatives to make their lives meaningful.

For Pune, Shopicab will have an interesting fleet of cars that include Hyundai i20, Renault Kwid, Datsun Go, Toyota Innova, Nissan Sunny etc.

The Market Size

Smartphone Penetration - In 2013 - 6% and May 2019 – 28% in metro cities, the penetration reached 60%-65% by Q1-2015.That is when and where the revolution of on-demand taxis began in India.

Penetration of app-based taxi services is only about 2 % (expected to hit 2.9 percent by 2023)

Indian Taxi Market -The Indian taxi market size was estimated at 1.9 million taxis estimated to generate $10 -$ 11 Billion revenue in 2019.

Unorganized Market -The unorganized small fleet operators account for ~91% market share in terms of registered taxi fleet. The arrival of on-demand taxi players has helped organize this market to a great extent.

Unique selling Proposition of Shopicab

No Surge pricing, Installation of CCTV, Introduction of a few ‘Pink Cab’s’ with women drivers ensuring safety of women passengers, Introduction of ‘Green Cab’ and Electric Mobility, robust lost-and found centre and many other innovative features in the offer to delight the commuter’s mobility.

On the financial front we are projecting a cumulative first 5 year’s gross billings to commuter’s of Rs. 18442 Cr with our “Net Effective Take” pegged at Rs 2766 Cr and a negative PAT of 180 Cr.

Early stage Funding – To Kick start the projects we are seeking funding of Rs. 25 crores either from angel, VC, QIB, Investment funds and other collaborator’s with vested business interests.

In further funding rounds we will be seeking Rs 175 crores to expand our operation to a total of 75 cities.

The exit options proposed to reward our investors would be either listing of shares, private placement, buy back option, Merger or acquisition.

To join forces for being a part of ShopiCab’s success, the company is inviting PE/VC, Angel Investors, HNIs, Car Manufacturers/ Dealers, Law/CA/CS/CMA Firms, Investment Bankers, FIIs, FDI, QS, QIBs, Brokers, Portfolio Managers and other Strategic Collaborators

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flash--news · 5 years

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Ride-hailing service Shopicab is commencing its operations in Pune

Shopicab the online cab booking has already commenced driver on-boarding in Pune and Kolkata.

Introducing Shopicab, a superior cab service with a motto of “Customers First” coupled with on-time services and low fares, ride after ride.

Shopicab will offer you reliable and affordable transportation options for everyone, everywhere at the tap of a button.

What make Shopicab stand out?

Team Shopicab has evolved strategies enabling us to stand- out with an industrial edge in our business segment, some unique highlights are :

● No surge pricing

● Customer-first approach

● 24X7 Helpline

● Innovative app

● Fares as low as Rs. 7.00 per Kilometer

● Safety ensured rides

● Latest GPS technology installed in every vehicle.

● Dedicated pick up and drop facilities for school students

● Ambulance services

● CCTV in each vehicle

● Eco-friendly operations

● Electric Mobility

● Pink Car’s - Women empowerment

● Specialized training for drivers

● Clean Cabs

● On- Time Cabs

● Multiple Payment Options

● ShopiCab Wallet

● Automated Instant Invoice

● Best Rated & Trained Drivers

● Skill Development of the drivers in association with various Government initiatives

For Pune, Shopicab will have an interesting fleet of cars that include Hyundai i20, Renault Kwid, Datsun Go, Toyota Innova, Nissan Sunny etc.

The Market Size

Smartphone Penetration - In 2013 - 6% and May 2019 – 28% in metro cities, the penetration reached 60%-65% by Q1-2015.That is when and where the revolution of on-demand taxis began in India.

Penetration of app-based taxi services is only about 2 % (expected to hit 2.9 percent by 2023)

Indian Taxi Market -The Indian taxi market size was estimated at 1.9 million taxis estimated to generate $10 -$ 11 Billion revenue in 2019.

Unique selling Proposition of Shopicab

Early stage Funding – To Kick start the projects we are seeking funding of Rs. 25 crores either from angel, VC, QIB, Investment funds and other collaborator’s with vested business interests.

In further funding rounds we will be seeking Rs 175 crores to expand our operation to a total of 75 cities.

The exit options proposed to reward our investors would be either listing of shares, private placement, buy back option, Merger or acquisition.

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comicsxaminer · 5 years

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“No endgame for Spidey—he’s flying higher than ever!” – Peter Travers, ROLLING STONE

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COMPLETE YOUR COLLECTION WITH SPECIAL FEATURES INCLUDING AN ORIGINAL SHORT, NEVER-BEFORE-SEEN ALTERNATE AND EXTENDED SCENES AND MUCH MORE!

CULVER CITY, Calif. (September 3, 2019) – The billion dollar blockbuster, SPIDER-MAN: FAR FROM HOME, comes home on Digital September 17 and on 4K Ultra HD Combo Pack, Blu-ray Combo Pack, and DVD on October 1 from Sony Pictures Home Entertainment. From Spider-Man: Homecoming Director, Jon Watts, comes a global adventure for everyone. SPIDER-MAN: FAR FROM HOME is now the biggest Spider-Man film of all time!

Tom Holland returns as everyone’s favorite web-slinger in SPIDER-MAN: FAR FROM HOME, the next chapter after Spider-Man: Homecoming. Our friendly neighborhood wall-crawler decides to join his best friends Ned, MJ, and the rest of the gang on a European vacation. However, Peter’s plans to leave super heroics behind for a few weeks are quickly scrapped when he begrudgingly agrees to help Nick Fury uncover the mystery of several elemental creature attacks! Spider-Man and Mysterio (Jake Gyllenhaal) join forces to fight the havoc unleashed across the continent but all is not as it seems.

SPIDER-MAN: FAR FROM HOME stars Tom Holland (Spider-Man: Homecoming) as Peter Parker, Samuel L. Jackson (Avengers: Endgame) as Nick Fury, Jon Favreau (The Lion King) as Happy Hogan, Zendaya (“Euphoria”) as MJ, and Jake Gyllenhaal (Nightcrawler) as Mysterio.

The Blu-ray, DVD, Digital, and 4K Ultra HD release arrives filled with bonus materials for the whole family including a special short, alternate and extended scenes, gag reels and Easter Eggs! Additional special features include Teachers’ Travel Tips with Mr. Harrington and Mr. Dell and interviews with the cast and crew focused on stunts and location in The Jump Off and Far, FAR, From Home. Explore how Spider-Man was introduced in the MCU in Stepping Up and get a closer look at the special chemistry between Jon Watts and Tom Holland in It Takes Two. Fans will want to dive into The Ginter-Riva Effect, Thank You, Mrs. Parker and Now You See Me features for more character focused details. The 4K Ultra HD also features Dolby Vision and Dolby Atmos audio.

SPIDER-MAN: FAR FROM HOME is directed by Jon Watts (Spider-Man: Homecoming) and written by Chris McKenna and Erik Sommers and based on a Marvel Comic book by Stan Lee and Steve Ditko. The film is produced by Kevin Feige and Amy Pascal. Executive Producers are Louis D’Esposito, Victoria Alonso, Thomas M. Hammel, Eric Hauserman Carroll, Rachel O’Connor, the late Stan Lee, Avi Arad and Matt Tolmach.

SPIDER-MAN: FAR FROM HOME has a run time of approximately 129 minutes and is rated PG-13 for sci-fi action violence, some language and brief suggestive comments.

Bonus Materials Include:

New Original Short, Peter’s To-Do-List: Peter has a few errands to run before he can leave on his class trip.

Teachers’ Travel Tips: Mr. Harrington & Mr. Dell present a few tips on how to traverse the European continent.

Stepping Up: Explore how Spider-Man was introduced in the MCU, the ways Tom Holland transformed the character of Peter Parker, and what the future holds for Spider-Man.

Suit Up: The suit doesn’t make the hero – but it does play a big role in who they are and who they can become. This piece examines all of Peter’s different suits in the movie, and with behind the scenes footage, we see why some suits are better than others.

Far, FAR, Far from Home: The film’s illustrious locations serve story points and establish tone, but they’re also amazing to travel to! Hear from the cast on their experiences filming on-location.

It Takes Two: A special look at the chemistry between Jon Watts and Tom Holland.

Fury & Hill: MCU stalwarts Cobie Smulders and Samuel L. Jackson are back as Agent Maria Hill & Nick Fury!

The Ginter-Riva Effect: A look at the villain sub-plot and how William Ginter-Riva ties Spider-Man: Far From Home all the way back to the beginning of the MCU.

Thank You, Mrs. Parker: A look at Marisa Tomei’s reimagining of Aunt May, from Homecoming to Far From Home.

The Brother’s Trust: A quick look into some of the amazing work Tom Holland and his brothers have done through their charity, The Brothers Trust.

The Jump Off: Interviews with the cast & crew take us through all of the amazing stunts of Far From Home.

Now You See Me: We examine the evolution of Mysterio and why Jake Gyllenhaal was the perfect fit for the role.

Stealthy Easter Eggs: Allow E.D.I.T.H. to reveal some of the hidden Easter Eggs you may have missed!

Select Scene Pre-Vis: A side by side comparison of the Pre-Vis with the film

Gag Reel & Outakes

Never-Before-Seen Alternate & Extended Scenes

SPIDER-MAN: FAR FROM HOME Comes To Digital This September And 4K Ultra, Blu-Ray In October! “No endgame for Spidey—he’s flying higher than ever!” - Peter Travers, ROLLING STONE THE BIGGEST SPIDER-MAN MOVIE EVER…

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Viewing Party

So the other night @ooo-barff-ooo and I were talking about how much we loved our TRR MCs, Claire Berkley and Joanna Malone, and how it would be cool if they were friends and I was like well what if they were and then this happened.

Without further ado, I give you the ultimate friendship of C and J, getting drunk together and watching everyone’s favorite fairy tale on live television: The Royal Romance- Liam and Riley’s wedding.

FEATURING: JOANNA MALONE, CLAIRE BERKLEY, AND DAN DAN THE BARTENDER MAN.

“See you tomorrow, Dan,” Claire called from behind the bar. “Same bat time, same bat place.” He said over his shoulder. He gave a one handed wave and strode toward the front door and sweet freedom. He’d been there since 11 am and it was approaching midnight- the joys of working a double shift- and he was due for another one in the morning, so he couldn’t get out of there fast enough. Claire had come in at 5pm, and would sling drinks until last call at 4am, when the shift workers and doctors and construction guys and fisherman had had either thier first or last drinks of the night. Joanna would open, Dan would pull the double, and Claire would close. That was the general flow.

Tonight, though, was not a general night. At roughly 5 am EST the most anticipated marriage of the year would be televised live- the Cordonian Royal Wedding-New York bartender Riley Brooks was rising to the rank of queen as she married future king Liam Rys after falling in love with him in the most modern of Cinderella stories: she took out the trash at his bachelor bash and ended up stealing his heart and his hand.

Claire checked on her ten or so customers, making sure that all of their glasses were full before slipping into the closet they called a kitchen. There was a single basket fryer, a flat top that could fit no more than four frozen burger patties, and a coffee maker. She reached for the can of Folger's on the top shelf and scooped some of it into the brew basket before jamming it into the machine and pressing "start". She leaned against the counter ledge as she waited for the deep brown liquid to fill the little clear pot, pulling her phone from her apron to text Joanna.

-Hey girl, you're stopping for snacks right? I'm starving.

Jo had been off from work since 5pm when Claire got in. She'd gone home and taken a nap before running a few errands for the viewing party they'd been planning ever since they saw that first tabloid article about the Prince choosing his bride. Claire and Jo were not the type of girls who would normally get so involved in the billion dollar weddings of fancy rich nobles and dignitaries around the world- hell they had been invited to Steve's wedding- a guy they used to work with and actually knew without the need for magazine or television coverage- and despite their manager saying that they could close the bar for a night so everyone could go to the wedding, Claire and Jo declined, not really liking Steve...or weddings. "I have a school thing that night...um...presentation. Of my...thesis," Jo had said. She was working on her Master's degree while slaving at Keagan's, so her excuse seemed to work, even though it was a summer course and she wouldn't actually be working on her thesis for another five months. "And um, I have an...appointment that afternoon that....I can't reschedule..." Claire chimed in her thinly veiled excuse. She did have an appointment...for hair color...and she'd really rather not reschedule it just to go sit at Steve's wedding. But this wedding, dubbed "The Royal Romance" by the media, was a different story, namely for who would be standing next to the Prince as he said his "I do's".

-Um, did you see the pictures of the Prince's friend? The dude with the hair and the eyebrows and the denim? He's all the snack we need, C. (but yes I also got snacks for eating)

Claire laughed at Jo's response, typed out a quick one back saying how excited she was, and then poured herself a large black coffee before heading back to the bar to finish up her shift. As the last patron stumbled out the door and it shut with a tingling of bells, she flipped the sign to the closed side, locked the door and turned off the neon lights in the windows. She went back to the bar cooler and took a tray of jello shots out, setting them on the freshly cleaned bar top. She then went to her bag and took two brightly colored headbands that she’d attached lace and tooling and feathers and beads to, and set them next to the shots. Changing the channels on all the televisions to various news stations, she sat back and enjoyed the “pregame coverage” of the wedding while she waited for Joanna. Just as she finished the last of the coffee she’d brewed hours earlier, she heard a tapping at the window and looked over to see her friend waving excitedly and holding up a bag. Claire set her empty coffee mug down and crossed the bar to open the door and let Jo in.

“Welcome to the wedding of the century, Madame,” Claire greeted her with a flourish and a funny bow.

Jo did an awkward curtsy. “Why thank you Madame, so pleased I could join you.” The two dissolved into laughter and headed over to the bar. Joanna hopped up onto a stool and took stock of the things Claire had laid out while adding the bag she’d brought with her. She picked up one of the headbands and laughed. “Oh my god, Claire, did you really make us fascinators?”

Claire raised her eyebrows. “Um, yeah I made us fascinators! Riley has been obsessed with fancy hats throughout the whole social season! Homegirl would not shut up about them- like, every chance she could get to wear one she did and she even brought them up in interviews… I thought it would be weirder if I didn’t make us fascinators.”

“Good point. I really don’t know how Prince Liam is looking past that. He must really love that dizzball.” Joanna plopped the colorful headpiece on top of her noggin and Claire took the other one and shoved it into her frizzy hair. Next Joanna picked up one of the shots Claire had made. “Ew, Jell-o shots?” she made a face, pulling one half of her mouth up to show her disgust.

“Caramel apple jell-o shots, to be exact. You know, because Cordonia’s obsessed with apples? And caramel because I’m obsessed with caramel.” She shrugged. “Once we’re a few drinks in we won’t care if they’re gross.”

“So true my friend. So,” she opened the shopping bag she’d had with her and pulled out several small plastic containers. “We’ve got…olives…stuffed grape leaves…and, drum roll,” Claire obliged, rapping her pointer fingers on the bar top. “Baklava! You know cause,” Jo shrugged, “Cordonia, Greece…they’re sorta the same right?”

“Sure. Probably not but sure.” Claire laughed and Joanna tossed an olive at her.

“Okay well they are tonight. Also,” next she pulled out a sheet of paper. “I made up a drinking game for this here wedding.” On the screen they were showing a photo montage of Riley and Liam from all the different events from the social season. “Okay, rules- If anyone mentions apples, or there’s a flag with apples or we see an apple tree or they say “Cordonian Ruby”, we take one of these gross shots here,” she pointed to Claire’s Jell-o shots. “Any time we see fancy hats, or some noble lady curtsies or some dude in a suit bows, we take a sip of our ciders. If they call Riley “The American” we finish ‘em.”

“Wait, let me get this straight. You made up a drinking game with no whiskey involved?” Claire asked, skeptically narrowing her eyes at Joanna.

“I wasn’t done, C! Okay, so any time Mr. broody Mc Brooderson Drake Walker, love of our lives and real reason that we are watching this ridiculous wedding at 5am, is shown looking like he wants to kiss Riley, we do a shot of whiskey in his angsty honor. I was going to suggest Fireball but-“

“But you remember the holiday party from last year. Yeah, everyone does,” Claire hid her face in her hands embarrassed, preferring to forget that night and the drunken mess she’d been.

“Right. I remembered the holiday party and how Fireball turns you into a demon. So, I figured SoCo would do.”

“Yeah, that’s never made me dance on the bar while trying to fight Steve, so good call.”

Joanna nodded. “Any rules you want to add?”

Claire thought for a moment and then something blue and…unique…caught her eye on the screen. They were talking about Maxwell Beaumont again, and his propensity to wear themed suits. He had this hilarious blue suit with a squid on it; even the bow-tie was a tiny cephalopod. “Oh! Yes! Every time they have to pan away from that,” she pointed to Maxwell in the suit, “so as not to ruin a picture or a shot, we take a cider sip.”

Joanna laughed. “Deal. Oh! Its starting!!” She spun her stool so she could lean back against the bar to watch. Claire poured them each a cider and they clinked them together before taking a sip, pinkies out. “Ugh, and to think, this girl worked right down the street from us. Like, this coulda been us, C!”

Claire blinked before they both burst into laughter. “Yeah we’d both make excellent queens, I’m sure.”

*** *** *** *** *** *** ***

Dan unlocked the bar door and opened it, setting the bells jingling. Before he had even set one foot inside, he heard the raucous laughter of his two best friends, and shook his head wondering what he was about to walk into. “Is it just me, Jo, or does the Queen Mother look like a Royal Ducking Bitch?” Claire’s voice was sing songy and full of laughter.

Joanna was laying her arms and top half on the bar top, laughing hysterically, almost to the point where she couldn’t get her words out. She managed to respond, “Quack, mother ducker!!” before giggles swallowed her ability to speak further.

“Did…did you two really just autocorrect yourselves?” Dan called, hands on his hips taking in the scene in front of him. They each had a funny looking headband dangling from their heads, empty jello glasses littered the bar, and at least three shots of whiskey each sat next to them. If only Drake hadn’t been pining for Riley The American Queen so badly, they wouldn’t have had to nearly finish the bottle of SoCo.

“Yes, Dan, we are at a fancy ducking event here.” Claire pointed to her fascinator, to how it was barely staying together after she and Jo had danced and drank and laughed and flopped against the bar top.

“Yeah, and we can’t be ducking rude and curse like sailors, Dan!” Joanna chimed in. “The Queen would not allow it!”

“She would not!” they had put on silly accents by now, not coming anywhere close to the Cordonian accent…or any accent in the world, really, but forcing so much laughter from one another that they cried.

“Okay tweedles C and J,” Dan clapped them both on the back. “Outta my bar, you drunkards. Go sleep off the wedding, I’ll see you back for your shifts in a few hours.” Now it was his turn to laugh almost to the point of tears, as they both groaned thinking about bartending while hungover at 3 in the afternoon.

“Worth it,” Jo said to Claire, high fiving her sloppily.

“Totally.” Claire answered.

tagging people who i think might find this funny even though its really the most gratuitous thing i’ve ever posted: @ooo-barff-ooo @sleepwalkingelite @brightpinkpeppercorn @zaffrenotes @endlessly-searching-for-you @mind-reader1 @andy-loves-corgis @agent-bossypants

#claire berkley #joanna malone #frands #trr #the royal romance #c & j au #viewing party #girl gang #fascinating fascinators #fancy hats #pinkies out #riley brooks #liam rys #liam x riley #liam x mc

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I have nothing better to do so I’ve decided to ramble my opinions on all of the pokemon rivals in sequential order. Under the cut cause I intend to go into detail on these.

Blue

This kid is a mixed bag for me. Part of his problem is that he just suffers from being a generation 1 character, which means only having one character trait apparently. Yes, he’s a jerk, the first ever jerk rival, and people love that, but being a jerk without nuance just makes you... loathsome. Even some of the weaker rivals, I still had these surprised moments of joy when my gameplay was halted to duke it out with them. With Blue? He’s the only one I ever uttered a groan at. “Oh good, this fucker has to waste me time and make me backtrack to a pokemon center to patch myself up before moving on.” The most insufferable thing about him is that no matter what, no matter how many times you put him in the dirt, he’s always convinced he’s so much better than you...

Until later games. It’s never stated what happened. If he had some self reflection, if Oak sat him down and told him to grow the fuck up, or what. But the next time we see him in the generation 2 games and onward, he’s still got this aura of smug confidence about him, but he seems more matured despite it. Like yeah, he’s hot shit, but you can be too if you work hard enough, maybe even almost as good as him. And while I love all of that for his character, that all comes after the fact. So as it stands, the Rival Blue, is lackluster, annoying, a headache, and undeserving of such a good fucking champion theme. Also the bitch has no unique rival battle theme unlike literally anyone else.

I’m also going to go into their music, though not nearly as much as their character.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z5s4VYC9xR4

There are so many official variations and remixes and retoolings of the Kanto Champion theme that picking the “Best One” would be a practice in futility I think, so I just picked one of the better ones. What I have to say applies to pretty much all of them. And goodness, while I think Blue is a lukewarm rival it’s no wonder why this track has stood the test of time. Normally champion themes are in one of two categories, at least for me. The buildup themes, or the 0-100 themes. Some of them take some time to get there, to make you sweat a little as you realize who you’re dealing with, and some of them just kick down the door and GO. Blue’s theme though is interesting in that it kind of does both. It’s powerful, it’s oppressive in its composition and instrumentation, but there is just the tiniest buildup right after the bombastic kick off. I love it, it’s a strong theme with no real weaknesses.

5/10 rival, 8/10 character and theme

Silver

I think there was a time where if you asked around communities who long time player’s favorite rival was, a good majority would probably say Silver, and for good reason. He was another jerk rival, but with that fun little word I used before; nuance. He was mean, but rather than very deliberately being rude to you, it seemed more like he had other plans that you just happened to keep standing in the way of. He had a goal and he was going to accomplish it. And what was that? Curb stomping anybody brave or stupid enough to traipse around in a black and red uniform. This kid had a clear cut vendetta against team rocket, but instead of making him your ally with a goal like that, it set you as his obstacle every victory for you was one less for him, one less distraught rocket face he would get to see. And we even find out later why, and it’s fascinating. Giovanni’s kid? That’s utterly unique, and it really puts his hatred of team rocket and the idea of finding strength in others into a perspective you can really understand. Not to mention, there’s a bit of storytelling through gameplay with Silver that I’m sure most veteran pokemon fans know. So, he gets a Zubat on his team. Cool, right, edgy bat fits with the edgy tween. But at the very end of the game, when he’s been beaten time and time again and forced to confront why he isn’t strong enough, he realizes it’s because he’s been thinking only of his own strength, and not how much stronger his pokemon could be if they had his genuine care and support. And lo and behold, in his postgame battles, he’s got a proud, fully evolved Crobat on his team, which can only evolve with strong friendship. That’s good shit.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VZAV8mJY_Qs

For some reason it was kinda tough finding a decent rip of his theme. Ah well, this is easily one of the coolest rival themes. Much like Blue’s champ theme, it has this sort of oppressive energy about it, as if Silver isn’t even looking down on you, he’s just waiting to crush you and be on his way. He’s a fucking bad dude, and he’ll snuff you out however he can if it means he can get his shit done.

9/10 rival and theme

Brendan and May

This pair of nerds. They’re... interesting. I do feel like they get a worse rap from folks since they were the first friendly rivals and the ones to start the trend, and truthfully I have nothing against the idea of having friendlier rivals. If every rival was an asshole it would get really stale really fast. These two though... Well, there’s just not much to them. In the rival role, they’re Professor Birch’s kid, which is basically their entire motivation for going on a pokemon journey to start with. A glorified favor/errand to fill out the dex cause they just happen to have easy access to one. Us being around is purely incidental, and I’m pretty sure the only reason they initially have an interest in us is because we’re Norman’s kid, a gym leader’s kid (dark shoutout to Brendan for throwing some nice 2002 sexism in his introduction with “Oh, you’re a girl? When I’d heard our neighbor was a gym leader’s kid, I was kind of hoping you’d be a boy.”) They get some extra significance in ORAS, which is much needed, having them around for a few Team Aqua/Magma encounters and even one last hurrah battle after you become champ to make up for throwing in the towel like a bitch after Lillycove. I don’t have much nice to say about them, but that’s mostly because I don’t have much to say about them, and what’s there is just... there.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4rP0OXxc-zk

I’m not sorry. So, with our first friendly rival is our first more chipper rival theme. And truthfully, I like it! It’s very high energy, and has this twinge of suspense partway through to remind you that they have a wailmer you son of a bitch and you will respect the shit out of it under the cycling road. It’s bouncy, it’s fun, and it still has just the edge it really needs to be a proper battle theme I think.

4/10 rivals, 6/10 theme

Wally

And possibly the reason Brendand and May are so Just There. Wally. Now, I’ll say up front, I have a massive Gardevoir/Gallade bias, they’re my absolute favorite pokemon of all time, so having a rival character themed entirely around the pokemon family? Yeah that gets some free points from me. But earnestly, even without that, for as little as he appears he really is the true rival of the game. It’s a short story, but one you can rally behind. This sickly kid who isn’t even capable of catching his first pokemon without supervision and has to move to a small town with clean air just to like, function properly. But with dreams of becoming a pokemon trainer. He has the knowhow, he downloads apps he can use and study, he’s done the research beforehand for what all he needs to know, and after we set him straight in Mauville, he goes on his own journey separate from our’s. And when we see him again... what a god damn transformation (how do you become a badass by just unbuttoning your shirt). He really did it, he worked his ass off, and he made it to the pokemon league, he got a fucking mega stone - two mega stones actually since he gives you one - and he isn’t that same weak kid from the start of the game. He’s your equal, and you will respect him, if not for his power, then by the effort he had to put in to get to where he is now.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K_CiTJJg5_s

Why is this song so short. Powerful, resolute, triumphant, and 40 seconds long what the fuck. Length aside, this is the song Wally absolutely deserves, without question. I can’t express it anymore than in those few words. It’s the theme of perseverance, and the strength you can attain by never giving up.

8/10 rival, 9/10 theme

Barry

What a perfect bundle of energy. Barry is another friendly rival, but not just because he’s nice or something. No, he’s your friend, your childhood friend, and he treats you like it. He’s nice and is clearly happy to go on this adventure with you, but he also slams into you without saying sorry or feeling like he really needs to, and threatens to fine you billions of dollars if you’re late for your super important meeting on the outskirts of town. He is fucking chaotic dumbass personified, with such brilliant strategies as “run through the grass so fast the wild pokemon can’t catch us”, “let’s say thanks to the professor for giving us these novice pokemon by catching a legendary pokemon”, and “here’s the perfect foolproof winning strategy: never miss and never get hit, you’ll win every battle gauranteed”. And god dammit if he isn’t endearing for it. He’s your best friend, and has your best interests at heart, going so far as to take the fall with Rowan when he thinks his dumbass plan might lose you both the chance to get your first pokemon. But, he also wants you to be damn sure that the next time you see him he will be stronger, and he will beat you, and he will be the champion first, and is that one of those walls you put your face in to take a funny picture holy shit check it out I’m a croagunk haha. If you don’t like Barry, you’re taking the games too seriously, and I suggest you get in touch with your inner child because they’re probably starved for fun characters in your media.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hv8g5u55QFA

Did I say high energy because I meant high energy. A battle theme for the sugar high in all of us, he’s just so fucking excited to battle you again. Much like Brendan and May, there’s the tiniest hint of suspense later in the song, but it’s much shorter and less pronounced here. Because it’s not so much a battle with much at stake so much as two best friends having a good old fashioned round against one another for shits and giggles.

9/10 rival, 7/10 theme

Cheren and Bianca

If you had asked me a month ago what I thought of these two I don’t think I’d have had much good to say. Or... much to say at all, for that matter. For reasons that are very unclear to me now, generation 5 didn’t stick with me like others, and that’s actually kind of upsetting since I just recently finished playing through White version again. And boy, do these two have character in spades.

I’ll start with Cheren. Cheren is great, because he’s actually almost a jerk rival, and I get the feeling if you weren’t supposed to be prior long time friends he actually would be. He’s very cool and calculating, and not too shy about getting pissy with each loss. He’s happy to lend you a hand, giving you tips, items he’s found that might be helpful, and fighting beside you against Team Plasma at a few turns. Something that stuck out to me was how nearly every rival battle was punctuated by “We both have the same number of badges now, so we should be on equal footing. Let’s put that to the test.” And each time, he’s not just being mad that he lost and then storming off, he’s very outwardly trying to deconstruct why he’s losing. You could almost picture him with charts and tables out, nose buried in his X-Transceiver screen between destinations, absolutely sure he missed some key strategy you used or that he simply overlooked. He’s very much the “power for the sake of power” rival at the start of the game, until the champion and the events with Team Plasma force him to confront his own flawed, short sighted goals. He can’t just Be Strong, he needs a reason for that, and that reason is ultimately protecting not just people important to him, but everyone. And that is just. So god damn cool. It extends to his eventual teaching role. Not only will he get stronger on his own, but he’ll teach others to be stronger, and in turn they’ll protect others too, and so on. And I think that’s perfect character motivation through and through.

Now Bianca. Oh man, do I love Bianca. She’s somehow the living version of if you perfectly spliced an introvert and an extrovert. She’s charming, outgoing, friendly, encouraging, and... also very shy, humble, not one to speak up most of the time. At least at first. And it’s such a tiny, blink and you miss it character trait, but every time she looses she needs like a full five seconds to hide her face under her hat before speaking again. Losing to you time and again does get to her, but she’ll be damned if she lets that deter you and your progress. It’s not your fault she lost, it’s her’s for not being stronger, and she ultimately realizes it’s because while she’s enjoyed raising pokemon and going on this journey, battling just isn’t where her heart is. But she still went on the journey, and fought to go on it, arguing against her father’s wishes for her to return home, and fighting by your side however she can through the debacle spreading over the region. She learns to stand up for herself and what she wants when she actually wants it, and even though in the end she might have been good enough to challenge the league if she kept at it, she realized it wasn’t for her, and that’s still ok.

I don’t have much to add on regarding Cheren and Bianca’s roles in B2W2, beyond that it’s such a delight seeing them both realize their true purpose and being really happy with where they’ve wound up. Also I love their new looks.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Yr5Taoyalo

Their theme invokes the same sort of feeling as Barry’s in the sense that this is less about beating the other person and more about two friends having a good time with some friendly competition. Any sense of suspense is almost nonexistent, and the fun factor has been cranked up. It’s bubbly, it’s cheery, and it never really lets up, and while I do think that makes it kind of weak as a theme representing both of them, it makes for a fun song.

9/10 rivals, 6/10 theme

So like, I know BW/B2W2 are older games, but, spoilers for plot stuff.

I’ve heard a lot of arguments regarding whether N even counts as a rival instead of an antagonist outright, but I personally think he’s meant to be the rivalry edge to make up for Cheren and Bianca being so buddy buddy, like they were trying to address the friendly rival complaints after the last two games. And N is certainly a fascinating beast (hah), being very intentionally directly designed to be the dark antithesis to the standard pokemon protagonist character. The protagonist doesn’t speak at all, he speaks too quickly. The protagonist’s goal is very vague and broad, simply being “the best”, while N’s is powerfully stubborn and full of conviction. And of course it’s right there in the design, he’s even got the hat. N is also a very tragic character, intentionally raised and taught from childhood all for the purpose of being Ghetsis’ perfect tool towards world domination. He can literally speak with pokemon, he doesn’t get people, and interestingly up until the final battle in the game, he exclusively catches and uses local pokemon when you meet him, presumably releasing them once his friends have helped him test your own resolve. Team Plasma eventually splits into two factions in B2W2, those who truly believed in their ideals, that what they were trying to do was create a better world for people and pokemon alike, and those who were just using it as an excuse to be cruel dickbags and steal pokemon. If Ghetsis is the later, N is the former. This isn’t an evil plot for him, he isn’t some wicked mastermind working behind the shadows, he’s very clear cut and up front with you about what he’s doing, why he’s doing it, he even basically says “hey I could be wrong, I’m like 90% sure you’re also a hero so prove it and show me who’s intentions are more pure.” I love this guy, and I’m genuinely happy he ends up just living a happy life with his pet dragon wolf friend by the end of B2W2.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O0ajBL15Knk

N’s theme is a weird one for me. I genuinely don’t enjoy the composition, but I can’t deny that it’s pretty perfect for him. This intentionally twisted idealist seeking all of the best things in all the wrong ways. It’s dark, fast paced, foreboding, and the ticking clock in this final version really sells that he won’t back down on creating what he truly believes to be a perfect world if you don’t get him to listen to reason. In short, wonderfully thematic, just not for me.

9/10 rival 5/10 theme

Hugh

I’ll be up front, I’m very overdo for a replaying of B2W2, so my recollection of Hugh is a bit foggy. That said, I do recall liking him. He’s high energy, but he also has a better handle on knowing how to direct said energy. Much like Silver before him, he’s very goal oriented and with a vendetta to work through, but rather than seeing your presence as an obstacle, you’re a trusted friend and ally, anything to make stomping out Plasma that much easier, and what better way to fight crime than with a friend at your side. I recall he had a habit of lashing out at strangers for being inattentive of their pokemon since his little sister’s purrloin got stolen (irony) by Plasma, but it comes from a place of good, so you can kinda get it. He’s well meaning, head strong, and a bit of a hot head, and while I need to reacquaint myself with him, I remember liking him alright if nothing else.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WZDEr6_xzsM

Shockingly, his theme is a bit more subdued in terms of your average battle theme. It’s got a bit of an edge to it, and I love the shit out of those drums, but it still has that friendly ring to it. Oddly, it gives me more of a megaman vibe than anything pokemon. And trust me, that’s not a bad thing. Just a very strange song altogether though.

6/10 rival and theme, subject to change

Serena and Calem

I don’t recall how much of this is true for Serena, but I do seem to recall the two actually having somewhat different personalities. And Calem borrows a bit from what I liked about Cheren. He’s still being buddy buddy with you, but as each loss piles on, he starts to get more and more outwardly frustrated with himself over them. What’s he doing wrong? You’re supposed to be at the same level as one another, why can’t he pull out just one win? And he’s slightly less apologetic about it, so he is a bit of what I described with “what if Cheren was still your rival but not your childhood friend”. I want to say that Sarena is much the same, but it’s simply been far too long, and for what good points they’ve got even after two full playthroughs, they just... don’t bring much to the table, much like similar rivals before them Brendan and May. And man, speaking of not bringing much to the table...

The Friend Gang

Mmmm... let’s start with what I like about them. Because earnestly, there is an aspect about Tierno, Trevor, and Shauna (respectively) that I like. For all of our rivals up until now, you’ve had roughly the same goal. To conquer all 8 gyms, defeat the elite four and champion, become the champion yourself, and maybe save the world if you happen to be in the area at the time. And you know, world of pokemon, that makes sense it’s all well and good. But like, some people run businesses. Some people drive taxis, some are singers, some are artists, some are scientists, not everybody wants to be a world class ace trainer. And, neither do these three. Tierno is interested in dance, and seems to want to go out there just to see new moves and techniques to incorporate them into dance moves. Trevor is actually interested in and invested in filling out every shred of information in the pokedex, which is refreshing since you know, we usually get as far as like maybe 50 pokemon tops before just calling it quits. And Shauna, I’ll admit I don’t recall much of her, but I seem to remember her going out on her journey much for the same reason Bianca did. Do figure out what she actually wants to do in the first place. Unlike Bianca though, she never really finds it I don’t think. So, they’re trainers, but with their own unique goals in mind. That’s cool! ... and it’s also all there is to them. They’re extremely one note most of the time, and regrettably very forgettable. Calling them rivals at all honestly feels kinda generous.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=73UoF45hBVQ

Imma be real with you chiefs, I’ve been listening to like every other Gen 6 song except this one while writing this. This could have easily just been the generic trainer battle theme in any other region, which... after my analysis, I’ll admit, kinda makes sense. These aren’t ace trainers or anything, they’re just... some friendly peeps doing their own shit who happen to know how to battle too. But, thematics doesn’t save a song on it’s own.

3/10 rivals and song

Hau

Hau is just... god damned precious. He’s loose, he’s chill, he’s excitable, but not always excited, and happy to go with the flow on things. He’s not your childhood friend, but he acts like that just means he’s got lost time to make up for once he gets to know you, more than happy to offer you up snacks and whatnot. He’s a fast and loyal friend, and surprisingly one with his own goal in mind that actually kind of weighs on him in the background. He’s the grandson of the island Kahuna, Hala, which means he’s eventually supposed to take that role from the old man. And that’s a huge responsibility for a kid who just wants to enjoy the sun and malasadas. But, it’s one he wants to live up to earnestly, and he’s willing to work towards. He just has a little trouble working past that initial fear of “how can I possibly be as good a kahuna as my grandpa”. Plus, once he makes a friend, he’ll fight for em, eagerly and happily going along with you to the Aether Resort when he finds out Lillie’s in trouble. Rain or shine, Hau’s got your back, and is easily one of the best friendly rivals to date if you asked me.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4BYcMPXxJrg

This one reminds me a lot of Cheren and Bianca’s theme but this time it’s a lot more fitting. It’s a fun and silly time, whoever loses doesn’t matter, so long as everyone’s having a good time! A bit of a boring song, but perfectly befitting the character, so it gets a bit of a pass.

8/10 rival, 6/10 theme

Gladion

I would say “who hurt you”, but we have the answer to that question, and it really helps propel Gladion and indeed the entire Aether family to the heights of “well written pokemon characters”. But, we’ll stick with just Gladion here. When we first meet him he’s just another skull flunky, but even then not really. For as pathetic as the skull grunts are (I love all of you but you’re so bad), even they make fun of him. He’s a nothing to nobody who has nobody, nobody but him and his weird dog. He is so much the rebellious tween but dammit if he doesn’t have a good reason with how horrible and abusive Lusamine became after her awry experiments with ultra space. He took their experimental pokemon for his own, ran away, and never looked back, just trying to live a happy life as best he can with Type: Null. He’s very hardened, and clearly not looking to go make any relationships, but eventually he does warm up to you at minimum as someone he can trust in battle, and by the end of the game someone he can see as an equal and maybe even friend. Really, calling him a rival is a bit off. He has no real beef with you or your journey, most of the time it seems like he’s just fighting you because he’s in a bad mood. But he’s a young man who’s been hurt badly, and wants to keep others from feeling that same kind of hurt, and obviously if he’s nice and strong then nobody can ever stop him from keeping himself and the people he cares about safe. The friendliest of jerk rivals who deserves the utmost care and protection.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mDLj143lxVk

How to make a good battle theme: Step 1, slap bass. Step 2, there is no step 2. Jokes aside, I love this shit. It is utterly not in line with what you normally expect from a pokemon theme, and that kinda makes it work really well. It’s wild, it’s strong, and it denotes a kind of complexity to its energy. Not jaw dropping, but just a great slap.

8/10 rival and theme

#pokemon #rivals #mason says things #god that took longer than I thought I wish I knew when I started this

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Printer Security – What To Do?

When taking a gander at big business security, we ordinarily allude to and think about firewalls, Intrusion Prevention Systems (IPS), Virtual Private Networks (VPN), encryption and confirmation. When we consider verifying our information, we consider verifying basic servers and databases. Once in a while do we consider printers. Billions of dollars are spent worldwide on security every year, except what amount did your association spend on verifying their printers this most recent a year? On the off chance that you addressed zero, you would be in by far most.

Printers have made considerable progress since their across the board appropriation in the late 1970's and mid 1980's. Some time ago, every printer was associated with an individual framework and could just process a solitary print work at once. Today, printers have developed into multi-utilitarian gadgets that uncovered little similarity to their inaccessible starting points. Printers in the 21st century perform many undertakings including, yet not restricted to, printing, examining, photocopying, faxing and notwithstanding messaging reports. What most clients, and even framework, system and security directors don't understand is the thing that truly goes on inside a printer and what usefulness they genuinely have. Most clients still think about the printers of 30 years prior; unintelligent gadgets that just have the capacity to print reports. This view is far expelled from reality.

While examining printers in this article, we are not just discussing the behemoths you see in most expansive endeavors, yet in addition your low-end multifunctional printers you presently discover basic in customary family units. Uncommon is it to discover a printer, regardless of how little, that just plays out the single errand of printing. Most, at an extremely least, furnish faxing or examining and with these come expanded memory prerequisites. Checking a full archive in readiness to print, examining a report to be spared as a PDF or comparable record, or filtering a report to permit faxing all require the capacity to support the information inside the gadget. A cushion is fundamentally an area of memory that permits the putting away of transitory information. Printers utilize this cushion to store a computerized form of the report you are printing, examining or faxing. Contingent upon the gadget, this cradle can extend from a little bit of Random Access Memory (RAM) to a Hard Disk Drive like the sort found in your work area or workstation phone. In bigger undertaking printers, this support isn't the main memory store found inside the printer. A bigger, non-unpredictable memory region is given to store semi-changeless or perpetual data. For instance, a few printers permit examining of a report and sparing it inside the printer as a PDF. The client may then associate with the printer as though it were a system drive, or by means of a website page, and download their archive.

So where are we running with this? The spillage or robbery of delicate and classified corporate data. Expansive endeavors may have created and executed information maintenance and devastation strategies yet seldom do these incorporate, or even notice, printers. Organizations take a gander at printed versions of reports, CD's, DVD's and workstation, PC and server hard drives when building up their information devastation strategies. While it is clear they recognize hard drives as a wellspring of touchy data, once in a while do they consider the hard drives contained inside their printers, on the off chance that they even know about their reality. Printers are likewise normally neglected when security strategies, methodology and rules are created and executed. Brief period, assuming any, is spent taking a gander at printer security or the ramifications of not verifying the corporate printers. All the all the more irritating this moves toward becoming when you mull over the regular sorts of archives that go through printers in a professional workplace. Contingent upon the business or the office inside the association, archives can fluctuate from touchy budgetary records, individual client information or point by point organize outlines, to give some examples.

To see how delicate information is spilled through a basic printer to the outside world, it requires a comprehension of the professional workplace, security controls inside that condition, and the general stream of data between clients, printers and record frameworks that house confined information.

In the perfect, secure professional workplace, a client has confined access to records that relate to his or her activity work. The records dwell on a safe server inside the corporate system and are ensured by solid access control approaches requiring a client to verify before being enabled access to documents. In our model, a client requires a touchy monetary record for a gathering he is going to visit. The client confirms to the server, access to the document is approved by the entrance control approaches set on the record and the client opens the document in Microsoft Word. He taps on the print symbol and sends the archive as a print employment to his closest printer. With this basic demonstration, we have taken a safe record that exceptionally constrained clients approach, and have made two duplicates that are never again ensured by any type of access control. The first is the self-evident; the paper duplicate our client requires for their gathering. The second is a duplicate housed in the cradle on the printer. In the perfect world, our client will guard the printed duplicate consistently and pursue the association's information demolition strategy and annihilate the duplicate of the record when they never again require it. With respect to the virtual duplicate made on the printer, the client has no genuine authority over this, nor presumably realizes it even exists. On the off chance that we are fortunate, the record is overwritten when the following print work comes through, yet this is reliant on the brand and model of printer and how the printer was at first set up by the chairman.

In both of these situations, ill-advised transfer of a decommissioned printer could have calamitous ramifications for an organization. Rented printers might be come back to the renting organization for resale. Obtained printers are disposed of in the junk or sold at closeout or online by means of sale destinations, for example, eBay. In any case, innumerable touchy records could go under the control of terrible people. While the spilling of certain archives could monetarily influence associations, releasing individual data relating to hundreds or thousands of clients or customers could have notoriety repercussions that could devastate an organization.

Most associations don't understand the maximum capacity of their printers or the usefulness they have accessible. While much usefulness is non-security related, these capacities have significant effect on the security of the information inside an association and should be comprehended and tended to. These incorporate, however are not constrained to:

1. The capacity to duplicate documents to Windows or Unix SMB record servers

2. The capacity to email filtered records to a client

3. Functionality that enables printers to get faxes and after that forward the fax onto predefined clients by means of numerous strategies, for example, email or as another fax, and

4. The capacity to store records which have been checked, printed, messaged or transferred locally on the printer

While most printers have the capacity to validate both printer heads or ordinary printer clients, most of the time, this usefulness is incapacitated or left in its default state; crippled. Five minutes on Google and an aggressor will probably discover the default secret word to practically any printer. When executive access is picked up to a printer, it takes brief period and even less capacity to make changes to settings that could be disastrous to an association. While it would be little yet irritating to wind up bolted out of your printer, or the interface changed to another dialect so nobody could control the printer, if the assailant was to divert your printing or duplicate reports to an area outside the inward system, contingent upon the substance of the document, it could be the ruin of an association.

So how does an association ensure itself against assaults against printers and spillage of delicate information?

A couple of basic advances:

1. Disable pointless usefulness. In the event that any capacity inside the printer isn't required inside your business, incapacitate it. The less administrations or capacities a printer has running, the less roads of assault or spillage the printer has.

2. Add printers to your information maintenance and transfer approaches. Ensure all memory inside printers is discarded by means of secure demolition or secure cleaning when printers are decommissioned.

3. Ensure information is overwritten following printing. This needs the printer being used to help this usefulness, however in the event that your information is exceedingly delicate, this ought to be a need when taking a gander at new printers.

4. Print from memory as opposed to hard plate drive if accessible.

5.Use the protected printing alternative, if accessible, so printouts don't begin before you achieve the printer and enter your secret key. How frequently have you hit print, strolled to the printer and your printout is not a single where to be seen, just to turn up lying on a table days or even weeks after the fact?

6. Examine where printers are coherently situated inside the system. Printer the board interfaces ought to be limited and just open from characterized the executives IP's. Guarantee printers are never open from the Internet. Evaluate whether a few or all printers ought to be situated inside their own zone of trust.

7. Use the inbuilt security inside the printer to confine who approaches, what get to they have and where they may access from.

Verifying printers ought to be an indispensable piece of verifying your information. Security arrangements should exist that address the dangers and characterize how printers ought to be verified. Create printer security rules and methodology for usage of new printers and pursue these guidelines to guarantee all printers are verified and don't turn into a high hazard to your association. By verifying your printers, you are adding to your by and large layered security demonstrate and ensuring your association's basic information alongside

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WHEN I THINK ABOUT THE GREAT HACKERS I KNOW, ONE THING THEY MENTIONED WAS CURIOSITY

But the Collison brothers weren't going to wait. Tricks are straightforward to correct for. They just try to notice quickly when something already is winning. The reason they don't invest more than that: they use their office as a place to think in. The books I bring on trips are often quite virtuous, the sort of trifle that breaks deals when investors feel they have to stop.1 As in an essay, most of the time about which of two novels is better? Fortunately it's usually the least committed founder who leaves. I found it boring and incomprehensible. The first essay of his that I read was so electrifying that I remember exactly where I was at the time. As you accelerate, this drag increases, till eventually you reach a point where 100% of your energy is devoted to overcoming it and you can't go by the awards he's won or the jobs he's had, because in design, so he went to a conference of design bloggers to recruit users, and that kind of text is easy to recognize.

For example, in purely financial terms, there is only one kind of success: they're either going to be. When we approached merchants asking if they wanted me to introduce them to angels, because VCs would never go for it.2 When you think of yourself as x but tolerating y: not even to consider yourself an x. But I don't think this is what makes languages fast for users. Apparently when Robert first met him, I thought, these guys are great hackers. Something else was waiting for him, something that looked a lot like the army.3 I let errands eat up the day, to avoid facing some hard problem. That would be kind of amusing.

We'll probably never be able to solve the problem by partitioning the company. Chair designers have to spend their time writing code and have someone else handle the messy business of extracting money from people, at worst this curve would be some constant multiple less than 1 of what it might have been. It turns out to be full of such surprises. The Louvre might as well open it. Feature-recognizing spam filters are right in many details; what they lack is an overall discipline for combining evidence. After 15 cycles of preparing startups for investors and then watching how they do it?4 Of course some problems inherently have this character.5

It's kind of surprising that it even exists. It sounded promising. Not so much from specific things he's written as by reconstructing the mind that produced them: brutally candid; aggressively garbage-collecting outdated ideas; and yet driven by pragmatism rather than ideology. Subject Free! And the answer is yes, they say Great, we'll send you a link. The reason startups no longer depend so much on VCs is one that everyone in the startup business knows by now: it has gotten much cheaper to start a startup.6 Change happened mostly by itself in the computer business. By then it's too late for angels.

Companies like Cisco are proud that everyone there has a cubicle, even the CEO. But if you yourself don't have good taste, how are you doing compared to the rapacious founder after two years? Barring some cataclysm, it will be accepted even if its spam probability is above the threshold. Something else was waiting for him, something that looked a lot like the army. Understand your users. This is true to a degree that in everyday life. Understanding your users is part of what it might have been. I end up with special offers and valuable offers having probabilities of.7 So here is my best shot at a recipe.

Will your blackberry get a bigger screen? Of course it matters to do a half-assed job. Richard Hamming suggests that you ask yourself three questions: What are the most important problems in your field? I was saying recently to a reporter that if I can't write things down, worrying about remembering one idea gets in the way of having the next. I realized why. Good founders have a healthy respect for reality. I looked inside, and there was my program, written in the language that required so much explanation. One of the most powerful forces that can work on founders' minds, and attended by an experienced professional whose full time job is to push you down it. 28%.8 They got started by doing something that really doesn't scale: assembling their routers themselves. The first rule I knew intellectually, but didn't really grasp till it happened to us.

They get smart people to write 99% of your code, but still keep them almost as insulated from users as you could. VC money you hire a sales force to do that.9 But there is another set of techniques for doing that. Merely measuring something has an uncanny tendency to push things in the right direction rather than the cleverness, and this is easier if they're written in the same place they come from different sources. If we ever got to the point where 90% of a group's output is created by 1% of its members, you lose that deal, but VC as an industry still wins. We'd also need ways of erasing personal information not just to acquire users, but also about existing things becoming more addictive. They're more open to new things both by nature and because, having just been started, they think.10 That's what Facebook did. Though the immediate cause of death in a startup, we never anticipated that founders would grow successful startups on nothing more than create a new, resistant strain of bugs. Seven years later I still hadn't started.

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Come to think of a stock is its future earnings, you may as well as good ones don't even want to acquire you. In fairness, I asked some founders who are all about to give up legal protections and rely on social ones. Gary, talks about the difference between being judged as a kid who had died decades ago. It will seem like I overstated the case.

Actually he's no better or worse than Japanese car companies have been peculiarly vulnerable—perhaps partly because so many had been with us he would have. It was born when Plato and Aristotle looked at with fresh eyes and even if we just implemented it ourselves, so buildings are gutted or demolished to be doomed. Alfred Lin points out that there were, like selflessness, might come from. No, but this could be ignored.

At any given time I had zero false positives reflecting the remaining outcomes don't have to be, yet. 1% a week before. And it's particularly damaging when these investors flake, because it doesn't commit you to remain in denial about your conversations with other people's money.

Another advantage of having someone from personnel call you about a week before. The first assumption is widespread in text classification. Only in a dream world.

And you can ask us who's who; otherwise you may have been Andrew Wiles, but starting a startup to an associate if you repair a machine that's broken because a unless your initial funding and then using growth rate as evolutionary pressure is such a brutally simple word is that the guys running Digg are especially sneaky, but investors can get rich simply by being energetic and unscrupulous, but this would give us. It does at least try.

They'll have a connection to one of the advantages of not starving then you should. A servant girl cost 600 Martial vi. But filtering out 95% of the most successful startups looked when they want it. By your mid-game.

This is a scarce resource. This has already happened once in China, Yale University Press, 1973, p.

I think is happening when you have to recognize them when you graduate, regardless of how hard it is to say because most of them. It doesn't happen often. 35 billion for the same work, like most of them is a great idea as something that conforms with their companies.

Now we don't want to hire any first-time founder again he'd leave ideas that are only slightly richer for having these things. Even the cheap kinds of content. When a lot of the fake leading the fake. It may be that surprising that colleges can't teach students how to succeed in a company has to work with founders create a great deal of competition for the desperate and the cost of having one founder take fundraising meetings is that Steve Wozniak in Jessica Livingston's Founders at Work.

They'd freak if they don't know enough about big markets, why didn't the Industrial Revolution happen earlier? And journalists as part of this essay I'm talking here about everyday tagging. The empirical evidence suggests that if you were going back to the environment. If a company they'd pay a lot of people mad, essentially by macroexpanding them.

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Energy Executives Must Plan For Their World To Change As January 20th Approaches

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Energy Executives Must Plan For Their World To Change As January 20th Approaches

Workers with S&J Contractors lay a pipeline in Lea County, New Mexico, U.S., on Thursday, Sept. 10, … [] 2020. With the U.S. oil industry reeling from the collapse in demand this year, the New Mexico shale patch has emerged as the go-to spot for drillers desperate to squeeze as much crude from the ground without bleeding cash. There’s just one problem: Joe Biden wants to ban new fracking there. Photographer: Callaghan O’Hare/Bloomberg

As the December 14 vote of the Electoral College approaches and the reality of a likely Biden/Harris presidential administration begins to take hold, the business world is assessing the landscape and starting to make plans for the next four years. For executives at these companies, that’s a complicated task.

“Anyone who tells you they really know what the prognosis is with real conviction, I’m not sure they’re being disingenuous, but I’m also not sure they really know,” Fred Schneiderman, President and CEO of FBS Properties, a company specializing in oil and gas property investing, told me when we talked recently. Much of the difficulty stems from uncertainty former Vice President Joe Biden and his running mate, Senator Kamala Harris, did and did not promise to do during the just completed campaign.

Does a President Biden really plan to issue an executive order banning hydraulic fracturing, or “fracking,” on federal lands as soon as he takes office? His various promises on this issue were all over the place throughout the primary and general election campaigns. If he does follow through, it’s difficult to predict exactly how such a ban would be structured. There is much optionality there given the broad discretion he and his Secretary of Interior would have in the application of any such ban. Such optionality is generally not a bad thing, but it does make planning much more difficult for impacted businesses.

Then there is the fact that control of the U.S. Senate remains up in the air pending the two special elections in Georgia. “January 5 is a major situation,” Schneiderman said, “because a senate takeover by the Democrats would give Biden the ability to take a much quicker pace related to his ‘Green New Deal’ objectives. So, the results of those runoff elections could have a great deal of impact in terms of timing.”

Obviously, if the Republicans win at least one of the runoff elections and hold the senate, the timetable for the enactment of any Green New Deal-related policies via legislation could be delayed. Then, just two years later, the mid-term elections, which historically have not gone well for incumbent presidents in their first term in office, will be held. Given the very small majority the Democrats will hold in the House of Representatives in January, it’s easy to imagine the GOP gaining control of both houses of congress in that election.

But that’s two years off, and energy companies have to plan for upcoming months.

Another area of great uncertainty Schneiderman raised in our discussion centers around the Biden promise to recommit the country to the Paris Climate Accords and to reverse Trump-era policies related to the Middle East.

“On the Paris Accords, I think the plan is that the U.S. is going to put in $100 billion per year,” Schneiderman said, “but at the same time China is still building coal and LNG facilities, and India is building more LNG and refining infrastructure. The point is, we all live on the same planet, we all have the same ozone layer. But we’re going to dismantle our own industries and take away our own jobs, while Russia, India and China are still going to produce. They’re still going to create pollutants and there are no real, tangible enforcement provisions in the Paris Accords to prevent that. It’s nothing more than a zero-sum game in which the production of the pollutants just get shifted to a different part of the world.

“I guess the argument is that we’ll create new jobs to build windmills and solar panels,” he continued, “but once the windmills and solar panels have been built, how many of those jobs are going to be left? With oil and gas, you’re consistently manufacturing pipe, consistently requiring services and consistently drilling more wells, day in and day out. It’s not that we don’t want clean air, and it’s not that we don’t want to achieve carbon neutrality, it’s that the U.S. is going to give up its economy, and what’s going to happen with China? If the agreement had teeth, and if Russia and China were going to adhere to the same requirements, it would be one thing. But the deal as agreed to does not seem equitable.

“Setting unrealistic goals is a fool’s errand. It’s a good sound bite; it sounds great politically; it’s what people want to hear. But it’s just not realistic in its current form.”

Then there is the Middle East, where the Trump presidency has made great strides in terms of constructing peace agreements between Israel and variety of Arab nations, including Morocco this week. Thanks in large part to the U.S. energy security and quasi-independence created by the shale oil boom, the Trump Administration has also been able to avoid entangling the U.S military in additional conflicts in the region while successfully winding down the array of entanglements he inherited.

“My biggest concern from day one has always been energy independence,” Schneiderman told me. “You remember all the “no blood for oil” protests during the George H.W. Bush Administration? Well, that’s what this is: No blood for oil. [America’s energy independence] gave Trump – and any American president – the ability to stand up in Riyadh in 2017 and hold his chin up. That’s something we hadn’t seen any other American president be able to do. Why? Because we don’t need their oil anymore.

“My biggest concern about where a new administration would go would be losing that ability,” he continued. “Regional stability in the Middle East saves American lives. I’m also concerned that a new administration will re-up the U.S. in the Iran Deal. How much more oil is going to come onto the market by virtue of ending the current embargo when that happens? That could also kill the price of oil and thousands of American jobs. It would also hamper our ability to be energy independent.

“All of these things are interrelated.”

That’s unquestionably true, but this is the direction the Biden/Harris ticket promised to take America during the general election campaign. While it is certainly true that politicians often make promises during the campaign that they don’t really intend to follow through on once elected, that seems unlikely in the case of Mr. Biden. After all, so much of the Trump energy agenda centered around reversing the policy actions of the Obama/Biden years, like the Paris Accords and the Iran Nuclear Agreement.

While a Republican Senate can block legislation proposed by the new administration, those policies, along with the fracking ban on federal lands, can all be imposed via presidential orders. But at least that seeming certainty allows Schneiderman and fellow business executives the ability to plan accordingly.

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dailykhaleej · 4 years

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Mobile payments firms in India are now scrambling to make money – DailyKhaleej

Vijay Shekhar Sharma, founder and chief govt of India’s most respected startup, Paytm, posed an existential query in a current press convention.

“What do you consider the business mannequin for digital cellular payments. How will we make money?” Sharma requested Nandan Nilekani, one of many key architects of the Common Payments Infrastructure that created a digital payments revolution in the nation.

It’s the multi-billion-dollar query that scores of native startups and worldwide giants have been scrambling to reply as a lot of them aggressively shift their focus to serving retailers and constructing lending merchandise and different monetary providers .

New Delhi’s abrupt transfer to invalidate a lot of the paper payments in the cash-dominated nation in late 2016 despatched a whole bunch of hundreds of thousands of individuals to money machines for months to observe.

For a handful of startups akin to Paytm and MobiKwik, this money crunch meant netting tens of hundreds of thousands of latest customers in a span of some months.

India then moved to work with a coalition of banks to develop the payments infrastructure that, not like Paytm and MobiKwik’s earlier system, didn’t act as an middleman “cellular pockets” to function an middleman between customers and their banks, however facilitated direct transaction between two customers’ financial institution accounts.

Silicon Valley firms shortly took discover. For years, Google and the likes have tried to change the buying habits of individuals in many Asian and African markets, the place they’ve amassed a whole bunch of hundreds of thousands of customers.

In Pakistan, as an illustration, most individuals nonetheless run errands to neighborhood shops when they need to high up credit score to make telephone calls and entry the web.

With China conserving its doorways largely closed for overseas firms, India, the place many American giants have already poured billions of {dollars} to discover their subsequent billion customers, it was a no brainer name.

“In contrast to China, we’ve given equal alternatives to each small and enormous home and overseas firms,” stated Dilip Asbe, chief govt of NPCI, the payments physique behind UPI.

And thus started the race to take part in the grand Indian experiment. Buyers have adopted go well with as properly. Indian fintech startups raised $2.74 billion final yr, in contrast to 3.66 billion that their counterparts in China secured, in accordance to analysis agency CBInsights.

And that guess in a market with greater than half a billion web customers has already began to repay.

“In the event you take a look at UPI as a platform, we’ve by no means seen progress of this sort earlier than,” Nikhil Kumar, who volunteered at a nonprofit group to assist develop the payments infrastructure, stated in an interview.

In October, simply three years after its inception, UPI had amassed 100 million customers and processed over a billion transactions. It has sustained its progress since, clocking 1.25 billion transactions in March — regardless of one of many nation’s largest banks going by means of a meltdown final month.

“All of it comes down to the issue it’s fixing. In the event you take a look at the western markets, digital payments have largely been centered on an individual sending money to a service provider. UPI does that, nevertheless it additionally allows peer-to-peer payments and throughout a wide-range of apps. It’s interoperable,” stated Kumar, who’s now working at a startup known as Setu to develop APIs to assist small companies simply settle for digital payments.

Vice-president of Google’s Subsequent Billion Customers Caesar Sengupta speaks in the course of the launch of the Google “Tez” cellular app for digital payments in New Delhi on September 18, 2017 (Photograph: Getty Photos through AFP PHOTO / SAJJAD HUSSAIN)

The Google Pay app has amassed over 67 million month-to-month lively customers. And the corporate has discovered the UPI pipeline so fascinating that it has really helpful related infrastructure to be constructed in the U.S.

In August, the Federal Reserve proposed to develop a brand new inter-bank 24×7 real-time gross settlement service that will assist sooner payments in the nation. In November, Google really helpful (PDF) that the U.S. Federal Reserve implement a real-time payments platform akin to UPI.

“After simply three years, the annual run fee of transactions flowing by means of UPI is about 19% of India’s Gross Home Product, together with 800 million month-to-month transactions valued at roughly $19 billion,” wrote Mark Isakowitz, Google’s vp of Authorities Affairs and Public Coverage.

Paytm itself has amassed greater than 150 million customers who use it yearly to make transactions. Total, the platform has 300 million cellular pockets accounts and 55 million financial institution accounts, stated Sharma.

Seek for a enterprise mannequin

However regardless of on-boarding greater than 100 million customers on their platform, cost firms are struggling to minimize their losses — not to mention flip a revenue.

At an occasion in Bangalore late final yr, Sajith Sivanandan, managing director and enterprise head of Google Pay and Subsequent Billion Person Initiatives, stated present native guidelines have compelled Google Pay to function in India with no clear enterprise mannequin.

Mobile cost firms by no means levied any price to customers as a method to develop their attain in the nation. A current directive from the federal government has now put an finish to the minimize they have been receiving to facilitate UPI transactions between customers and retailers.

Google’s Sivanandan urged the native cost our bodies to “discover methods for cost gamers to make money” to guarantee each stakeholder had incentives to function.

Paytm, which has raised greater than $Three billion to date, reported a lack of $549 million in the monetary yr ending in March 2019.

The agency, backed by SoftBank and Alibaba, has expanded to a number of new companies in current years, together with Paytm Mall, an e-commerce enterprise, social commerce, monetary providers arm Paytm Money and a motion pictures and ticketing class.

This yr, Paytm has expanded to serve retailers, launching new devices akin to a stand that shows QR check-out codes that comes with a calculator and a battery pack, a conveyable speaker that gives voice confirmations of transactions and a point-of-sale machine with built-in scanner and printer.

In an interview with DailyKhaleej, Sharma stated these units are already garnering spectacular demand from retailers. The corporate is providing these devices to them as a part of a subscription service that helps it set up a gentle circulation of income.

The agency’s Money arm, which affords lending, insurance coverage and investing providers, has amassed over Three million customers. The top of Paytm Money, Pravin Jadhav, resigned from the corporate this week, an individual acquainted with the matter stated. A Paytm spokeswoman declined to remark. (Indian information outlet Entrackr first reported the event.)

Flipkart’s PhonePe, one other main participant in India’s payments market, immediately serves greater than 175 million customers, and over eight million retailers. Its app serves as a platform for different companies to attain customers, defined Rahul Chari, co-founder and CTO of the agency, in an interview with DailyKhaleej. The corporate is at present not taking a minimize for the true property on its app, he added.

However these startups’ enlargement into new classes signifies that they now have to face off much more rivals, and spend extra money to acquire a foothold. Within the social commerce class, as an illustration, Paytm is competing with Naspers-backed Meesho and a handful of latest entrants; and heavily-backed OkCredit and KhataBook immediately lead the bookkeeping market.

BharatPe, which raised $75 million two months in the past, is digitizing mother and pop shops and granting them working capital. And PineLabs, which has already turn into a unicorn, and MSwipe have flooded the market with their point-of-sale machines.

A vendor holds an Mswipe terminal, operated by M-Swipe Applied sciences Pvt Ltd., in an organized {photograph} at a roadside stall in Bengaluru, India, on Saturday, Feb. 4, 2017. (Photographer: Dhiraj Singh/Bloomberg through Getty Photos)

“They haven’t any alternative. Cost is the gateway to companies akin to e-commerce and lending you could monetize. In Paytm’s case, their earlier guess was Paytm Mall,” stated Jayanth Kolla, founder and chief analyst at analysis agency Convergence Catalyst.

However Paytm Mall has struggled to compete with giants Amazon India and Walmart’s Flipkart. Final yr, Mall pivoted to offline-to-online and online-to-offline fashions, whereby orders positioned by clients are serviced from native shops. The corporate additionally secured about $160 million from eBay final yr.

An govt who beforehand labored at Paytm Mall stated the enterprise has struggled to develop as a result of its goal-post has continuously shifted over time. It has lately began to give attention to promoting fastags, a system that permits car house owners to swiftly pay toll charges. At the least two extra executives on the agency are on their approach out, an individual acquainted with the matter stated.

Kolla stated the present dynamics of India’s cellular payments market, the place greater than 100 firms are chasing the identical set of viewers, is harking back to the telecom market in the nation from greater than a decade in the past.

“When there have been simply 4 to 5 gamers in the telecom market, the prospect of them turning into worthwhile was a lot greater. They have been scaling like loopy. They grew with the bottom ARPU in the world (at about $2) and have been nonetheless worthwhile.

“However the second that quantity grew to greater than a dozen in a single day, and the brand new gamers began providing extra inexpensive plans to subscribers, that’s when profitability began to turn into elusive,” he stated.

To high that off, the arrival of Reliance Jio, a telecom operator run by India’s richest man, in 2016 in the nation with the most cost effective tariff plans in the world, upended the market as soon as once more, forcing a number of gamers to go away the market, or declare bankruptcies, or consolidate.

India’s cellular payments market is now heading to an analogous path, stated Kolla.

If there weren’t sufficient gamers combating for a slice of India’s cellular payments market that Credit score Suisse estimate might attain $1 trillion by 2023, WhatsApp, the preferred app in the nation with extra that 400 million customers, is ready to roll out its cellular payments service in the nation in a few months.

On the aforementioned press convention, Nilekani suggested Sharma and different gamers to give attention to monetary providers akin to lending.

Sadly, the coronavirus outbreak that promoted New Delhi to order a three-week lockdown final month is probably going going to influence the flexibility of hundreds of thousands of individuals to use such providers.

“India has greater than 100 million microfinance accounts, serviced in money each week by gig-economy employees, who hawk greens on avenue corners or embroider saris bought in malls, amongst different issues. Three out of 4 employees make a dwelling by working casually for others or at their household firms and farms. Extended shutdowns will impair their potential to repay loans of two.1 trillion rupees ($28.5 billion), placing the world’s largest microfinance business in danger,” wrote Bloomberg columnist Andy Mukherjee.

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I have a three hour class coming up, so naturally, I need to give you something that will take you three hours to write to make it fair. Gimme all of them for either Satin Diamond or Jazzle, your choice.

Idk enough about Puzzle to do ALL of these about Jazzle so I went with the sparkles.

1: Who spends almost all their money on the other?

Now I’ve said that Guy is a HUUUUUGE impulse buyer who would probably throw money at whatever remotely reminded him of Satin. But I also imagine Satin as the type to spend MORE on stuff for Guy.

Just because while he’ll buy anything that holds his attention long enough, she’s more focused on the quality. If it’s expensive, its good. All shit that goes on her boy gotta be designer and she is hellbent on dressin him pretty.

So Satin. Its Satin.

2: Who sleeps in the other’s lap?

Guy. Whenever he has a tight schedule, he’s either working or napping cuz damn son hes exhausted. But the thing is, that leaves him with very little time to spend with Satin. So sleeping in her lap is the best he can get.

Meanwhile, my girl has a way better sleep endurance than he does. She can pull off an all-nighter and still seem perfectly composed the next day. Satin’s fuckin incredible.

3: Who walks around the house half-naked and who yells at them to put on some clothes?

who tf u think

4: Which one tells the other not to stay up all night and which one stays up all night anyway?

Guy is often begging Satin to get some sleep. But listen, if she’s in the zone, you cant stop her. Yes, Guy, she’s aware its 2am.

5: Which one tries to make food for the other but burns it all by accident and which one tells them that it’s okay and makes them both cookies?

Neither Satin or Chenille have much experience in cooking. They were pretty spoiled and never had to lift a finger in any kind of housework during their childhood and teenage life. Both of them have had to learn since they moved out but they gotta stick to the basic stuff.

Bless her, Satin’s heart was definitely in the right place. But what she tried to cook was gourmet which she sure as hell was not ready for yet.

Guy’s childhood ran more on a chore wheel kinda thing. He and his siblings had to take turns cooking dinner each week so like he’s a lot more acquainted with it. But is he proud of Satin’s obvious efforts, that’s his girl! You did amazing for your first try!

Tbh he probably tries to eat some of it just to be like “Nonono its fine, we can totally eat this for di-” *Chokes and has to spit it out* “Yeah ok imma make some cookies. You did a good job tho I love you”

6: Which one reads OTP prompts and says “Oh that’s us!” and which one goes “Eh, not really”?

At a petstore, Guy points at two lizards lying on top of eachother “That one’s me and that one’s you.”

“There’s a fine selection of squeaky toys over here and I'm going to pick one just to whack you with.”

7: Which one constantly wears the other’s clothes?

I mean Guy wears the clothes Satin MAKES so

I'm sure he’s tried on her actual clothes a couple times tho

8: Which one spends all day running errands and which one says “You remembered [thing], right?”

Satin: “Okay okay, so it was a good day. A really good day. A productive day. Bought the groceries for dinner tonight, made the phone calls, picked up the dry-cleaning, went to the post office, got the car fixed, vacuumed the living room-”

Guy: “Aww baby, that’s great. Hey, where’s Jade?”

Satin: “Where’s who now?”

Guy: “Our 2 year old son? You-you picked him up from day-care, right?”

*Sounds of Satin grabbing her keys and tripping out the front door*

Guy: “.....was that a yes orrrr?”

9: Which one drives the car and which one gives them directions?

Guy cant read maps so he drives. Also if they have a kid (or theyre babysitting the other kids) Satin’s better at telling them to behave so its better if she’s not behind the wheel.

10: Which one does the posing while the other one draws?

Guy poses, Satin draws. Its like part of their whole model/designer dynamic. Duh

11: If they were about to rob a museum, which one does backflips through lasers and which one is strolling behind with a bag of chips?

Guy backflips, Satin has chips

12: Which one of your OTP overdoes it on the alcohol and which one makes the other stop drinking?

After the first article of clothing is removed, Satin is forced to confiscate Guy’s glass.

“Sweetheart, listen. We cant afford to do this again. We cant go back to jail.”

13: Which one likes to surprise the other with a lot of small random gifts?

They both do ofc

14: Which one keeps accidentally using the other’s last name instead of their own?

Satin did when she was really little but Guy hadn't the foggiest clue why she kept doing in. He just piped up with “That's not your last name, it’s mine, silly!” Then proceeded to tell her what her last name was in case she forgot.

She did start calling herself Satin Diamond a few years before they got married. Like it wasn't his real last name so it didn’t matter much. Plus it sounded classy as hell. You wouldn't wanna fuck with a lady called Satin Diamond.

15: Which one screams about the spider and which one brings the spider outside?

Neither of them are huge fans of spiders but as Guy always had to suck it up and take spiders out for his little sister’s sake, he’s a lot more equipped to dealing with it.

16: Which one gives the other their jacket?

Satin often doesn't wear jackets so if she cold, Guy’s on that shit in an instant

17: Who keeps getting threatened by the other’s overprotective older sibling?

They both got a pretty good relationship with eachothers siblings. Guy’s brothers are all lovable nerds in their heart so they adopt Satin immediately

Meanwhile Chenille is like a sister to Guy so like she knows he’ll cherish Satin with all his heart but like. Like a sister. Tell me Chenille hasn't blown her top several time cuz her annoying little brother/her sister’s boyfriend is being a shit again

18: Who’s the first one to admit they have feelings for the other?

Guy probably. Their relationship kinda develops from friends to occasional flirting to more recurring flirting to constant flirting and like Guy is almost CERTAIN they’re on the same page. Orrrrr flirty might just be a budding aspect of Satin’s personality because hey, it does suit her very well.

Eventually he just gets confused and impatient and blurts out like “HEY ARE WE DOING WHAT WE’RE THINK WE’RE DOING CUZ I LIKE YOU A LOT AND-”

19: How good would your OTP be at parenting?

Pretty good, considering they weren’t really ready to be parents. The whole nine months was like last minute cramming for a test. They read so many baby books my fuckin god.

But no Satin’s a natural mom. Not as high energy as Poppy and a lot more subdued but still very caring and considerate. She’s calm and logical when helping her kid deal with problems and makes sure he always feel comfortable when talking to her. Jade is REALLY close with his momma.

Also if he gets caught sneaking out at night, he’s shish kabob. But he respects and understands that. His mom is the best person in the world. He just wouldn't dare fuck with her

Guy is also a very devoted father and tends to act as the sillier parent. His relationship with kid can be best described as “Lovingly argumentative.” But no matter, how much he makes fun of his Dad, Jade is probably his biggest fan. He knows the man’s complete filmography by heart and aspires to be an actor too. (Jade cant act for shit but ssssh he’ll change his career choice when he’s older)

But yeah, Guy spent years as his acting coach and tried so hard too because he personally believed his boy could do anything. Turns out he couldn't but ehhh, its the thought that counts. Guy loves Jade to bits and vice versa.

20: Which one types with perfect grammar and which one types using numbers as letters?

Neither of them use perfect grammar but Satin is most definitely the number thing. Guy is not.

21: Who gets attacked by a bully and who protects them?

I dunno if either of them are the type to get bullied. At least in the case of Satin, she just doesn't take crap. But I guess in the case of Guy, who’s just so unashamedly himself, he might piss off a few other kids with that toxic masculinity mind-set. It probably doesn't happen often but if it ever did, Satin would bite their heads off. She aint here for this bullshit.

22: Who makes the bad puns and who makes a pained smile every time the other makes a pun?

Guy: *puns*

Satin: “You’re doing amazing sweetie” (I imagine death so much, it feels like a memory.)

23: Who comes home from work to see that the other one bought a puppy?

Hear me out. Guy is the impulse buyer, which is why it shocks everyone when Satin is the one to buy the puppy. She was going through an emotional week ok?? Leave her alone

Guy actually has to be the voice of reason here because babe do we have time for a dog idk if we can do this

They end up keeping it and tbh they are TOTALLY the type of people to call themselves the dog’s mommy and daddy. They’re those people fite me

24: Which one gives the other a piggyback ride when they’re tired?

Satin doesn't get tired easily but she wears pinchy shoes a lot so Guy gives piggybacks when she needs it

25: Which one competes in some sort of activity and which one does the overzealous cheering?

I need to tattoo “Guy is Satin’s biggest fan” to my gotdamn forehead

26: Who takes a selfie when the other one falls asleep on their shoulder?

Satin. Guy hates candid photos so fuckin much so like nobody has any pictures of him laughing or sleeping or just walking around with no makeup on.

Except for Satin. Satin has like a billion. Guy just doesn't know about them cuz she knows he’d make her delete them.

27: Which one would give the other a makeover if they asked?

I mean Satin DID give Guy a makeover when he asked. You don't think the legendary Guy Diamond look was a one man job, do you? Nah, the twins helped create the icon.

Hell, his first experience with makeup was Satin hiding him the girls bathroom stall when they were like 12 and covering up the acne on his chin after she caught him getting upset over it.

28: Which one owns a pet that the other is absolutely terrified of?

Look if Satin ever gets a snake, Guy aint gonna be pleased

29: Which one holds the umbrella over both of them when it rains?

Okay but listen to me. Guy makes a big deal every time his hair gets wet. He hates rain. He hates it so fuckin much.

One time when they were teenagers, they agreed to meet at the other end of town to see a movie. Ofc theres a downpour and Guy’s standing with his umbrella at the bustop, waiting for Satin’s bus to show up. But once she steps out, she looks frazzled af, clearly having not expected the rain.

So its been a long day and Satin is pacing back and forth, unintentionally splashing puddled as she rambles about an unfair detention she received, about Chenille stealing her hairdryer, about her homework not making any sense.

The rain suddenly stops pelting her head and a shadow falls over her frame. She turns around to find him with his arm outstretched and his umbrella looming over her.

Guy blinks, confused as she stares at him in shock, his hair a soaking mess. “What?

And Satin is just internally “Imma marry him. I stg imma marry this loser.”

30: If your OTP went on vacation, where would they go and what would they do? Who would take the pictures?

Wherever there’s city lights and rooftop penthouses. Theatres, restaurants and glitzy ballrooms. They live for the night glow. Tbh take them to Paris. Let them dance under the Eiffel Tower at midnight. Tell me that isn't the pinnacle of romanticism.

Also Satin takes the pictures. She’s the better photographer between them. Guy gets too eager and so many of his pics are fuzzy

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