#8.07 Identity

[kent-farm]

Zip.

—Lois Lane, Smallville, “Identity” 👗

[fyeahchlark]

[alsadeekalsadouk]

This coin City of #Gaza, struck year 163 C.E. under Lucius Verus (Lucius Aurelius Verus was Roman emperor from 161 until his death in 169) 8.07 g.

In light of the attack on Palestine and Gaza, I liked to present this document / AE fils, which shows the origins and place of nations and carries the name of their city. In the a addition to huge number of other the cities of Palestine, for example #Samaria, #Ashkelon, and #Tiberias between 450BC until 1934 AD . The people there are already there, and no one can cancel the other. People and their rights should be protected and guaranteed by international norms and laws not by biased powers. It is very unfortunate during the holidays of Ramadan. We see blood is still there. Jesus came to this Immaculate land to instill love and peace, but the people reject , and prefer war in order for their identity to remain inevitable. We wish the Palestinians to live in peace with jews who were their with them in canaan land 😞 .

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#stopthewar #archaeology #history #ancient #art #archaeologist #ancienthistory #travel #archaeological #rome #italy #museum #roma #heritage #egyptology #arthistory #greek#archaeologylife #culture #antiquity #italia #photography #temple#art #greece #alsadeekalsadouk ‎#الصديق_الصدوق

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Security Holograms Market  Worldwide Industry Analysis and New Market Opportunities Explored By 2033

According to the latest estimation from FMI, the security holograms market is projected to reach a value of US$5,233.2 million by 2023. It is expected that sales of security holograms will exceed US$8,633.6 million by 2033, with a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 5.1%.

One of the primary drivers for the sales of security holograms is the increasing need for anti-counterfeiting technologies. Counterfeit goods pose a significant risk to brands and consumers alike, particularly in industries such as cosmetics and hair care products. Security holograms provide a reliable and visually appealing method to authenticate products, helping to combat counterfeiting and protect brand reputation. As a result, various end-use industries are adopting security holograms to safeguard their products and ensure consumer confidence.

The education sector is also contributing to the growth of the security hologram market. In India, for example, the University Grants Commission (UGC) has mandated the implementation of security measures, including security holograms and QR codes, on degree certificates. This requirement aims to ensure proper verification and prevent duplication of certificates. The uniformity of this requirement across universities is expected to drive the demand for security holograms in the education sector. It allows students to establish a distinct personal identity that can be recognized across different institutions, enhancing the integrity of educational qualifications.

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Key Takeaways from the Security Holograms Market:

The United States is expected to be the leading region in the global security holograms market, capturing a share of 23.9% in 2022, with a market value of US$1,210.9 million.

Germany holds a 5.5% share in the European security holograms market and is projected to account for around one-fifth of European sales, offering incremental potential of US$277.7 million throughout the forecast period.

China’s security holograms industry is forecasted to grow at a CAGR of 7.27% from 2023 to 2033. The market in China is expected to be valued at $1,037.6 million in 2023.

In South Asia, the security holograms market in India is estimated to reach a value of US$622.8 million in 2023, with a CAGR of 8.07% over the forecast period.

The 2D/3D segment leads the market in terms of product type, followed by the electron-beam segment. These two categories are projected to account for 32.1% of the market in 2023.

The document, passport, and packaging sectors are expected to contribute to more than 45.5% of the market during the forecast period, based on end-users.

The polypropylene (PP) sector is anticipated to hold a significant share of approximately 45.5% in the security holograms industry throughout the forecast period.

Who is Winning?

The security holograms market is highly competitive, with a large number of manufacturers and companies operating in the industry. FMI has projected the top 7 providers to hold 25% of the global security holograms industry in 2022. These leading players are focusing on expanding their product portfolio and strengthening their distribution networks to increase their market share.

One of the key strategies adopted by manufacturers is investing in research and development to develop advanced security holograms. Companies such as Holostik India Limited and Zhejiang Yonghong Technology Co., Ltd are investing in R&D to develop new technologies and improve the quality of their products. This is expected to help them stay ahead of their competitors and gain a larger share of the market.

In addition to R&D, manufacturers are also focusing on partnerships and collaborations to expand their market presence. For example, Holostik India Limited has entered into a partnership with the Indian government to provide security holograms for passports and other official documents. Similarly, Zhejiang Yonghong Technology Co., Ltd has collaborated with leading brands in the cosmetics and personal care industry to provide security holograms for their products. These partnerships and collaborations are expected to help these manufacturers expand their market share and increase their revenue.

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8x07 Identity

[lostsoulincssea]

Favorite Smallville(clois/non clois) funny scenes?

They have so many funny scenes, it's hard to list them all.

4.01 - Crusade: Сlark finally meets his future wife and mother of his children.

4.03 - Facade: Dunk tank scene. Who doesn't love this scene? THE BEST SCENE EVER

4.13 - Recruit: When Lois forced Сlark to invite her to live on the farm. This poor guy never realized how she did it lmao.

4.14 - Krypto: (Two words. Allergic Lois)

5. 20 - Fade: Fun fact: Clark wasn't taught to knock on the bathroom door.

6.10 - Hydro: That... "That's a hell of a thank-you" moment.

6.17 - Combat: Lois vs. Clark's tummy of steel

8.05 - Committed: THE WHOLE EPISODE! JUST ICONIC!

8.07 - Identity: Clark vs. Lois's red dress (SOMEBODY SAVE HIM!)

9x04 - Echo: "Hello, sailor".

I have so many favorite moments, you can't even imagine...

[legendarydreamer4ever]

Clark & Lois in every episode ► 8.07 “Identity”

SEE ALL HERE

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fic: i fall back (to you) - clark/oliver

Title: i fall back (to you) Fandom: Smallville Pairing/Characters: Clark/Oliver Rating: PG-13 Word Count: 4566 Summary: Clark and Oliver run into each other on a stormy night. A/N: set in s8, in between 8.05 ‘Committed’ and 8.07 ‘Identity’; for the no_true_pair fest, prompt: 1 & 4 are trying to get out of the rain and bump into each other Clark was having a bad day.

[mittensmorgul]

Hi Mittens, I'm listening to your podcast (still loving it) for episode 1x20 and I have to disagree with you on Cas learning free will from Sam and Dean. We learn in season 8 that he had already been manifesting free will since the dawn of time and had to be reset each time to manufactory setting by Naomie for that. He relearn free will from Sam and Dean and had finally the support he needed to fully escape and not have his free will taken away. (1/2)

In the show (not in the show universe), yes, Dean and Sam were the first to manifest free will, agreed, but, while their influence (especially Dean's) on Cas shouldn't be dismissed, Cas' own accomplishments in this regards shouldn't be reduced to "he learned free will from Sam and Dean". (2/2) Thanks again for your great work!

Hi hi!

I'm glad you're enjoying the podcast, thank you!

And heck I don't even remember what I said in the 1x20 recording now... I recorded it six months ago :'D But also, I can't imagine it was much more than an offhand comment, or at least a broad strokes overview of how I think about and understand the subject.

I could probably do just a whole episode on what Free Will is, especially within the confines of the show's universe. I'd even argue that Sam and Dean weren't the first to manifest free will, and that all humans had free will (Chuck said it was included in the kit).

Putting this under a cut because I seriously went all rambly here before I had my coffee this morning :'D

And yeah, we do know that Cas had questioned his orders from Heaven going back millennia, to the point where Naomi had to reprogram him multiple times, as she said in 8.21. I honestly do wish we'd gotten more concrete info on what that actually meant for Cas, though.

For me, at least, while Cas may have rebelled and been reprogrammed at least three times in the past that we can say for sure (I believe Naomi would feel that once was "too many," and can't say for certain that he was mind wiped over and over in the pre-series past since the show never expanded on her original statement or Cas's past experience, and Cas couldn't remember what he couldn't remember, you know?).

But also, I can't imagine I went into extensive detail on any of it in the 1.20 podcast, two seasons before Cas even shows up :'D

Regardless, the thing that enabled Cas to grasp on to his own free will and truly hold on to it, even through several more reprogramming/heaven torture sessions (4.20, and again at least twice post-purgatory in s8 when he was first rescued in 8.07 and when he was forced to kill thousands of Deans in 8.17), was his growing understanding of and empathy for humanity. Or like... his own humanity.

And absolutely, we can't dismiss it was something in Cas himself that even enabled him to learn free will, to even WANT it for himself once he learned, but it wasn't entirely unique to Cas, either. Anna had a streak of it in her that prompted her to choose humanity and fall decades before the action of the show began. Taking on her own grace again and enduring another round of programming in Heaven essentially erased it from her again. Gabriel, it has been argued, had a wide streak of this, as well, having abandoned Heaven and his own identity ostensibly because he was fed up with his family arguing and trying to kill each other. And the other angels that wanted to remain on Earth after the angel fall event got a taste of that freedom, as well. Even Hannah, who ultimately decided those weren't feelings/things she wanted for herself. She believed they were "human things," and not meant for angels.

I'd say we even have to consider angels like Uriel in a discussion of free will and angels, because he chose the side of Lucifer in the original apocalypse. Did he choose that, or was that his "role" he was made to play? We just don't know. So we have been asked by the show to consider what free will itself truly is, and Cas is the character that arc was embodied in. He was the one we watched that journey happen in. His was the lens through which we the audience saw that entire journey unfold. Which, for me, diminishes him as a character and minimizes the significance of his entire arc to say that he "invented" free will or discovered it for himself before the start of the series.

And he may have possessed it, may have even exercised it before he ever met Dean (questioning their orders when killing the first-borns in Egypt, as Naomi mentioned in 8.21), but then as far as we know he fell into line and served Heaven loyally for thousands of years. He followed every order he got after that until... Dean.

When we first met him, he was a Heaven Loyalist, following his orders like a good little angel. What was different after he met Dean? What did Dean give him that he'd never had before? Not from millennia of watching humanity?

Cas may have understood humanity from the outside, may have even believed that some of the orders he'd been given in the past were wrong (based on what he believed God would have wanted for him, though! remember how much Cas believed? Even through the apocalypse? That his entire s5 mission was to find God so he could put everything right again? To save the world and his creation? Before his belief in God and his orders to protect and watch over humanity was shattered completely.

By the time s15 rolled around, Cas had lost all faith in God. I mean that was his big struggle during s12... So 14.20 was a final disappointment, in a long line of disappointments for him, rather than the identity-shattering bomb it was for Dean. But that's a totally different meta essay for another day :'D

Back to free will and Cas...

To me, he had the potential within him all along, but the journey we watched him make through the entire series was one of his UNDERSTANDING of free will. That it doesn't-- as Dean told him in 6.20-- mean you get to do whatever you want. Every angel ~seemed~ to be able to do that, you know? Like Raphael at the beginning of s6 (which we only saw, again, in 6.20) choosing to restart the apocalypse specifically because it's what he wanted, you know? That was literally his reasoning he explained to Cas. Just because you want something doesn't mean you can just take it or make it so. It's about understanding WHY, as much as it's about understanding HOW, you know? And THAT is the part that Cas never was able to understand until he met Dean.

And boy HOWDY did he make mistakes with it! Like... that was the plot of s6. The consequences and fallout of that formed and guided his growth arc for the rest of the series as he grew in understanding of himself, humanity, and what his place was in all of it, and learning how all of his choices had CONSEQUENCES. That free will doesn't exist in a vacuum, and what the burden of having made "bad" choices could mean (or what felt like the best choice at the time, which leads us back to Chuck's hand in the narrative often pushing them into narrative corners where all their choices were terrible... which was like... the plot of the entire series lol).

More important than free will itself, to me anyway, was the knowledge and understanding to use that free will humanely (not "humanly," but honestly that, too). He grew to fully understand his own "moral compass," which yes he had since the beginning-- he objected to killing the first-born sons of Egypt, after all-- but by the end of the series he understood. It wasn't just the ability to reject orders because they "felt wrong," or because God's will was just and should be carried out, or like so much even in the Bible where half of it contradicts the other half and its left to humanity to decide for themselves what's "moral" or "just."

And heck, even his early s4 rebellion was founded in his belief that God might not actually be giving the orders, you know? It wasn't that he believed that following the orders he was given was wrong, but that whoever in Heaven was giving the orders was wrong, which is a big difference. He couldn't believe that God would WANT the apocalypse to happen, or that he would allow Heaven to fail in their mission to protect creation, not that he objected to the actual "doing what he's told" part... It was as much about his faith in God, in believing in the Grand Plan of the universe being "good" and right as it was about disobeying an order he believed was unjust.

He learned how to understand WHY he would make the choices he did. He learned to truly LOVE.

And we know, canonically, he learned that from Dean.

So for me, those concepts go hand in hand and can't be separated out, you know? Otherwise Cas doesn't have a character arc at all. He learns nothing and doesn't (and can't) grow into the complex, fascinating character we watched for 12 seasons.

Yes, he always had a seed of that within him, but we watched it grow into its fullness because of his relationship with Dean (and Sam, and even through parenting and believing in Jack, but the show explicitly told us in plain words that it was always Dean first and foremost). Cas explicitly credited his own entire growth arc of free will and love to his relationship with Dean. I don't see how I can choose to do less.

[pcttrailsidereader]

The PCT Survey 2021 Results - Part 3

In 2014, the average hiker started with a base weight of 17.8 lbs / 8.07 kg, but when they finished they were down to a base weight of 14.8 lbs / 6.71 kg (3 lb / 1.36 kg savings).

The average hiker spent a grand total of $1,291 on gear before the hike.

Starting Base Weight: 17.8 lb / 8.1 kg average (σ = 7.8 lb / 3.5 kg)

Ending Base Weight: 14.8 lb / 6.7 kg average (σ = 8.6 lb / 3.9 kg)

Filter Water: 58% Yes, 42% No (from “Yes”: 12% only sometimes, 6% only in desert)

Average Spent On Gear: $1,291 (σ = $901)

In the 2021 survey, the starting base weight had dropped to 17.07 lbs. By the end of the hike, the average hiker had dropped 2.3 lbs to 14.77 lbs . . . almost identical to the ending weight of hikers in 2014.

The 2021 survey as what gear took you longest to drop from your pack?

Extra Clothing Solar Charger Rain Pants Water Filter

What gear do you wish you had invested more in (or had been able to upgrade)?

Backpack Shelter Sleeping Bag Sleeping Pad

How about favorite dinners?

Mountain House 38.4%

Backpacker's Pantry 33.7%

Knorr Rice Sides 28%

Peak Refuel 18.1%

Greenbelly Meals 16.8%

Good To-Go 15.6%

AlpineAire Foods 13.1%

Food for the Sole 9.2%

Patagonia Provisions 7.2%

Packit Gourmet 5.7%

Top comments on gear for future hikers:

Go lighter. Do your research. Good gear is worth the investment. Don't stress too much about gear.

There is lots of additional detail available for the 2021 survey . . . well worth a more detailed look for the curious or those prepping for the 2022 hiking season.

https://www.halfwayanywhere.com/trails/pacific-crest-trail/pct-hiker-survey-2021/

[kent-farm]

—Smallville, “Identity” + Superman and Lois, “Pilot”

[fyeahchlark]

from the Smallville season 8 episode Identity

CHLOE: Jimmy is giving you a perfect alter ego. It's called an alias, Clark. Writers have been writing under pen names since the invention of the alphabet. Oliver Queen has the Green Arrow. I think it's time for you to have one of your own

CLARK: This isn't a debate, Chloe. We need to protect my identity

CHLOE: Look, when it comes to your secret, I've never gone against your wishes. And I understand what a huge leap this is for you. But that picture doesn't reveal anything about Clark Kent. It simply gives the world something that they desperately need right now, a hero

[avauntus]

Supernatural - a retrospective

This is super self-indulgent, and I have so much else I’ve promised-- I owe a long-fic rec post, and ao3 comments, wip work, and that’s just my fandom stuff I’m behind on. *sigh*

But it’s late on a Saturday and now I’ve finished Supernatural, I want to share what I think are my top few eps, and a few other comments. I promise some of this will be different from the “greatest hits” you probably usually see, and I’ll try to make it worth your time. *wry smile*

Look, we have to have categories like: “Most Likely to Live in My Head Rent-Free for the Rest of my Life” and “Most Likely to Inspire Unnecessary Fanfiction” that are different from “Favorites,” because that’s just the cursed energy this show has. ;-)

My top five

#5 - 13.01 - “Lost and Found”

Written by: Andrew Dabb | Directed by: Phil Sgriccia

In fandom, this is most often referred to as the start of the “Grieving Widower” arc, tongue-in-cheek. Also has Alexander Calvert (Jack) walking around completely in the nude for the first third of the ep. (Neither of these are why this is in my top 5, but he has a good story about wardrobe for his ‘first day.’) 

I didn’t expect much out of this episode the first time I watched it, but I’ve gone over this ‘section’ of the show maybe 3-4 times in my Netflix catch-up, and I watch this one in full every time. From Jack being...not at all what anyone expected and an unsteady vindication, to the stunning cinematography (there’s a post that compares shots to Brokeback Mountain, but I think the shots here might be better), to the sheriff who takes the time to remind her deputy that “...there’s no such thing as ‘weird.’ Everyone’s normal in their own way,” to the slow reveal of exactly how hard the events of the previous night (12x23 - All Along the Watchtower) are hitting Dean and Sam and in different ways...(how long the episode takes to reveal to you how Dean fucked up his hand, and what he was saying when he did. Augh!) The Winchesters are trying to rally, but they have been taking hits for a long time, and the cracks are showing.

 #4 - 15.06 - “Golden Time”

Written by: Meredith Glynn | Directed by: John F. Showalter

Supernatural  has a terrible track record with representation in all stripes. It is infamously consistent in killing off anyone minority, female, or non-White. One of the interesting things about the chaotic meta-narrative of season 15 is you can see the lack of fucks some of the writer’s room had to give about not even being subtle about tearing down that type of ‘White-male-hero-journey” now that they were in a literal “what will they do, fire me?” situation.

I’m a Cas fan, and this episode, which gives him an actual, ‘case-of-the-week’ hunter’s narrative where he gets to save the day on his own, successfully, was wonderful. I love that for him! But more than that, for me, this episode is emotional to me for other reasons-- the way Dean and Cas circle around each other on their angry phone call (with the body language! They are broadcasting so LOUD and neither can see because they’re on the phone!), Sam’s story here, where he’s inheriting things from Rowena that allow him in turn to save Eileen, to Cas’ speech and quick anger at the lake when you reflect on his entire journey of self-realization from a soldier of blind faith to an agent of free will... “You selfish little men in your positions of authority...” I just... *clears throat, grabs tissue* 

#3 -  6.20 - “The Man Who Would Be King”

Written & Directed by: Ben Edlund

Speaking of Cas’ journey... I know some folks don’t like the angst and drama of the ‘Heaven and Hell’ plots of Supernatural, but I am here for it. Oh, did we need another reason to include this episode? This has some of the most metal quotes I have heard from any TV show. Ever.

I mean, look at this:

“If I knew then what I know now, I would have said: Freedom is a length of rope. God wants you to hang yourself with it.”

“Explaining freedom to angels is a bit like explaining poetry to fish.”

The delivery of: “It's not too late. Damn it, Cas! We can fix this!” “Dean, it’s not broken!” is one of those Supernatural bits that will live in my head until the end of time. All of Edlund’s episodes are among my favorites, but this (along with “5.04 - The End”) was on another level. 

#2 - 5.16 - “Dark Side of the Moon”

Written by: Andrew Dabb & Daniel Loflin | Directed by: Jeff Wollnough

I think of this episode every time  I hear Bob Dylan sing “Knockin’ on Heaven’s Door.” This is kinda a giant montage episode, but the connecting concepts are so...satisfying. 

“Heaven is your favorite memories.” “ It’s called the axis mundi. It’s a path that runs through heaven. Different people see it as different things. For you, it’s two-lane asphalt.” “This is your idea of heaven? Wow, this was one of the worst nights of my life.” “I don’t think I realized how long you’ve been cleaning up Dad’s messes.” “It’s awesome to finally have an application—a practical application—for string theory.” “Everyone leaves you, Dean. You noticed?” “Why is God talking to me? Gardner-to-gardener, and between us, I think he gets lonely.” “You son of a bitch, I believed in... ” Whoosh.

#1 - 4.01 - “Lazarus Rising”

Written by: Eric Kripke | Directed by: Kim Manners

So...this is the episode where Castiel, angel of thee Lord, shows up. And that’s primarily why it earns the no. 1 spot, because 80% of my enjoyment of Supernatural from this point on was Cas-adjacent. Plus this entire episode just hits. ALL OF IT. Dean’s homecoming. Ruby, my darling. Bobby’s entire vibe. Pamela Barnes, easily one of the most interesting women Supernatural ever introduced. Cas being so hot to say “Hi” to Dean he forgets he wounds people. 

But beyond that-- the way the show writes their ‘oh, by the way, angels’ narrative! If you haven’t seen this episode, would you believe me if I told you that THIS EPISODE, the episode where Supernatural said “canonically, Judeo-Christian Heaven is real, btw” involves no churches but does involve a séance, a soulmark handprint brand, and a himbo angel that “gripped you tight and raised you from Perdition”...but they were all “no homo, guys” for years?

Truly no one was out here doing it like Supernatural even back in 2008.

Others--

15.18 - “Despair” 

“Most Likely to Live Rent-Free in My Head for the Rest of my Life”

Written by: Robert Berens | Directed by: Richard Speight, Jr.

You know why this episode is here. It broke reality. I could be wrong-- but I’d put good money on this episode being the subject of academic theses in the future. That doesn’t automatically make for interesting story, but...

Has there ever been a case, in a mainstream US TV show where a major lead character (Cas) came out as queer so late in the game in a narratively-important way? I’m not aware of it, but I might just be behind on my television.

This episode has great writing, and (blessedly) amazing direction and blocking anyway. Check out the above gif - that is some next level foreshadowing going on in the cinematography, and this isn’t even the most remarked upon shot in this episode. (Seriously, I had to search for 40 minutes for this gif, please respect my game, lol.) Everyone who was involved in 15x18 is giddy talking about their investment, from the costume designer to the actors to the director to the writer...

...And then a bunch of them steadfastly have avoided posting much Supernatural-related since. So that’s...loud. There is a bunch of subtext in this episode that is screamingly loud; there is a bunch of text in this episode that makes several things clear fandom has been chattering over for years and years. The meta-commentary around this episode continues, months later. There are over 700 fics on AO3 with this episode tag.

I have more to say about the themes of ‘free will’ and ‘love’ and ‘identity’ tied to this episode, but seriously-- you’ve probably read 17 versions of it on Tumblr already, so.

This is the last time we see Cas, and the last time Supernatural can claim anything close to narrative consistency. For that alone, it’d earn free head-space.

Runners-up: “4.20 - The Rapture”; “5.04 - The End”; “7.21 - Reading is Fundamental”; “8.21 - The Great Escapist”; “9.06 - Heaven Can’t Wait”; “12.19 - The Future”; “14.08 - Byzantium”

6.17 - “My Heart Will Go On”/8.07 - “A Little Slice of Kevin”

“Most Likely to Inspire Unnecessary Fanfiction”

Written by: Eric Charmelo & Nicole Snyder (6.17); Brad Buckner & Eugenie Ross-Leming | Directed by: Phil Sgriccia (6.17); Charlie Carner (8.07)

Usually the show kills off it’s “one-episode” female characters, but do you know one time it didn’t? When the Moirai (the Fates - specifically Atropos, the shearer of the Threads of Fate) showed up in canon in 6.17. She was posited to have “two older sisters that were bigger than her- in every sense of the word,” ...and Castiel had to back down when she challenged him to a cosmic game of chicken over the Winchester’s lives.

Then they never returned to that idea again. 

“A Little Slice of Kevin” is on here for the opposite reason -- an amazing idea that was really underwritten in the episode it showed up in. Dean Winchester has been dragging himself across the fabric of universes; the literal Word of God is in play in a warehouse in Middle America; Cas is back from Purgatory, but what does that mean, micro and macro? As a person on the street, what would it mean, or feel like, to learn you were a Prophet of the Lord, uncalled? That what you are, everything you are, is a cosmic contingency?

Maybe Fate has an opinion on all these shenanigans?

Perhaps all that doesn’t make sense, but it certainly made an impression on ~2012 me. To this day, it remains the WIP I can open up and fool myself with the ‘twist.’ I wish I remembered where I was going with it so I could finish it.

Runners Up: “2.20 - What Is and What Should Never Be”; “5.04 - The End”; “6.15 - The French Mistake”; 12.12 - “Stuck in the Middle (with you)”; “13.05 - Advanced Thanatology” “14.03 - The Scar”; “14.10 - Nihilism”; “15.15 - Gimme Shelter” ... and “15.20 - Carry On” (obviously)

Fifteen seasons. There were plenty of other episodes I loved that didn’t make these limited lists. But overall -- thank you, Supernatural, for the run. Even if I’m upset at the ending, I can appreciate the game. If you watch the show, what were your favorite episodes?

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Shaping the Future of Authentication: 2033's Security Holograms

According to the latest estimate from FMI (assuming it stands), the security holograms market is projected to reach a value of US$5,233.2 million in 2023. Sales are expected to exceed US$8,633.6 million by 2033, exhibiting a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 5.1%.

The growing demand for anti-counterfeiting technologies to combat the threat of counterfeit products is a key driver for the sales of security holograms. Counterfeit goods pose a significant risk to brands, particularly in the cosmetics and hair care industries. Counterfeiting not only damages a company’s value and reputation but also negatively affects unsuspecting consumers. To mitigate this risk, end-use industries are increasingly adopting security holograms to protect their products.

The education industry is also contributing to the growth of the security hologram market. The University Grants Commission (UGC) in India has mandated the implementation of security measures, including security holograms and QR codes, on degree certificates across all universities. This standardization is expected to boost the demand for security holograms and enable students to establish a unique personal identity that can be verified across different educational institutions.

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In summary, the security holograms market is expanding due to the increasing need for anti-counterfeiting measures and the adoption of security holograms in the education sector to ensure proper verification and prevent duplication of degree certificates.

Key Takeaways from the Security Holograms Market:

The United States is predicted to be the leading region in the worldwide security holograms sector, with a share of 23.9% in 2022. According to the analysis, the US market was valued at US$ 1,210.9 million in 2022.

Germany has 5.5% of the European security holograms market. Germany is expected to account for around one-fifth of European sales and to provide an incremental potential of US$ 277.7 million throughout the forecast period.

From 2023 to 2033, China’s security holograms business is predicted to grow at a CAGR of 7.27%. The security holograms industry in China is expected to be valued at $1,037.6 million in 2023.

In South Asia, the security holograms industry in India is expected to be worth US$ 622.8 million in 2023, growing at an 8.07% CAGR over the forecast period.

The market is led by the 2D/3D sector, followed by the electron-beam segment, in terms of product type. The targeted categories are expected to account for 32.1% of the market in 2023.

In terms of end-user, the document, passport, and packaging sectors are expected to account for more than 45.5% of the market during the projected period.

During the projected period, the polypropylene (PP) sector is expected to have a large share of roughly 45.5% in the security holograms industry.

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Who is Winning?

The security holograms market is highly competitive, with a large number of manufacturers and companies operating in the industry. FMI has projected the top 7 providers to hold 25% of the global security holograms industry in 2022. These leading players are focusing on expanding their product portfolio and strengthening their distribution networks to increase their market share.

One of the key strategies adopted by manufacturers is investing in research and development to develop advanced security holograms. Companies such as Holostik India Limited and Zhejiang Yonghong Technology Co., Ltd are investing in R&D to develop new technologies and improve the quality of their products. This is expected to help them stay ahead of their competitors and gain a larger share of the market.

In addition to R&D, manufacturers are also focusing on partnerships and collaborations to expand their market presence. For example, Holostik India Limited has entered into a partnership with the Indian government to provide security holograms for passports and other official documents. Similarly, Zhejiang Yonghong Technology Co., Ltd has collaborated with leading brands in the cosmetics and personal care industry to provide security holograms for their products. These partnerships and collaborations are expected to help these manufacturers expand their market share and increase their revenue.

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Security Holograms Market by Category

By Product Type:

2D/3D

Dot Matrix

Flip Flop

Electron-beam

By Material:

Polypropylene (PP)

Polyvinyl Chloride (PVC)

Polyethylene Terephthalate (PET)

By End Use:

Packaging

Apparel

Currency

Passport

Documents

Other (Credit Cards, Tickets, etc.)

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8x07 Identity

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barney and robin’s actions during the Robin

Robin’s actions during “The Robin”: What do you think about Robin’s actions during The Robin”? What does this tell us about her feelings for Barney?

Robin at this time period is truly a woman tortured by her feelings and struggling against them while at the same time still feeling compelled to fight for Barney too. I've said this before but I really think that the Florence and the machine song "The Hardest of Hearts" is THE embodiment of what's happening with Robin during 8.07-8.12. And because she's fighting her feelings for so much she's an absolute mess. But it's clearly all about her love for Barney from start to finish. Something that bothered me at the time and still bothers me on rewatch of 8.09 is the way Robin’s lobster allergy is handled and specifically Lily’s comments on it. Lily makes it sound as if Robin only wanted the lobster (Barney) solely because she was told she couldn’t have it. That makes it sound like she doesn’t really want him; she only wants what she can’t have like some sort of spoiled child. But I think the rest of the episode does a fantastic job of showing that’s not what’s happening at all. I actually had an identical experience to Robin where just recently I was told I’d developed a sudden food allergy and, like Robin, I didn’t want to accept it and tried to eat the food anyway and got violently ill. And, like they demonstrate in 8.09 with Robin’s interest and feelings for Barney, it’s not about only wanting it because now you can’t have it. What it’s really about is taking something for granted and assuming it would always be around to enjoy whenever you were ready. So once you’re told you can’t have it, it freaks you out that you can never, ever again have this thing you love and it makes you realize that you didn’t appreciate what you had back when you could have it, and you squandered your opportunities back when you had the chance. That is what we see happening with Robin in 8.09, not that she only wants Barney because he said he was done and now she can’t have him. And I think Robin’s behavior in the episode demonstrates that, but then Lily’s comments undermine it. I don’t even know why they’d have her say that, unless it’s simply to show that the gang doesn’t really take B/R or either of their feelings for each other seriously. Also Robin’s idea that she’ll sleep with Barney one last time to “get him out of her system” is extremely revealing because she likens it to trying to eat lobster again and how much that hurt her, so much that she’ll never make that mistake again. Which means Robin thinks sleeping with Barney again will lead to pain and getting her heart broken (when he goes back to sleeping around afterwards and they say it “never happened), so it once again demonstrates her state of mind of still not understanding how Barney really feels about her and that she wouldn’t get her heart broken by him. (I don’t think that understanding comes until the minute he proposes.) But, furthermore, this idea that she’s going to get him out of her system is clearly just her justification to allow herself to sleep with him (like she really wants to) but that’s not the true motivation here. If all she wanted to do was purposefully get hurt by Barney after sleeping with him again so she’d never go back there again, she could have done that back in 8.07. But, instead, protecting herself from that pain is the very reason she pushed him away and said we can’t do this. And the only thing that’s changed in the time period between 8.07 and 8.09 is that Barney told her he’s through with her. So what Robin is actually trying to do is put herself back on his radar by sleeping with him again. If she sleeps with him one more time, she can claim he’s out of her system now, go back into denial about her feelings for him, and yet Barney’s been reminded and his actions have vividly proven that he is NOT done with her, so Robin can go back into this safe place where she continues to assume she and Barney can be together sometime later on in the future, if not right then.

Robin was tryin' to deny her feelings for Barney just like she did back in Season 6 but, when Nora give him another chance in 'Challenge Accepted', she started to slowly realize that she wasn't over him and in 'Stinson's Missile Crisis' she acted in the same way she did in 'Lobster Crawl': she was trying to get his attention and flirting with him (but in S8 Robin was so confused that she didn't realize that her freaking out wasn't a new thing). The interesting thing is that in 7.04, Robin let it go, at the end. She put Barney's happiness before everything else and let him stayin' with Nora. After 8.09, instead, Robin didn't do the same. She continued to interfere B/P's relationship trying to breaking them up. I understand her behiavor in 'The Final Page part 2' when she said she wasn't in love with Barney. I think she realized that she had still feelings for him after what she said when she hugged Patrice. But, in the moment she heard he was going to propose to another woman, she got back to the denial in order to avoid the pain and move on. The problem was that this time she couldn't pretend to be ok with that situation. It's huge, especially for someone like Robin, that she went on that roof ready to stop Barney's engagement. When she found out The Robin and got mad at Barney, i think it's important the fact she said THAT (and so all the Plays) was the proof of why they will never work. Because he's not serious, he manipulated her, he just wanna sleep with her and nothing else. When she saw Barney on his knees with the engagement ring, all her doubts fade away, because she knew he would have never done that if he wasn't truly in love with her. And of course she said yes, that proposal was just everything she was looking for.

Barney’s actions during “The Robin”: what do you make of Barney’s actions while running “The Robin”? What does this tell you about his knowledge and feelings for Robin?

Watching this again and all at once, one episode right after the other, knowing the grand scheme of things, you can see all the more how brilliantly done the entire B/R reunion is. Obviously, the speech at Splitsville is the key moment and the turning point for them, and it’s everything that Robin wanted Barney to say back in “Tick Tick Tick”. But I think the defining moment for Barney comes a tad bit later, at the very end of the episode. Clearly, he went to Splitsville just desperate to keep Robin from staying with Nick (so she wouldn’t end up married to him, like he earlier shared is his fear) but I don’t think he had any clear plan of what he was going to do or say once he got there, and then he ends up saying much more than he ever intended to. And Robin just doesn’t even take it seriously until he starts talking about how he wished he could stop loving her but he can’t, and it’s that inclusion of the real, raw details of what’s actually gone down between them that makes her stop and seriously wonder if he could actually mean it. But, again, I don’t think Barney intended to say it at all (though it was such an important moment, and an eight year silent truth finally spoken, which is why they had to show the entire gang’s reaction because it was so important), so he tries to save face and backtrack afterwards. His defining moment comes in when Robin simply won’t let him get away with it and won’t let it pass like she ordinarily would. She actually stops him, calls him out on it, and won’t let him just laugh it off but wants to face it, literally, head on. That’s not something Robin ordinarily does or would ever, which makes it extremely significant. Then the way she looks at him and is touching his chest in a clearly romantic (possibly even possessive) manner is when it all clicks for Barney that Robin wants it to be true and she’s trying to get him to admit that it’s all true because she feels the same way too, she’s just been afraid to admit it. And it’s such a defining moment that they make sure that the audience notices Barney noticing. This isn’t just something that he again misconstrues or misinterprets. He’s finally getting it loud and clear. And then the rest of it – looking up to Robin pointedly (but amused and happy) about the chest touching, and then suggesting and even beginning to attempt a kiss – is Barney’s way of testing the waters and seeing if his new revelation is indeed correct, which it is (the way she shyly moves her hand the moment he notices, the way she was going to kiss him too). I believe that it’s after that point, after the moment has passed and she probably tries to play it off as he walks her home and says goodnight, that Barney starts formulating his plan. He’s realized now that Robin IS in love with him, but she’s fighting it tooth and nail and he’s got to come up with some way to get her to stop fighting it, which is how he gradually comes up with “The Robin”. I just think that all of Barney's actions throughout are so incredible and show how well he knows Robin inside out, far better than Ted. He can anticipate her every move before she makes them and knows her feelings better than she's willing to admit it to herself. And I love that we get to see Barney play with Robin in episodes like 8.07 and 8.09. This is the only time in the series where he gets to sort of flirt and tease her now with the full knowledge that she is absolutely in love with him and that he has her heart in the palm of his hand. So the "drunken" kiss and the way Barney makes Robin think he's going to sleep with her and then backs off at the last minute are just fantastic. And the thing is she absolutely needed that, but I'll get into that more in "The Robin" thread.

I think it's AMAZING how well Barney knows Robin. Only a person who truly loves you and knows you even in the little details, can realize something like 'The Robin'. He resisted her dressed in lingerie, he built a fake engagement and let's say he also threatened to undermine his friendship with Robin if she hadn't accepted the proposal. Barney did all those things to get her and that is absolutely the most obvious proof of how much he loves Robin.

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