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Holidays 10.28

Holidays

Bhai Dooj (India)

Bhai Tika (Nepal)

Children’s Day (Australia)

Chucks-N-Pearls Day

Civil Servants’ Day (Brazil)

Common Fig Day (French Republic)

Cox Plate Day (Australia)

Day of International Concern About Young People and Gun Violence

Engineer’s Day (Venezuela)

Flying Baby Day

Folly Day

Gone-ta-Pott Day [every 28th]

Hari Sumpah Pemuda (Youth Pledge Day; Indonesia)

Honoring the Nation’s First Responders Day

International Animation Day

International Creole Day

Liberation of Ukraine from Nazi Invaders Day (Ukraine)

Milvian Bridge Day

National Caroline Day

National Comprehensive Sex Education Call-In Day

National Cry Yourself to Sleep Day

National Day of Outrage

National First Responders Day

National I Love You Day

National Immigrants Day

National Internal Medicine Day

National Internment Commemoration Day (Canada)

National William Day

Ohi Day (a.k.a. Ochi! Day or Oxi Day; Cyprus, Greece)

Part Your Hair Crooked Just To See If Anyone Will Say Anything About It Day

Plush Animal Lover's Day

Prefectural Earthquake Disaster Prevention Day (Gifu, Japan)

Q Day

Republic Day Eve (Turkey)

Separation of Church and State Day

Stan Lee Day (Los Angeles)

Stargate Day

Statue of Liberty Day

Ticker-Tape Parade Day

Time Day

Twitter Emancipation Day

Ugly Pickup Truck Day

Vote Early Day

World Judo Day

World Tobacco Growers’ Day

Youth Pledge Day (Indonesia)

Food & Drink Celebrations

National Chocolate Day

Wild Foods Day

4th & Last Monday in October

African-American Cotton Pickers’ Day [4th Monday]

Bank Holiday (Ireland) [Last Monday]

Equality Day (Antarctica) [4th Monday]

Green Monday [Monday of Last Full Week]

International School Library Day [4th Monday]

Labour Day (New Zealand) [4th Monday]

La Saoire i mi Dheireadh Fomhair [Last Monday]

Meatless Monday [Last Monday of Each Month]

Meditation Monday [Every Monday]

Monday Musings [Every Monday]

Moody Monday [Last Monday of Each Month]

Motivation Monday [Every Monday]

October Bank Holiday (Ireland) [Last Monday]

School Library Day (Canada) [Last Monday]

Independence & Related Days

Bokonton (Declared; 2007) [unrecognized]

Czechoslovakia (Now the Czech Republic; from Austria-Hungary, 1918)

Erusia (Declared; 2008) [unrecognized]

Foundation Day (Davao Occidental, Philippines)

United Republics of Michigan (Declared; 2019) [unrecognized]

Weekly Holidays beginning October 28 (Last Week of October)

Hudson Valley Restaurant Week (Hudson Valley, New York) [thru 11.10]

Festivals Beginning October 28, 2024

American Indian Tourism Conference (Marksville, Louisiana) [thru 10.31]

Supply Side West (Las Vegas, Nevada) [thru 10.31]

TechCrunch Disrupt (San Francisco, California) [thru 10.30]

Tokyo International Film Festival (Tokyo, Japan) [thru 11.6]

Feast Days

Abdias of Babylon (Christian; Saint)

Abgar V of Edessa (Eastern Orthodox Church)

Ayad Akhtar (Writerism)

Eadsige (Christian; Saint)

Evelyn Waugh (Writerism)

Extra Kinky Day (Pastafarian)

Faro, Bishop of Meauz (Christian; Saint)

Feast of the Einherjar (Norse)

Feast of the Lord of Miracles (Peru)

Fidelis of Como (Roman Catholic Church)

Firmilian (Christian; Saint)

Francis Bacon (Artology)

Fyribod (a.k.a. Forebode; Norse beginning of Winter)

Godwin of Stavelot (Christian; Saint)

Gumby Day (Church of the SubGenius; Saint)

Isis/Osiris Mysteries I (Pagan)

Job of Pochayiv (repose) (Eastern Orthodox Church)

Jude Thaddeus (a.k.a. Jude the Apostle; Western Christianity)

Leibnitz (Positivist; Saint)

Lord of Miracles (Lima; Christian; Saint)

Makoshe’s Holiday (Honoring Mother Earth; Asatru/Pagan Slavic)

Michael Noakes (Artology)

Neot (Christian; Saint)

Paraskrevi of Iconium (Christian; Saint)

Simon the Zealot (a.k.a. Simon the Canaanite; Simon the Apostle; Western Christianity)

The Tortoise (Muppetism)

Lucky & Unlucky Days

Butsumetsu (仏滅 Japan) [Unlucky all day.]

Umu Limnu (Evil Day; Babylonian Calendar; 50 of 60)

Premieres

All Quiet on the Western Front (Film; 2022)

An Alpine Symphony, by Richard Strauss (Tone Poem; 1915)

Barking Dogs Don’t Fite (Fleischer/Famous Popeye Cartoon; 1949)

Because I Got High, by Afroman (Song; 2001)

Bee Movie (Animated Film; 2007)

Black Beauty (Hanna-Barbera Animated TV Special; 1978)

The Blue Danube (MGM Cartoon; 1939)

Breakfast at Tiffany’s, by Truman Capote (Novella; 1958)

Decade, by Neil Young (Compilation Album; 1977)

Decline and Fall, by Evelyn Waugh (Novel; 1928)

The Desperate Showers (George of the Jungle Cartoon; 1967) [#8]

Droopy (Tex Avery Droopy MGM Cartoon; 1955)

Educating Rita (Film; 1983)

The Futurological Congress: From the Memoirs of Ijon Tichy, by Stanisław Lem (Novel; 1971)

Gulliver’s Travels, by Jonathan Swift (Novel; 1726)

How Green Was My Valley (Film; 1941)

Inferno (Film; 2016)

Kiss Meets the Phantom of the Park (TV movie; 1978)

The Legend of Zorro (Film; 2005)

Man's Search for Meaning, by Viktor E. Frankl (Philosophical Book; 1959)

News of the World, by Queen (Album; 1978)

The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas, by Ursula K. Le Guin (Short Story; 1973)

The Pet Store (Disney Cartoon; 1933)

Pinterest (Social Media App; 2009)

Pop ‘im Pop! (WB LT Cartoon; 1950)

Puss in Boots (Animated Film; 2011)

Pussy Willie (Oswald the Lucky Rabbit Cartoon; 1929)

Puttin’ On the Dog (Tom & Jerry Cartoon; 1944)

The Quail Hunt (Oswald the Lucky Rabbit Cartoon; 1935)

Richard Pryor … Here and Now (Stand-Up Comedy Film; 1983)

Rotten Hood (Super Chicken Cartoon; 1967) [#18

The Rum Diary (Film; 2011)

Stargate (Film; 1994)

String Along Pink (Pink Panther Cartoon; 1978)

Supermarket Pink (Pink Panther Cartoon; 1978)

Talking Book, by Stevie Wonder (Album; 1972)

Tinker Bell (Animated Film; 2008)

We Can’t Dance, by Genesis (Album; 1991)

Today’s Name Days

Judas, Simon, Thaddeus (Austria)

Juda, Šimun, Siniša, Tadej, Tadija (Croatia)

Státní Svátek (Czech Republic)

Judas, Simon (Denmark)

Siim, Siimo, Siimon, Siimu, Simmo, Simmu, Simun (Estonia)

Simo (Finland)

Jude, Simon (France)

Freddy, Simon (Germany)

Evniki, Vili (Greece)

Simon, Szimonetta (Hungary)

Giuda, Simone (Italy)

Antoņina, Ņina, Ninona, Zemgals (Latvia)

Almantė, Gaudrimas, Simas, Simonas, Tadas (Lithuania)

Simen, Simon (Norway)

Juda, Szymon, Tadeusz, Wszeciech (Poland)

Iachint (Romania)

Dobromila (Slovakia)

Judas, Simón (Spain)

Simon, Simone (Sweden)

Nestor (Ukraine)

Dayanara, Eunice, Jonah, Jonas, Jude, Liberty, Simeon, Simon, Simone, Thad, Thaddea, Thaddeus (USA)

Today is Also…

Day of Year: Day 302 of 2024; 64 days remaining in the year

ISO: Day 1 of Week 44 of 2024

Celtic Tree Calendar: Hagal (Hailstone) [Day 2 of 28]

Chinese: Month 9 (Jia-Xu), Day 26 (Yi-Chou)

Chinese Year of the: Dragon 4722 (until January 29, 2025) [Wu-Chen]

Hebrew: 26 Tishri 5785

Islamic: 24 Rabi II 1446

J Cal: 2 Wood; Oneday [1 of 30]

Julian: 14 October 2024

Moon: 12%: Waning Crescent

Positivist: 22 Descartes (11th Month) [Gibbon / Robertson]

Runic Half Month: Wyn (Joy) [Day 6 of 15]

Season: Autumn or Fall (Day 36 of 90)

Week: Last Week of October

Zodiac: Scorpio (Day 5 of 30)

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Holidays 10.28

Holidays

Bhai Dooj (India)

Bhai Tika (Nepal)

Children’s Day (Australia)

Chucks-N-Pearls Day

Civil Servants’ Day (Brazil)

Common Fig Day (French Republic)

Cox Plate Day (Australia)

Day of International Concern About Young People and Gun Violence

Engineer’s Day (Venezuela)

Flying Baby Day

Folly Day

Gone-ta-Pott Day [every 28th]

Hari Sumpah Pemuda (Youth Pledge Day; Indonesia)

Honoring the Nation’s First Responders Day

International Animation Day

International Creole Day

Liberation of Ukraine from Nazi Invaders Day (Ukraine)

Milvian Bridge Day

National Caroline Day

National Comprehensive Sex Education Call-In Day

National Cry Yourself to Sleep Day

National Day of Outrage

National First Responders Day

National I Love You Day

National Immigrants Day

National Internal Medicine Day

National Internment Commemoration Day (Canada)

National William Day

Ohi Day (a.k.a. Ochi! Day or Oxi Day; Cyprus, Greece)

Part Your Hair Crooked Just To See If Anyone Will Say Anything About It Day

Plush Animal Lover's Day

Prefectural Earthquake Disaster Prevention Day (Gifu, Japan)

Q Day

Republic Day Eve (Turkey)

Separation of Church and State Day

Stan Lee Day (Los Angeles)

Stargate Day

Statue of Liberty Day

Ticker-Tape Parade Day

Time Day

Twitter Emancipation Day

Ugly Pickup Truck Day

Vote Early Day

World Judo Day

World Tobacco Growers’ Day

Youth Pledge Day (Indonesia)

Food & Drink Celebrations

National Chocolate Day

Wild Foods Day

4th & Last Monday in October

African-American Cotton Pickers’ Day [4th Monday]

Bank Holiday (Ireland) [Last Monday]

Equality Day (Antarctica) [4th Monday]

Green Monday [Monday of Last Full Week]

International School Library Day [4th Monday]

Labour Day (New Zealand) [4th Monday]

La Saoire i mi Dheireadh Fomhair [Last Monday]

Meatless Monday [Last Monday of Each Month]

Meditation Monday [Every Monday]

Monday Musings [Every Monday]

Moody Monday [Last Monday of Each Month]

Motivation Monday [Every Monday]

October Bank Holiday (Ireland) [Last Monday]

School Library Day (Canada) [Last Monday]

Independence & Related Days

Bokonton (Declared; 2007) [unrecognized]

Czechoslovakia (Now the Czech Republic; from Austria-Hungary, 1918)

Erusia (Declared; 2008) [unrecognized]

Foundation Day (Davao Occidental, Philippines)

United Republics of Michigan (Declared; 2019) [unrecognized]

Weekly Holidays beginning October 28 (Last Week of October)

Hudson Valley Restaurant Week (Hudson Valley, New York) [thru 11.10]

Festivals Beginning October 28, 2024

American Indian Tourism Conference (Marksville, Louisiana) [thru 10.31]

Supply Side West (Las Vegas, Nevada) [thru 10.31]

TechCrunch Disrupt (San Francisco, California) [thru 10.30]

Tokyo International Film Festival (Tokyo, Japan) [thru 11.6]

Feast Days

Abdias of Babylon (Christian; Saint)

Abgar V of Edessa (Eastern Orthodox Church)

Ayad Akhtar (Writerism)

Eadsige (Christian; Saint)

Evelyn Waugh (Writerism)

Extra Kinky Day (Pastafarian)

Faro, Bishop of Meauz (Christian; Saint)

Feast of the Einherjar (Norse)

Feast of the Lord of Miracles (Peru)

Fidelis of Como (Roman Catholic Church)

Firmilian (Christian; Saint)

Francis Bacon (Artology)

Fyribod (a.k.a. Forebode; Norse beginning of Winter)

Godwin of Stavelot (Christian; Saint)

Gumby Day (Church of the SubGenius; Saint)

Isis/Osiris Mysteries I (Pagan)

Job of Pochayiv (repose) (Eastern Orthodox Church)

Jude Thaddeus (a.k.a. Jude the Apostle; Western Christianity)

Leibnitz (Positivist; Saint)

Lord of Miracles (Lima; Christian; Saint)

Makoshe’s Holiday (Honoring Mother Earth; Asatru/Pagan Slavic)

Michael Noakes (Artology)

Neot (Christian; Saint)

Paraskrevi of Iconium (Christian; Saint)

Simon the Zealot (a.k.a. Simon the Canaanite; Simon the Apostle; Western Christianity)

The Tortoise (Muppetism)

Lucky & Unlucky Days

Butsumetsu (仏滅 Japan) [Unlucky all day.]

Umu Limnu (Evil Day; Babylonian Calendar; 50 of 60)

Premieres

All Quiet on the Western Front (Film; 2022)

An Alpine Symphony, by Richard Strauss (Tone Poem; 1915)

Barking Dogs Don’t Fite (Fleischer/Famous Popeye Cartoon; 1949)

Because I Got High, by Afroman (Song; 2001)

Bee Movie (Animated Film; 2007)

Black Beauty (Hanna-Barbera Animated TV Special; 1978)

The Blue Danube (MGM Cartoon; 1939)

Breakfast at Tiffany’s, by Truman Capote (Novella; 1958)

Decade, by Neil Young (Compilation Album; 1977)

Decline and Fall, by Evelyn Waugh (Novel; 1928)

The Desperate Showers (George of the Jungle Cartoon; 1967) [#8]

Droopy (Tex Avery Droopy MGM Cartoon; 1955)

Educating Rita (Film; 1983)

The Futurological Congress: From the Memoirs of Ijon Tichy, by Stanisław Lem (Novel; 1971)

Gulliver’s Travels, by Jonathan Swift (Novel; 1726)

How Green Was My Valley (Film; 1941)

Inferno (Film; 2016)

Kiss Meets the Phantom of the Park (TV movie; 1978)

The Legend of Zorro (Film; 2005)

Man's Search for Meaning, by Viktor E. Frankl (Philosophical Book; 1959)

News of the World, by Queen (Album; 1978)

The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas, by Ursula K. Le Guin (Short Story; 1973)

The Pet Store (Disney Cartoon; 1933)

Pinterest (Social Media App; 2009)

Pop ‘im Pop! (WB LT Cartoon; 1950)

Puss in Boots (Animated Film; 2011)

Pussy Willie (Oswald the Lucky Rabbit Cartoon; 1929)

Puttin’ On the Dog (Tom & Jerry Cartoon; 1944)

The Quail Hunt (Oswald the Lucky Rabbit Cartoon; 1935)

Richard Pryor … Here and Now (Stand-Up Comedy Film; 1983)

Rotten Hood (Super Chicken Cartoon; 1967) [#18

The Rum Diary (Film; 2011)

Stargate (Film; 1994)

String Along Pink (Pink Panther Cartoon; 1978)

Supermarket Pink (Pink Panther Cartoon; 1978)

Talking Book, by Stevie Wonder (Album; 1972)

Tinker Bell (Animated Film; 2008)

We Can’t Dance, by Genesis (Album; 1991)

Today’s Name Days

Judas, Simon, Thaddeus (Austria)

Juda, Šimun, Siniša, Tadej, Tadija (Croatia)

Státní Svátek (Czech Republic)

Judas, Simon (Denmark)

Siim, Siimo, Siimon, Siimu, Simmo, Simmu, Simun (Estonia)

Simo (Finland)

Jude, Simon (France)

Freddy, Simon (Germany)

Evniki, Vili (Greece)

Simon, Szimonetta (Hungary)

Giuda, Simone (Italy)

Antoņina, Ņina, Ninona, Zemgals (Latvia)

Almantė, Gaudrimas, Simas, Simonas, Tadas (Lithuania)

Simen, Simon (Norway)

Juda, Szymon, Tadeusz, Wszeciech (Poland)

Iachint (Romania)

Dobromila (Slovakia)

Judas, Simón (Spain)

Simon, Simone (Sweden)

Nestor (Ukraine)

Dayanara, Eunice, Jonah, Jonas, Jude, Liberty, Simeon, Simon, Simone, Thad, Thaddea, Thaddeus (USA)

Today is Also…

Day of Year: Day 302 of 2024; 64 days remaining in the year

ISO: Day 1 of Week 44 of 2024

Celtic Tree Calendar: Hagal (Hailstone) [Day 2 of 28]

Chinese: Month 9 (Jia-Xu), Day 26 (Yi-Chou)

Chinese Year of the: Dragon 4722 (until January 29, 2025) [Wu-Chen]

Hebrew: 26 Tishri 5785

Islamic: 24 Rabi II 1446

J Cal: 2 Wood; Oneday [1 of 30]

Julian: 14 October 2024

Moon: 12%: Waning Crescent

Positivist: 22 Descartes (11th Month) [Gibbon / Robertson]

Runic Half Month: Wyn (Joy) [Day 6 of 15]

Season: Autumn or Fall (Day 36 of 90)

Week: Last Week of October

Zodiac: Scorpio (Day 5 of 30)

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AI-Wielding Tech Firms Are Giving A New Shape To Modern Warfare! Ukraine is a Testing Ground For Companies Like Anduril and Palantir

— Business | Schumpeter | The Economist | February 16th, 2023

Much of the Western military hardware used in Ukraine sounds familiar to any student of 20th-century warfare: surface-to-air missiles, anti-tank weapons, rocket launchers and howitzers. But Ukraine’s use of Western information technology, including artificial intelligence (ai) and autonomous surveillance systems, has also had a powerful, if less visible, impact on Russian forces. Commercial vendors supply Ukrainian troops with satellites, sensors, unmanned drones and software. The products provide reams of battlefield data which are condensed into apps to help soldiers on the ground target the enemy. One American defence official calls them, appreciatively, “Uber for artillery”.

Behind this new form of warfare are some of the most unconventional minds in American tech. Everyone knows about Elon Musk, whose rocket company SpaceX put Starlink satellites at the service of Ukraine (though he has now restricted access from the battlefield). Your columnist recently met two other iconoclastic entrepreneurs. One is Palmer Luckey, a 30-year-old who in 2017 co-founded Anduril, a maker of surveillance towers, drones, unmanned submarines and an ai-driven system that supports them, called Lattice. With his trademark flip-flops, Hawaiian shirts and goatee, he is an atypical defence contractor (Tony Stark, Marvel’s gadget-obsessed “Iron Man”, springs to mind). Yet the startup is already shaking up the traditional model of military procurement in America. In its short life, it has won contracts in America and Australia. It provides autonomous systems to Ukraine. When it last raised money in December, it was valued at $8.5bn.

The other is Alex Karp, an eccentric doctor of philosophy with an Einstein-like mop of hair. (Mr Karp used to sit on the board of The Economist’s parent company.) Palantir, his Denver-based software firm, builds digital infrastructure to help clients manage lots of data, be it on security threats, health-care systems or factories’ productivity. Like SpaceX, it has blazed the trail for civilian-military ventures since he co-founded it two decades ago. He makes bold claims. Palantir, he says, has changed the way Ukrainian troops target the enemy, and even the nature of counter-terrorism. He credits its software with saving millions of lives during the covid-19 pandemic. It may not all be gospel truth (the description of British journalists he delivers while staring at Schumpeter—“bad teeth, hard questions”—is only half true). Yet there is little doubt Palantir is supporting Ukraine both on the ground and as part of nato’s intelligence network. On February 13th, when it reported its first-ever quarterly profit and Mr Karp hinted that his firm might be an acquisition target, its market value rose to $21bn.

Both men are cut from similar cloth. They are Silicon Valley renegades. They criticise big tech for abandoning its historic link with America’s defence establishment. They lament the fast pace of civilian-military fusion in China, which they see as a potential threat to the West. To a greater or lesser degree, they are linked to Peter Thiel, a right-wing venture capitalist. Mr Thiel chairs Palantir and his Founders Fund was an early backer of Anduril (both names echo his love of J.R.R. Tolkien). To some that makes them creepy. Still, using different business models, both highlight how sclerotic the traditional system of “prime” defence contracting has become. They offer intriguing alternatives.

Like a prime contractor, Anduril only sells to military customers. But unlike defence giants such as Lockheed Martin and Northrop Grumman, it does so while taking all the research-and-development (r&d) risk on its own shoulders. Mr Luckey is a born innovator. As a teenager, he invented the Oculus virtual-reality headset that he later sold to Facebook for $3bn. Walk with him through the arsenal of airborne and subsea devices on display at Anduril’s headquarters in Southern California and his wonkishness as he explains the gadgetry is almost overwhelming.

His business acumen is no less sharp. He and his executives have no time for the Pentagon’s traditional “cost-plus” procurement system. Though it may be necessary for big projects like fighter planes and aircraft-carriers, they say, in general it distorts incentives, creating a risk-averse, expensive and slow-moving defence juggernaut. Rather than waiting for government contracts, Anduril creates what it thinks defence departments need, and uses iterative manufacturing and a lean supply chain to make products quickly and relatively cheaply.

It is fiercely competitive. Compared with the prolix, PowerPoint-heavy bidding processes for prime contracts, Anduril relishes the cut-and-thrust of “shoot-offs”, or competitions in which the Department of Defence (dod) tests commercial products against each other. Its success rate is high. In 2020 it won a big contract to provide surveillance towers on America’s border with Mexico. Last year it secured $1bn from the dod to provide autonomous counter-drone systems. It is building underwater vehicles the size of buses to patrol waters off Australia. Though there is an element of the “America first” crusader about Mr Luckey, he leaves no doubt that he intends Anduril to be a big, profitable business.

Lords of the Slings

Palantir has tentatively started to achieve that status, but with a “dual-use” business model. It works for private clients as well as governments (albeit only ones friendly with America). Both on the battlefield and in business, its software cuts through the thickening fog of data to enable quick decision-making. Other dual-use firms are increasingly winning defence contracts. The Pentagon’s Defence Innovation Unit, set up in 2015, supports a big increase in the use of commercial technologies, such as ai, autonomy and integrated systems, to speed up the responsiveness to global threats.

Ukraine is a good testing ground. It is also a good simile. The struggle of tech Davids taking on America’s military-industrial Goliath is not dissimilar to tech-enabled Ukrainian troops battling the turgid might of Russia. ■

— This article appeared in the Business section of the print edition under the headline "The Data Geeks of War"

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Dutch Time Pieces - Antique Clocks & Barometers

Established in 1980, Dutch Antiques repairs and brings back measures and antique clocks, given that 2002 in Perth. They also have a wide range of antique clocks, antique measures, scientific tools, steam engines as well as other intriguing antique things available.

Dutch Time Pieces Longcase Clocks Perth, Western Australia 0404197597 rijks068@gmail.com https://dutchtimepieces.com/product-category/antique-clocks/longcase-clocks

When your clock has missing components, you can count on Dutch Time Pieces to hand craft the substitute to fit its initial age and also style. Additionally, their clockmaker's experience and our comprehensive library of resources enable us to preserve that authenticity. For measures, on the other hand, the workshop has a series of components for replacement or repair. Dutch Antiques also recovers painted dials and also cupboards when you need them to. Listed below you can locate some information on various antique subjects that you can discover on the internet.

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More on that Gotham Rogues mermaid au

So like a week or two ago I made this post and thought I’d add in what ocean or sea the rogues were caught in and a couple things about their life in the batfam’s aquarium

Edward: South China Sea off the coast of Vietnam, very curious about humans. loves attention and must be constantly entertained or else he escapes his tank and roams the facility, giving him intricate puzzles to solve works best. He loves compliments and responds well to positive reinforcement. Very emotional. He charms anyone he can. Loves getting access to any human media.

Jonathan: originally from the North Atlantic Ocean, Labrador Sea but despite being a deep sea mer he migrated inland and began terrorizing people in Lake Ontario and Lake Erie, he was eventually pulled out of the Ottawa River. likes the dark, scares guests, has a supernaturally terrifying aura, unsettles guests and staff. Has a fascination with any staff that aren’t openly afraid of him. Very persuasive.

Oswald: Found deep in the Bering Ocean off the coast of Russia. Fascinated by birds because they can fly and he thinks that’s the wildest thing. Basically runs a trade system between the other mers the way inmates in prison do. He came up with it and they trade things like food, shells, different “enrichments” from their tanks, things they’ve stolen from staff. Motivated by greed and pride.

Selina: Originally from the middle of the South Pacific Ocean but wandered a little outside the normal range of the Indo-Pacific region and was caught far off the coast of Chile. Is a thief and a flirt, very independent and loves shiny things. Keeps a collection of things she’s stolen from staff members. Prefers to share her tank with a group of at least 5 (non-mer) catfish all of which she has named and become very attached to. Flirts with Bruce for extra privileges.

Ivy: Originally from the the Western Pacific between Japan and Australia, migrated around the world luring men out to sea and was eventually captured in the North Channel between Scotland and Northern Ireland. Tank has tons of plants and is basically an enclosed ocean forest, she doesn’t come out for visitors often and when she does it’s usually for female visitors and staff. Likes to visit Harley and is only handled by female staff.

Harley: From the East Indian Ocean off the coast of Australia, migrated up to the Irish Sea. Very social and talkative. Has a huge crush on Joker obviously. Has two pet dogfish sharks named Bud and Lou of course. Loves when staff provide her with hair ties and supplies to make jewelry out of seashells. Loves interacting with guests.

Joker: No one knows where he came from but he was fished out of the Suez Canal (in case you don’t remember where that is off the top of your head, it connects the Red Sea to the Mediterranean). He’s probably responsible for a number of missing persons cases before being caught. Joker has been obsessed with Bruce from the beginning and is usually extremely violent towards other mers and especially towards staff in an effort to get Bruce’s attention. Once tried to maim Jason. Bruce is the only one allowed to handle him now.

Waylon: Caught in the Gulf of Mexico off the coast of Louisiana. Was occasionally known to eat humans before his capture. Can speak French. Likes to hide in the sand. Is insecure about how plain he looks because he’s less colorful than the other mers.

Zsasz: Found in the Adriatic Sea off the coast of Croatia. Indifferent towards humans and violent towards other mers, especially female mers. This is because he is very nihilistic. Is not allowed any sharp objects. Likes things that most would consider frivolous because he appreciates especially pointless things. Ex: dumb plastic “enrichment” decorations and other such things that shouldn’t be underwater or things that become useless once in water.

Harvey: Originally from the West Pacific and adopted a migration pattern drifting from the West Pacific off the coast of Japan or Australia to the Eastern Pacific off the Coast of Oregon or California, was captured off the coast of California. Very persuasive and also very moody, important that staff knows which side they’re speaking with. Only eats from 2:00-2:22 pm and 2:00-2:22 am. Usually settles disputes between the other mers, unless he’s personally involved with the dispute. Was the Wayne Aquarium’s first mer and knows Bruce very well.

Bane: Found circling Santa Prisca (which I guess is the dc equivalent of Puerto Rico) in the Caribbean Sea. I’ve since decided he’s a bull shark due to the significance of the bull in a lot of Spanish speaking countries. Really hates Bruce and is surprisingly indifferent towards other staff. Really likes to eat puffer fish and will be pissed if they’re unavailable. Has a really thick layer of glass between him and guests.

Jervis: From the English Channel but captured in the Celtic Sea off the coast of Cornwall. Used to lure blonde women into the sea. Flirts with blonde female guests. Speaks in rhyme with a British accent. Alice in wonderland doesn’t exist under the sea but he happens to have similar obsessions anyway. He references things that have an uncanny similarity to wonderland characters and the wonderland plot line. This baffles the staff as they have no idea if he’s referring to mers he used to know or if these people/characters exist at all.

Freeze: Captured in the North Sea off the coast of Germany. Can be surprisingly gentle. Demands very cold water that includes actual ice floes. His mate, a female mer named Nora is in critical condition, he was captured because he brought his mate to the German shore in hopes she could be saved. Wayne Aquarium is working on a cure for her condition.

Most of them low key have an obsession with Bruce or one of the other Wayne’s.

Idk if I want to include the rest of the rogues but for the record... Slade would be obsessed with Dick, Roman with Jason, Ra’s (I think the al Ghuls would be sea snakes) with Tim, and Talia (assuming I include the al Ghuls as mers considering their relation to Damian) would behave very motherly towards Damian (who I guess in this au if the al Ghuls are mers would simply have an unnamed Arabic mother).

I also headcanon that female mers are typically more dominant in mer society which is matriarchal, females are typically larger and more likely to cooperate with each other and form a large group (hence the Gotham city sirens). Males are smaller and more likely to fight each other.

Anyway these headcanons are free to use and I’d love to hear any additions

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Tuesday, April 13, 2021

Biden’s Infrastructure Push Spurs a Flurry of Lobbying in Congress (NYT) Members of Congress have begun a frenzy of lobbying to ensure that their pet projects and policy priorities are included in President Biden’s $2 trillion infrastructure and jobs plan, eager to shape what could be one of the most substantial public works investments in a generation. Officials across the country are dusting off lists of construction projects and social programs, hoping to secure their piece of a plan aimed at addressing what the administration estimates is at least $1 trillion worth of backlogged infrastructure improvements, as well as economic and racial inequities that have existed for decades. “My phone is blowing up,” Pete Buttigieg, the transportation secretary, said in an interview. Nearly every lawmaker “can point to a road or a bridge or an airport” in his or her district that is in dire need of repair.

Truck seized over ‘munitions of war,’ 5 forgotten bullets (AP) Gerardo Serrano ticked off the border crossing agents by taking some photos on his phone. So they took his pickup truck and held onto it for more than two years. Only after Serrano filed a federal lawsuit did he get back his Ford F-250. Now he wants the Supreme Court to step in and require a prompt court hearing as a matter of constitutional fairness whenever federal officials take someone’s property under civil forfeiture law. The justices could consider his case when they meet privately on Friday. It’s a corner of the larger forfeiture issue, when federal, state or local officials take someone’s property, without ever having to prove that it has been used for illicit purposes. Since 2000, governments have acquired at least $68.8 billion in forfeited property, according to the Institute for Justice, a libertarian public interest law firm that represents Serrano and tracks seizures. The group says the number “drastically underestimates forfeiture’s true scope” because not all states provide data. Serrano’s troubles stemmed from some pictures he took along the way of a long trip from his home in Tyner, Kentucky, to visit relatives, including a dying aunt, in Zaragosa, Mexico. The photo-taking attracted the attention of U.S. Customs and Border Protection agents in Eagle Pass, Texas. When Serrano refused to hand over the password to his phone, the agents went through the 2014 silver pickup truck in great detail. They justified its seizure by saying they found “munitions of war” inside—five forgotten bullets, though no gun. Told to park the truck, he said, he complained a bit before one agent reached into the pickup, opened the door, unfastened Serrano’s seat belt and yanked him out of the vehicle. “I got rights, I got constitutional rights and he snaps back at me, ‘You don’t have no rights here. I’m sick and tired of hearing about your rights.’ That took me aback,” Serrano said.

Should the U.S. boycott the 2022 Winter Olympics in China? (Washington Post) As if there aren’t enough sources of Sino-U.S. friction already, an emerging new irritant may soon outpace the rest: the growing calls for a boycott of Beijing’s 2022 Winter Olympics. The games are still 10 months away. But it’s not too early for the event to turn into a flash point. Critics of China’s ruling Communist Party—including a coalition of more than 180 human rights organizations—argue that the regime’s record of human rights abuses and geopolitical malfeasance ought to deprive it of the right to burnish its image with a spectacle like the Olympics. “Beijing won the right to host the 2022 Olympics in 2015, the same year it cracked down on lawyers and activists across China,” Chinese human rights lawyer Teng Biao wrote earlier this year. “Since then, it has detained journalists; harassed and attacked activists and dissidents even outside China’s borders; shut down nongovernmental organizations; demolished Christian churches, Tibetan temples and Muslim mosques; persecuted, sometimes to death, believers in Falun Gong; and sharply increased its control of media, the Internet, universities and publishers.” An Olympic boycott has become a popular cause among Republicans. Major sporting events—and especially international spectacles like the Olympics—always bear a political dimension.

‘Huge’ explosion rocks St. Vincent as volcano keeps erupting (AP) La Soufriere volcano fired an enormous amount of ash and hot gas early Monday in the biggest explosive eruption yet since volcanic activity began on the eastern Caribbean island of St. Vincent late last week, with officials worried about the lives of those who have refused to evacuate. Experts called it a “huge explosion” that generated pyroclastic flows down the volcano’s south and southwest flanks. “It’s destroying everything in its path,” Erouscilla Joseph, director of the University of the West Indies’ Seismic Research Center, told The Associated Press. “Anybody who would have not heeded the evacuation, they need to get out immediately.” The ongoing volcanic activity has threatened water and food supplies, with the government forced to drill for fresh water and distribute it via trucks. “We cannot put tarpaulin over a river,” said Garth Saunders, minister of the island’s water and sewer authority, referring to the impossibility of trying to protect current water sources from ongoing falling ash.

Colombia’s cartels target Europe (The Guardian) At 5 am on a chilly Tuesday morning last month, 1,600 police officers and balaclava-wearing special forces, bristling with arms and battering rams, were ordered into action around the Belgian port city of Antwerp. More than 200 addresses were raided in what was the largest police operation ever conducted in the country and potentially one of the most significant moves yet against the increasingly powerful narco-gangs of western Europe. An incredible 27 tonnes of cocaine have been seized on Antwerp’s quays, in container ships and safe houses, with an estimated value of €1.4bn (£1.2bn), and many arrests have been made. It has been hailed as a mighty blow against what Belgian federal prosecutor Frédéric Van Leeuw calls “a world where morality has totally disappeared”, but Operation Sky has also highlighted a chilling development. Europe has eclipsed the US as the Colombian cartels’ favoured market, because of higher prices and much lower risks posed by European governments in terms of interdiction, extradition and seizure of assets. Jeremy McDermott, a former British army officer who is now executive director of the thinktank InSight Crime, said a kilogram of cocaine in the US is worth up to $28,000 wholesale but that rises to $40,000 on average in Europe, and nearly $80,000 in some parts of Europe. “It is more money for less risk. I see a deliberate decision by some of the top-level Colombian traffickers, based on sources who sat in a series of meetings in 2005-6, where the business decisions were made,” McDermott said. “It is a business no-brainer.”

Conservative Ex-Banker Headed to Victory in Presidential Election in Ecuador (NYT) Guillermo Lasso, a 66-year-old conservative former banker, was set to win Ecuador’s presidential election and beat out Andrés Arauz, a 36-year-old leftist handpicked by former President Rafael Correa. With more than 94 percent of the votes counted after 10 p.m., Mr. Lasso had 52 percent compared with Mr. Arauz’s 47.32 percent, according to the Electoral Council official counting system in Ecuador. Mr. Arauz conceded defeat. The vote signaled a desire, at least among some, to shift right following years in which Mr. Correa has held sway over the country.

England reopens with pints pulled, shopping sprees and hair cuts (Reuters) People queued up outside retailers across England on Monday to release their pent-up shopping fever and some grabbed a midnight pint or even an early haircut as England’s shops, pubs, gyms and hairdressers reopened after three months of lockdown. After imposing the most onerous restrictions in Britain’s peacetime history, Prime Minister Boris Johnson said the reopening was a “major step” towards freedom but urged people to behave responsibly as the coronavirus was still a threat. Getting people spending again is crucial for Britain’s recovery after official data showed that 2020 was the worst year for its economy in more than three centuries with a 9.8% decline in gross domestic product.

Tropical Cyclone Seroja flattens Australian town (Washington Post) A tropical cyclone battered Australia’s west coast Sunday night and into Monday, destroying homes and leaving thousands without electricity. Severe wind gusts of up to 105 miles per hour tore houses apart and sent debris flying all over Kalbarri, a coastal tourist town of 1,350 people in Western Australia. Authorities estimated some 70 percent of the town’s buildings were damaged. Drone footage from the scene showed dozens of homes with their roofs ripped off. Power lines were down and roads were littered with shards of metal and other debris. Cyclone Seroja made landfall as a category three storm at about 8 p.m. local time on Sunday between the towns of Kalbarri and Gregory. Cyclones of such intensity rarely travel this far south in Australia, and towns outside the cyclone belt are not usually built to withstand the devastating conditions.

Muslims navigate restrictions in the second pandemic Ramadan (AP) For Ramadan this year, Magdy Hafez has been longing to reclaim a cherished ritual: performing the nighttime group prayers called taraweeh at the mosque once again. Last year, the coronavirus upended the 68-year-old Egyptian’s routine of going to the mosque to perform those prayers, traditional during Islam’s holiest month. The pandemic had disrupted Islamic worship the world over, including in Egypt where mosques were closed to worshippers last Ramadan. Ramadan, which begins this week, comes as much of the world has been hit by an intense new coronavirus wave. For many Muslims navigating restrictions, that means hopes of a better Ramadan than last year have been dashed with the surge in infection rates though regulations vary in different countries. A time for fasting, worship and charity, Ramadan is also when people typically congregate for prayers, gather around festive meals to break their daylong fast, throng cafes and exchange visits. Once again, some countries are imposing new restrictions.

Iran blames Israel for sabotage at Natanz nuclear site (AP) Iran on Monday blamed Israel for a sabotage attack on its underground Natanz nuclear facility that damaged the centrifuges it uses to enrich uranium there, warning that it would take revenge for the assault. The comments by Foreign Ministry spokesman Saeed Khatibzadeh represent the first official accusation leveled against Israel for the incident Sunday that cut power across the facility. Israel has not directly claimed responsibility for the attack. However, suspicion fell immediately on it as Israeli media widely reported that a devastating cyberattack orchestrated by Israel caused the blackout. If Israel was responsible, it would further heighten tensions between the two nations, already engaged in a shadow conflict across the wider Middle East. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who met Sunday with U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin, has vowed to do everything in his power to stop the nuclear deal. According to US intelligence officials, it could take more than nine months to resume enrichment in the nuclear facility.

Abductions and Torture Rattle Uganda (NYT) Armed men in white minivans without license plates picked up people off the streets or from their homes. Those snatched were taken to prisons, police stations and military barracks where they say they were hooded, drugged and beaten—some left to stand in cellars filled with water up to their chests. The fear is still so palpable in the capital, Kampala, that many others have gone into hiding or left the country. Three months after Uganda’s president, Yoweri Museveni, won a sixth five-year term in office in the most fiercely contested election in years, his government appears to be intent on breaking the back of the political opposition. His principal challenger, Bobi Wine, a magnetic musician-turned-lawmaker who galvanized youthful crowds of supporters, is now largely confined to his house in Kampala. Mr. Wine’s party said on Friday that 623 members, supporters and elected officials have been seized from the streets and arrested in recent weeks, many of them tortured.

Prince Philip’s mourners in the South Pacific (Foreign Policy) The death of Prince Philip, the husband of Britain’s Queen Elizabeth II, triggered mourning rituals across the country over the weekend. The mourning is not only reserved for the United Kingdom—on one of Vanuatu’s islands, Tanna, hundreds of members of a local tribe have long venerated Prince Philip as akin to a god, and are preparing to mourn his passing. Although it’s unclear how the Prince Philip Movement began, it is believed to have taken root in the 1970s—given life by the royal couple’s visit in 1974. Key to the movement is the belief that Prince Philip is one with the tribe, and fulfilled a prophecy of a tribesman who had found a powerful wife overseas and “would return some day, either in person or in spiritual form,” Kirk Huffman, an anthropologist, told the BBC.

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Juukan Gorge in 2013, left, and 2020.(Supplied: Puutu Kunti Kurrama And Pinikura Aboriginal Corporation, Composite ABC News)

Last weekend, mining giant Rio Tinto destroyed two rock shelters, recognised as one of Australia's oldest known Aboriginal heritage sites — with evidence of human occupation from over 46,000 years ago.

Archaeologist Dr Michael Slack, who led the excavations in 2014, found several "staggering" artefacts, including grinding and pounding stones believed to be the earliest use of grindstone technology in Western Australia, and a 28,000-year-old kangaroo leg bone sharpened into a pointed tool, which appeared at the site up to 10,000 years earlier than in other sites.

He also uncovered a 4,000-year-old belt made of plaited hair, whose DNA was associated with today's Puutu Kunti Kurrama and Pinikura traditional owners.

His excavation dated human occupation in the region scores of thousands of years earlier than previously thought.

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Aussie Luke sails into crusade against hunger

AFTER his stint in South Sudan visiting starving mothers and children, Australian actor Luke Arnold is back in South Africa this week on a very different mission — to start the third season of the runaway hit pirate series,

Arnold, a rising star on our screens who memorably played the late INXS singer Michael Hutchence in the TV miniseries has been living a whirlwind life since he was picked up as a relative unknown for the US.

TV series. He mixes work as a goodwill ambassador for Save the Children with acting in the grimy prequel to Robert Louis Stevenson’s literary classic

The series follows the exploits of pirate Captain Flint and his crew and Arnold has the plum role of Long John Silver.

“I get to play the original story of Long John Silver and we get to have our version of who that might be,” says Arnold, who trained at the Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts in Perth but grew up in Adelaide where he attended Aldgate Primary School.

It has lighthearted moments but the series is a characterdriven drama filled with liars, murderers and thieves, among them a young Long John. With more than five million Americans watching each episode, Arnold is getting his wish to allow Long John’s story to slowly build.

“When I signed on for this role it only felt worth it if we went for a few years and I got to turn this character, who is a chancer and almost a street rat, into one of the most notorious pirates of literature,” he says.

“So for me, I definitely want a few more years to complete that journey.”

Arnold was in Cape Town making the second series when his eerily convincing portrayal of the late Michael Hutchence screened in Australia earlier this year. The surviving members of INXS were on set during the shoot to support Arnold in what he says was the biggest gamble of his career.

For the month before it went to air, the pressure was so great he barely slept. Until then he had flown under the radar with smaller independent films like and

which came with their own safety nets. “If it wasn’t any good, no one would see it,” he says. “It’s OK if it’s good but if it’s not it will disappear. But with a show like this you knew people were going to watch.”

As it turned out, Arnold got rave reviews for a breakthrough role that made him a virtual overnight sensation. His malleable good looks fitted the rock star mould just as easily as they do a long- haired, treasure hungry pirate.

“While it was airing I was in Cape Town, which I think was kind of nice to not be here when it was going crazy,” he says. “Then I wasn’t sure what it was going to be like coming back.”

Since returning home he has been recognised at times but, he says, always in a positive way. People were touched by the show and wanted to pass on their appreciation.

“It’s actually been a pleasurable thing,” he says. “It’s a good reminder to do jobs that you believe in and you love. I’m sure being in the public eye is not always going to be fun but when it’s because of a show like it has been a really fun experience.”

After finishing season 2 last May, Arnold did some private travel in Europe and the US, stopping in Los Angeles to discuss work for next year. He can’t reveal anything but hopes for a new project after the third season of finishes filming in May 2015.

“There’s nothing I can speak of yet. It’s a little too soon to lock anything in but it feels like because of the success of both the shows some doors are opening that weren’t open before,” he says.

His took on the role of goodwill ambassador because he felt he could use his profile to spread a valuable message about what Save the Children was doing in a more obscure part of the world. He says South Sudan has been torn apart by tribal conflict since December last year. Supply routes are cut and people have fled their homes, creating a food shortage of serious proportions. He spent time at a hospital that runs a program to combat malnutrition using a highly nutritious peanut paste.

“That’s where I spent the majority of the trip, talking to staff as well as mothers and children,” he says. “Several mothers had got to the point of boiling grasses and leaves because they had nothing to eat. Obviously it isn’t enough.”

He says he feels a responsibility to do what he can to help.

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OC Moodboard and History of the Character: Meredith Rose Schuyler (Sky)

“You’re a loaded gun...”

Meredith Rose Schuyler was born in the small town of Valor, TX with a population of no more than 5,000 individuals precisely one-hour north of the Mexican-American border and two hours south of the border that connected Texas to New Mexico.  She was born October 25, 1980 to Edward and Samantha Schuyler at precisely Midnight on a stormy Friday morning.  As of the start of her story in 2008 she is 28 years old.

At 5’8”, weighing approximately 180 lbs., Schuyler is an attractive woman with full shoulder length blonde hair, pale skin, soft blue eyes, and naturally long eyelashes.  She has wide hips, large thighs, and an impressively ample chest, but a firm and even abdomen that accentuates her already curvy figure.  Her skin is mostly pristine except for three or four visible stretch marks on either side of her chest.  She starts out the story with two tattoos: a large black, white, and gray piece of artwork covering her entire left leg from knee to ankle depicting two large and two small Chrysanthemum flowers woven together with vines.  Each flower as well as the background were meticulously shaded to give the piece a real and 3D appearance.  The second is a teapot pouring hot tea into a tea cup hovers just above her inner right ankle which she is just as proud of.  

She received most of her physical features from her mother as well as her mother’s warm laugh and desire to learn.  However, there is no doubt that when Schuyler smiles, she is her father’s child.  She also inherited his love for world traveling, his singsong voice with an impressive vocal range for an amateur, and exquisite taste in 80’s rock music. 

Schuyler was born the only child of Edward “The Midnight Sky” Schuyler when he was 39 years of age.  He met Schuyler’s mother Samantha at the age 20 when she was 18 in Texas during his days in the army.  Though Edward traveled during much of his time in the armed forces and was deployed during the Vietnam War he often found ways to visit Samantha during his leaves. When he was discharged at the age of 26 he returned home to California with nine men from his Splatoon including his best friends John Teller and Piermont Winston.  Together, with nothing left for them after the war, the group organized a club of sorts that would serve to give each of the members an excuse to meet regularly and remain in touch.  This group was an unofficial and dispersed motorcycle club that formed in 1967 called the Sons of Anarchy: Redwood.  Very little came out of this group other than monthly rides and camping trips resulting in opportunities to relive the “good ol’ days” for the first few months of the club’s existence.  However, things changed when John’s wife Gemma became pregnant and the group decided to settle down in her home town of Charming, California.  The expectations that came with the expected arrival of a baby did two things to the club: divide it and expand it.

John, who had been made the unofficial “President”, knew that he would be unable to keep a house and provide for his new family on the salary of a lone mechanic. He knew he had to do more; he had to invest.  He partnered with Clayton Morrow, the youngest of the First Nine, and purchased a plot of land with an auto shop that functioned as its main attraction.  Six months after it was opened he began to lay the plans for a private owned bar to be built on the same property which would eventually hold all club meetings.  With the introduction of a business to provide jobs for club members the club became less about motorcycles and more about community.  Teller-Morrow as the establishment was named became one of the most profitable and beloved family owned businesses in Charming.  The club was secure and prosperous for a time.  Those in association with the members found companionship and those who wore the club vest and logo formed a brotherhood that many carried with them from the army and extended to those who later joined.  

Everyone that is, except for Edward.  He poured his life into the formation of the club, but his heart had been with Samantha since he was 20 years old.  Samantha’s home and family were in Texas and she would never leave. The annual drives Edward would take to visit her became harder to wait for and his visits lasted longer each year.  Eventually he would make the decision not to return at all.  

While John and his wife’s baby brought prosperity to the club as a whole, his arrival made Edward realize that he had been neglecting his own desires by remaining apart from his wife-to-be.  In 1975, Edward said goodbye to his life and family in Charming and moved to Texas to be with Samantha.  This move was sanctioned at a cost.  Edward was entrusted to create and run the first branching charter of the SOA club in Texas.  This would mean that the club operated in two separate states and business would have to grow to meet the demand and keep up the traditions of brotherhood and community that had quickly been instilled in those effected by its presence.  Edward pulled all his resources and was able to open his own shop in Valor, Texas where he resided as the sole owner.  With the help of Ethan Dyer, a patch brother who would reside as the Texas charter’s first Vice President, he was able to set up a functioning clubhouse to hold meetings within a month of his transition.  It was decided that the smallest a settled charter could be was 5 men, so Edward and Ethan recruited three more (locals that Samantha could vouch for) in just two weeks and tentatively patched them in with success. The charter continued to grow from there.

With the near immediate success of the Texas charter, SOA would continue to expand rapidly for the next thirty years.  Charters sprung up from the border of Canada to small towns across Europe and one even branching as far as away as Australia. The club at its largest size combining all charters rounded out to 568 at one point in 1998 and has since continued to fluctuate.  The Texas charter under Edward Schuyler is widely considered to be the second most successful in the club’s history due to its equal parts’ ideal location and strong leadership.

Each charter is under democratic rule headed by a President, Vice President, Sgt. at Arms, and Secretary.  Those in charge are free to make their own rules and decide the best way for their members to produce a sustainable profit.  Many chose to work out of auto shops as the original had done while others owned escort businesses and even fewer owned gas stations or convenient stores.  However, all charters looked to the ‘Mother charter’, since renamed the Redwood Original, SAMCRO, for guidance.  It was Vice President Clay Morrow’s idea, with support from several other members across charters, to introduce the club to the business of gun running in 1977.  With a great deal of persuasion, he was able to convince John that it was the right direction for SOA.  Soon, the primary denominator of all groups was that they sold guns to neighboring outlaw groups for profit.  By 1979, the SOA was recognizable worldwide as an outlaw gang, but this did not slow the club’s progression. 

Guns were supplied from a branch charter in Belfast, Ireland and arrived in California to be spread from charter to charter throughout western America.  Product that wasn’t sold to organizations within the states left the country through Edward’s charter across the Mexican border. Each branch of the club faces its own obstacles when earning a sustainable living, but Valor obtains most of its money by making monthly runs bypassing Border Control and entering Mexico.  Valor was chosen as the town to settle in due to its small population with an equally small police department where the force was more than willing to operate on the club’s payroll.  Being so close to the border, at an entrance with significantly less border control than anywhere else, and equally as close to New Mexico made SAMTEX an ideal place for traffic. The charter found plentiful wealth in this location with few years of unprofitable business.  However, the promise of success and riches comes with a cost.  The costs being the constant looming gaze of Border Control and similar federal agents watching over the club’s every move and the constant threat of confrontation with notorious Mexican outlaw gangs and even the Mexican the Cartel.  These factors led Edward and Samantha to wait several years after the club was developed and for their finances to become secure before they ever tried to conceive a child. 

The gender of the highly anticipated baby was kept a secret from all including the patiently awaiting parents until the night of its birth. A nurse fresh out of college placed a healthy, happy, new born baby girl into Edward’s arms at 12:07 am and his first instinct was to cry out of a pure joy that he had never previously experienced.  His second was to pass the infant to her mother and call his friends that remained in California.  John didn’t answer on the first attempt, so Edward called Piermont. Piermont answered immediately and the two talked for hours.  Edward received nothing but joy and praise from his companion, if not some friendly chiding for having taken so long to have his first baby.  John returned Edward’s call in the early morning hours and his first question to his best friend was not “is it healthy”, but rather, “is it a boy”?          

The answer being ‘no’ brought about a different sort of conversation to the one Edward had with Piermont.  While congratulations were in order for the first-born child of SAMTEX John was overly concerned with the future of the charter entrusted to maintain the border and questioned his close friend about when he and his wife would be trying again to produce a male heir to the Presidential seat.           

This conversation didn’t spring from a malicious place but rather from one of genuine concern.  Due to the fact that the SOA club has a list of unspoken bylaws that must be followed by all charters, such as the fairly prominent one stating that all patched members are male, Edward’s first born would not be eligible to join.  While any ranking official including the president can be replaced and the position held by anyone a charter sees fit at any time, SAMTEX had only known one president and due to its success, it would be ideal if its successor was of the same bloodline.           

Edward, having known this to be the case, was still infuriated at the thought of his first born being ineligible to wear his club’s ‘cut’ or bare its ink.  Edward attempted to reason with original President, who he was obligated to adhere to, over the course of several days to seemingly no avail.  Piermont argued for Edward that any legitimate child of a First Nine member had more right to be patched in than any other relative of a club member or outsider regardless of sex because they were of direct family line.  John, exhausted with arguing during a time that should have been a joyous occasion and with tensions rising high in his own charter where he would soon be needing Piermont by his side, finally settled on an agreement with his fellow President down south.        

Edward had 18 years to groom his daughter for the club.  She would have the opportunity to ‘prospect’ like any man who wished to join.  After a year of observation, SAMTEX could decide if the daughter was fit to bare the Reaper or be cast out.  Until her fate was decided no member outside of SAMTEX would know the name, gender, or whereabouts of the SAMTEX child.  The secret was kept between the three friends and one would even take it to his grave before the secret was ever brought to light.          

Edward and Samantha knew the risks of keeping the secret from other charters. They independently decided that they would never bare another child before coming to that very decision together and put all their combined love and attention into their beautiful daughter Meredith.  They spent her entire adolescence making sure she was exposed to two ways of life: the civilian side where she went to school and was well educated with few friends and a promising future in any career she chose.  And the gangland side where her family and closest friends resided.  Few in the club were educated, but with the combined force of twenty club members, eight adoring wives, and five children who grew up alongside Meredith she became when adverse to interacting with an assortment of individuals from different backgrounds and learned many trades to concur the world she was born into.       

Meredith was 10 when she first asked her father what a cigarette was.  Nearly every adult in his daughter’s life smoked cigarettes and almost as many smoked marijuana.  At such a young age Edward already knew that he would be unable to prevent his beautiful daughter from taking up such an unhealthy habit.  Being the responsible father, he politely told Meredith the truth of what they were and that she would never be allowed to smoke them herself.  He then smiled as his daughter laughed in his face and ran out the front door to join her friends in the front yard knowing that they had most likely been asking their father’s the very same question.  

At 12 she began voicing the thought of wanting a tattoo.  It came as no surprise to anyone considering both of her parents bore some and nearly every member in the club had at least one symbol representing Sons of Anarchy on some part of their body along with their own tattoos.  By 14 most of the boys were learning how to shoot guns and Meredith had seen a few begin to ride on the back of their father’s motorcycles with the intent of learning how to balance for themselves.  At this point she didn’t know that she was being carefully observed by her parents for what she took an interest in and what things she ignored.  All she knew is that she wanted to hang out with her friends in the shooting range and go on bike rides with her dad.  Edward smiled fondly and agreed under a set of conditions: she continued to make A’s in school and she learned a skill that her friends were not interested in learning.  That year she learned how to shoot a hand gun and became proficient by the age of 19.  She also took up the skill of throwing knives which took her several additional years to master.  Her friends were very jealous of her knife collection.  

At age 15 Meredith became Schuyler.  The name allowed her to better fit in with the rambunctious boys she grew up with and don her father’s name with pride.  The name along with the nickname of “Sky” fit her well because she was often found outside playing in gardens or on hot asphalt chasing after boys who sometimes slowed down to stay with her and sometimes made her keep up.  This made her fast and build endurance at a young age.  Wrestling was a popular event in the group who took after their father’s who were often seen throwing fists to settle disputes.  Sky learned how to throw a punch and receive one in return.  This was also the year when Schuyler began to ask for her own motorcycle.  She was jealous that her best friend Jesse Dyer (born a week before her and son to V.P Ethan Dyer) received his own before any of the other boys in their friend group. He was always getting things before she was.  Unknown to her the parents of the two children regularly discussed when they should introduce things to their children before either was exposed.  She received her first bike on the following week, a fixer upper that she repaired with her father and it took until she was 16 and old enough to drive it on her own for the project to be complete.          

At age 16, with the help of her mother who is bilingual and Hispanic members of the club, she became fluent in reading and speaking Spanish. This was also the year her friends began to talk excitedly about the year to come when they could begin their prospecting year to enter the motorcycle club and ride alongside their father’s as quickly as they would be able to.  One must be 17 to begin prospecting and no one under the age of 18 can be sworn into the club.  This was about the time that Schuyler began to realize that she had in fact been being prepared for the day when she could start her prospecting year and the club would soon be judging her every move; if they hadn’t already been doing so.  She was observant enough to realize that there was one major difference between herself and the other children she would potentially be prospecting with.  While the boys she grew up with didn’t seem to notice this daunting difference their father’s, while they had helped to raise her and loved her dearly, certainly did. 

At 17 she began prospecting with all 5 of her friends.  Each child belonged to a member who was already patched, and their fathers took it upon themselves to sponsor, or shadow, their children during their prospecting year.  The prospecting year is an opportunity for the ‘prospects’ to ride alongside members of the club, follow them on jobs for the club including some across the Mexican-American border, and learn the meaning of being in such a well-established gang.  During her prospecting year Schuyler proved herself a valuable translator and to be persuasive during negotiations with other organizations.  She was attentive, even tempered, and eager to learn from the patches she rode with.  She never once showed that she was intimidated when in the middle of a group of men or shied away from a situation when things took a violent turn.  Rather she put herself in the middle of the conflict.  And if she could not deescalate a situation she drew her gun and made sure every member with her returned home in one piece.  It wasn’t long before Edward started to look to Schuyler before making decisions just as much as he looked to his V.P and SA.  Sometimes he asked for her opinion before seeking out others.  Near the end of her prospecting year all it took was one look to her father for them to communicate and come to a decision between the two of them before they acted on it without doubt. 

Schuyler turned 18 and watched all 5 of her friends get patched into the club.  One right after the other.  Schuyler knew not to press her father on the subject because the decision required careful deliberation and the results would be life as well as club wide altering.  In November of 1994, Meredith Rose Schuyler became the first woman to ever be patched into the SOA motorcycle club with a unanimous vote.  This was the same month she would be accepted into her dream school. Semesters were spent in a dorm room blaring loud rock music to block out the neighbors who spent their time partying. Summers and holidays were spent on the back of a motorcycle flying down the highway at twice the posted speed limit. A gun on her hip and a set of throwing knives strapped securely to her right leg Schuyler counted down the hours to each weekend she could travel home.  She never felt more sure of herself than when she was on the road with her family doing the one thing they were best at.  Earning.  It was on one of these weekends, when a class that Schuyler particularly despised was cancelled, that she would return home early and receive the news that would change her world forever.

In 2006, Edward Schuyler was diagnosed with prostate cancer.  Schuyler’s immediate reaction was to drop all her educational responsibilities and move back home to help her father run the club. Edward forbade her from returning home until she graduated with her degree as she had set out to do. Furious, and unwilling to disappoint her father, Schuyler remained at the school until she graduated with her Doctor of Veterinary Medicine (DVM) 6 months later.  Instead of entering the work force with her newly earned degree, Schuyler would spend the next 18 months of her life caring for her father, orchestrating jobs and making deliveries based on her own judgement, and preparing SAMTEX for the day they would no longer have the leadership of their first and only President. 

In February of 2008, Edward Schuyler lost his battle with prostate cancer at the age of 67.  The wake and proceeding funeral were held a 4 days later.  SAMTEX had lost many brother’s due to gangland violence before, but had never experienced the loss of an officer, much less a President.  The SOA hadn’t seen a loss so tragic since the passing of John Teller over a decade prior.  While many wanted to make the journey to Texas to pay respects to their sibling charter and the mourning family only members of the Original Nine were allowed to attend.  Three of the surviving members made the trip and were able to meet Schuyler personally. The secret was extended but had yet to be fully released.  Piermont was unable to make the trip and has regretted it ever since.  When all was said and done Samantha retained most of Edward’s worldly possessions including the deed to the mechanic shop and his official club vest which she hung in the living room on display; the Presidential patch worn with age facing the room at large.  Schuyler requested only two things: Edward’s impressive vinyl record collection and the last motorcycle he owned.

Many expected Schuyler to naturally inherit the President’s patch in the face of Edward’s passing.  The club was ready to vote her in and had pushed for her to take the patch even while Edward’s health had been deteriorating.  After all, she had done the unthinkable.  She had proven herself a worthy attribute capable of wearing the cut regardless of her gender.  It was the role she was breed for.  The position she was intended to fill.  She was the rightful heir to the gavel that rested at the head of the meeting table.

But it was after many long and difficult conversations were held with the members at that very table, and with her mother who struggled the most because she had dreamed of little else than seeing her daughter break down barriers and take up the President’s seat, Schuyler decided to take a very different path.

She revealed to her club that her father had intended for the two of them to take a trip to Northern California and visit the charter he had left behind for many years before his untimely passing.  It wasn’t until the cancer was discovered that Edward realized that he had missed his opportunity to do so.  Schuyler revealed that Edward had always intended for Schuyler to transfer charters when she came of age in order to find her own path and build her own legacy in a separate charter as not to compete in her father’s demanding shadow.  Schuyler wanted nothing more in the world than to keep her promises to her parents to make something of herself and make her father proud by continuing his legacy for him and finding her own way in the world.

Schuyler remained in Valor until new ranking officials could be appointed (Ethan Dyer was elected President and his son Jesse became his VP) and SAMTEX was prepared to continue in her absence.  Then she began what would essentially be a 7-week long journey to her new life.  It was decided that before Schuyler attempted to make contact with the Mother Charter (now headed by Clayton Marrow who wore the President’s patch and John Teller’s son Jackson Teller who resided as the V.P) she would first be sponsored by a third-party charter.  If she could convince a third charter of her worth and to vouch for her in just a few weeks time her chances of the original charter accepting her would likely double.  This trial period would also allow her to experience working with a different charter and experience life and club structure from a different perspective.

It wasn’t difficult to find a suitable host.  Nearly every branch of SOA in the States wanted to host the mystery SAMTEX child with an impressive club track record.  Eventually it was decided that she would stay with the Southern California charter known as SANDINO due to its location.  It also happens to be headed by one of the last surviving First Nine members Thomas “Uncle Tom” Whitney who had met Schuyler after her father’s passing and would know what to expect from the club transfer.

Schuyler spent just over 6 weeks with the sibling charter.  Tom, along with his fellow patch brothers, were skeptical to say the least upon meeting Schuyler.  Many members felt betrayed at the very aspect of a female patch being kept from them for so long.  Schuyler, never one to disappoint, was quick to show her eagerness to work and proved herself valuable enough to earn the respect and comradery of each member before it was time for her to move on.  Many were sad to see her go but they knew her destiny lied within another charter.  

At the end of her trial period, and nervous for what was possibly the first time in her life, Schuyler moved on from SANDINO and arrived on Charming’s doorstep 3 days later, ready to take on her next great adventure. 

~~~~~~~~~~~~~

I applaud you if you’ve gotten this far.  It’s greatly appreciated.  I love this character a great deal and have spent a long time building her up.  I can’t wait to start diving into her story.  This was just the beginning!  The next “big thing” I will post for Schuyler’s story will be a WIP intro page.  So, look forward to that. 

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My taglist current consists of some cool writeblrs that I’ve had past interactions with that you should totally check out.  Please interact with this post to let me know if you want to be removed or added to the taglist.  Also, feel free to interact and let me know what you think of Schuyler as a character as I’m very eager and willing to talk about or answer questions for her.  Remember that this is not only a FF based off a pre-created world, but it is technically an AU so some details may be purposefully changed to fit the character and plot.  Other than that, I’d love to take questions (inbox is always open) and thanks so much for reading! I hope you all enjoyed it!

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Update: July 30, 2022

So unfortunately, things have not gone exactly according to plan. While Dubai was a lot of fun (see my last post for details!), I haven’t been able to keep up with my savings requirement like I wanted to. Since March, I’ve only managed to put aside another $1300 towards my travel fund - a far cry from the $1250 every month (or $6250 since March).

And, disappointingly, my best friend decided he needs to focus on his career instead of traveling. I knew it was a big ask, but it was still difficult to decide if I wanted to do all this without him. I think I’ve decided I won’t (and won’t be able to) go as big as I wanted originally, but I do still want to travel as much as I can before I settle into a serious academic job hunt.

The easiest to do immediately after graduation will be the road trip leg. If anything, this will actually be easier to do without another 6-foot-talk human traveling with me haha. I’m trying to decide how I want to build out my SUV. I think at the moment I’ll have a double-walled cooler on the floorboard of the passenger seat (instead of a powered fridge like many van builds I’ve seen, since that would require a separate house battery connected to my car’s alternator), a twin-sized mattress topper (rolled up and stowed when driving so my dog doesn’t get all his hair on it ahaha), and a cubbyholed bookcase in the backseat with separate cubbies for cooking supplies, car maintenance items, shoes, emergency supplies, dog supplies, etc.

After that, I found some cool opportunities out in Honduras that sound like fun and will be useful for a future (non-academic) career path in diving. If I have enough money after that, I’d love to make it out to the South Pacific islands and New Zealand/Australia. Europe would be so baller, but it’s significantly more expensive (especially Northern/Western Europe) than other parts of the world. And knowing myself, I’m more interested in the natural phenomena of the world, but Europe seems more geared towards history and culture (which is still very cool!! I would love to engage in it! Just maybe not right now immediately if I can’t afford to do both Europe and South Pacific).

Anyway. Still working, still planning, still trying to remain flexible and okay with whatever the future holds moving forward. Stay tuned!

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Photo: Melbourne-based Sufi Rida Khan came out as bisexual as a 20-year-old. (ABC Arts: Teresa Tan) Map: Melbourne 3000 Rida Khan is a Sufi Muslim and a bisexual and she wants to shatter some misconceptions. "It's assumed that a lot of same-sex, bisexual or other gender diverse Muslims are having sex and that's actually a myth," says the 24-year-old aged-care nurse. "It's like saying that all Muslim youth that are straight are engaging in heterosexual sex and that's just far out, like, come on. What is Sufism?Sufism, or Tasawwuf as it is known in Arabic, is Islamic mysticism Sufi orders can be found in Sunni, Shia and other Islamic sectsSufi rituals, such as dhikr (devotional chanting), encourage introspection and spiritual closeness with God "Most of us are scared of having an aunty identify us with a guy or a girl." Rida realised she was bisexual as a 17-year-old, but she waited a few years before announcing this to her Pakistani friends and family. She and her family are Sufis followers of the mystical branch of Islam. "My experience of coming out was in fact quite positive, quite different from the stories we hear in other gender-diverse communities," she says. "But I think it does have a lot to do with the fact that my parents have lived in Turkey, we have lived in Japan, we've lived in Australia. "When I came out it was like, 'meh, okay, you're still the same to me'." 'Not right' for the community Not everyone supports Rida's openness about her sexual orientation. While some progressive Muslim leaders support same-sex marriage, it is widely interpreted by Islamic schools of thought that same-sex intimacy is 'haram' or 'forbidden'. "People think if you're bisexual, if you're homosexual that's God testing you to prove that you can be a better person, that you can be a better Muslim and that you can rise above your so-called lust," Rida says. "It's the women who are bullying me, the aunties who are really horrible [saying] 'Stay away from her, she's not a good person'. "I don't know if it's jealousy or what it is, but they need to be kinder to gender-diverse women, they need to be kinder to women from Muslim minorities in this country."

Photo: Rida's family are 'Baloch', members of a traditionally nomadic Pakistani tribe. (ABC Arts: Teresa Tan) 'If you're bisexual, prove yourself' But the pendulum swings both ways. Rida says she's received just as much discrimination from Australia's LGBTQI community because of her faith. "It's like they constantly ridicule your religion," she says. "They don't understand that religion can actually act as a tool for empowering you." Faith isn't the only friction point. Rida says she's felt an expectation to fit in with Western expressions of queer sexuality. "Not all people of colour from gender-diverse backgrounds actually relate to the mainstream sexuality, particularly along the lines of hypersexuality and self-objectification," she says. "And we do get put down for it, like, 'if you're bisexual then prove yourself'." Sometimes, prejudice can feel like it's coming from all sides. "First, you're not accepted by the Muslim community because you're bisexual, then you're not accepted by the gender-diverse community in Australia for being Muslim," Rida says. "Then you also identify as a woman of colour so when discrimination and bullying happens, you don't know which of the three they are discriminating against you [for]."

Photo: Rida says she's a "practitioner of Islam" more than a practitioner of her bisexuality. (ABC Arts: Teresa Tan) Sexuality or faith: Being forced to choose Siobhan Irving is an anthropologist, PhD candidate and a board member for Sydney Queer Muslims. She converted to Islam as a 19-year-old and has spent the past five years collecting stories from gay and lesbian Muslims in Sydney and Singapore. Ms Irving says Rida's story isn't unique. "In the queer community and just in general, really many people do not understand why a same-sex attracted Muslim would still embrace their faith ... would still be proud of their religious community," she says.

Photo: Western Sydney electorates overwhelming voted 'No' for same-sex marriage. (Supplied: Australia Bureau of Statistics) "It's difficult for them to express both their identities as Muslims and as same-sex attracted people they often feel that they must choose." Ms Irving says last year's national plebiscite on same-sex marriage brought Islamophobic attitudes to the fore. "People in the queer community and elsewhere presumed that this just meant Muslims voted against it, because the Western suburbs are known as being very much populated by Muslim communities," she points out. In the aftermath, Ms Irving spoke to many LGBTQI Muslims who felt pressured to defend their faith in queer circles and spaces, if they disclosed it at all. Solace through spirituality Sufism or Tasawwuf, as it is known in Arabic, is not a sect of Islam, like Sunni or Shia, but rather a spiritual practice, and theory, that can be found in all branches of the faith. Rida's parents, for instance, practise Sufism within the Sunni Hanafi tradition. Meanwhile, Rida describes her faith as "Aboriginal-Sufi-centric Islam"; a practice influenced by Indigenous Dreamtime stories and her 'Baloch' bedouin ancestry. Introspection, meditation and dhikr (devotional chanting) are core elements of Sufism. Rida says these practises give her an inner strength to combat the external conflicts that come from being a bisexual Muslim. "The modern Sufi community here in Melbourne looks something like a mix of hipsters [who] have a very deep intimate relationship with God," she says. "[It's about] sitting together, discussing life issues, reading Rumi's poetry, and overall just really trying to do the best we can in a world which is largely right-wing or left-wing we really fall somewhere in the middle."

Photo: The Mevlevi, also known as the Whirling Dervishes, are followers of Sufi mystic Rumi. According to Ed Husain, author of The House of Islam: A Global History, Sufi poets like Maulana Jalaluddin Rumi and Omar Khayyam celebrate an inner spirituality that can be overlooked in more hard-lined expressions of Islam. "Their poetry ... is much more focused towards drawing to God and the divine through love, attraction, passion, hope and optimism, rather than [being] fearful of God and fussing over sins and hellfire and worrying about the consequences of whether, you know, your hair shows," he told Rachael Kohn on a recent episode of RN's The Spirit of Things. "The fact that the Prophet Muhammad was reciting beautiful poetry was because he was internally in communication with the divine. "And if you lose that internal communication, externality becomes ugly and rigid." For Rida, Muslims and non-Muslims alike can gain joy from introspection. "Sufism itself is just a practice to help you become closer to your divine," she says. "[It tries] to get you to understand that the universe is a much bigger picture than what institutionalised religion has made it out to be." Topics:religion-and-beliefs,women-religious,islam,gays-and-lesbians,race-relations,discrimination,melbourne-3000 First posted October 23, 2018 06:00:00 http://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-10-23/life-as-a-bisexual-sufi-fighting-prejudice-from-all-sides/10391704

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The numbat (Myrmecobius fasciatus), also known as the banded anteater, marsupial anteater, or walpurti, is a marsupial native to Western Australia and recently re-introduced to South Australia. Its diet consists almost exclusively of termites. It digs them up from loose earth with its front claws and captures them with its long, sticky tongue. An adult numbat requires up to 20,000 termites each day. Once widespread across southern Australia, its range is now restricted to several small colonies, and it is listed as an endangered species. 

The numbat is a small, colorful creature between 14 and 18 inches long, including the tail, with a finely pointed muzzle and a prominent, bushy tail about the same length as its body. Color varies considerably, from soft grey to reddish-brown, often with an area of brick red on the upper back, and always with a conspicuous black stripe running from the tip of the muzzle through the eyes to the bases of the small, round-tipped ears. Between four and eleven white stripes cross the animal's hindquarters, which gradually become fainter towards the midback. The underside is cream or light grey, while the tail is covered with long, grey hair flecked with white. Weight varies between 280 and 700 g.

Unlike most other marsupials, the numbat is diurnal, largely because of the constraints of having a specialized diet without having the usual physical equipment for it. Most ecosystems with a generous supply of termites have a fairly large creature with powerful forelimbs bearing heavy claws. While the numbat has relatively powerful claws for its size, it is not strong enough to get at termites inside their concrete-like mounds, and so must wait until the termites are active. It uses a well-developed sense of smell to locate the shallow and unfortified underground galleries that termites construct between the nest and their feeding sites; these are usually only a short distance below the surface of the soil, and vulnerable to the numbat's digging claws.

Like many ant-eating animals, the numbat has an unusually long, narrow tongue, coated with sticky saliva. Despite its banded anteater name, it apparently does not intentionally eat ants; although the remains of ants have occasionally been found in numbat dung, these belong to species that themselves prey on termites, so were presumably eaten accidentally, along with the main food. A further adaptation to the diet is the presence of numerous ridges along the soft palate, which apparently help to scrape termites off the tongue so they can be swallowed. Numbats are apparently able to gain a considerable amount of water from their diets, since their kidneys lack the usual specializations for retaining water found in other animals living in their arid environment. 

Although the numbat finds termite mounds primarily using scent, it has the highest visual acuity of any marsupial, and, unusually for marsupials, has a high proportion of cone cells in the retina. These are both likely adaptations for its diurnal habits, and vision does appear to be the primary sense used to detect potential predators.

Until European colonisation, the numbat was found across most of the area from the New South Wales and Victorian borders west to the Indian Ocean, and as far north as the southwest corner of the Northern Territory. It was at home in a wide range of woodland and semiarid habitats. The deliberate release of the European red fox in the 19th century, however, wiped out the entire numbat population in Victoria, NSW, South Australia and the Northern Territory, and almost all numbats in Western Australia, as well. By the late 1970s, the population was well under 1,000 individuals, concentrated in two small areas not far from Perth, Dryandra, and Perup.

The two small Western Australia populations apparently were able to survive because both areas have many hollow logs that may serve as refuge from predators. Being diurnal, the numbat is much more vulnerable to predation than most other marsupials of a similar size: its natural predators include the little eagle, brown goshawk, collared sparrowhawk and carpet python. When the Western Australia government instituted an experimental program of fox baiting at Dryandra (one of the two remaining sites), numbat sightings increased by a factor of 40. An intensive research and conservation program since 1980 has succeeded in increasing the numbat population substantially, and reintroductions to fox-free areas have begun. Despite the encouraging degree of success so far, the numbat remains at considerable risk of extinction and is classified as an endangered species.