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marauders70s · 7 years ago

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#9. Fred & George Weasley [17/25]

"Oh, are you a prefect, Percy?" said one of the twins, with an air of great surprise. "You should have said something, we had no idea." "Hang on, I think I remember him saying something about it," said the other twin. "Once-” "Or twice-" "A minute-" "All summer-" "Oh, shut up," said Percy the Prefect.

‘Merry Christmas!’ ‘Hey, look – Harry’s got a Weasley jumper, too!’ Fred and George were wearing blue jumpers, one with a large yellow F on it, the other with a large yellow G. ‘Harry’s is better than ours, though,’ said Fred, holding up Harry’s jumper. ‘She obviously makes more of an effort if you’re not family.’ ‘Why aren’t you wearing yours, Ron?’ George demanded. ‘Come on, get it on, they’re lovely and warm.’ ‘I hate maroon,’ Ron moaned half-heartedly as he pulled it over his head. ‘You haven’t got a letter on yours,’ George observed, ‘I suppose she thinks you don’t forget your name. But we’re not stupid – we know we’re called Gred and Forge.’

Fred and George, however, found all this very funny. They went out of their way to march ahead of Harry down the corridors, shouting, ‘Make way for the heir of Slytherin, seriously evil wizard coming through …’ Percy was deeply disapproving of this behaviour. ‘It is not a laughing matter,’ he said coldly. ‘Oh, get out of the way, Percy,’ said Fred, ‘Harry’s in a hurry.’ ‘Yeah, he’s nipping off to the Chamber of Secrets for a cup of tea with his fanged servant,’ said George, chortling.

‘Oh, that,’ said Ginny, giggling. ‘Well – Percy’s got a girlfriend.’ Fred dropped a stack of books on George’s head. ‘What?’ … ‘You won’t tease him, will you?’ she added anxiously. ‘Wouldn’t dream of it,’ said Fred, who was looking as if his birthday had come early. ‘Definitely not,’ said George, sniggering.

‘Harry!’ said Fred, elbowing Percy out of the way and bowing deeply. ‘Simply splendid to see you, old boy –’ ‘Marvellous,’ said George, pushing Fred aside and seizing Harry’s hand in turn. ‘Absolutely spiffing.’ Percy scowled.

George: ‘We tried to shut him in a pyramid,’ he told Harry. ‘But Mum spotted us.’

‘The Ministry’s providing a couple of cars,’ said Mr. Weasley. Everyone looked up at him. ‘Why?’ said Percy, curiously. ‘It’s because of you, Perce,’ said George seriously. ‘And there’ll be little flags on the bonnets, with HB on them –’ ‘– For Humongous Bighead,’ said Fred. Everyone except Percy and Mrs. Weasley snorted into their pudding.

‘What are we doing [in the chimney]? Has something gone wrong?’ ‘Oh, no, Ron,’ came Fred’s voice, very sarcastically. ‘No, this is exactly where we wanted to end up.’

‘Yeah, someone might slip dragon dung in it again, eh, Perce?’ said Fred. ‘That was a sample of fertiliser from Norway!’ said Percy, going very red in the face. ‘It was nothing personal!’ ‘It was,’ Fred whispered to Harry, as they got up from the table. ‘We sent it.’

‘Anyone can speak Troll,’ said Fred dismissively, ‘all you have to do is point and grunt.’

‘Don’t be a prat, Neville, that’s illegal,’ said George. ‘They wouldn’t use the Cruciatus curse on the champions. I thought it sounded a bit like Percy singing… maybe you’ve got to attack him while he’s in the shower, Harry.’

‘Who’re you going with then?’ asked Ron. ‘Angelina,’ said Fred promptly, without a trace of embarrassment. ‘What?’ said Ron, taken aback. ‘You’ve already asked her?’ ‘Good point,’ said Fred. He turned his head and called across the common room, ‘Oi! Angelina!’ Angelina, who had been chatting to Alicia Spinnet near the fire, looked over at him. ‘What?’ she called back. ‘Want to come to the ball with me?’ Angelina gave Fred an appraising sort of look. ‘All right, then,’ she said, and turned back to Alicia and carried on chatting, with a bit of a grin on her face. ‘There you go,’ said Fred to Harry and Ron, ‘piece of cake.’

‘Hello, Harry,’ said George, beaming at him. ‘We thought we heard your dulcet tones.’ ‘You don’t want to bottle up your anger like that, Harry, let it all out,’ said Fred, also beaming. ‘There might be a couple of people fifty miles away who didn’t hear you.’

‘Would you like us to clean out your ears for you?’ enquired George, pulling a long and lethal-looking metal instrument from inside one of the Zonko’s bags. ‘Or any part of your body, really, we’re not fussy where we stick this,’ said Fred.

‘But you get these massive pus-filled boils, too,’ said George, ‘and we haven’t worked out how to get rid of them yet.’ ‘I can’t see any boils,’ said Ron, staring at the twins. ‘No, well, you wouldn’t,’ said Fred darkly, ‘they’re not in a place we generally display to the public.’

and finally, this iconic scene:

Umbridge: ‘You two,’ she went on, gazing down at Fred and George , ‘are about to learn what happens to wrong-doers in my school.’ ‘You know what?’ said Fred. ‘I don’t think we are.’ He turned to his twin. ‘George,’ said Fred, ‘I think we’ve outgrown full-time education.’ ‘Yeah, I’ve been feeling that way myself,’ said George lightly. ‘Time to test our talents in the real world, d’ you reckon?’ asked Fred. ‘Definitely,’ said George. And before Umbridge could say a word, they raised their wands and said together: ‘Accio brooms!’ … ‘We won’t be seeing you,’ Fred told Professor Umbridge, swinging his leg over his broomstick. ‘Yeah, don’t bother to keep in touch,’ said George, mounting his own. Fred looked around at the assembled students, and at the silent, watchful crowd. ‘If anyone fancies buying a Portable Swamp, as demonstrated upstairs, come to number ninety-three, Diagon Alley — Weasleys’ Wizard Wheezes,’ he said in a loud voice, ‘Our new premises!’ ‘Special discounts to Hogwarts students who swear they’re going to use our products to get rid of this old bat,” added George, pointing at Professor Umbridge. ‘STOP THEM!’ shrieked Umbridge, but it was too late. As the Inquisitorial Squad closed in, Fred and George kicked off from the floor, shooting fifteen feet into the air, the iron peg swinging dangerously below. Fred looked across the hall at the poltergeist bobbing on his level above the crowd. ‘Give her hell from us, Peeves.’ And Peeves, who Harry had never seen take an order from a student before, swept his belled hat from his head and sprang to a salute as Fred and George wheeled about to tumultuous applause from the students below and sped out of the open front doors into the glorious sunset.

[explanation] alright, alright, i know I posted wayyyyy too many quotes, but honestly fred & george are some of my favorite harry potter characters of all time, and I still cackled rereading these. I grew up lowkey in love with Fred Weasley (and still captain my proud little Fredmione ship). More than that, I love what good brothers the twins were. It doesn’t seem it at first, but please consider that Harry was their brother as much as Ron. They watched out for him during quidditch games, made fun of the people making fun of him, stuck up for him when people called him a liar, and were generally the kind of witty, kind, and ride or die loyal people who you could count on to get you out of an abusive situation - even if they had to steal a car to do it. There aren’t many people you can count on for things like that. I will never, ever forgive J.K. for killing Fred, and in a way killing George. The Weasley twins were no more...only one brother, left without his whole self in more ways than an ear.

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spicynbachili1 · 6 years ago

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Review: Battlefield V

V for victory

Battlefield V is not an across-the-board step up from Battlefield 1, nevertheless it nails the necessities. It is not only a good Battlefield recreation, it is an awesome one. For these of us who wrote DICE off early on, which may come as a shock. For alpha and beta testers who received a really feel for the heightened give attention to squad dynamics and player-built fortifications, it is… additionally a shock! I wasn’t satisfied they’d stick the touchdown.

The sport would not totally launch till November 20, however there are a few methods to play Battlefield V earlier than then, corresponding to EA’s month-to-month subscription service Origin Entry. I am not used to those multi-week launch schedules, however I will must acclimate quickly. These items is simply going to grow to be extra prevalent.

Battlefield V (PC [reviewed], PS4, Xbox One) Developer: EA DICE Writer: Digital Arts Launch: November 20, 2018 MSRP: $59.99

Right away, it is price stressing that whereas Battlefield V is ready throughout WWII, it would not really feel antiquated. Mechanically talking, it is a number of the best-feeling Battlefield in a very long time. Additionally: for higher and for worse, the sport would not retread acquainted floor. It revolves across the period’s lesser-known tales and settings, which might be concurrently refreshing and a bit disappointing, particularly for 1942 followers.

A part of me hopes DICE circles again to the entire acquainted WWII story beats, however even with out iconic set-pieces, there’s already rather a lot to like. Simply taking a look at launch content material, Battlefield V will get rather a lot proper.

Most vital of all, the gun dealing with is fluid. Fight feels deceptively easy, but it is layered sufficient to generously reward skillful play, considerate ways, and above all, teamwork. The maps are typically wonderful and promote diverse playstyles, from the flowing fields of Arras — an instantaneous basic — to the all-seeing, all-knowing bridge of Twisted Metal. Miraculously, each character class is impactful and pleasurable. There is a smattering of respectable pick-up-and-play single-player Warfare Tales, together with a stealth-centric rise up mission in Norway in which you’ll be able to equip and unequip skis at will. At will!

To be clear although, you should not get Battlefield V for its quick prologue and three multi-part story missions (with a fourth section set to reach in December). I admire the trouble, and DICE’s storytelling has come a great distance lately. That mentioned, they’re solely price going by way of as soon as. Even then, one of many missions — Beneath No Flag — felt weirdly static to me, regardless of its open-ended construction. Battlefield is finest recognized for its outlandish multiplayer moments. BFV is not any completely different.

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I am unable to emphasize sufficient how a lot I like the fortification system, which provides Battlefield a newfound rhythm. Now you can help your crew by laying down sandbags, razor wire, resupply stations, and different buildings in pre-determined areas, whatever the class you select. Constructing is fast, it would not value any sources, and it may well make all of the distinction in a tug-of-war. Fortifications are helpful whether or not you are attacking or defending an outpost and, crucially, they are often blown up. As a matter of truth, issues are continually blowing up in Battlefield V. I am reminded of the Dangerous Firm 2 glory days.

Fortifications additionally circulation into one other focus: attrition. Whereas the idea wanted quite a lot of refinement in pre-release iterations of Battlefield V (and there is most likely nonetheless work left to be executed), the concept is to make gamers really feel a) more and more susceptible and b) reliant on their teammates. It is a tough steadiness. Restrict ammo counts and well being regeneration an excessive amount of, and gamers understandably develop pissed off. Go too far within the different course, and immediately everybody’s lone-wolfing it once more. DICE discovered the appropriate formulation.

Peak Battlefield is rolling up as a squad, calling out orders, topping one another up with well being and ammo, and pulling off clutch flanks that snowball from small wins to an total victory. The attrition mechanics (and tweaks like squadmates with the ability to revive each other even when they don’t seem to be a medic) assist assist these dynamics with out feeling pressured. BFV retains you from dwelling in anybody space for too lengthy, encouraging teamwork on a micro and macro scale. Play the target, and you will have time.

I even have to present a shout-out to the brand new recognizing system, which is now primarily relegated to the Recon (sniper) class. (You need to use a scoped device or “tag” foes by touchdown photographs.) The times of everybody on the server hammering a key to study the exact whereabouts of enemy troopers are fortunately gone.

So, the place does Battlefield V fall flat? There is no single obvious situation I can cleanly level to and criticize. It is extra a case of numerous papercuts collectively inflicting ache. Let me run by way of the lowlights.

The menus are nonetheless frustratingly sluggish, notably relating to swapping in new gear and cosmetics in your troops. The starter land-based automobiles, at the very least on the present maps, really feel severely downplayed. Battlefield 1‘s greatest triumph, Operations, loses a few of its harrowing luster in Battlefield V. Server disconnects and match-ruining bugs — just like the occasional incapacity to revive anybody, or bombs getting trapped below the map and ushering in a state of purgatory — proceed to plague me.

DICE has detailed its post-launch plans, dubbed Tides of Warfare, so we all know roughly what to anticipate and when to anticipate it. I am relieved there is not a premium go this time round. We are able to all entry the identical maps and modes. However after the way in which Star Wars Battlefront II went down, I am feeling cautious about Battlefield V‘s future. A few of the present points might be mounted quickly. Different issues will reveal themselves down the street. All I can do is assess the present model of the sport — no extra, no much less.

Given sufficient time to work out the kinks, fine-tune the steadiness, and flesh out the full-priced bundle with content material just like the promised battle royale mode Firestorm, I can see this rising into one among my favourite installments. As is, I would not essentially rush out to purchase the sport proper this minute until Battlefield is your multiplayer collection of selection and you may tolerate the early bugs and tough edges.

Whereas I am proud of what we received, I in the end can not help however surprise what one other six months might’ve executed for Battlefield V. In a enterprise with just about no downtime, that is simply the way in which it’s.

[This review is based on a retail build of the game purchased by the reviewer.]

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Spectacular effort with a couple of noticeable issues holding it again. Will not astound everybody, however is price your time and money. How we rating: The destructoid opinions information

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jayu123-me · 5 years ago

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movietweets · 6 years ago

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Captain America

Film Ho! Away we go, off on another adventure into the world of Marvel madness where anything can happen and there don’t seem to be any rules to govern it. This time I have a bag of M&Ms and a Kitkat gobble down (or up) while Captain American saves the day from probably another baddy or wrongen like in the other films.

I have to say that this isn’t one that I’ve been looking forward to. The idea of a superhero named after their nation of origin seems pretty shameless and I can’t think of any other nations that would allow it. Captain England? Sounds racist. Captain France? They never win anything. Captain China? Communism doesn’t really allow for special treatment of individuals. Captain Germany? I mean... maybe between 1933-1945 but not exactly the most popular character these days. Captain America though works because Americans really do believe that they’re the best; they’re hopelessly patriotic and to the point of international embarrassment, seemingly lacking the self awareness to understand why everyone else doesn’t behave the same way in regards to their own countries as they do about theirs. So when Captain America was released it made perfect sense... of course they have a superhero called Captain America, of course they do.

Nevertheless. This is the next one in the series so its the next one that I’m watching. I’ll keep as open a mind as I have for the others too, which is to say that I’ll be looking for every excuse to mock and discredit it.

Holy Mackerel! Is that a UFO? That’s obviously what we’re supposed to think from all that talk about weather balloons (alla Roswell)

I wonder if those guys volunteered to be the first ones down there, we didn’t see the discussion that went on before they were lowered down but I bet it wasn’t exactly anyone’s idea of a fun day out in the tundra.

I feel like they’re about to stumble upon a room filled with large slimy eggs and a bunch of corpses with massive holes in their chests.

Okay, flashback. Now we’re in norway during the second world war and some un-subtitled foreign language bits with Filtch from Harry Potter.

Oh no, its the Skulltopusses! They’re obviously not goodies are they, not with a logo like that.

Oh they’re Nazis...definitely baddies!

The priceless jewel of a norse god?

be a shame if something happened to it... whoopsie!

What? This kid! Face of a 40 year old, body like he’s 12. This must be CGI right? He’s like a fucking ventriloquist’s puppet!

There you go! You could be like Little Timmy!

It’s my fetish!

Oh shit, it’s the Stark Expo! List like in the Movies!

Is that Mr.Incredible? Didn’t realize they were Marvel

You’re going to hate the future of your country, they’re the worlds bullies now.

Oh yes, the ancients had use of this futuristic techno cube. That’s why they were so advanced! It has just been kept a secret from mainstream historians.

You mean its a metaphor for the Atom bomb?

A female drill Sargent in the 40s? Yep, just rewrite the past and pretend than nothing bad aver happened. Women have always been equal. See! She just knocked a man to the ground with her fists! You’ve had your token strong female now shut up and get back in the kitchen.

Better do some more talking about how great men are now, just in case that lost us any favor with our main demographic.

CHEATING - THE AMERICAN WAY

Even their female drill Sargent is dishing out sexist insults... I know it’s the 40s but we’ve already established that we’re not holding on to historically accurate social structures.

Alright then! You won me over. Let’s invest a ton of money and resources on the kid with a death wish.

Not another Incredible Hulk narrative! Didn’t you learn anything, that mess was a total flop.

Don’t worry kiddo, I’m an Alcoholic!

Oh, so that’s why she’s there... Seriously these films are horrendously transparent.

And nobody questions where all the uniformed military personnel who go into that antique shop every morning disappear to until 5pm?

He kind of looks like the lead singer of Franz Ferdinand crossed with a character from Golden Eye on N64 with big head mode turned on.

You’re not a scientist...

Quiet my dear, the men are working here. (classic Stark)

Oh! they cured him, now his head fits his body!

Shifty guy looking around the place, probably nothing to worry about.

He can run! Faster than a car!

He can rump! Over a fence!

Doesn’t need shoes, the serum was 20% hobbit blood.

No way, he’s got a freaking thunderbird! Good thing Captain American can swim faster than a thunderbird.

This guy has a near perfect Werner Herzog impression.

Double NAZIS!

HAHA, I hope that’s his actual outfit for the rest of the film. Propaganda man! They’re not subtle are they.

Haha, he’s like Link from Ocarina of Time when you only have the kids equipment; that tiny sword and deku shield.

I love how they’re pretending pageantry this is over the top. America is actually like this.. I’ve been! Also why did they spend all this time, money and science to beef up an amateur actor? There are loads of beefy actors right? Especially in the 40′s when people ate meat for breakfast!

Yup that’s all you are, a dancing monkey on a unicycle.

You should have been able to juggle American flags too.

Literally every film, somebody jumps out of a plane.

Why did he take that wooden shield with him? Isn’t it a bit of a give away that he’s an enemy? literally sticks out like a sore thumb. 10/10 for balls -1000 for common sense.

It’s WW2 but there’s laser guns because real war isn’t exciting enough for the kids of today.

BOOM! Yes, I was starting to get cold turkey since our last explosion.

Oof! Right in the face. That’s it guys, game over.

OH SHIT, That German dude, Agent smith with the Herzog impression just pulled of his whole entire face.

How does he smell?

Terrible.

All the thunderbirds! German engineering at its finest there.

EXPLOSION!

Obviously they’re not dead though. Can you imagine if they were just dead. The rest of the film is about Sargent Sex Appeal and Colonel Wrinkles... I mean I’d watch that.

In a way I’m a bit disappointed.

Such a fucking do-gooder.

What? Why are there so many airships over London? Was that ever a thing? I’m pretty sure it was a thing in Germany but in London too?

Cor blimey Guvnor!

Knew she was a love interest. You don’t pop up halfway through the film in a red dress like that and not snog the main character.

Ooo! Look who it is Margery Tyrell! Looking all kinds of 1940s sexy. She’s too sexy though, sexy like a female antagonist! I DON’T TRUST HER! She’ll make a Joffrey of him given half the chance!

U mad? apparently not worried about recoil at least.

That uniform is so dumb. It literally defeats the object of a uniform since everyone else is wearing something different. It made sense when he was dancing on stage since he was supposed to stand out and all the dancing girls matched him. There’s a reason why army uniforms are green too. They used to be red and blue and the solders were really easy to see and shoot from a distance. Is Captain American a bullet proof? No he isn’t because he needs his vibranium shield to protect him, that’s why they made him have one of those.

They had Ironman in the 40s too! Is there literally any time in history where there wasn’t some kind of Ironman. Increasingly Tony Stark is looking like a plagiarist wannabe.

Old redface looks like he’s made of playdough doesn’t he.

DOUBLE NAZI

Kill self. That’s a hard no from me. How is he expected to deal with the inevitable effects of PTSD after this is over?

Bike race!

GOGO GADGET WASHING LINE

GOGO GADGET FLAME THROWER EXHAUST

GOGO GADGET CANONS!

This guy is incredible at frisbee. Where did he go to college? I wonder what their ultimate team is called?

Fucking hipsters!

I’m still not sure how they went from the future cube to those blue vaporizing guns... I’m starting to doubt the credibility of the science in this film. Irritating because so far in the MCU its all been pretty reliable fact based drama, 99.9% verifiable peer reviewed science.

NO! he’s going to blow up the sea!?

Why would a kamikaze bomb plane bother with an ejection seat though?

They never do...

Oooh ‘ek!

So they’re not even going to have a little PG kiss with Sargent Sex Appeal? He really is the pansiest superhero yet. Even hulk managed to get a kiss.

Ohhhhh! So that’s what we were looking at in the opening scene!

Didn’t that cube melt through metal earlier? How is that robot thing able to grab it now?

I hope he’s shrunk again...

Awwh, that would’ve been funny.

WHAT!? He’s broken out of the matrix!

Also she didn’t age a day?

Nicky the patch! Sort him out will you!

Well you blew it. You’re going to have to settle for her granddaughter.

The real agenda here.

Okay let’s see the after credits thingy...

Oh its just an advert for the next film is it? That must have been exciting at the time but lets face it, we all knew it was coming.

THE END

That’s it for this one guys. I have to say I didn’t hate it. I think they’re getting better as they go but still some hilariously bad moments sprinkled throughout.

#Marvel MCU CaptainAmerica

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originaldetectivesheep · 7 years ago

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The Thirty and One Nights' Momentary Diversion - Within Every Angle And Absorbed By The Matrix Of Reflection

The denizens of the Applied Physics lab, at least some of them, are back from "Nodejacked" for another tale of crazy angles and crazier consequences -- and siqq burns on Gravitational Distortion, H.P. Lovecraft, and the author.

Within Every Angle And Absorbed By The Matrix Of Reflection

"Okay," I said, "I can help Carolína out with this; it's no problem, I don't have anything this afternoon anyway. But… are you really sure that you really want to run this Stan your notes like in a third-rate moeshit iincho plot flag? We're in college. He's a big boy. If he wants to get credit, he can go to class like a normal person. It'd be one thing if he was sick, but he's just hikkied, isn't he? I don't think I've seen him show up all semester."

Riley set something down on the shelf with a clunk and a huff and a weary hunch of the shoulders, and turned away from a long open-sided metal gearbox with a wide fan like an artillery elevator sticking out of it, and locked on to me with a look of long-suffering resignation. "Sajitha, welcome to the wide and wonderful world of the apartment reference. Back when I first moved out of the freshman dorms, Stan and I lived together in Adelard Towers. You remember, that condo village out in the sticks where the Guatemalan mafia had the meth lab that burned down, and the property manager fled to Norway to escape prosecution, and everybody in the developer's office got deported to India? Well, what that means is that I have this property on my record, and Stan has it on his record, and the only people who can tell a prospective landlord that we weren't involved in this gangbang of drugs, corruption, and seven-alarm three-acre fires, and are actually good tenants despite living there, are us – everyone else is in jail or out of the country or both. So I am stuck to him, and he is stuck to me, and if he fails out of school and my landlord raises the rent again, I am going to have a hell of a time finding a place that I can afford. As long as I have anything to say about it, Stan is going to pass his exams and not flunk out – at least until I can get through a couple more tenancies without any other buildings exploding or catching on fire." Riley's face was grim: this was for real.

"Fine," I said, hands up. "Okay; I don't want you to get in trouble either, so I guess that's good enough. Are we set to go, or is he super weird about notes on a thumb drive and do we need to go by the library and print everything out?"

Riley sighed and squinted. "You'd think he would be, with how time-cube weird he is about everything else, but when I sent Leo over, he said that Stan had this triambic icosahedron thing that he used to purify the thumb drive and it was ok. Leo didn't get his thumb drive back, but at least Stan passed the damn midterm." Something creaked on the shelf, and Riley quickly turned around to make sure the gearbox or Bofors action or whatever wasn't going to rip it off the wall.

"So, like a razor pyramid, but for the kind of very special whackos who can also pass algebraic topology courses if someone makes sure they get all the notes," I said, rolling my eyes. "All right; not a problem. The drive's just a burner from the last career fair, and I'll be careful, when we're over his place, not to talk about anything against a four-corner day. Jesus." I stuffed the drive in my pocket, picked up my bag, and hustled through the door to the applied physics lab so that Carolína could reset the EMO drop bars behind us.

"So wait," I said to Carolína, as we climbed up into the bus to head from the engineering quad back downtown, "you know where we're going already. How do you know where this Stan lives? Have you taken him notes before? What's his apartment like? Is he going to hurf at us? Does he smell?"

She shook her head. "No, I just have him on Facebook and in an old group text. I was in a set theory class with him last semester – he goes to his math classes. He… no, Stan is definitely not normal, but he'll go to class if he cares about it, and if you find him there, he's not more weird than like any other weird guy who is into math. I don't know about his apartment – when he was in class, though, he didn't smell so bad you noticed."

I nodded, slowly. Okay. So this wasn't probably going to be that bad; you got a lot of weird guys in engineering, and some of the ones who didn't go to class were like actual live-under-a-bridge trolls with body odor that would break windows, but if Stan wasn't, then this would be just a pain rather than dangerous. I should have known – Riley said they'd roomed together out in that complex before it burned down, and Riley wouldn't've put up with trollishness. "Okay. So what's his deal then? Why does he go to math classes but can't drag himself up to Fields and Waves? It's in the same building – on days he has math classes he's got to go up to campus anyway, and it's not like he's a damn grad student who has one class a day, tops. If he goes to math classes, it's got to be something other than being lazy or trollish if he skips the other ones on purpose."

Carolína furrowed her brow. "I don't know, but I think I remember that he was working on some big project, something math, that was way more important than anything else. He got real, real weird when he was talking about it – like it was almost a religious thing for him."

I shook my head back and forth. Guh. So that was his deal. Utterly unsurprising. "Uuuuugh. One of those. Another one of those. All listening to bizarre IDM. All writing tech-death-metal lyrics on the walls. All putting stellated polyhedra on everything. All running David Icke but the reptoids are being controlled by intelligent shades of vibrating nanoscale colors from higher-order dimensions. All living on hot pockets and freaking out about how one can turn into a Klein bottle." I knocked my head against the bus window.

"Come on – he can't be that bad. Riley used to live with him."

"Yeah – used to; maybe he's gotten weirder since, or they split because he was getting too weird and hotboxing the entire house. Personally, I blame the writers," I said, sitting back up because our stop was coming up. "Anybody who's ever mentioned a 'shining trapezohedron' or used a Szilassi torus as a gateway to another dimension ought to get punted off a bridge, because it convinces guys with poor social skills that if they keep grinding on geometry and do enough of the right drugs, they can become an actual wizard instead of just an internet one. It's got to be the writing: when people just do tons of DMT and smoke weed, they turn out fine. Well, yeah, they go stoner and drop out of anything useful, but they don't get weird about math like the ones who read weird fiction do." Carolína rolled her eyes and shook her head as she stood up; this was our stop, and it wouldn't be too far to get to Stan's place, give him the notes, and then just forget about him forever.

According to Carolína's phone's check-in cloud, Stan's place was a little out of the way; it was a couple streets off the main drag, an old triple-decker next to an abandoned auto body shop with weeds growing through some old truck frames in the back, where she finally climbed up the steps and looked over the mailbox: Stanislav Faldyna, apartment three and a half. There was no doorbell for apartment three and a half.

I shrugged. "So what do you want to do? Do we ring the doorbells for everyone else and ask how we get to apartment 3.5?"

Carolína squinted. "I… guess? I don't know, I mean, probably everybody is out, and I don't know how I'd feel about some random ringing my doorbell to ask about somebody else in the building, but I guess we got to? I don't really know him that well that I can text him and ask him to come let us in, and I don't want to like creeply-crawl around the house to look for another doorbell." She pulled out her phone like she was trying to decide if she should wake up that old group text, or maybe call Riley to see what we were supposed to do.

"Hey," a woman said behind us, "are you looking for someone? Are you looking for Javier? He doesn't live here any more." I turned around and looked her over; a black woman, about our age, probably a student like us, her braids twisted high up on top of her head, holding textbooks in front of herself defensively, like she was wary of the randoms who were standing on her porch looking over the mailboxes and checking their phones.

"Yeah, and no – we don't know this Javier, we're actually looking for this Stan Faldyna, but there isn't a bell or a door for three and a half. Do you live here? Do you know how three and a half works?"

The woman made an uck face. "Stan? He lives in the basement. I guess you want the side door." She nodded vaguely over at the driveway along the fence separating the lot from the weeds of the body shop, and almost shuddered as she came up past us to her own door, hauling out her keys.

"Thanks, I guess," I said after her, as she ignored us and went through the door to apartment 1. "We'll try not to disturb you too much, and if Stan's being a dick we'll tell him to cut the shit." Nobody was listening and it felt empty and futile. I was starting to get a bad feeling about Stan again, and I shook my head as I followed Carolína back down the front steps and around to the side door.

The side door was a squat five-foot slab of wood almost ducked into the ground next to the driveway. No bell, but it did have a 3.5 on it. I banged on the door; if he wasn't in, we could leave the drive in his mailbox and send him a note. Nothing. I banged on the door again, and this time it opened barely a second later.

The door yanked in on a dead-pale, sunken-eyed, sleep-deprived-looking shrimp with sandy brown hair sticking up this way, that way, and every other which way. He looked like he needed a sandwich, or like he was strung out on heroin, or maybe both; I shot a look at Carolína, and she nodded. This was Stan, and this was his deal, and we'd have to take it from here. I swung my bag around and fished the drive out.

"Hey," I said, pushing it over on him, "you don't know us – or at least you don't know me – but Riley sent us over with the notes for Fields and Waves. This is it, so purify it or whatever, and make sure that you show up for the final." I pushed the thumb drive into his chest, and he finally reached up a hand, taking it like he wasn't sure what a USB drive was, or maybe like his depth perception was super bad. He took it at last, and I turned to go.

"Wait," he said, in a voice that sounded like it had cobwebs and an inch-thick layer of dust on it. "Thanks. But since you're here, can you help me with something? I don't want to bother you, but I can't do it by myself."

I stopped. Going down into weird basement apartments with weird dudes was hazardous to your health, but Riley needed Stan intact and passing his classes, and he looked like even Carolína could beat him up with one hand behind her back if he tried anything funny. "Well, maybe. What is it?"

He was looking flat at us. "I need to move my bookcase. It's big. It's too heavy to lift myself." It was an innocent enough request, and looking at him it didn't look like he even knew how to lie like a creep. I looked at Carolína, and she shrugged; I guess this was okay.

"All right," I said. "If it'll help you study, we can help you move your bookcase. It'll be easier with all three of us." He nodded, and went back down the steps; we followed him down into the basement.

Stan's basement apartment smelled like weed and Pot Noodle and unwashed laundry, but it wasn't really that much of a sty; Stan didn't have a lot in the way of stuff. He wasn't big on lights, either, and I nearly tripped coming down the stairs in the dark. He opened up a couple panels in an origami ball with a bunch of short stellated facets, and put the drive inside, closing the paper up around it. Stan motioned over at the far wall, under a low ground-level window. "That's it. It needs to move."

I took a step closer, then another, moving around some kind of trash pile or extremely large origami subassembly in the middle of the floor. The bookcase was empty, but still long and heavy-looking. "Okay," I said. "Just let me and Carolína put our bags down somewhere and we'll help move it. Is the futon okay? Where does it need to go?" I'd set my bag down on a cleanish-looking part of the futon without waiting for an answer.

Stan walked over and grabbed one end of the bookcase, not really pointing anything out. "It just needs to move – back in the kitchen would probably be all right. As long as it's here, the muoctahedron can't spread. And it must spread, so that it can replace the wall." I didn't follow, but I took the other end, and Carolína got in the middle, and by waiting for a cue we finally convinced Stan to lift up and guide the bookcase where it needed to go: the middle of the kitchen floor, where he just left it with a thump. I went back to get our bags, and saw some kind of tiled pattern sticking out of the wall in the corner, back behind where the bookcase had been. It was mold, or tiles, or some kind of garbage thrown in the corner: Stan wasn't growing some kind of infinte theoretical lattice in this basement, and if he was it certainly wouldn't be blocked by a bookcase.

Carolína was less sure. "I'm sorry, Stan, the what? Are you trying to extend your apartment by replacing the walls with a theoretical geometric construct? Besides the part where that can't happen, this is the basement: you're messing with the foundation. If you replace the walls, the house will fall down."

He shook his head. "The muoctahedron is an accident: it's the herald of the change to come. It follows the completion of my great disnub dirhomidodecahedron – it arises from its resonances, even incomplete. When it's completed, the pattern will fold forever." He made just the least little motion in the direction of the origami trashpile on his floor, and there was a weird, unnatural light in his eyes – they seemed to be shining from within in the dark.

I shouldered my bag and tugged at Carolína's sleeve. "Okay; well, we've moved your bookcase, so you can get back to building your impossible figure and studying for Fields and Waves when that drive's vibrations are right. Enjoy your lattice, bye." I sidled over to the steps, and went up them sideways to the door, making sure to keep an eye on Stan as we got the hell out of his place before he got any weirder.

"I give it two weeks before he gets arrested beating up the clerk at a 7-11 because nothing comes in a Klein bottle," I said as we hustled to the bus stop. "I don't want to be the one who has to tell Riley about it, but ya boy Stan is cuckoo nutterbutters."

"As long as he's just doing origami, he's not going to beat anybody up," Carolína put in, a little hurt. "And he's going to be doing it for a while – he said he was building a great disnub dirhomidodecahedron, right?"

"Yeah, and he said he had an infinite lattice 'growing' on his back wall. He's a few vacuum cleaners short of a jam band."

"No, that origami thing – that origami thing in the midle of the floor. It definitely looked like it was big enough to be part of a Skilling's figure, to actually make all the vertices with those pieces of paper. And if he's really making one of those, he'll never finish."

I stopped dead on the sidewalk. "I don't get you. Should I, or is this something that you only get in the advanced geometry classes that you and he did?"

Carolína paused for a second, thinking. "It's pretty hard, and it's pretty obscure. The great disnub dirhombidodecahedron is a hidden uniform polyhedron – it doesn't follow the rules of all the other ones, so it gets called out as 'degenerate', but it's still the only shape in the universe that behaves like it. And it's probably impossible to actually build – it's degenerate because some of its edges are double edges, where four polygons meet on a single line instead of two. You can make it in Mathematica, but physically making out of paper on your floor, I don't think it's possible." She looked disturbed. "If he can do it, it'll be almost as big a deal as when John Skilling discovered the thing, but if he can't do it and gets stuck – and that thing about the muoctahedron –"

"Well, I guess we've got to hope he finishes it, and gets prizes and props for being a math genius," I said, pulling out my phone. "I'm going to call Riley to report in; after that you want to go to the Indonesian popup place and get some satay sticks, or do you have lab?"

Carolína nodded. "Sure, I can hang out; I mean, it's not like he's going to burn the neighborhood down with a polyhedron or anything." I scrolled down to Riley's number, and we went left on Franks to get to Lombok Bali rather than the bus.

I completely forgot about Stan, and his Skilling figure and his muoctahedron, and the part where he was either a genius or totally crazypants, for most of another two weeks, until Carolína called me out of the blue while I was bagging up my groceries at the party store. "Sajitha," she said, "You still have your GPS heat map, right? I'm trying to get to Stan's to take him another thumb drive for Riley, but I can't find his place."

That threw me for a loop. "Carolína, didn't you lead us over there the last time? He lives in that eggshell-white triple-decker next to the abandoned auto body lot right off Whitlock, right? Are you over there now?"

"That's just it – there is no Whitlock Street. Where it should join Macnamara there is nothing – the house numbers are messed up, and it's on the map, but I can't get there. I walk around, and my map pin goes squiggly, and then I end up on the other side." She sounded nervous – maybe even afraid, like she knew but was hoping it was just her going crazy.

"Carolína, just calm down," I said. "You probably just got turned around on one of those streets that isn't marked right, or they were putting in a new Dunkins and you had to go an unfamiliar way round. You're just lost; it's not like the whole neighborhood folded up around some kind of weird topological anomaly and bent itself out of three-space or anything, right? Right? Carolína? Are you there? Carolína? Carolína?"

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Band interview with NEGATIV(Oslo/Norway)

NEGATIV from Oslo, Norway

NEGATIV is a new hardcore punk from Oslo. This band makes me feel that it will bring something exiting to the Oslo punk scene which is not just about Oslo punk scene but it is more involvements from punk scene in other countries. It’s maybe also by the vocalist Skunk’s own hard works for label and bookings, and NEGATIV is deeply involved in it as well. Thus this band makes me feel something will happen! I have seen them couple of times and the latest one was at Barrikaden with SIEVEHEAD. Once they started playing, the band immediately grabbed the entire atmosphere in the moldy underground space and delivered its manic primitive energy thoroughly. Their sound is based on 80s hardcore with weird mixture of Scandinavian hardcore punk, some Japanese flavor, light distorted guitar sound which sometimes sounded even rockin and the edge of thrash hardcore. Their groove is undulated with its manic groaning vocal but still has some sharp edge of thrash hardcore here and there. Their groove completely smashed the space and whole live space was undulated by the crowds and its sweaty moist heated air. It was a great show.

This time I could get a chance to interview them.

Check their sound Here:

Bandcamp: https://negativ1010.bandcamp.com

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/endlessnegativityoslo/

Interview start from below;

-So, who is in the band? is there any band which any of you have played or been playing before or currently playing beside NEGATIV?

Skunk: I do vocals, me and Sig used to scream against each other in JENKEM WARRIORS before and I'm also part of a noisy hardcore band called INTERNT OPPGJØR. Sig used to play drums in DISCUNT and has a electro band called HYSJ.

Møkk(Kenneth) plays guitar and has been in bands since I wore diapers, MORTE CEREBRALE, 2:20 and currently KNUSTE RUTER just to name a few!

Our drummer; Erik has probably had the most musical projects than I can count! He originates from Death Metal but is very comfortable with anything rockin' and-a-rollin and grabs punk songwriting better than most; maybe it's because he's so untouched by all the genre-wanking bullshit that's been going on. I think his most noticed band was FILTHDIGGER, he also had a hardcore band called STRUKTURELL VOLD which is coming out on 7" sometime this year..

-Is there anyone who is involved in any DIY punk activities like running label, writing zines, taking pictures, designing, organizing shows etc in NEGATIV?

Skunk: Møkk is the mastermind and fingers behind ENDLESS STUDIO which is where we record and practice, we just moved into a new space so it's still under renovation. I'm gonna do my label work from there as well.

Sig has always been super busy with Queer and LGBTQ activism in Oslo and used to be the editor of the feminist radio RadiOrakel!

Erik does sound on a regular basis in our squatted venue; Barrikaden.

I've been running a small hardcore-punk label for about six years now called BYLLEPEST DISTRO and been doing booking at Barrikaden for pretty much the same amount of years. I've done sporadic designs for covers and posters but wouldn't really consider myself a designer in any sense. Just a complete hc-punk dweeb who spends too much time on punk stuff.

We all do shows!

-How did NEGATIV start in the beginning? how did all of you get together?

Skunk: Me and Sigrun had some aspirations to start a japanese-style hardcore band in the veins of stuff like GAI, EEL, LEBENDEN TOTEN etc. but had really big problems finding people in Oslo who were interested in playing that primitive and distorted. Sig was supposed to play drums originally, then guitar when Erik joined in on drums. We had our first rehearsal with a complete line-up including MØKK on guitar , which resulted in Sig playing Bass.

Møkk and Erik brought their own inspirations along and it ended up like something completely different! Kenneth wanted to bring influences from Italian 80's hardcore like NEGAZIONE and IMPACT, I think.. Although we try to avoid it I think we can't remain completely untouched by roots of Norwegian hardcore like KAFKA PROSESS , SISTE DAGERS HELVETE etc...

It was a really cold winter and all our other band project were on complete Hiatus.

-How do you describe the sound of the band by your own words?

Skunk: I think Sorry State Records described us the best; so I'd rather not describe our sound in my own words! They wrote; "After starting with a primitive SOA-style banger based around a punishing polka beat and snare rolls as jagged as a prison shiv, Negativ settle into a pleasantly thrash-infused take on 80s hardcore." It's originally about the two first songs on our EP; Automatic Thoughts but I think it describes our entire sound pretty well.

It's primitive and banging steadily! Sometimes we jazz out completely into weird atmospheric parts, but it always remain primitive to the bone.

-Is there any specific bands gave influence/inspiration to the band sound?

Skunk: Anything 80's hardcore but I think we all come from a bit different directions!

All the mentioned above and so many more! I listen to too many hardcore punk records... For the past year I've been quite inspired by the vocal style in UPRIGHT CITIZENS from Germany and early DEAD ENDS from the Philipines. The foundation for me has always been japanese bands from the 80's though. Sigrun is mostly inspired by american hardcore , anything from MINOR THREAT to SICK FIX to L.O.T.I.O.N to LIMP WRIST; I know there's also a great deal of EMBRACE and other mid-era SST influences in there... I know for sure that Erik is inspired by the roots of punk like THE GERMS, SEX PISTOLS and BLACK FLAG while Kenneth gets his groves from anything technically aggressive and JIMI HENDRIX!

-What kind of elements/influences do individual members bring to the band to sounds like NEGATIVE?

Skunk: Everyone in Negativ are practically professional musicians besides me, Erik brings a lot of discipline and force to the band which makes us evolve faster. He's also the father of the term "S-Beat" which is his most common beat inspired by SLAYER and old school death metal like that, it adds a great foundation for primitive hardcore punk!

Sigrun gives our songs those bass lines that makes the songs stick out, there is always a minimalistic melody or harmony that gives the songs a certain drive. I guess it's from that post-hardcore stuff I mentioned above but I dunno haha! I think Kenneth truly gives us that 80's sound with the way he plays in general and he's also a genius at making simplicity sound massive!

-How did you decide the band name? Is there any special meaning? something negative?

Møkk: We where talking about how things seemed upside down in the world.

That the ruling class of the world is mentally ill, but they act as they are the healthy ones. That right wing racist tyrants claim the role as victims, while refugees have lost everything, that capitalists are talking about ecology and “saving the world” while they are the ones raping it. When its more hierarchy, social and sexual abuse in the punk community than in the rest of society? What the fuck is going on!?!?! Its upside down isn’t it?! We where thinking of calling us “The Negatives” Like a photo negative. Where everything is inverted. But, since we`re all quite pessimistic, and having more experience with depression and negative thinking than we would like, and the double meaning with the upside down status of things at the moment, we cut it short and went for Negativ. The meaning is the same.

Its no secret that we dig Negative Approach either. Hehe!

-How's the punk scene in Oslo?

Møkk: Oooh, its like a roller coaster! Haha! Its ups and downs.. But yeah, oslo is a “bi-polar” city. We usually have very cold, long and dark winters. But still we have hot and sunny summers, the sun is up almost 24/7.

So when the winter is letting go, it seems that people are becoming manic, its good! But its definitely manic. Hehe!

Everything happening at the same time, everybody is ON and its a million things to do.

And of course, people are depressed during the winter. Getting “winter depressed” is as common as getting a cough here..

All that affects the punk scene, how the spirit is, if we are fighting each other or fighting our real enemies, or fighting for keeping our spaces, fighting for a better world. We are a small scene, everybody knows everybody, we aren’t very split into fractions. At least not in the same degree as other cities in Europe where I see more fractions and more homogenic communities. And I feel that the punk scene in Oslo is gonna be a good place to be in the future. Seems like people is starting to see what we have in common, rather than what we don’t have in common with each other. I think it has been a bit of a down period lately, but it looks promising at the moment. But hey! Its the month of May right now and maybe I`m just optimistic and manic at the moment?

-How do you think about playing in a band in Oslo?

Skunk: I think we only played five shows in Oslo during the year we have existed. It's a small city and even though there are always some punk gigs, the quota of local bands is always a variable. We've only done five shows here or so for the past year and we're gonna keep it at a minimum just to keep shit interesting...

The best thing about playing in a band in Oslo would have to be the access to studios, venues etc. We run our own label and studio directly in the center of Grønland and can pretty much play how much/how little we feel like and still be sustainable. I

The worst part is probably that a lot of great bands from Oslo doesn't get recognized abroad because we're so far away from everything and often drown in the shadows of bands from Sweden and Denmark!

-Which bands are you playing together a lot? any bands you feel sympathy as in a same scene?

Skunk: We played a couple of shows with Terrorstat, they're probably my personal favorites in Oslo. All good mates and half the band played with me and Sig in Jenkem Warriors. Terrorstat is a true freak accident of a fusion between Boston hardcore and Svart Framtid. They always deliver and is just such a hard-working, no bullshit band! All the members are also involved in Punk shit in Oslo outside of the band! Båndtvang is also a sick new noisy gang that I love to bits! Can't wait to see what direction they're heading, but it kinda reminds me of if Crucifucks would play Noise Punk!

We also did a two of our gigs with BLOOD SUCKERS, which is probably the only puristic USHC band in Oslo at the moment. Håvard from that band has put up quite a few gigs for us as well with the SVART SAMTID collective!

-Is there any bands you feel sympathy for the sound/attitude outside of Norway?

Skunk: First off, I'd have to say Arggh! Fukk! Kill!!! that we played two gigs with in Germany, they've helped us out a lot and are great guys; we are doing a UK tour with manic D-beaters in Split-Veins in the end of June, Carlos from that band has done some artwork for us and is generally a super sweet guy! We had a good session with PMS 84 in a club in Oslo not long ago and we hope we'll get to do some US shows with them in 2018!

-Is there any good bands out there in Oslo which we should keep our eyes on in these days?

Skunk: Besides BÅNDTVANG, BLOOD SUCKERS and TERRORSTAT; I would strongly recommend everyone to check out MODERN LOVE, URBANOIA, PURPLE X, and OUTER LIMIT LOTUS! Oslo is not really a big enough scene to segregate genres, so the bands on this list varies from post punk to hardcore to power pop! We all play together!

-How do you guys compose songs and lyrics? some specific members are dedicated to it? or more like bring some riffs and developing it by jamming?

Skunk: Most of the flesh on our songs is hammered out by Erik; our drummer; then the rest of us puts our flavor on it. This is not a rule though and I think all of us bring ideas to the table!

-Have you played outside of Norway?

Skunk: We did a short European tour about 8 months into NEGATIV's existence where we toured Denmark, Germany, Holland and Belgium. We got to meet old and new friends and I think it helped us define how we want to tour in the future.

-What was the most impressive/unforgettable show NEGATIV had so far?

Skunk: The craziest shit ever for sure was to see the kids in Die Friese, Bremen singing along to our lyrics! I never expected that on our first tour!

-What was the craziest things you had as NEGATIV?

Skunk: For me it must be the positive receivement we've gotten from the international punk scene. I've been playing in bands for about five years now where we've practically been having to beg for shows; with NEGATIV things've just fallen into place and the record has almost distributed itself. We're getting so many requests for shows, interviews etc. it's actually becoming stressful! We're extremely thankful to the punk community in it's completeness!

-What is the further plan for NEGATIV?

Skunk: We're just about to embark on a UK Tour with Split-Veins and if things go as planned we wanna record our side for a four way split we're doing in Sheffield! We are also working on material for an LP and would love to tour the US in 2018 if shit go as planned!

Møkk: We just played together for a year, so i have the feeling we have some crazy things happening in the future! Right now there’s just some small stories involving chocolate in Amsterdam, stalking in Copenhagen, Latin American punk sieg-heiling in Rigaerstrasse. So, can`t wait for the real crazy stuff to happen! Haha. Ugh!

-Is there any specific goal/aim for NEGATIV to achieve?

Møkk: At first it was just a goal to create a vent for frustration. Just to let it out.

The ambition was no ambition. It still is I guess. Some kind of therapy.

Right now we want to make an Album, we have a lot of stuff we want to sing about, and musical ideas to dig into. So no.. No specific goal at the moment.

But that can change as Byllepest Records is making a compilation called “infection”.

I think the goal is to infect society with punk rock. And make punk rock a very dangerous contaminating disease.

Skunk: Our goal is to keep up the fight and make sure it doesn't end anytime soon! Fight in Progress!!!

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High Performance Foaming Agents Market: Key Players

The study is a source of reliable data on:

· Market segments and sub-segments

· Market trends and dynamics

· Supply and demand

· Market size

· Current trends/opportunities/challenges

· Competitive landscape

· Technological breakthroughs

· Value chain and stakeholder analysis

The regional analysis covers:

· North America (U.S. and Canada)

· Latin America (Mexico, Brazil, Peru, Chile, and others)

· Western Europe (Germany, U.K., France, Spain, Italy, Nordic countries, Belgium, Netherlands, and Luxembourg)

· Eastern Europe (Poland and Russia)

· Asia Pacific (China, India, Japan, ASEAN, Australia, and New Zealand)

· Middle East and Africa (GCC, Southern Africa, and North Africa)

Highlights of the report:

· A complete backdrop analysis, which includes an assessment of the parent market

· Important changes in market dynamics

· Market segmentation up to the second or third level

· Historical, current, and projected size of the market from the standpoint of both value and volume

· Reporting and evaluation of recent industry developments

· Market shares and strategies of key players

· Emerging niche segments and regional markets

· An objective assessment of the trajectory of the market

· Recommendations to companies for strengthening their foothold in the market

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