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WITSEC Part 2: Alone - Will Halstead x Reader

Prequel: Moments

Part One: Got You

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Will’s life is a chaos.

It’s not just that he’s been thrust into the Witness Protection program, it’s seeing you again after all this time. He hadn’t known that you were back, not before the shooting but now it’s all he could think about. He wonders how long you’ve been back in Chicago. He rubs his hands over his face, palms scratching over the stubble of his cheeks as he looks out of the window of his apartment in Central City, Phoenix.

It’s warm here, too warm and he hates it. He’s a Chicago boy at heart and the heat, it gets to him. He runs the AC 24/7 in a bid to get some relief from the oppressive temperature. He thinks the electric bill will drive the FBI crazy and he takes a sick sense of satisfaction in it.  

He knows he has left a mess back in Chicago. He sees the images flipping through his head like some obscene scrapbook.

Natalie crying her heart out on the steps of the church, hands clasped over her heart as she begs for him to explain.

You outside the warehouse, silent and dutiful with smudges of Tim’s blood marring your skin from where Will had touched you with copper-stained fingertips.

The disparity wasn’t lost on him.

Two different women.

One that he was technically still engaged too.

And the other…

A woman he was so frighteningly in love with, it felt like he was being ripped apart all over again when he was put on that plane to Phoenix. The connection the two of you had, it was forged on a deeper level than anything else he’d ever known and that hadn’t changed in your absence, he was a fool to think it had.

After a month trapped here in Arizona, he could see that Natalie had only ever been a placeholder. He had still been hurting. Their first kiss only two months after you’d left. He had still been feeling your absence acutely.

It had started casual, a couple of drinks, then a few dates. He almost forgot about you in the hustle and bustle of his life, the world turned, patients came and went. He was in a good space, looking forward to becoming a husband, and a stepfather when his world imploded. The cracks he had papered over began to show. The foundations of their relationship had been rocky to begin with, he just hadn’t realised how much until he looked back.

There were red flags, little things he should have realised that were indicators of problems to come. Like telling him to shave his beard because she hated it, sneaking out in the early hours of the morning before Owen woke up. Each and very compromise chipped away at his self-esteem because in his heart he knew he wasn’t good enough, but the problem was Will Halstead wasn’t a quitter. He kept on trying to please Natalie, to make things perfect, because perfection was what she desired and living up to that standard meant that she wouldn’t leave him.

When he got caught up with the Burkes and the FBI he had lied. He had kept it all a secret, tried to deal with it himself, because the whole thing, it would have been too much for Natalie. He had done what he could to protect her, and it had all come crumbling down.

He knew it would have been different if it was you. He would have come to you straight away, he would have told you everything, the two of you would have figured it out. Instead, he was here alone in an apartment in Arizona, contemplating all the wrong turns he had taken up until this point.

He should have gone with you to Virginia, but he’d just taken the attending job at Chicago Med and his mentor Doctor Rowan’s health had been declining. It wasn’t the right time. You had understood that.

These thoughts, they went around his head in circles driving him crazy. He was stuck in stasis and the world was carrying on without him. There was no determination of how long he would be here, his life was essentially on hold. He couldn’t progress, he couldn’t move on. He was simply stuck in the moment.

Throughout the day he managed to keep his anxiety under control, but it was always there writhing like a leviathan in the pit of his stomach. At night it was worse. When he did sleep, he dreamt of Tim Burke pulling the trigger, the gunshot reverberating throughout his body as crimson blossomed across his shirt. He could see the smoke from the gun, taste the cordite in his mouth, feel the bullet burrowing into his flesh. He always woke with a jolt, a racing heart and empty lungs as he stared at the cracks in the recently painted ceiling. Sometimes he reached out for you. It was an instinctual, visceral need, a comfort he sought out during his deepest strife.

It broke his heart when his hand hit cool sheets anf he realised you weren’t there, that no one was.

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[zoodden]

Bill Wolfer - Call Me, from the album Wolf. Released 1982 in US on Constellation.

[rainingmusic]

Michael Jackson -  Wanna Be Startin' Somethin'

[12inchesallday]

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Jon Gibson - Are You Gonna Stay With Me Again

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Bill Weasley & Fleur Delacour

“My head has no room for their opinions, it’s filled with you.”

Read Wolfer ch. 5

Wolfer is a Harry Potter old west AU with magic.

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President Donald Trump on Sunday said he will not approve another badly needed Covid-19 stimulus package if it doesn't include a payroll tax cut, a policy that would strike a blow to Social Security and Medicare funding while offering no relief for the more than 30 million people who have lost their jobs over the past six weeks.

"I told Steve just today, we're not doing anything unless we get a payroll tax cut," Trump said during a Fox News town hall Sunday night, referring to Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin. "That is so important to the success of our country."

The town hall was the second time in less than a week that the president has proposed a payroll tax cut as a centerpiece of the next relief legislation, which is being negotiated by the White House and congressional leaders as the U.S. barrels toward an unemployment rate not seen since the Great Depression.

An NPR/PBS Newshour/Marist survey released last week found that half of all Americans said they or someone in their household has lost a job or seen their hours slashed due to the coronavirus pandemic.

Economists have noted that a payroll tax cut—unlike additional direct payments, which Trump has opposed—would do nothing for those who have been thrown out of work by the coronavirus crisis.

University of Michigan economists Betsey Stevenson and Justin Wolfers wrote in a New York Times op-ed in March that a payroll tax cut would give "the biggest breaks to those with the biggest paychecks, and delivers nothing to those who have lost their pay."

"And it's a slow infusion of cash," Stevenson and Wolfers added, "dripping out paycheck by paycheck."

Additionally, advocacy groups have warned that a payroll tax cut represents a threat to Social Security and Medicare.

"'Payroll tax cut' is code for 'gut Social Security and Medicare's dedicated funding, then demand benefit cuts,'" Social Security Works tweeted Sunday night. "Democrats must stand strong and continue blocking Trump's terrible idea."

Trump's comments came in the early stages of talks over a "Phase Four" coronavirus stimulus package that advocates and experts say is urgently needed to stem mass layoffs, forestall a looming nationwide housing crisis, and avert a second Great Depression.

On top of a payroll tax cut, Republican congressional leaders and the Trump White House are demanding that any future stimulus measure include legal immunity for corporations whose workers contract Covid-19 on the job.

Progressives, meanwhile, are calling for a relief package that addresses the needs of frontline workers, distributes direct $2,000 monthly payments to all U.S. households, provides emergency funding for the U.S. Postal Service, expands Medicare to cover the unemployed and uninsured, cancels rent and mortgage payments, and more.

Indivisible, a progressive advocacy organization, is pressuring members of Congress to vote against any stimulus bill that doesn't provide sufficient relief to the vulnerable.

"If the bill doesn't put people first, they should vote no," the group tweeted Saturday.

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Michael Jackson - Thriller

2022 Mobile Fidelity 1-Step #7829

This is what you get when you are on the nice list...

This the album that started the whole mofi controversy this year...but let me say it sounds exceptional. I had it up so loud (with no distrortion) that @the_glass_half_full said t he floor upstairs was shaking. In any case Quincy Jones producing and all the players are here: Louis Johnson, David Paich, Steve Lukather, Jeff & Steve Porcaro , Paul Jackson, Greg Phillingaines, Bill Wolfer, Eddie Van Halen with the monster Beat It solo and vocals by James Ingram, Janet Jackson, and Sir Paul McCartney.

#michaeljackson , #thriller , #mobilefidelity , #1stepultradisc,

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Vanity - Pretty Mess 1984  September 8, 1984 - 38 Years Ago Today: Vanity debuted at No. 87 on the Billboard Hot 100 Chart with her single, "Pretty Mess." This Vanity (Denise Matthews)/Bill Wolfer-penned song was the singer/songwriter's chart debut after her single, "Nasty Girl," as lead singer of Vanity 6 just missed the Hot 100 "bubbling under" at No. 101 two years prior. Although, "Pretty Mess," only reached No. 75 on September 29, 1984, it peaked at No. 15 on the Billboard R&B Chart and No. 13 on the Billboard Dance Songs Chart. Sadly, Vanity died on February 15, 2016, at the age of 57. Noteworthy: Vanity 6 was assembled and created by Prince. Vanity (Denise Matthews) walked away from her music and acting career to concentrate on evangelism after she suffered an overdose of Cocaine causing renal failure in 1994. Renal failure was the cause of her death in 2016.

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Michael Jackson - Billie Jean 

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Adviser Under Former Presidents Obama and Clinton Commits Suicide

Alan Krueger, 58, died on Saturday.

Krueger’s family released a statement: “It is with tremendous sadness we share that Professor Alan B. Krueger, beloved husband, father, son, brother, and Princeton professor of economics, took his own life over the weekend.

The family requests the time and space to grieve and remember him. In lieu of flowers, we encourage those wishing to honor Alan to make a contribution to the charity of their choice.”

He was a former economic advisor to Bill Clinton and Barack Obama.

In a statement, Obama called Krueger “a fundamentally good and decent man.”

“Alan was someone who was deeper than numbers on a screen and charts on a page,” Obama said. “He saw economic policy not as a matter of abstract theories, but as a way to make people’s lives better,” The Examiner reported.

Princeton did not specify the cause of death in their announcement, only stating, “Princeton University is saddened to share that Alan Krueger, James Madison Professor of Political Economy, passed away over the weekend.”

Another Obama official, Jared Bernstein, who served as chief economist for Vice President Joe Biden, wrote that Kreuger “believed that if you want to know the answer to something, sometimes you have to go out and get the data yourself, something very few economists do,” CNN reported.

Added Lisa Cook, an economist and White House aide for Obama:: “I cannot believe my friend, CEA colleague, and extraordinary economist @Alan_Krueger has passed away. His contributions to the field are immeasurable. His ability to examine and communicate important economic data, questions, and findings was remarkable. Rest in peace, Alan.”

“It’s hard to believe that Alan Krueger is dead. He was a hero to me: A great economist, an extraordinary public servant and policymaker, and a helluva mentor and teacher. And he took extraordinary delight in everything he did and everyone he touched,” tweeted Justin Wolfers.

He’s survived by his wife, Lisa, and their two children.

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Economist Says Job Losses Like the Great Depression

LOS ANGELES (OnlineColumnist.com), April 2, 2020.--KPMG, one of the nation’s top four accounting firms, chief economist Constance Hunter expressed grave concerns about the coronavirus AKA SARS CoV-2 or Covid-19 creating Depression-era job losses.  Losing 700,000 non-farm payroll jobs, Hunter says the waves of sudden unemployment are worst since the Great Depression, following the 1929 Stock Market Crash.  “I mean it is just so heartbreaking, this data,” Hunter said.  “We have more social safety nets in place than the during the Great Depression but this is way worse than anything we saw during the Great Depression,” referring to sudden job losses.  What accompanied the 1929 stock market crash was a “run on the bank,” where depositors demanded cash and banks quickly ran out.  While that’s not going to happen in today’s world, the sheer volume of unemployed has caused 9 million workers to file for unemployment benefits.

           Hunter expects to see jobs losses accelerate in April when post March 12 “shelter in place” orders kick in.  This week numbers don’t include job losses after March 12, anticipating another 8 million jobs lost, maybe as much as 12 million disappear.  Hunter could see 25 million jobs lost in the second quarter, in the biggest loss of employment in U.S. history.  Whether Wall Street’s got the message yet, the rude awakening is on its way, expecting a sell-off to take markets below March lows, perhaps down another 20% or more.  Today’s Dow Jones Industrial Average of 21,052.53 is down 29% of its Feb. 12 record high of 29,551.  Funds have been playing around value shopping, finding bargains when markets drop. Allianz SE economist Mohamed El-Erian doesn’t think Wall Street’s strategy of buying on dips strategy will work this time around, saying, “it’s hard to catch a falling knife.”

            When jobless claims hit 6.648 million for the week ending March 28, it smashed the record of 695,000. Such a precipitous drop sent stocks swooning, eclipsing value buyers hoping to dollar-cost-average in portfolios. Hunter said even in the Great Depression, there was never such a drop-off, only a gradual decline over several years.  “We didn’t t have a sudden drop off the cliff like this,” Hunter said.  Hunter worries that many furloughed workers would not return to their jobs once companies have the liquidity and demand to bring them back. “Firms that have had to fire workers are probably going to go back to many of their same workers and rehire them—but of course there will be some friction and some sorting, as many people don’t go back to the same employers,” Hunter said.  Such discontinuity at small-and-large businesses is going to make getting back to normal very difficult.

            Restarting businesses won’t be easy when employers can’t get the workplace reestablished to hit the ground running.  No one really knows whether the same pent-up demand for goods and services will be there automatically.  As companies shutter and shed jobs, it’s going to be difficult to reverse the trend, getting businesses back on track.  Estimating that the real unemployment rate today could be 13%, Univ. of Michigan economist Justin Wolfers commented that the St. Louis Fed forecasted that unemployment could jump to a whopping 32%, well above the 24.9% recorded in 1933 in the pit of the Great Depression.  U.S. manufacturing jobs didn’t get into gear until President Franklin D. Roosevelt ramped up the war effort in 1939, not long after Hitler invaded Poland Sept. 1, 1939.  Harvard economist Kenneth Rogoff agreed that the coronavirus crisis looks to eclipse the 2008 Financial Crisis.

            Wall Street investors, from the nation’s biggest funds to the little guy with an IRA or pension fund could watch their life savings go up in smoke.  Expectations of a V-shaped snap-back recovery have been dashed, expecting years to get the economy back to where it was before the SARS CoV-2 global pandemic.  President Donald Trump can only hope that voters don’t blame him for the market crash that could watch unemployment skyrocket to over 30%.  If there’s any hope at all, it comes from the strong bipartisan response passing a $2.2 trillion stimulus bill to salvage what looks like an atom bomb to the U.S. economy.  Federal Reserve Board Chairman Jerome Powell is ready to keep liquidity in the banking sector, unlike the Great Depression.  “This is already shaping up as the deepest dive on record for the global economy for over 100 years,” Rogoff said, not mincing words.

About the Author

John M. Curtis writes politically neutral commentary analyzing spin in national and global news. He’s editor of OnlineColumnist.com and author of Dodging The Bullet and Operation Charisma.

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Week 6 Critical Analysis (1980s) Micheal Jackson - Beat It

"Beat It” is a song by Micheal Jackson released in 1983. This song uses contemporary and popular instrumentation used in the 1980s including the; electric guitar, bass and drums. Because of the growing popularity of electronic instruments used in the 1980s, there is also the use of Synclavier synthesizers and Rhodes keyboards in this song.The song is in the key of E ♭ minor and has a tempo of 138 beats per minute. 

Micheal Jackson's brother Jermaine has suggested that there is a deeper meaning behind "Beat It"s funky feel. When looking at the lyrics you can see this song is about Michael’s general dislike for violence, with lines like "Don't wanna see no blood, don't be a macho man" showing how he felt about the topic. Jermaine's been quoted saying there were a few instances of gang related violence outside the Jackson family home that they were exposed to as children, which could of been Micheal's inspiration for the song and video.   

The video is famously known for hiring dancers of both the rival Blood and Crip gangs, which makes me feel like Micheal was directly trying to send a message to society that gang related violence is meaningless while also giving an opportunities to the underprivileged.    

Micheal's producer Quincy Jones wanted him to make a rock and roll song to reach wider audiences, and while Micheal had no interest in the genre at the time, Quincy convinced him that "Beat It" was the perfect song to attempt this with. "I wanted to write a song, the type of song that I would buy if I were to buy a rock song..." Jackson quoted speaking about the making of Beat It. 

The introduction to the song was played with the Synclavier. The playing is credited to Quincy Jones but it was actually an exact replay of one of the demo patches that came with the synth. Check the following video:

https://youtu.be/UaiBhPWWvKs?t=209

I wrote some notes while listening to the song:

•  The drums which are played by Jeff Porcaro start around 10 seconds.

•  The Guitar begins to play at 24 seconds in. 

•  Micheal's Verse (1.38 mark)

•  Chorus (1.05 mark)

•  Micheals second Verse (1.26 mark)

•  Chorus (1.54 mark)

•  The guitar solo which was played by Van Halen (2.36)

•  The final chorus (3.18) 

Van Halen lead guitarist Eddie Van Halen was asked to add a guitar solo by Jackson, which was a strange collaboration at the time being that Van Halen was traditionally hard rock and Micheal was the King of Pop. Eddie agreed to do this, for payment of a case of beer and as long as his name wasn't credited on the song. 

I used the SPAN plugin with Pro Tools to analyse the track and wrote the following notes: - The first thing I noticed is that around 16khz there is a weird peak with a considerable amount of background noise around it and a few strange clicks etc. - Micheal's vocals are in the 800Hz  - 1kHz range - The bass guitar is around 300Hz and is Low-Mid frequency heavy - The electric guitar is in a high frequency between 4kHz and 6kHz - The drums are at there peak around 450Hz - 500Hz

Here is a list of the instruments used for the song, this was taken directly from the Wikipedia page here

Michael Jackson – lead vocals, background vocals, drum case beater

Paul Jackson Jr. – rhythm guitar

Steve Lukather – lead guitar, bass guitar

Eddie Van Halen – guitar solo

Steve Porcaro – synthesizer, synthesizer programming

Greg Phillinganes – Rhodes, synthesizer

Bill Wolfer – keyboards

Tom Bahler – Synclavier

Jeff Porcaro – drums

My references:

https://genius.com/Michael-jackson-beat-it-lyrics

https://www.nme.com/blogs/nme-blogs/the-incredible-way-michael-jackson-wrote-music-16799

https://medium.com/micro-chop/the-opening-of-beat-it-is-an-exact-replay-from-the-incredible-sounds-of-synclavier-ii-record-659061d90b37

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beat_It

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Irrationality at the voting booth

THE publication of Hillary Clinton’s campaign memoir “What Happened” in September set off a new round of finger pointing over what caused the 2016 presidential election result. Many argued that the Democratic candidate did not accept enough blame for her own defeat. Social psychologists might have something to say about that: most argue that it is a widespread tendency to attribute other people’s misfortune to personality traits rather than to the circumstances they find themselves in; we do the reverse when it comes to our own failures. This “fundamental attribution error” is discussed by Edward Glaeser, an economist at Harvard, and his colleagues in a recent paper that could help explain many political outcomes.

There is no simple objective measure of a politician’s competence. But voters’ perception of competency appears to often be determined by ideology. For example 70% of Democratic voters thought Barack Obama would go down in history as an outstanding or above average president at the end of his term compared to 15% of Republicans. 

Even while objective outcomes do play a role in determining voters’ attitudes, voters often judge politicians on results that are beyond their control. Justin Wolfers, an economist, found that voters in oil-producing states were more likely to re-elect incumbent governors during oil price rises, and vote them out of office when the oil price drops—despite the fact that governors have effectively no power over the global price of a barrel of crude. Christopher Achen and Larry Bartels of Princeton and Vanderbelt similarly suggest a strong pattern of voters penalising politicians in the aftermath of floods, droughts and even shark attacks. They argue that in the presidential election of 2000 as many as 2.8m voted against Al Gore (the “incumbent” candidate in that he was a vice-president campaigning to replace his fellow Democrat Bill Clinton) because their states had been too wet or too dry that year.

There is one potential upside to the attribution error of thinking politicians are responsible for outcomes that are (largely) out of their control.  Elected officials may work harder that they would do otherwise to improve such outcomes, because they know they will be judged on them. But most of the effects Mr Glaeser and his colleagues discuss are negative.

In particular, they suggest that voters who think they can easily detect the quality of politicians respond to political failures “by demanding new people, not new institutions”—throwing the bums out, not changing the incentives facing elected leaders. Voters are less interested in mechanisms to provide better guidance on who is a good politician or protect against bad politicians who are elected regardless: institutions like a free press or oversight mechanisms to fight corruption.   

Of course, no voting result can be reduced to a single set of factors, let alone one potential psychological quirk amongst the electorate. But Mr Glaeser and colleagues argue that the attribution error may lead to voters electing the lucky over the competent and selecting politicians on the grounds that they are strong in areas where elected officials actually have little control.  Not least, the paper suggests, voters favour presidential candidates who claim that they can manage the economy "despite the fact that presidential control over war and diplomacy is arguably far greater than presidential control over GDP growth".

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Vanity - Pretty Mess 1984 September 8, 1984 - 35 Years Ago Today: Vanity debuted at No. 87 on the Billboard Hot 100 Chart with her single, "Pretty Mess." This Vanity (Denise Matthews)/Bill Wolfer-penned song was the singer/songwriter's chart debut after her single, "Nasty Girl," as lead singer of Vanity 6 just missed the Hot 100 "bubbling under" at No. 101 two years prior. Although, "Pretty Mess," only reached No. 75 on September 29, 1984, it peaked at No. 15 on the Billboard R&B Chart and No. 13 on the Billboard Dance Songs Chart. Sadly, Vanity died on February 15, 2016, at the age of 57. Noteworthy: Vanity 6 was assembled and created by Prince. Vanity (Denise Matthews) walked away from her music and acting career to concentrate on evangelism after she suffered an overdose of cocaine causing renal failure in 1994. Renal failure was the cause of her death in 2016.