#i then had to be transfered out of the virtual class in the exact middle of the school year

[rain-nyte]

"We created this program to let students learn and work at their own place, every assignment is due in 2 days max and you can't access the next one until we say you can"

"contract grading" "only 4 absences or you drop to an F" "in this class we will be teaching about disabilities. attendance is mandatory and i do not accept late work" "please respond to at least two of your peers in this discussion post" "people with autism need time to decompress in a classroom environment. your class is four hours long with a 7 minute break." "we like to let students learn the way THEY want to learn. please buy our 150 dollar textbook."

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survey by nadine07

[..Introductions..]

First Name: Robyn.

Middle Name: I don’t think I’ve shared it on here and I doubt I will.

Last Name: Not providing it either but it starts with a C.

Birthdate: April 21st.

[..First Things First..]

What was the first thing you did after you got up? I rushed to the rooftop so that I could see the sunrise. I also got in the random mood to do a time-lapse of it, but the sun took forrrrrrrr-freaking-ever to come up entirely. I was holding up my phone for like 15 minutes and nothing was happening, so I quit halfway through lol.

What was the name of your first pet? Goldie, because it was a goldfish.

Who was your first big crush? Gabie, I would say.

Where was the first place you drove after you got your license? Chelsea’s 18th birthday dinner was scheduled right after I happened to get my license, and the event took place in a small, quaint little restaurant in Marikina. 

There’s a bit of a funny story here, too – Aaron needed a ride to get there and so I offered to drive him. I picked him up and we were having small talk in the car, and he asked me how long I’ve been driving. I told him that moment was my literal first time driving out and that I just got my license the day before, and he is my first-ever passenger (at that point I’ve never even tried driving solo yet). The horror and immediate distrust on his face was something I will never forget HAHAHA. We got to the place unharmed, but it’s still one of my favorite stories to tell.

Who was your very first friend? It was a kind girl named Kaye back in kindergarten. We were always next to each other in our class lists, so it was inevitable for us to befriend one another. She transferred schools in first grade and I have not seen nor heard from her since.

What was the first thing you ate today? I had another bag of salted egg chips. I’m extremely hooked, lmao.

What was your first job? I work as an associate at a PR agency.

[..Colors..]

Name something red in the room you are in: We have an unopened bottle of wine here on the dining table and there’s still a red ribbon wrapped around it.

Is orange one of your school's team colors? No, neither of my schools had orange as one of its colors.

How many yellow shirts do you own? I can think of 5 tops hanging out in my wardrobe at the moment. Two of them are class shirts from high school; the others were tops I bought when I started getting into mustard yellow.

Name someone you know who drives a green car: I believe Angel, a classmate from high school who also studies in UP, also drives a Mitsubishi Mirage, albeit a lime green one.

Is it a blue sky outside right now? Yes for the most part, but the sun is setting soon so the sky is bound to change into many pretty colors as it usually does at this time of the day.

What is the first thing that pops into your head when I say 'purple'? Barney the dinosaur, and ube.

Are the walls in the room you're in white? Yes, all our walls indoors are white.

Does black make you think of depressing things? Not always, but if used specifically in that context, it definitely helps boosts the mood.

Jewelry: gold or silver? Silverrr, always.

[..Phone Stuff..]

Who is your provider? Nothing you would be familiar with, but I use Globe.

How long have you had your current phone? It’ll be three years this year. It would be nice to upgrade, but I’m also still happy with my current phone so it doesn’t really matter to me.

What did your last text say? The last one that came through that didn’t come from my mobile services provider was from someone in the media. It was his birthday last Friday and I messaged him if he’d like to receive a gift from us, on behalf of one of our clients; he just replied with his confirmation and details.

If you woke up naked next to the last person to call, would it be awkward? Yep and I’d feel like throwing up almost immediately.

Was your last missed call male or female? It was from my mom.

Who is your 10th phone contact? It’s from Jum, who I realize is still listed as Ate Jum on my phone. That’s cute hahaha; I must have gotten her number when we weren’t super close yet. Anyway, she’s been super MIA for like the last two years...basically, ever since she graduated. I believe she has also since moved back to Bicol, so it’s become virtually impossible to see her again. Bums me out and I look forward to the day we somehow end up in the same room once again.

How did you meet them? I met her in my very first journalism major class. I had mixed feelings towards her at first since I found her to be super loud in class, and I initially thought she would only be a one-time classmate and nothing more; but I got to know her more and we even ended up as orgmates, and it turns out she is literally the most hilarious person I know.

Are you related to your 17th phone contact? I have absolutely no clue who it is. I no longer remember what led to it, but Gabie and I swapped the SIM cards in our phones at one point, and for some reason it made me have access to her contacts; the 17th contact on my phone is someone from her list. And since I never hang out in my Contacts app, I’ve never gotten around to deleting those extra numbers I received.

How long have you known your 1st phone contact? Around 6th or 7th grade. I can’t remember the exact grade level she transferred to my school as a new student.

When was the last time you saw them? It’s been at least a year. I remember seeing her on campus very briefly when I was on my way to a certain building for class, while she was walking out of it.

Who is your 4th phone contact? LMAO, again, it’s from her contact list. Said person is one of her older cousins, I believe.

Have you ever kissed that person? No, and that is very weird and uncomfortable to think about.

When was the last time someone drunk dialed/texted/left a voicemail? Andi drunk messaged me a few months ago. November, I think.

[..Friends..]

Who is your #1? No Myspace but I’d say my top best friend is Angela.

How long have you known them? It will be 16 years this year.

Have you ever kissed? Oh my gosh, hell no. It would be like kissing a sister haha. She’s super affectionate and will sometimes kiss my shoulder or cheek, though.

Are you dating this person? No, never did and never desired to.

Do you have nicknames for each other? Not really exclusive to each other, but I call her Anj (and only a few people call her so) and she will occasionally call me Reben or Rolayn, both from past inside jokes.

What is your #2's full name? I am not sharing that, but I refer to them as Andi (you may remember them as Andrew from the past times I’ve mentioned them).

Do they live within 20 minutes of you? If there is zero traffic, I can probably make it to their place within that timeframe, yeah. But realistically, no they don’t.

How did you meet? We initially met in an anti-Marcos protest/rally – I approached they first because they had a wrestling shirt on, heheh – and that’s when I learned we were from the same college. But they rubbed me off the wrong way from our first meeting as they were too extroverted for my liking, and I spent a good chunk of time ignoring him whenever we crossed paths, lmfao. Eventually we were put in the same class at some point, and they even joined my org, and an intensely close friendship started from there.

Could you live with this person? Sure. I think they would never be a boring roommate.

Who is your #3? I’m gonna go with Kate for this one.

Where are they right now? I have no idea. We don’t really catch up with each other’s lives on a regular basis; we have a very chill, low-maintenance friendship.

When is this person's birthday? January 1st.

Has this person ever seen you naked? I don’t think so.

What is your #4's full name? I don’t think I have a 4th-tier best friend haha, but I’m gonna pick Tina.

When did you last see them? Last year, on the last normal day I was able to be on campus. She was set to present one of her projects at a journalism conference that was taking place in campus that day, but I was able to hang out with her for a short time before the event.

Have they ever dated one of your other friends? No. I knew she had a crush on someone from the college, though.

Do you know their favorite movie? I’m not sure about her favorite movie but I do know she loves Adam Sandler. I was never able to figure out if her interest was ironic or genuine but yeah, she enjoys a good number of his works.

[..Randomosity..]

What time is it? 6:20 PM.

Are you supposed to be doing something other than this? I wouldn’t say so. I do have deliverables for work but since it’s the weekend, I’m not thinking about them nor do I have the desire to touch those tasks until Monday.

Do you live on your own or with your parents? I live with my family. Considering my monthly income, it’d be close to impossible to sustain myself in my own place this early in my adult life.

Are you more of a cat or a dog person? Dog, for sure.

Are you allergic to anything? I don’t believe so.

Does your shirt have anything written on it? Yeah, it says “UP Fighting Maroons” styled in a varsity font since that’s the term for our sports team.

Have you ever tie-dyed something? I have, but only back in like Grade 6 when we had to do it for a home ec class. I remember wanting to buy a tie-dye set recently so I could revisit the activity, but I never got around to it.

Who can you always count on to cheer you up? Angela for the most part; but I also don’t want to be too reliant on my friends in this way. Sometimes I simply allow myself to be sad or upset, and sometimes I count on myself to cheer up.

How many places have you been today? I have been nowhere but at home today lol. I’ll be going to BGC tomorrow to have lunch with my godfather and my cousins, though.

Are you a forgiving person? No.

When was the last time you felt let down? Last night when I read the news that the government will be making All Souls’ Day, Christmas Eve, and New Year’s Eve working days this year. I already know I’ll be half-assing my way through those days lmao because whyyyyyyy the fuck would you make people work on family-centric holidays such as those

What is the title of the nearest book to you? There are no books here at the rooftop.

Are you wearing anything that belongs to someone else? Nope.

Can you whistle? Only through my lips. I can’t do the kind of whistle where you put your fingers in your mouth as well.

Do you look more like your mother or your father? My mom.

Are you still in high school? I’m well past that chapter.

Are you the oldest, middle, youngest, or an only child? I’m the eldest.

Has anyone ever told you that you talk in your sleep? No, because I don’t.

How many people have you kissed this year? None.

Is there anyone of the opposite sex you trust fully? Hmm, no one comes to mind.

Are you a night owl or an early bird? More of a night owl.

If you could have an exotic pet, what would it be? No thanks. I’ve never had the desire to have one.

Would you rather go to Brazil for the weekend or Finland for a month? I’d have to go with Finland. I feel like the cultural differences would be a lot more marked, plus the vacation is longer so that is an instant win for me.

[..And Finally..]

Where did you go the last time you drove somewhere? I was driving to the local coffee shop to spend some time with myself, and do a liiiiiiiittle bit of work as well.

Where did you last go out to eat at? Ramen Nagi. I was initially hesitant to show up there and ask for a table for one on a Sunday evening...but it turned out to feel incredibly empowering and freeing. It was definitely awkward at first, but it got a lot easier once I realized literally no one gives a fuck. Or if they did, they didn’t do anything about it and let me mind my own business. That evening was a crucial step in reclaiming my happiness, so I’m glad I made the choice to suck it up and enter the restaurant.

When was the last time you let someone borrow something from you? Last week, when Angela needed our abaca mat as an aesthetic for her grad shoot.

Was your last breakup a bad one? Yes.

What was the last song you listened to? Just checked my Spotify and the current song I have on pause is Descansos by Hayley Williams. 

What was the last movie you watched? Midsommar.

Did your last kiss happen in a public place? Not technically, but it did take place outside of my house so we were outdoors for some neighbors to see.

How did you meet the last person to leave you a comment? It was Andi, and I already explained how we met earlier in this survey.

[flydotnet]

Hidden Guardians of Humanity

VRAINS Rarepair Weeks 2018 - Day 7: Other YGO series crossover/Other Fandom AU

Summary: Six teenagers regularly save the world from the misanthropic virus-like AI XANA on a virtual world. This is their story through one of these missions against humanity's greatest danger yet. 

Fandoms: Yu-Gi-Oh! VRAINS/Code Lyoko Ships: Hireshipping (Ema/Akira), Entrustshipping (Takeru/Kiku), Zinniashipping (Miyu/Aoi)

Wordcount: 3.8K words

Notes: "On ira, on saura, sauver notre existence, Se donner une chance de tout dépasser. On ira, on saura, sauver notre existence, Afin de faire, Un monde sans danger !"

I was stumbled at first with what to do for today. All the crossover ideas I had weren't very good... until I thought about Code Lyoko and how it was a perfect fit with VRAINS. A virtual world? Check. Keeping stuff secret from other people? Check. A recurring theme of AIs? Check. I rediscovered CL this year by watching the episodes now all up on YT (I think that's only for the original French dub, though). It's been a big part of my childhood and I surprised myself to like it even more as an adult. It was pretty messed up if you think about it: a bunch of teenagers ranging from 13 to 15 saving the world in secret on a daily basis while risking their lives to do so? That's dark for a kid's show dude. The series wasn't hiding it anyway: I can't count the exact number of ways XANA (a big bad virus-like AI) tried to kill the protagonists in. Anyway.

I changed a few settings. Kadic is supposed to be a middle school (collège), but since it's supposed to be a high school too (funny enough, the school it's based on, the Lycée Lakanal, is where I set a part of my original work), well why not. It fitted much better with the VRAINS cast too. I also took some liberties with the original 2003 run of the show to provide more modern technology like smartphones.

This story is, in short, a love letter to Code Lyoko and to my VRAINS OTPs. I may have forgotten to put the romance into that fic though.

PS. The quote in the beginning is the chorus to the Code Lyoko opening, "Un Monde Sans Danger" (A World Without Dangers). That song has been burnt into my soul ever since I was a kid. 

Event hosted by @vrainsrarepairweeks

AO3 version available here.

It was yet another day of class at Kadic High School, Boulogne-Billancourt, Hauts-de-Seine. Nothing out of the ordinary, for once: boring Physics lessons, typical teenage drama, rumours going through the school about teachers and students alike. In that, it made no difference to any other day before it and any other day that would come after it. However, the routine was only a façade in this school near Paris.

Very few knew about the shortcut in the heater room of the dormitory or the one in the school’s park leading the abandoned factory nearby, resting in an island in the Seine. Most people would have just assumed that place was, well, abandoned and empty. The fact was that: that was wrong. That fact was proven untrue by the presence of a bunch of teenagers going there to save the world on a daily basis.

 However, today was a tranquil day in class of rumours and drama. There was always Naoki Shima spreading some kind of rumour on his idol, an e-sport player named Playmaker, which was mostly talked about by fangirls of him around the campus. Meanwhile, a little group of six students was gathering in their usual spot: near the coffee machine, on a bench, waiting for bell never to ring the beginning of classes.

They had formed this little group of friends of theirs in unlikely circumstances. It all started when Ema, from the twelfth-grade class majoring in computer sciences, discovered a way to access the abandoned factory in the river easily after a boring day of school. She apparently had to drag with her Akira, her classmate and a friend since middle school, there. Afterwards, they accidentally dragged with them Aoi, Akira’s younger sister in tenth grade, when she followed them to the factory on one day and stuck with them ever since. With Aoi came her own classmates Takeru and Kiku, who followed suit after they themselves found out about the factory by being friendly to the otherwise isolated Aoi.

 “Hey, guys,” Takeru opened the conversation as he looked at the other students in the courtyard. “It’s been a while since XANA last attacked… You think he’s going to come back soon?”

“I hope not,” Kiku replied with the most honesty in the world. “He almost killed sent everyone to space last time… We were lucky you were competing in the martial arts tournament that time, Takeru!”

“XANA will always come back until the Supercomputer isn’t turned off, I’m afraid,” Akira stated as he came back with two cups of coffee in his hands.

“Then that means you need to find the program to materialize Miyu soon!” Ema enthusiastically added as she thanked Akira for the cup of coffee. “It’s on me next time.”

“I’m doing what I can, but it’s going to take longer than expected. Last night was a fluke again,” he sighed as he rubbed his eyes with the hand not busy holding a cup. The yawn would be for another day.

“It’s fine, big brother,” Aoi simply said as she looked at him with a tiny smile. “You’re already doing your best, and Miyu has told us that before.”

“Your sister is right, Akira, don’t overexert yourself for that! I don’t want to recover your unconscious body on the floor of your room again and almost get scolded by Jim again for sneaking into the boys’ dorm for that!”

Takeru and Kiku simply giggled at the anecdote despite how many times Ema had already told them about it.

During Maths class, as usual, Ema was on her phone during yet another boring lecture from the teacher. There had to be someone watching over Lyoko when nobody could be at the factory in case an activated tower, XANA’s gateway to their world and all the potential damage that would always bring with it, showed up in the virtual world. That was a nice way to spend time: instead of sitting through a painfully tedious session of mathematics, she could just chat with Miyu and whoever else was online. It was funnier to be there and occasionally see Akira stare at her to be serious during a class for once.

He only didn’t ask her to stop on the spot because she otherwise could refuse to lend him their philosophy lessons whenever he’d simply stop understanding most of it. The confusing words and concepts didn’t work very well with his arithmetic brain. It was a fine compromise, though.

 Right when she was about to point out something funny Aoi had said in the chatroom with Miyu, she heard a strange buzzing sound. The neon over their hands started flickering ever so slightly, before the infection spread to the entire ceiling of the classroom.

“You know what this means?” she asked Akira in a whisper.

“A XANA attack. Did Miyu tell you about an activated tower?”

Her eyes immediately darted to the screen, only for a message to confirm their fears. Akira didn’t add anything more.

“Then what excuse do we throw?” she asked again, eyeing the little app she had on her phone she had freshly finished programming in her spare time (or whatever was left of it these days).

 Before she could ask anything, the bell rang. Their eyes bolted in different directions, checking for two different parameters: hers to the teacher, his to the hour on his phone. The former didn’t have a watch, the second didn’t match the time class ended at. As everyone was packing their things together to change classrooms, another ring resonated through the corridors: the fire alarm.

“Okay, it’s definitely a XANA attack”, Akira stated the obvious. “Warn everyone to meet together at the factory before we can get spotted by teachers or monitors.”

“Roger that.”

  It always took some time to reach the factory and gather everyone. That was why they had this habit of only meeting in the main computer room instead of in front of the factory, giving them more time to fight against whatever XANA had to throw at them on Lyoko. Akira and Ema had arrived first and launched themselves in the elevator to the main rooms before getting joined by Aoi shortly thereafter.

“Takeru and Kiku will be a bit late,” she told them, “I think they had class on a higher floor and had more troubles exiting the school.”

 Moments after, the three had taken their respective spots: Akira at the main computer, Ema and Aoi in the cylindrical scans on the floor under the computer room. He had never been a man of actions and was the only one with a real knowledge of how to use the technical beast that was the Supercomputer. Meanwhile, Ema had always loved the thrill of action: fighting creatures on Lyoko was good way for her to exhort her thirst for a way to break away from the real world, even if it was just for a few minutes. Aoi was calmer, but still followed through when she learnt this could help both her brother and the friend she had found in Miyu.

“Are you ready to get virtualized?” he asked them as they set foot in the room, footsteps resonating on the iron floor.

“Of course!” Ema replied with thrill in her voice.

“I am,” Aoi responded more seriously.

“Then let’s get on with it.”

 Four scanners presented themselves to the two girls. Each climbing in one, the virtualization process didn’t take more than thirty seconds anymore. They were used to it: getting transferred inside a virtual world wasn’t painful, at best it was dizzying the first few times. Soon enough, Aoi and Ema found themselves in a forest-like environment, all changed up to battle attire. It wasn’t just for show: if Aoi had wings, it was because she could use them to fly. Ema, who hadn’t design herself in her subconscious mind to get those, was kind of envious.

“Miyu should be nearby waiting for backup,” Akira’s voice arrived from the sky of Lyoko’s Forest territory. “Be careful to monsters, XANA has been waiting for us.”

“As usual,” Ema sighed, amused. “Let’s do this, Aoi.”

 As they ran to their destination, a tower with a red halo, a girl with long pink hair in pigtails and blue eyes joined them. Aoi’s eyes started to shimmer as soon as they noticed her coming towards them, changing her sprinting direction to directly meet up with their friend. They had a habit of hugging each other as soon as they saw each other too. They had gotten more and more physical when meeting up in Lyoko, to the point of holding each other’s hands nowadays when seeing the others. Ema was certain that, would Miyu know about love like any other girl (despite being a sentient AI that was, frankly, more human than some actual humans she knew), they would already be dating. She remembered overhearing Aoi train herself to declare her love to her friend in her dorm room, after all.

“I’m glad to know you’re alright, Miyu!” Aoi told her as they went back to reaching the tower.

“Thank you for coming so quickly, Aoi, Ema! XANA has sent three Bloks who are guarding the tower, we need to be careful!”

 Turning her eyes away from the two friends, Ema noticed one of the Bloks shooting at them.

“Out of the way!!”

Pushing Aoi and Miyu out of the line of fire from the creature sent to them, she took a direct hit to the shoulder from a laser beam, falling to the ground. Trying to shoot back with her own laser arrows at the creature, she was at least relieved to see Aoi and Miyu had made it behind a tree to find a way to shelter themselves from the incoming attacks.

“Ema!!” Aoi’s scream was accompanied by the mirror of Miyu’s mirror reflecting the hit the older girl was about to take, which would have certainly devirtualized her. The Blok took the hit right in its eye, exploding shortly after.

 The commotion from this encounter passed, the three girls hid behind the very same tree. There were mock Bloks in the area, almost twice as much as they had first expected. As she watched from behind their little hiding spot, Ema could only notice this would be harder than expected with Miyu virtually unable to fight for herself and herself having taken a hit already.

“That was such a close call!” Miyu sighed in relief. “We really need to be more careful…”

She was holding onto Aoi’s hand as she said so, her sceptre in her other hand. Nobody knew where that weapon came from, really, but they had brushed it off as a mere way to self-defend against XANA’s monsters who, as it turned out, mostly used laser beams with long ranges to attempt ending her own life.

“Let’s be more careful until Takeru and Kiku can get here,” Aoi decided, with the two others nodding in agreement.

  “Sorry we’re late…!” Takeru said as he entered the main computer room, breathless.

Akira immediately turned around, his one-ear headphone-microphone still on, a smirk drawing on his face. Backup was finally here.

“Jim tried to prevent us from reaching the factory when we tried to go through the heater room shortcut,” Kiku further explained.

“I see. Ema and Aoi required backup, there’s apparently too many monsters for them to deal with.

She glanced at her childhood friend whose back was against the wall, still not recovering his breath.

“Are you okay, Takeru?” she asked with concern all over her tone, hands on her chest.

“I… I’ll be fine… Let’s get to the scanners quickly, I’m sure Aoi, Ema and Miyu need our help…”

 Even if nobody added anything, Akira turning back to the monitor to make sure this wasn’t a burning failure yet, Kiku remained worried. As the elevator went down another floor, she couldn’t get her eyes off Takeru and how flimsy his breathing was. He had never had a pristine health record, and that despite how good he was at martial arts, which made it so she was always concerned in some degree for his condition.

When the doors opened to reveal the scanner room, she handed her friend her help. He gave her a slight smile, a quiet way to tell her not to worry, as they climbed into their own cylinders to get virtualized. There was no time to lose and no time to get concerned for Takeru when there was a tower to deactivate and XANA going on a rampage to make everyone deaf by the end of the day through abusing ringing systems, ringtones and speakers.

 The two soon enough ended in the Forest territory of Lyoko, with instructions given by Akira to join back the others. Running on their legs, the virtualization keeping them away from whatever feeling of physical fatigue they’d have felt from that, they soon noticed the group of monsters blocking the way and their friends behind a big tree.

“Oh, looks like XANA did already send a party,” Takeru noticed. “Let’s be sneaky and see if we can end them without Miyu being targeted by them.”

“Agreed.”

 “Takeru! Kiku!”

Miyu seemed ecstatic to see them arrive, screaming their names in joy. Only then did she put her hand on her month, remembering XANA’s monsters could hear them. It was easy to make a diversion, but that was it.

“Akira!” Ema yelled to the sky to get their control tower’s attention. “How much enemies are they?”

No response.

“Oh God, that’s bad,” she then spoke to herself. “He must have been knocked away from the main panel.”

“Something happened to my brother?” Aoi panicked immediately thereafter, before clutching Miyu’s hand to keep her calm.

“It may have,” Kiku added as she joined them. “One of us needs to go check.”

 They stared at each other, before Ema decided to take the head of things.

“Okay, I’ve got a plan. Aoi, you stay with Miyu to make sure she arrives to the tower in one piece! I’m going with Takeru to face them directly, while Kiku shoots them from the back. I’ve already taken a hit and Takeru has a powerful long-range weapon. Everyone’s good with that?”

“Roger!” Everyone replied in unison as they split in groups.

 Ema had in her mind the secret hope of being devirtualized immediately. Takeru had less health point than she did, but she had already taken a hit and was the only one with any knowledge of the Supercomputer outside of Akira who seemed to spend a huge chunk of his nights on it. It was a perfect match for who had to go back to the real world to check on their friends.

She could see Kiku in her white kimono-like robe, braid flowing through the air as she ran and ran, in the corner of her eye running behind Bloks to stab them with her spear in their top eye, jumping on them, braid going up and down, causing their own self-destruction. She was clearly always going for those targeting Takeru, in a nice touch. The boy was himself with her throwing fire at the enemies, either to blind them or critically damage them.

In the corner of her other, Miyu and Aoi ran with their fingers intertwined, the latter with her own weapon out, ready to jump into action if needed. It was a safer solution for them than for Aoi to hold Miyu as she flew over the battlefield just in case she’d get shot in the wings: would that happen, they’d both take considerable fall damage and risk getting devirtualized. The possibility meaning the death of Miyu if it took place, they preferred to stay safe and go a bit slower. Good stuff there.

 Because she wasn’t paying all her attention to monsters, Ema quickly found herself to be devirtualized by a second hit in the chest, making her virtual body shatter in pixels before she could resurface in the factory.

  Exiting the scanner after getting forcefully devirtualized wasn’t the best feeling in the world, but Ema had no time for dizziness. She ran as fast as possible to the elevator and rushed her hands over the panel to go to the upper floor. They weren’t strangers to XANA using towers to gain access to the real world. In fact, they were even used to Akira getting attacked as to hinder the progress of those on Lyoko. The question was: what had it done to her friend while she was away in the virtual world?

As soon as the door opened, she realized two things: XANA had used a severed electric cable to do its deed, and Akira was unconscious the floor because of it. Her first thought was to rush to his side, to check if he was doing fine. A hand on his wrist, another on his forehead, and her eyes half-focused on the severed cable which now looked as inert as it should be, she let out a sigh of relief when she heard his pulse.

“You scared us again, you idiot,” she muttered under her breath. “Now, if you’ll excuse me, I need to keep an eye on an important mission.”

 She gently half-sat Akira against a nearby wall and jumped into the chair facing the screens monitoring everything. Embracing the control tower nature of it all, she picked the headphone and put it on her ear.

“Anyone, you’re receiving me? It’s Ema!”

Everyone or so replied positively.

“Lemme see…” Her eyes deciphered as much information as they possibly could on the monitors. “Takeru, you’re down to 20HP, be careful! One hit and you’re sent back home! Kiku, there should be a Blok behind you! Aoi, Miyu, you’re near the tower, you may be able to fly there…”

 She interrupted herself when she saw the cable rise back to life, just as she heard everyone call out for Takeru’s voice. Getting down to her feet, taking a fighting stance, she hoped to be able to fight it back enough to have the time for the boy to reach her room. She knew how to activate the Return to the Past to fix all the damage the buildings around the school must have taken from the excessive sound, if the fact she was able to hear some low-quality rap music from the underground rooms of a factory was any indication, but Takeru didn’t.

Avoiding getting tripped by jumping over the cable’s feet, she was relieved to hear Takeru running towards her. He looked a bit out of breath from running so quickly in so little time, but he took his own fighting stance.

“Ema, get to the computer! I’m sure the others need you there!”

 Nodding to him as to confirm his decisions, she jumped back into the chair to see the information: Kiku was close to devritualization with a mere ten HP remaining while Miyu was just about to enter the tower. Trying her hardest to ignore how one-sided Takeru’s fight against the cable was becoming in favour of XANA, she focused on the screens. The boy’s pained scream when his back slammed against the wall didn’t help. Before she could entirely redirect her focus, Kiku had been defeated by a last laser beam.

“Aoi, be careful, Kiku just got eliminated!”

“We know,” the brown-haired girl replied from the other side of the screen. “Miyu is entering the tower now, I’ll try to keep back the last enemies until she can deactivate it!”

“Good, but please make it quick, Akira got stunned and Takeru may be injured from fighting a cable. I’m afraid I’ll be the next, not going to lie there.”

 Kiku soon joined the scene, judging from the elevator’s doors opening again and her little steps rushing to Takeru’s side.

“Ki… Kiku…” His weakened voice tried to warn his friend. “Don’t… Come here…”

Without a word, avoiding getting knocked back by the giant cable, she kneeled next to him, her gaze soon fixated on her friend rather than the incoming danger.

“Are you alright, Takeru?!”

“I… I think I’ve broken something against it… But it’s gonna be fine,  don’t worry… I’m sure Miyu is about to deactivate the tower…” He gave a timid but warm smile to her.

She gently held him against her, a half-felt one on her lips…

“It’s going to be fine. It’s always going to be fine.”

Judging from Takeru’s weak grip, she knew his hand had been broken in his fight against the machine.

  Entering the tower, Miyu made her way as fast as possible to the little panel presented in every tower. As soon as she put her hand on it, the system automatically recognized her, greeting her with the ever same and cold protocol.

MIYU

CODE: LYOKO

The entire tower progressively turned empty as it deactivated. From this little virtual pseudo-cocoon, she could only hope as she looked down everything was fine outside.

 Soon enough, the familiar energy wave of the Return to the Past resonated through the virtual world, making her smile as she thought that, once again, everything would be fine and that they had all saved the day.

  They were back in the same Maths class, which was still boring, still not interesting. A side effect of using the Return to the Past, obviously. At least, she could safely say that

“Hey, do you remember what happened to you before you got unconscious earlier?” she asked trying to hide her concern.

“I got electricized by a cable, that’s all I can remember. It doesn’t matter much anyway, the Return to the Past cancels every injury we could have sustained.”

“Well, that’s fortunate for Takeru, he broke his hand when fighting the cable.”

 Akira suddenly looked very pensive, before having a sort of epiphany flashing on his face.

“That makes me think… I should teach you how to use the Supercomputer, Ema, in case this ever happens again,” he whispered to her.

“I’m not against it. I already know how to use it, as you can see, but you could show me your… special tricks.”

The slight innuendo was enough to make him redden in a moment and look to the side.

“D-don’t phrase it like that…”

She grinned at his embarrassment. He was way too easy to tease, but it was always so much fun.

“Oh, by the way,” she added, “your sister is probably going to get a girlfriend soon, and she won’t even be material unless you come up with your program.”

“E… Excuse me?!”

“Miyu. She’s in love with Miyu and vice-versa. It’s just that you’re never here to see them flirt with each other knowingly or not.”

“Oh. That makes sense, when you precise it that way.”

“I know.”

 Now, if she had the same modesty as Aoi, maybe she would have the guts to tell him about her ever-growing crush on him…

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TEN YEARS AGO, the collapse of Lehman Brothers triggered the global financial crisis of 2008. Democrats were eight years in power, and their failure to prosecute the corporate criminals behind the crisis surely ranks as their biggest legacy. That failure was the condition of possibility for the anti-elite narrative that inspired the white working class and the white upper class to support a genuinely fascist insurgency before and beyond November 2016. It was also the condition of possibility for Billions.

Across its three seasons on Showtime, Billions explores the aftermath of Lehman’s and Obama’s 2008 peaks, tracking the waning and waxing faculty of elite professionals to steer their careers and helm the most powerful country in the world. The show is built around an extended parallel between outer-borough upstart Bobby Axelrod (Damian Lewis), principal of the wildly fruitful hedge fund Axe Capital, and Manhattan WASP Chuck Rhoades (Paul Giamatti), US Attorney for the New York Southern District and hero of a counterfactual recent past in which 81 bankers and traders were successfully prosecuted for their outlaw engineering of toxic asset slides. Rhoades fancies himself a just warrior, fighting against “[these] Teflon corporations that defraud the American people on a grand scale.” As the series opens he levels his gaze at Axe, the Moby-Dick of parkour finance.

Root for the law, or root for the money? Fortunately, we don’t have to choose, since here both sides equal each other in their maniacal pursuits of professional acme — a steady double date with bent rules, a shared ruthless drive to win. Root for the winners! Both men are game theory geniuses, spooling out scenarios and hedging countermoves with the speed of gigahertz processors. Their sheer effectiveness propels the show’s narrative and renders the difference between good guys and bad guys a mere matter of preference.

The winners run their races in structural parallel, their lines intersected at right angles by mutual ballast: Wendy (Maggie Siff), a psychiatrist whose penetrating understanding of Bobby guides the growth of Axe Cap, and whose lashing crop rouses the vim of her husband, Chuck. The very first shot of the series frames Chuck bound and gagged on the floor, a vinyl stiletto boot pinning him down. (It’s not TV, it’s Showtime.) “You’re in need of correction, aren’t you?” she says, burning his chest with a cigarette and again with urine in the wound. Cut to the Manhattan skyline, that other site of bad boys who will be bad boys even after market corrections, and there we find Wendy’s second sphere: she is lucratively employed as the in-house performance coach at the hedge fund, a high-class fluffer whose flash-sessions amp the traders with dominatrix directives to “get out there and do what needs to be done.” All day long, Wendy dispatches debilitating anxieties and disruptive fetishes at lightning pace, checking in frequently with Axe to save him “from making a huge mistake for dick-measuring purposes.” She takes deep satisfaction in her beneficent effects. On “Comp Day,” when financial firms assign annual bonuses to their employees, she regularly merits $2 million — and that’s not counting spontaneous gifts from Axe like a black Maserati GranTurismo Sport. Her business model is clearly not Jacques Lacan’s.

Chuck’s rewards differ: he can’t help but be bad, even as he draws the compensation of righteousness, and his inner conflict mines much more fodder for repentance under the latex lash. “I work for the public good!” Chuck scolds Wendy in season one. “No, you work for the good of Chuck Rhoades,” she flatlines back. When he initiates an indictment against another giant hedge fish whose political ties will fall out advantageously, Chuck’s deputies repeat the exchange in a later season: “It’s the right thing to do,” Lonnie Watley (Malachi Weir) says. Kate Sacker (Condola Rashad) parries, “It’s what Chuck wants. It doesn’t make it right.” At the end of his righteous road, if Chuck Senior (Jeffrey DeMunn) pulls enough strings from behind the velvet curtains of his Fifth Avenue study, Chuck will be governor, a latter-day Spitzer chasing corporate offenses in between incriminating sexploits, clad in ever-more refined sharkskin grays of power.

Even as Axe, Chuck, and Wendy split repeatedly over the public good, legal technicalities, and codes of honor, they are three peas in a pod, winners united in their incomparable competence, their oft-declared outsized intelligence, their profound professionalism. The show’s creators are also consummate professionals (a team that includes Andrew Ross Sorkin of The New York Times financial pages): the script is exacting, the plot gasping, the performances riveting, the cameos towering, the wardrobe flawless. Not your average workplace drama, Billions is impressively synoptic in its horizontal integration of mental health, financial services, Silicon Valley industries, and law and order, with a little Yonkers-secret-recipe-pizza and private-duty-intravenous-hangover-cure-nurses spicing the mix. Some seek money, some seek glory, some seek power, but everyone wants to win. The show thus poses the question, at the time of writing in 2014, at the time of setting in 2012–2016, and at the time of airing in 2016–2018, of professional potency. What is it about this decade that makes being excellent at your elite job a matter of concern?

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The authors of the financial crisis were, on the whole, excellent at their jobs. Inventing asset classes to dissimulate toxicity, booking loans as revenues, hyping instruments to defer reckoning, evangelizing for the equations that discount merely mortal common sense, and evading regulatory oversight with NASCAR agility, the hedgies of the new millennium performed spectacularly. What Axe calls the “unimaginative, do-gooder authorities” — regulators and legislators, Federal Reserve governors and lifetime senators — stood equally spectacular in their unwavering commitment to the upward transfer of wealth.

Barack Obama, the executive officer with purview over all this excellence — Harvard Law stamped, a 10 million popular vote win span, and cooler than the crispest cucumber — tragically forswore the audacity of power, and instead measured his every move for the middle. Appointing Wall Street alums to the Justice Department, maintaining the GOP Treasury, and utterly staying the course with the boondoggle bailout Hank Paulson and George W. Bush had rushed in late 2008, Obama achieved bipartisan support for the plutocracy. He declined to bail out the people. He announced but never really executed a program to aid homeowners in tiny proportion to the support for banks. He committed to but never delivered a plan for jobs for struggling homeowners, and he oversaw, in the name of Too Big To Fail, outrageous mergers of investment banks with consumer banks destined to risk even bigger failures. Facing the black and white of racist obstruction and class war, he went gray. Professionalism of the middle is not professionalism of the top.

2008’s extreme wreckage couldn’t be answered from the center. Billions endorses excess, and not only through the tops of S&M dens. It meets tremendous deeds with zealous, polarizing professional prowess. All three principals are awesomely effective, getting out there and doing what needs to be done. In supreme-stakes “three-dimensional chess,” as they call it, Axe, Chuck, and Wendy appraise their options with hawkish precision, and much of the viewing pleasure rests in the exertions of keeping up with these darting analysts. If we can hang with these pros, tracking their razor rhetoric, technical argot, nimble abbrevs, and bountiful movie allusions, aren’t we smart too? (I watch the show with my JD/Econ PhD husband, and we need subtitles.)

The power of the spoken smart animates most episodes of Billions. Choice bon mots leaked to the press can trigger shorts and swaps, misdirections planted in the ears of suspected moles confirm corporate espionage, incendiary insults inspire ire, and single syllables can suborn murder. Threats are promises and speeches are deeds; to be effective is to wield the word as cause, spurring domino actions. Fierce oratory anchors the action, accomplished stage actors people the remarkable cast, and the show makes much ado of theater, its narrow focus on the orators predominating over fancy camerawork, set design, or action sequences. Drama is the paramount medium of the act, so Billions deploys its theatricality to foreground its study of agency.

Evoking black box theater in its constrained interiors — the dark kitchen of the Rhoades’s Brooklyn townhouse, the wood paneling of Upper East Side clubs, the utilitarian taupe of federal offices — the show’s aesthetic is a tight frame for the efficacious act. It makes virtually no use of exterior settings, establishing shots, panoramas, or montage, only occasionally inserts drone footage of the Manhattan skyline between scenes, and is almost exclusively low-lit, faces half in shadow. Even the gleaming white of the Axelrod Westport headquarters (a conspicuous post-9/11 relocation for many such firms) reflects the light of scrutiny, transparent office walls and centered communal trader table exposing and circumscribing power plays. Chess moves within close squares, the actions anyone takes best be good form, as they’ll ramify into a long tail.

Poor form haunts Axe even as he cuts a precision figure, since his solo firm originated in unsavory transactions around 2001, a second world-historical juxtaposition alongside 2008. The destruction of the World Trade Center created all kinds of opportunities for financial crimes and shady gains, from insufficient health care for widows and first-responders, to the war-profiteering that drove the stock market up after the fraudulent invasion of Iraq. Axe, we learn late in season one, owes no small segment of his empire to 9/11. A stroke of luck kept him out of the office that morning, and a stroke of evil genius netted him nearly a billion dollars by shorting airline and hotel stocks in the very hours during which his colleagues perished.

The line from 9/11 to 2008 to 2018 spun by Billions is the problematic of professional power, from W’s amateur incompetence to O’s centrist impotence to HRC’s unshakable taint. Does power rest with the mighty rulers of imperialism, or with the few who seek retribution? When the elites peddle business as usual amid crises of their own making, how do they get away with it? Can a woman maintain the same middling charade as her male predecessor? Billions merges these elite domains of the political, the legal, and the financial with the baser registers of the professional, the sexual, and the criminal. Absolute effectiveness requires relative tactics in different domains, but the strategy remains the same.

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Luxely compensated black-clad Wendy is the cold, beating heart of the show. Her impeccable professionalism carves out an admirable Obama middle way between justice and money. The creative choice to foreground a woman in a genre usually defined by its abundant big swinging dicks comprises the show’s sizable allure. Beautifully loyal to both Axe and Chuck, Wendy’s actions are not quite as determining as theirs, and indeed several of the plot trajectories involve elaborate maneuvers by both men to protect her from implication in their misdoings. But she is fiercely dignified in her right to a career unhampered by her husband’s, hungry at every moment for a harder puzzle. Her work acumen shines as a real point of identification.

The middle imagines itself as noble, going high when they go low, but it often requires a certain prostitution, and Wendy finally sells herself to protect both her men. Having quit Axe Cap and left her marriage at the end of season one, over the course of season two she eventually negotiates a deal to recenter herself and buffer her men from one another: she’ll return to the firm, and Bobby will drop the hundreds of malicious prosecution lawsuits he is funding against Chuck; she’ll return to the marriage, and Chuck will hunt other whales. A potent broker like the rest of them, she exudes Swiss neutrality even as the show centers her decisive seat of power.

Combining the financial and legal expertise of her two men with her own primary expertise in psychic motivation, Wendy’s control is dazzling to behold, her deeds superseding those of both men. It comes as a hard gut-punch when the third season’s decisive misdeed is her own: she violates her patient Mafee, a likable every-bro with just enough “Navy SEAL” to thrive at Axe Cap, trading on her insider knowledge of his infatuation with her to seduce him, persuading him to lie to federal investigators on her behalf. Axe, Chuck, and Wendy are all facing jail time for their vertiginous triple crossing at season two’s climax, in which Chuck raids the personal trust he had sequestered when taking public office to overinvest in his friend’s juice company, but really to bait Axe into sabotaging the company to score on a big short of the IPO. Wendy, learning of the sabotage, does not warn Chuck, but joins the short. Her hedge is financially savvy though legally and maritally unsound, a middle ground between competing value systems, but no longer innocent. It primes her to shrewdly cross lines in season three, colluding with Axe and Chuck to pin the sabotage wholly on a fourth party, and to mine the exculpating falsehood from Mafee’s affections. As her black vixen sheaths foretell, the gray is untenable. There’s no credible integrity in the middle.

Wendy’s highly calculated betrayal of Mafee, and her betrayal of us for rooting for her, gets repaid in a patient’s betrayal of her. Taylor Mason is introduced in the second season as Mafee’s intern analyst, bound for the U Chicago MBA. Axe demands to be introduced to the young temp who makes Mafee millions, and on walks Taylor: “My pronouns are they, their, them.” Played by Asia Kate Dillon and earning Billions the Outstanding Drama Series award from GLAAD, Taylor is often celebrated as the first major gender nonconfirming character on a television series, but their drive is all too binary. “It’s not just about numbers and decimal points,” Wendy warns them. “No, I’m pretty sure there is only money,” comes their icy retort.

Where others want the good or the might, Taylor’s want is the machine. A stony quant, their grad school plans dissipate in the sway of one of Bobby’s trademark virile speeches: “You retreat behind your aquarium walls. What you don’t realize, Taylor, is that glass — it’s not a barrier, it’s a lens. It’s an asset. It’s what makes you good. You see things differently. That’s an edge.” The ensuing comp bargaining, rapid-fire and cut-throat, is equally signature. If there is someone who can rival Bobby, it is Taylor — not Chuck, poor analog soul. Where Chuck tries and fails to use Wendy to beat Axe, Taylor wins, optimizing their private sessions with Wendy to ultimately manipulate Axe.

Heeding Wendy and trusting their judgment, Bobby gives Taylor the reins at Axe Capital after one of Chuck’s contortions at last ensnares him in enough legal trouble to warrant a trading suspension. After crushing the capital raise by garnering $6 billion in new investments from a single speech, Taylor abruptly launches a solo firm, breaking Bobby’s bank and Wendy’s heart. All along, we’ve watched Wendy’s dual loyalties reap uneven returns: Axe tells her almost everything, leaving little plausible deniability (thank god for Doctor-Patient privilege), but Chuck tells her lies, and profanes patient confidentiality to steal fuel for his cases against Axe. With Taylor, she finds a relationship more complicated and intriguing than those with the male traders — an arc of actualization for both, a hint of the psychiatrist’s vocation beyond fluffing. But she also finds out that her most genuinely gratifying work can be someone else’s chess move; Taylor uses Wendy’s empathy for their experience in the über-male workplace to spur Wendy to advise Axe to offer Taylor more money, more prominence, more “forward momentum.” In a gray garage, in the most stabbing exchange of all the show’s Shakespearean duels, Wendy spits, “What do you want?”:

Taylor: You.

Wendy: You think … I’ll actually come with you? Haven’t you done enough damage?

T: I’m building not destroying. That’s where you come in …

W: Nice ideas. You are no moral fucking compass. For a moment, I thought you might be because you needed me to think that. But you used me. … You preyed on me and my empathy for you, preyed on me to get what you wanted from Axe — being part of the raise — so fuck you.

T: Oh, you don’t seem to understand. I’m not just offering you a job for my sake. I’m offering you a fresh start for yours. A restart for your slew of fuckups. You let things devolve at Axe Capital. You didn’t see me being pushed out the door. You couldn’t stop Axe from succumbing to his own worst nature. Instead, you succumbed to it. And who knows what other fallout you’ve created or at least allowed elsewhere in your life.

By recognizing that Wendy’s professional power underwrites Axe Cap’s, and thus that Wendy is culpable for its sins, Taylor caresses Wendy’s raw desire in one hand, while bitch-slapping her with the other. Wendy pretends to be in the middle, but is really in charge; by contrast, Taylor intends transparent management, “top down but not imperious or impetuous,” and largely “tech-centric,” employing the team of algo writers Axe Cap only briefly entertained, working as purely as possible. “A place free of arrests, indictments, insinuations,” Mase Cap pledges a Shangri-La of robotic proficiency bulwarked against irrational exuberance and illicit info. Even through the original sin of its founding, it’s a vision that winds Wendy, thudding the sternum of her own illusory virtue. Like Axe before them, Taylor goes solo with filthy lucre, but points out that Wendy, too, is an axe. There is no middling in financial baseball.

Axe vows certain vengeance, while Wendy counsels “looking within, to see what you, what we, may have done to cause this. We rebuild our business as we rebuild ourselves.” As Wendy and Bobby align against Taylor, Wendy and Chuck also realign, finding new thrills in resistance to the noxious anti-black autocrat Jock Jeffcoat (Clancy Brown), the new Attorney General after national regime change. A gruesome fusion of Sessions and Trump, Jeffcoat’s racism is matched only by his corruption. (He even gets to shout, “You’re fired!”) Chuck spends the second half of season three working with his two black Assistant US Attorneys and a black New York State Attorney General to build an obstruction case against Jeffcoat, renewing his commitment to justice after a détente with Axe Cap, but applying all the brinksmanship lessons learned to goad Jock into exposure. Jock is a better target than Axe, for it is easier to believe in preserving the neutrality of political institutions than in revealing the open truth of the rigged market. Sacker assures: “He’s finally doing it right, the right thing […] He’s doing that Chuck thing, but for the right fucking reasons this time.”

The final sequence of season three distills all these tactical realignments. In companionable silence with Chuck, Wendy takes a call from Axe. “I saw Taylor,” she says. “Fuck them. No, I mean fuck them over. You have to. We do.” “Well, that’s different from look inward,” Axe reproves. “Yeah, well, you know what, I’m different.” A different Wendy invites Bobby into the Rhoades dining room, mutually funding a new rapprochement. The closing lines over flowing wine put the long play for season four: “So you know how you’re gonna go after Jock?” Bobby asks. “Some ideas floating around my head. And, uh, Taylor?” Chuck reciprocates. “Yeah, yeah, got a plan that’s starting to form.” Wendy, wronged by both Taylor’s treachery and Jock’s tyranny, husbands the partnership: “Tell him about it. There’s no one better at breaking down a strategy.” From above, the camera’s final shot captures the tops of three heads harmoniously leaning in, readying for “a real good time together” (The Velvet Underground trills us), for staking out different fights.

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From Wall Street to The Big Short, the financial malfeasance genre is often marked by its gray regard for greedy elites, and Billions doesn’t quite crack this ambivalent mold. It offers charismatic winners at many chosen professions, unencumbered by constructs like ethics or law, and we want to be on their teams. But the insistent connections it draws among its principals, their common core of intrinsic drive, provokes not so much the guilty pleasure of cheering guilty heroes, as the savory systematic reflection on the diversified ends of powerful means. Use your might for the middle, or go one better?

A hedge offsets risk by playing both sides, rapacious plunder in middle-ground clothing. Billions deftly explores these faux middles via elite power struggles, elite deeds, and the tactics of elite war. Strikingly, though, its insights catapult beyond elites, whose monopoly can’t be trusted, who shouldn’t be the winners all the time. Everyone needs tactics, everyone needs strategy. Even we the writers and readers of literary magazines amid the ruins of the university, we the taxi drivers and lawyers at LaGuardia, we the marchers for climate science and gun regulation and feminism, we the teachers on strike, we the candidates with “impossible” platforms, we the servers in restaurants, we the occupiers outside baby jails, we too with power. The middle cannot hold. Get out there and do what needs to be done.

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Anna Kornbluh teaches literature and literary theory at the University of Illinois, Chicago.

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Twenty Years Ago, Two Men Predicted Bitcoin

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Clinton began his second term as President of the United States. Titanic dominated the box office. Hanson’s “MMMBop” stormed music charts. The year, 1997, also turned out to be when two cranks, fringe thinkers, wrote The Sovereign Individual: Mastering the Transition to the Information Age (TSI), published by Simon & Schuster. Catastrophic impresarios James Dale Davidson and Lord William Rees-Mogg wrote a curiosity: a history book focused upon the coming future. Humanity, they urged, was involved in a great transition. Audacious, weird, and at times just plain creepy, the duo managed to hammer out what amounts to cryptocurrency in eerie exactness to its real-life form, bitcoin, a full ten years before anyone, including Satoshi Nakamoto.

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Bitcoin’s Prescient Fathers

“Now the advent of the Information Age implies another revolution in the character of money,” a subsection at almost the exact middle of TSI, written in the late 1990s, starts. “As cybercommerce begins, it will lead inevitably to cybermoney. This new form of money will reset the odds, reducing the capacity of the world’s nationstates to determine who becomes a Sovereign Individual. A crucial part of this change will come about because of the effect of information technology in liberating the holders of wealth from expropriation through inflation,” they write.

Lord William Rees-Mogg died in 2013 at the age of 84. He was a man of letters, having spent a notable stint as editor at the venerable Times of London, the youngest to have ever held the job. He was known throughout his life for adhering to the pinstripe suit long after everyone else had gone casual. He wrote by hand, even with the ubiquity of computers and word processors. He even refused to drive a car.

Lord William Rees-Mogg

His editorials were filled with gems. When polite British society, of which he was surely a member, tutted at 60s boy band The Rolling Stones for their drug usage, and cheered their potential caging, his Lordship castigated, “If we are going to make any case a symbol of the conflict between the sound traditional values of Britain and the new hedonism, then we must be sure that the sound traditional values include those of tolerance and equity,” he wrote, defending the then-lads. The title of that defense bears reprinting, “Who Breaks a Butterfly on a Wheel?” He also wrote a great deal about economics, and was a fan of the gold standard.

He was around 67 years old when he and his co-author, Mr. Davidson, continued in TSI during the late 1990s, “Soon, you will pay for almost any transaction over the Net or World Wide Web at the same time you place it, using cybercash. This new digital form of money is destined to play a pivotal role in cybercommerce. It will consist of encrypted sequences of multi-hundred-digit prime numbers. Unique, anonymous, and verifiable, this money will accommodate the largest transactions. It will also be divisible into the tiniest fraction of value. It will be tradable at a keystroke in a multi-trillion-dollar wholesale market without borders,” they predict. 

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James Dale Davidson, an American and a much younger man, is renown for making predictions, not all of which came about. He’s famously a Bill Clinton hater, but Mr. Davidson is best known for making the consistent prediction of the US economy being just this close to disaster. In 2008, of course, he was right. He’s a founder of the National Taxpayers Union, and is a frequent contributor to Newsmax.

Mr. Davidson met Lord Rees-Mogg while at Oxford nearly forty years ago. A chance encounter over antiquarian book searches ended up in a friendship and a working relationship lasting decades. It first evolved into newsletters, which then became books such as Blood in the Streets, The Great Reckoning, and, of course, The Sovereign Individual, the subject to which we return.

“Inevitably, this new cybermoney will be denationalized. When Sovereign Individuals can deal across borders in a realm with no physical reality, they will no longer need to tolerate the long-rehearsed practice of governments degrading the value of their money through inflation. Why should they? Control over money will migrate from the halls of power to the global marketplace,” the claim, again twenty years ago.

The Sovereign Individual is an argument, and a great deal of it presupposes an inchoate sense of American libertarianism upon the rest of the world. That’s problematic for a host of reasons, not least of which is, well, most of the world worships governance at various forms of state levels. Talk is incessant about what government should be doing, not how less of it should exist, and this has been a trend for as long as anyone can remember.

Free Money, Free People

That aside, Mr. Davidson and Lord Rees-Mogg believe a kind of 21st century clash of Western Civilization to be coming. Governments are inherently parasitical, taking from the productive classes and redistributing based upon favored groups. Governments are able to be this perverse middle-person, picking winners and losers, because of the power of its purse. A kind of borderless, untethered digital currency would be, if popularly adopted, its sure demise. The Atlas shrugging, if you will, of the world will begin as more of the productive sectors take their lives online, the book insists, and away from landed government.

All of human life will radically change under the rubric of encrypted technologies. Free from governmentalism, state nannies, and minders, the productive will be free to streamline goods and services and labor in ways previously not considered. Even government’s main reason for existence, the monopoly on violence, will be virtually done away with as a result.

Mr. Davidson and Lord Rees-Mogg make no bones about what might happen in the wake of government services, the welfare and warfare states, being diminished. It will not be pretty. At least the engine of society, its movers and shakers, the natural aristocracy, will be able to start civilization anew, going where they’re appreciated rather than being chained to ethnic or political country-persons.

Freeing money means freeing people. They explain, “Each transaction will involve the transfer of encrypted multi-hundred-digit prime number sequences. Unlike the paper-money receipts issued by governments during the gold-standard era, which could be duplicated at will, the new digital gold standard or its barter equivalents will be almost impossible to counterfeit for the fundamental mathematical reason that it is all but impossible to unravel the product of multi-hundred-digit prime numbers. All receipts will be verifiably unique,” which is so exactly spot-on it can take a reader’s breath. 

“The verifiability of the digital receipts rules out this classic expedient for expropriating wealth through inflation. The new digital money of the Information Age will return control over the medium of exchange to the owners of wealth, who wish to preserve it, rather than to nation-states that wish to spirit it away.”

Plausibility

“Use of this new cybermoney will substantially free you from the power of the state,” becomes their almost anarchic thesis, though they do allow for government in pockets.

Bitcoin doesn’t require all of the above to work. It works on several levels, as governments could just as easily adopt a version and restrict pathways and physical transacting in any number of procedures. I do not believe it will snuff out fiat currency nor bring down governments. So on that score, I disagree with TSI, though I root for much of its conclusions.

Governments are unnecessary as they are evil, and they exist solely on their ability to bully and cajole. Try leaving. Try not paying taxes. Try to live just a tad outside of its vast laws. You’ll find quaint notions like consent of the governed to be a grave myth right up there with Santa Claus.

Bitcoin can a be a way to escape some of government’s machinations, for sure. However, governments are proficient in exactly two areas: expropriation and killing. The latter enforces the former. That a great many, perhaps the vast majority, of humans believe their very lives are the result of government policies also does not bode well for predicting its demise. Whatever the case, TSI borders on the brilliant, and as a thought experiment is well worth your time.

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The Determinants Of Hire Worth Of Selling Properties

This task is certainly to review the determinants of nightly rental prices of retail homes established on Singapore industry. It starts off with outlining principle of hire in theory, and then analyzes the major economical determinants in rental interactions A sample of a global warming effects essay and value with other industries and other property sectors. Lastly highlight the investment decision making of property as a financial asset with other financial assets.

Literature Review

In buy to discover the determinants of lease of retail homes, we require to figure out what triggers nightly rental to become paid out, what ascertains the volume of lease and what triggers local rental to alter over period. Fraser (1993) launched the principle of the rentals as a excess by supplying the answers to these 3 concerns. He intended a cultivated fields to end up being leased out in on wide open industry with competition of 2 farmers, character requires to spend the lease by leaving to one side different opponents, and the hire comes from the earnings which earnings minus costs, by placing aside the typical revenue of endurance, the left over can be referred to as a excess that employed to put money on for the tenancy ultimately. Therefore only the most efficient farmer with the skill of making best usage of the farmland is able to bid high enough to win the tenancy. He as well aimed out the alterations of the hire will be necessary to the transformation of anticipated excess of employing the terrain.

As we can from Fraser’s strategy, the improvements of hire will be scheduled to adjustments of anticipated excess which in the end responds on the adjustments of productivities and the price tag on productions. In retail real estate situation, rentals worth is usually established by the anticipated unnatural income of potential vendors. Nevertheless the one of the constraints of this unit is usually established on a ideal industry where persons own complete gain access to to info, additionally it is certainly likewise thought there is definitely free of charge of surgery or arranging difficulties and as well this version is merely centered on demand-side of property work with.

Access-space unit was brought by Alonso (1963) to indentify the turning down romantic relationship between the cost of the terrain and the yardage from metropolis middle. There will be 2 strands of effects had been sharpened out: home will find at the center of a metropolis to reduce the transfer expense and home will identify at a level where conserving on property costs bigger than the transportation expense.

In retail situation, this style indicates a trade-off between the site and terrain employ which features a bad hire gradient. In various other thoughts, the populous metropolis hub can be deemed as extra precious as the excessive level of supply. The correlation between the rent per m2 to the spots of different varieties of retailing also has been suggested diagrammatically by Balchin, Kieve and Bull (1995)

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(Resource: Balchin, Kieve and Half truths (1995), Theoretical hire or turnover gradient within a important browsing center, P59)

Dipasquale and Weaton (1992) analyze the perseverance of real estate lease in a boarder possible by comprising the belongings marketplace. The curiosity was recommended by this unit price, inflation price and overseas exchange level likewise influence the level of lease and I will covers these elements in particulars in after of task.

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Barras (1994) graphically illustrated how property lease is normally related to the residence marketplace, credit and economy market. The graphic shows the existing supply not enough to address the increased demand when monetary upturn arrives, rents rise hence, yields falls and it triggers more and more new developments as a result of high profitability. If credit rating improvement likewise arises, bankers will drop the curiosity level to enhance monetary progress and as well learn to account risky actions. Real estate period starts off to style but with limited source credited to period lags. Inflation would possess escalated at this level of spiral, the slowed extreme source overflow into the marketplace and hereafter press down the rent mainly because very well as the capital worth. Curiosity fee is certainly raised to suppress the inflation, this will further more decrease the demand and the rent drop until the phases residence programmers heading bankruptcy even more.

Shops happen to be busy for jogging organization by store users. In the standpoint of tenant, organization and territory house happen to be elements of development, demand will depend on production level when incorporating with various other elements of creation. Therefore the demand of a element is certainly taken demand (Fraser 1993). From Fraser’s notion we can figure out store space can be regarded as as a aspect of selling actions, the demand of the store space is determined by the sale’s quantity within the store. In the function of demand rises, it triggers the cost and the hire boosts when limited resource pumped into the marketplace.

Fraser likewise aimed out the principle of profit firmness of demand and selling price flexibility of the demand which happen to be relevant to the determinants of hire. When buyers’ profit springs up, they plan to use even more on the common items and use fewer on the substandard items, consequently that the demand for the typical items demand and boosts for second-rate things drops. E.g. when cash flow raises, persons will get considerably more personalized items which will be purchased in superior spots and will get significantly less low-class goods which happen to be purchased in bad spots, consequently the lease of store space in high grade spots will boost and the hire of store space in bad spots will drop generally. On the various other palm, lease can be as well relevant to the price tag strength of the demand. Land is considered price inelastic as land has no substitute, home which hooks up on the terrain likewise inherit its inelasticity therefore. However it is still possible to substitute property in one location for similar property in another location despite the heterogeneous of property, it is determined by the value of spots to the tenants. Y.g. professional tenant even quickly discover a change site for development as it would not need the area in extremely exact level, business office and retail requires considerably more certain or extra cost inelastic in position as the synergy result for workplace places and catchment impact for retail areas. In particular, shop space can be virtually all selling price inelastic generally, best store spot many of these as Orchard Street in Singapore is normally irreplaceable consequently the hire is certainly bigger than additional region.

Rental worth of retail houses is usually identified by some macroeconomic elements and likewise impacted by broader affect from different home market sectors and business.

Household Income

Rental value of retail properties is generally driven by the purchasing power of households, and the getting electric power of home will depend on home money from function which comes from organizations, so home profits establishes rentals worth of retail homes. Below converse evidently indicates the great correlations between the rentals index for store space and ordinary every month home salary from job since 2001. Both of home profit is always a steady level from 2001 to 2006, after that the rise is normally experienced by them at the same period since 2006 and reach each of their highs in 2008, consequently they both face problem during the "Financial Catastrophe" in 2009, they commence to rebound from 2010 to present time finally.

Source: Urban Redevelopment Capacity of Singapore and Section of Figures Singapore

General Current economic climate Condition

Since local rental benefit of retail houses identified by home salary, and home profit from job is determined by the activities of corporations, and basic current economic climate state communicates the aggregated activities of firms. Hence nightly rental worth in the end will end up being determined by basic market state which suggested by Major Local Merchandise (GDP). Another graph and or reveals the romance between store rentals index and Genuine GDP at 2005 industry rates since 2001.

Source: Urban Redevelopment Expert of Singapore and Office of Figures Singapore

Demographic Changes

Another strand of derivation of getting electricity is definitely the demographic adjustment which indirectly affects the store rentals level in a lengthy go. For cases, the bigger education level the larger money bigger getting vitality therefore. Sometimes higher household income does not translate to higher purchasing power of household directly, for the reason that more dependants in a household the lower propensity to spend of that household. In Singapore situation, Old-Age Support Relation is usually to evaluate the rate per older antique 65 during the period of "Financial Crisis" (2008-2009), level drops just as very well as rentals index once again. On the other hand, when Singapore’s 2 Integrated Resorts (IRs) opened and the world first F1 night race launched in 2010, the level moves large of about 11 in the past.6 million which is about 20% increase compared to the year of 2009, we discover the raising style in local rental index after 2010 later.

Source: Urban Redevelopment Power of Singapore and Singapore Vacation Board

Inflation

One of the movement of Inflation can become found as rise in local rental benefit, inflation is a rise generally speaking price level of goods and services. Property owners including commercial property owners raise the rental to hedge against the erosion of their real rental income. Singapore store rentals index in central place displays the related elevating monitor with buyer Value Index generally.

Source: Urban Redevelopment Specialist of Singapore and Team of Information Singapore

Foreign Exchange

Foreign exchange price can end up being as well related to nightly rental benefit of professional residence in a macro-economic level, for little current economic climate like Singapore specifically, Singapore offers little localized selling makes and almost all of the selling makes arrive from aboard. When funds mix boarders, Foreign Direct Expense (FDI) happens and international exchange fee would turn into a important awareness of a multi-national selling enterprises (MNCs), y.g. hypermarket huge Carrefour, Wal-Mart, to perform organization in Singapore. These MNCs probably own increased affect on the local rental industry as their demand of store space is certainly large, the rental value will be damaged drastically with a limited supply environment.

Supply

Supply of industrial houses is normally as well a determinant of nightly rental worth but experienced certainly not significant as demand impact. Expansion of residence might take a comparatively prolonged period, about 3 to 5 years normally. Because of the inelasticity of supply, the rental value won’t be able to meet market equilibrium instantly, therefore the rental value is determined by demand factors in short run mainly, but resource shall have results in channel and prolonged function when tasks stream into local rental marketplace. Below chart shows the relationship between supply private & public sectors shop space and the rental index since 1998. In the period of 2000- 2001, the low level of source enclosing with great level of local rental index, and in the period of 2006Q2 to 2008Q2, larger local rental level induce bigger source of store places. Eventually 2008Q3 "Financial Situation" will take place which causes coder to reduce in size the resource greatly until 2001Q1, this lessening of source preserved the local rental index steady over this period comparatively. These evidences make clear the reverse relationship between rental and supply. The supply of commercial properties is afflicted by the general economy normally, new investments, government intervention and planning. Unlike supply of other goods, true est resource is certainly chunky definitely. When supply comes in or drawn out from the market in bulk, it all will dramatically have an effect on the industry sense of balance. For example, VivoCiy (Net Lettable Area of 96,600 sm), Shoppes @ Marina Bay Sands (Net Lettable Area of 74,322 sm), 313 @ Orchard (Net Lettable Area of 26,891 sm), Orchard Central (Net Lettable Area of 36,045 sm), sub-urban mall Nex @ Serangoon (Net Lettable Area of 56,000 sm). Basically, it displays severe rise in resource of store space in 2ng 1 / 4 2006 and 2ndeborah 1 / 4 2010 when VivoCity starts and Shoppes @ Marina Gulf Sands released. Deb:\Heriot Watts Lessons\Real Residence Economics\Project\Reference Materials\VivoCity.jpgD:\Heriot Watts Lessons\Real Residence Economics\Mission\Reference Materials\Shoppes @ MBS.jpg

VivoCity

Shoppes @ Marina Gulf Sands

Source: Photos from Internet

Source: Urban Redevelopment Capacity of Singapore

Random Shocks

Rental worth of retail real estate is usually as well subject matter to hit-or-miss shock absorbers, many of these as warfare, South america Financial Emergency (1997), Serious Desperate Respiratory Issue (SARS) (2002), Credit rating Ab crunch (2008). All these haphazard jolts include significant effect on total efficiency of overall economy, therefore effects on the retail marketplace.

Across different residence sectors

Compared the store rentals index to the indexes of additional house market sectors, we can observe they generally present comparable pattern since 1998 Queen4 to 2012 Queen2. They all experience stable movements to 2006 prior, then summiting with different amplitudes until 2008 Q2 when market plunges and finally recover to present time. It reveals that the all real estate industries will be impacted by related monetary externalities.

Source: Urban Redevelopment Guru of Singapore

Across various other industries

Spillover impact from various other sectors has effects on on nightly rental worth of store spots as well. In 2005, Singapore Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong announced that government to approve to build two Integrated Resorts (IRs) (Resort World Sentosa and Marina Bay Sands) in order to provide a fresh, lucrative and interesting alternative. In addition, constructing the two IRs meant that there would be a "spillover effect" on other sectors of Singapore’s economy, on businesses within close proximity to the Irs . gov especially. When two IRs opens in 2010, twelve-monthly tourist arrivals hit a historical high of 11.6 million (Route NewsAsia, 2010). By 2012 February, 60,000 careers acquired been developed in the Rates and across the broader economy, contributing 1 to 1.5 per dollar to Singapore’s uncouth residential merchandise (Federal examining IR guidelines – Straits Occasions, 27 January 2012). Superior holiday birth size and GDP progress will make contributions to a bigger rentals worth of store which I include brought up in early on component of this document. Another localized model is definitely Singapore web host the world’s fist Method 1 nights contest which once again appeals to larger vacationer introduction level and total vacationer bills and in the end increase the retail organization in close closeness. In the very long work, these 2 iconic jobs will continue to improve Singapore’s possible specifically the expenditure possible in selling organization which in works will really influence on store local rental benefit.

Property as a monetary asset

Property likewise can end up being a monetary advantage (Elizabeth Ball, et al., 1998) which results in upcoming dollars goes. Give is employed to evaluate the amount of go back of an purchase for hire collectable, render means to World wide web Operating Salary (NOI) divided by Capital Worth. In various other thoughts, rentals give is normally afflicted by value, but certainly not completely. An buyer can select an expense from resources industry corresponding to his/her risk choice. Jack Harvey (2000) detailed down a series of expenditure of money in investments marketplace including Funds (Meters), Treasury Charges (P), Debenture or A genuine (G), Irredeemable A genuine (N), Common Stocks and shares(Ring), Mortgage loan Lending options (Mo), Leasehold Ventures (D), Freehold (FH) and Freehold Place Rents (FGR). Each property possesses its private level of risk, House expense noticed to come to be much less dangerous than share industry but considerably more high-risk than say connection industry. Persons make use of choice possessions to standard the produce of home resources and likewise apply the motion of just about all liquids investments many of these as funds, prize expenses to estimate the activity of house marketplace. Therefore nightly rental get is certainly afflicted by various other type of property in economical belongings as very well.

Conclusion

The impact on of the local rental worth of retail property or home will be complicated. It mostly will depend on the getting ability of the inhabitants, and some affects based on from getting electric power arrive into the photo including the home cash flow, countrywide economical state and demographic alterations in a lengthy go. In a brief function, the vacationer birth volume level, inflation and exchange rate also have their impacts on deciding the rental value of retail properties. On the other hand, supply of shop space is induced by high rental value in investor’s viewpoint but is negatively related to rental value if it is too much. In a broader perspective, the spillover results from various other market sectors and various other real estate industries as well perform jobs to push the nightly rental benefit of store space up and straight down, haphazard distress provides its destructive electric power on real estate market sectors incorporating price tag.

As the global community advances and combines, retail local rental benefit is certainly identified by broader and deeper elements which typically have got little impact. For case, retail organization possesses even more and even more to carry out with personal marketplace. In latest calendar year True Property Expenditure of money Trusts (REITs) turn into famous, retail houses can come to be securitized and bought and sold in economic industry, this interconnection with fiscal industry enhances its deciding vitality in nightly rental benefit how to write an empathy essay of retail real estate.

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Nintendo Switch E3 games lineup REVEALED

If the rumors are genuine, then Mario + Rabbids State Conflict is a brand new position-playing sport being advanced by way of Ubisoft.

In fact, it will be made the usage of the organization’s Snowdrop engine, which changed into also used for The Department.

Mario + Rabbids State is stated to have an August/September release date for Nintendo Transfer and might be unveiled all through Ubisoft’s E3 press convention.

Further to characters from the Mario and Rabbids collection of games,

Warfare State capabilities flip primarily based combat and two-person co-operative multiplayer.

In keeping with Kotaku, characters encompass Mario, Luigi, Yoshi and Peach, as well as four Rabbids dressed because of the Nintendo icons.

It is exact information for the Nintendo Transfer video games list, particularly with high-profile new releases like Darksiders 3 and phone of Responsibility: WW2 now not acting on the platform.

The death of foremost 0.33-celebration games hasn’t had a terrible effect on Nintendo Transfer sales.

In fact, the Switch has truly exceeded Nintendo’s expectations, shipping an astonishing 2.seventy four million devices at some stage in its opening month on sale.

Nintendo had the best-expected income of 2 million for the first month of launch and is the reason why It’s been so difficult to locate inventory.

With the Switch off to a strong start, Nintendo believes it’ll promote any other 10 million gadgets within the next year.

Similarly as extraordinary is that Nintendo Switch games sales are as much as 5.46 million.

This means that nearly games had been sold for every Transfer console.

Nintendo Switch mini sports series 1-2 Switch made up a massive number of the income, transport almost 1 million in its opening month.

Wonderful Bomberman R has also validated popular, moving 500,000 copies for the reason that release.

However, It’s Legend of Zelda Breath of the Wild that has tested maximum famous, notching up the income of two.76 million.

Bizarrely, this indicates It is bought more copies than there are Transfer consoles.

Best Storage Device for Nintendo DS

Gaming consoles are the various global’s maximum promoting gadgets. The primary gaming console came out inside the year 1972 and the perhaps the sector became by no means the identical. Nintendo is the various worlds leading game console manufacturers. It has been wonderful game enthusiasts when you consider that 1977. Originally those consoles were not designed for portability. However, due to the call for of the times, transportable game consoles got here into being. One terrific instance is the Nintendo DS, released in 2004.

In an effort to advantage portability, the DS needed to be designed a good deal lighter than everyday consoles. Consequently, it has no inbuilt storage tool. Consequently, As a way to keep content material on the device, external garage devices popularly referred to as flashcards or flashcards must be inserted in the device. There are particular slots in the device for such cards.

There are various forms of storage playing cards, each with the particular set of functions.

There are exclusive playing cards for specific fashions of the DS tool. a number of the maximum famous playing cards is the R4 card. This card has been extremely famous amongst Nintendo DS customers. There are special models of R4 playing cards for one-of-a-kind fashions of the Nintendo DS- the authentic DS model, the DS Lite version, the DSi model, the DSi XL version and the brand new Nintendo 3DS.

The authentic R4 DS playing cards are compatible with the authentic DS and DS Lite models.

They will no longer work with other models inclusive of -Dsi, Dsi XL, and 3DS. For the Dsi and DSi XL consoles, you have got the R4i card. They can be used with the DS and DS Lite, However it isn’t endorsed. For the contemporary Nintendo 3DS model, you have got the R4 3DS card. This card can run on all different models of the Nintendo However it’s miles higher no longer use this card with them.

With a terrific variety of R4 cards to be had in the marketplace now, you need to invite yourself “which one do I want?” All R4 cards appearance almost the same But their capacity to work with particular consoles vary. The most crucial reality approximately shopping for an R4 card is that it cannot work on its very own. The R4 card desires an appropriate micro SD memory card to be used as this is where the operational documents are stored for it to the characteristic. No version of the R4 card, be it the R4ior something else, can work without a memory card. The more the garage capacity of memory card, the extra records can be saved any time while not having to delete formerly saved statistics. For normal customers, 2GB reminiscence card is pretty enough However for the tougher middle customers a 4GB or 8GB micro SD card is a great deal extra appropriate.

Real Estate Games Can Be More Than Just Pastime

The undertaking is a crucial part of anybody’s existence. Gaming is one shape wherein youngsters and adult alike can become hooked. But more than just beyond instances, they can be used to train.

Method games with a few touch of actual property may be used early to train youngsters vital aspects of the industry. There are real estate games which begin with the participant proudly owning a land. So as to prosper, the land desires to be evolved. Problems soon get up with cash flowing into the player’s side giving more opportunities to shop for extra houses But giving extra problems for keeping them.

There also are video games which lets you be a assets manager, a residence flipper, an indoors fashion designer, an actual estate mogul, and so much more. Almost any name or job applicable to the real property industry has a sport you may interact in.

Conventional video games

Do you recognize that there’s a very Traditional recreation which can be used to teach children to increase fundamental draw close of actual property? That sport is known as Monopoly.

In this game, the gamers war for assets possession. Through landing on specific houses, gamers purchase them at the sport’s financial institution and the name cards are awarded to them. As the sport progresses, they are able to broaden the residences to set up houses and motels.

Other players who land on Other participant’s homes need to pay rents equal to how many homes or resorts are mounted on them.

The sport has Other kinds of properties like railroads and application companies. The players can also personal them and acquire hire to Other players.

This board game is honestly a Strategy sport too. It makes the players suppose cautiously on whether to shop for positive assets or not. There are also monetary constraints like taxes, preservation upkeep, and Different fees which can have an effect on the players’ earnings.

Cutting-edge versions

This Conventional board game has now evolved. It is able to now be performed on computer systems and devices. There are numerous versions which have mild variations on rules. some are even made to be adaptive to positive areas like changing names of streets to the ones acknowledged to certain united states of America.

The actual estate industry is a virtually captivating world. It captures no longer handiest the minds of adults But also the interest of youngsters. real estate games can be their first step towards expertise what the enterprise can do for them. whether they simply need to be simple owners or actual estate tycoons, there are games to harness their talents.

Revealed – The Very Best Exercise For You

Many people ask me, what is the nice workout for me, or which exercise should I be doing.

The solution depends on wherein you’re as much as, as an example if you are just getting returned into activity or when you have never been a workout individual, then… Drum Roll! The very first-class exercising is the one you may do!

It is as simple as that. It would not remember what the ultra-modern ebook say,

Or the chiseled trainer recommends, in case you don’t adore it you might not do it.

Who cares if the celebrities are doing it (they probably aren’t anyway) who cares if your sister in regulation swears she got her super butt from a sure exercise, if you don’t love it then it won’t happen, as a minimum past the primary few days or even weeks.

Such a lot of portions of costly lie dormant within the returned of garages, or neatly folded below beds amassing dirt. Due to the fact they seemed like one of these true idea at the time and the Television infomercial changed into so compelling.

Lamentably most of those gadgets are as top as useless and the general public surrender on them. So what could you do, right here are some pointers.

A daily intentional walk

Walking a bit similarly to work or to the stores.

Doing something often at domestic which includes some squats or push u.S.every 60 minutes.

Dance across the house.

Strength cleaning!

Join a class that you would love, but do not purchase any unique garments till you are positive it’s far a class you may stick to.

Run, swim, cycle and so forth.

The bottom line is that you may make the time to do it.

in case you are already into the routine of being active then It’s still crucial to feature in exercises which you will experience over the years.

Or you can have a game or interest which calls for a degree of health and also you desire to enhance it. E.G. My passion is martial arts, so I pick out sporting events which will enhance my power, flexibility endurance, and speed. A number of those sporting activities I won’t like a great deal, but the benefits for my martial arts make it really worth pursuing.

For me convenience is important I like to do body weight sporting activities in a park near domestic, and I dislike gyms so I choose sports to suit me, and my time schedule.

There are so many possibilities, and in case you are stilled confused, get from your chair and opt for a walk while you are considering what you will do, perhaps walk to a library or e-book keep and get some thought.

Originally posted 2016-08-28 03:34:51.

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What is Skam & Why Is It Taking on the Net?

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What is Skam & Why Is It Taking on the Net?

Sam. Perhaps you’ve seen the name mentioned in passing. Perhaps you have seen gifs of its sparkling-faced Scandinavian solid fit throughout your Tumblr dashboard or Twitter feed. Nonetheless, you’ve got best a vague concept of what Sam genuinely is. Permit us to solve your confusion. Meet one of the first-class indicates on Television…

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What is Sam?

Sham, which translates to “shame” in English, is a Norwegian teenager drama that has taken the Net through hurricane, in spite of the truth that there aren’t any criminal English language-subtitled streams available (by and large, it seems, because of music rights) and there has been no authentic advertising and marketing push. How do worldwide viewers get it, then? Multi-lingual fanatics have taken to translating the display themselves and making the episodes available through cars like Google Pressure. That is a show that has truly been unfolding thru Net “phrase-of-mouth.” That is what a success looks like within the Net age, a Tv display that has risen to the top divorced from advertising forces.

The basic premise? Sam follows a group of young adults who go to the Hartvig Nissen Faculty in Oslo. Every season has an extraordinary crucial individual, with the narrative sticking very close to his or her angle. (It is just like that exquisite teen drama Skins’, however, the man or woman-unique attention lasts the complete season vs. converting episode to episode.)

The structure works to explore the principle man or woman’s own non-public supply of shame. In season 1, we meet Eva (Lisa Teige), a lonely lady who has had a few form of falling out with her middle College buddies. Eva often lives on my own, as her single mom is nearly always away from enterprise, and spends most of her time with boyfriend Jonas (Marlon Langeland).

Because the season progresses, Eva starts of evolved to make friends with a hodgepodge group of girls: Noora (Josefine Frida Pettersen), Sana (Iman Meskini), Chris (Ina Svenningdal), and Wilde (Ulrikke Falco). This friendship institution will become the heart of Sam for the primary seasons.

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Season 2 has Noora as a major person as we see her fall reluctantly in love with rich boy William (Thomas Hayes). Season 3, the season that in reality noticed the display exploding across the world, has Isak as a major individual as he struggles to return to terms along with his sexuality when he falls for new man Even (Henrik Holm).Sam: the format.

Sam is regularly highlighted for its specific layout. whilst the Norwegian drama is “in the air,” it takes place in actual time, losing four to 6 scenes at the show’s respectable internet site on the identical time as they show up within the international of the characters. As an example, if Eva and Noora are discussing something on Tuesday morning at nine:30 in Spanish elegance, then the clip will move up on Tuesday morning at nine:30.

at the cease of the week, all of the scenes are put together and broadcast on Tv as one episode, for people who don’t need to pay interest for the duration of the week or who need to observe it all together within the form of a greater traditional Television episode.

Sam has additionally been recognized for the way in which it uses transmedia storytelling to tell its tale. What does that suggest? In among updates, fanatics can also comply with the characters’ social media interactions and texts thru the Skin website and the characters’ real Instagram bills.

Transmedia storytelling is not some thing new. It’s some thing we’ve got seen applied to terrific impact in internet collection storytelling, Possibly maximum drastically with The Lizzie Bennet Diaries, which gained an Emmy for its revolutionary storytelling shape. But, Sam has to be one of the first more historically-produced Television indicates that has accomplished it. In other words: it has the price range and backing of a country-wide broadcaster.

Granted, Tv suggests in Norway possibly have a whole lot smaller budgets than Television shows in The USA, and Sam Possibly is mainly low-price range, however that infrastructure Nevertheless approach some thing — no longer most effective in terms of aid, but in phrases of getting the display out to viewers who won’t be as Net-savvy as others. Most of the people I recognize have by no means heard of The Lizzie Bennet Diaries. One in five human beings in Norway watches Sam.

What makes Sam so desirable?

Sam isn’t always reinventing the wheel in relation to the kind of tales it tells — even though it have to be lauded for its depictions of underrepresented topics like sexuality, intellectual contamination, and sexual assault — it just tells the ones stories sincerely, certainly properly. I assume That is a thing of the show that has been misplaced in the valid dialogue of the approaches in which Sam is new and unique. In addition to all of that, It is just rattling excellent storytelling.

collection creator Julie And spent a six months previous visiting round Norway interviewing young adults to study more approximately their lives. Instead of assuming that she remembered what it becomes like to be a youngster or assuming that not anything had modified in the teenage revel in considering that that point, And listened.

What did she find? And instructed the New york Times: “We found one major want. teenagers these days are underneath quite a few strain from everyone. stress to be best, pressure to perform. We wanted to do a display to remove the pressure.”

Transferring forward, And says she makes use of comments from the teen actors and viewers to keep the display real. In a popular culture age that, at least in The united states, is increasingly turning into defined by means of this clash between creators and fanatics, And has made that dating into a communique.

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One major, tangible way wherein teenagehood has changed within the final decade is the combination of the era into our lives. That is a component of the actual-international that our popular culture hasn’t executed one of this good activity of reflecting. most of the time, Tv and films do not even strive.

Sam does this so, so properly. Sure, you get the kinds of on-screen texting we have seen earlier than, however, beyond that, you live with the characters as they search the net for something or obsess over what they may be going to textual content or message. In an early episode of Sam, we see Eva type, erase, retype, erase, and many others. Her first Fb message to new pal Noora, her face lightening right into a performative smile Noora will not be capable of seeing as she tries to make an amazing influence in text shape. For me, there has been something so, so real approximately this second. And a quiet depiction of the modern revel in I have never visible done pretty so properly on display screen.

It’s that word “quiet” that I maintain coming lower back to when I consider Sam. while we talk contemporary life, we have a tendency to frame it as faster and louder. These things are sometimes real, however, Sam does an implausible job of depicting what the gradual, quiet moments of modern-day lifestyles look like, what loneliness and connection look as if while era maintains the possibility of virtual conversation possible at any moment.

That possibility is each terrific and terrible and is reflected in Sam’s real-time factor. That form of on the spot, unpredictable, occasionally demanding get right of entry to can be comforting and it may be overwhelming. Sam doesn’t make us choose between both those depictions. technology is an imperative a part of those teenager’s lives, however, it is not inherently exact or awful. It best changes the manner universally human reviews, demanding situations, and wonders appear in their lives.

The authenticity of its solid and manufacturing.

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Skam takes a page from Italian neorealism and the French New Wave in its casting of actors. In The united states, we have become so used to seeing 20-somethings play teens that it’s miles jarring at the beginning to see actual teenagers fill the roles within the Norwegian drama. extra than that, they have got pimples and horrific hair days and put on the equal clothes time and again once more. In different phrases, they sense actual — in particular when Skam factors the digital camera at them and lets them circulate through the world as they would in actual life.

This authenticity appeared to be a priority of the casting technique. To cast Sam, Adam auditioned 1,200 humans and created the characters around them, after she had chosen her essential solid. She gets remarks from the principle and routine solid, and has integrated components of their character into their characters.

Past that, the main solid seems particularly grounded. They either are Nevertheless in School or have jobs, so much so that Sam handiest shoots on 3 days of the week to deal with the actors’ schedules. They may be not playing real teens. they may be real young adults.

In phrases of filming, Sam’s aesthetic jogs my memory numerous Friday Night Lighting — sure, because of the shaky cam, but also due to a) the manner that Tv show embraced a real-international putting (in FNL’s case, Austin; in Skam’s case, Oslo) and b) the gap that show gave to its actors in phrases of performance. Skam seems to do the identical and it produces a few extremely good, understates performances.