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Year 2 Part 5- Quidditch for the Ages

Hey, guys!

Welcome to my 5th chapter for Year 2. Spoiler Alert: it’s my first time writing a Quidditch match so I hope I did it justice.

As a warning, I do hope my readers who are Slytherin can forgive me xD But in all seriousness what happens in the story now is a backdrop for growth and understanding later. Especially for David. I do not intend for Slytherin to be the ‘evil’ house in this story. But it will take time.

Enjoy!

For the second Halloween in a row David found himself in the hospital wing, only this time it was for an injury suffered by someone else, notably his best friend.

Madam Pomfrey had appeared suspicious when he gave the explanation for what happened, which was basically that Rowan wasn’t feeling well and was exhibiting ‘flu-like’ systems. This was definitely stretching his fibbing ability, as common colds and the flu could be cured readily by most trained mediwizards and staff. But though Rowan woke up, he was still shivering heavily, multiple blankets wrapped around his body, sipping hot chocolate to warm his body. Thankfully, the head of the Hospital Wing didn’t ask too many questions, allowing him to stay for a brief period.

“I’m sorry this happened, Rowan,” David apologized in a low voice, so Madam Pomfrey couldn’t hear them. “It’s my fault.”

“D-Don’t worry about it,” the Indian preteen reassured him through chattering teeth. “We both wanted to find this vault, remember? It’s important to you.”

David rubbed his hands together and looked away. Rowan would be fine, but an unpleasant guilty sensation spread through him. Losing Jacob had already been painful enough and that had been his fault too. He didn’t want to gain back a brother but lose a friend.

“How are you feeling?” he asked, honestly, trying to redirect the feelings of shame.

“Like I g-got hit with the Knight B-Bus,” Rowan responded, taking a sip of his hot chocolate. “One made out of pure ice.”

“Madam Pomfrey will have you out of here in no time. She’s never failed anyone.”

Rowan smiled to again assure his friend he was not angry nor sore over the situation.

“I t-told you, d-don’t worry about me. I should b-be back in a day or s-so. Go out and l-learn as much as you c-can in my absence.”

The talk came to an end as Madam Pomfrey gently ushered him out, saying that her patients needed rest (though most simply needed buckets after eating too many sweets). As soon as the hospital wing doors were shut, he was surprised to see Penny standing outside. Her normally bubbly features were colored with worry and even a bit of disappointment.

“David, what happened?” she asked simply.

“Merlin’s beard, Penny, how did you know where we were?”

“You forget, I know almost everything around here. But it wasn’t exactly hard to figure out. You and Rowan didn’t show up for the feast.”

David smacked a hand in the middle of his forehead. He should have known Penny of all people would be the first to notice them gone, given that her group of friends and his were virtually synonymous. She had an eye for this sort of thing.

“I assumed you were going after the vaults again,” she continued when he didn’t respond.

“You caught me, okay?” he admitted, not bothering to lie. “Are you angry or something?”

“I’m not angry, Dave,” Penny told him, taking a few steps forward. “I was just worried and wanted to make sure two friends of mine were okay. I take it Rowan isn’t?”

“He’s fine but it’s still my fault. We found the vault door, and I became reckless. I touched it and it immediately began firing off some kind of freezing spell and one them hit Rowan. Got him here as fast as I could.”

“Well that’s good he’s okay, but wasn’t Madam Pomfrey suspicious?”

“She was, but as far as I know she didn’t alert Dumbledore or any of the other Professors. Told her he was feeling ill and left it at that.”

Penny breathed a sigh of relief.

“That’s strangely fortunate. You definitely don’t want anyone else finding out, there’s enough competition out there as it is. Especially with Merula. I keep hearing rumors about her and none of them good. They say she’s recruiting her own gang to try and find the vaults and still wants you out of the way.”

“What else is new?” David groaned. “Well, anyway, thanks for letting me know about this Penny.”

But she stopped him again as she gazed into him with those sparkling, blue eyes that reminded one of an innocent doe.

“Dave, you can’t keep doing this by yourself.”

“That’s why I have Rowan with me.”

“He’s just one person and he narrowly avoided getting seriously hurt. What if you’re next?”

The twelve year old Gryffindor wasn’t really concerned with his own safety, not in the conscious sense. He had never considered he might become injured or fall victim in the quest to find this vault. Jacob was the main focus, not him.

But then again, Penny also had a point.

“You’re right. I do need to be more careful, but I promise nothing will happen to me.”

“We both know that’s a promise you can’t keep,” she told him seriously. “I’m only asking you one thing.”

“What’s that?”

“Don’t keep me out, Dave. Next time you plan on entering a cursed vault, let me know so I can help.”

The offer was so genuine, it overrode his desire to protect her. How could one turn down Penny Haywood? Moments such as these showed why she clearly was a Hufflepuff through and through.

“Okay, Penny. I will.”

An enormous hug and an even bigger smile indicated from the blonde indicated all was well.

“Thanks, Dave! Please tell me when Rowan gets out of the hospital wing.”

Despite the warm and fuzzies from Penny, there were more questions to be asked and many more to be answered. What was inside the vault? Did it have anything to do with the vision he received when he touched the door? And what did Voldemort have to do with this?

Is this what Jacob went through when he tried to find the vaults?

Deciding he didn’t want to know the answer, suddenly realizing he was quite famished David shoved his wand back into his pocket and went to see if there was anything left to eat at the feast. Maybe Tonks had saved him a treacle tart or two.

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Tension ran high within the school the next few days, but for once the reason was not due to cursed ice. The first Quidditch match of the season was coming and it featured the two biggest rivals within the interhouse competition: Gryffindor vs. Slytherin.

Anyone who knew anything about Hogwarts knew that the two houses had a history going back to the infamous duel between Godric Gryffindor and Salazar Slytherin, which eventually led to the latter of the two leaving the school. In the modern context, students of each house generally disliked each other, and it sometimes graduated to outright hatred. Throw Quidditch into the equation and that animosity often boiled over into war. The bold, brave, athletic lions versus the cunning, calculating, underhanded serpents.

David, being on one side of that rivalry, was not exactly unbiased but he didn’t particularly care. His experience with Slytherin was not a positive one thus far, the primary culprit being Merula Snyde and her constant antagonism towards him and his friends. Being a mere second year, he was not the main target of any of the older Slytherins’ ire but it seemed that no matter what he did, she would never cease in her relentless bullying and badgering. The afternoon potions class Friday prior to the match only served to fuel his own animosity towards the silver and green.

Rowan had still not been released from the hospital wing, so he was left on his own to complete the brew Snape gave them for the day. David was not unskilled in the subject but it was difficult to focus on your potion when there was a constant thorn in your side sitting at your table.

“Where’s Khanna, Grant? I still see he’s noticeably absent.” Merula taunted him through the steam of the bubbling cauldron.

“Wouldn’t you like to know,” David shot back, doing his best to ignore her. She was one of only a few people capable of getting underneath his skin and to do so now would be unwise with Snape watching.

“Oh, please. It doesn’t take a genius to know you and that four eyed creatine were off searching for the vaults during the feast. He’s probably still trying to unfreeze himself in the hospital wing.”

“Well we agree one thing, Merula, you’re certainly no genius.”

The Slytherin girl ducked as Snape walked by, adding a pinch of unicorn horn to her potion before returning to her taunting.

“Full of jokes but no substance as per usual, Grant. You’ve found nothing, but I’ve been investigating the vaults myself and you wouldn’t believe what I found.”

“I’m sure it’s quite fascinating. Much like your inability to shut the hell up.”

But true to form, Merula was both stubborn and relentless.

“Khanna is gone but I’ve been working with people to locate and break the vault curse before you. Whatever is inside will belong to me, so you may as well give up now.”

So, Penny was correct in her information that Merula had her own little posse. Of course, the Hufflepuff was rarely wrong but to hear it from the Slytherin herself was more concerning. At the risk of going down the rabbit hole, David took the bait and indulged her.

“What makes you think you’re going to open the vaults before me? I bet you’re no closer than I am.”

“I’m willing to whatever it takes, Grant. That’s the difference between you and I.”

“The difference,” he said, while stirring his cauldron counterclockwise. “Is that I’m merely trying to find my brother. You on the other hand are like every other Slytherin that ever lived- selfish, deceitful, and power hungry. So stick that in your pipe and smoke it.”

Merula gave him her usual nasty leer.

“You’ll be regretting those words soon enough.”

“Or what?”

“Or else,” cut in a smooth, silky, dangerous voice. “I shall have to give both of you detention for not finishing your work on time and disrupting my class.”

Their conversation had gone on far too long, evidently, as the greasy, beaked nose of Professor Snape bore down upon them, his expression far from pleased.

“Sorry, Professor,” David apologize in an attempt at damage control. Snape was not quite as passionate a Quidditch fan as McGonagall, but he never passed up any chance to humiliate or show up the other houses. Non-Slytherins were extra careful not get on his bad side leading up to a match.

“I don’t need your sniveling excuses,” he dismissed sourly. “But what I do need is an explanation. Several ingredients from my private storeroom have been stolen in the last few days and I’ve received word you are the culprit. What do you have to say for yourself?

Dave couldn’t help but deliver a tongue in cheek response.

“And what makes you think it was me of all people?”

“Perhaps it’s in connection to your search for the cursed vaults? Or because you, like your brother, insist on testing the boundaries of this school and my patience? Whatever the reason, I have no desire to know what goes on in your warped, tiny mind. Give me one good reason I shouldn’t give you detention for the rest of the year.”

The rest of the class’s eyes were on them now, Ben looking quite afraid, while Charlie looked on apprehensively (Jae was already asleep by this point). But it wasn’t their reactions David keyed in on, rather it was Merula’s that gave everything away. Her eyes were alighted with malicious glee, a knowing smirk plastered across her face. It was then and there he knew she was the one behind this.

“I don’t know. But I would ask Merula given that she looks as though Christmas came early.”

That threw the second year Slytherin in for a loop as the malicious glee quickly evaporated into a frantic denial.

“Only someone as pathetic and desperate as you would try and pin this on me, Grant! You’re just as loony as your brother!”

Snape looked over at his pupil.

“Is this true, Miss Snyde? What credence do you give this accusation?”

“None,” she said but her response did not meet her eyes. “If I want to see him expelled it’s because he’s a disgrace and a danger to Hogwarts.”

David fully expected Snape, the most blatant in expressing favoritism towards his own house, to simply take Merula at her word and be done with it. Which is why what happened next came as a shock to everyone.

“I genuinely wish you weren’t lying.”

Merula’s eyes looked as though they might pop out of her head.

“Excuse me?!”

“As I have stated before you are an absolutely atrocious liar, especially for a Slytherin. You will stay after class to receive your punishment. The rest of you, finish up your potions, put them on my desk and get out.”

No one needed to be told twice. David, hardly believing his luck, was content to do as Snape instructed and followed the rest of the Gryffindors and Slytherins out of the door while Merula was forced to remain behind. But as he was about to head down the hallway, the preteen gave into temptation and placed himself at the edge of the stone wall close to the door. He needed to hear why he was not assigned the blame, and his rival faced the brunt of the potion master’s wrath.

“Professor,” he could hear Merula use a falsely innocent tone she only used to get out of trouble. “I don’t understand why I’m the one being punished. It was Grant, not me.”

“Save your pathetic explanations for whichever idiot among your posse has the time to listen.”

“But…I-”

“Do you really think I was blind to the fact that this was a scheme cooked up by you and your housemates? Or that when I was tipped off by that gigantic oaf Mr. Lee, I failed to notice traces of Boomslang skin on his hands? No, this was an ill-advised, foolhardy endeavor that was unworthy of even the lowliest of our house. And as such, you will come by every Friday evening to clean the storeroom you stole from until Christmas. Is that clear?”

Evidently, she did not, because Merula continued to argue.

“But Professor! You hate the Gryffindors and Grant! Why do I have to serve detention?”

“That is neither here nor there,” Snape growled, the anger increasing in his voice. “Our house prides itself on cunning and ambition. You possess the latter but not the former, Miss Snyde. Grant saw right through your attempt to frame him and the fact that he did means you didn’t even bother to cover your tracks. Consider today a test, a test that you failed.”

“But-”

“The next ‘but’ to come out of your mouth will ensure another Friday added to your lengthy detention sentence. Now, begin cleaning at once lest you continue to test my patience.”

That was all David needed to hear and the reaction was one of slight surprise and relief. Snape was punishing his own student not out of fairness but for being sloppy, which he supposed made sense. It also meant that he had time to visit Rowan later in the evening and with any luck, they’d be able to watch the Quidditch match tomorrow.

As he exited the dungeon, he came across an unsettling sight, however. Standing in the hallway, chewing some Drooble’s gum was the Slytherin girl known as Ismelda Murk, the one who had attacked Charlie on the train earlier in the year. She said nothing as he walked by, but carried a most wicked, frightening smile and never took her visible eye off him, her other eye shrouded by her shoulder length, black hair.

“Creepy,” David muttered to himself, but gave it no further thought as he made his way towards dinner. There was a Quidditch game to be played tomorrow and now more than ever did he want to beat Slytherin.

The lion did not concern itself with the schemes of snakes.

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At last the day came and the sunny, crisp November morning was pulsing with excitement. Gryffindors and Slytherins alike donned their colors- jackets, jumpers, scarves, gloves, hats, flags, banners- it had all the feel of a classic in the making featuring Hogwarts’ two biggest rivals.

It was all the more surreal for David, who grew up listening to Quidditch but had never seen a match even at the most rudimentary level. It was another activity his mum severely restricted growing up. But there were no parents here to tell him ‘no’ and little to contain his excitement. He was ready for this.

Adding to the general atmosphere was the fact that the Gryffindor Quidditch team had two new extraordinarily talented members in Charlie Weasley and Skye Parkin. True to his word, it was the skill not the broom that earned the second eldest Weasley the spot of seeker. So proud was Professor McGonagall, she ended up ordering him a new comet series for proper matches. David had only heard rumors, but anyone who witnessed Charlie play was floored by the speed, quickness, and precision he possessed. True to his humble nature, his friend never talked much about his own Quidditch abilities but retained quiet confidence. If half of those rumors were true, Gryffindor was in good hands.

The second name among the new arrivals was Skye Parkin and this one generated even more buzz than Charlie. Skye was also a second year and was from the famous Parkin family, a clan hailing from the high hills of Scotland legendary for their long line of successful Quidditch players. So prominent they were, they had even founded their own Quidditch team, the Wigtown Wanderers.

Unlike most of the old families, the Parkins did not belong to any particular house and were spread out evenly at Hogwarts spanning the centuries. Her brothers had been placed in Ravenclaw and Slytherin respectively, but Skye was the only child who had inherited her father Ethan Parkin’s Gryffindor courage. Every bit as talented as her brothers, she was placed as a chaser and excelled in the natural instincts required for the spot- passing, positioning, and speed. So anticipated was her debut that some were saying she was better than her father at the same age.

In David’s personal opinion, that was quite a lot to put on a single twelve-year-old girl but he had seen Skye in class and at the lunch table on numerous occasions. She was truly fearless and did not blink at a challenge, even from older students. Notorious for her poor grades, she was not an academic favorite among the staff, but McGonagall had given her enough tutoring to ensure her grades were adequate enough to join the team, so determined she was to win the cup.

In addition to this good news was that Rowan was finally well enough to leave the hospital wing. Though Quidditch was not his forte, David managed to convince him some fresh air and healthy competition would be good after being cooped up in a ward for three days. Not to mention Bill would also be there cheering on his brother so it provided an extra incentive.

Waking up that morning, David wasted no time in getting dressed and making sure Rowan did the same.

“Ironic. I’m usually the one trying to get you out of bed,” his best friend grunted.

“Yeah but that’s for boring stuff. This is Quidditch!”

“Remind me again, why I should care?”

In a sequel of their first day at Hogwarts, it was David’s turn to throw a pillow at Rowan.

“Because we need to be there when we kick Slytherin’s arse.”

“….”

“Also, Bill’s going to be there.”

“Coming.”

It didn’t take long for the boys to get dressed, fill up on a breakfast of sausage and eggs, then head down to the pitch where the entire student body filed in. They found their seats in the Gryffindor section alongside Bill, Jae, Ben, and a few others.

“Dave, Rowan,” Bill greeted warmly. “Good to see you both. Grab a spot.”

“We’ll be standing up most of the time anyway,” Jae told them. “If this is anything like most Quidditch matches.”

“Or if you want to see,” Ben pointed out.

“Well I’ll certainly be on the edge of my seat given this is Charlie’s first match. He’s been dreaming of this moment for years, so I know how it important it is for him. Plus, I promised Fred and George full details in my letters.”

“Fred and George?” David asked, puzzled as to who he was referring to.

“My younger twin brothers,” Bill elaborated. “Tricky little devils they are, always up to no good. Constantly driving mum crazy,” he added with a laugh. “But they’re also aspiring Quidditch players themselves. They can’t see Charlie in person but it’s the next best thing.”

“Is this really such a big deal?” Ben wondered aloud. “I mean, I know we aren’t friends with the Slytherins but still.”

A half second later, one of the bigger Slytherins from the bleachers parallel to theirs shouted “Gryffindor sucks Abraxan cock!!!” while the rest of his friends laughed hysterically, pointing and jeering.

“Does that answer your question?” Bill asked rhetorically.

“Crushing Slytherin is the only thing that matters,” David affirmed. “Personally, I wouldn’t mind rubbing it in Merula’s face if only to get her to shut up.”

“You and that girl are something else,” the eldest Weasley chuckled. “But in all seriousness, we have the best chance at the cup this year since James Potter last played for Gryffindor. Skye Parkin is quite the sensation and my brother isn’t too shabby himself.”

“He’s that good?” Rowan pipped up.

“You guys don’t know Charlie like I do. Unless dragons are involved, Quidditch is his primary passion. He was zooming around the house with a toy broom from the time he was three. Trust me, he’s very good.”

A tap on the shoulder alerted them to the presence of Penny and her group consisting of Chiara, Tonks, and Diego, all of them donning the Gryffindor red and gold for this occasion.

“Hello you courageous Gryffindors,” Tonks quipped. For this occasion she had morphed her hair into a spiky, red and yellow mullet which was quite the sight to behold.

“Hey guys!” David said cheerfully. “Glad to see you’re supporting our side today.”

“Are you kidding? No one in their right mind would support Slytherin over Gryffindor,” Penny remarked making a sour face.

“Most of our house is supporting you today. As are the Ravenclaws,” Chiara informed them.

Indeed, she was right. Though not all of them chose to wear red and gold, most of the Hufflepuff and Ravenclaw students were choosing to sit far from the Slytherins, who were congregating in their own little sphere.

“The Slytherins are, shall we say, not well liked among the rest of the school,” Diego shrugged. “They tend not to play fair or with honor, so I am told.”

“You’re giving them too much credit,” Penny replied to him, her normally chipper face again turning disdainful. “Slytherins almost never play fair.”

“Be that as it may, they still usually field a decent squad year after year,” Bill spoke sagely. “And they came in second last year to Ravenclaw. Titus Hammersmith is going to go the extra mile to ensure that doesn’t happen again.”

“Yeah well Titus can sit on a pin. Personally, I’m just excited to watch Skye Parkin for the first time. I’ve heard she’s amazing!”

That caught David’s attention as he gazed over at the blonde.

“I didn’t know you were such a Quidditch fan, Penny.”

“Are you kidding? I know everything there is to know about it! And the Parkins are legends. That’s another reason I’m supporting Gryffindor today. Her dad is incredible, and I know she will be too.”

David laughed before glancing over at Rowan who looked noticeably uninspired.

“Cheer up, will ya?” he said while elbowing him playfully. “Match hasn’t even started yet and you already look as bored as I do in History of Magic.”

“I’m sorry, Dave. I guess sports just aren’t really my thing, you know? I’m more of a thinking kind of person when it comes to fun.”

“Just you wait, Rowan,” Bill encouraged. “By the end of the day you’ll have an appreciation for this. Quidditch is like nothing ever experienced before.”

Just then a loud, booming voice cut across the chatter, so loud in fact, it echoed across the pitch.

“Ladies and gentlemen I’d like to welcome you all to the beginning of the 1985-86 interhouse Quidditch season! With the first of the six matchups yet to come I can guarantee a 98.7 percent chance of excitement! Especially with these two notorious rivals, Gryffindor and Slytherin!”

Peering up into the booth, David saw a burly blond boy seated next to Professor McGonagall, megaphone in hand, the Sonorus charm in full effect. The enthusiasm espoused was only matched by the look of pure joy in his face, as though talking Quidditch was just as exciting as playing it.

“Who’s that?” Ben asked aloud.

“Murphy McNully,” Bill answered straight away. “Third year in our own house. Absolute nutter when it comes to Quidditch. Don’t get him started or he’ll never stop talking.”

“Why doesn’t he just play himself?” David joked.

“Because that chair isn’t just for kicks.”

Diego handed him the binoculars and indeed Murphy was not merely seated in a common chair, rather it appeared the chair was his main method of transportation as it was coupled with wheels on each side.

“Why does he need a wheelchair?”

“No one knows,” Jae said, tossing up his yellow hoodie to keep warm. “The way I heard it, if you ask why he clams up. Just about the only thing that gets him to shut his hole.”

“Rumor it was dark magic during the war,” Tonks whispered.

The speculation ended as a sudden whoosh alerted them to the arrival of the first team from the lockers.

“And here come the Gryffindor squad!” McNully announced with gusto. “Parkin, Barrett, Blishwick, McLaggen, Weasley, and Brown. Captained by Orion Amari!”

Cheers went up from seventy five percent of the stadium with only the hisses and boos from the Slytherins spoiling the unanimity. For David, the sight was amazing as he awed at witnessing actual Quidditch players race around the pitch. The red was quite distinctive, even in the glistening sun, the seven starters flying in an impressive V formation.

Another whoosh of wind announced the arrival of the infamous opponent which Murphy wasted no time in pointing out with almost equal gusto.

“And here are the Slytherins! Radcliffe, Rowle, Rosier, Chapman, Fernsby, and Burke. Captained by Titus Hammersmith!”

The cheers and jeers reversed this time, as the boos became louder while the screams of support were largely drowned out.

“This Orion Amari bloke looks like he already got hit with a bludger,” Tonks snickered as she passed the binoculars to Chiara and Penny who also giggled.

David couldn’t deny that she had a point. Upon closer inspection, the Gryffindor captain had the face of someone who was ready to soak up sunshine at a beach, not an intense, grueling Quidditch match.

“Orion is a bit eccentric; I’ll give you that,” Bill laughed. “But looks can be deceiving, he knows the game and he knows how to get the best out of people.”

“So how come we only won a single game last year?” Rowan asked.

“He was only made captain halfway through his fourth year. Plus, they didn’t have my brother or Skye Parkin,” the eldest Weasley added with a confident smile.

The referee Madam Hooch approached the center of the pitch to release the bludgers and the snitch while simultaneously giving warning to each team.

“I don’t need to remind you I want a nice, clean game. Captains, shake hands.”

Orion and Titus did so, though the latter definitely looked like he was trying to crush the former’s hand. However, if Orion felt anything, he did not show it, his mellow expression unchanging. For the lanky, blond Slytherin, his face turned to a scowl indicating his displeasure and dislike.

Without further delay, Madam Hooch threw the quaffle into the air and the match was on.

“And there goes Slytherin in their main line of attack with the three R’s, better known as Radcliffe, Rowle, and Rosier, a top of the line chaser squad from last season who nearly set the record for the most goals in a single season with fifty seven. Rowle ducks and passes it to Rosier, dodges the bludger and flips it to Radcliffe, she shoots...!”

Thankfully, for the Gryffindors, the keeper Liam Brown punched the ball away and into the hands of Orion who headed up the field.

“Spectacular play by the Gryffindor keeper, and there was only about a 37 percent chance of a save there!” McNully continued to ramble. “And there goes Amari and my word folks, he’s broom surfing!”

Indeed, it was an impressive display of skill as Orion smoothly navigated his way past the Slytherin defense despite their attempts to knock him off his broom. But instead of taking a shot on goal, he feigned a throw, cutting back around and tossing it back to a wide open Skye Parkin, who took the quaffle and put it through the main hoop for the first points of the game.

“And there you have it, folks! Rookie sensation Skye Parkin, daughter of the world famous Ethan Parkin, with the first points of the game and of her career here at Hogwarts!” McNully shouted excitedly. “Gryffindor leads 10-0.”

David and company cheered loudly while Penny jumped up and down screaming, “I told you she was good! I told you!”

And that wasn’t the end of the scoring. Bill had proven correct about Orion and his methods. Though he was unorthodox, the sheer unpredictability of his moves meant that the Slytherin beaters were constantly missing their mark and the chasers could move with ease. Before long, he and the other Gryffindor chaser, Ruth Barrett, had scored another goal apiece, making the score 30-0 in the Lions’ favor.

“It’s really something, isn’t it?” David yelled over the noise to Rowan.

“Orion and Skye are amazing,” came the agreement.

Indeed, the fireworks only continued from there. Slytherin did manage to put a goal past Liam Brown to get on the board, but the celebration was short lived as Skye managed to punch the quaffle out of Rowle’s hand, snag it, and race single handedly towards the goal. Dodging the attempted bumps from Deanna Radcliffe, Skye slipped underneath her resurfacing on top and scored on the right-hand hoop for her second goal.

“Did you see that?! Merlin’s beard did you see that?!” McNully exclaimed. “By George what a move that was!”

It was so crafty, no one on Slytherin had any time to react. And judging by the look on Skye’s face, David knew she was loving every second of this. She was truly in her element.

The Gryffindor defense continued to remain solid throughout the game with the beaters McLaggen and Blishwick scattering Slytherin’s three Rs time and time again. But the real story was Skye, Orion, and Ruth, who as a collective were nearly impossible to stop. Seeing a live game for the first time, David began to get a grasp of what made this unit so incredible. Orion was fluid and freelance, but always aware of where his teammates were, his passing skills exemplary. Ruth Barrett was a model of efficiency, there was no aspect of her game above the others, rather she was simply consistent at everything- passing, scoring, and flying. And then there was Skye. Just twelve years old, she was running circles around the Slytherins, too fast to catch and too agile to hit with a bludger. Together, the three were making their opponents look silly. It wasn’t until the first dirty play of the game that Skye’s one weakness was exposed.

After scoring her fourth goal to make the score 90-20 in favor of the Lions, she failed to notice Hammersmith coming straight towards her whilst she celebrated.

WHAM!

“Look out folks! The Slytherin captain has just attempted to knock Parkin off her broom and into next week! That’s an obvious foul which no doubt Madam Hooch will be quick to call!”

He was on the money as the hawk eyed referee began to berate Hammersmith for the foul while Skye attempted to stop herself from careening off the pitch. Eventually she managed to hang on and right herself, flustered, but otherwise unharmed.

Boos rained down on Hammersmith, who snarled at his detractors.

“I told you they don’t fight fair,” Diego remarked.

“Crawl back to your hole, wanker!” Penny screamed down at him, causing some of the boys to raise their eyebrows.

“She really is a fan,” Jae muttered.

But she wasn’t the only one. David was yelling insults too and even Rowan got in on the act at the blatant attempt at sabotage. Some of the Gryffindors began throwing food and other objects as Madam Hooch tried to wrest the situation back under control.

Though Skye was not hurt, her teammates did not take kindly to the insult. In retaliation, Henry McLaggen crushed a bludger at Hammersmith while the penalty shot was being set up, catching him painfully in the stomach. Rowle then flew up and punched him in the back of the head while Liam Brown rushed over and caught the Slytherin with a right hook.

At this point, things were getting out of hand and Hooch was screeching her whistle for the ruckus to cease, but it was an unlikely source who stepped in to prevent an all out brawl. Orion flew down to the commotion and put himself in the middle, separating Gryffindor and Slytherin alike. David couldn’t tell what was saying but it had the desired effect as his teammates eventually backed down, as did their opponents.

“What on earth could he have said to diffuse that?” Ben asked, shocked as everyone else.

“I have no idea, but whatever it was, he deserves a medal for special services to the school,” Bill observed, grabbing the binoculars from Diego.

“Are the Slytherins always this dirty?” Rowan asked him.

“Not always. Sometimes they’re so good they don’t need to. But Hammersmith doesn’t fool around. If he can gain a psychological edge, he will.”

“I just hope Skye is okay,” Chiara said quietly for the first time.

“She better be,” Penny growled. “Or else I’m going to pay a personal visit to the Slytherin common room tonight.”

David, however, looked up at Skye and saw that not only was she fine, she was glowing. Far from being angry, she gave a laugh and took the quaffle for a penalty shot. Calm and collected, she easily punched the ball past the Slytherin keeper Jessica Burke to make the score 100-20.

“Seems fine to me,” he said aloud.

Nothing confirmed this more than what Skye did next. A confident smirk plastered across her face she rushed past Hammersmith, causing him to flinch which garnered a laugh from the crowd.

“She’s more than fine,” Tonks snickered. “She’s got the whole Slytherin team eating out the palm of her hand.”

Play resumed and with Madam Hooch on the lookout for any more shenanigans, both sides did not attempt any more roughhousing. However, the Slytherin defense seemed to double their efforts as Hammersmith and his counterpart Malcolm Chapman kept hitting bludgers furiously at the Gryffindor chasers to keep them at bay. This paid off in the end as Felix Rosier snuck a goal past Liam Brown putting the score at 100-30.

“We’re up by seventy but I’d feel better if this ended soon,” Rowan groaned.

“Are you still not enjoying yourself?”

“Are you kidding? Of course! I want to win this thing!”

David and Bill shared a knowing smile, quite pleased they had converted their friend.

“Well don’t hold your breath,” the eldest Weasley told them. “Quidditch matches can last for days if need be. No one goes home until the snitch is caught and Gryffindor’s lead isn’t large enough to make up the difference if Slytherin gets to it first.”

“They’d need to be up by one hundred and fifty points,” Penny explained to Rowan. “Personally, I could watch Skye score goals all day.”

While that was true, David had a feeling that Charlie would have to come up clutch. Lost in the hoopla of the scoring and scrappy play was the fact that the snitch had not been seen once over the course of the match. The second Weasley patrolled the skies, tailing Douglas Fernsby, the Slytherin seeker now and again but there was no luck so far.

“You think he can pull it off?” he asked Bill, who was scouring the field for his brother.

“Trust me, he can,” came the confident reply. “Once he spots that little golden ball, it’s game over.”

Suddenly, the roar of the crowd rose a few decibels as people began pointing.

“And here we go, the first attempt to end the game!” McNully boomed into the microphone. “Charlie Weasley, the promising Gryffindor seeker has gone into a full long sprint for the snitch!”

Seekers occasionally feigned going after the snitch to throw off their opponent, but this was not one of those times. From a distance, David could see that Charlie had a determined, hungry look on his face. A tiny glint of light confirmed that was indeed after the snitch and closing in fast.

“He’s going to do it! He’s going to do it!” Bill yelled over the noise, grabbing onto David in excitement. “Come on, little bro!”

The snitch was notorious quick and difficult to see, but the young Gryffindor seeker was not to be deterred. Fernsby of Slytherin was on the other side of the pitch and had no chance whatsoever. It was simply a matter of seconds.

“Look out!” someone yelled.

Out of nowhere the the Slytherin chaser, Rowle, came in like a bullet with the clear intention of knocking Charlie off his broom. But in a stunning display of broomsmanship, the Gryffindor simply slipped underneath his broom, hanging upside down as Rowle crashed into the ground. Righting himself, Charlie regained his focus, stretched out and caught the little golden ball in his right hand, ending the match.

“WE WIN!” Bill screamed to the heavens as the rest of the Gryffindors began jumping up and down like maniacs.

“And the match has ended!” McNully said hoarsely into the megaphone. “And what a stupendous display from the young Gryffindor seeker! Simply amazing I don’t think I’ve seen a move like that in all my years watching Quidditch and I’m thirteen years old! Gryffindor wins, 250-30 in the biggest route of Slytherin in fifty years!”

The commentary was soon drowned out by the increasing tidal wave of cheers and roars from the crowd. Many Hufflepuffs and Ravenclaws joined in the celebration, Penny chief among them, who was almost as ecstatic as the Gryffindors.

For his part, David whooped and hollered in the celebrations, being engulfed in a tidal wave of hugs and high fives, food smuggled from the Great Hall raining down on his head. The solemn faces of the Slytherins were long forgotten as the stands began to clear out and the party headed back to the Gryffindor common room.

Victory did indeed feel good, and for a short time, it was enough to overlook any complications involving Merula, the vaults, or Slytherin in general. They could hide in the grave of Salazar himself. Fortune favored the bold.

It was time to celebrate, courtesy of two brave Gryffindors in Skye Parkin and Charlie Weasley.

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Welcome to Pollapalooza, our weekly polling roundup.

Poll(s) of the week

“Defund the police.” In the last several weeks, this slogan has entered the mainstream amid nationwide protests against police violence.

However, there’s some disagreement about what exactly the slogan means. Some activists actually do want to disband police departments entirely, while others argue that police budgets should be radically decreased, but not brought down to zero. But even among those who want to abolish the police, some say they want to do so over time.

But while the slogan is suddenly everywhere, so far it doesn’t poll well. Four polls conducted in the past two weeks1 found that Americans opposed the “defund the police” movement or “defunding police departments” 58 percent to 31 percent, on average.

Most Americans balk at defunding the police

Recent polls asking people whether they support or oppose the “defund the police” movement or “defunding police departments”

Dates Pollster Support Oppose June 14-16 The Economist/YouGov 24% 53% June 12-14 Morning Consult/Politico 28 58 June 10-11 ABC News/Ipsos 34 64 June 9-10 Reuters/Ipsos* 39 57 Average 31 58

*Question only asked of those who said they were very or somewhat familiar with the “defund the police” movement.

All polls are of adults, except the Morning Consult/Politico poll, which is of registered voters.

Source: Polls

The slogan is unpopular with most demographic groups, too, with two notable exceptions: Black Americans and Democrats. In the two polls where results were broken down by race, Black respondents said they supported defunding the police by an average of 45 percent to 28 percent, while white respondents opposed it by an average of 61 percent to 23 percent. This is in line with other polls that have consistently shown that white people mostly see police in a favorable light, while Black people are likelier to have experienced mistreatment at officers’ hands and take the problem of police violence seriously. So what we’re seeing here may be another reflection of Black and white Americans’ different experiences with police.

Similarly, in the three polls with breakdowns by party, Democrats on average supported the “defund the police” movement 50 percent to 34 percent, and Republicans on average opposed it 84 percent to 11 percent. Granted, only about a quarter of Democrats “strongly” supported it, per Morning Consult/Politico and Reuters/Ipsos, but three-quarters of Republicans “strongly” opposed it.

However, “defund the police” is also a simplistic slogan, and the poll results above do not capture public opinion on the movement’s more concrete policy goals. Specifically, defunding the police is only half of its goal; activists also want to reallocate the money spent on policing to other parts of the social safety net. Indeed, in those very same polls, some of these policy ideas enjoy far more backing among the American public than the slogan does — though the level of support does vary pretty widely depending on the details of the proposal.

For instance, when Reuters/Ipsos queried people about “proposals to move some money currently going to police budgets into better officer training, local programs for homelessness, mental health assistance, and domestic violence,” a whopping 76 percent of people who were familiar with those proposals supported them, with only 22 percent opposed. Democrats and independents supported these proposals in huge numbers while Republicans were split, 51 percent in favor to 47 percent opposed.

Meanwhile, Morning Consult/Politico asked respondents whether they supported “redirecting funding for the police department in [their] local community to support community development programs,” and just 43 percent of register voters said they supported it, while 42 percent opposed it. Still, this was a significant increase in support from the pollster’s question about support for the “movement to ‘defund the police’” (which, to reiterate, was 28 percent support vs. 58 percent opposition).

Overall, questions that seemed to emphasize how police departments would be affected found less support. Reuters/Ipsos respondents who were familiar with “proposals to completely dismantle police departments and give more financial support to address homelessness, mental health, and domestic violence” said they opposed those proposals, 58 percent to 39 percent. That was virtually identical to the way respondents broke down in the pollster’s question about the “‘defund the police’ movement.” And finally, per ABC News/Ipsos, 39 percent supported and 60 percent opposed “reducing the budget of the police department in your community, even if that means fewer police officers, if the money is shifted to programs related to mental health, housing, and education.” That made the specific proposal slightly more popular than “the movement to ‘defund the police’” (34 percent support vs. 64 percent opposition), but the difference was well within the pollster’s margin of error.

The idea of redirecting funding from police departments is a new one to most Americans, so the contours of the debate are still being defined — and so is public opinion. While the “defund the police” slogan itself is quite unpopular, there does appear to be some support for rethinking police departments’ role in local budgets and the community, so public opinion on this issue could very well lead to policy change.

Other polling bites

A new poll from the Kaiser Family Foundation highlighted many of the ways Americans are treated differently because of their race. A full 71 percent of non-Hispanic Black respondents said they had been subjected to discrimination or violence because of their race, including 48 percent who said they had feared for their lives. For non-Hispanic white respondents, those numbers were 23 percent and 16 percent, respectively.

After National Football League commissioner Roger Goodell admitted the league was wrong to bar players from kneeling during the national anthem to protest racial injustice, Morning Consult found that fewer Americans believed this was an unacceptable form of protest. In September 2017, 48 percent thought kneeling was unacceptable; this month, 39 percent thought so. However, that doesn’t mean more Americans think this action is acceptable: That figure now sits at 38 percent, virtually unchanged from 2017. Instead, the share who say they don’t know whether kneeling during the anthem is acceptable has risen from 13 percent to 23 percent.

According to the latest Gallup tracker of national pride, 63 percent of American adults said they were “extremely” or “very” proud to be an American. However, that number is the lowest Gallup has found since it began asking this question in 2001. National pride has been on a steady downward slope since 2013, when 85 percent said they were extremely or very proud to be an American.

Researchers at Harvard, Stanford and the University of Texas at Austin are out with a cool YouGov poll surveying Americans on the cases before the Supreme Court this term. For example, respondents said 83 percent to 17 percent that they believed it should be illegal for employees to be fired because of their sexual orientation, the subject of Bostock v. Clayton County, Georgia. Respondents also favored keeping the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, the subject of Department of Homeland Security v. Regents of the University of California, 61 percent to 39 percent. And this week, the court sided with the American public on both cases.

One of 2020’s highest-quality state polls to date suggests that President Trump and Senate Republicans are in serious electoral danger. The latest Des Moines Register/Mediacom poll by Selzer and Co. gave Trump 44 percent and former Vice President Joe Biden 43 percent in Iowa; it also showed Democrat Theresa Greenfield at 46 percent and Republican Sen. Joni Ernst at 43 percent. Given that Iowa has become a Republican-leaning state in recent years, Trump and Biden being virtually tied there shows just how robust Biden’s national lead is. And if Democrats do indeed lead in the Senate race there, they are probably well on their way to the three or four pick-ups they need to take control of that chamber.

According to Monmouth University, 63 percent of Americans were planning to take a summer vacation before the coronavirus pandemic hit. Now, only 14 percent say they either definitely or probably will stick with those plans, and only 26 percent say they either definitely or probably will take a summer vacation at all. Of those who changed or might change their travel plans, 96 percent cited the pandemic as the main reason for their decision.

Trump approval

According to FiveThirtyEight’s presidential approval tracker, 41.2 percent of Americans approve of the job Trump is doing as president, while 55.2 percent disapprove (a net approval rating of -14.0 points). At this time last week, 40.9 percent approved and 54.8 percent disapproved (a net approval rating of -13.9 points). One month ago, Trump had an approval rating of 43.8 percent and a disapproval rating of 51.9 percent, for a net approval rating of -8.1 points.

Generic ballot

In our average of polls of the generic congressional ballot, Democrats currently lead by 7.9 percentage points (48.6 percent to 40.7 percent). A week ago, Democrats led Republicans by 7.9 points (48.5 percent to 40.6 percent). At this time last month, voters also preferred Democrats by 7.9 points (48.4 percent to 40.5 percent).

Check out all the polls we’ve been collecting ahead of the 2020 elections.

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Sword and Pen Reread, chapter 13 part 1

It’s Wolfe chapter time! I am sure it comes as no surprise to anyone at all that this is my favorite chapter in the book. Splitting the post because this is looooooong.

In the ephemera, we have some Russia-Archivist collusion. The assassins that killed Murasaki were Russian spies. The Archivist sold weapons to Russia. It’s been just two days since the Archivist lost power. There’s no way he set all of this up so fast. He’s been scheming with Russia and developing secret weapons for some time. How did he get the weapons to Russia, though? Were they hidden somewhere outside Alexandria? Translated out by Vanya Nikolin?

The Russian ambassador is surprised the Archivist never used the new weapons in Alexandria, and a little suspicious. I suspect the Archivist would have done just that if the pack showed up at the gates with an army instead of taking control from within Alexandria.

Wolfe’s discomfort with violence: describes Anit’s forces as “unpleasantly good at killing”, doesn’t want to kill the Elites who surrendered. Here’s some foreshadowing of the stabbing moment. He recognizes that killing the Elites would be easier, but he considers that “a terrible thought.” (Is it just because of circumstances that Wolfe sends the prisoners with Anit? Or is he glad for the opportunity to let someone else do the dirty work?)

But also, Wolfe’s appreciation of skill at violence: he has appreciative comments about the fighting skills demonstrated by the Elites, the criminals, Jess, and Glain.

Glain is not ok: “She looked pale and strained now as the adrenaline departed.” (Coincidence that Wolfe is good at recognizing signs of adrenaline rush wearing off? I think not.)

Dad Wolfe, overestimating his warrior daughter’s abilities: “And if I’d come with just you and Jess-” “We’d all be dead,” she said. At his look, she smiled. “I’m good, Scholar. Nobody’s that good.” “Well, perhaps you’re-” YOU ARE SUCH A DAD, WOLFE.

How much of Wolfe only just recognizing that Jess is dying was because Jess was hiding symptoms well and how much was Wolfe being in denial?

“He’d been afraid of this. Afraid that his obsession, his lack of sensible caution, had finally cost a life. Worse still, the life of someone he cared for.” First of all, you know things are bad when Wolfe admits to feelings. But also, echoes of the conversation between Wolfe and Santi after the training exercise in Paper and Fire, when Santi yelled at Wolfe for being reckless and getting the recruit in Glain’s squad killed. This is an argument those two have been having for a long time - I’d guess it even predates Rome. Recklessness is a flaw Wolfe knows he has, and his self-criticism when he recognizes it is brutal. He’s not giving himself a break for recent traumatic experiences or the extreme pressure of the situation.

“Glain had a soft streak in her. In that she reminded him of himself. Rather strongly.” Wolfe has just admitted to having feelings, y’all. This is a sign of how bad things are. But also: yes, you asshole, we’ve known about that soft side all along. You were fooling no one.

A lot of “boy” in reference to Jess. With Jess so weak, Wolfe is thinking of him as more of a child. It’s bringing out Wolfe’s dad side more. Or, I mean, I’m sure there are sinful things that one might make of this.

“I’ve killed him. The thought struck deep, and it hurt so badly he drew in a startled breath.” Wolfe is having Feelings and I just cannot get enough of it. Uncontrolled, audible to others Feelings.

So what does Wolfe do after showing undeniable emotion? Pile on the praise for Jess’s contribution to the fight and threaten to nail the mask to Jess’s face.

Wolfe and Santi have already worked out pretty much everything that the Archivist tries. They know each other’s thinking well enough that Wolfe is very confident in telling Glain that Santi has already thought of the places she suggests the Archivist might attack. The only things they missed were the Tomb of Heron and Archivist’s ability to get assassins and himself into the Serapeum.

Wolfe’s struggle to think of where the Archivist might go next is another sign that he isn’t at his best.

Wolfe: I am very polite and totally not reading other people’s Codex messages except that I kind of accidentally skimmed it and got the important bits.

High Garda and smugglers both pay and care for the families of people killed in battle.

“There was a certain chilly certainty to that, and Wolfe felt it down his spine. He made his tone especially bitter when he said, ‘Enough chat, children.’“ Wolfe: *has a feeling* Wolfe: *acts like an asshole to cover it up* You are fooling no one, Wolfe.

Wolfe has a soft spot for Anit. First he gives her a lion in Ash and Quill, now he’s offering her two or three favors as long as those favors aren’t books from the Archives. Wolfe’s not just a dad, he’s the dad who makes sure that his kids’ friends are all taken care of, too.

Wolfe threatens to have Jess strapped down to a hospital bed. Wolfe worries because Jess doesn’t argue with that. He knows how much Jess is like him.

Wolfe seems to intuitively grasp that the sphinx is being controlled. He feels the Archivist’s presence in it when it comes back. He doesn’t seem to know about the magic mirrors. Is he sensing something with his limited Obscurist talent that he isn’t consciously aware of?

Archivist’s first name, which Wolfe “hadn’t used in ages”, is Theo. This is the only use of his name in the entire fucking series. Short for something? Theodore (Greek origin, meaning “divine gift”, which I’m sure the bastard thinks he is) comes to mind first, but a quick browse through a couple baby name sites shows that there are a lot of other variants. Notably, I do not see any Russian versions of the name, so we can probably rule out the possibility that he’s so cozy with the Russians because he’s Russian himself.

But it’s also such an awesome moment for Wolfe to get to call the Archivist by his first name. Wolfe has been putting up with people in power calling him “Christopher” without permission, now he gets to turn the tables. It’s even more insulting to the Archivist, and Wolfe knows it.

Santi made sure Wolfe wore armor. This is good protectiveness: not controlling Wolfe’s actions, but urging him to take reasonable safety precautions.

“he felt a sharp twinge in his shoulder that warned him he was neither as athletic nor as limber as he’d once been” A sign of age here, yes, and a potential long-term symptom from torture, but I’m also seeing this as a sign of how Wolfe’s life has changed in recent years. Even just the events of the books would take a toll. Then along with the obviously devastating physical effects of his imprisonment in Rome and the effects of PTSD, there was Santi keeping him “locked up” for 6 months between Ink and Bone and Paper and Fire. How many of his normal activities weren’t safe/permitted for him in the time between Rome and his teaching assignment? The kids see Wolfe as impressively athletic for a Scholar, but this line suggests that he used to be even more so.

Glain says she can’t use Greek fire. This means that Glain has Greek fire. Did the promotion come with Greek fire carrying privileges?

Wolfe, with his arm in a sphinx’s mouth, has to resist the urge to respond to Jess with a lengthy, snarky answer.

Another addition to Wolfe’s knowledge: anatomy. He’s very aware of what arteries the sphinx could claw open.

“Stay alive for Nic, if not for yourself.” Another little hint that Wolfe isn’t entirely ok. Echoes of his statement in Ash and Quill that he stays alive for Nic even though he has suicidal thoughts.

“Dying in a graveyard seemed like the most ignominious end of end of them all. He wasn’t having it.” First, even in his own thoughts, Wolfe backs off from emotional intensity with sarcasm. Second, Wolfe-Dario parallel here, with Dario later complaining about not wanting to die like a commoner.

For all his “I’m not that athletic” thinking, Wolfe is... pretty fucking athletic here. He’s worn himself out, though. He has to catch his breath while the automata are fighting, and he can only run part of the way back. Once the adrenaline wears off, he’s walking.

Wolfe has a nasty bruise from the sphinx bite. @thegreatlibraryfangirl, how does that play with your injured wrist headcanons? Any chance this injury is worse than Wolfe thinks it is?

#the great library #sword and pen reread #sword and pen spoilers #long post

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Environmental Events and the Hospital

Teresa L. Lowrey

Anchorage, Alaska

10/02/2019

Abstract

This document discusses the environmental dangers of the Anchorage Bowl, beginning with the 1964 Great Alaskan Earthquake and the after-effects to the most precious commodity we have; water. The paper goes on to discuss who the Alaska Native Medical Center and the Alaska Native Tribal Health Consortium are, and how they are responding to these common threats and challenges.

Introduction

Environmental events, water impairment, and the ecological impact pollution are having on our tributaries and water-supply can jeopardize a community's health significantly. One hospital's approach to catastrophic events, and the topic of water impairment, which we can link to several outbreaks of different cancers and other alarming environmental issues, is having a significant effect on the Health Care industry Worldwide. The goal of this article is to bring awareness to the immediate dangers and lingering safety issues that are present in our every day lives. From earthquakes to ground failure, and how the Alaska Native Medical Center (ANMC), and the Alaskan Native Tribal Health Consortium (ANTHC) as a community leader, encourages its medical professionals to train as members of response teams, who are ready to act, in the event of an emergency.

Environmental Events and the Hospital

The Environment

Friday, March 27, 1964, 17:36 Alaska Standard Time (AST), the Pacific Plate moved north, penetrating the lower layer of the North American Plate. The biggest quake to hit this continent began, and after four and a half minutes, nothing but silence enveloped the entire State. Minutes later, a massive tsunami collided with the Pacific Rim and came racing back, heading for the Pacific coastline and the Lower 48. The gigantic wall was reaching 500 miles per hour, and gaining speed, the violent deluge that followed, rolled out a path of destruction from the Aleutian Islands and South Central Alaska, down to the Oregon, California, and Hawaiian coastlines.

After several minutes of complete chaos, the United States Geological Survey (USGS) measures the quake at 6.2, ranking it as the most significant quake in recorded North American history. However, decades later, seismologists and geologists estimate the 1964 earthquake at a 9.2 with its epicenter 72 miles east of Anchorage, about 56 miles northwest of Valdez, and 15 and a 2/half miles beneath the Earth's surface (United States Geological Survey, n.d.).

Immediately following the quake, many Alaska residents found themselves homeless and struggling to find food, shelter, and clean water. The continuous shaking and disruption of Earth and debris altogether remove waterlines and have lowered water levels in wells. For many Alaskan communities, while their water supply was still governed by how much Jr. could bring up from the lake or river. The turbidity of the water was so significant; it had the consistency of thick chocolate milk, was very heavy, and needed days of sitting to be potable. Other places were witnessing entire streams disappearing due to massive snow slides caused by the shaking landscape. Rerouting the tributaries, waterways, and streams, and several reports of muddy waters in the wells from uncased well bottoms that screen out the silt, because the impact destroyed them.

Some coastal communities and Fire Island experienced saltwater encroachment due to the following waves of the tsunami after the quake (USGS March 27, 1964). For larger communities who rely on communal water systems, such as the residents of Anchorage, the "64 Earthquake," created more urgent concerns than most officials were prepared to deal with at the time.

The Creeks and Lakes

Fifteen years preceding the Great Alaska Earthquake, the USGS begin taking assessment readings from a network of observation wells and stream-gaging stations, providing pre-earthquake data for comparison. In the six weeks following the quake, Ship creek had a 200% increase of discharge due to the permeable surface fracture and the release of ground-water, immediately following the earthquake. After this time, in April and May, the snowmelt significantly increased the levels of discharge and turbidity (silty water) in Ship Creek, while South Campbell Creek's increase was due to ground-water release from the spring thaw. The water discharge in Chester creek, however, had a notable decrease and continues to this day to have less discharge than Ship creek. Whereas, before the earthquake, Chester Creek's discharge was always higher because of the lower valley setting. However, after the 1964 earthquake, there was a significant decrease, leading geologists to believe recharge from the ground-water decreased. Russian Jack Springs also had a considerable decline in discharge in March of 1964 compared to 13 years preceding the quake. Residents near lakes all around Anchorage reported mud-fountains in the lakes, some spewing sediment nearly 200 feet away Waller, Roger, M., (March 27, 1964).

Ground Water

Ground-water reservoirs were affected by turbid and muddied waters. Reports of wells that reach the shallow water table were to have, as much as a foot of uncased hole at the bottom, with no screening exposing the water supply to more silt, clogging the water pumps. Many wells were to have lost all water after the quake; of the seven pump-station wells Anchorage had at the time, three were destroyed entirely, and pump station six had to be abandoned for low water levels, and the pump could not prime(Waller, Roger, M., March 27, 1964).

Further, the initial jolt drained wells in the immediate area of the epicenter, filling back to normal levels, with no effects from the tremblors following the quake. However, other wells, hundreds of miles away, continued to increase and decrease in water level for several months following; due to the seismic waves that were generated by the aftershocks. Determining the water level is done by measuring the waterline of the wells that penetrate the shallow water table and deeper aquifers, this method proved the increase in the wells, when the initial impact of the quake put pressure on the aquifers. Other effects on the ground-water included the turbidity of natural springs in the affected region and the liquefication of landfill areas.

the quake put pressure on the aquifers. Other effects on the ground-water included the turbidity of natural springs in the affected region and the liquefication of landfill areas.

The Environment 54 Years Later.

November 30, 2018, 8:29 am Alaska Daylight Savings Time (ADST), a magnitude 7.0 quake hits North of Anchorage, Alaska, with the epicenter located directly under Joint Base Elmendorf/Fort Richardson (JBER) followed by another magnitude 5.7 quake, seven minutes later. From that Good Friday in March of 1964 to November 30, 2018, Alaska has survived 144 earthquakes over 6.0 magnitude, and the USGS continues to work with Federal, State, Local, and Educational agencies to track, measure and analyze data so to understand more about the environment we live. "USGS and other scientists cannot predict the exact time, location, and magnitude of any specific earthquake (USGS 10/05/2019)."

"Many failures of engineered materials occurred on or adjacent to saturated lowlands filled with organic sediment, silt, or sand (USGS 2019)," USGS reports of GF show the estimated area exposed to landslides as significant, with the estimated population exposure of little to none. The estimated area exposed to liquefication is substantial, while the likely population exposure is limited. The United States Geological Survey has created a website as a tool for recognizing and mapping "Ground Failure" (GF) hotspots, referring to the site as the Ground Failure Card. If areas have a history of reports in the past for landslides or liquefication, it is designated, as such, to help determine safety routes for first responders. The Card provides information on the type of ground failure, either landslide or liquefication, a viewing map of the affected area, and the ground failure background USGS (10/05/2019). The 2018 Anchorage Earthquake was a significant testing ground for this essential tool.

Now What?

While the November 30, 2018 earthquake was nowhere close to the magnitude of the Great Alaskan Earthquake of 1964, the Anchorage Bowl and surrounding communities suffered significant damage to its infrastructure. Alaska has 40 active volcanoes throughout the South-Central area and the Aleutian Islands, also known as part of the Ring of Fire, this area is legendary for quakes and tsunamis. With these types of environmental dangers, comes a whole list of extenuating factors, that are directly and indirectly related to seismic events.

Moreover, while adverse environmental events and water impairment are real, potential everyday threats that affect tens of thousands of people in overcrowded cities to rural one-family cabins in the wilds of bush Alaska, many do not take this threat as dangerous. Whatever the danger and whoever is affected, the numbers can be overwhelming, and with such a massive risk, to so many communities, education and training of personnel on earthquakes, tsunamis, and water impairment have been on the agenda of these community leaders since the early days following the 1964 Earthquake.

take this threat as dangerous. Whatever the danger and whoever is affected, the numbers can be overwhelming, and with such a massive risk, to so many communities, education and training of personnel on earthquakes, tsunamis, and water impairment have been on the agenda of these community leaders since the early days following the 1964 Earthquake.

The Hospital

During the 1830s and '40s, more than half of the Dena'ina population died from the Smallpox epidemic. On November 29, 1953, the U.S. Government opened The Alaska Native Medical Center (ANMC) under the Alaska Native Services (ANS); the facility provided 400 beds, on a 22 acres site, located on 3rd Avenue, and was explicitly designated for the TB outbreak at the time. Throughout the hospital's history, it has been providing care for Alaskan communities with the assistance of military personnel, who are directly employed by the United States government. In 1971 after President Nixon signed the Alaskan Native Claims Settlement Act, Senator Ted Stevens pushed for one Alaskan Native Nation. However, the federal government thought that would give the Alaskan natives too loud a voice in what happens to the lands, so thirteen corporations rose to lead the different regions.

The Health Care Organization and Non-Profit

Of those thirteen corporations, one leader, the Cook Inlet Region Inc.(CIRI), was already working with the Anchorage community natives. At the time, to have a Tribal Council in the middle of a big city was unheard of, but not for CIRI, it did not make a difference what kind of Alaskan native you were, or where you came from, they were always there to lend a hand to their Native brothers and sisters. To fulfill the medical needs of the native community, CIRI established the South Central Foundation as a Health Care Organization for Alaskan Native and Native American families in 1982. The formation of the South Central Foundation brought strength and empowerment to the people, by educating communities on health issues and concerns, like the tuberculosis epidemic, malnutrition, and hepatitis.

By 1997 several native health organizations come together to found the Alaska Native Tribal Health Consortium (ANTHC). The super non-profit that concentrates its efforts on comprehensive medical services at the Alaska Native Medical Center (ANMC), providing wellness programs, disease research and prevention, rural provider training, and agricultural water and sanitation systems construction. Two of the most successful programs created by the non-profit are the community health aide program (CHAP), and the home sanitation programs; the first program offers education and training to rural community members who can assist in the health care process. Health Aides live in the communities they work in, and they know their patients and the community, they are the first point of contact for a person seeking health care or emergency attention in rural villages. Moreover, ANTHC is the only Statewide program to educate and certify community health aides in the Nation. Concerning ANTHC's village sanitation program, several communities in rural Alaska do not have running water. Moreover, they will use what is commonly known as the "Honey Bucket" (coined because of the color), this form of bathroom use can be toxic to the human body when practiced over a long period. Cases of Hepatitis A and TB have decreased in villages with sanitation systems in place.

Emergency Procedures

With the general public at risk of earthquakes, tsunamis, and ground failure due to these types of events, Anchorage residents have the potential of being in harm's way from many obstacles and situations. And, if a hospital is going to respond to these catastrophic events, the preparation ANMC and ANTHC hospital staff must undergo weekly staff meetings, monthly Executive Tribal Services Management meetings to help guide staff in the event of an emergency. Some of the staff members are responsible for clearing out rooms and stairwells. While other team members are responsible for a safe exit from the building if there is any structural failure (Personal communication Daney Appendix A). While no procedures are in place to address water impairment, the staff are well educated and trained on the environmental dangers of the Anchorage Bowl.

Conclusion

When there are adverse environmental events that affect the public masses, side-effects can trickle down and present themselves to the healthcare professional in a variety of ways. The effects earthquakes are having on the medical industry, and how one leading medical provider is responding to these events with education and training, is setting the standard for health care communities around the World.

References

Alaska History.org, (n.d.), Anchorage Timeline. Retrieved from https://www.alaskahistory.org/anchorage-timeline/ Accessed on 10806/2019.

Alaska Native Tribal Health Consortium, (2019), 2018 Year in Review. Retrieved from https://anthc.org/who-we-are/overview/ Accessed on 10/06/2019.

Brocher, T.M., Filson, J.R., Fuis, G.S., Haeussler, P.J., Holzer, T.L., Plafker, G., and Blair, J.L., 2014, The 1964 Great Alaska Earthquake and tsunamis—A modern perspective and enduring legacies: U.S. Geological Survey Fact Sheet 2014–3018, 6 p., https://dx.doi.org/10.3133/fs20143018. Accessed on 10/03/2019.

The United States Environmental Protection Agency Office of Water, (September 27, 2019) U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Home Page. Retrieved https://www.epa.gov/aboutepa/about-office-water Accessed on 09/27/2019.

United States Geological Survey, (09/29/2019), USGS Current Water Data for the Nation. Retrieved from https://waterdata.usgs.gov/nwis/rt Accessed on 09/28/2019.

United States Geological Survey, (March 27, 1964), USGS, The Great M9.2 Alaska Earthquake and Tsunami of March 27, 1964. Retrieved from https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/events/alaska1964/ Accessed on 10/02/2019.

United States Geological Survey, (10/05/2019), Earthquake Hazards Program, Ground Water. Retrieved from https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/ak20419010/ground-failure/summary Accessed on 10/04/2019.

Waller, Roger, M., (March 27, 1964), Effects of the March 1964 Alaska earthquake on the hydrology of the Anchorage area, Alaska: Chapter B Paper 544, The Alaska earthquake, March 27, 1964: effects hydrologic regimen. United States Geological Survey (USGS), Retrieved from https://pubs.usgs.gov/pp/0544b/pp544b_text.pdf Accessed on 10/02/2019.

Appendix A

Name: Gilbert W. Daney (Buzz)

Profession: Clinic Manager

Organization: Alaska Native Medical Center/Traditional Healing

The primary objective of this document is to discuss environmental pollution/disasters and how they affect the health care industry. The decision to interview Buzz is because of his position as a clinic Manager. Further, as a healthcare manager, he is expected to respond in the course of a catastrophic emergency or environmental incident.

1). As a Health care administrator, what types of "meetings" do you attend?

Some of the meetings I attend are staff meetings for clinic team members. I also go to one-on-one sessions with employees and upper management.

Executive Tribal Services (ETS) Managers meetings.

With this question, Buzz also provided some information as to what the clinic is. This clinic is not considered to be under any other medical category except, Traditional healing practices in the Alaska native culture. The program has many cultural interventions to assist the customer/owners, some of which include hands-on healing and traditional counseling (Personal Communication, Daney).

2). Are you required to travel, if so, where and how often?

We have a Tribal Doctor out in Wasilla, and I travel out to the valley every quarter (Personal Communication, Daney).

3). What kinds of paperwork are involved, and how much?

Dashboards for ETS meetings and other committees – these are reports and updates using medical data collected during a specific period. Some of the exciting news is how the use of medications has decreased with the customer/owners who use Traditional healing for chronic pain.

Quarterly Executive Tribal Services reporting to different committees; Emergency planning committee, Quality improvement.

Nunatsiavut – Children identified as at-risk before birth. This program provides classes, support, counseling, and other resources so that the children have exposure to a healthy environment (Personal Communication, Daney).

4). In your opinion, what kind of Dispute Resolution is best when dealing with patients?

The primary goal when dealing with patient disputes is to listen. When someone is upset, all they want is to be heard and someone who will respond to their concerns. I usually try to handle any complaints within the hour. I do my best to make sure they are satisfied before they leave. If I cannot fix the issue, the compliance department will react (Personal Communication, Daney).

5). What kind of Dispute Resolution do you use when an employee is the subject of cause?

I meet with the employees monthly, and I am visible and accessible as much as I can, I don't hang out in my office much. If the employee feels they cannot talk to someone in person about their complaint, there is an 800 number they can use. And they can make an anonymous report (Personal Communication, Daney).

6). How many hours a week is spent behind the desk or on the phone?

I have a work cell phone, and I answer anywhere from six to a dozen phone calls a day (Personal Communication, Daney).

7). Do you have a good work/life balance?

Yes, we have a learning day as a part of our all-staff meetings. We have the best systems in the entire World, "Kusreung to the employees" (Personal Communication, Daney). The enthusiasm is his voice regarding this question gave light to the subject of his work.

8). What type of format do you use when corresponding with others?

I usually use email on a secured network that can communicate with external systems (Personal Communication, Daney).

9). As an Office Manager, do you have any environmental concerns?

I feel safe. I filter my water. I have recently heard someone mention something about the high levels of bacteria in the water, but nothing about Eklutna Lake, and that's where we get our water from (Personal Communication, Daney). Anchorage's water supply comes from Eklutna Lake, and the Anchorage Water and Wastewater Utility maintain the service.

The only real concerns I have are earthquakes; we have four active volcanoes in the surrounding area. We have one of the safest buildings in the entire region. We provide quarterly meetings on how to better prepare ourselves for everyone's safety. So, that when there is an earthquake, we are ready, and we know what to do (Personal Communication, Daney).

10). What is your role during an environmental disaster?

My responsibility is to make sure everyone makes it out of the building. I am to clear out all rooms to be safe, and make sure there are no people in the stairwells. Our primary responsibility is to make sure everyone makes it to a designated safe area (Personal Communication, Daney).

Lowrey, T.L., (09/26/2019) Personal Interview via Phone with Gilbert W. Daney.

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What’s Your Type? : Pokespe Fire/Water/Grass Dexholder Analysis

DISCLAIMER: Honestly, I've only read RGB, RS, DP, BW, and SM arcs in full; and parts of the Yellow and B2W2 arc. So, any information outside of these arcs is coming from Bulbapedia and is liable to be incorrect.

When it comes to the world of Pokespe, rather than the anime where we follow the never aging Ash Ketchum, we now total about 21 dexholders (our protagonists). Each dexholder is fairly unique from one another, yet one thing always tends to be in common between them. The same thing that's always common when we pick up our consoles to start a new Pokemon journey. Picking our starters.

In the world of Pokespe, the standard starters aren't guaranteed to be the first Pokemon they will receive—quite the opposite actually—yet they will always gain one of the traditional starters at some point of their evolutionary line on their journey. (The only two exceptions are Yellow who was created for the Yellow games where Pikachu was the starter, and Whi-two or Whitley because they ran out of Unovan starters). This often has us classify the dexholders into grass, fire, and water varieties. Though this categorization goes deeper than a Pokemon in their party, but plays a large role in their characterization.

Each of the dexholders in each category share a trait that connects all of them, and will provide useful for other predictions (skip to the end if you just want to know what the other prediction is). This post is focused on breaking them down one by one.

Note: Since I was tempted enough to reblog an incorrect pokespe quote where green was the name given to the male character, for the rest of this blog, Green is the male character and Blue is the female. Got it? Good.

First off, we'll start off with the fire type dexholders. Most of you might notice some obvious similarities:

Yet, there is also one very obvious exception:

Green here doesn't tend to shout, especially as much as the other fire type dexholders. So, then what is the factor connecting them? All of them still have a very fiery spirit, and more accurately, is their strong determination towards achieving whatever goal they have. They will pursue it no matter whatever or whoever lies in their way; often leading to causing chaos or bad relationships with other people in their wake.

Green is extremely focused on becoming a strong trainer. Upon his first appearance, he is battling Mew with Charmander to train it and shows no remorse when Red tries to battle it and his Pokemon faints; rather looking down on him for not “noticing anything” during the fight. This determination continues throughout the first arc, as further demonstrated when he tries to force his way into Saffron City after Team Rocket attacks Pallet Town and takes his grandfather.

Gold has the notable trait of having a one-track mind, where he focuses on something so much he will pursue that relentlessly, and ignoring anything else that doesn't pertain to that. Though, this trait manifests itself most when Gold pursues “pretty girls” such as the Kimono Girls, gym leader Jasmine, or even Crystal upon first discovering her.

Though it still can translate in the pursuit of Gold's goals, where he initially receives a Pokedex because he wanted to use it in battle, and urgently attempts to gain a unique specialty during the GSC arc.

Sapphire's dexholder title is specifically “The Conquer” in reference to her earning 8 gym badges in 80 days. She unrelentingly goes around the region to defeat the gym leaders—causing her to start off on the wrong foot with Ruby. And she turns it into a bet to reach their respective goals in 80 days all because it stemmed from a promise she made with her childhood friend to beat the record of Red when it came to the Pokemon League.

Pearl's title is the Determiner, one he received after bonding with Azelf—the lake guardian of Willpower. He managed to bond with Azelf because he completes whatever he starts; as clarified by Diamond in the arc. Determiner, willpower, completes whatever started...yeah, this screams dedication to a goal. Especially when you consider the focus Pearl gives to Dia's and his comedy routine.

For Black though, no matter how well I could paraphrase it, I will just quote this article (bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/Black_(Adventures)): “Black is a young man who aspires to be the Champion of the Unova Pokémon League. He has been dreaming of this since childhood, nine years to be exact. However, these dreams fill his head to the point where he cannot think about anything else and any attempts to cause him to pass out from mental exhaustion...Due to his dreams causing him to forget about other things, Black has the tendency to do things without considering the consequences of his actions and their effects on other people.”

I think the above proves the point well enough.

Also, I would like to briefly mention Y. While Y isn't a fire type dexholder (she's a water type), since there is no fire type dexholder in Kalos (Malva doesn't really count), she is a kind of water/fire dual type with her personality. Y shouts more than most of the other water dexholders and exhibits a more solid determination to pursue her goal of becoming a Sky Trainer, even when this runs into direct opposition with her mother's ideas for her.

Lastly, we wrap up the fire dexholder with our latest protagonist, Sun. Sun has the goal of collecting 100 million yen. Acheiving this goal has been Sun's whole time in Alola in the making. He relentlessly pursues money, even prioritizing reaching his personal goal than helping the Alola region against the Ultra Beast invasion, leading him to get sucked into Ultra Space with Solgaleo.

Next up is the water type dexholders, which personally I found the revelation most interesting. It would be difficult to derive a personality solely from the type this time. Unlike fire which is associated with offensive battling, or grass which tends to be connected to defensive, water is viewed as the balance between the two. But, this doesn't really provide any clues into what is the common thread between all these dexholders. My findings, however, were that they all tend to be secretive.

Miss Con Artist (Blue), our first water type dexholder, is literally a con artist. Her whole livelihood is based of lying and keeping the truth about her real intentions to trick people into doing whatever she wants. Plus, she has her own secrets that only come to light much later into her appearance in the first arc and beyond. Her pathological fear of birds is only hinted at during the Team Rocket battle and confirmed during the Pokemon League when battle “Professor O”. Even more shocking was her childhood under the Masked Man, who trained her because of the promise she showed as a trainer.

This transitions nicely to our other dexholder who was raised under the Masked Man, Silver. And he so happens to be a water type dexholder as well. While Silver does not purposely keeping his life before the Masked Man close to his chest, it is revealed that Silver was the son of Giovanni, an insanely big secret that heavily impacted his character.

Ruby, in order to pursue his love of contests and oppose the beliefs of his father, refuses to battle at the beginning of the RS arc. This in turn hides his amazing battling skills (plus the fact he has a FREAKING CELEBI). Additionally, when it comes to the climax of the arc, he hides from Sapphire the plan he had to team up with Courtney to control Groudon and Kyogre. While still intended for her safety, it is still another massive lie and withholding of the truth on his part.

Platinum may not be thought of as being secretive, but the speech she makes after learning Dia and Pearl weren't her bodyguards begs to differ. Most of the lies she reveals in that speech were white lights told to make her not seem inferior and were obvious to the reader, but it still goes to show that she lied a fair amount. Her wealth and connection to the Berlitz family were also discovered rather than told by Platinum. And most obviously, she hid her real name of Platinum until this time! This whole journey, her companions didn't know what her true first name was!

Lack-two or Blake is another dexholder who has lying built into his occupation. Blake is with the International Police and working undercover during the B2W2 arc (Please give us some form of closure! #freeblack2k19). He literally has to keep his true intentions of hunting down the remnants of Team Plasma from his fellow classmates. Additionally, his true personality isn't shown to others either; he puts on a womanizing and flirtatious front when he truly an emotionless officer.

Y is honestly the least secretive out of the water dexholders, but that can also be attributed to her odd Volcanion (a fire-and-water type) fusion. It may not be obvious, or not in a way you expect, but Y does hide something—her feelings. Dealing with the human depression that is X and three of her other friends while trying to all live on their own and dealing with fallout from her mother on top of one of the most cruel evil teams yet? You think she would break down, or someone would help her; but none of the characters we follow demonstrate this concern! theviolenttomboy made a short post that summarizes all the sh*t Y goes through (theviolenttomboy.tumblr.com/post/146359425406/figured-out-why-i-cant-ship-y-with-absolutely), and how she has to deal with it all on her own. In order to keep the group alive, she has to hide her emotional distress. A problem not even resolved by the end of the arc.

Finally, we arrive at the grass type dexholders. Honestly this was the most tricky for me to pin down. Mostly because we have dexholders like Dia and X who have personalities that couldn't seem more different. So, I had to take a look back, and that's when I realized something. Both of the previous characterizations centred around how they achieve their goals. Fire type dexholders barrel through whatever obstacles are in their way and water type dexholders hide information as they pursue their goals. This gave me the clue of what to analyze for the grass type dexholders and this is my conclusion:

The way grass dexholders approach their goals is the most “healthy”. They are able to self-intrinsically motivate themselves when life discourages their goals and try to achieve them in a way that doesn't tend to hurt others as much as the other two dexholder categories (most of the time).

Honestly, this probably reminds you of a generic shonen protagonist, so it is fitting that the dexholder who started this characterization was the most shonen like character of all: Red. Red is able to convince himself to keep working towards his goal of becoming the strongest trainer, despite the obstacles he faces in the form of Team Rocket or people like his rival discouraging him from developing into a stronger trainer. The way he aims to be the strongest also doesn't harm many people, if people are affected, it tends to be accidental.

Crystal manages to stay firm in her goal of catching all the Pokemon even if the other Johto dexholders just see her as a girl at first. She can motivate herself to keep working towards it, and with the caring and give-back nature of Crystal, she is certainly not harming anyone on her path to reaching her goal. Minus a few face kicks to Gold.

Emerald certainly faced a lot of adversity that pushed him down. Becoming an orphan at a young age and made fun of for his small height, initially actually causing him to go against the foundation of grass dexholders being able to motivates themselves by resulting in a dislike of Pokemon and his stature. However, he develops this grass mindset as the Emerald arc progresses, finding what he enjoys, what makes him unique, and cultivating the confidence needed to be himself—even if life is still against him. Plus, while I can't speak for much of his actions in the Emerald arc (because I haven't red FRLG yet, and I know the events are directly connected), his title of the Calmer which stems from his ability to help Pokemon feel relaxed means he is at least not harming Pokemon much during his adventure.

One of the biggest character moments for Diamond is him managing to self-intrinsically motivate himself to pursue a goal despite opposition. In this case, the goal being to stop Team Galactic and his opposition being his best friend Pearl. Regardless, he succeeds in standing up to him and working towards thwarting Team Galactic, with the worst harm caused probably being Pearl's shock at Dia standing up for himself.

White seems to exhibit a peaceful way of pursuing her goal surrounding her talent agency for Pokemon. When her goal switches after Gigi leaves her for a bit, White's new focus on getting stronger at battling is still approached in much the same way. One where she convinces herself to keep working towards improvement and does not negatively affect people along the way.

Then we have the enigma of X. X doesn't seem to follow things of “motivation” or not inadvertently bringing down others with him, but that's only when his goal isn't clear. When we start with X in the XY arc, his goal is to stay in his room; locked away from the outside world. In this context, he meets all the criteria: he ends up convincing himself to work towards his goal of staying a shut-in, despite all the pleas to change this from his friends; and most of his protest to stay inside is silent and doesn't directly or physically harm his friends.

Lastly, our final dexholder is Moon, who also conforms to this characterization fairly well. Moon is able to pursue whatever she considers a priority, unaffected by outside influences. Whether it be praise from her work early on in the SM arc, or not listening to reason before chasing after Sun in the wormholes when he is taken away; leaving Alola to face the Ultra Beasts alone.

tl; dr : Each dexholder approaches their goals differently based on the type of their starter. Fire dexholders have strong enough determination to barrel through all the obstacles to their goal, knocking down everything and everyone in their way. Water dexholders are secretive and hide important information as they work towards their goal. Grass dexholders have the “healthiest” way of reaching their goals, managing to motivate themselves to keep working towards it when life tells them otherwise.

This information may be touched on again in other posts I'm planning: a follow-up talking about the “Bronze-age” progression of dexholder characterization, one about predicting what the Gen 8 protagonists of Pokespe will be like, and another discussing trio characterization.

~Thanks for reading and I'll be back soon!

#pokemon #pokespe #original #analysis

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5 Hoverboard Essential Safety Tips For Riders

What are Hoverboards?

Hoverboards are the well-designed ultra modern self balancing electric scooters which are used as personalized means of transportation. Today, you can easily discover the accredited hoverboards which have undergone rigorous tests under the Underwater Laboratories. Whether you are searching for the hoverboard for your kid or on your own, you will get to understand a variety of its parameters and features to select the best ones. Swegway Hut UK is solely dedicated to the ones who are interested to buy best & affordable hoverboards.

Are Hoverboards Safe to ride?

The hoverboard is a self-balancing scooter that's been remembered for being a fire threat and this clearly leaves a great deal of people with the query, are hoverboards secure to ride today? Presently, the Underwriters Laboratories (UL) has introduced a shield benchmark called UL 2272. When sellers have employed the protections for hoverboard riders the addresses risks introduced by hoverboards.

Safety Tips While Riding Hoverboards

Tip 1:

You need to always wear the correct safety gear, when you are using a hoverboard. You can find a number of videos on YouTube that show people becoming injured on hoverboards. Make sure you browse the scooter and find out how to ride it properly. You would like to get your self-balancing hoverboard from a respectable marketplace brand to guarantee an excellent product. Some of the brands that are more notable include Rhino, Cheetah and Chameleon.

Tip 2:-

Without proper guidance or training it can be dangerous to ride hoverboards. Especially learners should take care about balance and other important factors. Some Beginners show carelessness while riding therefore they get injured. That is a reason why you required to wear the correct protective gear at the time of riding on a hoverboard. Gear includes a reliable helmet, knee pads, and elbow pads. If you are an experienced hoverboard rider, you should add the wrist guards to protect yourself from falling.

As with any piece of equipment, you should take good care of your hoverboard. Because batteries were a big reason for fires in the past, you need to make sure that you take care of the outer case. Damages to the outside of the hoverboard can also damage the components within, which can lead to certain dangers. When a battery is destroyed, chemicals within the hoverboard battery can exposed to the air and ignite a fire. As noted, you only need to charge your hoverboard battery for a couple of hours at a given time. This means that you never want to charge your hoverboard overnight. While you may be accustomed to charging your smartphone for a long time, you cannot take this measure with a hoverboard. Some hoverboards require less than four hours for a full charge. You do not want the battery to overcharge lest you set up the device for a possible fire. Recharge your electric balance board immediately after its usage. Doing so stabilizes the hoverboard when it is not being used.

Tip 3:-

You can find a hoverboard that is secure if it is a brand-name product that offers a number of security features. Is it true that the hoverboard come with an extended warranty? If not, you ought to have a look at another brand. Whether you're currently working to purchase your hoverboard or you have been riding hoverboards for a little while, you can find a scooter. Again, you need to ensure the hoverboard you pick has mark or the UL listing. You need to be able to get a board that fulfill your requirements if you select a reputable brand. Additionally, look for a scooter that has batteries such as Samsung and LG. Another thing -- maintain it once the hoverboard control. In charging Apart from taking care, you also will need to calibrate the hoverboard. This should be done after every 3 uses.

Tip 4:-

Wheels on the hoverboard features detectors for tilting and speed. They have the ability to discover revolutions a minute or RPM from each of the wheels of the scooter. The data is submitted to the speed control boards. It is the mind of the hoverboard rider and manages the speed and tilt of the digital. The electric scooter battery would be the main power source of your scooter. It is made from lithium-ion, very similar to a battery in a notebook. Battery backs are 36V 4400mAH. Taking the necessary measures will indicate that you can enjoy hoverboard riding with an extra sense of confidence. The place to begin is with yourself. Know what you are purchasing when you ride a hoverboard and what you are doing. Doing so may mean the difference between an event that is unfortunate and a riding experience. Review the body of the hoverboard. The framework, which is made from an aluminum alloy, houses all of the parts for your toy. The hoverboard features a gyroscope and speed controller boards. These parts receive information from tilt and the rate sensors, each of which are contained inside the wheels. This information is delivered into the logic board.

Tip 5:-

To ensure extra security, maintain a Class D fire extinguisher in your home and do not change the device. Always wear a helmet do not go too fast and when browsing a hoverboard. In addition, do not ride with other passengers or after you have drunk a drink or consumed a meal. Only use the first charger; never charge the digital and leave it unattended.

If you are looking for more information, then don’t forget to visit hoverboards group.

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ATTEMPTS TO OVERTURN BIDEN… AND WHAT’S AT STAKE

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On Sep 25, 2021, at 12:07 AM, Heather Cox Richardson from Letters from an American <[email protected]> wrote:

On Monday, we learned that after last year’s election, John Eastman, a well-connected lawyer advising former president Donald Trump, outlined a six-point plan to overturn the outcome of the election and install Trump as America’s leader. They planned to cut the voters’ actual choice, Democrat Joe Biden, out of power: as Trump advisor Steve Bannon put it, they planned to “kill the Biden presidency in the crib.” This appears to have been the plan that Trump and his loyalists tried to execute on January 6.

That is, we now have written proof of an attempt to destroy our democracy and replace it with an autocracy.

This was not some crazy plot of some obscure dude in a shack in the mountains; this was a plan of the president of the United States of America, and it came perilously close to succeeding. The president of the United States tried to overturn the results of an election—the centerpiece of our democracy—and install himself into power illegitimately.

If this is not a hair-on-fire, screaming emergency, what is?

And yet, Republican lawmakers, with the notable exceptions of Representatives Liz Cheney (R-WY) and Adam Kinzinger (R-IL), have largely remained silent about the fact that the head of their party tried to destroy our democracy.

The best spin on their silence is that in refusing to defend the former president while also keeping quiet enough that they do not antagonize the voters in his base, they are choosing their own power over the protection of our country.

The other option is that the leaders of the Republican Party have embraced authoritarianism, and their once-grand party—the party of Abraham Lincoln, the party that saved the United States in the 1860s, the party that removed racial enslavement from our fundamental law—has become an existential threat to our nation.

Democracy requires at least two healthy parties capable of running a government in order to provide oversight for those currently in control of the government and to channel opposition into peaceful attempts to change the country’s path rather than into revolution. But Republicans appear to believe that any Democratic government is illegitimate, insisting that Democrats’ calls for business regulation, a basic social safety net, and infrastructure investment are “socialism” that will destroy the country.

With Democrats in charge of the federal government, Republicans are cementing their power in the states to support a future coup like the one Eastman described. Using “audits” of the 2020 elections, notably in Arizona but now also in Pennsylvania and Texas, Trump loyalists have convinced their supporters to distrust elections, softening the ground to overturn them in the future. According to a new poll by NORC at the University of Chicago, 26% of Americans now believe that “[t]he 2020 election was stolen from Donald Trump and Joe Biden is an illegitimate president,” and 8% believe that "[u]se of force is justified to restore Donald Trump to the presidency."

Arguing that they have to stop the voter fraud they have falsely claimed threw the election to Biden, Republican lawmakers in 18 states have passed more than 30 laws to cut down Democratic voting and cement their own rule. Trump supporters have threatened election workers, prompting them to quit, and have harassed school board members and local officials, driving them from office.

Although attorneys general are charged with nonpartisan enforcement of the law, we learned earlier this month that in September 2020, 32 staff members of Republican attorneys general met in Atlanta, where they participated in “war games” to figure out what to do should Trump not be reelected. The summit was organized by the Rule of Law Defense Fund, the fundraising arm of the Republican Attorneys General Association (RAGA), which sent out robocalls on January 5 urging recipients to march to the Capitol the following day “to stop the steal.” In May, RAGA elevated the man responsible for those robocalls to the position of executive director, prompting others to leave.

In states where Republicans have rigged election mechanics, party members need to worry about primary challengers from the right, rather than Democratic opponents. So they are purging from the party all but Trump loyalists, especially as the former president is backing challengers against those who voted in favor of his impeachment in the House in January 2021. Last week, one of those people, Representative Anthony Gonzalez (R-OH), announced he was retiring, in part because of right-wing threats against his family.

Trump loyalists are openly embracing the language of authoritarianism. In Texas, Abbott is now facing a primary challenger who today tweeted: “Texans deserve a strong and robust leader committed to fighting with them against the radical Left. They deserve a leader like Brazil has in Jair Bolsonaro…..” Bolsonaro, a right-wing leader whose approval rating in late August was 23%, is threatening to stay in power in Brazil against the wishes of its people. He claims that the country’s elections are fraudulent and that “[e]ither we’ll have clean elections, or we won’t have elections.”

Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) today used language fascists have used in the past to stoke hatred of their political opponents, tweeting that “ALL House Democrats are evil and will kill unborn babies all the way up to birth and then celebrate.” Yesterday, the leader of Turning Points U.S.A., Charlie Kirk, brought the movement’s white nationalism into the open when he told a YouTube audience that Democrats were backing “an invasion of the country” to bring in “voters that they want and that they like” and to work toward “diminishing and decreasing white demographics in America.” He called for listeners to “[d]eputize a citizen force, put them on the border, give them handcuffs, get it done.”

Today, we learned that the 2022 Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) will be held in Budapest, Hungary, where leader Viktor Orbán, whom Fox News Channel personality Tucker Carlson has openly admired, is dismantling democracy and eroding civil rights. When former vice president Mike Pence spoke in Budapest earlier this week at a forum denouncing immigration and urging traditional social values, he told the audience he hoped that the U.S. Supreme Court would soon outlaw abortion thanks to the three justices Trump put on the court.

Establishment Republicans who are now out of power are not on board the Trump train. They are quietly backing anti-Trumpers like Representative Cheney. Former House speakers John Boehner and Paul Ryan, former Florida governor Jeb Bush—who was widely expected to win the Republican nomination in 2016, only to be shut out of it by Trump—and former president George W. Bush's former adviser Karl Rove have all donated money to Cheney to help her stave off a challenge from a Trump loyalist in the 2022 election. Next month, former president Bush himself will hold a fundraiser for Cheney in Texas.

Other establishment Republicans currently in power might be staying quiet about the party’s slide toward authoritarianism because they are simply hoping that the Trump fire will burn itself out. The former president is no longer commanding the crowds he once did, and his increasing legal woes as well as the investigation into the insurrection will almost certainly take up his time and energy. The mounting coronavirus deaths among his unvaccinated supporters also stand to weaken support for his faction.

But the fact that Republican lawmakers have ignored the Eastman memo, which outlines the destruction of our democracy, suggests that the party, which organized in the 1850s to protect the nation against those who would destroy it, has come full circle.

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Notes:

https://bbj.hu/politics/foreign-affairs/world/budapest-to-host-cpac-in-2022

https://www.kptv.com/former-president-george-w-bush-to-hold-fundraiser-next-month-for-liz-cheney/article_8ba92a10-7103-5ee0-94ef-4bd813437e28.html

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/09/24/arizona-audit-just-destroyed-big-gop-lie-more-ways-than-one/

https://www.exposedbycmd.org/2021/05/04/more-staff-flee-gop-attorneys-general-group-after-it-doubles-down-on-insurrection/

https://bbj.hu/politics/foreign-affairs/world/budapest-to-host-cpac-in-2022

https://abcnews.go.com/Lifestyle/wireStory/pence-hopeful-supreme-court-restrict-abortion-us-80185222

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/republican-ags-group-sent-robocalls-urging-march-capitol-n1253581

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/09/16/us/politics/anthony-gonzalez-ohio-trump.html

https://kansasreflector.com/2021/09/08/kansas-ag-aides-attended-war-games-summit-where-group-planned-to-combat-biden-win/

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-08-17/more-than-half-of-brazilians-disapprove-of-bolsonaro-poll-shows

https://www.mediamatters.org/charlie-kirk/charlie-kirk-deputize-citizen-force-put-them-border-order-protect-white-demographics

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2021/07/23/brazil-bolsonaro/

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A depressing and predictable series of events seems to follow mass shootings like the one that took ten lives Friday at Santa Fe High School. First, we learn that an unspeakable act has occurred in a place where we imagine we, or someone we love, could have been—a church, a movie theater, a shopping mall, a dance club, or, in this case, a school. Then we begin seeing the killer’s picture on our smartphones, tablets, laptops, and televisions, along with images of the stunned and tearful survivors. Next come the calls to strengthen America’s gun control laws, as people convince themselves that the latest incident is the one that will finally bring change. Our legislators tweet their sympathy while doing little else. And amidst the furor, those who own guns, roughly a third of the U.S. population, quietly go out and buy more ammunition, if not another gun.

To understand why, after decades of massacres, there aren’t stricter gun laws in this country, one has to understand gun culture. And nowhere is gun culture more evident than in Texas. Guns here, as in many parts of the country, aren’t just about self-defense. They’re also about history, identity, and community. Experts say that ignoring, dismissing, or denigrating that fact is what dooms any discussion of gun control.

The fight for Texas’ independence, like the fight for American independence, was a plucky pushback against government overreach. Back in 1835, the dictatorial ruler of Mexico dispatched troops to seize a small cannon from settlers in Gonzales, Texas. The settlers, who had been using the cannon to fend off Comanches, then turned it on the Mexican soldiers. And to make their feelings as clear as an extended middle finger, they raised a homemade flag with a picture of the cannon on it and the words “Come and Take It.”

Today, some 183 years later, it’s hard to drive anywhere in Texas without seeing a “Come and Take It” bumper sticker. Only, instead of the words paired with a cannon, you’re more likely to see the silhouette of an AR-15, which is America’s most popular gun—and notably, the weapon used during the mass shootings in Newtown, Las Vegas, Orlando, Sutherland Springs, and Parkland. (Friday, Governor Greg Abbott stated that initial reports that an AR-15 was used at Santa Fe were erroneous—a shotgun and a revolver were used.)

The ubiquity of that bumper sticker is a not-so-subtle reminder of how Texans feel about the right to bear arms. And the sentiment cuts across class, gender, and race lines. Whether it’s a beat up pickup truck in Gonzales or an Aston Martin in Dallas, one would be wise to assume the driver has a gun in the glovebox, if not holstered at the hip.

Which is why horrifying mass shootings—even those uncomfortably close to home, such as those in Fort Hood, Dallas, Sutherland Springs, and now Santa Fe—don’t dent Texans’ resolve to keep their proverbial cannons. Particularly when the incident seems to confirm the belief, dating back at least as far as the Texas Revolution, that the only thing that stops a bad guy with a gun is a good guy with a gun. Recall that a resident of Sutherland Springs chased down the assailant while firing multiple rounds from his own AR-15.

“This notion of cultural competence, of being cognizant and sensitive to cultural differences, is something that we typically talk about in terms of race, ethnicity, gender identity, and religion,” says Daniel Webster, the director of the Center for Gun Policy and Research at Johns Hopkins University. “But one of the starkest cultural competence problems we have in this country has to do with guns.”

Webster says that many gun control advocates claim the moral high ground while calling gun owners “redneck idiots.” They question gun owners’ intelligence for ignoring gun violence research, but fail to note that, despite the terrible number of mass shootings in recent years, homicides and other violent crimes have actually decreasedsignificantly nationwide over the past 25 years, even during periods when gun sales have spiked, as routinely happens following mass shootings.

The interpretation of gun violence statistics—what is or isn’t “fake news”—seems to depend on whether you’ve ever used a pistol to shoot a rattlesnake menacing a family pet or scared off a trespasser by just standing on the porch holding a shotgun (perhaps pumping the forestock to show you mean business).

“One common denominator in all these mass shootings is the shooter was in complete and total control to selectively and casually put bullets in the heads of cowering people.” says Jerry Patterson, a former Marine, Texas state senator and land commissioner who pushed through the state’s concealed carry law in 1995, which was signed by then Governor George W. Bush. “The first time someone returns fire, the shooter is no longer in complete and total control.”

In Texas, as elsewhere in the country, there are gun owners who identify as redneck and play up the stereotype that their opponents deride. But gun owners are also in the highest echelons of government and industry. They carry pistols in their briefcases and go on hunting trips together to forge alliances and strike deals. Indeed, hunting camps and leases are often equipped with airstrips to accommodate private jets.

“It’s a ritual of having a couple of drinks and cooking supper and getting up early in the morning to go sit in a deer blind or walk the hills and hunt for birds,” says the prominent Houston attorney Dick DeGuerin.

Those who study gun culture say it’s not only attitudes and beliefs that drive gun ownership; it’s also activities and communities, which give gun owners a sense of identity, connectedness, and meaning. Harel Shapira, an assistant professor of sociology at the University of Texas at Austin says that during his three years embedded with gun enthusiasts in Central Texas he’s learned it’s a mistake to harbor the liberal East Coast condescension that people who carry firearms are those “crazy people down there” in states like Texas. It’s a condescension he himself held prior to his research. “Gun culture is not just a Texas story, it’s an American story,” he says, “Until we understand and appreciate that and start consensus building, people are just going to get further entrenched into their identities.”

Hunting and plinking at cans are recalled fondly by many in Texas as bonding activities with their parents. Guns are heirlooms passed down through generations and used to hunt the Thanksgiving turkey and Christmas goose. Moreover, millions nationwide participate in tactical or sharp shooting competitions and belong to gun clubs that are the focal points of their social lives. Those enmeshed in gun culture take pride in their safety mindedness and technical skills as well as their ability to protect themselves and their families if necessary.

“I put up in my garage the target that I got while training to get my concealed handgun license,” says Gerry Brown of New Braunfels, a 60 year-old grandmother of ten and accompanist for a local high school choir. “So if anyone tries to break in, they’re going to go, ‘Oops, wrong garage,’”

She, like virtually everyone, is appalled by mass shootings, and was devastated by what happened in Sutherland Springs, not far from where she lives, as well as in Santa Fe, not far from where her daughter lives. And yet she says such incidents only stiffen her “Come And Take It” stance, particularly regarding calls to ban or confiscate certain kinds of weapons or gun accessories. “Try that in Texas,” she says. “It won’t work.”

All this has Jerry Patterson, the gun rights advocate and former elected official, surprisingly in agreement with Daniel Webster, the gun control advocate. “We’ve have gotten too invested in our clichés,” says Patterson. “There are things we can do if both sides can just come to the table with an open mind and be willing to accept the validity of the other person’s point of view.”

Points where both sides can possibly find agreement?

Ensuring better data entry, coordination and enforcement of the National Instant Criminal Background Check System, or NICS, used to check the eligibility of anyone wanting to buy a gun. And expanding its use to include online and gun show private sales.

Punishing those who lie on the form submitted to NICS and giving authorities more than three days to vet submissions.

Recovering weapons from people who bought firearms and then subsequently did something that flags them on NICS, such as committing a felony, beating up a domestic partner, becoming addicted to drugs, or having a psychotic episode.

Broadening who is prohibited from buying a gun to those convicted of stalking offenses and violence against dating partners.

Preventing copy cat crimes by taking steps to avoid naming and raining fame on mass shooters in the media (this would likely be done not through legislation, but by getting media outlets to police themselves, much as social media is now being asked to do when it comes to hate speech and fake news).

Garen Wintemute, an ER physician and director of the Violence Prevention Research Program at the University of California-Davis who has spent almost $2 million of his own money studying gun violence, says what opponents and proponents of gun control share, whether in Texas or elsewhere, is that they don’t want innocent people hurt. “We can start the discussion there,” he says.

#santa fe high school #gun control

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January 4, 2021: 1:03 pm:

The clouds never expect it when it rains, But the sea changes colors, but the sea does not change. And so with the slow, graceful flow of age I went forth with an age old desire to please On the edge of... seventeen.

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From Bing:

“savant

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NOUN

a learned person, especially a distinguished scientist.See also idiot savant.

synonyms: intellectual · scholar · sage · philosopher · thinker · learned person · wise person · Solomon · guru · master · authority · mahatma · maharishi · pandit”

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The passage from the lyrics of Edge of Seventeen by Stevie Nicks:

There was a time when people whisked around doing as they chose, as they needed, as they wanted to...

...Clouds of social organisms, free, in social order.

Then, when they were not expecting it, the Reign came from Britain, from the Vatican, from Canada... a sea of people, all clouds with a false sense of security, were overwhelmed with invisible offensive attack from unexpected reign.

That sea, ocean, plateau of elevated water, layer of clouds... free people... all changed in color, texture, vibe... the soul of the sea, ocean, layer of elevated clouds all changed in appearance slightly, slowly, but was still an ocean, sea. layer of darker, more ominous clouds in social order. They were all replaced. No one expected it to happen, no one was prepared, there was no guard, only illusion of security.

No one has noticed the absence of the clouds.

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Make your own assessment of the other part of that passage of lyrics. It seems to go more than one way, only Stevie Nicks knows what way is up.

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(account is hijacked again. The Centurylink terror has made the internet connection appear as if it is not connected to the internet, page won‘t refresh, “We Can’t Find That Web Address, Try Again Later... etc..” but the modem is working and all wire connections are good. terrorist bastards at Kate Brown Salem Witches Command Center terror cell is doing this through Centurylink to try to keep them all from facing a firing squad for treason)

2:20 pm:

I went to the terror doctor today, for a health appointment done by telephone conversation, will sitting in my car, in the parking lot of the terror doctor’s office, beneath a cellular telephone tower, where there are no real doctors.

Almost zero traffic going southbound this morning on the interstate, was unusual. Some notable observations include an ODOT project south of the city of Rogue River where one guy on foot w/orange safety vest was wondering around in the northbound median surrounded by orange cones, and one white pick up truck w/flashing yellow hazard lights was parked seemingly about to merge into southbound traffic from the median southbound. There was no indication of any work being done, and I did not see any markings on that white pick-up truck.

There were numerous instances in the soft shoulder along the 40 mile route I took today where indications of roll-over accident was present in the form of a lot of scattered debris at various places on the soft shoulder areas. There was a conflicting vibe at the North Medford Southbound I-5 exit area where a homeless tent city had been cleared away, but big heaps of trash remained at the places where each homeless tent had been. The conflict is that just a half mile further, at the actual freeway exit ramp, another homeless camp of tents was present as it was last time I went to Medford. That one at the off-ramp is all nice and tidy, many tents, all of them have a lot of stuff, all the stuff is all stacked and arranged neatly at the front of each tent. Maybe 15 tents in a area of about two acres to the right of the southbound off-ramp. So, one camp is present, clean, tidy, while the other was removed hastily with a lot of garbage left behind.

Many indications where the people of Medford seem to be speaking directly to me, with items, stance, position, three dimensional communication as I drove passed them, that boils down to: “We were told to stand right here, between this post, this trash can, these backpacks over here, and that fire hydrant over there” sort of way that many people, each individually were expressing. I cannot be more specific without getting potentially innocent people killed.

It was a phone appointment that I went to in Medford. The health service provider was “Denise”, I had written the name wrong yesterday. Before I left my house I thought of the options, which were to go to the terror doctor office to take a phone appointment in the parking lot since they are not allowing anyone to go into the clinic, or, stay home to take the call for the phone appointment from the terror doctor. The medicine I need is not available with electronic prescription to the pharmacy from a doctor in Oregon, so, a paper hard copy is required. So, if I stay home to take the call, I could go to the office at another time later on. But, it’s a terror doctor, they have been trying to kill me for five years, so, the call could be manipulated in ways that are beyond what I can think of, and they can kill me at home or at the terror doctor, there is no advantage either way. The only thing that will guarantee that I get my medicine, is to be there at the time of the scheduled appointment, be it phone call or otherwise. So, reluctantly, I chose to go, in order to be there at the appointment time so that if the call is manipulated there is a better chance that security type people will see that, if I am there, better than if I am not there at the appointment time.

So I get there, check in with the secret special door knock you have to do to get the people to come out of the office to check in for a phone call to happen. Then, I took a walk around, the phone rang, the number is from the terror doctor, I answered, there was no one there on the call. The call ended before I picked up the call. The caller did not leave a message. So, I call back the number, then, I realize I am standing fifty feet away from the place I was returning the call to while listening to endless menu options that the place uses when you call them. It’s hit or miss to call there, maybe someone answers, maybe not. So I hung up that call and walked to the door, to explain that there was no one on the call when the phone rang. The person who opened the office door told me that the appointment was not for another fifteen minutes, just to wait for the call. “The call already happened, the person who called, hung up, the call ended” I said. So, again it was “Just wait by your phone, Denise will call you at your appointment time” from the terror doctor front door monitor.

The call came in at the appointment time as I was told it would.

After the appointment call, I went back to the door, from my car, in the parking lot, to get the prescription. That is when a man driving a black Ford F-150 new looking crew cab truck pulled up to the parking spot nearest the front door, he got out, and was dressed the same as I was dressed. That is when I knew he was the replacement that was supposed to make the hit at the front door. I watched carefully as he did a song a dance dog & pony show at the front door, he brought a brown paper bag with him, it had the name Erica written on it. I was thinking either there is a human head in the large brown bag, or, it’s an enormous stool sample. I suspect it was a symbolic stool sample, something that says “Holy Shit” real quick at the terror doctor, to say something went wrong somewhere, like that gal that was ran through with her own sword the other day in my bathroom, I suspect that one was a Walgreen‘s terror soldier, and Walgreen’s and the Pain Center are very closely associated, so, I think he went there to the terror doctor to be my replacement, but also was prepared to do the “Holy Shit” notification in event that he saw me there, which he did, hence: “Holy Shit, what is he doing here, and where is our Walgreen‘s swords-person at?” is the secret coded message when a Brown Paper Bag is hand carried to the terror doctor by the assassin who failed the hit.

Other stuff happened too, but I don’t want to be typing all day about this when there are no people who are willing to speak with me about any of what I report here.

One other notable thing at the parking was a large commercial jet made a sharp turn while on ascent, it was too sharp, too low, unusual to see that coming out of Medford International Airport, and at the same instant, a loud locomotive train whistle sounded from nearby, but there are no train tracks anywhere around there. That commercial jet had taken off in a southerly direction, is not normal, they usually take off to the north, and land also while traveling north.

A man bolted out of the Crater Lake Surgery Center next door wearing sky blue (hideous blue) shirt, ran to the block wall at the back of the parking lot, and jumped over the wall, and ran towards the Little Caesars Pizza that is over in that direction, where a UPS Big Brown delivery truck was parked. (Reminder that at Medford International I once saw a commercial jet crash and do cartwheels down the runway with big... giant size fireball, I also saw that same airplane trying to avoid collision with someone using the same kind of flying contraption used by someone who is called “Jet Man”, there are YouTube video’s available to see the very small jet aircraft I am talking about and once saw “Playing Chicken” with full size commercial airliners at Medford International, more details are somewhere on this Tumblr account. There were no news reports of the fiery crash at the airport, per usual. Also, same day as that airplane crash, at least I think so, other explosion happened somewhere near Biddle & McAndrews. I saw a very large part of a building come flying out of the sky and land on McAndrews, and tumble through intersection, some cars were struck by flying explosion debris prior to the airplane crash by ten minutes or so. That building was a octagon shape, as if a very large hot tub crash landed)

I counted nine United Parcel Service Freight (UPS; Big Brown) 40 foot long trailers on the way home and passed them by, one triple, and three doubles, big rig UPS Freight all going north, all within one mile of each other on the interstate.

I also passed by a Haggan Daas Ice Cream Delivery truck on the way to Medford while going south, is notable for the giant size graphic on the side of the truck, a big Single Scoop of chocolate ice cream, still in the scooper, was present... I suppose it could have been Rocky Road Ice Cream, single scoop on the side of the Hagen Daas ice cream deliver wagon, Southbound, I-5 nearby Valley of the Rogue State Park exit.

There was much Three Dee terror Comm on the ride home. One Special Operative Oregon Department of Transportation white pick-up truck with ODOT logo on the door, w/very special and unique one of a kind aluminum diamond plate truck shell/cover, “not available in stores”, custom made looking cover. Means “ODOT Special Assignment”, is bad news for me. Danger, high alert.

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4:00 pm:

Other observation for people who may be keeping score of events, is a correction to previously stated, misinterpreted, terror bullshit at Monroe’s and Chartrand’s last week. I explained recently about new arrival terror soldiers occupying the Monroe Offensive Surveillance Travel Trailer. One day last week I said there was a dark colored car, SUV... “Part shoe box, part mini van“ parked at the trailer, then, next day, it was a copper colored GMC or Toyota truck, I think is a Canyon model GMC. So today I see what is going on with that mixup as the “Part Shoe Box, Part Mini Van“ black vehicle is parked at 376 Jackpine as of this writing, at the house in the far back part of that property at “Chartrand’s Royal Canadian Mounted Police/Oregon State Police” terror cell. The “Black Shoe Box Van” was there at the Monroe Offensive Trailer, then they did a switcheroo on that, took it from the Monroe Trailer, to Chartrand’s, and put that other copper colored stolen GMC or Toyota brand new looking truck at the Monroe trailer, that one is usually in the Monroe driveway, it never goes anywhere.

Also today on the way to the terror doctor, there were at least 7 newer looking Ford Mustangs, at least three of those were convertibles. The Mustangs are special somehow around here, I think they are roled out to say something about Power, because of “Horse Power” is the standard measure for power of a motor.

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4:19 pm:

Other very complex terror communication derived of many parts displayed in many places, in many ways says a simple idea, so, just the result of the read about that is:

“Terror comes in ‘singles’, in ‘Ones’, as “individual units” and other ways of saying “Single Unit”, so, I noticed that there were some Amazon Prime Big Rig trailers on the road today, those only use one long trailer, Amazon does not use double or triple trailers that I have seen so far. What is remarkable about that is that the company is said to be so many billions of dollars worth of company, yet they cannot afford to use a matching truck tractor cab for towing the Amazon Prime trailers around. All of the Amazon Trailers are pulled with some other color, random, not uniform big rig towing tractor truck & trailer.

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4:28 pm:

Repeat terror happened to me today, I wrote about it before, so, today’s rendition of repeatable terror scenario to make me crash my car, as follows:

I am going north on Biddle Road. I get to McAndrews. A very big red trash truck is turning right from McAndrews to Biddle. The Big Red Trash Truck says “This truck is powered by CNG Fuel” with giant graphics. That truck stopped real fast as if it hit something while turning the corner in front of me a few car lengths ahead. The truck continued to make it’s turn, while I was doing the math: “lets see... C n G... hmmmm.... Holy See Gnosis Trash Big Red parting of the Red See trash Service... what company is that?... I can‘t see that far ... this mini van is in the way....“

So that happened as I approach Food For Less on Biddle, and across the street from there is Black Rock Coffee drive through kiosk in the same parking lot as a Exhaust & Muffler shop, I forget the name of the muffler shop.

I pass by the Big Red Trash Truck, it says “Rogue Disposal Service” on the door.

That is when the car in front of me slams the brakes on, stops, because the car in front of that one slammed the brakes on and stopped, in the far right lane of Biddle Road, in front of Black Rock Coffee Kiosk Drive Through, then, that car, turns left, across four lanes of traffic, into the Black Rock Kiosk Drive Through Coffee.

Four lanes of traffic were crossed... and Biddle Road was crowded.

I avoided “Bad Day at Black Rock” by only a few inches when everything just stopped in front of me in the far right lane.

“Bad Day at Black Rock” is a old movie that is famous as a source for terror command shell language to come from. The story line, characters, and background art.... more, is all used by the terror army to advance commands and marching orders as is Wizard of Oz, Back to the Future, and Star Wars to name a few.

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5:10 pm:

Dog & Pony show terror murder hit scenario playing out now at Monroe’s:

I step out for a walk, as I do, the Google terror representative from Bad Guy Auto begins to light a yard waste fire that was prepared there this morning and left there by the Monroe pond, ready to light when I went out just now, and that is what happened. So, I don‘t want to walk by having seen the exact same Dog & Pony Show before, they know I will take an alternate route to get my mail, which I did, went through the woods, where I encountered another Monroe in a Toyota Prius, yet a different Prius than the previous two that were over there this past year. That Monroe is all in my mailbox, lingers there in the Prius, sees me waiting near the road, then moves forward and turns around, waves at me as he drives away with my mail. Then, I walk on the road to my driveway, and two of “The People Who Show Up” are there to huddle around the yard waste fire, they don‘t think I am going to walk by there because they shoot at me so often from there, so that’s when I know there is another Monroe somewhere in the creek sneaking into my house. I did walk by though, and everyone is acting as if we are all old friends waving at me and wanting to make chit-chat. There is a fake Deb Monroe there pretending to be all friendly as I pass by, starts to talk about something that happened at midnight on the day before Christmas, which really means she is going to try to steal my prescriptions I got today at the terror doctor, and is the reason that “The People Who Show Up” showed up with that Bad Guy Auto terror Google representative. The fake Deb said hello. I told her I was going to revoke her SAG Card for being a Ham, then I came home. They have back-up waiting at Chartrand’s inside a running car with foot on the brake, and some gunshots were fired at Manning’s at 598 MedDems terror cell. Those things were done to make sure I don‘t hurt Bad Google Guy, Fake Deb, or those others who were hovering around just in the shadows, out of view. The gunshots and the running car w/foot on brake says: “Don’t even try anything, you are outnumbered” at minimum.

I think the man in the Prius is the same man that was driving that black Ford F-150 Crew cab and was dressed like me earlier today, and brought a big brown grocery bag to “Erica” at the terror doctor.

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7:10 pm:

Local Update:

Observations at the Bell terror cell at 445 in absence of any perceived activity there for a number of days is a difference in the animal behavior there. The local deer population has again seemingly been reduced all around the area, while the Bell’s where there at 445, the deer used gather in groups around the southwest corner of the garage there. To my understanding, a previous terror occupant installed some nitrous gas release, or exhaust tubes into the ground there. My perception of how that was done is in association to an outdoor restroom that is at the 445 address, where I was told that the septic system for that house, and that outdoor restroom had been modified so that nitrous and other airborne gasses could be pumped into the closet flange where the toilet for the outdoor restroom is at, then, the gas is released into the air in the yard, through the leach-lines of the septic system, where those extra tubes where attached in the ground nearby the front corner of that garage where the deer used to like to gather at 445 Bell’s terror cell. The deer are no longer gathering at the corner of the garage at Bell’s, now, they are gathering on the front driveway above where there is a culvert that runs beneath the driveway at Bell’s. That culvert is a tubular one, about 16 inch diameter, and is a place where terror soldiers are known to hide inside of that culvert under the front driveway at 445 Bell’s terror cell. So, I have been seeing the deer stand there at that culvert daily now in absence of the Bell’s there at the residence. The animals like the nitrous gas, they tend to follow the invisible clouds of it. Sparacino’s can gather and bring with them dozens of wild turkeys by exposing them to the nitrous, the turkeys go where ever the nitrous goes, and the Sparacino’s use the noise made by all of those turkeys as a cover for their advance on an attack. I suppose that idea also works for deer also. I see terror soldiers walking among deer from time to time, while holding on to the deer as they walk along, crouched and disguised. That culvert at Bell’s 445 is something is something that I need to be mindful of whenever I take a walk to the mailbox even when there is creek water running in the culvert. A possum introduced into the culvert will make sure that there is no one hiding in it.

There is a larger concrete culvert under my driveway, one that has proven to be big enough for not one, but two Royal Canadian Mounted Police disguised as Oregon State Police, who hide in the concrete tunnel beneath my driveway, and swing a sword as I walk by there.

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8:10 pm:

On the return trip back home from the terror in Medford, I was reminded of something I would prefer to forget about when I passed by the house on the corner of Russell Road & Jackpine Dr. There, out in the horse pasture behind that house where some horse stables are at, was a familiar portable structure. The structure is only big enough to put a rain cover over one horse, one cameraman, one kidnapped victim, and one or two audience members. The structure is old, been moved around all over the place, is for when victims are kidnapped and the SAG ClubMed Junket members want to see someone having sex with a horse, donkey, or even an African Lion. I usually see that set up in the horse pasture area at the fence line at 333 Jackpine where it meets 315. Many years ago they used to set that up at the house behind mine where there were two donkeys for about twenty three years there. The thing is set up behind the house on Russell and Jackpine near where there is a dark colored truck parked out in the horse pasture, the truck never moves, has been there for years. So, what that means, is that the JP Morgan Chase Bank terror cell is there at that house on the corner, and are ready to make some bestiality/snuff movies. The animals kill the victims during the activity most of the time. The JP Morgan Chase Bank branch on the corner of 7th St. and Midland Ave. is most likely to be there doing that, as I have seen them do that before. They use the bank vault too for the same thing at that branch. It’s not uncommon to see farm animals in the lobby at the JP Morgan Chase Bank on 7th & Midland. One of the terror tellers there I think her name is Adrian Wytcherly, supplies some of the farm animals that are used at the bank vault for that kind of snuff movie. There are a whole bunch of Wycherly family members in Josephine County, they are some of the oldest known terror family cells I am aware of in Oregon. Where Wycherly’s are found, so are the Shippy Family. I have seen the African Lions in the vault there with kidnapped victims. There is another gal who goes by the name “De la Rosa” who was there the times I saw the Lions, she looks a lot like Kate Brown, about the same size and weight too, and could easily do impersonating of the Governor. There is a man who pretends to be a bank customer who has been in that branch every time I have gone, I am pretty sure his name is Richard, and is the person who runs Richard’s Welding on Merlin Galice road, next to the Shell gas station in Merlin Oregon.

As bad as all of that sounds, in comparison to other terror, that is more like a tourism brochure: “Come to Oregon! Enjoy the Wildlife, and Beautiful Scenic views”.

Some of the Wytcherly’s live on Three Pines Road, or, visit a place there. East of the corner of Wilson Ave on Three Pines is an wrought iron gate, that leads to a house on a hill above “Dead Man’s Curve” where there is a nice pond right there, and a old fashioned wind mill on a tower for pumping water from a well to fill the pond.

It turns out, after thinking about some of my encounters with “De la Rosa”, that it’s equally likely that Kate Brown could easily do impersonation of “De la Rosa” who is about as Spanish as is Taylor Swift, their names are similar in other ways. “De la Rosa” could actually be Kate Brown, Oregon Governor.

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9:07 pm:

That terrorist bitch that was in my bathroom night before last who put the sword on the toilet seat, I almost sat on the sword, then grabbed it with the toilet paper roll.... and turned the sword around to run her through with it... that one... might have been Kate Brown... de la Rosa.

Brown is a German name.

Clyde Baum’s house changed ownership of record from Powers to Brown about 8 years ago-ish.

We have to do a decode of everything that is “Wall”.

Walgreen‘s... with a German decode. “V Val Green‘s”. How do you say “Green“ in German?

Have to do the same for Walmart. “V Val Mart”, that gets directly into the Vatican Choir to Vivaldi.

Walmart = V Val Mart = Vi Val di mar T = Vi Val di mar X = Vi Val di mar cross = Vi Val dimark Cross = Vivaldi Mark Cross = Classical Mark X = C L Ass I C Al Mark Cross = Holy See, Ass Eye See Artificial Intelligence Cross ...

Walmart = Classical Mark X = Classical Jesus = Sail

Walmart = Sail

I already know that Mark Ross, and/or Mark Cross is someone who claims to work or otherwise be associated to Walmart. That I already learned this past year.

Sail. To move the Pirate Ship.

There may be ways to test that. The people at Walmart will know if that math works out. The ones who wear the vests, work the Service Counter will have some kind of response to the word “Sail” when spoken as a sail on a mast for moving a boat. If so, that response could help to make the necessary connection to the rest of that math, if it’s any good.

They would also have a response for Vivaldi, and Mark Ross.

Mark Cross is a maker of “Fine Leather Goods”

I think “Walgreen‘s” needs to be done in a German dialect with similar Text Math.

VIVALDI - Four Seasons - Alexandra Conunova - Orchestre International de Genève

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Once upon a time, there was only ten months in the year, with only two seasons, Summer, and Winter. Then, someone came along and decided that the Equinox was also important, so, they tacked two extra months onto the calendar, but, put them at the beginning of the year, as January and February, thereby putting March in third place, out of the spotlight.

March, became nothing to be concerned about.

By putting those two months on the beginning rather than the end, where they may have been better suited to go, gave the people who decided that the Equinox was important, a slight advantage of understanding and control of knowledge, thereby, may have been the very first application of Gnosis over Knowledge, which is the advantage made possible by control of Real Knowledge.

And thus, the two seasons, Summer and Winter, became Four Seasons, by a division in half, for a quotient of quarters, by addition of Two in the Back at the Head.

Quotes, are a Text element: “Two Blood Moons to Start the March”.

Two in the back at the head, divided with a can of steel:

Scary.

And terrorism was born. A quest of control of all of the land on Earth, by Pirating of Time at the beginning, as a means to the end.

To Divide, a verb, it turns out, is more than the key to the conquer, it’s divinity of the Text.

Walmart is the Sail of the contemporary Pirate Ship where customers are nailed to the mast, to propel the boat with their wind. Jesus’ in the breezes.

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11:06 pm:

Let’s have a look at Trump’s “Wall” for a quick decode:

Wall = V V All = V Twin All = V X Win = V Cross Win = V Cross V V I N = V V I I V = VVIIV = W”V = WWV = Waves = Air Support = Terror Air Force at 535 Jackpine Dr. and Erickson Air Crane of Eagle Point Oregon

... V V I I V = Vatican 57 Vatican = Vatican Heinz 57 Vatican = Vatican’s Take Saws = Ohh My, Gobsmacked! = Blades of God = A Right Off = “It is Written“ = It’s Text = The Text = Bible

... V V I I V = 55 2 5 = ..... Muslim terror numerical algorithm language presented to entertain anti-terror agencies globally... then... after millions of US Citizens are murdered, on US soil, at home, the security team takes notice, see’s truth... the terror responds with a “sex sell’s sail” ...

... The 5:00 mark... here:

“singing “Come away, come away, come away...”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UmPgMc3R8zg&list=RDUmPgMc3R8zg&start_radio=1

Well then suddenly there was no one Left standing in the hall In a flood of tears that No one really ever heard fall at all Oh I went searchin' for an answer Up the stairs and down the hall Not to find an answer, just to hear the call Of a nightbird singing "Come away" (Come away)

Trump supporters rush the White House in the first week of January 2021 in effort to sex up the terror, bringing it even closer to home at the White House, anti terror agents are called to a trap by a Knight-bird... AF-1... the leader of the terrorists. The anti-terror agents have been fooled again... they are not aware that the White House was sold like a pharm... along with stories or Pride and Hope at the Auction two decades ago, after the renters decided to buy it with a steel disk count of thirty years of occupancy there. Capitol Sex Distraction at the WH to draw attention away from Global terror HQ in Oregon.

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... V V I I V = 55 25

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(1-7-2021: 7:26 pm: addition to:

... V V I I V = 55 25

The shit goes sideways right there in the terror math even more than it already it.

British terror includes five quarters. One and one quarter is what humans are composed of as a whole, five parts, all are quarters, they are unequal, are “Drawn & Quartered” when Brits do the math, that goes sideways in at least two directions with a “call to arms” as the draw, and a place to stay as “The quarters”. The other direction is done with equestrian means, horses, to “draw & quarter”, pull physically apart, use a sword to quarter limbs and head into five parts, torso does not count, is not part of the math. Two arms, two legs, one head, are the five quarters when the math is done British style under Vatican Christian Hokus Pokus rules.

So, 55 = a ten divided by two... is a “half” or “Two Piece at the Pollo Loco”.

That 25 then is the head of the bird at the Pollo Loco.

Other Math, alternate division:

The 55 is two SDA soldiers swinging a sword on a “high/low” attack, one swings at the feet, the other at the head, at the same time, is a “high/low”, the 25 is the head rolling around on the ground, and they don‘t talk about feet, they don‘t want to get caught doing pedophilia trafficking for the Pope, so, they stay quiet about matters of the feet on a “high/low” attack by SDA mating pair Christian terror cult members.

I suppose the shit goes sideways in three directions, my bad, I saw only two at first.

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Wall = ... = Air Support = Terror Air Force at 535 Jackpine Dr. and Erickson Air Crane of Eagle Point Oregon

(Take that to “Mark Cross Fine Leather Goods” from the “Walmart” decode above)

https://www.markcross.com/?msclkid=746c57034eff1776e4e808f0b5802b46&utm_source=bing&utm_medium=cpc&utm_campaign=Mark%20Cross%20-%20Branding%20-%20Search%20-%20US&utm_term=Mark%20Cross&utm_content=Official

Then, you carry your leather over to Stevie Nicks, she is going to Trade you that leather for her Lace. You need to say some magic words, she is a Witch, so, magic words have to happen there, maybe “Eagle Point” where the Air Support comes from will work, as long as Don Henley is saying it, otherwise, Stevie might respond to “Landslide” as a workable magic word.

Don Henley = Donald Trump Bird = Donald Trump Air Support

(You are Donald Trump as of that moment.)

That checks out real good.

You need the song Leather & Lace, a Duet by Stevie Nicks and Don Henley, and five minutes on the clock at a pro basketball game where each team starts with 100 points, and five minutes to score as much as possible, Canadian Style (basketball was invented by a Canadian).

“Leather & Lace” ~Stevie & Don w/five minutes on the clock:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ob4cgakHwsQ

Make the trade, leather for lace.

Now you got laid, and have Lace, some Text in the aisle (sex math goes here)

“Biblical” begins right there.

(What could go wrong? Donny has a terror air force called Air Support and a Bible after that. Pompeo keeps the Bible in his inside left jacket pocket along side Bob Dole’s Pen. The Bible is called a “Cadet Bible”, is custom made, special words, special passages, you need to have one in order to know what Mike Pompeo has in his pocket, is holding for Trump. Dole, is a company that makes pineapple products on Maui, Hawaii. Go Figure. The Cadet Bible comes with a Bikini, that one is not a good thing, trust me, you don’t want that kind of Bikini, is a terror Bikini, a Two-Piece for Cadets, from the Top. Double D. D-Day. Two Dimensional, SAG card in good standing, dues paid in full).

(it’s 12:46 am: 1-5-2021: I am too tired to continue, this decode needs more work. This one is, well, it’s a Key that unlocks a lot of other terror decodes. Maybe I can do more later, unless you want to take a whack at it, or come talk to me, that would be much more expeditious)

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... = V Cross V Vin = V Cross V AF1 = V X V AF1 = 5 10 5 AF1 = ...

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... = V Twin All = V Twin Awl = V Twin Scribe = V Twin Script = V Twins Crypt = ...

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1-6-2021: 2:25 pm: Addition:

Back to this part of Trump’s Wall presidential terror math:

“... = V Cross V Vin = V Cross V AF1 = V X V AF1 = 5 10 5 AF1 = ... “

... 5 10 5 AF1 = 5 1 0 5 AF1 = 5 1 5 0 AF1 = 5150 AF1 = Pollo Loco = Crazy Chicken = One Bad Bird = Experimental Chicken ...

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... 5 10 5 AF1 = 5 1 0 5 AF1 = 5 1 5 0 AF1 = 5150 AF1 = Pollo Loco = Crazy Chicken = One Bad Bird = Rotten Egg = Aerial Gas Attack

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... 5 10 5 AF1 = 5 1 0 5 AF1 = 5 1 5 0 AF1 = 5150 AF1 = Crazy Eagle = Don Henley & Stevie Nicks Duet: Leather & Lace = ... (that story above about trade, and five minutes on the clock at a Canadian Basketball Game where the score starts at 100 vs 100, or, “Two dead bitches” doing some tradin‘)

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(technically, there are two separate parallel walls)

... = V Twin Awls = V Twin All Wood El Services = V Twin All Wood Ell Services = V Twin All Wood Capitol Services = Vatican Twin All Wood Capitol Services = Vatican Twin All Treason Capitol Services = Vatican Fascist All Treason Capitol Services = VFATCS = V Fat C’s = Vatican Fat Cats

Wall = Vatican Fat Cats

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1-5-2021: 12:57 pm: addition:

From Vatican Fat Cat’s, presidential terror comm puzzle parts “Don Trump-Henley”, go in tandem, a duet of “Eagles and Dove’s”, along with Stevie Nicks, a SAG representation from Capital Records Building (maybe is only the messenger, kept in the echo chamber dungeon beneath the building. watched over by Frank Sinatra’s Microphone down in the hole there, until she is needed for sending messages), into the front door at Amp Guru, where Stevie’s people (captor’s?) are at, Lindsey Buckingham and Christine McVie, where Lindsey takes the Lace as Down Payment towards a Whole Lot of Linen” (Ann Wilson’s Wardrobe), and Christine McVie sets hands out keys, from “The Key Board at the Valet Parking at The Luxor”, where Amp Guru is at. There, “Tribute to Pink Floyd’s Welcome to the Machine” is forever managed to revolve by Christine McVie, where she is initialized at the Turntable (Technique’s SL Q-2 Quarts Direct Drive w/Strobe), and she becomes Trump Initialized as “DJX“ (that’s Christine McVie doing a Transgender Trump as “The DJX” at the Turntable as a reincarnation of the characters Tin Tin and Kyrano from the 1960′s TV series The Thunderbird’s, all morphed into a single being, and is from whence Amp Guru came from. The two tend to mesh together, and are listed as a single character: Tin-Tin Kyrano = DJX Machine Revolutionary)

Then, from that, where Roger Waters and David Glimour of Pink Floyd are eternally sitting atop a super colossal enormous pyramid, entertaining everyone eternally, with the ominous sounds of Welcome to the Machine, and all of the Windsor’s of Buckingham Palace and all of the Christians of the McVatican are making Cheeseburgers, from the meat locker that is USA’s population, all in effort to maintain The-Heart-Beat-of-America while feeding the beast, Ann Wilson, who has an insatiable appetite for American Cheeseburgers, but is finicky, only will eat them while inside of a Enormous Super Colossal Pyramid.

From there... everything that is Egyptian, is used as a sail to power the pirate ship.

Egyptians knew about the secrets of the feline animals, as do I. You either know about the secrets of a cat, or you don‘t.

That is where the song “Walk Like an Egyptian” by The Bangles, fits in as a command orders, and, also serves as a cover, so that no one will learn the secrets of a cat. If you start a Cracker Jack’s Decoder Ring decode on that song, it will take you deep into the realm of “Rampart Division at The Coliseum”, and towards “The Hell’s Angels do Security for Mick Jagger and the Rolling Stones”, and of course “Jon D’Arms of Winchell’s Doughnuts”, the place of origin of Chanel #5 and N-95 Masks”, and beyond ... into space... the final frontier ...

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It can go in a lot more directions, it’s presidential terror comm, so, there will be three outcomes. One heavenly, one devilish, one ghostly or hidden meaning. That one, Vatican Fat Cats, looks more like bonus to me. I think the “V Twin“ part is going to lead somewhere though, and the “Awl” seems a good “Jesus was a Carpenter” peace to have stumbled onto, could be part of something: “V Twin Awls” is a good place to start over, on another day, unless you want to take a whack at it.

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11:44 pm:

I having some recollection of a time between 1998 - 2002 or so when I was held captive and forced to create a lot of graphics, drawings, technical things, inventions I never got credit for and others are profiting from.... a lot of high level terror artwork is what I had to make... that part about “Vatican Fascists All Treason Capitol Services” goes with this Beatles classic.

It might be better to say: “Vatican SAG All Treason Capitol Services”

McCartney asks for directions and assistance from the WH, so, WH/Vatican gives him Google Maps, some traveling money, a US VISA, plenty of Political Asylum, some swords, airplanes, Third Amendment Violations, and a whole bunch of other stuff. There should be a remaster of the song from around 2000 or so if my memory is working.

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January 7, 2021: 6:21 pm: Addition to:

[Oh I went searchin' for an answer Up the stairs and down the hall Not to find an answer, just to hear the call Of a nightbird singing "Come away" (Come away)]

[From above, when the WH was stormed by Trump supporters at the 5:00 mark]

Then this:

Well I hear you in the morning And I hear you at nightfall Sometime to be near you Is to be unable to hear you, my love I'm a few years older than you (I'm a few years older than you) my love

Time warp terror... those Trump supporters were filmed rushing the White House sometime between 2001 and 2008. The story is “a few years older than you, my love” (comes with a hauntingly familiar echo)

“You” become “My Love” right there, at that moment.

Refer to “Come Down“ (scroll to the bottom) by the band Bush for the keys that unlock secrets about “love = zero”, a tennis score element somewhere nearby a net, funnel, and Cello at a Castle. Annette Funicello... and onward into the Russian Mother of all Hoaxes with a Disney land vibe, and an E-Ticket to ride Mr.Toad’s Wild Ride at the Theme Park.... eternally.... on, and on, and on, and on... etc... and so on...

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This goes above in the part about Donald Trump’s Wall decode where it turns into a terror air force based in Eagle Point Oregon with air force General Bruce & Janice Freeberg at 535 Jackpine Dr. in Grants Pass 97526. (Bruce is dead, he is inside of a stolen F-18 national guard fighter jet trainer at the bottom of the Pacific Ocean off the Oregon Coast, not far from Brookings.)

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1-5-2021: 2:16 pm: addition:

Important consideration:

I have done this decode before. The pieces all came together in remarkably similar ways simply by starting at a few particular places in history.

The “Secrets of a Cat” is no small thing. It’s so big that the last time I mentioned “The Secrets of a Cat”. Juseph Myers of 560 Jackpine, a neighbor with whom I have never spoken with in more than 20 years, and his terror cell members went out on a mission to collect all of the cats, small, four legged feline animals that make great pet’s. They collected thousands of cats, and killed all of the cats, and tortured many of the small animals, only because I said “secrets of a cat” online, wrote it down. There was a drummer I knew, “Crack Head Jed”, who turned out to be part of the Myers terror cell, and Drummer Jed used to cut the heads off of he cats collected by Myers, and keep them in a big glass jar he had... the cat heads continued to Meeowe for as much as two-weeks after being cut of of the cat body, and there they were, on a kitchen/dining room counter top on display in the big jar, all meeowing away... about twenty of them, when I learned about that, in around 2002. Drummer Jed lived at the house that was nearest to the school bus parking garage entrance at Grants Pass High School at the time when I saw and heard the cat heads in the jar in his dining room. He and others from Myers have been trying to kill me to take my home for a long time. The Jed parts of the Myers terror cell extend over to a place called “The Laughing Clam Restaurant Bar & Grill” on G St. A man by the name of Scotty worked there, was a guitar player along with Jed on drums at various venues, including JD’s Sportsbar on Red Wood Hwy. where there is entrance to underground tunnels behind the bar and inside of refrigerator. The JD’s Sportsbar is nearby the County Fair Grounds, but more important is that it’s nearby the company that provides all of the school bus services for schools outside of Grants Pass city limits, District 7 Schools. The Buses are on Ringuette, and that, is next door to the County Zoning Department, and that, is across a footbridge that leads to the All Sports Park... endless access to children of all ages, can be associated to the Myers terror cell, and, as I already have reported many times, the Myers are national leadership of the Green Jello terror cell, and Green Jello is Universal, NBC, Comcast, where David Letterman heads the east coast chapter, and Jay Leno heads the west coast chapter, of Green Jello terror cell, for doing international terrorism on a grand scale.

So, be advised that the things I write to try to get some help, are used to hurt others, while making me look as the bad guy. That, is a component of the Christian terror on all of it’s levels, to conjure up whatever is necessary to advance the Christian Pirate ship out of the air, and blame others, while propelling the boat forward at the same time. What happens to me, has happened to millions of other people who did not live long enough to explain any of it to you, or to any one who could help.

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1-5-2021: 3:11 pm: Addition:

More about the hijacking of Time with insertion of “Two Blood Moons at the Back of the Head as a means to End”

It’s easy to see that there was a vertical division of annual time before January and February were tacked onto the head of the Gregorian Calendar. The addition of the two months created a horizontal divisor on the annual calendar. You could study for ages to get a lot of info out of a “Time Cross” where two halves became four seasons of the same whole as the two halves, for net gain of Zero Time, with vast increase of texture within the whole annual.

With that perspective, we know exactly who hijacked time, when it happened, how it is used as weapon, and that “To Divide is Divine, to Conquer Made Just, in the Nick of Time”

It keeps looking more and more as Stevie Nicks is either a slave, or takes pride in assuming the position of The Russian Whore that is the Mother of all Hoaxes. who ran off with Marcus at the Christening of the Christian Pirate Ship, 2021 years ago.

Moore:

E = MC² is part of a formula that describes something other than what everyone has been brainwashed to believe. That is only a tiny fragment of the whole equation. I have done the math, it’s lengthy and complex, sophisticated but straight forward and is easy to follow, but not easy to catch.

It’s a mathematical equation that discuses within it how lies and falseness will forever accelerate at such an exponential rate, that true, real knowledge, is never able to catch up to it, as the lies are accelerating down range, out into the future, while the truth chases after it, and is only interested in measuring the size and speed of the lies as they increase, indefinitely forward.

It’s the non-equate equation, where G > K, where G = Gnosis, K = Knowledge, but there is a time component that is built in with a square of a Carpenter, the Compass of a captain, to make lies that last forever, because it turns out that Christopher Columbus did not “Forget” the compass, he tossed it over board on purpose, while keeping a secret one, in his pocket.

That said, the “E” can also transcribe to “Power” as it is contained in the equation, but that is a trap built into the equation, don‘t go there. Instead barrow the E to make Power... Energy, as a means to see that Power = Alpha, then, E = A... Power = Alpha

So, you have A as the strongest thing, most important tool, most desirable item, etc...

Then, you carry the A over to January and February.

Simplify.

Jan

Feb

Change the e to a: Feb = Fab, and is second of the additional annual blood moons, and has a secondary Alpha built in now.

Feb becomes Fab right there.

F-A-B is what the Thunderbird’s say when they are on a mission.

Jan & Fab are now more subject matter that needs further decode assessment.

That’s as far as I have gone with January & February, but I have not applied the “Brew” of February yet to anything.

(1961 Chevy Impala roles into the service station over-heating, clouds of steam coming out from the hood, lots of hissing sounds going on under the hood... driver shouts:

“Does anyone have a T-Bag?“)

It happened again, almost the same way, except the vehicle was a 1986 Toyota SR-5 Extra Cab Manual Transmission that overheated the same kind of way, and was brought home, over-heating, clouds of steam all coming out from under the hood, lots of hissing sound under there... the drivers father shouts:

“Does anyone have a T-Bag?”

In around 1987 I began a mission, a quest, to find a pre-1975 Ford Bronco that I could afford to buy. I searched everywhere, but only when I had some money, so, like three times over a course of about twenty years I looked around for a Bronco. In my search for the illusive Ford Bronco, I encountered the Toyota Land Cruiser FJ-40 and FJ-45 models of off road goodness. The FJ-45 is a “Holy Grail” grade vehicle... not for sale anywhere, not available for any amount of money. I wound up skipping the Bronco, they had become too expensive over time, and found a suitable Toyota FJ-40 while looking for a Ford Bronco.

US Department of Defense contracts out assignments to commission development of some very specifically defined technology with a communications broadcast company that specializes in the kinds of things that DoD is looking for.

The technical explanations are very specific, are task specific.

The company develops the requested tech, as described by DoD. They do a ton of Research & Development in the laboratories, under top secret conditions. While the broadcast company is working on those carefully defined communication tools, they stumble over other, more sophisticated, more useful, whiz bang technology, for a different application, but, that is not what the DoD ordered, so, they keep working, give DoD what they want, but, they keep and own that other tech that was found by coincidence.

The broadcast company develops a plan to take over the world with use of DoD throw-back, rejected technology.

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Carpenter wants to build a house on his property, he knows that the Building & Safety people are a lot like the DoD, are not very flexible, and are real assholes when it comes down to a simple change in preference when such changes happen in the midst of the job. So, the carpenter makes the necessary drawings to satisfy the Building & Safety people, but, he is not exactly sure if he will use interior wood siding, or dry-wall, or plaster wall coverings, and is not certain about what particular exterior siding he might want, and certainly does not know if he will be able to afford those granite counter tops that he wants, maybe some money will fall out of the sky, for those granite counter tops and shower enclosures. Building & Safety hates it when the counter tops, siding, fixtures and such are drawn onto the plan, but change in design later on.

The Carpenter simply draws the plans for the house to show all of the structural safety elements are present, and won‘t ever be changed.

Bare minimum plans, to show the least amount of detail, and produce the necessary result, while leaving the door open for luxury, or appearance details out of the drawings, are submitted, are passed, everything is good.

The carpenter, and the inspectors, are all happily satisfied, and the carpenter can make adjustments to decorative items later, without interference or extra expense imposed at the Building & Safety for making small changes to per-approved plans when the changes, or decisions are made later on.

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Some years passed. As they did I had a idea that maybe one day I could get a hold of a 1966 Lincoln Continental, with the suicide doors, slam it to the ground, with some power under the hood, and big shiny wheels.

It did not happen, yet.

One day, after being bombarded with a relentless barrage of attacks from every direction, my family all divided, people suing, people stealing, trespassing, taking everything, lots of heartache and distress... there was a 1959 Ford Thunderbird for sale on the side of the road by the railroad tracks.

The same guy that designed those old Lincoln’s is the guy that designed those old Thunderbird’s. The T-Bird’s look similar to the Lincoln, if you squint your eyes, and soak it in with some dreams.

On a whim, at a time of distress, I bought the Thunderbird from side of the road by the rail road tracks.

The car was good, the circumstances and timing was bad for me to have been weakened such that I made a decision that was not in my best interest at the time. I never got to use that Thunderbird except long enough for some asshole to crash into it head on.... I avoided that, it became a side-swipe down the length of the Thunderbird. It’s solid as a rock though, only some minor damage.

It was a very expensive lesson, I made a lot of bad choices because of a car for sale at the railroad tracks, in Merlin. I swapped a perfectly good 1996 Dodge Caravan for that old Thunderbird, and was the biggest mistake I made associated with that. I suspect the Caravan was used to make me look as the bad guy, so, for the record, by the time the T-Bird was registered to me, I no longer had the Caravan.

That 1959 Thunderbird was once owned by the owner of a Chevron Gas Station in Hawaii. I am in Oregon, the car came somehow from Hawaii, ten thousand miles on the odometer later, and was parked for sale on the side of the road by the rail road tracks in Merlin, but I don‘t when of how it arrived in Oregon.

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By the way, there is a name for the Christian Pirate Ship, as explained before.

The HMS Eleanor Rigby

(comes with that brew I was talking about, it turns out, where the e is the a of FAB)

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1-25-2021: 5:42 pm:

Local Update:

I went outside to get the mail just now.

Some asshole was vandalizing some things I have at the end of the driveway. nothing important, but what is important is that I finally saw that the asshole who does that actually drives over here, stops in my driveway, gets out of the car for the purpose of knocking down a tree stump that is balanced on some branches there. It’s little more complicated than that, but the items there that were vandalized are bothering someone to the extent that they are tipped over from time to time.

The asshole took off in the car from my driveway as I went out and saw, then heard the sound of the things being knocked over, I suspect it’s Chartrand’s Royal Canadian Mounted Police terror cell who does that. The items are symbolically placed. They tell a story. Only few can read what I wrote with a stump and branches, precariously placed.

Monroe’s are signaling that they want me to fully explain what the items mean as the vehicle drove away. They use lighting, and objects, sounds, smoke, fire, farm animals, cages and enclosures, statuary, trash, small and large, loud and soft, bright and dark, contrast, with a blur, speed with a stall, sound with a directional pan, nature, plants, odors, stink, and aroma.... they have a very large three dimensional vocabulary at Monroe’s, they know exactly what the stump and branches mean, but will never say so to anyone who could send some help to the places where the help is needed.

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1-5-2021: 6:15 pm:

There are both helpful people and not helpful people around nearby somewhere. I need to touch a subject of audio surveillance that is heard by the helpful group, and is consistently fouled up by the non-helpful group.

The problem is that what I really need to explain is not believable. There are only maybe a few dozen people on Earth who have a particular set of knowledge about human beings and what we are capable of.

That is part of the audio subject heard by potentially helpful people. The idea that what was heard, is so top secret, that no one knows what is going on when the activity is witnessed.

I am not going to reveal the top secret information.

I am only going to say that the reports where someone says: “He has no eyes”, or “he is injured, his eyes have been removed, are gone”

Anything heard about absence of eyes, the ones people see with, should just be disregarded. Reports that the author of this account is a blind man are false. What they are seeing is a reaction caused by their own weaknesses, nothing more.

I still need help, the only thing that is currently wrong with my eyes is regular attacks with handfuls of ground up glass dust tossed into my eyes. That really does hurt, and fouls up my vision. Other airborne poison gasses used by the Monroe’s and others to poison me on a daily basis are also suspected of fouling my vision in other ways, but any mention that I have no eyeballs, is a false story, you are being fooled by local authorities.

There may be some helpful people who say they saw a condition of absence of eyes, then saw me drive away, without hitting anything. In that case, disregard all but the part where I drove away without hitting anything, and can do that as I please, if I had freedom to go somewhere, and did not have the glass in my eyes.

You too, can achieve the same thing, a condition of enlightenment that is so powerful that your eyes are not necessary, and that is the secret knowledge that is not believable, and only few people know is possible. It comes from a combination of fear, knowledge, confidence, and knowing the difference between smart and stupid when your life depends on smart.

You don‘t have to believe any of that. That’s why I ask that you disregard the audio, and the witness accounts of “He has no eyes”.

I can see better without them showing.

So can you. You have to stop watching television, to start with, in about two years you will be much smarter as a result. But to achieve that other thing “He has no eyes” requires constant exposure to life threatening fear to the extent that there is no more fear, somewhere on the other side of constant fear, is a place where only few people have gone, and survived the experience. So, honestly, it’s a useful thing, but I don‘t recommend learning the hard way about why people say: “He has no eyes”.

I have an example about the level of fear that causes internal survival skills.

I get shot at often, bullets, arrows, even at least one cellulose missal and a number of wire guided missals have been shot at me.

So, that kind of fear, there is a helicopter, it’s shooting missals, at you.

Another example is the African Lions that the Safari terror cell uses. If while checking the mail, and the mail carrier suddenly comes down the road, stops to put the mail into the mailboxes, but the door on the other side opens, and a African Lion is set loose. right there where I am standing to wait for the mail carrier to drive away, only to that she dropped off an African Lion there at the mail boxes. That, is scary. So, you have to outsmart the Lion, there is no other way, when the US Postal Service drops off a Lion.

Those are the times when I see much better, can move more deliberately, can outsmart an African Lion, or a cellulose missal, and the helicopter that brought it.

You can too, just move to Oregon, and do as I suggest if you want to survive here without joining the terror army, or obtaining a smart phone the way they demand you do.

I have fought more than one-hundred African Lions armed with no more than a fingernail clipper, and lived to tell about it. I don‘t want to tell about it. I need to because of “He has no eyes” keeps the helpful people from helping.

I suggest this, with every amount of energy possible to convey: “do not come to Oregon. If you are here in Oregon, go back to somewhere safe, then, come back with US Military, well equipped, quietly, with big ears, small mouths, not a lot of unnecessary activity, and learn, observe somehow without giving away the observation techniques. Drones won‘t work. They are loud, only an absolutely silent drone might work if it also is disguised as a bird, and makes bird sound as it fly’s. Mechanical sounds won‘t last more than an hour. Be advised that any tech brought to Oregon and is captured by the terror army is modified by Amp Guru, and used against the people who brought it. Equipment brought by helpful people is used to try to kill me often. It’s used to torture US Citizens. If you cannot tether it to your body so you don‘t loose, then maybe you should use that. Guns won’t work. The terror army plays a mind game, where there is too many people downrange, might miss, hit an innocent victim. Your gun is used to kill you without any shots ever being fired, because of the mind game, those with guns are attacked from perceived innocent people during the time they are deciding when and who to shoot at.... in that small delay that happens due to uncertainty. You have to be certain that 100% of the people in Oregon are terror soldiers. The men, the women, the children, the elderly, and the disabled, all are terror soldiers. The exception is the slave soldiers, who are kidnapped US Citizens forced to do whatever they are told to do. I don‘t have a way to determine who is who about the slave soldiers vs their Canadian soldier captors. Consider that the slaughter has already been done, there are no more US citizens, the slaughter happened and was complete about ten or more years ago, so, there are not likely to be very many small children who are under ten years old who are slaves. The problem with that deduction is the terror army are traffickers, can import slave soldiers of all ages.

That’s why US Military needs to find a way to quietly learn who is who.

Otherwise, just go to all of the broadcast networks, and shut them down. That will expose a lot about who is who. Radio, Television, Twitter, newspapers, junk mail advertising... all is used to advance and update the terror army.

“Easter Egg Phones” are a problem for helpful people. The terror army has a network built of many hundreds of thousands of Blue-Tooth phones that serve as a wide area communication network, each phone plugged in and turned on serves as a miniature cellular telephone tower that can daisy chain with others, all are within range of a few others, to maintain uninterrupted connections throughout Oregon. They are everywhere, tucked behind and beneath every refrigerator in all directions for miles around, as of 2004-ish. I suspect they have gone to a next generation idea, where the Pacific Power Residential and Commercial Smart Meters serve as the daisy chain blue tooth base units for bouncing a signal to terror soldiers where ever they go.

I advise taking control of Rocky Mountain Power, all of it, all five of the sub companies. I suggest to continue power service at a subsidized rate, where nominal usage is provided, and extra usage over a calculated limit is charged for at least on a temporary basis. All of the linemen of those companies serve as the controlling strong arm of the terror army, they use their easement rights as a front to cover access where access is not always necessary. So, those guys all need to be rounded up. Same is true about Oregon Department of Transportation, they too serve as a strong arm. That, and the Easment Maintanance companies who contract with the state to maintain roadway shoulders and medians, as well as Power Line easements, for keeping the trees from the lines, and out of the shoulder areas, are a big deal, there are tens of thousands of those guys, are all physically fit, able to climb tall trees, are skilled with tools, and are also skilled at using those tools as unconventional weaponry. Both the Power Linemen, and the Tree Service guys, as well as Forestry workers, are highly skilled with use of cables, fulcrums, mechanical means of all kinds used for moving heavy stuff around, all of that works as a weapon, is hidden, easily overlooked spring loaded traps and wire snares.

Centurylink Internet and Land Line Phone Service is a giant size nightmare problem because none of the phone lines go to the addresses that they are supposed to go, all were switched out at the access terminals, there is a map somewhere that enplanes how they were swapped out. The map of accounts at Centurylink HQ is intentionally wrong. That shows where the phone are supposed to lead to, but not where the lines actual are physically connected. There is detailed explanation about the different ways that the phones are fouled on this account, is extreme complication, many layers of fouled phone activity going on at Centurylink.

I received email notice today that my account number was changed, as was all of the Centurylink customers. That could be good news because part of the confusion service was that everyone had an account number that is also a phone number, even for people who do not have telephone service, only use the DSL as I do. The same format as a phone number is how Centurylink causes some of the confusion service they do. All of the customers in the 541 area code start with 541, (there are no guarantees about reality, the account could be in Hawaii, and only say 541 for confusion) and all of them end with 234 for residential customers. That leaves 7 digits in between for unique account number at Centurylink. I am told that account number system changed, is no longer a 541 or a 234 happening in the account number, which they informed me is a 9 digit number, and provided me with new account number in today’s email from Centurylink. So, as of this morning, my account number is different than it was yesterday, or last billing cycle is better to say.

https://www.centurylink.com/home/help/account/pay-bill/faqs-about-account-changes.html?rid=accountchanges

Above is the link that tells of the extent of the changes with the billing. See that the information is written in less than collage level writing skills. See that there are a lot of open doors where terror can stick it’s foot into among the details, notably there is something about: “There are a number of reasons why your due date could change....” I smell a yeast infection waiting to happen with a lot random activity going on with that.

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Don‘t drop this.

There is no Russia!

This happened:

One day, on the day before the soccer ball changed hands, a terror soldier had come into my house, was hiding behind the chair where I was reclined in. Communication was going on, I was being poisoned with nitrous gas, other gas is also suspected. Chris Wallace’s voice was in my house. There was talk about what to do at a meeting between Putin and Trump. Trump had already sent a lot of assassins to my house by then, i think Jeff Sessions had already been killed in defense, Trump began sending his cabinet over immediately when I sent email to the White House asking for his help to stop mass murders in Oregon.

So, “What should we do at the Putin/Trump meeting?” was asked of me.

I said: “Give Trump a gift, a soccer ball, can you get a soccer ball on short notice?”

The reply was “Yes, we can, the soccer world series just ended, and there are soccer players nearby, we can get a soccer ball”

So, I said: “There you go, that is my suggestion, have Mr. Putin give to Mr. Trump a soccer ball” (I still thought there was a Russia at the time)

I don‘t recall if an explanation was included, but the explanation is that the ball is made of Pentagons, tiny Pentagons are sewn together, it makes a soccer ball.

The idea was that maybe Trump would understand the magnitude of the terrorism (before I considered that he was a leading terror general, or a British Knight disguised as US President.) Maybe a Pentagon Bell would go off in his head.

So that happened. I don‘t remember any more right now.

Important considerations of that: Terror is “International”.

“International” is a key word for the Christian terrorists.

Soccer is an international game, known as Football everywhere except USA,

There are recent reports about a world renown Soccer player who died recently, stories are on Twitter, I think he was a Columbian (best coffee comes from Columbia. Maybe some coffee was poisoned)

The soccer players casket was fashioned to resemble a race car, or other vehicle, people gathered in great number to his funeral services held around the world.

The casket, to me, was a “Matterhorn Bobsled” from Disneyland symbol.

That’s all I have on that, unless the bridge that collapsed at Florida International University happened shortly after the soccer ball was delivered, then, that goes here too for doing math some other time.

I just want to say: “Don‘t drop the ball”

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1-5-2021: 9:41 pm:

“He has no eyes”

The Christian terror bastards who see that happen, have concluded that I must be God, because I they think I can drive while blind. They say I must be God, because I actually have caught the bullets and arrows they shoot at me.

So, the Myers brand of terror, decided to keep God locked up, to use me as their scape goat while terrorizing the whole world, all because they saw something that they do not understand.

The Sparacino’s do the same thing, they go along with the Myers story about me being God, when all they saw was some unusual activity with the way my eyes look when I am terrified out of my mind, and have to survive impossible situations, like US Postal Lions, Express Delivery.

The Sparacino’s say I am Allah, to cover the scape goat for all of the spectrum of the advance of Global Domination Under the Cross, the stuff I am trying to stop.

What they are seeing, like I said, is a result of their own weakness. They cannot handle the truth, they need a God, at least they believe they do. So these religious cult bastards have been thinking that they managed to catch a God, some of them say “baby God”, and they put the God they found into a bug jar, to watch, and for them to ask what I think they should do. Lately, they are just reading what I write, while I am looking for help, they twist the words around to do Christian terror activities, with biblical scale and scope, Globally to serve their goals while blaming me, and fooling the national and global security people with bullshit all conjured up out of the air.

That truth I was saying about humans are capable of much more than they are told, has a name that the Christians assigned to it, while covering up the notition that people are amazing, but are gullible and will believe in a lot bullshit as long as the people don‘t need to think on their own to save their own lives... people will even line up to buy Hope... even when the Hope is handed out for free someplace else.

“The Fear of God” is what happens on the other side of fear, that is when people like you and me become God Like. The Christians came up with that to suppress the truth about: “He has no eyes”.

I have seen three other people in my lifetime who also had the “He has no eyes” going on at the time I met them. Including myself, that makes four people in about a 35 year time range who “has no eyes” and suffered from “The fear of God”.

The thing that makes those people weak, is their minds. The Christians are raised among a series of lies stacked and layered with a lot of bonus textures, stories with so much false detail that that there is no way to escape the thickness and weight of a lifetime of lies about a invisible man who rules every aspect of their being, a bunny that hides eggs, a fat man who brings gifts into the chimney, those flying reindeer and so much more is all taught with a straight face right out of that Bible at the Church where the children are raped by the pastor.

Weakness of the mind, due to inability to believe things they don‘t understand long enough to study the information for the purpose of actually learning something useful.

WEAK!

I suggest everyone should make an attempt to challenge their own mind.

Your goal is to determine what is real, and what is a lie. Your goal is to move away from the lies, and towards the truth. If you cannot find any truth, you still win by moving away from the lies. Do you believe there is a Santa Clause? If not stop participating in the charade, that is the scope of the challenge against yourself. Are you willing to continue to allow yourself to fool you?

Discontinue participation in lies. Truth by omission of bullshit.

Less bullshit is a wealth that gets no respect.

Every dollar spent on those prearranged fake holidays is a dollar that is used to kill your family, neighbors, friends, and those who’s job is to protect and to serve the population of USA. The way it works, is so much incoming money all at the same time creates a vast momentum in terror advance. They are able to make capital investments in scale that would not otherwise be possible had there been no fake holiday. I recommend discontinue the fake Hallmark Holidays, all of them in favor of celebration of your own birthday, and those of your family and friends to produce a more genuine celebration of those you care about, while leaving that Easter Bunny as road kill on the way to get a birthday gift for someone who really matters.

That, if everyone did just individual birthday giving, all distributed evenly throughout the year, with a similar budget as a Christmas budget, would produce a vastly stronger nation built of companies that can survive all year long, not just in December, while at the same time, pull the rug out from under that asshole at the Vatican and all of his murderous child raping friends.

Is your mind strong enough to overcome the Santa within?

In your minds eye, there is you vs that overwhelming urge to participate in the Hallmark Charades. It’s you vs the holiday, and year after year, the holiday has been kicking your ass in every way. Financially it breaks you, and physically it exhausts you, but you continue to kick your own ass every year, year after year, only because of something known as Christian Guilt, it is taught in such a way that we are addicted to the guilt, and serve it for others to eat as we kill ourselves doing it, to please no one who is impressed by the effort.

Every year it gets harder and harder to overcome the burden of the Hallmark holiday because the terror army is getting stronger and stronger with every dollar you spend for the Hallmark holiday.

So, are you to weak to save your own life from the monster you are feeding?

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1-5-2021: 11:16 pm:

Local Update, update:

Something fishy going on with the mail.

When I went to get the mail earlier, there was the US Cellular Phone bill, and that is all that was in the mailbox. Whats fishy is that the US Cellular bill has almost never arrived on the fifth of the month, it almost always arrives on the eighth, and sometimes the ninth of the month. I am reminded of Clyde Baum of 333 Jackpine, who always was in my mailbox, taking the mail, open the mail, then put the mail back into my mailbox, and nothing I can do to stop it because the sheriff is in league with Clyde Baum, and, because I am outnumbered 50,000 : 1 just in this county, more with consideration of the rest of the state.

So why did the US Cellular bill arrive on the fifth of the month? That’s at least two days early, but is actually on time, it’s just not what I am accustomed to with consideration of the terror spies and the lengths they go to for fooling federal fools who are not accustomed to not being fooled, and insist on being forever fooled by religious cult terror soldiers.

This is for federal fools to ponder, it’s personal:

I suspect the MedDems are behind this one though. Two days at least early for a phone bill is all they need to fool feds who were told I actually received medical treatment. I did not receive any medical services, I received a phone call in the parking lot beneath a cellular telephone tower at a terror cell that is disguised as a doctors office, and I was doing your job while I was there, and have been doing your job there for almost six years regularly. now, they are using a cell phone bill to further fuck with me, to fool you, so they have another chance to kill me tomorrow. That is what the two days early are really about. I have played this game before.

There is absence of helpful people, a vacuum of help is present.

I went for a walk, and someone from Myers 560 had come into my house to make signature Myers brand terror signature mess in my house.

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1-6-2021: 12:48 am:

Glue:

There is a woman who lives at Myers 560, she is about 5′ 9“, 180 lbs, 62 y/o, grey shoulder length hair, usually drives white cross over style car, I think is a nissan Rogue, has a grey shelf looking thing around the rear bumper. She has been there a long time, could be Rita, could be nora, I don‘t know which one. She sneaks up on people while dressed in a costume made of human body parts, and always seems to say the same thing, happens so often that I have it memorized:

“Look, I have these... felopian tubes, there fresh... see? Ohh darn, this ovary keeps falling off, I’ll have to glue it.”

That is when she holds a female reproductive system in her hands, to show the victim she is about to kill with a sword. I hear that at Monroe’s from time to time these days, but she has said it to me while dressed that way in that costume made with arms, legs, heads.... at my front door when the Jahova Witnesses come knocking on Saturday morning.

But that is not the glue I have, I already explained all of that before.

Lately, that woman has been wearing a coat that is just like the one that I wear around the house. Green, with hood, cotton. She and the sheriff are using that coat and a pair of jeans to fool the federal fools for about four months to my count.

That is not the glue either.

This is the glue:

There was once a man who attacked at my home, about 6′ 4″, 200 lbs, 32 years old, short light brown hair, used an alias name of Erick, I think his real name was Patrick, and I think he was sheriff of Multinoma County Oregon, or nearby county to Multinoma. I killed him in defense, left him in pieces inside of a red Toyota that he came here in. It was about four years ago and was the last time I saw someone I care about who he had with him, and is why I defended that way.

That, is part of the terror doctor visit, it’s the reason for that brown bag that said Erica on it. It may have said Erick, I remember seeing that it said Erick, but I heard the man with the bag say Erica, who is one of the terror doctors at the terror clinic I went to.

So, I am in possession of a paper prescription since that visit, on it are two of these: ** like that, where “Quantity” is noted. There is special instructions that indicate the safety measure. There is also “Tamper Proof Paper” noted as a safety measure.

Those two things are the special terror instructions to send my phone bill through earlier than usual. Like I said, it arrived at least two days sooner than it usually does, almost never arrives on the fifth. What that does, is tells the mail carrier that there is something to be concerned about, and the presence of that in my mailbox on the fifth tells the terror spies on Jackpine that there is something to be concerned about. The concern was noted on Monday the 4th, at the terror doctor, where there must be a way to send a copy to the DEA or some other place as a normal and customary safety measure. The problem is the DEA were hijacked a long time ago, are all SAGClubMed and MedDems terror cell members as of the time that Asa Hutchinson was in charge there, or before that.

The part about the “Tamper Proof Paper” is somehow about the woman who lives at, or used to live at 520 Jackpine, next door to my house, and is also next door to Myers at 560. 520 is in between. I only have been saying that the woman is “Mystery Pot Grower Lady” for not knowing anything about the people there who somehow obtained the home of an entire dead family called the Nathan & Naomi Phillips family who used to live at 520, are all dead now. The Josephine County Tax Assessors Online Portal says that someone by the name of Tammy owns that 520 house now, and that Tammy is also presumed to be dead. So, Tamper Proof Safety Measure is just exactly the kind of thing that the US Postal Service terror cell can use to alert other terror cells of what kind of problems the terror cell at the terror doctor is experiencing there. US Postal Stork knows everything there is to know about everyone there is to keep track of, they know more than the people at Mikey’s Video know, and that is saying a lot. 520 is a place where I have seen Sir Richard Branson, and have encountered a Queen‘s Guard along with Prince Charles Windsor out front of there on the road. The terror on Jackpine is indeed global, international terror.

Two asterisks are being used to fool the federal agents who are assigned the wrong kind of duty for the wrong kind of crime, they need to be bringing US Military to ward off hundreds of thousands of Canadians who took the state of Oregon twenty years ago, but instead are sent to investigate a possible prescription counterfeit for a few pills, and were sent into the Lions Den like Dan on Mutual of Omaha’s Wild Kingdom, where there is no lion, the Welsh Dragon that’s in the den, ate the lion and all of the other previously sent federal agents who insist on being lion and dragon food all of the time.

All of Josephine County knows you are nearby.

I strongly advise you go back to someplace where it’s safe, do so carefully, they will follow you and have better communication equipment than you do.

Go get US Military somehow... Trump will not help with that, and there are no more US national guard alive in Oregon unless they are held as prisoners.

50,000 : 1

That’s Fifty-thousand to one, that I am outnumbered against a Canadian terror army that took the state, killed all of the citizens, unless some are prisoners as explained above. That’s only considering Josephine County.

Jackson County = 75,000

Douglas County = 25,000

Klamath County = 25,000

Josephine County = 50,000

That’s 175,000 just in those four counties. I cannot make estimates farther away, and the information is ten years old. They are much stronger now, far more refined in their ways.

I have been told by Walmart terror soldiers that my estimates are too small, too conservative. They read everything I write and use it against me and those who are sent to see what’s going on here. The are Google, so, they made a searchable data base, and a parallel set of information to keep track of what lies were told in association with all of the different details I have explained about, so they can keep their lies all organized nice and tidy, thanks to Google and their expertise of organizing information.

Please, don‘t get dead, go get military.

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1-6-2021: 1:52 am:

(Centurylink is still turning off my number pad on my keyboard when I need to use a numeral)

For people who might choose to try to wing it:

You need to be aware of taxedermied humans, and how they are used as bait. There are such taxedermied humans. They are placed in houses, seated at a computer that is on and running, or in a kitchen, propped up at a counter that looks as if they are making some cookies, or in a car, or anywhere that a person might be doing activity. They are bait. You see someone that you are looking for who disappeared in Oregon, follow a lead from the sheriff, who says to go to that place over there, to look at this car over here in this garage right there, and shows on Google map where the tip says to go. Then, there is the person, looks in good shape, like nothing is wrong.... so, you let down your guard... bad idea.

The person is dead, is taxidermy.

The terror sheriff tells Myers that you are on the way, so, they make last minute preparations, to take you captive, not kill you. They need to torture you first, so that you will say the secret words that can get their people into your HQ.

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1-6-2021: 2:17 am:

Also, you have to pay close attention to that train that just sounded the horn at Jess Way crossing, what that train does alerts many thousands of terror soldiers along that route. The train is two hours late, so, at minimum, there is abnormal conditions around here. The characteristics of the way the train operator feather’s, or lays into that horn is a language all it’s own. I don‘t know how to read it. I can read the timing is off. There may or may not be another train at around dawn at Jess Way crossing, they seem to go north more than south somehow.

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January 7, 2021: six o’clock hour additional decode keys are contained here for “Edge of Seventeen“ contained in a song by.... you guessed it...

Bush

Come Down ___________

Love and hate Get it wrong She cut me right back down to size Sleep the day Let it fade Who was there to take your place? No one knows Never will Mostly me But mostly you What do you say? Do you do? When it all comes down? 'Cause I don't want to come back down From this cloud It's taken me all this time To find out what I need again I don't want to come back down From this cloud It's taken me all this All this time There is no blame Only shame When you beg You just complain The more I come The more I try All police are paranoid

So am I So's the future So are you Be a creature What do you say? Do you do? When it all comes down? 'Cause I don't want to come back down From this cloud It's taken me all this time To find out what I need Yeah, yeah, yeah I don't want to come back down From this cloud It's taken me all this All this time Shoot up Shoot up Shoot up You're high Love and hate Get it wrong She cut me right back down to size Sleep the day Let it fade Who was there to take your place?

No one knows Never will Mostly me But mostly you What do you say? Do you do? When it all comes down? 'Cause I don't want to come back down From this cloud It's taken me all this time To find out what I need Yeah, yeah, yeah I don't want to come back down From this cloud It's taken me all this All this time Why did you? Why did you? Why did you? Why did you? Why did you? Why did you? Why did you? Why did you?

Why did you? Come down I don't want to come back down From this cloud This cloud This cloud This cloud This cloud This cloud This cloud This cloud This cloud

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The song is used by the Christian terror army to change the meaning of “Love” to “Hate” then further to “zero” or “nothing” or “utter eternal darkness” and the result, “Death“.

The meaning carries over to “Edge of Seventeen” and other places where the Christian terror cult needs some kind of written (text) to justify the things they do, because if it is written, they feel, it is so, and thus is “sewn” into the fabric of “The Cloth”.

See... ? it’s all very simple...

At some point along the Mr. Toad’s Wild Ride featuring Annette Funicello or Stevie Ncks as you prefer, you must carry the Bush over here:

For further understanding, it’s a burning bush.

Use it to gain some wings to navigate the airwaves of the Audioslaves of the Christian terror cult army, all armed with smart phones and nitrous oxide rocket fuel. Terror comm is located where you look for it. It’s everywhere you look.

There is no one looking for terror comm.

There is no one watching the baby. The baby is on fire.

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WHEN CONSTABULARY DUTY TO BE DONE (and paid for)

Defund the police?

A slow day in the heart of Bogotá, Colombia (2013)

I've been meaning to return to the tantalizing issue of 'defunding' the police. It has lingered in the news all summer, tracking the Black Lives Matter movement as it spread around much of the world.

When you stop to think about it, the drive to defund the police must seem, to many people, a non-starter. Not a smart idea, too impulsive and ideological. For others it is long overdue. They recognize it as a revolutionary spark, a signal that the time has come not only to rein in the security forces but to rethink the social order, the structure of authority and its implementation.

Let's look at the first reaction, the one of prudent disbelief.

In essence, it says: don't mess with the cops. We live in an increasingly disorderly, embittered world where things will get out of hand sooner or later, or, as they say in French, they will overflow. Who would want to fiddle with emergency services, least of all the constabulary, in such unstable times? Who would want to begrudge them their rights and privileges when things go wrong and they are actually needed.

Even at times when nothing goes wrong, our fraying social fabric, the growing insecurity and belligerence in many corners of society will bring about situations where security forces are called for. Short of sending in the army, the police then act as circuit breakers of last resort. At least, that's the theory.

But that has little to do with police brutality.

Let me say that I sometimes feel a touch of sympathy for individual cops who face prosecution after a public outcry over acts of police violence. What the victims perceive as 'misconduct' or unwarranted force may seem nothing more than appropriate to the police officers applying it. Even when the police ‘cross the line', it probably is, in their own frame of reference, what society condones and what the victims deserve. A random correction in real time. Criminal charges can therefore appear a little unfair since the use of force is part of the playbook of policing. It can easily be argued that the offending officers were only doing what was expected from them, implicitly or even explicitly.

What this also means is that police brutality cannot be dismissed as a rotten-apple issue, it is systemic. Nor is it essentially an American problem, it exists to varying degrees all over the world. I'm not thinking here of countries where 'institutions are weak' (to use that most diplomatic phrase), where police brutality is taken for granted, where torture and extrajudicial killings have become a form of de facto law enforcement (like in Mexico, the Philippines, Honduras, Egypt, Brazil, Syria...).

I'm not even thinking of, say, Belarus or of India where a father and his son both died recently while in police custody. Their offence was not to have observed coronavirus restrictions. Nor am I thinking of the unforgettable footage of an American psychopath cop itching to blow away an unarmed suspect who was lying on the floor of a hotel corridor, in no position to resist arrest. And then he pulled the trigger.

A lot of similarly dramatic footage has accumulated over the years since body cams and dash cams were introduced, notably in the USA. They show both overt racism and the errors of judgment made by nervous cops who did what came naturally to them when the option of lethal force was available.

Pop, pop, pop and another 'offender' goes down. It can look and sound quite anticlimactic in the videos, cursory, except that death is irreversible.

Gun violence is so common in the USA it should be no surprise that police officers make use of the weapons put at their disposal when confronted with threats, real or imagined. Some opt to open fire to be on the safe side. In most instances, they act with a reasonable degree of assurance that they will remain immune if not from prosecution itself, then from serious sanction. They are, after all, doing their job and everyone knows that police work is not for the faint of heart (*).

No, I am thinking of countries where guns are rarely drawn and where some of the trust between the public and the police has survived. Even there, the essential bond between the citizens and police, based on consent by the former, and on the impartiality and accountability by the latter, is fraying.

Too often the police are out of step when citizens are treated not as beneficiaries of a public service but as an underclass of dissidents who haven't figured out what the police are for and whom they ultimately serve. The same cops who one moment have nothing more urgent to do than redirect traffic, can quickly turn into warriors in black combat gear, robocops at the command of an unchanging social order.

Fatal misunderstandings between police and the victims of police brutality typically occur after the 'offenders' fail to obey a mundane order (to disperse, not to move, to step out of the car, whatever). The same basic issue of authority and legitimacy is also at the heart of confrontations between police and demonstrators who feel they have done nothing wrong, yet risk arrest or worse for refusing to obey a 'lawful' order that, to them, lacked legitimacy.

In some parts of the world the distrust has spiraled into a state of animosity where the police are no longer perceived as civil servants but as public militias with an open mandate to confront and to repress. They are estranged from the communities they're supposed to serve, especially minorities, meaning non-white and non-middle-class. The rubbery meaning of the word 'minorities' is well known, equated with those on the wrong side of the track because of origin, poverty, race, gender or political ideas - the usual barriers of discrimination and the triggers of police bias.

On the other hand it is true that brutality is not a one-way street and that the police encounter violence that is not of their choosing, in crisis situations, when trying to contain mobs of hooligans or rioting drunks craving violence.

Whatever the cause, things are made worse by the creeping militarization of many police forces, something that started in the US but has had a ripple effect elsewhere. It has led to a one-sided arms race, ratcheting up the drama of routine police work while devouring ever more public funds.

Which brings us to...(de)funding.

Money is one of the basic requisites of armed conflict. Without financing, there is no war. As the relationship between police and citizenry turns more conflictual, would it make sense to de-escalate the conflict through that most effective of administrative means, cutting the budget, or redirecting some of it to social services?

To figure out if the police are overfunded, or if there are simply too many of them, it is necessary to rethink what the police are for. Have their attributions drifted too far from simply safeguarding the peace and maintaining 'order'? What should be on the police to-do list in an open, democratic society?

- 1 Application of the rule of law.

- 2 Peacekeeping, public order and safety

- 3 Prevention and repression of crime

- 4 Dealing with public disturbances

- 5 Assistance in emergencies

Items 1, 2 and 5 do not, in principle, require weapons, body armour or anxiogenic tactics. These functions are either administrative in nature or deal with everyday control and assistance (e.g. traffic and road safety, neighbourhood patrols, social problems, drug overdoses...). They can safely be defanged, demilitarized and thus defunded. Indeed, several countries retain unarmed policing for routine duties (most of the UK, Ireland, New Zealand, Norway, Fiji...). It does take the drama and the testosterone down a notch or two.

But that is the easy part, the non-confrontational side of things. Too often the police operate on a logic that is adversarial, not based on consent but on confrontation. Violence can turn into a self-fulfilling prophecy and guns make it worse. The more body armour and weapons are routinely on display (beltfuls of guns, tasers, pepper sprays; water cannon; tear gas...), the greater the assumption of violence. The stakes are raised. The message is not engagement, de-escalation or even deterrence, but enforcement. In the end violence is expected, it is part of the show.

* * *

We live in a world full of worry and obsessed with 'security'. The police are part of that obsession. An expensive part. Defunding them may work as a shock therapy but clearly more can and should be done to reform the whole security apparatus.

If the current modus operandi of the police is no longer acceptable, then policy makers must re-imagine what the cops are for and how much legal latitude they should enjoy while discharging their duties.

Beyond changing the laws and regulations that define and govern policing, the job itself could be dedramatized through a number of measures, including disarming where feasible, stricter rules of engagement, extended training and much higher recruiting standards for what is a demanding and often delicate job. In many instances that would mean fewer socially conservative macho men in uniform.

That would be a start. But it will take more than that, more than a bit of defunding to bring police behaviour in line with the legitimate expectations of the communities they are supposed to serve. The whole playbook of policing needs a fundamental rewrite. Too many cops have demonstated they need messing with.

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(*) 554 fatal shootings by American police officers were registered by the US Centers for Disease Control in 2017. Other statistics, such as the number of deaths in police custody, vary.

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The Ultimate Glossary of Terms About HVAC Commercial Contractors

What Electricians Perform

Electricians put in, keep, and repair electric power, communications, lighting fixtures, as well as management devices in houses, companies, and also factories.

Duties of Electricians

Electricians commonly do the following:

Review blueprints or Commercial Electrician Kansas City technical diagrams

Mount and preserve wires, command, and illumination units

Examine electric parts, including transformers as well as circuit breakers

Identify electric concerns making use of an assortment of testing devices

Repair work or even change wiring, devices, or even fittings making use of palm tools as well as electrical power tools

Adhere to condition and regional building policies based on the National Electrical Code

Straight and train employees to put in, sustain, or even repair service electrical circuitry or even tools

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Almost every structure possesses an electric power, interactions, lights, and also command body that is set up in the course of development and preserved afterwards. These units energy the lightings, devices, and tools that create folks's lives and also projects easier and even more pleasant.

Putting in electrical units in recently constructed structures is commonly much less complex than keeping devices in existing structures because power wires is actually much more simply obtainable during construction. Sustaining tools as well as units involves pinpointing concerns and also mending broken devices that is actually often challenging to reach. Servicing work may consist of correcting or changing components, lights, management units, motors, and other sorts of electric equipment.

Electricians read through master plans, which include specialized designs of electric systems that show the site of circuits, channels, as well as various other tools. They make use of various sorts of palm and also power resources, such as channel benders, to operate as well as protect wiring. Various other generally made use of palm and power resources consist of screwdrivers, cord pole dancers, drills, and saws. While damage control, domestic electricians also may use ammeters, voltmeters, thermal scanning devices, and also cord specialists to locate troubles as well as make certain that parts are actually operating appropriately.

A lot of domestic electricians operate alone, yet occasionally they work together with others. For example, experienced electrical experts may partner with building engineers and also designers to assist concept electrical units for brand new building. Some electrical contractors may also speak with various other building and construction experts, like lift installers as well as heating as well as cooling laborers, to help set up or maintain electric or electrical power units. At bigger companies, electrical contractors are actually more likely to operate as portion of a workers; they may drive assistants and pupils to finish work.

Discovering a residence domestic electrician

The majority of residents contact domestic electricians in an urgent or even if they are actually building or remodeling. It is vital to research a contractor and also discover a trained domestic electrician before you need one. By constructing a connection with an electrical expert, you can be sure that they are going to be there to assist when you require their solutions. Therefore, you'll wish to choose an electrical contractor for regular evaluations just before an emergency happens. A good power professional will definitely become knowledgeable about your property's systems and also perhaps uncover surfacing issues prior to they become major situations.

Choosing a domestic electrician is actually a necessary decision considering that they team up with vital house devices that impact almost every aspect of the structure and also may create significant aggravation, damage or maybe home fires if the job goes wrong.

As consistently, house owners need to get multiple bids to guarantee they obtained the very best rate for the solution. To vet the business, individuals need to ask about the adhering to items:

Current education and learning: A credible firm will definitely require workers to participate in regular training programs and also remain current on the National Electrical Code, which is actually amended every 3 years.

Taking authorizations: A license is commonly called for in most counties and also coming from the energy business any time you're switching out a residence's major electrical devices or carrying out a notable amount of rewiring. The expense of the permit is often consisted of in your electrical expert's expense, yet ensure to talk to. Along with the license happens an assessment to make sure the job complies with code.

Genuine licensing: If your condition requires domestic electricians to be certified, inspect that the license is current. Poor wire relationships, overloaded circuits, inappropriate grounding and defective safety elements on an electric panel are actually merely a few of the complications that may emerge coming from negative craftsmanship. To check out an electrical contractor's licensing, pertain to the Angie's Checklist Certificate Check out device. You ought to additionally safeguard your own self by verifying the grip the appropriate connecting as well as insurance policy, featuring overall responsibility and also laborers' payment protection.

Field of expertise: Due to the fact that companies focus on various regions as well as extents of job, it is vital for individuals to employ the best provider. If a resident simply would like to substitute channels as well as switches, at that point he or she most likely should not lose time naming office electricians that wire huge properties.

Learn who is actually doing the work: You'll wish to know if the electrician does the job themselves, if they employ helpers or even students, or if they utilize subcontractors. In the case of assistants and also apprentices, verify that a registered domestic electrician will supervise all of them, as well as when it comes to subcontractors, make sure their insurance covers you as well.

Inquire about their manufacturer's warranty: Highly measured electrical experts point out an excellent specialist will definitely provide a parts as well as work force warranty to present that they stand behind their work.

Many electrical contractors discover on duty through an instruction course of several years, which often tends to vary by state. A lot of condition licenses call for a certain number of hrs of on-the-job instruction. The road of how to end up being an electrical expert depends upon a number of factors, including whether the provider is union or non-union, condition guidelines and also the demand for more electricians during that region.

The road on how to end up being domestic electrician often begins either with an apprenticeship or a phrase as a domestic electrician's helper. Electrical experts in instruction observe their coaches at the office, tackle a number of the duty, find out the tasks of electrical expert's devices and also handle higher and also higher duty as they advance. Their earnings likewise improves through year up until they're reader to take the exam to get their power license. They may additionally undergo specialized education and learning at a technical institution or a union instruction center, which typically entails matching the apprentice along with a proper power service provider.

Many other public utilities promptly emerged all over the U.S. and also in Europe as the nationality ferreted out create power and disseminate it to organisations and also houses. Gas fixture as well as kerosene lamps were actually phased out as the electric networks developed.

This swift growth likewise made a demand for a new line of work-- the electrician. Even today, the work of domestic electrician could be dangerous and also harmful. In the early years there were actually certainly not but a lot of security functions, therefore electrocution and also fires were certainly not rare. Nevertheless, today's electrical contractors, power developers and electricians are substantially taught to provide the most safe feasible company.

Electrical contractors are actually educated to realize an assortment of crucial components, including keeping acquainted with the absolute most updated model of the National Electric Code and knowing what the power wire colour codes suggest. Modern-day electrical contractors require carrying on instruction and also education. They fall into different classifications:

Residential electricians set up, sustain and improve electric devices in condos as well as homes. They might also mount exterior garden illumination. Their range of work deals with every little thing coming from channel enhancements to buster box upgrades as well as complete home rewirings. They additionally work on building tasks to mount circuitry as well as boxes in brand new houses. A lot of conditions additionally possess an unique subset of power contractor certificate to deal with installing house safety devices and alarm system work.

Industrial electricians work on development internet sites, in business structures and on mechanical power units. A lot of office electricians execute some setup work, which may involve heater, office security devices and also electronic secret devices.

Professional electrical contractors are actually very skilled electricians who generally work in a regulatory part or personal having services. Numerous conditions need seven years of experience as a domestic electrician or an undergraduate's degree in electric design for qualification as an expert electrical contractor. Licensing specifics vary by condition, but in several instances, a service along with various journeyman electrical contractors need to possess a master electrical expert that supervises the whole entire procedure.

7 Significant Distinctions in between Residential and Commercial A/C Equipments

While both residential as well as business HEATING AND COOLING devices serve the exact same reason of home heating, airing as well as cooling down, they vary drastically in relations to operation and also parts. This is actually given that resolving the demand for convenience in a home differs considerably when reviewed to a work space. Observing are 7 significant differences in between home and commercial HEATING AND COOLING systems:

1. Size

A non commercial COOLING AND HEATING system is actually much smaller sized as reviewed to a commercial COOLING AND HEATING body as it needs to have to cool down or even warm a much bigger area. Office bodies are likewise various in regards to elements like regulators, condenser enthusiast, compressor, evaporator, blower and also, restraints. As both the systems are demanded to provide the requirements of various places, the volume of electrical power they consume to perform additionally varies greatly.

2. Placement

While a property COOLING AND HEATING device is commonly placed in the lawn or the sides of your house, a commercial HVAC unit is placed in overload coolers or even on the property's roof for the observing causes:

A COOLING AND HEATING unit that is actually placed on the rooftop helps make a fantastic space conserving solution.

It stays clear of sound pollution in the building.

It is actually an excellent option for upkeep as none of the activities are actually disrupted in the course of repairs and substitutes.

3. Complexity

Besides the measurements, household and also office HEATING AND COOLING devices likewise vary in structure. Industrial bodies need to have to be more adaptable depending on the type of building where they are actually being set up, the number of owners as well as using the structure whether it is routine or steady. Other variables that find out the intricacy of commercial A/C bodies are actually the end-use of the establishment as well as the many things that are actually being actually made or offered in the building. These are actually the major explanations office bodies feature an intricate mechanism as reviewed to non commercial units that need a lot less energy to relieve exhaust.

4. Drainage

Every element of a HVAC body is actually larger than that of a non commercial system featuring the drain body. As residential HVAC systems offer a considerably smaller area, the whole device drains pipes in a solitary skillet that is actually put outside our home. An industrial A/C unit consists of multiple water pipes and pans for the draining pipes function to make sure comprehensive dissipation and to remove the probability of spilling over.

5. Procedure

The mechanism of an industrial AIR CONDITIONING system depends on the structure where it is mosting likely to be mounted. The manufacturing as well as installment of a commercial COOLING AND HEATING system are actually modular whereas a non commercial device is produced as a standalone device. Since commercial AIR CONDITIONING bodies are Click here for more modular, all the parts are housed together and also it enables quick and easy upkeep and upgrade. In a non commercial A/C system, all the parts are actually broken in between the indoors and also the outsides as well as it can easily certainly not be modified or even extended.

6. Tools

The COOLING AND HEATING equipment made use of in smaller domestic constructs contrasts substantially as matched up to the massive HVAC tools that is installed in industrial business. Business devices are tailor-maked for reliable hvac as well as are extremely intensive. The moisture and also temp needs of a domestic house carry out certainly not vary much which is why the COOLING AND HEATING equipment made use of in the two systems is actually really different.

7. Maintenance Expense

The upkeep cost of business COOLING AND HEATING systems is more than a standalone domestic device for a variety of main reasons including complexity of elements, the measurements of the system and the variation in operation. For an industrial device, you need to have strongly skilled as well as skilled experts to guarantee an ideal setup, efficient servicing and also energy performance. Distinct AIR CONDITIONING technicians are experts in different HVAC units as both the systems feature a special operation and feature in a different way.

While both the systems are actually made to complete the exact same objective, making sure a comfy and also healthy area needs routine COOLING AND HEATING servicing check-ups through professionals that are experts in those device you possess.

Exactly how to Protect a Fireplace

Fireplaces are actually typically the main feature of the home; that's merely one cause to learn exactly how to preserve your fireplace to keep it operational and also safe. And also, if you are actually expecting to decrease your energy bill this year, you can easily be sure your fireplace is actually working at peak performance by mounting fireplace insulation. Read on to learn exactly how to maximize the result of your hearth and lower chilly winds via the installation of insulation.

Hearth Insulation: Where, Why and also Exactly how to Protect

A fireplace is going to heat an area when in use but may induce warmth loss if not adequately protected. A hearth that is not adequately insulated will certainly make it possible for drafts of cool, outdoor sky right into the house. Even more, a badly insulated fire place will definitely be less effective at incorporating additional heat to your property. There are actually three essential portion of a fire place where heat is actually lost:

the fire place door

the smokeshaft

the outdoor wall structure

How to Shield a Fireplace

Protecting along with a Smokeshaft Lining

A chimney liner or chimney cellular lining is actually a pipe that runs from a hearth firebox to the best of a fireplace. Shielding your chimney liner helps to:

Avoid problematic heat energy move coming from scorching brickwork to dry residence structures, consequently lowering the danger of ignition.

Boost hearth performance by channeling sky basics of a house.

Decrease creosote build-up in the fireplace, reducing the risk of fire.

Chimney lining protection is available in numerous different kinds, including pour-in joins, inflexible covers, as well as quilt.

Insulating a Hearth Insert

A fire place insert is actually a kind of modern-day fire place that could be set up without masonry. Created with a nonflammable container, fire place inserts may be actually timber or even pellet burning or even might be actually powered through gasoline or energy. A fireplace insert is actually normally a lot more energy dependable than a traditional fire place, however still demands protection. Insulation ought to be put around all edges of the firebox and also the chimney.

Shielding a Fireplace Door

If you are actually regarded that the fire place door might be leaking cold winter months sky or permitting smoke in to your residence, you can easily change the tape on it. To substitute the tape, clear away the outdated gasket, vacuum the gasket stations to take out any type of particles, and also comply with the item instructions to put up the new covering. This job is actually much easier if you can take the door off the fireplace and put it flat on a surface.

Exactly how Does the Damper Affect Drafts?

Yearn for even more techniques to reduce drafts? When the fire is actually out, always remember to shut the restraint. This are going to keep cold sky coming from drifting in to your property. Additionally, if you possess a fireplace insert and also a common smokeshaft masonry that airs vent outside the property, consider mounting a restraint block-off layer. A restraint block-off layer fits into a fireplace and also decreases the quantity of heat energy reduction around the fire place insert. Made from piece metallic, a damper enclose plate need to suit comfortably within the smokeshaft as well as permit the chimney liner to travel through.

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