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Emma Goldman | Article
The Industrial Workers of the World
https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/goldman-industrial-workers-world/
William Haywood, 1916. Library of Congress
At the turn of the twentieth century, the idea of an organization that could represent all workers — and end major corporations' corruption and exploitation of labor — came to life.
An Imposing Leader
The man who would become that organization's leader and symbol, William Haywood, was a former hard-rock miner, over six feet tall, more than two-hundred pounds, with a glowering glass eye. Haywood delivered the keynote speech at a 1905 meeting of more than 200 socialists and trade unionists that launched the Industrial Workers of the World (I.W.W.), nicknamed the Wobblies. Delegates to the founding convention also included Eugene Debs (the leader of the American Socialist Party), Mother Jones (the legendary fighter for miners' and children's rights), Daniel De Leon (the leader of the Socialist Labor Party), Lucy Parsons (widow of Albert Parsons, one of the Haymarket martyrs), and many other stars in the galaxy of labor politics and activism.
"The Industrial Workers is organized not to conciliate but to fight the capitalist class. The capitalists own the tools they do not use, and the workers use the tools they do not own." — Eugene Debs
A Union for the Unskilled
The I.W.W. was "a union based on the principles of Marxist conflict and the indigenous American philosophy of industrial unionism," according to historian Joyce Kornbluh. The Wobblies solicited new members among the most discriminated-against groups of the workforce: unskilled workers, non-whites, immigrants, women, and migrant workers. These working people were barred from the skilled workers' unions that formed the American Federation of Labor (A.F.L.), which tended to support white, male, skilled workers. The I.W.W. hoped to to create "one big union" through which workers would own the means of production and distribution.
Uniting People With Differences
The I.W.W. succeeded in organizing a group of workers who on the surface seemed to have very little in common. "Not least among its accomplishments was the erosion of sexual, racial, and ethnic divisions within the working class," wrote Kornbluh. "The I.W.W. local that controlled the Philadelphia docks, the I.W.W. cigar-makers' locals in Pittsburgh, and the I.W.W. lumber-workers' union in the South were racially integrated." This unification across working class and geographic sectors was remarkable, as these "unorganizables" --women, children, immigrants, transients, and others --somehow formed a cohesive political unit with shared goals. Unlike the A.F.L., which organized workers according to their specialized skills, the I.W.W. organized workers by industry.
Two Philosophies
From the outset, the I.W.W. membership was divided into two camps: socialism and anarchism. The socialists, like Eugene Debs, urged the I.W.W. to get involved in elections and politics, supporting change by working within the system. The anarchists, however, viewed political participation as acquiescence to capitalism, and urged the I.W.W. to advance its cause via "direct action" -- workers' strikes, demonstrations and sabotage. Though internal feuds raged over political action and administrative structure, the I.W.W. managed to adopt a constitution in 1908. In the dramatic language characteristic of its membership, the document read:
"The working class and the employing class have nothing in common. There can be no peace so long as hunger and want are found among millions of working people, and the few, who make up the employing class, have all the good things of life. Between these two classes a struggle must go on until the workers of the world organize as a class, take possession of the earth and the machinery of production, and abolish the wage system... These conditions can be changed and the interest of the working class upheld only by an organization formed in such a way that all its members in any one industry... cease to work whenever a strike or lockout is on in any department thereof, thus making an injury to one an injury to all."
For the Wobblies, labor strikes were an important tool. Among the most significant strikes in which the I.W.W. actively participated were the Goldfield, Nevada, Miners' Strike (1906-07), in which workers won an eight-hour work day, the Lawrence, Massachusetts, textile workers' strike (1912), the lumber workers' strikes in Louisiana and Arkansas (1912-13), the Paterson, New jersey, silk worderk's strike(1913), and the Mesabi Range ironworkers' strike (1916).
Songs of Revolt
I.W.W. strikers almost always sang stirring songs of revolt, often in foreign languages. The I.W.W.'s Little Red Songbook made a major contribution to the social life of workers throughout America. Among the musicians and composers who wrote and performed radical music were the legendary Joe Hill, Ralph Chapin, Richard Brazier, Covington Hall, Laura Payne Emerson, and T-Bone Slim. Chapin's "Solidarity Forever" became a kind of national anthem for American labor.
Defining Sabotage
In 1914 the organization began to publish multiple-language editions of leaflets, newspapers and stickers that advocated sabotage. The term had been used to describe a range of tactics: striking, slowing down work, or even property destruction. Historians still debate what the I.W.W. meant by "sabotage." Some believe that the I.W.W. advocated violence and assassination in their push for "direct action," while others believe the I.W.W.'s concept of sabotage was more innocent. In a famed sticker designed by Ralph Chapin, the image of a wooden shoe (sabot in Dutch, the root word for "sabotage") and an I.W.W. sun appear over a quote from William Haywood: "Sabotage means to push back, pull out or break off the fangs of Capitalism." Predictably, the I.W.W.'s sabotage resulted in supression. By 1917 some twenty states had adopted laws which criminalized acts of sabotage or violence with a political end.
Anti-War Activism
In 1916 the I.W.W. formulated its official opposition to World War I, promoting the use of general strikes during wartime. In the next few years this position would be used against the I.W.W. The federal government imprisoned Wobblies, for example, under the Espionage Act of June 1917. Once America entered the war, however, the General Executive Board of the I.W.W. never took an official position on conscription. Indeed, Haywood and others argued it was unrealistic and dangerous to actively oppose the draft, suggesting conscription should be a matter of individual conscience and choice.
Raids and Arrests
Nationally, the I.W.W. began to face vicious repression from a variety of groups, including local vigilantes, the police, and the National Guard. By July 1917, federal troops began to be used to suppress industrial conflicts, to raid I.W.W. halls, to break up meetings, and to arrest Wobblies. I.W.W. organizers were jailed, beaten, and in the cases of Frank Little and Wesley Everest, brutally murdered.
Seen As Traitors
By the end of 1917, hundreds of I.W.W. members had been arrested throughout the country. In the next two years Wobblies and members of the Union of Russian Workers and other labor organizations would be "arrested at their workbenches, held incommunicado, and denied counsel or a chance to contact families and collect belongings," according to historian Alice Wexler. At a time of fear, repression, and anti-radical hysteria, membership in the I.W.W. was seen as traitorous, and became sufficient evidence for deportation.
By 1919, I.W.W. membership had plummeted from 100,000 to 30,000. Internal discord over relations with the growing American Communist movement divided the membership. That same year, at a mass trial in Chicago, 101 I.W.W. leaders were sentenced to federal prison terms for conspiring to obstruct the war effort. As a result of the convictions and desertions, the I.W.W. was both physically and psychologically destroyed.
Small But True
In later decades, the I.W.W. continued to press the rights of workers, free speech and civil rights. Today, the I.W.W. retains a vigorous press and is a magnet for writers, playwrights, oral historians and filmmakers fascinated by the legacy of this vibrant, militant, fist-shaking union.
An Activist's Evolution
Emma Goldman's evolved from a Russian émigré to anarchist firebrand. Explore her legacy.
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PECOTA
PECOTA, an acronym for Player Empirical Comparison and Optimization Test Algorithm,[1] is a sabermetric system for forecasting Major League Baseball player performance. The word is a backronym based on the name of journeyman major league player Bill Pecota, who, with a lifetime batting average of .249, is perhaps representative of the typical PECOTA entry. PECOTA was developed by Nate Silver in 2002–2003 and introduced to the public in the book Baseball Prospectus 2003.[2] Baseball Prospectus (BP) has owned PECOTA since 2003; Silver managed PECOTA from 2003 to 2009. Beginning in Spring 2009, BP assumed responsibility for producing the annual forecasts, making 2010 the first baseball season for which Silver played no role in producing PECOTA projections.[3]
One of several widely publicized statistical systems of forecasts of player performance, PECOTA player forecasts are marketed by BP as a fantasy baseball product. Since 2003, annual PECOTA forecasts have been published both in the Baseball Prospectus annual books and, in more detailed form, on the BaseballProspectus.com subscription-based website.[4] PECOTA also inspired some analogous projection systems for other professional sports: KUBIAK for the National Football League, SCHOENE[5] and CARMELO[6] for the National Basketball Association, and VUKOTA[7] for the National Hockey League.
PECOTA forecasts a player's performance in all of the major categories used in typical fantasy baseball games; it also forecasts production in advanced sabermetric categories developed by Baseball Prospectus (e.g., VORP and EqA). In addition, PECOTA forecasts several summary diagnostics such as breakout rates, improve rates, and attrition rates, as well as the market values of the players. The logic and methodology underlying PECOTA have been described in several publications, but the detailed formulas are proprietary and have not been shared with the baseball research community.
Silver described the inspiration for his approach as follows:
The basic idea behind PECOTA is really a fusion of two different things – [Bill] James's work on similarity scores and Gary Huckabay's work on Vlad, [Baseball Prospectus's] previous projection system, which tried to assign players to a number of different career paths.[8] I think Gary used something like thirteen or fifteen separate career paths, and all that PECOTA is really doing is carrying that to the logical extreme, where there is essentially a separate career path for every player in major league history. The comparability scores are the mechanism by which it picks and chooses from among those career paths.[9]
Comparable players
PECOTA relies on fitting a given player's past performance statistics to the performance of "comparable" Major League ballplayers by means of similarity scores. As is described in the Baseball Prospectus website's glossary:[10]
PECOTA compares each player against a database of roughly 20,000 major league batter seasons since World War II. In addition, it also draws upon a database of roughly 15,000 translated minor league seasons (1997–2006) for players that spent most of their previous season in the minor leagues. ... PECOTA considers four broad categories of attributes in determining a player's comparability:
1. Production metrics – such as batting average, isolated power, and unintentional walk rate for hitters, or strikeout rate and groundball rate for pitchers.
2. Usage metrics, including career length and plate appearances or innings pitched.
3. Phenotypic attributes, including handedness, height, weight, career length (for major leaguers), and minor league level (for prospects).
4. Fielding Position (for hitters) or starting/relief role (for pitchers). ... In most cases, the database is large enough to provide a meaningfully large set of appropriate comparables. When it isn't, the program is designed to 'cheat' by expanding its tolerance for dissimilar players until a reasonable sample size is reached.
PECOTA uses nearest neighbor analysis to match the individual player with a set of other players who are most similar to him. Although drawing on the underlying concept of Bill James' similarity scores, PECOTA calculates these scores in a distinct way that leads to a very different set of "comparables" than James' method.[11] Furthermore, Silver describes the following distinct feature:
The PECOTA similarity scores are based primarily on looking at a three-year window of a pitcher's performance. Thus, we might look at what a pitcher did from ages 35–37, and compare that against the most similar age 35–37 performances, after adjusting for parks, league effects, and a whole host of other things. This is different from the similarity scores you might see at baseball-reference.com or in other places, which attempt to evaluate the totality of a player's career up to a given age.[12]
Once a set of "comparables" is determined for each player, his future performance forecast is based on the historical performance of his "comparables". For example, a 26-year-old's forecast performance in the coming season will be based on how the most comparable Major League 26-year-olds performed in their subsequent season.
Separate sets of predictions are developed for hitters and pitchers.
Peripheral statistics
PECOTA also relies a lot on the use of peripheral statistics to forecast a given player's future performance. For example, drawing on the insights coming out of the use of defense-independent pitching statistics, PECOTA forecasts a pitcher's future performance in a given area by using information about his past performance in other areas.[13] As baseball analyst and journalist Alan Schwarz writes, "Silver ... designed a sophisticated variance algorithm that has examined every big-league pitcher's statistics since 1946 to determine which numbers best forecast effectiveness, specifically earned run average. His findings are counterintuitive to most fans. 'When you try to predict future E.R.A.'s with past E.R.A.'s, you're making a mistake,' Silver said. Silver found that the most predictive statistics, by a considerable margin, are a pitcher's strikeout rate and walk rate. Home runs allowed, lefty-righty breakdowns and other data tell less about a pitcher's future".[14]
Instead of focusing on making point estimates of a player's future performance (such as batting average, home runs, and strike-outs), PECOTA relies on the historical performance of the given player's "comparables" to produce a probability distribution of the given player's predicted performance during the next five years. Alan Schwarz has emphasized this feature of PECOTA: "What separates Pecota from the gaggle of projection systems that outsiders have developed over many decades is how it recognizes, even flaunts, the uncertainty of predicting a player's skills. Rather than generate one line of expected statistics, Pecota presents seven – some optimistic, some pessimistic – each with its own confidence level. The system greatly resembles the forecasting of hurricane paths: players can go in many directions, so preparing for just one is foolish".[15] Silver has written,
This procedure requires us to become comfortable with probabilistic thinking. While a majority of players of a certain type may progress a certain way – say, peak early – there will always be exceptions. Moreover, the comparable players may not always perform in accordance with their true level of ability. They will sometimes appear to exceed it in any given season, and other times fall short, because of the sample size problems that we described earlier.
PECOTA accounts for these sorts of factors by creating not a single forecast point, as other systems do, but rather a range of possible outcomes that the player could expect to achieve at different levels of probability. Instead of telling you that it's going to rain, we tell you that there's an 80% chance of rain, because 80% of the time that these atmospheric conditions have emerged on Tuesday, it has rained on Wednesday.
Surely, this approach is more complicated than the standard method of applying an age adjustment based on the 'average' course of development of all players throughout history. However, it is also leaps and bounds more representative of reality, and more accurate to boot.[16]
Team effort
Although Silver was the creator of PECOTA, producing PECOTA forecasts was a team effort: "I might be 'the PECOTA guy,' but it very much is a team effort," Silver has said of the BP staff. "We all do it. It's my baby, but it takes a village to run a PECOTA".[17] For example, PECOTA draws on Clay Davenport's translations (the so-called Davenport Translations or DT's) of minor league and international baseball statistics to estimate the major league equivalent performance of each player.[18] In this way, PECOTA is able to make projections for more than 1,600 players each year, including many players with little or no prior major league experience.
The 2009 preseason forecasts were the last ones for which Silver took primary responsibility. In March 2009, Silver announced that PECOTA's extremely complex and laborious set of database manipulations and calculations would be moving to a different platform. Although Baseball Prospectus had been the owner of PECOTA since Silver sold it to them in 2003 – and Silver stewarded and took responsibility for the forecasts – henceforth PECOTA forecasts would be generated by the Baseball Prospectus team, initially with Clay Davenport in charge of the effort,[19] and later, through the 2013 season, with Colin Wyers heading up both production and improvements in PECOTA.[3]
Alternative forecasting systems
Most of the other popular forecasting systems do not use a "comparable players" approach. Instead most rely on direct projections from a player's past performance to his future performance, typically by using as a baseline a weighted average of a player's performance in his previous three years. Like PECOTA, many of those systems also adjust the projections for aging, park effects and regression toward the mean. Like PECOTA, they may also adjust for the competitive difficulty of each of the two major leagues.[20] The systems differ from one another, however, in the types and intensities of age adjustments, regression-effect estimates, park adjustments, and league-difficulty adjustments that they may make as well as in whether they use similarity scores.[21] PECOTA also makes projections for many more players than do other systems, because PECOTA relies on adjusted minor league statistics as well as major league statistics and tries to make projections for all of the players on major league expanded rosters (40 players per team) as well as other prospects.
Beginning in 2000, the Cleveland Indians developed a proprietary analytical database called DiamondView to evaluate scouting information gathered by the team; this system later incorporated player performance indicators and financial indicators, for purposes of evaluating and projecting the performance of all major league players.[22] During 2008–2009, the Pittsburgh Pirates were in process of developing MITT ("Managing, Information, Tools and Talent"), a proprietary database that integrates scouting reports, medical and contract information, and performance statistics and projections.[23]
Updates and revisions
First introduced in 2003,[24] PECOTA projections are produced each year and published both in the Baseball Prospectus annual monographs and on the BaseballProspectus.com website. PECOTA has undergone several improvements since 2003. The 2006 version introduced metrics for the market valuation of players based on the predicted performance levels. The 2007 version introduced adjustments for league effects, to account for differences in the competitive environment of the two major leagues.[25] The 2008 update took into account differences in players' performance during the first and second halves of the previous season as well as platoon splits (how well a player performed against hitters or pitchers who were left- or right-handed).[26] It also took account of baserunning.[27] In 2009, Baseball Prospectus introduced in-season PECOTA projections, to update and supplement its beginning of the season projections.[28] In 2012, PECOTA substantially changed the way it weighted past years' performance in establishing the baseline for projections.[29] In addition, 10-year forecasts and percentile forecasts were added to the individual player PECOTA cards that are published on-line.[30]
Although Baseball Prospectus promotes PECOTA commercially as "deadly accurate," all projection systems are subject to considerable uncertainty. A comparison found that PECOTA had outperformed several other forecasting systems for the 2006 season in predicting OPS. It performed nearly as well as the best of the other systems in predicting ERA.[31] Although PECOTA projections are made for well over 1000 hitters each season, the evaluation of the system included only slightly over 100 players who had a minimum of 500 major league AB and had also been included in projections by the other systems. Nate Silver's own comparison of the performance of alternative projection systems for hitters in 2007 also showed that PECOTA led the field, though a couple of others were close.[32]
Although designed primarily for predicting individual player performance, PECOTA has been applied also to predicting team performance. For this purpose, projected team depth charts are established with projected playing times for each team member, drawing on the expert advice of the Baseball Prospectus staff. The number of runs a team will score and allow during the coming season is estimated based on the playing times and PECOTA's predicted individual performance of each player, using a "Marginal Lineup Value" algorithm created by David Tate and further developed by Keith Woolner.[33] A team's expected wins is based on applying an improved version of Bill James' Pythagorean Formula to the estimated number of runs scored and allowed by the roster of players under the given playing-time assumptions.[34]
PECOTA has been used in preseason forecasts[35] of how many wins teams will attain and in mid-season simulations of the number of wins each team will attain and its odds of reaching the playoffs.[36] In 2006, PECOTA's preseason forecasts compared favorably to other forecasting systems (including Las Vegas betting line odds) in predicting the number of wins teams would earn during the season.[37] An independent evaluation by the website Vegas Watch showed that PECOTA had the lowest error in predicting Major League team wins in 2008 of all the best known forecasts, both those that were sabermetrically based and those that relied on individual expertise.[38] In 2009, however, PECOTA lagged behind all the well-known forecasters.[39]
A summary for the 2003 through 2007 seasons shows that PECOTA's average error between the predicted and actual team wins declined:[40] 2003 5.91 wins; 2004 7.71 wins; 2005 5.14 wins; 2006 4.94 wins; 2007 4.31 wins. Silver conjectures that the improvement has come in part from taking defense into account in the forecasts beginning in 2005. In 2008 the average error was 8.5 wins.[41]
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This is another one of those delightful pamphlets published by the Kate Sharpley Library that plucks anarchist gems from the dustbin of history. Americans, unlike Australians who rejected Conscription referendums held in late 1916 and 1917, had no choice about whether they would be sacrificed on the European killing fields during WW1. Philip Grosser, a Boston anarchist and antimilitarist, refused to kill other human beings for the glory of God, King and Country.
The story about Philip Grosser, republished in January 2007, makes the important point that 'The start of the war had been met by the individual resistance of conscientious objectors, but at the end came mutinies in France and revolutions in Russia and Germany'. This is a story about individual courage, of one man resisting the State and the State's methodical campaign to destroy him. Dragged from one prison camp to another, held in solitary confinement for weeks and fed on bread and water, he survived to catalogue the horrors of Alcatraz. A religious objector named Simmons and Grosser were signalled out for special attention while in Alcatraz. 'Special coffin cages' – 23 inches wide and 12 inches deep, made of iron bars, were bolted to the doors of their cells. They were forced into the cages; a board was put behind their backs to reduce the depth to about 9 inches. They were kept upright in these iron cages for 8 hours a day and were then put into solitary confinement in darkened cells for the next 16 hours. During the weeks they were tortured, they were only given bread and water to eat and drink.
Ironically, once the way conscientious objectors were treated at Alcatraz leaked out to the public, they were 'only' placed in torture cages 8 hours a day and were then put in ordinary cells and given normal rations for the next 16 hours. After 2 months in the torture cages, Grosser, afraid that he was about to lose his sanity, agreed to work in the prison.
Three years after he was first imprisoned and almost 2 years after the war had ended, Grosser was released on the 2nd of December 1920. Mentally scared by his experiences, hit hard by the depression, Grosser ended his life by jumping in front of a train in Boston in early November 1933.
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Sex Trafficking Increase Expected During Super Bowl: Florida Officials
Posted 12:11 PM, January 9, 2020, by Associated Press, Updated at 09:28PM, January 9, 2020
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To combat human trafficking during the Super Bowl, law enforcement officials said Thursday that they need hotel workers, ride-hailing service drivers and security personnel to be especially alert.
These are the people most likely to encounter the victims and perpetrators of trafficking — and would be able to provide authorities with tips and evidence of the crime taking place, Florida Attorney General Ashley Moody said at the "No Room for Trafficking" conference, held at the Fontainebleau Hotel.
The people most likely to be enslaved for sex work are young girls, officials said. They noted that events such as the Feb. 2 Super Bowl, with all its attendant parties, are ripe for human and sex trafficking. They also noted that trafficking occurs throughout the year, not just during major events.
"We're enlisting people to help law enforcement," said Moody, who chairs a statewide task force on human trafficking. "Most of the cases begin with anonymous tips. That's how we'll catch these guys."
The hospitality industry is taking notice. Cecil Staton, president and CEO of the Asian American Hotel Owners Association, said it's bad business for people who run hotels to allow human trafficking.
"No honest hotelier wants human trafficking on their property. We are all about collaboration," Staton said.
Mary Rogers, vice president and general manager at the Fontainebleau, said all of the hotel's employees receive regular training on possible signs of human trafficking : rooms where people come and go at all hours, cash payments and young women who never leave their rooms.
"We just encourage everyone to report anything they see that looks suspicious," Rogers said. "We really, really encourage that culture."
Similarly, authorities want ride-hailing services such as Uber and Lyft, as well as taxi drivers, to be aware of what is being said in their vehicles and to recognize when something doesn't seem right. Moody was participating in a training event for Uber drivers later Thursday.
"It has to be a concerted effort that never stops," said Chip Rogers, president and CEO of the American Hotel & Lodging Association. "It will take all of our efforts to make this happen."
Representing the NFL at Thursday's event was Miami Dolphins wide receiver Albert Wilson, who said the human trafficking issue has special resonance to him because he grew up with five sisters.
"It can happen to anyone," Wilson said. "It's important for me to use my platform to get the message out."
The office of Miami-Dade State Attorney Katherine Fernandez Rundle operates a hotline for tips and reports about human trafficking: 305-FIX-STOP or 305-349-7867.
"You can report it so we can stop it," she said.
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The first day will feature a special line of work devoted to the participation of women in the world of entrepreneurs and financial technology, which will close with a special prize for "Women in Fintech." María Benjumea, founder of Spain Startup and head of the South Summit, along with Rebeca Minguela, founder of Clarity, will analyze the success of a technological project. Benjumea will also offer her views on the situation of the startup ecosystem in Latin America.
Open Summit will also host the traditional "pitches" by the finalists in the BBVA Open Talent contest. They include DOV-E, an Israeli startup that won in the category of Global Trends; Pago 46, a Chilean project that won the regional BBVA Open Talent contest; B2BPay, winner in the category of Fintech for Companies; Change, which took first prize in the Artificial Intelligence category; and SnapSwap, the Luxembourg startup that won in the category of Identity.
The first day's activities will conclude with the presentation of the Blue BBVA Challenge, the BBVA training program aimed at young people interested in entrepreneurship, but without preparation in this field. In this case, the challenge is oriented to "how music can change people's lives." It is not directed to professionals in this area, but rather to initiatives that, through music, can contribute to changing some aspect of peoples' lives.
BBVA Open Summit will become a crucial element of a fintech platform for startups in Spain and beyond.
BBVA CEO Carlos Torres Vila and Derek White, Head of Global Customer and Client Solutions, will open the second day of the summit, by providing the keys to understanding and applying open innovation in the banking industry.
In the afternoon, BBVA Global Chairman Francisco González will take part in a talk with David Brear, CEO of 11FS and the guru of the fintech ecosystem, where they will share his vision on banking strategy in the 21st Century. Francisco González will also preside over the awarding of prizes to the global winner of the BBVA Open Talent 2017 competition, in which five startups are competing.
Other distinguished panels on this second day include an encounter between Rob Brown, BBVA's Global Head of Design and Marketing, and Jason Bates of 11FS. The pair will examine design as a key element in customer experience. Another panel will analyze the future of banking, in the view of the disruptors; Marko Wenthin, of Slaris, Ed Maslaveckas of BUD and Lupina Iturriaga of Fintonic will all take part.
Also on the second day, parallel sessions will be organized, to put venture capital firms in contact with fintech projects that require financing. Jay Reinemann, director of Propel and Juan López Carretero, head of M&A Digital at BBVA, will be among the experts that advise a group of candidate startups.
The world of data will be represented by Juan Murillo and Ana Laguna of BBVA Data & Analytics. They will present practical examples of how algorithms are changing every aspect of our lives, from economic development to the talents of the professionals of the future. To conclude, Alex Vidal and Jonah Burlingame will offer a master class on the implications and responsibilities of designers in the age of machine learning.


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Berdmore's ground squirrel (Menetes berdmorei) is a ground squirrel found in Southeast Asia, from the east of Myanmar to Vietnam. It is however absent on the Malay peninsula, as well as the islands.

The squirrel has a grey-brown back and a white belly. Most striking are stripes on the side - on each side one beige and below a black stripe. The head is pointy, so this squirrel resembles a mouse or a treeshrew. Its length is , not including the  long tail.

As a ground squirrel it is rarely found on trees, but spends most of the time in the thick underwoods of the rainforests. However it is also found in fields or villages, especially in rice fields it is sometimes omnipresent. Despite it being quite common only very little is known about the life of this squirrel. Despite its name, it is not a close relative of the ground squirrels of the tribe Marmotini

References

Mammals described in 1849
Mammals of Asia
Callosciurinae
Taxa named by Edward Blyth

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Toponyme

Îles Montebello en Australie-Occidentale

Montebello, municipalité du Québec
Château Montebello

Montebello, une municipalité située dans le département d'Antioquia.

Montebello, ville de Californie ;
 Montebello, village situé dans l'État de New York.

Guadeloupe
Montebello est le nom d'une section de la commune de Petit-bourg, ville située en Guadeloupe. Cette section abrite la distillerie Montebello qui fabrique du rhum agricole.

Paris
Quai de Montebello, quai situé le long de la Seine, à Paris.
Square René-Viviani - Montebello, square de Paris.

Lille
Boulevard Montebello, un boulevard de Lille.
Montebello, est une station de métro lillois, située sur la ligne 2.

Lyon
Rue Montebello, rue située dans le troisième arrondissement de Lyon

Montebello della Battaglia, commune de la province de Pavie (Lombardie), lieu des
 Montebello di Bertona, commune de la province de Pescara (Abruzzes)
 Montebello Ionico, commune de la province de Reggio de Calabre (Calabre)
 Montebello sul Sangro, commune de la province de Chieti (Abruzzes)
 Montebello Vicentino, commune de la province de Vicence (Vénétie)
 Montebello di Torriana, frazione rattachée à Torriana, commune de la province de Rimini, sur laquelle a été construit le château de l'Azzurrina.

Le château de Montebello est un des trois châteaux de Bellinzone, en Suisse. Ils figurent sur la liste des monuments et des sites du patrimoine mondial protégé par l'UNESCO.

Patronymes
 Jean Lannes, duc de Montebello (1769-1809), maréchal d'Empire.
 Louis Napoléon Lannes, duc de Montebello (1801-1874), diplomate et homme politique français, fils du précédent.
 Gustave Lannes, marquis de Montebello (1838-1907), diplomate français, fils du précédent.
 Alfred Jean Lannes, comte de Montebello (1802-1861), homme politique français, fils cadet du maréchal.
 Philippe de Montebello (né en 1936), conservateur de musée d'origine française installé aux États-Unis.
 Denis Montebello (né en 1951), écrivain, vit et enseigne à La Rochelle.
 Roger de Montebello (né en 1964), artiste peintre français.

Autres
Batailles de Montebello :
Bataille de Montebello (1800),
Bataille de Montebello (1859)
La paix de Montebello, accord passé en  entre l'empereur Frédéric  Barberousse et la ligue lombarde.
Par ailleurs il exista un :
 marquisat de Montebello (marquisat italien), à ne pas confondre avec
 le titre de duc de Montebello, attribué au maréchal Lannes par Napoléon Bonaparte en récompense pour sa victoire à la bataille de Montebello (1800) durant la Campagne d'Italie (1799-1800).
Montebello (1812), un vaisseau de ligne français.
Montebello (vapeur), un navire marchand de la Wilson Line baptisé en l'honneur de la Duchesse de Montebello.
 Montebello, une distillerie de rhum, située à Petit-Bourg (Guadeloupe) et fondée en 1930.


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Biografia
Canonico sacrista della Cattedrale di Campagna, studiò lettere, presso il convento domenicano di San Bartolomeo (di Campagna), lo stesso dove visse un breve periodo Giordano Bruno, e ne divenne successivamente docente facendo da precettore a Giulio Cesare Capaccio.

Insieme a Giovanni Antonio De Nigris, nel 1545 impiantò la prima stamperia a caratteri mobili del Principato Citra.
La stamperia venne ubicata nel palazzo Tercasio di Campagna e, produsse numerosi manoscritti del Fileta Filiuli, di De Nigris, di S. Tonolo, G. Ferretti, V. De Castro, G. Da Sicignano.

Sempre insieme a De Nigris, fondò la locale Accademia dei Taciturni, un circolo letterario.

Opere
 M. Philetu Iesualdu kampanu ekatosys ton epistholon: videlicet m. Phileti Filioli Iesualdi Epistolicorum commentariorum et familiarium quaestionum valde vtilium libri tres centum epistolas suo ordine continentes, ad Vincentium Extautauilla Sarnensium, ad Elysium Iesualdum Compsanorum, ad que Marinum Caracciolum Bucensium principes opt. Campagna, 1545
 Eloquia Campagna
 De religione perfecta Campagna
 Liber carminum Campagna

Bibliografia
 N. De Nigris, Campagna antica e nuova, sagra e profana overo compendiosa istoria della Città di Campagna descritta dal dott. Nicolò De Nigris e alla medesima dedicata, Napoli 1691.
 A. Rivelli, Memorie storiche della città di Campagna, Salerno 1894-95.
 Valentino Izzo, Raccontare Campagna... Le Persone Illustri, Eboli 2005

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Twenty five centuries ago, before the time of buddha, trade is known to have existed between babylon and the sub-continents; traders carrying silk and gold cloth were known as 'merchants in blue cloth and broidered work'. This cloth was evidently made in large quantities and exported from the indus valley to the persian gulf by the sea route, and was taken to egypt and babylon. Lassen declares that the egyptian mummies wore the muslim from india.
Steatite Statue Fragment; Mohenjodaro (Sd767); Trefoil-Decorated Bull; Traces Of Red Pigment Remain Inside The Trefoils.
Statue, Uruk (W.16017), C. 3000 B.C.; Bull With Trefoil Inlays.
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The discovery of the king priest acclaimed by sir john marshall as "the finest piece of statuary that has been found at moenjodaro…. Draped in an elaborate shawl with corded or rolled over edge, worn over the left shoulder and under the right arm. This shawl is decorated all over with a design of trefoils in relief interspersed occasionally with small circles, the interiors of which are filled with a red pigment".
Exactly the same trefoil pattern is found on the bodies of sumerians bulls in mesopotamia, where the concept of trinity was evolved.
Trefoil also occurs on the couch of tutankh-amen and on the hathor cow.
It is interesting to note that the national museum of karachi had a small faience bead from moenjodaro with the same trefoil patter around it.
The 'trefoil' is a symbolical motif of the three sun-disks fused together to represent the inseparable unity of power of gods of suns, water and earth.
The ustos of ajrakh printing firmly believe that the shawl draped on the figure of the king priest is ajrakh and the trefoil motif is actually kakar (cloud) pattern. This theory is debatable as no printing evidence has been discovered yet, although knowledge of spinning, weaving and the magical process of 'manjitha', madder dyeing of cotton cloth, was established; however, needles were unearthed and the possibility that the patter was embroidered and printed cannot be ruled out.
Panini wrote in the first millennium b.c, about cloths known by their colors: 'nila' was the cloth dyed with indigo, 'lohitaka' was red; madder-dyed cloth- 'laksa', the red from lac, and 'kalaka', the black cloth.
There are long lapses of time where there is no evidence of textile specimen or any reference in the documented history of manufactured cloth till the seventeenth century a.d. There was a great demand in england for cotton goods.
The east india company maintained a factory in sindh from 1636-1662; and then after a lapse of 96years, reopened the factory for the second time in 1758, and continued till 1775. This time the company did not purchase cloth and indigo, but instead sold broad-cloth and woolens, and bought sindhi cattle, batty or unhusked rice and saltpeter.
An exhibition and fair was held in karachi in 1869 and according to the records, prizes were awarded to items termed 'ujrak or coloured sheets".
Patterned and printed fabrics of sindh had become a national industry in the seventeenth century. Weavers by then were world famous and this art form was part of their everyday existence.
When the britishers traders left, there was a change of government in sindh; but still the weaving activity continued. In the nineteenth century, the imposition of foreign rule, following the conquest and annexation of sindh to the british raaj, brought an upheaval in the life of sindh and the history of its arts.
Partition proved to be a very crucial time for ajrakh prints. It divided the artisians and broke the flow of this crafts. 'khatri' being the main caste came to india and settled in gujrat and rajasthan.
Barmer became the main residence of ajrakh printing in rajasthan.
The change brought in new concepts, new commerce and economy, new symbols in tastes and fashion; the clarity of form disappeared, the vision of the craftsmen became lurred, that was the decline of the indigenous textile industry; the old centers gradually withered and perished.
A well equipped dyers workshop was also excavated at Moenjodaro "…… The purple dye on a scrap of this cotton material is thought by Messrs Gulati and Turner to be of the madder class" The piece of cotton was preserved by the sliver salts of the vase, but apart from this fragment no textile has remained intact due to destructive nature of the soil.
The discovery of the King Priest acclaimed by Sir John Marshall as "the finest piece of statuary that has been found at Moenjodaro….draped in an elaborate shawl with corded or rolled over edge, worn over the left shoulder and under the right arm. This shawl is decorated all over with a design of trefoils in relief interspersed occasionally with small circles, the interiors of which are filled with a red pigment ". Exactly the same trefoil pattern is found on the bodies of Sumerian bulls in Mesopotamia, where the concept of trinity was evolved. Trefoil also occurs on the royal couch of Tutankh-Amen and on the Hathor cow. It is interesting to note that the National Museum of Karachi has a small faience bead from Monenjodaro with the same trefoil pattern around it. The "trefoil" is a symbolical motif of the three sun-disks fused together to represent the inseparable unity of power of gods of sun, water and earth.
The Ustos of Ajrak printing firmly believe that the shawl draped on the figure of the King Priest is Ajrak and the trefoil motif is actually kakar (cloud) pattern. This theory is debatable as no printing evidence has been discovered yet, although knowledge of spinning, weaving and the magical process of 'Manjitha', madder dyeing of cotton cloth, was established; however, needles were unearthed and the possibility that the pattern was embroidered and not printed cannot be ruled out.
During the early Aryan period the Rig-veda Samitha, composed in the second millennium B.C. refer to Sindh as 'suvasa' - the maker of good cloth, and in the first century A.D. the cloth imported by the Romans from the East was known as 'cendatus' or cloth from Sindh.
There are long lapses of time where there is no evidence of textile specimens or any reference in the documented history of manufactured cloth till the seventeenth century A.D.
In 1659, a young Venetian adventurer Niccolao Manucci, called "A Pepys of Moghul India", came to Sindh and took part in the siege of Bukkur. He entered the service of Dara Shikoh as an artillery man and served him in the war against Aurangzeb. In his vivid mentions that Sindhis made"…..coverlets for beds very beautiful chintzes very cheap, a cotton cloth 'jurries', very fine and soft which lasts beyond all cloths I have used".
There was a great demand in England for cotton goods; the East India Company was marking large purchases of cloth in its three 'calico provinces' - Bengal, Gujarat and the Coromandel. At that time some of the important towns situated on the Indus Thatta, Nusserpur, Sehwan, Kandiaro, Ranipur, Gumbat, Sann and Bukkur were pulsating with weaving activity; Thatta and Nusserpur each had three thousand in Sehwan, and hundreds in other towns.
William Fremlin, a merchant in the service of the East India Company visited Thatta and wrote to his colleagues advising to set up a factory at Thatta," ……….of all sorts of Indian goods, none are in such request as those of Synda, nor find more reddic vend, as being in reguarde of their substance and colors most requirable".
Subsequently a factory was set up, and on viewing of the consignment from Sindh, the Directors wrote "The Synda factory for aught we yet perceive, hath most cause to be cherished and pursued than any calico factories For the goods received from thence, this shipping are the flower of the whole and are preferred here before all others……...".
Panini writes in the first millennium B.C. about cloths known by their colours; 'Nila' was cloth dyed with indigo." Lohitaka was red; madder-dyed cloth- 'laksa' the red from lac. and 'kalaka' the black cloth.
The earliest specimens of patterned cottons seem to have been retrieved from Fustat harbour of Old Cairo. Since these were purchased from dealers in the art market in Cairo, the exact location of discovery has not been authenticated. The cotton fragments have simple patterns printed with small sized blocks, then resist dyed in indigo. The white patterns commonly have a blue or a red background. The fabrics discovered at Fustat are of a coarse weave; they formed the main bulk of export trade from the western sub-continents to Arabia and Africa.
R. Pfitser in his monologue, Ies toiles impremees de fostat et 'Hindustan', states that some of the fragments were printed on the western coast of the sub-continent as late as the fourteenth and fifteenth century , while l am believes that some of the fabrics can be dated as early as the Abbasid dynasty (8th 9th Century A.D).
The East India Company maintained a factory in Sindh from 1636-1662; and then after a lapse of 96 years reopened the factory for the second time in 1758 and continued till 1775.This time the company did not purchase cloth and indigo. But instead sold broad-cloth and woollens; and bought Sindhi cattle, batty or unhusked rice and saltpetrc.
Sindh historically has been trade-oriented and therefore receptive to external influences. Similar printing techniques were practiced in Iran, but the Sindhi fabric evolved a distinct style of its own. The craftsmen with their inner sensibilities and intuitions gradually developed the printing techniques from simple resist patterning on one side of the fabric to the rich tonal two-sided resist printed fabric Ajrak.
An exhibition and fair was held in Karachi in 1869 and according to the records, prizes were awarded to items termed "Ujruk or coloured sheets".
Patterned and printed fabric of Sindh had become a national industry in the seventeenth century. Weavers by then were world famous and this art-form was part of their everyday existence.
When the British traders left, there was a change of government in Sindh; but still the weaving activity continued. In the nineteenth century the imposition of foreign rule, following the conquest and annexation of Sindh to the British Raaj, brought an upheaval in the life of Sindh and the history of its arts.
The change brought in new concepts new commerce and economy, new symbols in tastes and fashion; the clarity of form disappeared the vision of the craftsmen became blurred and that was the decline of the indigenous textile industry.


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As nouns the difference between albanian and albanologist
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Etymology 1
From (etyl) Albanien, from (etyl) . Compare Old Albanian arbër, arbën 'Albanian'.
Of, from, or pertaining to Albania, the Albanian people or the Albanian language.
(en noun)
A person from Albania or of Albanian descent.
(en proper noun)
The languages spoken by the Albanian people, primarily spoken in Albania and Kosovo. (ISO language codes: alb/sqi/sq (Tosk), aln (Gheg), aat (Arvanitika), aae ())
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Of, from, or pertaining to Caucasian Albania, to its people or language.
An inhabitant of Caucasian Albania. Udi people are descended from them.
The extinct Northeast Caucasian language once spoken by these people. Udi language is descended from it.
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(central New York) Someone from the city of Albany, New York State.
albanologist
An expert in Albanian studies.
In 1987, a few years before her death, the great Russian Albanologist Agnija Vasil'evna Desnickaja published a study in Albanian literature and language, of which about half is devoted to the development of Albanian letters. Marcel Cornis-Pope, John Neubauer, History of the literary cultures of East-Central Europe: Junctures and Disjunctures in the 19th and 20th Centuries, John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2004, ISBN 9027234558.
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Staff writer, Al Arabiya English Wednesday 30 May 2018
Saudi Arabia's Cabinet on Tuesday approved a measure criminalizing sexual harassment, the state news agency SPA reported.
The anti-harassment measure was approved on Monday by the Shura Council advisory body.
It introduces a jail sentence of up to five years and a 300,000 riyals ($80,000) fine.
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King Salman chaired the Cabinet session in Jeddah on Tuesday. (SPA)
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Liberty #1: Nakedboy
It was the last day Dennis Holcomb and Jerad Wiseman ran around like idiots pretending to be superheroes. Or anything, as a matter of fact. Jerad was Maximum, a Hulk-like human who just smashed his way through everything. Dennis thought that Maximum was a poorly thought-out character. Dennis made sure his superhero had an origin of substance despite the stupid name. Not that it would matter after today.
Dennis and Jerad ran around the yard of the apartment complex, occasionally stopping to punch the air or launch themselves to the ground, feigning being attacked. Jerad was in his normal clothes as was Dennis but Dennis also had a red cape that his grandmother had made him six years ago when he was nine.
"Let's go see Beth," Jerad suddenly said.
"Why?" Dennis asked.
"I don't know. Maybe we can save her," Jerad said as he bounded off toward the door Beth Goodwin's apartment was in.
Dennis reluctantly followed Jerad up the stairs. Jerad knocked on the door and Beth answered. Beth was a stocky girl with curly, dirty blonde hair currently done up in a disheveled bun. She was a junior in high school and two years older than both Dennis and Jerad. She eyed Dennis' cape and smiled discreetly. "What are you two doing?"
"We're superheroes," Jerad announced.
She kept looking at Dennis' cape. "And what are your names?"
"I'm Maximum," Jerad said.
They both looked at Dennis. He looked down, "I don't want to tell her my name."
"Come on, Dennis, what is it?" Beth asked.
He said something but neither Beth or Jerad heard him.
"Say it louder, Dennis," Jerad said.
"Nakedboy," he said quietly.
Beth laughed. "And what are your powers, Nakedboy?"
"I can fly, super strong, you know, just normal powers," he was still embarrassed but the look on Beth's face eased the awkwardness. "We should probably get back to saving the world."
Dennis and Jerad started walking down the stairs. Jerad went out the door but Dennis moved slower. "Hey, Nakedboy," Beth called to him. "You should come over after dinner, I'll be a damsel in distress or something."
Dennis was confused. "Okay. I'll see if I can." He started to open the door.
"And bring the cape."
It was now thirteen years, six months, ten days and 20 hours since Beth took his virginity while he was wearing that cape and in that time he had added eight other women to his resume and was currently ending things with the ninth. He wasn't concerned and happily walked from his now-ex's apartment to a nearby store to grab a soda and a coffee drink.
"Dennis?" he heard someone call him from an aisle he was passing. He stopped and looked.
He saw Beth in the aisle, holding a basket with groceries in it. He smiled and said her name, quickly walking over to her. Instinctively, they kissed and hugged each other. Dennis and Beth had kept their relationship going off and on since high school. She left for college and they'd still get together when she came back home. Halfway through her junior year of college, Beth got pregnant by a boyfriend and dropped out. She continued living in the other town and rarely came home so she and Dennis saw each other a lot less but Dennis, whenever they would get together, would be a good surrogate father for her son, Jacob, and a loving partner for Beth.
"What are you doing?" Dennis asked. It had been almost two years since they had last seen each other.
"I started a new job here which gave me the opportunity to move back," Beth explained.
"Well, that's great. I've missed you. And Jacob. How's he doing?"
"He's good. He was excited to move. Especially when I said that you lived here."
"I'm sorry I haven't seen much of him," Dennis said. "Or you."
"Do you want to have dinner with us?" Beth asked.
"Absolutely," he replied.
When Dennis arrived, Jacob got up from the dinner table and ran up to hug him. "Hey, Jacob," Dennis bent down and stopped Jacob with a hug. "It's been awhile. How are you doing?"
"I'm good, Uncle Dennis," Jacob answered. "Mom said you were coming."
"Spaghetti bake," Beth said, coming out of the kitchen. "He just finished up and he said he'll give us some time to have dinner together. I'll get you a bowl."
"You didn't have to wait for me," Dennis said.
"I wanted to. Jacob, rinse out your bowl and play in your room until we're done."
Since their first time, Beth had filled out more. Her body clearly broadcasting the evidence of both age and her one child. Her hair was always disheveled when Dennis saw her but was always attracted to her. After Jacob left the kitchen, Dennis wrapped his arms around her and kissed her neck and shoulders.
"Another one bite the dust?" she asked after first gasping at the kiss on her neck. She scooped some spaghetti bake into a bowl.
"You know what I mean. You dump a girlfriend after you ran into me?"
"No. We actually broke up before I ran into you," Dennis held his head high. "Her name was Melissa only it was Meliſsa with an 'f'," Dennis said, taking the bowl.
"An 'f'?"
"It's some sort of Old English or Roman thing. I never really paid attention. Her parents thought they were being clever," Dennis sat down at the table and Beth followed.
"Why'd you break up?" she asked.
"I wanted to be more adventurous in bed. I thought she'd be into it because she liked sex, taking control in bed and all that but, oh well," he shrugged and started eating. "How have you been doing?"
"I've missed you. It's been so long. Part of why I took my new job was in hopes that we would be reunited. Well, that and it pays quite a bit more."
"Cool. What are you doing?"
"Denying medical claims. It's a very upbeat job."
"I'm going to assume that it's one of those jobs that someone has to do."
"Very much so," Beth laughed. "With an 'f'?"
"I'll get on my phone and explain it later."
"Uncle Dennis, will you watch this with me?" Jacob ran out of his bedroom and held up an animated movie DVD. "Can you stay the night?"
"It's up to your mom," Dennis looked at Beth.
"Of course you can stay, Dennis," Beth smiled.
Jacob cheered and ran back into his bedroom.
Jacob woke up thirsty. It was dark in the house except for the nightlights in his room and the hallway. There was also a light coming from under the door to his mom's room. He got a drink in the kitchen then walked back to his room. He heard Dennis and his mom moaning in her bedroom. He'd heard it numerous times before but this time it was different. He decided to take a chance and opened the door. He slowly turned the knob and pushed it open. A small lamp on the dresser was on so he could see what was going on.
Dennis was laying on the bed, on his back, with his legs up on his mom's shoulders. She was wearing something around her waist and she was moving her hips between his legs. It was both familiar and new to Jacob. He closed the door quietly and went back to bed.
The next morning, Jacob was at the table eating a bowl of cereal while Beth and Dennis made toast for themselves.
"How are babies made?" Jacob asked.
"We've talked about this before, Jacob. The man puts himself in the woman and, if they are lucky, they make a baby," Beth explained.
"Can a man have a baby? Can the woman put herself inside the man?"
Beth chuckled. "No, sweetie, it doesn't work that way," she handed a plate of toast to Dennis.
"Then what were you and Uncle Dennis doing last night?"
Dennis and Beth looked at each other, both started to turn red and smiled. "We were expressing our love in a different way. There are many ways that people express how they love each other. But you know you aren't supposed to come into Mommy's bedroom without knocking," Beth said. "Now finish up and get your things for school."
"Okay," he finished his cereal, rinsed out the bowl and ran to get his backpack from his bedroom.
"That was funny," Dennis chuckled.
Beth covered her eyes with her hand. "Of all the nights for my kid to walk in on me having sex."
"Well, I'm sure he's scarred for life and you're a terrible mother," Dennis said and wrapped his arms around Beth.
"Thanks, Dennis," Beth laughed. "Will you be staying tonight as well?"
"If you want me to."
"Of course I do. I think we need to talk."
"Okay. I'll probably be home—here—about five."
"I'll make something special for dinner," she leaned up and kissed Dennis. "I have to head out. Where is that kid?"
When Dennis arrived at Beth's that evening, the enchiladas were just getting put into the oven. In the meantime, Dennis ran around with Jacob outside while Beth watched from the patio. After dinner, they played a board game and, later, Jacob took a bath.
At bedtime, Dennis read Jacob a story and he and Beth stayed up a bit longer to watch TV before going to bed themselves to make love. They laid in bed together, Beth hugging Dennis and resting her head on his chest. She sighed contentedly. "Did you want to talk?" he asked.
"Hmm? No, it can wait. Although I was wondering if you'd be okay with, if it's not too weird, staying for the rest of the month."
"Staying? Here? So it would be like I'm living here?" Dennis asked.
"Yeah," said Beth, nervously.
"Sure. It'll be fun," he kissed Beth's forehead. "Tomorrow after work I'll grab some clothes from my apartment and pick up dinner as well."
"Great," Beth smiled and hugged Dennis tighter.
The three weeks left in the month went by quickly as Dennis immersed himself with having a family. Evenings were filled with fun, laughter and screams with the occasional accident, tears or tantrum. Nights were filled with stories and silence and, on most nights, love-making between Dennis and Beth.
A couple days before the first of the month, Dennis returned home and saw that his landlord had been attempting to contact him to sign a new lease for the next year. He began thinking about the last month and the time he's spent with Beth and Jacob. He went into his closet and pulled down a box. He dug through it, looking at the stuff he kept that reminded him of Beth.
When he went to Beth's that evening, he took the box with him. "I come bearing gifts," he said. "Well, not gifts exactly but Jacob can have this," he handed his red cape to Jacob.
"What's this?" he asked.
"It's a cape that my Grandma made me when I was about your age. I had some good adventures in that cape and I hope you will too."
"I'm not wearing this in public," he said but took it into his bedroom.
"Ah, kids," Dennis said. He sat the box on the kitchen table.
"Why did you give Jacob your cape?" Beth asked. "I thought you wanted to give it to your son."
"Eh, he's kind of like my son. Look at this," he pulled out a picture of him and Beth dressed in a tuxedo and a blue dress. "Our prom picture."
"Oh my God. I haven't seen this in years," she took it and smiled.
"So I have a decision to make," Dennis sat down next to Beth.
"My lease is up in a couple days and I need to decide if I am going to stay or find a new place to live. I'm leaning toward finding a new place but I wanted to get your opinion."
"Okay," Beth welcomed.
"Should I move in with my girlfriend?"
Beth sighed. "I'm just going to say it. I love you, Dennis. I've loved you ever since you were a stupid teenager running around in that silly red cape. I've lost boyfriends, good boyfriends, because I love you. This has been one of the best months of my life and I would love it if you would move in with Jacob and me," Beth was crying now.
Dennis leaned over and hugged Beth. "I love you too. I've realized over the last month that I want to spend the rest of my life with you and Jacob."
Beth, still crying, laughed. "And Jacob's brother or sister."
"I'm pregnant," she laughed again. "I took a test before you got here."
Dennis smiled at Beth then began kissing her. "Come on, let's go to the bedroom and celebrate this new chapter and then tell Jacob," Dennis stood up and pulled Beth with him.
"Do you think Jacob will let us borrow the cape for few minutes?" Beth asked.
"I'll borrow it from him after he goes to bed." They went into the bedroom, keeping their love-making as quiet as possible as Jacob played in his bedroom.
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