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Read A Great Apocalyptic Story That's Already Been Proved Wrong!
Charlie Jane Anders
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apocalypse triptych
john joseph adams
hugh howey
jake kerr
The Apocalypse Triptych covers a lot of apocalyptic scenarios in three books. But Jake Kerr has the unusual distinction of A) writing about a really cool asteroid impact scenario B) hinging his storyline on a future scenario that we already know won't happen. Read Kerr's essay about being wrong, and then read the story right here.
Why I'm Glad My Science Fiction Story Has Already Been Proven False
As a science fiction author I hate being wrong. When I found out that time dilation in my story…
Kerr's story, "Wedding Day," appears in The End Is Nigh, the first of three volumes in the Apocalypse Triptych. [Full disclosure: I have a three-part story that appears in all three volumes.] It takes place in the same world as his story "Biographical Fragments of the Life of Julian Prince." And you should also read his Nebula-nominated story "The Old Equations."
The End is Nigh (Apocalypse Triptych Book 1)
I walk through the front door and pause to slide off my heels when Jocelyn yells from the living room, "It's already started!" I keep my shoes on and rush to join her. As I sit down and focus on the news conference she takes my hand. She strokes my engagement ring, but her eyes don't leave the TV.
This is not equivalent to the impact that killed the dinosaurs, but we beg governments across the globe not to underestimate the scope of what we are outlining. This event will kill millions of people even if the impact is in the middle of the Pacific. My colleague Doctor Mariathasan will outline the atmospheric and climate effects, but let me repeat the words of Doctor Meyer: There is no scenario that we can envision where the entire globe is not subject to some level of devastation.
[Inaudible question over shouted voices]
It depends on the impact location.
[More shouts]
If the asteroid lands in China, no one in China will survive.
[There are gasps and someone grabs the speaker and whispers in his ear. He shakes them off as more questions are shouted.]
No no no. Professor Meyer said later next year. 2023. But that is still very little time. We must act. It is called a Near Extinction Event for a reason. If the asteroid impacts Europe, everyone here will die and many across the globe will also die.
[There are shouts as he turns and looks around to those on the dais]
All of us here beg those at the impact location to flee as soon as we isolate it and for everyone else to prepare for disaster. We must unite together.
[A reporter shouts "Where is the impact location?"]
We don't know yet. It may take as long as six weeks to confirm the location due to all the variables.
The TV blinks out, and I look over at Lynn, who is holding the remote. "I guess the wedding is cancelled."
"No," I say, as we pull each other into a hug. "Just rescheduled."
One morning, about a week before the announcement of the impact location, I receive a nice surprise: The moderate conservatives in the Texas legislature have pushed through the marriage equality law. It has always been our dream to get married in our home state, and now we can. There is a joyous rush of marriages, but Lynn and I decide to wait.
"You sure?" I ask. It's Sunday, and we've had a solid thirty-six hours of relaxation, a rarity lately. She is flipping through a wedding magazine.
"Yes. We wanted it to be romantic and beautiful and meaningful, right?" I nod. "And running downtown for a marriage certificate and a photo doesn't seem like those things at all."
"But what if the impact is in North America?"
"Then we'll get married in Venice or something." Lynn pats the couch. I'm pacing and don't even realize it. I sit down. "It's not Texas, but, come on, it's Venice."
"How about Paris?" I ask.
She squeezes my leg. "That's the spirit. Maybe Ireland? You always loved Ireland."
"Mmm. That would be nice. What about the hills of Kilimanjaro?" Lynn's dad had traced their ancestry through the Eastern African slave trade to Tanzania, and the idea of visiting there has always been one of her dreams.
She puts the magazine down and claps her hands. "I got it!" She turns and faces me. I'm excited by her excitement. "Las Vegas!"
I roll my eyes but laugh. I lay my head in her lap and we make plans for an international wedding. I do my best to be enthusiastic, but my excitement dies quickly. The plans remind me too much of what we did while waiting for marriage to be legalized in Texas. I'm tired of hope and dreams deferred.
The conspiracy sites—the same ones that successfully predicted the asteroid's collision with Earth and had been dismissed as written by nutjobs—are all stating that the impact will be in North America, even though the official announcement is five days away.
The first website makes its announcement at 8:42 in the morning. By 9 a.m. the news is everywhere, and the suppressed terror and anxiety explode across the continent. I attempt to use every possible angle I know to get us both out of the country, but it is clear that only those with political connections or extreme wealth can leave.
I'm not surprised. Four hundred million people desperate to leave has overwhelmed the transportation infrastructure of Canada, Mexico, and the United States. As a result, only one thing has any value any more: A way out. Airline flights to Europe, Japan, Africa—anywhere other than North America—are impossible to find. Lynn comes home, and we brainstorm ideas on how to get away. She notes that her employer, Star News, has transportation and that the company could get us out. I'm not convinced but I keep quiet. Star News is a huge company with a lot of employees. I want to share in her optimism, but why would they save us?
Lynn's parents aren't wealthy, and she's worried they'll give up and go into full-on "bucket list" mode. I examine every possibility for escape. My Uncle Don owns a yacht, and I ask my mom whether he would travel back and forth, transporting us to safety, but he had already left the country and hasn't returned.
Lynn works late again, as usual. She walks in, looking stressed and exhausted, which is unlike her. "It's really bad, Em," she says as she walks to the kitchen. "People have torn down the Mexican border fence."
"So the fence that was put up to keep Mexicans out of America was keeping Americans out of Mexico?" I walk over and rub Lynn's shoulders as she pours herself a glass of wine. "That is what I call divine justice."
"People are dying, Em. It's not funny."
"They haven't even announced where the asteroid is going to impact yet."
Lynn turns and gives me an are you serious look. "Everyone knows that the impact is going to be in North America whether it's been officially confirmed or not." She's right, of course.
"Then maybe that's a good idea, fleeing to South America."
"I told you. It's bad. You don't see the stories I see. Panama is a death zone. People are being shot, and that's if they make it through the minefields or don't bleed to death on razor wire." She takes a long drink of her wine. "We're on our own."
The official announcement is made at nine o'clock in the morning three days later. It surprises no one. The only new information is a more precise impact location: South Dakota. It takes the president about ninety seconds to announce a series of new laws, the first of which means that I no longer have a job. Political consultants like me aren't necessary when the country is being run by martial law. Thousands of people are being deputized as part of a federal police and military force, and I briefly consider applying, but shooting looters doesn't feel like something I could do.
While I spend the day pondering being out of work, Lynn is in her element. There is no bigger news in history than what is happening right now all around her. She is not only one of the key correspondents for Star News, she writes for local news organizations. She is everywhere.
"Slow down," I plead with Lynn as she walks in after a twelve hour day a week later. I have dinner ready for her, and a bottle of wine opened. There are gunshots outside, but those are now ever-present, and I ignore them.
She takes the wine and falls into her spot on the couch. "You know why I need to do this."
We've been over it many times. It's not simply that she is driven to report the reality of life; she is doing whatever she can to earn points with Star News. Her new strategy is that they'll fly us out of North America in gratitude. Even after seeing her all over TV and the Net, I fear she is wrong, that she is wasting the last few precious moments we could have together.
"But drop something, even if it is some of the local stuff." I set the table as we talk. "We should spend time together, before—" I don't finish the sentence. It's hard to talk about the impact, now only six months away, when there is only a remote hope that we will escape.
"Okay," Lynn replies, and I pause to stare at her. I expected her to push back. "Life is shit right now, but it's not total shit." She looks tired and stressed. The resignation in her voice worries me. It's just not her. "We should spend more time together."
"Thank you. I'm just worried is all." She doesn't reply, but instead stands up and walks over and takes the spoon from my hand to help with dinner.
I step back and watch as she stirs, feeling powerless as the silence lingers. "You shouldn't worry," she whispers. When I don't reply, she turns and looks at me. I don't know what to say, but it doesn't matter. She is Lynn, and she knows what to say, even now.
She smiles, the stress and weariness is gone. "Fuck it, let's get married!"
I talk to my mom and my dad, and Lynn talks to hers. My mom is excited about attending, no matter when we hold it, but my dad is noncommittal. Lynn's parents are somewhere on Route 66, following their dream of driving its entire length. They promise to make time for our wedding.
As we tell our friends, the wedding is a beacon of light amidst the gloom. We set a date a month away. That is still five months before the impact, and the hope is that Star News will fly us out shortly afterward. I organize the wedding while Lynn works non-stop.
I'm struggling to find a band for the reception when my phone rings. It's Lynn. "Hey, Love! How's your day going?" I ask.
"This fucked-up world has somehow done something right." She is so excited that I can picture the phone shaking in her hand. "The UN is announcing that they are going to expatriate people from North America to other countries. It starts in two weeks. My editor just told me an announcement is coming later today."
I can't quite let myself believe what she is saying. "So we'll be able to leave for another country?"
"Yes. I mean no. It's not that simple. There's going to be a lottery, an expatriation lottery. There simply isn't enough time or resources to move a half billion people from one side of the world to the other."
I do the math in my head, and it doesn't add up. "Sure there is. There have to be enough ships and planes to get everyone out in half a year."
"I told you; it's not that simple. Do you really think Saudi Arabia would take a few million Christian refugees? Some countries won't accept any Americans, and others are focused on their own disaster preparation. So we're basically on our own in terms of making it work."
"Then we may not make it."
"Jesus, Em. Can't you at least be thankful for a little bit of good news? At least we now have a better chance! Think of it this way: This takes pressure off Star News to save everyone on their staff. Our chances of them flying us out are much greater. Plus, we may even win the lottery." She pauses, and then adds, her voice tentative, "Should we change our wedding plans?"
"Well, it sounds like there's still so much up in the air. Maybe we should just continue with business-as-usual?"
"Yes, of course, but we should be prepared to be flexible." I'm used to Lynn's hope and optimism, so her response is a pleasant surprise. Flexible? That I can embrace. Hell, moving from likely death to having to be flexible is about the best thing ever. Getting married in Austin and then emigrating to France? Fine. Emigrating to England and then getting married there? Also fine. Before I can reply, she adds, "Although it would be nice to get married in Venice."
I can practically see her smile through the phone as she says it. She hasn't been this happy in a long time, and I realize I need her happiness. I don't want her to be flexible. "Or Kilimanjaro!" I reply. Lynn was right. I should be thankful, and I am. My enthusiasm is real. Lynn makes it real. We discuss kisses at sunset and sweetheart necklines, and I am so full of joy that I can barely breathe.
Lynn covers the impact of the Lottery on families as it starts—the winner, the losers, the joy, and the pain. I beg her to stop after a third man who was not chosen commits suicide in front of her and her cameraman. Despite the good intentions, the lottery is a near universal target of anger and suspicion. The details of the lottery cause riots, but they make sense to my political mind: all military and their families are automatically eligible for expatriation. This is deeply unpopular, but it makes the management of the lottery work. Corruption is minimized when the benefit of any bribe is far outweighed by the possible punishment of losing your family's spot on an outgoing boat or plane.
However, people ignore the rational, and it scares me with Lynn in the middle of it all. It's made worse by the process. While the internet and the country's infrastructure still function at a basic level, the lottery is decidedly non-technical. Selection is done ahead of time at local offices and notification is done face-to-face at heavily guarded buildings in urban centers. You go. You find out your fate. You leave.
"What if one of them decides to take out others before taking his own life?" I say to her. I don't mention that I worry about her own psyche. How many deaths can you witness before it scars you forever? She came home in shock after the first one, but after the third she barely considered it worth mentioning.
To my surprise she agrees. "It's already an old story," she adds. The lottery has been in effect for a whole week, and the suicides are already an "old" story. It saddens me, although I'm glad Lynn doesn't seem to grasp the pathos illustrated by her words. She adds, "Plus, we have a wedding coming up!"
The wedding is in two weeks. I never did book a band, but a friend agreed to act as DJ. We are to get married at the Four Seasons in Austin, which will be convenient for our family and friends, and has the benefit of a waterfront background for the ceremony itself. It's not what I had in mind, but it still makes me gasp when I think of it.
Both of our expatriation interview dates are a month out, so we don't think about the lottery very much. It's hope for an indeterminate future, and that's good enough for now.
For once I find out something before Lynn. A friend of my mother's is in the Expatriation Office and mentioned something to her in passing. My mom immediately called me in a panic. Marriages have been suspended.
"Wait, why would they do that?" I can't quite believe the news. It makes no sense.
"Because there are two components to the lottery. The first is that every individual in the country is eligible, and the second is that if you win, you get to emigrate with your entire immediate family. Do you understand?"
"No," I reply. Maybe I do understand but just don't want to. I just can't believe that something as basic as a life-saving lottery would have a loophole.
"People are getting married to increase their odds. And if you have a lot of kids your odds are even greater. Haven't you seen the news about the explosion of marriages?" I did, but I assumed it was due to the impending mass death and others in Lynn's and my position—wanting to finally get married before it was too late. That people would get married to game the system didn't even cross my mind.
"So they are canceling marriages entirely because individuals with kids are getting married to other people with kids, and all they need is one from the entire group to win and then they all are saved?"
"Yes." The sadness in my mom's voice breaks my heart. Losing any moment of joy in the midst of such darkness is almost too much to consider.
"So unmarried people are screwed."
"I wouldn't say—"
Anger bubbles over. "But what about Lynn and me? We weren't trying to game the system! We spent years waiting for marriage to be legal, and now just days away from our wedding it is illegal again." The unfairness is overwhelming. I need to talk to Lynn.
"I know, dear. If there's anything—"
"I have to go." I hang up, dial Lynn, and explain what's happening. Lynn is quiet on the other end of the line. I cling to the absurd hope that she will somehow make things better.
"I'll be right home," she says. I wait, trying to not dwell on the worst.
She arrives minutes later and tosses her bag on the floor. She gives me a cursory hug and starts pacing while I sit down. Her nervousness while I recline on the couch is a stark reversal of our normal roles. Still, she is all business, and I find it comforting. If there is a solution here, she will find it.
She stops and faces me. "Okay, one." She holds up a finger. "We still could both win the lottery." I nod. "Two." She holds up another finger. "We could still be flown out by Star News." I nod again. "And three." She holds up the finger and then drops it into a fist as she continues, "We will still be able to get married when the lottery is over, right?"
I had not thought of that. Once the lottery is over, there is no need to protect the system, and marriages could resume. "I guess . . ."
There are too many unknowns for me to think anything other than we are still fucked, but before I can say it Lynn replies, "This really doesn't change anything!"
Lynn is driving us to the Expatriation Office, and the streets are a mess. The military is keeping order, but cars are pushed to the side of the road and abandoned where they broke down. Traffic accidents lead to gunplay. The roads to downtown Austin are a war zone.
There's a delay when a pair of bucketlisters have their friends block off Interstate 35 for a drag race. We wait for the military police to arrive or for the race to finish, whichever comes first. I sympathize with the increasing number of bucketlisters sprouting up across the country. They are at least being proactive about their impending doom, but this pair is now threatening Lynn's appointment, and my sympathy is in short supply. "Fuckers," I mutter. We gave ourselves two hours for a drive that three months earlier would have taken thirty minutes, and now we'll need every second.
Lynn looks over and squeezes my leg. "We have plenty of time." I nod but cheer quietly when a military truck from behind us splits the air with its loud siren. The bucketlisters scatter, and the road clears.
The Expatriation Office is in a heavily fortified compound. There are concrete barriers on the sidewalk. Thick walls and razor wire. Soldiers are everywhere with machine guns. We park in a large, mostly empty, lot outside the walls. "I love you," I whisper.
Lynn smiles and wipes my tears with her thumbs, her hands cupping my face. "I know." She kisses me. "I love you, too."
Only Lynn is allowed in, so she heads to the gate while I walk to a nearby building where friends and family are allowed to wait. It's a sterile storefront with lots of plate glass and uncomfortable plastic chairs. It looks like the waiting room at the DMV. The room is about half full, but no one talks to anybody else. I take a seat and stare at the walls.
Individuals make the long walk from the walled compound to the waiting area, and the near constant flow of hopelessness is overwhelming. One person after another approaches, shakes his or her head, and then breaks down, soon joined by others' screams, wails, and tears. No one commits suicide while I watch, but the dead eyes are almost as bad.
A few people walk in with good news, but they are subdued, their happiness tempered out of respect for the walking dead around them. Still, the hushed cries and tears are of happiness, and it is oddly uplifting. As a young man walks in and nods his head, a woman rushes over and throws herself in his arms. I am genuinely happy for them and wonder where they will settle. London? Tokyo? Madrid? Moscow? It doesn't matter. They walk out with a future.
And there is Lynn. I cannot read her face. Did she win? Is she safe? She sees me through the window, and gives a half wave from her waist. I run out to her, and we meet on the sidewalk. I look in her eyes, and she nods her head.
She hugs me, and I cry.
A couple in another car pull in as we walk across the parking lot, Lynn's hand in mine. I catch a glimpse of their faces but turn away. Lynn is waiting for me, and I close my door on the pain and uncertainty outside.
I don't remember the trip home. I don't remember much at all. I just hold Lynn in my arms, afraid to let her go, afraid that maybe it isn't real.
I am filled with more happiness than I knew was possible as the love of my life will be safe and this wonderful amazing woman who has filled my life with such joy will not have her light go out due to the cruelty of the heavens or fate or whatever has decreed that life is now nothing more than a lottery she will live she will live she will live.
A few days later, Lynn comes home at lunchtime, which surprises me because she is still on the Star News beat. I don't know which story she is covering, but I assume it's something amusing; the stories of riots, murders, rapes, and suicides are unpopular, and Europe appears addicted to stories of bucketlisters doing crazy things, so Lynn has been covering every bucket list item imaginable and enjoying every minute of it.
"Hey, what's up? Slow news day?" I smile. There is no longer such a thing as a slow news day.
"I quit."
I put my book down and stand up. "What? Why?"
"The government has commandeered all of Star News' North American transportation to maximize expatriation efforts."
I collapse back on the couch. "Oh." There goes any hope of the company getting us out.
"They fucking lied to me, Em. They knew this was going to happen for weeks. My boss knew! They just were negotiating how late they would have to wait before handing over the keys to the government." She slams her fist into the wall. "They knew. They fucking knew!"
"Then why didn't they fly us out earlier?"
"I don't know. Because they're evil bastards. Because I was doing my job too well. Does it matter?" She sits down next to me. "We're fucked."
I put my arms around her and rest my head on her shoulder. "No we're not. You're safe. That's something. And my appointment is in a few days." I had hoped my appointment wouldn't matter, but now it would be the single most important moment of my life. Lynn—who has been my rock for the past eight years—looks like she's going to fall apart. I didn't realize she had invested so much in Star News getting us out of the country. "Hey." I lift my head, touch her chin, and turn her face to mine. "You know me. I'm the luckiest person in the world." She isn't crying, and that somehow makes her pain seem worse. "After all, I have you."
She is crying now. I hold my palm against her cheek. We kiss, and there isn't anything else to say.
When we arrive for my appointment, I leave Lynn behind, and it his her turn to wait amongst the desperation. During my walk to the gate I think about the unfairness of it all. This entire trip would be unnecessary if Lynn and I were married. She'd won, and thus I would have won, too.
I go through a metal detector, a magnetic resonance scanner, and a chemical detector of some sort. Signs everywhere warn people that if they are carrying any banned substances at all they will lose their place in the lottery. A few people are going through the process with me, and they look nervous and drawn, almost haunted. I wonder if I look the same way. The soldiers are business-like and intimidating but nice enough.
I walk up to a guard at a booth on the other side of the security room and hand him my ID. He looks at it and then at my face. He nods and swipes the license through a magnetic stripe reader. "Room 5A." He points to his left. "Down the hall and make a right." He hands my ID back and waves to the person behind me.
I enter room 5A. Lynn had already walked me through the whole process, so I'm prepared. Still, the utter ordinariness of the office is striking. I am about to face life or death, and I'm sitting in a metal folding chair facing a metal desk with a computer and a phone. The name on the desk says "Samuel Esposito." Mister Esposito, who looks to be in his thirties, is sitting behind the desk wearing a drab suit.
"Ms. Hollister. Nice to meet you. I'm Sam." He stands to greet me and sits down only after I say hello and seat myself.
He proceeds to recite a script about the background of the Meyer Asteroid, the difficulty in dealing with the scope of such a catastrophe, and how if the government could relocate everybody then, my goodness, of course they would.
But they can't, he notes, and he continues to go on about the origin of the Expatriation Lottery, why it's not perfect but that it's the best anyone could come up with.
He says all this with a natural cadence and a pleasant voice. He's friendly, and I'm rather fond of how sympathetic he sounds as he outlines something that will kill hundreds of millions of people. But before he can continue with his well-worn script, I stop him.
"Now Sam, is it really the best the government could come up with?" I ask the question with my most pleasant politically-honed voice.
"Well, um, yes it is. We are a democratic country, and we wanted to give everyone an equal chance."
"But you get to emigrate even if you don't win the lottery when your other family members win. Is that fair?"
"Well, you see, Ms. Hollister, it would be a real tragedy to break apart families. Certainly you can understand that."
I stop myself. There is nothing to gain here. I could get into an argument over how I was not able to marry my beloved partner of nearly a decade, how the ignorance of a bunch of zealots has me sitting in this very chair praying for my life, how even when marriage was made legal a bunch of selfish pricks looking to game the system destroyed our last chance.
Instead, I reply, "Oh, I understand the tragedy of breaking families apart all too well."
Thrown a bit by my answer, Sam's script comes out awkwardly at first, but he quickly recovers and proceeds to tell me that he is required to outline what happens both if you win or lose the lottery. He starts with grief counseling, which is optional but highly recommended. It will be available immediately after this meeting in a convenient room down the hall if I decide I need it. A new law put into place allows euthanasia, but you must first discuss that option with a grief counselor.
He then outlines what to expect if I win. Transportation will be via either boat or plane, and the destination will be a country determined by a second lottery. Immediate family members emigrate together but distant family are not guaranteed that they will be able to settle in the same country.
"Are you ready?" The question comes so suddenly that I am unprepared to reply. "Do you need more time?" Sam asks, sympathy in his voice.
"No. It's okay. I'm ready."
I wait for him to open an envelope or to check his screen or something, but he just folds his hands on his desk and speaks. "I'm sorry, Ms. Hollister. You have not been chosen to emigrate."
I skip the grief counseling. I walk down the hall feeling calm. I'm not sad for myself; I'm sad for Lynn. The moment Sam spoke the words, I knew that my new goal in life was to convince Lynn to leave me behind. She deserves a long life. The world needs her strength, her passion, her optimism, her beauty. Me? I won't die alone. There are tens of millions of us, and that knowledge is oddly comforting.
As I walk through the compound, the enormity of what I'm facing starts to intrude on my facade of strength. I don't want to lose Lynn, but I don't want Lynn to die.
I approach the building with the waiting area doing my best to conceal my emotions. The door opens and she runs up to me. Her face and eyes are red. "How did it go?" she whispers.
"I love you," I say.
"No. No. No. Goddammit, no!"
"Lynn . . ." I touch her arm, but she pulls away.
"No! You are not going to die."
"Lynn . . ." I reach out, and she falls into my arms. She is sobbing into my shoulder, and I am calm. I am her rock. I will save her.
She pulls away. "You can go in my place." She stares in my eyes—the intensity I know and love is back—but there is nothing to be done. I just shake my head. She knows it's not allowed. It's impossible. She shoves me away and turns toward the car. "I'm not going. I'll stay with you." She pulls the keys from her pocket and starts walking.
It's what I fear the most, her sacrificing her life for no reason. "That's not going to happen," I say. "I won't let you."
She ignores me and keeps walking to the car. I catch up to her as she gets in. I slide into the passenger seat and put my hand on her hand holding the steering wheel.
"Lynn, please. It makes no sense."
She turns to me, and all her anger, all her fear, all her desperation is just gone. Her face is glowing. "You know, I've been stupid. The asteroid. The lottery. The fucking Star News. All this shit." She waves her arm. "It's distracted me from the one thing—the one single thing—that I've wanted my whole life. Nothing else matters."
"What are you talking about?" She doesn't sound crazy, but her clarity is frightening because I don't understand it.
"You said it yourself, Em. You said, 'I love you.' You were just told that your life was over. Goodbye citizen, in six months you will be dead. And the only thing that mattered to you was telling me that you loved me." She takes my hand. "Don't you get it? I love you, too. With all my heart. With all mylife. All I want is for us to be together. Fuck this asteroid. Fuck the lottery. Let's just get married and be happy for whatever time we have left."
There are tears in her eyes and I know they are tears of joy. How can they be tears of joy?
"It doesn't matter how long my life is," she says. "I just want to end it with you as my wife."
She looks directly into my eyes. And I understand.
It took us a long time to get to the Davis Mountains in West Texas, but we made it. It is cold, but the sky is clear. My mom is there. Lynn's parents won the lottery, and we are happy for them even if they have to miss our wedding. Dad's girlfriend won the lottery, too, and after a quickie wedding before it was made illegal, dad stopped returning my calls. It's for the best. Lynn's friend Max is officiating. He's a Baptist minister, and I rather think that a lesbian wedding is on his bucket list, but I'm not crass enough to ask him.
Lynn is resplendent in her dress. My mom cries as she walks me up an aisle of wild grass and stone. She hugs Lynn very tight and then kisses me. Lynn and I say our vows; we exchange rings; and Max declares us married. We kiss, and I can't help but cry.
"I'm so sorry," I whisper, and Lynn shakes her head.
"No, no no. Don't be. I wanted to live the rest of my life with you as my wife." She touches my cheek with her hand. "Now I will, and I'm so incredibly grateful."
I pull my wife close. Our cheeks touch, and I am grateful, too.
There is only one other guest at the wedding. The sky is dominated by a streaking ball of fire that looks nothing like the ugly rock I saw on TV. Today it looks glorious, a celestial benediction that couldn't be more beautiful.
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The 3rd Round, and the last of 2017 took us to Surrey and the Coulsdon MCRC. HONK were the hosts, held at Coulsdon whilst they are settling into a new home (Great news that they now have found a venue to host their club meetings).
Joining the regular 'THORL' racers was returnee Mike Ransley, and racing for the first time this season, Trevor Crout who brought along some fantastic early versions of his Nissan GT-LM car.
With Mince pies keeping everyone energised on a very cold, and in parts snowy, weekend, it was Ash who took opening honours in the Formula HO class.
In the afternoon, everyone was in awe of Tonys new bodys from Roger Porcelli and RPMs.
Much attention was also being show to Trevors new body, the Nissan GT-R LM.
Now warmed up, it was Tony who would take honours in the remaining 3 classes in the afternoon.
Concours was won by Tonys RPM body, and Nicks Pink! AFX LMP.
Many thanks to Coulson MCRC for letting us use the venue and for all those from HONK who setup the track.
Join us for racing in 2018 at Round 4, on 4th Feb at Four Lane Black Top at their home in Marlborough, Wilts.
Concours Winners: Tony Baldock, Jim Saunders.


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Depending on the type of policy you have, the definitions of an injury, illness or disability and the policy's period of cover may vary. Insurance companies also have different methods of calculating your average weekly income.
The policy documents should be provided to you at the outset and it is important that they adequately reflect the coverage you were promised as such documents may later be used against you in the event your policy is terminated.
With that being said, it is also important to keep your policy in case the insurer has acted contrary to the policy in terminating your income protections policy.
We recently successfully settled one of our client's income protection policy disputes with his insurer.
Our client purchased an income protection policy around 20 years ago for his 'peace of mind' in case something happened to him.
Unfortunately, in early 2011 he suffered from a heart-attack and has since not been able to return to his pre-injury duties in a full time capacity. His insurance company initially covered him for total disability for a period of time until he was able to return to part time duties. After his return to part time employment the insurer paid partial disability payments. The insurance company had been paying our client such payments for almost four years.
However, early last year his insurance company contacted him and interviewed him by telephone. A couple of weeks later the insurer sent our client a termination letter. Within that letter they referred to certain comments made by our client during the interview which they believed showed that he had capacity for 'pre-injury full time employment'. It should be noted that no medical evidence was relied on and no attempts to contact his treating doctors were made. For a policy that covered 'illness or disability' this seemed strange.
Needless to say our client was extremely upset and stressed about the insurer's decision to cease his partial disability payments. He felt very aggrieved and contacted our firm to seek our advice.
We advised him to leave copies of his policy documents and the termination letter with us and we would take it from there.
After some preliminary investigations we formed the view that the termination was not justified and swiftly commenced legal action against the insurer.
Throughout the litigation process we pressed the insurer for its entire file relating to our client's claim. After reviewing the file we found numerous actions taken which were contrary to the policy.
At a recent mediation the insurer's lawyers agreed that their client did not act in accordance with the policy and that our client's payments under his policy should be reinstated.
Our client was reinstated and received back payments for the outstanding period as well as interest.
Other law firms may ask for upfront payment for such a complex policy issue, we have dealt with these cases on a no win no fee basis.
This can be particularly helpful for those who are unable to afford expensive litigation. Many individuals who are in the same position as our client often would not seek legal advice as litigation is expensive and it can often feel like a David v Goliath battle.
We are able to assist those individual whose policies have been unjustly rejected or terminated and we do so on a no win no fee basis.
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Jio loses over 19 mn mobile users in Sept: Trai
Jio's sharper-than-expected fall in mobile users, in fact, reduced India's mobile user base by 20.7 million to around 1.16 billion in September 2021, according to latest subscriber data issued by the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (Trai) on Monday.
Updated: November 23, 2021, 09:12 IST
Kolkata: Reliance Jio lost over 19 million wireless subscribers in September, dragging its gross user base down to 424.83 million, reflecting the massive clean-up of low-paying customers recently undertaken by the Mukesh Ambani-led telco in the fiscal second quarter.
By comparison, Airtel's added 0.27 million wireless customers, users taking its gross user base to 354.46 million while Vodafone Idea (Vi) lost another 1.07 million, lowering its user base to 269.99 million and reflecting its continuing struggles in the 4G operations front.
Jio, in fact, had reported an over 11 million drop in its customer base in the July-September period, which, though, had partly boosted its average revenue per user (ARPU) in the fiscal second quarter to Rs 144 from Rs 138 in the April-June period.
Trai data showed Airtel and Vi marginally widened customer market shares to 30.4% (29.85%) and 23.15% (22.84%) respectively in September, while Jio's narrowed to 36.43% (37.40%), triggered by the latter's removal of dormant users.
Telecom sector revenue may grow 4.5-5% on quarter in FY3Q: Analysts
"Industry revenue increased 4.5% q-q in 2QFY22, (and) we expect the growth momentum to continue in 3QFY22 as well, on (continuing) effect of segmented price hikes taken and increase in smartphone sales during the festive season," BNP Paribas said in a note.
Jio lost nearly 6.6 million users in rural India in September. Bharti Airtel and Vi, by contrast, suffered fewer rural user losses at 0.78 million and 0.74 million respectively.
Jio's rural mobile user base fell to 184.29 million while Airtel and Vi's dipped modestly to 169.99 million and 137.21 million respectively,
Over the past few months, Jio had been consolidating its leadership in rural markets, helped by strong rural consumer appetite for aggressive offers on its older 4G feature phone, JioPhone. But September customer numbers, collated by Trai, show the telecom market leader also weeded out low-paying users in the rural markets.
Visitor Location Register (VLR), a key metric reflecting the number of active subscribers on a mobile network, showed that 97.86% of the users were active for Bharti Airtel, 87.31% for Vi and 83.65% for Jio in September.
JioPhone Next receiving encouraging response from retailers, consumers: Reliance Retail
The device comes locked with the SIM of Reliance Jio, the telecom arm of Reliance Industries. Retailers are currently taking bookings for the smartphone and deliveries are expected to start in the coming weeks.
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Paradigm Shift Resources
Welcome! To find more information, share a quote, join a discussion or ask me questions about any of the topics below, just click the link…
Q1 "This book is not about you… It's about how you can be a better leader to those you serve."
Q2 "I was tired of fighting fires when we could be growing forests."
Q3 "Social media is something we've been doing in person since the beginning of time."
Q4 "Great leadership is no longer just an ideology, but a demand from the masses."
Q5 "Everything in digital social media can be measured to an extent."
Q6 "A lack of social media engagement decreases your relevance to the next generation."
Q7 "Traditional media now serves the singular purpose of inspiring the inquiry."
Q8 "Employees, contractors, and volunteers find it easier than ever to connect and collaborate more effectively."
Q9 "Now and MBA is less impressive than a strong, quantifiable network of quality connections."
Q10 "Whatever your passion, it can be followed, shared, and influenced on social media channels."
Q11 "Your stakeholder is your primary, and often only, marketer."
Q12 "This is the social media revolution: the shifting of power from the few at the top to the many they serve."
Q13 "Instead of information being easily controlled and contained, it's amassed for the masses."
Q14 "In most cases, left to their own assumptions, your audience will assume you have something to hide."
Q15 "The veneer identity has met its demise – a death we've long awaited."
Q16 "Social media offers a terrific opportunity to build and increase trust dividends."
Q17 "Alignment occurs when stakeholders and leaders are engaged in a mass dialogue."
Q18 "Trust is no longer a perk; it's a basic requirement."
Q19 "Oops."
Q20 "Leaders should create strong value at the hub of their network and extend their reach across the spokes."
Q21 "Leverage and reach are unlimited in a technical platform."
Q22 "You cannot ignore the voice of stakeholders, because the world hears them."
Q23 "You can't measure an ocean with a teaspoon."
Q24 "Waiting to see what happens is not a strategy. It's avoidance."
Q25 "Storms will come and go. It is how leaders handle the storm that matters."
Q26 "In social media, hours can influence an eternity of results."
Q27 "In social media, it is truly fifteen minutes of fame, not hours."
Q28 "A leader lacking integrity will not hold the commitment of the people."
Q29 "It is the responsibility of a leader to accurately reflect the people and culture to which they are accountable."
Q30 "Make strong, quality connections across a diverse group and you won't have to fight for every inch of ground."
Q31 "Those who disrespect another's connections will test the strength of their own."
Q32 "To ensure your influence as a leader, your connections should reflect both quantity and quality."
Q33 "Service is truly the core of the matter when it comes to leadership."
Q34 "Social media exposes one-trick ponies that hide in ivory towers."
Q35 "Now, costs that were cut to the bone are exposed on the butcher block of social media platforms."
Q36 "Leadership is often misunderstood as an achievement to be reached, rather than a commitment to serve."
Q37 "The leader who serves others leads them. The leader who serves self-interest leads none."
Q38 "To sustain the support of your team, you must always be willing to jump into the fray yourself."
Q39 "The irony is that what we want and what we need has been in front of us all along."
Q40 "The well-rounded leader is one with strong virtues."
Q41 "Most great organizations lean heavily toward empowerment through leadership, with a dash of fear against lawsuits sprinkled in."
Q42 "In the old world, communication could be contained, whereas the new, more social world is far more open."
Q43 "The Employee Support objective places less emphasis on short-term cost control and more on long-term benefit maximization."
Q44 "Businesses don't buy from businesses; people buy from people."
Q45 "Your greatest asset – your people – may be sitting on the shelf, collecting dust."
Trust is a function of two things: character and competence. Character includes your integrity, your motive and your intent with people. Competence includes your capabilities, your skills, and your track record. Both are vital.
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Christina Stead (July 17, 1902 – March 31, 1983) was a novelist and short story writer who was born in Australia into a Marxist family. Her mother died when she was only two years old. When she was old enough, she became the main caretaker of the family while her father worked. Stead went to college and after, worked as a teacher and secretary.
She moved to London at age 26, where she fell in love with an American banker, William Blake. They traveled around Europe and finally ended up in the United States. In the 1940s, Stead took a job as a screenwriter and as a teacher at NYU. Stead and Blake returned to Europe and both wrote articles and did editing to earn money.
Christina Stead wrote 15 novels and numerous short stories, but never gained the success she felt she deserved. She was considered a misanthrope and curmudgeon, an unapproachable person who revealed little of herself even as she self-invented. She destroyed many of her personal papers, making it more difficult to preserve her legacy.
In her works, the main characters were often based on herself and the stories very close to her own life. In her best-known work, The Man Who Loved Children, the father was based on her own, and the title is rather ironic. The novel was not very popular until its reissue in 1965. Stead's also addressed the negative impact of governments on societies.
She returned to her native land of Australia at age 72, and died there in 1983.


The Syrian civil war, we have been told, began as part of the Arab Spring and really took hold when Syrian government forces allegedly opened fire on protesters across the country in early 2011. This pattern of indiscriminate violent behaviour against civilians has been a talking point in the western media's regime-change narrative. The media often goes so far as to claim that the government led by Bashar al Assad has lost all legitimacy.
What, then, should we make of Israel's decision to open fire on protesters in the Gaza Strip this past week, killing over 60 protesters and wounding 2,700 more in the process? According to the US ambassador to the United Nations (UN), Israel is not an aggressor at all but a country that has shown considerable "restraint" in its use of force. Despite the claim that most of the dead were Hamas members, the fact that 2,700 people were injured suggests Israel deployed lethal force upon thousands of protesters – not exactly what comes to mind when one thinks of the word "restraint". Even purposely shooting one unarmed protester seems to contradict everything we are supposed to believe about human rights and democracy.
By that logic, Assad has also used considerable restraint. For some time, Assad's forces have been battling groups like the Islamic State (IS), al Qaeda, and Jaish al Islam, just to name a few of the Sunni-inspired jihadists currently wreaking havoc across the country. These aren't some ragtag bunches of rebels dreamily vying for Armageddon – they have received billions upon billions of dollars of weapons and training from the United States and an endless supply of fighters from some of the most powerful nations in the entire region.
Israel, on the other hand, has been documented shooting down unarmed protesters including women, children, journalists and first responders; all the reasons we are told we should despise Assad. What could be more cowardly than shooting down people who are protesting their right to have basic human rights, who don't have any significant armed forces of their own?
For those who want to paint the people of Gaza as the real terrorists in this dilemma, consider that these people have been living in what is widely regarded as an open-air prison for years. According to an expert hydrologist, 97% of Gaza's drinking water has been contaminated by sewage and salt. For most of last year, residents in Gaza were receiving three to four hours of electricity per day, the flow of which is controlled by Israel. On a bad day, some estimates suggest Gazans have received as little as two hours of electricity per day despite the intense heat in Gaza.
In 2015, the UN predicted Gaza would become uninhabitable by 2020. The UN has acknowledged that the main reason for this impending doom is the blockade Israel has imposed on Gaza with Egypt, as well as Israel's devastating military operations which have crippled Gaza's economy and infrastructure.
Call me an "Assad apologist" if you like, but what I am actually suggesting here is that if we were to apply the Israeli model to Assad, there would be no basis to even begin criticising Assad for something American taxpayers support just across the ditch from Syria; and further, that what Israel is doing by humanitarian standards is actually arguably worse than anything Assad could ever hope to achieve. This is not to say that Assad is not, as the Intercept's Mehdi Hasan wants us to remember, a "war criminal" – but, then, this is the real hypocrisy at play here: If Assad is a vile war criminal, so is the Israeli government.
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Israel forces distributed leaflets informing the protesters of the consequences.
Author carefully avoids talking about WHERE the electricity for Gaza comes from!
There are three sources: Electricity from Israeli sources, Electricity from Egyptian sources, and from Gaza electrical generation plants using imported fuel.
Due to the turf war between Hamas who run Gaza, and the Palestinian Authority which runs the left bank, the Abbas Palestinian authority has been cutting back on electrical payments to Israel to pressure Hamas, resulting in Israelis cutting back electrical supplies!
That the tens of thousands of genuine protesters were not targeted by the IDF but only the determined invaders hiding among the protesters.
The fact that thousands of Gazans received nonlethal injuries with only a few dozen fatalities suggests Israel deployed mostly non-lethal force.
The Iran nuclear deal ngotiated by the six and approved by Obama stipulated that in case of Israel attack on non nuclear Iran, the USA will use force against Israel. This clause was not acceptable to Israel friends among the US republicans including Donald Trump, hence the deal was ended. The consiparcy being that Israel should be encouragd to stay among the semite arabs and not return to anti semite Europe.
Does anyone in their right minds think US will use force on one of its staunchest allies in the region?? especially one which has its latest weapons including F 35 aircraft.
Mr Obama was in right mind when he along with other five signed it. Donald Trump objected to this clause why not read the contract yourself which was published by washington post.
The American administrations have proven time and again that they are not reliable in sticing to contracts.
What a load of crap. The food and electricity in a prison is the responsibility of the prison guard hich is solely Israel.
A bizaare explanation for the palestinians who want to go back home.
are the members of Hamas resistance not humans. Have they not the rights to go back to their homes as the jews are returning to European cities?
it is, that maybe you are the one who is lying.
erratic, mentally unstable man. Facing impeachment, soon.
The Trumpers have lost the sense for truth. People with right mind do care and are prepared to oppose the present incumbent of the white House.


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We Oughta Be In Pictures - Watching Texas on texasarchive.org
Texas Archive of the Moving Image
Curator's Note
Over the summer, Austin was abuzz with the filming of the extremely short-lived ABC drama My Generation. It seemed like every place you'd go, film crews were shooting scenes for the show, even in the building that houses the Texas Archive of the Moving Image (TAMI). Although I knew little about the show's plot, I was excited about it. I could pretend this was rooted in my concern for our local filmmaking economy, but the more accurate statement is that I was excited about seeing my town, my community, and, ultimately, myself on the screen.
So, what does that have to do with the Texas Archive of the Moving Image. TAMI is an organization working to digitally preserve and provide Web access to moving images of Texas. Working with individuals and institutions, TAMI digitizes moving images related to the history and culture of Texas and then provides streaming video of the materials on texasarchive.org. By focusing on "orphan" materials including home movies, industrial films, local television, and more, TAMI also challenges traditional film history narratives by showcasing the Lone Star state's rich filmmaking history.
Of the over a thousand videos on texasarchive.org, the most popular is "Our Home Town" an itinerant film showing the people and places of San Marcos, ca. 1949. With versions filmed in cities across the U.S., this is one of the few existing and accessible "Our Home Town" films. After two years on texasarchive.org, the film was discovered by a group of San Marcos citizens and inspired an article in the local newspaper. In one weekend, the film jumped from around 100 views to 5,000 and now has over 12,000. Was it because this is an important historical record? Possibly. I prefer to think these people were excited about seeing their community, ancestors, neighbors, and, of course, themselves on the screen.
This is only one example of the experiences that can be elicited by viewing archival media. During this week focusing on the Texas Archive of the Moving Image, you'll see responses to a variety of TAMI films.Dr. Horace Newcomb looks back to the University of Texas Tower shootings via a newsreel of the events. John Slate, archivist for the City of Dallas, examines the mythology of Texas in "Texas: the Big State." Dr. Afsheen Nomai ponders home movie preservation. Wrapping it all up, Dr. Caroline Frick Page, TAMI's founder, takes on "How Motor Cars and Other Living Things Can Find Happiness in the Dallas Freeway System." Stay tuned!
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By Alisa Perren
Monday, October 18, 2010 — 5:59 pm
Thanks for getting us started on this distinctive theme week, Elizabeth. I'm curious as to whether there are many other sub-national/regional archives such as TAMI. Your collection seems quite distinctive!
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By Karan Sheldon
Northeast Historic Film
Tuesday, October 19, 2010 — 2:02 am
Three cheers for TAMI...and theme week. For more regional audiovisual archives, the Associaton of Moving Image Archivists has a Regional Audiovisual Archives interest group. A while back Karen Glynn and I compiled a list (US only) and would be very happy for updates.
Another regional archives, Northeast Historic Film, heading into our 25th year, www.oldfilm.org. And our Moving Images of Work Life, 1916-1960, a new descriptive initiative creating finding aids and PBCore item level records. Door is open, come on over.
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Media Archives and the Persistence of Memory
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Where Hyperbole and Propaganda Clash: Texas, the Big State
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How to Make Home Movies Matter?
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Rethinking American Media History, or Why Care About "How Motor Cars and Other Living Things Can Find Happiness in the Dallas Freeway System"??
By Caroline Frick
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How Ontario turned the tide on a huge backlog of COVID-19 tests
Ontario government had no formal structure to bring public, private and hospital labs together. This is how scientists came together and solved the problem
By Kevin DonovanChief Investigative Reporter
Sat., April 4, 2020timer7 min. read
On Feb. 29, one of Ontario's leading infectious disease doctors sent out an alert which boiled down to this: We are going to need help. Provincial labs needed help from private and hospital labs to process an expected daily onslaught of thousands of COVID-19 tests.
"Is there anybody else who has capacity to do testing or is willing to do testing?" is how Dr. Vanessa Allen describes her message.
When Allen, chief of Medical Microbiology at Public Health Ontario, sent out that request Ontario had only 11 confirmed cases and had tested roughly 1,000 people. To put that time in perspective, the Toronto Maple Leafs had just had a bounceback win after the loss to the "Zamboni goalie" David Ayres. The Toronto run of Lin-Manuel Miranda's "Hamilton" musical was just getting started, and baseball's spring training series was giving fans a sense they would soon be enjoying a game and a beer at packed ballparks.
The approaching pandemic was not only far from the minds of most Ontario residents, it was also not battle stations at the Ontario government, where the focus was squarely on rotating teachers strikes. Sources in the lab sector, who asked not to be identified because they rely in part on government funding, have told the Star that it was generally thought that the well-funded provincial laboratory system should be able to handle a surge in testing.
But at the province's state-of-the art lab complex on the top four floors of the MaRS building in downtown Toronto, there was a rapidly developing concern that sooner rather than later Ontario would require a capacity beyond its public health lab system to test for the virus that was disrupting other parts of the world. Private and hospital labs would be needed. Internationally, Italy had just reported 29 deaths and more than 1,000 confirmed cases and soon the virus would spread widely. In China, where it began, the tide had turned due to identification of cases through mass testing — to discover who and how many people had the virus — and social distancing. It was not yet a big story in the U.S.
In just two weeks the Public Health Ontario (PHO) labs in Toronto and satellite sites would have a backlog of 10,000 pending tests, which would not be cleared until the beginning of April. It was a public relations disaster, as negative headlines mounted and politicians struggled to explain the problem lab sources say was their own making.
Here's how it all rolled out and what has happened to turn the tide.
On Jan. 10, the "genome sequence" for COVID-19 was made publicly available. Around the world, including at the Ontario public health laboratories, microbiologists could now test for the virus. Ontario did its first test the next day, which was negative.
Allen, of PHO, was a medical resident during SARS. She was recruited into the public lab system by the late Dr. Don Low, for many the face of Canada's battle against SARS. One lesson she learned from Low was the importance of informal and frequent conversations with others in her line of work. She and others were having those informal conversations starting in January. The SARS Commission itself had given a warning in 2004:
"The capacity of a laboratory system to respond to an outbreak of infectious disease must pre-exist any future outbreak, because it is impossible to create it during an outbreak," states the first interim report of the SARS Commission.
But in Ontario, though there were improvements at PHO, there was no formal system — no boss or directing mind — for public, private and hospital lab scientists. Instead, infectious disease specialists at all types of labs were networking on their own (a formal system was just recently set up).
"There is no single oversight over all of that," said Allen, reflecting on the situation in February and the first half of March. "We try to work together as best as we can but a lot of it is informal."
It was in that context that Allen sent out a letter on Feb. 29, distributed by the ministry of health, to all potential lab testers.
"Dear Colleagues, in recognition of the need for expanded testing for COVID-19 virus (SARS-CoV-2), efforts are underway to co-ordinate and ramp up ASAP in Ontario," Allen wrote in a letter widely distributed across the province. She wanted to know the capacity of labs, what equipment they used, who was interested in testing, and to make sure those who needed formal approval from the province got that process started.
Some labs had already raised their hands, others responded to the letter. The two biggest laboratories — Dynacare and LifeLabs, which began doing COVID-19 tests the last week of March — have told the Star that, by the beginning of March, they were in conversations with the province to join the testing battle.
"The process to provide support (to Ontario) began when we received the capacity assessment (from the province) in early March," said Dynacare's Mark Bernhardt. "We were able to confirm our support and our ability to offer a high-quality test for COVID-19."
LifeLabs spokesperson Chris Carson said his company took part in a provincial call on their testing capacity at the beginning of March. "That was the point where we started ramping up."
Hospitals, including Mount Sinai Hospital, were also involved in the discussions.
The Star has asked the provincial health ministry why this was not started much earlier: perhaps in early February or even late January. The health ministry responded Friday evening with several general paragraphs describing what it is doing now, and ignoring the Star's specific questions about why the Ontario government did not take an early, active leadership role on the laboratory issue.
"The Ministry of Health and Ontario Health have been working with Public Health Ontario, hospital, academic and private laboratories to aggressively ramp up testing capacity," said a spokesperson for Ontario Health Minister and Deputy Premier Christine Elliott.
Absent provincial leadership, informal discussions continued.
Over the first two weeks of March, two things happened. A lot more swabs were taken each day from new patients with symptoms across Ontario — far too many for the PHO labs to process. And all of a sudden, there was a growing backlog of thousands of tests: more than 10,000. The backlog meant some people waited seven or more days for results, which was a public health danger and also meant that the public and leaders did not have an accurate picture of the pandemic in Ontario.
That's because working flat out, Ontario's public labs with the ability to do the tests could only process 3,000 tests a day.
"Three thousand molecular tests a day is a lot of tests for any lab," said Allen. "There was a huge demand and the expectation was that a single lab could do that. In no jurisdiction has that been the case and been successful."
The public health labs added a third shift, so it could run a 24-hour testing program, seven days a week.
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Testing for the virus in the lab is not a simple process. It requires specialized, and expensive, solutions called "reagents" and machinery to extract the DNA material from a nasal or throat swab, then seeing if it matches COVID-19. Allen's lab was using one type of machine, the EasyMag by bioMerieux. Other labs had other types of machine. Roche and Abbott are two of the most popular machines.
Add to this the complication of time. Even though the province rushed through approval for the private and hospital labs to perform the COVID-19 tests — weeks instead of months — that further delayed help for the public lab system snowed under by tests.
At the beginning of April, Dynacare and LifeLabs were online had been running tests for roughly a week. Dynacare had run a maximum of 700 tests in one day. LifeLabs was up to 1,100 a day. Both companies expect to at least double their daily testing shortly. Two other private lab companies, Alpha Labs and BioTest Laboratories, will shortly begin testing. Other hospitals will soon join Mt. Sinai Hospital in testing.
Meanwhile, at PHO, their 3,000-a-day capacity will shortly be augmented by a new Roche machine which can run 4,000 tests a day. The province has said that by the third week of April, all labs involved in testing will be able to run almost 19,000 tests a day.
But there is a hitch. Each machine takes a different reagent — the chemicals used to extract the DNA. You cannot use the reagent for one machine in another machine. The reagent for some machines is more difficult to acquire than others because of demand throughout the world. Roche, in particular, is in demand. It is quite likely that some machines will sit idle while others hum along, all because a machine has run out of the reagent chemicals.
At PHO, Allen said that the new formal system for co-ordinating labs — informally called the "COVID testing table" — is a "silver lining to this."
The testing backlog is now cleared, something Allen said was difficult for all concerned.
"It was very disappointing for us, and I think particularly heartbreaking for me, because we are committed to the health of the people we serve," said Allen. "Our staff are working so hard to maximize capacity and so it has been a very difficult week, I know, for the recipients of those test results — and also for our staff, given what we see as a primary responsibility to serve the public."
Kevin Donovan can be reached at 416-312-3503 or kdonovan@thestar.ca
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Occasional Paper 78: Two Proud Ships: HMAS Brisbane (I) and HMAS Brisbane (II)
Editorial Staff · May 21, 2020 · Print This Page
The following is an address given by Captain Ralph T. Derbidge MBE RAN (Retired) on Monday 19 October 2015 at the Australian War Memorial. The occasion was the dedication of a commemorative plaque honouring two ships of Her Majesty's Australian Fleet that bore the name HMAS Brisbane, and all who crewed them. The purpose of the address was not to describe the two ships in any great detail but to provide a picture and understanding of the people who manned them.
The two ships served the nation for a combined total of 53 years but their initial commissioning dates were separated by almost as many years. They were both steam driven and of near same size. As an aside, the de-commissioning in 2001 of HMAS Brisbane (II) marked the end of steam propulsion for the Royal Australian Navy.
Each ship earned wartime battle honours but their appearances, fit outs and capabilities were vastly different. Similarity amounted to little more than the grey paint that covered their hulls. The one common denominator, as it has always been, was the calibre and competence of the all-male crews of those years that manned them. They were good, those men; they knew it and you could not tell them much!
HMAS Brisbane (I) in Sydney May 1920
The replacement in 1913 of the Royal Navy's Australian Squadron by a purpose-built Australian Fleet, led by the then modern battle cruiser HMAS Australia, did not happen overnight or without the expenditure of significant national treasure. Moreover, determined political will was vital to the process.
Ship's badge HMAS Brisbane I
Ship's badge HMAS Brisbane II
That process led to the addition to the Fleet in 1916 of the Town Class cruiser HMAS Brisbane (I), built here in Australia. She was a credit to the skills and resourcefulness of the fledgling major warship construction team assembled at the then Cockatoo Island Naval Dockyard in Sydney. Poignantly, reminders of the ship, her personnel and the dockyard have been consigned to the pages of history.
HMAS Brisbane (I) Departing Sydney on 2 May 1935. RAN image
We might be forgiven for focussing hereafter in some detail on her namesake, HMAS Brisbane (II), for her legacy is still firmly in the minds of many of us here. Furthermore, substantial and significant traces of her are to be found on and off-shore in south-east Queensland, and proudly on display here in this hallowed place. She was built in the United States of America and commissioned there in 1967, the third of three Perth Class guided missile destroyers built to the design of the United States Navy's very successful Charles F Adams Class, but with some modifications.
She and her sister ships, Perth and Hobart, brought to the Royal Australian Navy new technologies of automation and computerisation and, for the first time, a real and potent surface-to-air missile system and, to be personally parochial, a medium-range gunnery system that worked. She was destined to give 34 years of remarkable service to the nation and the memory of her found a place of genuine and deep affection within the hearts of all who served in her.
Soon after commissioning, she was to be tested in the Vietnam War where her extremely professional and effective contributions in two seven-month deployments in 1969 and 1971 to that troubled theatre drew high praise. A measure of that involvement was that she fired some 14,000 rounds (or 435 tonnes) of high explosive 5-inch ammunition from her two gun mounts while operating on what was known as the Vietnam Gunline. In that war, her tactical call-sign aptly was Flamboyant and she concluded replenishment at sea evolutions from supply ships with an appropriate, loud-speaker blaring, replaying of the Credence Clearwater Revival hit-song Proud Mary. In this context, I am pleased to acknowledge the presence with us today of my commanding officer at the time of the second deployment to Vietnam 44 years ago, the then Captain Geoffrey Loosli CBE, now Rear Admiral (Retired)[1].
The ship again would be committed to combat operations twenty years later in the First Gulf War where she served once more with distinction. I pay homage to her commanding officer in that conflict, the now retired Vice Admiral Chris Ritchie AO and former Chief of Navy. He also is with us today. By this time, the ship was well known in, and beyond the Fleet, as The Steel Cat. Towards the end of her working life, still bristling with pride, she remained a unique operationally capable unit of the Royal Australian Navy with an unmatched weapons suite and associated command, control and communications combat data system. That capability, and much more, will be returned to the Royal Australian Navy when a newly-named HMAS Brisbane (III) is commissioned within the next few years. She will be one of three large and powerful air-warfare destroyers being built here in Australia.
Allow me to close on a somewhat sombre note, but with uplifting undertones. All sailors die; some in the red flash of battle, some in the white cold of a nursing home. In the vigour of youth, or the infirmity of age, all will eventually die. But the Royal Australian Navy lives on, and every sailor who ever lived, and served in that navy, is living still within its heritage.
We sailors here understand this, for we are the progeny of that navy and thus the custodians, if you will, of the memory of the two fine ships about to be honoured in the grounds of this venerated place. It is that link which gives us a sense of belonging to something that will outlive our own mortality.
The experiences and camaraderie we once shared afloat remain manifest, here and now, but one day, all of us will get separated from each other; we will miss our conversations of everything and nothing; the dreams that we had. Days will pass by, months, years, until this contact becomes rare. Eventually, our children and grandchildren will see our navy photographs and ask, "Who are these people?"
Then, because our hearts have been touched, we will smile with invisible tears, and we will say quietly: "It was with them that I had the best days of my life."
HMAS Brisbane (I) History published by Sea Power Centre-Australia, available at https://www.navy.gov.au/hmas-brisbane-i
HMAS Brisbane (II) History published by Sea Power Centre-Australia, available at https://www.navy.gov.au/hmas-brisbane-ii
HMAS Brisbane in the Far East 1925, by Greg Swinden, first published in the Naval Historical Review 2016, available at https://navyhistory.org.au/hmas-brisbane-in-the-far-east-1925/
[1] Rear Admiral R Geoffrey Loosli CBE RAN (Retired) passed away on 5 September 2016, aged 90 years
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Two of comics' most celebrated creators, Brian Azzarello and Alex Maleev, team up to pit Task Force X against their deadliest target yet—The Joker! Critically acclaimed and bestselling author Brian Azzarello (100 Bullets, Batman: Damned) and Eisner Award-winning art legend Alex Maleev (Daredevil, Event Leviathan) collaborate for the first time in this DC Black Label series pitting Red Hood, Harley Quinn, Firefly, and more of DC's most villainous criminals against The Joker! When Task Force X's Amanda Waller sets her sights on Batman's greatest foe, she enlists the Dark Knight's former partner Jason Todd to track down the Clown Prince of Crime and put an end to his mad reign of terror. But The Joker has plans of his own, and he takes control of the Squad, forcing them to do his bidding! This volume collects Suicide Squad: Get Joker #1-3.
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Try this Grade 2 English quiz.
This English Language quiz is called 'Long and Short Vowels' and it has been written by teachers to help you if you are studying the subject at elementary school. Playing educational quizzes is a fun way to learn if you are in the 1st or 2nd grade - aged 6 to 8.
By second grade, students should be able to determine which words contain a short vowel sound and those that contain a long vowel sound. At first, students will need to apply the phonics rules to these words. Once students recognize the words, they will not need to use the rules. They can simply identify these words by sight. In this quiz, the students will use rules regarding short and long vowel sounds, and they will identify whether a word is short or long.
Hide has a long vowel sound using the silent "e" rule.
Gulp has a short vowel sound since it is surrounded by consonants.
"Ay" is pronounced with a long vowel sound.
Held has a short vowel sound since it has consonants around the vowel.
When "oa" are together, it produces a long vowel sound.
Damp is the word from this list that has a short vowel sound.
The double "e" sound makes a long vowel sound.
The other words follow the silent "e" rule, so "gift" has a short vowel sound.
Fine has a long vowel sound using the silent "e" rule.
Crop has a blend at the beginning of the word and a consonant at the end. So, it would have a short vowel sound.


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Q: Single Linked List not working (C++) The following code builds correctly but causes the program to crash when I run it. Can someone please tell me whats wrong with it. I suspect that there is something wrong with the DeleteNode function.
#include <iostream>
#include <cstdlib>

using namespace std;

class list {
private:
    typedef struct node {
        int data;
        node* next;
    }* nodePtr;  //this means that 'nodePtr' will mean a pointer to the struct node

nodePtr head;
nodePtr current;
nodePtr temp;

public:
list() {  //constuctor
    head = NULL;
    current = NULL;
    temp = NULL;
};

void AddNode(int addData)  //to add a particular data value
{
    nodePtr n= new node;
    n->next = NULL;
    n->data = addData;

    if (head != NULL) {  //if a list is already set up
        current = head;
        while (current->next != NULL) {  //to get to the last node in the list
            current = current->next;
        }
        current->next = n;
    }
    else {  // if list is not created
        head = n;  //new node is front of the list
    }
}

void DeleteNode(int delData)  //to delete a particular data value
{
    nodePtr delPtr = NULL;
    temp = head;
    current = head;

    while (current != NULL  && current->data!=delData) {  //pass through whole list && find value
        temp = current;
        current = current->next;
    }

    if (current = NULL) {  //data value not found in list
        cout << delData << " was not in the list." << endl;
        delete delPtr;  //to free up memory space
    }
    else {
        delPtr = current;
        current = current->next;
        temp->next = current;  //to reconnect list

        if (delPtr == head) {
            head = head->next;
            temp = head;
        }

        delete delPtr;
        cout << "The value " << delData << "was deleted." << endl;
    }
}

void PrintList()  //to print all the data values
{
    current = head;

    while (current != NULL) {  //to go through the data valued of the list
        cout << current->data << endl;
        current = current->next;
    }
}

};

int main()
{
    list Shahzad;

    Shahzad.AddNode(2);
    Shahzad.AddNode(78);
    Shahzad.AddNode(28);
    Shahzad.AddNode(2398);

    Shahzad.DeleteNode(78);
    Shahzad.PrintList();
    return 0;
}

A: Your first problem is with the following line:
if (current = NULL)

You're actually assigning null to current at this point.
This should actually be:
if (current == NULL)

A: Firstly, few code and file management remarks: consider separating your code into .h file where class members are declared and .cpp where class members are implemented, this will make your class easy to comprehend and possible errors will be easier to locate.
Secondly, a general advice when dealing with structures containing pointers is attention to proper resource management, i.e. pointer definitions, initialisations and deletions should be dealt with caution. If you are novice, consider the use of already provided smart pointer facilities like: std::unique_ptr which will "retain sole ownership of an object through a pointer and destroys that object when the unique_ptr goes out of scope"
Thirdly, use debugger to get rid of trivial errors like:
if (current = NULL)

which by the way contains additional inaccuracy expressed in the use of NULL instead of the pointer literal nullptr.
Lastly, check each of the member functions separately after you finish the initial implementation and only then proceed with further class expansion, otherwise you risk the accumulation of errors from multiple sources which will make your job very difficult

A: In your delete function in the case of which the node isn't found, you are deleting delPtr.
However, delPtr was never instantiated or assigned so you are trying to delete something that doesn't exist.
Always enclose pointer deletions in if statements to avoid this issue. Try this:
if (delPtr) delete delPtr;

A: Apart from all the suggestions here, you can use some safe programming practices to catch bugs early.
For ex: you wrote
if (current = NULL)

Instead, try writing the value being checked on the LHS and the variable on the RHS like this:
if ( NULL == current)

Here, if you mistyped
if (NULL = current)

the compiler will complain. You have a compile time bug now instead of a run-time one. This is far easier to find and debug.

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On October 3, Gulf Energy and Petroleum Economist hosted the Mexico Energy Strategy Forum 2018 directed to key players in the Mexican oil and gas industry eager to understand the best opportunities and challenges the market has to offer. During the event, both the Dutch Energy Association and Mexico Oil & Gas Review had the pleasure to take part as media partners and promote the country's attractiveness for local and international investment.
The forum opened with Pedro Joaquín Coldwell, Minister of Energy, explaining the importance of strengthening the country's oil and gas industry to create a robust industrial ecosystem. "Oil and gas impact on Mexicans' way of living is associated to our national identity. Its production and utilization gave place to a singular popular culture in the areas where oil and gas activities are present across the country," he said. The Minister then mentioned that the country has to strike a delicate balance between international expertise and fostering the local industry. "The objective of the Energy Reform was to invite private investment and cutting-edge technology developers along with the entire value chain of the industry while always safeguarding Mexico's sovereignty and interests," he said.
Joaquín Coldwell also explained how the changes made to the constitution and regulation created a new productive system, allowing collaborations between PEMEX and other operators through licensing rounds and farmouts. The Minister expects that the 107 contracts signed during the past licensing rounds will produce 250,000b/d of crude oil equivalent by 2023 and up to 740,000b/d of crude oil equivalent by 2030, which represent 27 percent of the country's daily production today. Joaquín Coldwell also mentioned the advances in terms of pipelines and storage facilities for oil, gas and their respective derivatives. All this, he says, are the foundations for a strong energy sector. "The Energy Reform is a regulatory and institutional framework designed strategically to boost the productivity capabilities of the Mexican economy and energy industry, providing Mexicans with tangible tools to keep building a better energy future for Mexico," he said.
After Coldwell's keynote presentation, a series of panels we held addressing energy policy, upstream updates and opportunities ahead, transportation, distribution and storage infrastructure challenges and needs and tools to finance Mexico's energy boom. This discussion took place between key players in the Mexican oil and gas industry such as Lourdes Melgar, Former Deputy Minister of Hydrocarbons and Electricity, Monica Bøe, Director General of Equinor Mexico, David Madero, Director General of CENAGAS, Fernando Tovar, CEO of Engie Mexico, Nansen Saleri, Chairman and CEO of Quantum Reservoir Impact and Vera de Brito de Gyarfas, Partner Corporate Finance and Investments at King & Spalding.
During the "What Lies Ahead for Energy Policy?" panel, Melgar explained the importance of continued investment in Mexico's oil and gas exploration. "There is no oil company that can survive without working on exploration," she said. She did not underestimate the importance of production, especially of natural gas, as the country is highly dependent to US production.
Panel: What lies ahead for energy policy?
During the "Upstream Industry Update" panel, Loren Long, Vice President Mexico of Talos Energy shared information regarding the unitization process of the Zama field with PEMEX which, according to him, is an "historic agreement." "There is no reason why we cannot share the key information with PEMEX or regulators," he said. According to Long, this process will bring the best of both Talos Energy and PEMEX to help increase Mexico's oil and gas production.
Meanwhile, David Madero, Director General of CENAGAS, shared the achievements of the institution he leads as an efficient natural gas transmission system operator that works under a unique mixed model where half of the time it is a technical manager while the other half is a natural gas transporter. "The transporter has the objective of being efficient, just as any other natural gas transport company in the world, with its first commitment being to security and then to reliability, working at the lowest cost possible to offer a return of investment to its shareholders, which in the case of CENAGAS is the Mexican people," he said. He then continued by explaining the objective of the technical manager, who has the objective to provide the highest certainty of natural gas supply in the country as possible.
The event closed after a day filled with networking opportunities as important information but not before the "How will the Energy Boom be Financed" panel, in which Oscar Roldán, Head of the National Hydrocarbons Information Center, mentioned the importance of the legal framework built around the oil and gas contracts in Mexico to provide financing tools to operators.


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Building a Foundation of Trust to Become a Better Leader
Trusting and being trusted is the core of leadership
Trust informs many of the decisions we make day-to-day: You trust your children's school to take care of them, you trust your carpool to get you to work and home safely, you trust your work team to help you get projects done. Trust is inherently risky, as people can let you down, and yet you cannot serve as a leader in a company without trusting your employees and them trusting you in return. So how do you navigate trust both inside and outside the workplace?
If you're a leader in your organization, trusting your employees often means giving up some of your own control. However, according to Adamo Security Group Security Department Director Phil Chance, that can lead to a far more efficient workplace. "I think trust is a force multiplier," Chance says. "It speeds everything up. If you have trust, then you don't have to do mental gymnastics to get things done. You don't have to work around people."
For your company, the decision of who to put your trust in can be the difference between your business succeeding or failing. For John Baum, Adamo Security Group campus manager and Army veteran, trusting the right person was the difference between life and death. "My second deployment we were rolling four gunships essentially, and we had to protect an entire convoy," Baum says. "And when you have that, you have to be able to trust all other three gunships. You know you trust yourself inherently, but the other three you have to give [trust] to, that they're going to have your back."
However, Baum says, well before entering combat scenarios, trust was built among him and his fellow soldiers in the training they did prior to deployment. Based on that, he learned who he did and didn't want next to him when his life was on the line.
While your business's success likely isn't life or death, there are still ways you can learn who to trust before you leave a lot of power in their hands. If you start with giving up a little control, like letting a team member handle a project you'd previously done alone, you can learn who you can lean on when a crisis emerges.
"You grow trust overtime," Chance says. "If you want to trust somebody more and they work for you, you have to be vulnerable with them and give them opportunities to be trustworthy. That's the only way to build trust."
It's also crucial to work to be someone the people you manage can trust in return. According to research published in The Leadership Quarterly, you'll be able to better build trust by genuinely caring about the people working with and for you. If workers feel cared for, they're more likely to work harder and be motivated.
Similarly, if your employees see you as a person of integrity who stands for their values and keeps their word, they're more likely to place trust in you. Even in an environment of high trust, there must be clear consequences and accountability for when people don't live up to expectations. You as a leader cannot be an exception to that accountability; holding yourself accountable will allow your employees to see you as more trustworthy.
Bethany Mavis, Adamo Security Group's media and communications director, says when it comes to giving up control and trust to your employees, it's important not to then micromanage them. Once you've entrusted them with a project, step back as much as possible and allow them to do the work. "As you grow as a leader and as your grow as a manager, you can't expect everyone to do everything exactly like you," Mavis said, "but if they can do it almost as good as you and you can train them on it, then that's worth passing off."
If you still find yourself struggling to trust your employees, Baum says it may not be your employees who are the cause. It may be time to start looking inward. "What are you needing to let go?" Baum says. "Look inside yourself, ask why I won't give trust to this person. Is it something that I did? Or is it something they are doing or did? Any time you're trying to overcome something that you struggle with, it's just a little bit. Give a little bit and see if you can do it."
For further reading on how increased trust can help your business, Adamo leadership recommends Stephen M.R. Covey's The Speed of Trust.


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