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Lily Catts
Show me the way to you
(Heavy Metal)
Mercedes posted:
Let me in, please.
The Miracle and the Sleeper
On the first day of school Marty took out his new notebook and began jotting down the lesson plan in class. He only had one goal, and it was to be at the top of his class. He sat with his back erect, ignoring the classmates who tried to talk to him, ignoring their whispers of "weirdo" and "stuck-up".
After the day had ended, everyone scurried out the doors to continue their fun, carefree lives. But for Marty, it was back to the tiny apartment his father had moved them into. The house was too big for us, he had reasoned. Now everything was too small, even without all of mom's things.
Marty deliberately sorted his notebooks after one another. He didn't really want to go home. As he dragged himself to the door, he caught a glimpse of a student sleeping in the back row. Her wavy head of hair draped over the desk like a mop.
He shook her shoulder gently. "Class is over," he said.
The girl stirred. She looked up at Marty with a wide grin. "Hi! It isn't everyday when a kind classmate wakes me up. I'm Judy."
"I'm Marty."
"Howdy, Marty. You're the new student, right?" Judy let out a long, drawn-out yawn.
"Yeah. Do you always do this?" Marty said.
"Not that I like to do it! I have a condition, it's called narco... leprosy or something."
Marty wrote it down with his tiny pen. He would look it up later. "I'm sorry."
Judy shook her head. "No, it's fine. I read somewhere that a lack of sleep will kill you, but I'll be immortal because I'm always sleeping!"
For the first time in months, Marty smiled.
"Oh, right. Is my ride outside?" Judy asked, pointing at the window. Marty walked up to it and looked down.
"There's a big car in front of the gate." He couldn't name the brand. It looked exotic.
"Ah, well. Nice to meet you, Marty." Judy hauled her things back into her pink bag. "See you tomorrow!"
Marty watched her leave. It really was time to go.
Judy sat behind Marty, so he didn't see her during class. But during recess she would munch on a sandwich, her desk an island while everyone else merged their desks together.
Marty walked to her. "You're not sleeping," he said.
"Gotta eat, too," Judy said, winking. "Can't drag myself to the cafeteria without falling asleep halfway."
"Am I weird?" Marty asked. Somehow, the gap between them and all the other desks lengthened.
"What made you say that?"
"I don't feel like talking to anybody. Except you." He moved in closer. "But I hear them talking about me. Say I'm weird and all."
"Don't let that get to you," Judy said. "You're okay in my book."
The bell rang. Marty realized he hadn't taken a bite of his lunch. He had been busy reviewing his notes. The lessons weren't hard at all when you have nothing else in your mind. His stomach declared its emptiness to the world, and someone snickered.
Judy pouted, and offered Marty her sandwich. "Want the rest? I'm full."
The next day, Marty returned to his desk to find his notebooks gone.
"Have you seen my notebooks?" He asked his seatmate. The boy only grinned mockingly.
He waited until lunchtime to wake Judy up.
"You should've told me earlier," she said, motioning Marty to come closer. "I heard something earlier today. Brad and Frances talked about stealing your notebooks because they think you can't study without them."
"I'm not helpless without notes," Marty said. It wasn't true, though. If he was studying, then he didn't need to think about eating instant noodles at home because Dad couldn't cook.
"You want them back?"
Marty nodded.
Judy gave a crazed smile. "I'll help you." She stood up and grabbed their classmate who sat next to Brad.
"Where did you guys take Marty's notebooks?" she said.
The kid quickly coughed out the the thieves' hiding place. Judy strode down the corridor, Marty following her. She opened the door to the vacant classroom with a bang. Brad and Frances were sitting on the front row, copying Marty's notes with stupid grins on their faces.
"Brad! Frances! Give back Marty's notebooks!"
"He doesn't need them!" Frances squeaked, trying to hide Marty's name from his notebook.
Brad made a defiant face. "Serves him right for being a weirdo."
Marty stepped into view. "I'm not a weirdo."
"You are! You don't talk to anyone except Judy. Everyone hates Judy. Her dad's evil."
Judy walked up to Brad, grabbed Marty's notebook, and upturned his desk, sending him to the ground. Then she grabbed Frances by her pigtails and pulled. "What my dad does isn't your business!" she yelled.
The teachers came in to break up the fight. Judy winked at Marty as she was taken away.
Judy was suspended along with Brad and Frances. Marty went to their class advisor and asked for Judy's address. After class he boarded a jeepney then a tricycle to her house. It huge, with high walls. The black car was visible behind the front gate.
He pressed the button on the intercom and Judy came out, trudging up to him in her pajamas.
"Hi, Marty," Judy said. "What's up?"
"Hi, Judy. Thanks for standing up for me the other day."
"No problem. I kinda hate their guts, too."
"I brought you something," Marty said. He took out a stack of papers from his bag. "My notes."
"Aw Marty, you shouldn't have bothered," Judy said. "At this rate, I'll be repeating the year."
"Then let's make sure you don't."
"Okay!"
"Can you tell me more about your dad?" Marty said. "I have a problem with my dad, too. We could compare notes if you'd like."
"It's always about notes to you, isn't it?" Judy said, yawning. "Come inside."
Without thinking, Marty yawned, too. He had finally found a friend.
PHYSIOLOGY PRIZE: Anna Wilkinson (of the UK), Natalie Sebanz (of THE NETHERLANDS, HUNGARY, and AUSTRIA), Isabella Mandl (of AUSTRIA) and Ludwig Huber (of AUSTRIA) for their study "No Evidence of Contagious Yawning in the Red-Footed Tortoise."
REFERENCE: 'No Evidence Of Contagious Yawning in the Red-Footed Tortoise Geochelone carbonaria," Anna Wilkinson, Natalie Sebanz, Isabella Mandl, Ludwig Huber, Current Zoology, vol. 57, no. 4, 2011. pp. 477-84.
In, flash me with a song
The Cut of Your Jib posted:
a CHEESEMONGER wants to ELIMINATE THEIR RIVAL
In with a .
An ACTION STAR wants to RAISE THEIR CUTE DAUGHTER
Flash Rule: a CHEESEMONGER wants TO ELIMINATE THEIR RIVAL
Prisoners of Speed
Hisako sat on her white Skyline GT-R's hood, as her friends helped themselves to her snacks. She hugged her arms as the cold wind blew on the open parking lot. The Wangan expressway was close by, its hundreds of vehicles buzzing like drones.
"Love your cheddar," Shimoda said, munching on a cracker, a can of beer in his other hand.
"You'd better, it's free for The Club," Hisako said. It was an open clique, oxymorons be damned. All you needed was a tuned car and a trip around the Wangan to be welcomed among their ranks. The cars occupied the small space, but no one was racing tonight. All because of an outsider who preyed on them.
A familiar engine roared from outside, monstrous even as it idled.
It was Ghost's blue Impreza WRX STI. Nobody knew who the mysterious driver really was, for she never stepped outside her car, but The Club lived in fear of that turbocharged sound. Countless members had tried to outrun her, but no one ever came close to seeing the face behind the black helmet.
Without warning, the car sped off, heading for the Wangan. It was a challenge.
Hisako hid her grin. It was time--she had her car tuned to run against Ghost. Tonight, The Club would finally avenge itself. She stood up and went for the door.
"You don't mean to go after her, do you?" Shimoda called after her.
"We're ready for her," Hisako said, patting her car's roof. "Save some cheese for me when I get back, okay?"
While Hisako hated the idea of Ghost, it was her car that she loathed the most. It was the car of try-hards, and no one in The Club owned a rally car. It was ugly and unfit for the street--it belonged to the dirt track, or even the tarmac, but not in Hisako's beloved Wangan.
Ghost pulled away right after the tollgate. Her acceleration was impeccable, but Hisako's Skyline was tricked out to match the beastly STI. Hisako stepped on the gas, zooming in and out of the web of slow vehicles, keeping Ghost's taillights near and bright.
In battles like this, there were no prizes save for the thrill of the run. There were no winners or losers; only racers and quitters. Ghost's STI kept on the Wangan, not deviating to the more technical lines like C1. The Wangan was a huge straightaway, where The Club earned their infamy. They were royalty here, and Ghost was a mere bandit. Hisako's engine hummed as they approached 300 kph. The other vehicles looked stationary in comparison, Hisako passing them effortlessly.
The STI's obscene rear wing loomed. Hisako felt a wave of revulsion--I'm better than her, she thought. No, anyone from The Club was better than Ghost. It was merely up to her to prove it. She eyed the tachometer, its needle steadily approaching the red line.
"I'll show you who rules the streets," Hisako whispered. Her Skyline was almost up to the STI's nose. 310... 315... 320! Ghost was lagging, receding from her side mirror.
Hisako's engine blew out silently. A sound that could only come from hell followed, along with gray smoke rising from the edges of her hood that clouded her view. Hisako applied the brakes, doing all she could to keep her car from spinning out. Ghost overtook her. But instead of fading into the lost horizon, she matched Hisako's dwindling speed.
She's guiding me with her taillights! Hisako thought, as she carefully brought her car to a full stop along the shoulder.
Hisako turned on the hazard lights and got out of the car. She didn't even know where to start. Her Skyline was also her delivery car. She was screwed on so many levels.
"Hey." It was Ghost, walking towards her. She was wearing that signature black helmet of hers.
Hisako glowered at her rival. "Did you come to taunt me?" But Ghost never stopped to help others, who destroyed their cars to catch up to her. "I could've brought my car here alone." She only half-believed those words.
"You passed me," Ghost said.
"Only for a moment."
"That might be true. But you were the fastest tonight." Ghost took off her helmet and undid her hair, which fell to her waist. Her skin was almost snow-white that Hisako couldn't help but stare...
"Why do you drive? For what reasons do you risk your life out here?" Hisako said. No one from The Club had ever talked to Ghost. Who was she?
"The same reasons as you. You and I, we're alike: we both want to be the best." Ghost gave her a smile, then turned and walked away.
"Wait!" Hisako fumbled for a sliver of conversation, anything to keep Ghost from leaving. "Do you like cheese?"
Ghost stopped. "I don't particularly hate it, I'd say."
"Then come visit The Club. My cheddars are the best!"
Ghost gave her a sideways smile. "I'll think about it."
It took the STI's start-up sound to jolt Hisako back to her senses.
She looked at her own blown-out car, then to Ghost's, as it zipped through the traffic.
"I'll be waiting," she said to the wind.
In, also with
Week 149 crits, part 2
Megazver - BWAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAR
This would've been nice but it ended abruptly and unsatisfyingly. Does Dakota save the day? Don't leave us hanging! I quite liked the dinosaur's dialogue. I think the exposition in the beginning could've been reworked into the rest of the story, it's too big of an infodump.
s7ndicat33 - IT WAS A HOT DAY IN JUNE
Boring story. Too much military detail bogged the pacing down. Frank's motivation wasn't given satisfactory context and he comes off as an unsympathetic loony. The ending is rushed and weird? This was a pain to read.
Cache Cab - The Termolenator
Very brisk, almost breathless in pacing. The ridiculousness of the mole people was done rather well. Other than that I don't really have much to say. I liked the ending.
Grizzled Patriarch - Kevin Costner on the Tarmac
I didn't think this was very blockbuster-y, but that's about the worst thing I could say about this story. I liked the last scene (although it's a bit melodramatic), the protagonist didn't need that kind of characterization but it sure did help elevate him into A Character, and not just some bodyguard.
Ironic Twist - On The Low End Of The Dial
Exposition done neatly to give action more words. Wendy's betrayal came out of the left field, which I liked less, but this is otherwise a strong story that earns its mention.
SlipUp - The Last Hunt
Lots of proofreading errors soured the reading experience. Learn the difference between "breath" and "breathe". There's lots of action, which is good, but there's not enough grounding in characterization to really make it worthwhile. The first scene is wooden and a tad bit too long.
Lazy Beggar - Goodbye, Nuclear Holocaust.
This was ridiculous in not a good way. Eleanor, brain scientist, does secret agent stuff without explanation. It was really off-putting and the doomsday plot whizzed by without trying to endear me to anything. Why does Eleanor want to erase humanity? Where did she get all those skills? Why should we give a drat? The ending is also unsatisfying, like it just cuts off.
SkaAndScreenplays - Iron Pony
Good action. Setting could've used some more spice, though. Show more of the IRTF's fearsomeness instead of telling us about it. I'm a bit iffy on why Ria trusted the bike to reach her friends, wasn't it an old model? There were some proofreading errors I noticed.
Entenzahn - Captain Hank Rockford's Space Adventures Episode 1 – Rescue of the Damsel Princess
This would've been an enjoyable romp if not for the twist. It felt like you thought playing the whole action-hero-rescues-the-princess trope was too cliche so you added the twist for its own sake. I wasn't expecting it, and the story's title suggested a straightforward story. Anyway, the narrative voice was funny and I enjoyed the protagonist, all things considered.
newtestleper - Stockholm East Africa
I thought this was an idiot plot with the most incompetent pirates ever. The attempt at an emotional connection (Maako pleading to be killed) was laughable, and... strange. Who is going to kill him? Why? Also, firing a gun is hard. It rags on my suspension of disbelief that Simon was able to figure it out and kill people with his stolen rifle.
Jonked - An Investigator, An Accountant, and a Fistful of Bullets
It looks like you had fun writing this. That's good. What isn't good is that you seemed to have neglected to keep your readers from being confused. I could only follow half of the hard-boiled cyberpunk narration, making this read like Shadowrun fanfiction. Unsatisfying ending--twist left me sighing. I liked Flores, though.
From Capes to Cameras
Ahmed Al-Khaldi stood at the head of the table, addressing his fellow heroes.
"Thanks for coming here on such a short notice. I have an important announcement to make."
Silence. Several heroes started to sweat, the smell picked up by Ahmed's hyper-senses.
"No, it's not some world-ending scenario, rest assured. It's just... I'm resigning from active duty, due to personal reasons," Ahmed said.
Rainbow Ranger's arms were crossed, his goggles turning a shade of yellow. "I would like to know these personal reasons, Dyna-Man."
"Neal!" Stargazer said.
"It's fine, Illyana," Ahmed said. "Saving lives and fighting villains is important work, but it has left me empty and unfulfilled. I'll still use my powers for good, but this won't be my full-time job anymore."
"So what could possibly be more important to you?" Rainbow Ranger asked.
Ahmed smiled. He produced a black rectangular object from under the table. He held the camera at arm's length, like a tourist would. "It's beautiful, isn't it? I got this from the proceeds of my old costume's auction."
"You don't mean..." Stargazer said, at a loss for words.
"I've decided," Ahmed said. "I'm going to be a photographer. Say cheese!"
And with that, Ahmed Al-Khaldi took his first photograph.
At the studio, Ahmed's model frowned at her face staring from the LCD preview.
"I don't like that shot."
"What's wrong with it?" Ahmed asked.
The model bit her lip. "Can't you see? The perspective is unflattering, and it looks like I'm missing an arm. It's a bad shot."
"But your face here is beautiful," Ahmed said, his big green eyes meaning it. Everyone was beautiful. That was why he became a photographer in the first place. Heck, even General Gnarlax himself could schedule a photoshoot and Ahmed would gladly oblige, provided that he behaved.
"I don't like that shot. It's not going into my portfolio," the model said. "I could take better pictures," she muttered, which Ahmed pretended not to hear.
"Okay, let's try again." Ahmed walked back to his camera.
The model threw an exasperated sigh and smiled again.
After the shoot, Ahmed took to the streets to clear his mind from the stress of work. The spontaneity of street photography appealed to him, and he enjoyed capturing candid smiles. After having protected the peace for so long, it felt like a well-deserved retirement.
He spotted a father and son bonding in an outdoor cafe. The man was watching the boy, who was carefully drinking a cup of hot chocolate. Ahmed thought the mixture of joy and apprehension in the father's face made for a good expression. He lifted the camera to his eye, framed the two faces inside a nearby arch, and snapped a photo.
The man, upon hearing the shutter, looked straight at Ahmed. Frowning, he stood up and confronted him. "Excuse me?"
Ahmed smiled back. "You have a beautiful smile," he said, showing the man a preview of his photo.
"I don't want to be photographed. Delete that or I'll call the cops on you."
The photo was quite good, but one had to respect the rights of people being photographed. It was a shame, but Ahmed decided to comply with the man's request. "There, it's gone. Have a nice day, sir."
"Hmph." The man went back to his seat. Ahmed went on his way, but not before hearing a snatch of their conversation.
"Dad? I thought he looked familiar. I think that was--"
"Dyna-Man would never violate your privacy. He's just some creep."
The words stung. Ahmed found that he couldn't take any more street photographs after the incident. He wandered into a park and sat on a bench, staring at the clear sky. There wasn't even an interesting cloud formation to capture.
His shutter finger twitched in frustration. He knew that photography was hard and that he did not possess the innate talent for it. Sometimes fighting General Gnarlax felt easier than doing a photoshoot. Being a hero seemed like something he was born for, but it did not nourish his soul as it did for others. He secretly envied some of his fellow heroes for that.
A fire truck passed, its sirens blaring. Ahmed had heard that sound many times before, but it carried an ominous tone. What if the firemen couldn't arrive in time? He followed the truck a couple of blocks until he saw the burning apartment building, about ready to collapse. People were filing out, ducking and screaming.
"Someone's still inside!"
Ahmed concentrated with his hyper-senses to find the trapped person. Before the firemen could even disembark, Ahmed was already scaling the stairs with all haste. On the top floor he found a woman slumped on the banister, the fire quickly spreading around her.
Ahmed picked her up, shielding her as the ceiling came crashing down.
The woman woke up coughing. She was covered in soot, but was otherwise unharmed.
"Are you okay?" Ahmed said, kneeling by her side. His clothes were singed from the fire, a small price for the life he had saved.
"I guess I am..." The woman sat up, squinting at the siren lights. The firemen were containing the inferno, having already secured the area. "Thanks for saving me. And, um, sorry for your shirt."
"I just did what I had to do," Ahmed said. "Say, could you do me a favor, please?"
"Sure!" The woman beamed despite her misfortune.
"Can I take your picture? I think you're really beautiful."
"Really?"
Smiling, Ahmed took out his camera.
The woman smiled back, and Ahmed Al-Khaldi took his best photograph yet.
In with Mechapunk.
Genre: Mechapunk
Test Flight
Inside their underground hideout, Noa fashioned the metal massive face by hand, using tools lost through time and recreated for the sole purpose of perfecting humanity's last hope. The super mechanoid Iron Bearer needed to have a human face. It had to show the alien enemy that humanity wasn't about to be beaten.
After hours of labor, Noa mounted the face on Iron Bearer's empty visage, finally completing their life's work. It was fifty meters tall and painted blue and red and yellow. Its head sported a horned helmet akin to the great warlords of old. Iron Bearer was a one-mech army capable of taking on the horde of Uriels invading the Earth.
"Iron Bearer, activate!" Noa said, their voice echoing throughout the vast chamber. The super mechanoid's eyes glowed green, and it straightened with a mighty rumble of gears and servos functioning with clockwork precision. Noa touched their bracelet, summoning a personal warphole leading directly into Iron Bearer's cockpit. It was time to save the world.
Iron Bearer emerged out of its warphole and into a raging battle in a ruined metropolis. Tyr-type combat mechs were forming a defensive line, holding out against the swarm of insectoid Uriels threatening to break through and overwhelm the last Federation flagship, the Palace Athena. The radio picked up allied chatter, frantic and desperate.
"Storm Platoon wiped out! Rogue Platoon down to half strength!"
"Where the hell are the reinforcements? What's Devil Blue doing?"
Iron Bearer stood in front of the enemy charge and lifted its arms. "Chain Rocket Punch!" Noa commanded. Iron Bearer's fists blasted forth, connected to its body by chains of memory metals. Iron Bearer's attack stopped the enemy in its tracks, setting a chain explosion that decimated the Uriel force. Inside the cockpit, dimming filters activated to dampen the brilliant conflagration and prevent any ocular damage.
A grin split Noa's face. This was it. They were taking the fight to the enemy. Whereas the Federation forces tried to prevent defeat at all costs, Noa would seize victory instead.
The Uriels' advanced AI compelled them to retreat, bringing back combat data to their extraterrestrial masters in order to refine their forces. Noa was confident that the war would be won before they could adapt to Iron Bearer. And if they ever did, they'd just have to make it even better.
Iron Bearer's wayward fists returned, and Noa faced the mechs they had saved. "We are Iron Bearer, and we are here to save the Earth and defeat the Uriels' masters."
A blue mech landed on a dilapidated building, bringing itself to Iron Bearer's eye-level. It was an Odin-type commander unit, piloted by the renowned ace Devil Blue. The mech pointed its vibro-bladecannon at Iron Bearer.
Admiral Lee's voice boomed from the Palace Athena's speakers. "Stand down and surrender your mech and its blueprints to the Federation forces. Any resistance on your part shall be treated as a hostile action."
"We are Iron Bearer, pilot and mech," Noa replied. "We will fight and win the war, with or without you." They had half-expected this. The Earth was under global martial law, and the Federation was becoming desperate. Still, it was worth a try to get the Federation on their side.
"All units, engage," Devil Blue said. The Tyrs started shooting, and the Odin charged with its weapon.
"Evasive maneuvers!" Noa commanded. Iron Bearer activated its thrusters, its AI evading both Devil Blue and the Federation forces' gunfire with reflexes that no human could match. Iron Bearer grabbed the Odin's sword arm, crushing it.
"I've got you," Devil Blue said, activating a vibro-blade in his mech's foot and slashing it at Iron Bearer's face. The armor held unyielding, but Noa felt a pang of uncertainty. Was there a flaw in Iron Bearer's defensive systems? If it had been a stronger attack...
Iron Bearer's alarms went off, showering the cockpit in red light. The Palace Athena had fired its Grand Cannon at them. Its output was comparable to Iron Bearer's core reactor, and could prove the only weapon in the galaxy that could damage the super mechanoid. But what troubled Noa more was the fact that Admiral Lee was willing to sacrifice Devil Blue, the best pilot he had, to destroy a threat.
If Iron Bearer could not save one soul, then it could not save everyone. Noa would not let a single human die on their watch. "Shield at maximum output!"
Iron Bearer unleashed a spherical shield of green light, directing its strongest point at the center of the Grand Cannon's firing path. The cockpit readings were off the scale, and Iron Bearer's output decreased dramatically as it protected the Odin and itself.
The blast broke through the shield and struck both mechs. Devil Blue lifted his own shield, which crumbled in an instant. Noa rushed to save him by turning Iron Bearer's back to receive the rest of the blast.
Iron Bearer stood on a smoking crater, down to one knee. The Odin was all but disintegrated, save for its cockpit block.
"Prepare to fire again," Admiral Lee said. The Palace Athena's prow shone with a brilliant pink light. Noa seized the chance by opening a warphole to safety, carrying Devil Blue's cockpit with them.
Noa opened the cockpit of Devil Blue's mech. The ace pilot was unconscious. They pulled out his respirator and gasped. Devil Blue's face was half-covered in cybernetics. What's the Federation been doing with its pilots? they thought. They put him in the medical bay and placed him under the care of servo-mechs.
Noa sat in front of Iron Bearer, which looked no less for wear. Their weapon wasn't perfected yet. Noa would have to keep improving Iron Bearer. Its first sortie wasn't a failure, but it wasn't exactly a smashing success, either. The shields would have to be improved, the defensive algorithms tweaked, among a dozen other things. But there was a remaining breakthrough needed.
Noa was primarily an engineer, not a pilot. What if all the automatic systems failed during a fight? What if the fire control system broke down, or the voice command module got damaged? Iron Bearer needed a proper pilot.
They started compiling a list using their bracelet. The first item was to make a second cockpit seat. But that was the easy part. Noa would have to convince Devil Blue to fight alongside them, and while they didn't relish the undertaking, it needed to be done.
Soul, South America.
Psychedelic Soul / The Andes
Soul/Off
Joleen peered at the village through her binoculars. She still had a long descent ahead, and this was all but another village to go to. She absently felt her backpack tug at her shoulders, where all her worldly possessions fit snugly. She had quit her job at Wall Street, sold off everything she couldn't carry, and embarked on this journey to bring her father back. With renewed vigor, she continued her descent at a renewed pace, almost reckless, hoping against hope that she could finally reach the end of her quest.
A full hour later, she reached the base of the mountain. She made contact with a villager, who was sleeping underneath a tree.
"Hi," she said, starting with English. "Does Funky live in this village?"
"The Chief?" the villager said, breaking into a smile. Joleen's eyes lighted up. "We don't get enough visitors. Please come with me."
Joleen was in a somber mood as she reached the village. What was she going to say to her father to convince him to go back to civilization with her? He used to be a saxophonist for a soul band. She used to attend their gigs with her mother. When mom passed on, she had no one but her father left. But one day, he decided to quit the band and leave for the Andes. God knows what got into his mind.
The villager led her to a large hut in the center of the village. Joleen went through a bright-colored curtain, unprepared for what she might face. A man with graying hair sat in the center of the room, flanked by no less than three adoring young women.
"Daddy!" Joleen said.
"Joleen?" Funky replied. "My girl?"
"I can't believe you, daddy!" Joleen said, struggling to find the words. "You know that mom passed on, but you do this?"
"My girl, I can explain," Funky said. "Your mom wouldn't be smiling in Heaven if I wasn't happy on Earth." The women, who were barely out of their teens, snuggled closer to Funky.
"What about the band?"
"It was a mistake."
"The wonderful music you made was a mistake?"
Funky shook his head. "The evil, consumerist soul that had permeated every pore of the music industry is a mistake. That's why I'm here, Joleen. I traveled the world, found this humble village, and now it's doing mighty fine because of me!"
"I know that the world is screwed up, dad, but you and your talents should be out there, changing the world for the better."
"This is changing the world for the better, girl," Funky said.
Joleen frowned. "Stop calling me girl. I'm twenty-eight."
Funky sighed. "Joleen, you're welcome to stay here, girl, but I ain't leaving."
"I swear, daddy, you'll regret this," Joleen said. She turned around contemptuously and left.
Fifteen years ago, Joleen was in a front-row seat at a The Psycho Metrics gig. Her father was the saxophonist, and he applied soulful solos and complemented the guitar riffs with his own tunes.
After the gig ended and the groupies dispersed, Joleen and her mom approached Funky, their starstruck eyes threatening to go nova. Joleen's mom hugged Funky, as the girl precociously watched the band pack up their things.
"When I grow up, I wanna be a saxophonist," Joleen said.
"Well girl, you gotta practice," Funky said.
"Can I hold it, daddy? Your saxophone?"
Funky hesitated, then gave his precious instrument to his daughter. Joleen had watched her father perform countless times. She fumbled a bit with the holes, then managed a clean B-flat sound.
"Whoa!" Funky said.
Joleen followed with a D, then an F, forming a chord.
"This kid is insane, yo," he said.
"She's your daughter, of course," Joleen's mom said, beaming.
At three AM in the morning Joleen rose, playing her saxophone in an ever-repeating solo as she traipsed through the village. People shambled out of their homes, half-awake and in a trance from the otherworldly music. They formed a crowd, following Joleen wherever she went.
Joleen took them to the mountains. Ill-equipped and in their bedclothes, the villagers followed, seemingly uncaring about the harsh conditions.
She had left a note on Funky's hut: I have your villagers. Follow me south, to the mountains, if you want them to live.
Funky put on his worn cloak and saxophone case, the only things left of his former life, and ran to where Joleen told him to. It had been almost an eternity since he crossed the Andes and stumbled upon this idyllic village. He was not going to let anyone disturb the peace, daughter or not.
He spotted a glimpse of the villagers climbing up, unmindful of the thin air or the drop below. He picked up the pace.
Funky reached Joleen's camp after two hours of frantic climbing.
"Wish you'd use that sense of responsibility to raise me," Joleen said, playing a tune to get the villagers up. They formed a neat square between her and the cliff.
"But you grew up just fine, Joleen," Funky said. "I'd have made a bad father. I mean, I wasn't really around in the first place."
"It's a little too late for regret, don't you think?" Joleen said. "All I'm asking you is to come back with me. Reform the band. Touch lives. Right your wrongs."
"I already am doing that," Funky said. "Don't hurt them, please."
"This is all on you, daddy," Joleen said. She put the sax's mouthpiece on and started playing a tune. The villagers turned about face and started walking towards the cliff.
Funky got his own saxophone out of its case and played a counter-melody, which prompted the villagers to stop in their tracks. He continued the tune, layering notes and outdoing Joleen's own tune to save his people. The villagers took a collective step backwards.
Joleen fought back Funky's counterattack with her own solo. The villagers retraced their steps to unwitting suicide.
Perspiring, Funky poured his heart and soul into his tune. He trilled a loud, soulful note, shattering Joleen's hold on the villagers, save for one kid, who was closest to the precipice. Funky ran past Joleen and pulled the child away, but the ground was slippery and he went past the ledge. He grabbed the saxophone as it fell but failed to secure a hold on the ledge...
Joleen held on to his outstretched hand. "Help me!" she yelled, and the villagers helped her pull their chief up to safety.
Panting, Funky lay on the rocky ground. "Ain't ever gonna do that again," he said.
Joleen was aware of everyone's eyes on her. "So, are you gonna push me off the cliff instead?" she said.
The boy's father took a step forward. His hands were wide apart in a gesture of non-violence. "The Chief wouldn't want that, and neither do we."
"Joleen." Funky lay a gentle hand on her shoulder. "I suppose we gotta talk once we're back in the village."
Joleen looked at the rising sun. "Yeah."
"I'm thinking of going back to my job," Joleen said. "Managing funds wasn't too bad." They were drinking tea brewed by one of Funky's wives.
"I've no idea how money works, but it looks like you've got a knack for it," Funky said. "And your sax?"
Joleen's hand twitched. "I'm afraid to touch it again. I might... you know. Do bad things with it."
"It's a gift, Joleen. You use it to do the right thing."
Joleen took a long sip of her tea. It tasted just like home, wherever it was.
"I'd like to stay for another day, daddy," she said. "I wanna play with you again."
"No tricks this time," Funky said, grinning.
Doing up to three crits this week, give me a holler if you want.
QuoProQuid - Dinner With the Parents
This was a light and enjoyable read. The protagonist's struggle was absolutely relatable and it was funny all throughout. My quibble is that the protagonist doesn't do much, and his thoughts do the heavy lifting for him. Making him act more would've made the story pop so much more and increase the dramatic tension (as Astrid's mom doesn't seem to be a mind-reader).
Chili - A Cold Night In Basque Country
I liked this, it had sort of a The Monkey's Paw vibe to it. The weak point, I think, is how Amaia met Kisin, it lacked oomph and felt a bit forced, though their interaction was pretty solid. The twist was rather predictable, but it wasn't bad. Ends well.
Electric Owl - And the House is On Fire
You wrote a Goon Story. You know, that story where a goon does gross things, and that's pretty much the point. I haven't found anything good to read, and this doesn't change that. In your story, a person is shown to be gross, then he dies, the end. That is not enjoyable. I urge you to break down your story idea into a plot and think whether people could enjoy reading it. This shouldn't have made it past that test. You have good prose, I'd give you that, but I wish you used it on a better story.
Doing 3 crits. Any takers?
Late crit but
Ska and Screenplays - Terrible Purpose
This story made me more than a little mad. Proofreading errors and a hard-to-follow story that I must give a bit of a stretch to fit the prompt. You tease who Justice is but ultimately blueball us on a reveal, and that's disappointing.


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Red team exercises have been around in military contexts for a long time: the idea is to train as one fights, making use of every available resource to breach an adversary's defenses or achieve another objective (e.g., obtain the colors of the defending unit). While this practice means both units gain invaluable training and experience, it is not without risk: a certain level of improvisation and chaos is inherent to the process, meaning actual enemy agents have an opportunity to take advantage of the confusion. Aided by the troops emulating attackers, they slip into the cities of defenders and drop the bridge, set fire to things, and so on. Worse, they may disperse into the city, blending with the population until they expose themselves by hostile action, while the training session is lauded a success by people watching the show.
People whose national or physical security depends on the integrity of their day-to-day operations maintain OPSEC, plan their exits, keep rear guard and overwatch, and generally think through the implications of the unorthodox nature of their actions because failure to do so produces literally terminal outcomes. The first lackadaisical move is a critical failure due to the scope of potential exposure.
Pen testers can take a page out of the books written by these folks: the use of cleartext shells and unencrypted payloads (especially over WAN connections) in the modern era of cyber espionage is as irresponsible as playing football with a baby...as the ball. How can we use the machinery inside Metasploit to protect our operations while we continue to pen test and improve posture in the system itself? The groundwork is all there, and coupled with rational practices, it allows us to tighten our OPSEC and reduce collateral during operations.
The Metasploit Framework implements both transport security in-session and payload-level protections in modular and layered manners, allowing red teams to ensure basic OPSEC and to extend it according to their use cases. While Metasploit modules and handlers expose the derived implementations of these functions, the magic behind the modules lies in /lib.
Simple command shells are generally some form of loop reading attacker input from a source (say, a file descriptor), executing it, and sending the result to a destination (the same FD, or an arbitrary IO construct). The process for achieving a reverse shell session involves communicating with the remote host to deliver the exploit/affect the process, deliver the payload itself, and establish a communications channel (or channels) to handle the IO. This process is implemented by the exploit module's creating a Rex::Socket::Tcp connection to the destination host (first point where subversion may occur), sending the exploit, and the payload. The handler module's catching the reverse shell starts a Rex::Socket::TcpServer, accepts the inbound TCP connection (second point of subversion) from the payload, and creates a session object handling the MSF side of the IO loop; this continues to read from and write to the socket (third point). In the case of staged payloads, the session handler sends a stage back to the target system for execution and establishment of the final session: Meterpreter/Mettle (third/fourth targets).
What if an attacker has MITM on the wire between red team and the target host? What if they achieve it during the session? They can modify the initial payload sent to the target system, inserting their IP address instead of the practitioner's to hijack the shell. They can intercept the command session and modify its contents (waiting for red team to privesc before taking control), and they can intercept the stage, decoding it (if encoded), and inserting their own code which also hijacks control or brings "other guests" to the party. What if the red team test is on a critical facility? Bad guys caught wire control somewhere in the datapath and red team gave them root past the inner cordon... The concern around unauthenticated bind handlers is obvious in this context, so simple mention of it should suffice.
In the case of staged reverse_tcp payloads, we are transmitting significant amounts of binary content to be injected into memory/executed on target over cleartext. If sent unencoded, the content of these stages is very easy to pick up via pattern matching on the wire, and it enables others to perform arbitrary substitutions at known offsets to inject their code into the code we're injecting into the client's code. Encoders and custom binaries help, but they're delay tactics that are overcome by automated analysis tools. Over the years, mihi and max3raza have both stepped up with Windows assembly blocks for x86 and x64, respectively, which we wired into Metasm to produce dynamic stages capable of decrypting subsequent stages prior to use. These code blocks live in /lib/msf/core/payload/windows and are interpolated into the assembly strings, which are fed into Metasm to build payloads for delivery on target. Attackers intercepting both stage0 and stage1 will get access to the key material required to decrypt and perform their modifications, but separate delivery can prevent this entirely, eliminating that leg of the msf <-> target interaction as a viable attack domain for the real adversary. Added security can be implemented in a number of ways: using context data to decrypt (no key transmitted); obfuscating the keys and decryption stubs in the Metasm composition/build phases; extending key length to deter brute-force, or implementing entirely different ciphers capable of ensuring secrecy for a while to come (if the contents of stage1 contain things we don't want to leak even in hindsight, especially for some AV engine to send overseas for analysis).
Meterpreter TLVs can theoretically be sent over any number of synchronous or asynchronous channels, which may themselves provide a cryptographic secrecy layer. We used to carry OpenSSL with us on target, but the weight the library added to Meterpreter was deemed too high an overhead (along with some technical debt it brought that we're still digging through), and TheColonial implemented layer 7 encryption in the TLV structure itself. Other Meterpreter implementations are adopting the protocol change as well, moving us closer to being able to rely on a known quotient of content security in our own layer 7 implementation, and offering safer operation over inherently unencrypted transports.
Pen testers, especially those in critical or compliance-beholden environments, should keep tabs on which payload type is actually providing them with secrecy, and which isn't: there may be grave repercussions associated with transmitting an engagement flag bearing real informational value over unencrypted comms. It would be great if the TLVCrypt implementation could be extended to take external key inputs, thus avoiding vectors around negotiation and enforcing use of encryption. Work on this is ongoing.
Finally, the best way to remain untouched is to go unseen. Protocol encoders that permit us to tunnel communications over layer 7 are useful to avoid defensive measures that watch for abnormalities or signatures. Automated malicious actor tools are doing the same: sniffing traffic, looking for something to mess with. By increasing the protocols supported by asynchronous handlers such as reverse_http/s and the work being done for reverse_dns, we can avoid detection in the first place and protect our content from abuse at layer 7 with TLVCrypt. Defense-in-depth applies to red team just the same.
Contributors, coders, practitioners, curious minds who want to know how things work: go take a look into /lib/msf/core/handler and core/payload, and learn how payloads, transports, and the session context are composed. Please extend the work already there. The more of this stuff that makes it upstream, the harder it is for everyone (defenders and real adversaries alike) to detect and attack our operations. Stay safe, keep pwning, keep coding, and please check in for our next installment entitled "The compiler of my enemy is my friend," regarding use of some little known PowerShell code the Metasploit community snuck into /lib a while back for advanced autonomous post exploitation.


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The entire Toyota and Lexus model line-up is to be offered with electrification in some way by 'around 2025'
by: James Brodie
Toyota has announced that it plans to offer ten new all-electric vehicles globally by the early 2020s, in a strategy that will see every model in the Toyota and Lexus line-up electrified in some way around halfway through the next decade.
It'll be a two-pronged assault, with new, dedicated all-electric, hybrid and fuel cell models set to appear alongside core Toyota and Lexus line-ups with pure electric or ultra-low emission powertrains offered on every model. With this plan in action, Toyota hopes to sell more than 5.5 million electrified vehicles worldwide by around 2030, with sales of zero-emission vehicles totalling over one million.
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Toyota's plan to introduce ten brand new all-electric vehicles in less than ten years is a transformative move for the brand. Despite long-standing championing of hybrid technology with cars like the Prius, an all-electric car has never been part of the firm's line-up.
Toyota plans to introduce electric cars in China first, before gradually phasing the ten EV models in to the Japanese, Indian, American and European markets. Worldwide availability is expected early in the next decade, while the firm's fuel-cell electric vehicle line-up will be expanded in the 2020s too, with new passenger cars and commercial vehicles.
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22nd February 2016 , By İpek Özerim
Ofcom deems UKIP's anti-Turkey broadcast to be acceptable
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The UK communications regulator has decided not to proceed with a formal investigation into a controversial anti-Turkey party political broadcast by the UK Independence Party (UKIP). The decision was included in Ofcom's fortnightly Broadcast and On Demand Bulletin that was released earlier today.
A total of 40 people made an official complaint to Ofcom about the broadcast, which was televised on all the main national channels during the peak evening hours of 3rd. Feb 2016. The Liberal Democrat Party, British Turks and many others had condemned the 4-minute advert as "racist", "Islamophobic" and "offensive". However, after considering the matter the regulatory body deemed no breach had occurred.
UKIP broadcasts negative stereotypes about Turkey
UKIP had centred its first-ever party political broadcast on Turkey, using the country's large Muslim population as a reason for Britain to quit the European Union, claiming up to 15 million Muslim Turks could migrate to Europe if the country became an EU member. The broadcast, with its highly selective choice of facts, aimed to form an impression with viewers that Turkey's culture and society was outside of European norms because of its Muslim character.
Among the many claims UKIP made were that Turkish women suffer a high level of violence and a quarter of them are made to marry before the age of 18. The clip also warned about the explosion in Islamic imam schools across the country, while highlighting the dwindling numbers of Christians. It also said Turkey's growing population would make it the largest EU member with the most number of MEPs, while its farmers would receive the largest subsidies.
Prior to making its decision, T-VINE has asked Ofcom whether any political parties had ever been sanctioned for "offensive" broadcasts. The response was that historically none had been. The regulator believes "context is important" and that political parties due to their ideological nature are likely to offend some sections of the public. As long their broadcasts avoided inciting violence or hatred, they would remain within the code of practice established by the Communications Act 2003.
Is Ofcom guilty of hypocrisy?
In the same Broadcast and On Demand Bulletin (issue 299, 22 Feb. 2016), Ofcom gives details of an investigation into a TV channel suspected of causing serious offense to, and hatred of Britain's Jewish community.
Two programmes broadcast by the Peace TV Urdu channel last September were found to be in breach of Ofcom's code of practice. They featured public lectures into Jews and Judaism by the now deceased Islamic scholar Dr Israr Ahmad, who called Jews a "cursed race", claiming this was, "why they are afflicted by great calamities, and the example is what happened to them at the hands of the Germans".
Dr Ahmad also claimed Jewish bankers and their "exorbitant" interest rates were behind the First World War, likening their behaviour to cancer: "…cancer when it enters one part of the body it spreads to other parts as well. In this way they took the whole of Europe in their grip".
He repeated the lie about a conspiracy document called the Protocols of the Elders of Zion, which claims Jews seek to control the world, and that they viewed non-Jews as "not human".
The hate-ridden comments meant Peace TV Urdu was found guilty of breaching several parts of the Ofcom Code, including failing "to provide adequate protection for members of the public from the inclusion in such services of harmful and/or offensive material" (Rule 2.1). Also, for allowing "material which may cause offence… Such material may include, but is not limited to…discriminatory treatment or language (for example on the grounds of…race, religion…" (Rule 2.3).
Ofcom finds Peace TV guilty of serious breaches after broadcasting Dr Israr Ahmed (pictured)'s anti-semitic lectures
In its assessment, Ofcom said: "We considered that in these two programmes Israr Ahmad repeatedly portrayed Jewish people as a homogenous group and in overwhelmingly negative and stereotypical terms."
They added that his views "had the potential to be interpreted as spreading anti-Semitism i.e. his comments could be a form of 'hate speech'."
Ofcom concluded the nature of the two programmes were "potentially very harmful and highly offensive content". Due to the seriousness of the breaches, the owners Club TV were being put on notice "for the imposition of a statutory sanction", which means the matter will go before an Ofcom committee to make the final assessment. If they agree this was a serious breach, they could fine the channel, shorten or revoke their TV licence.
While UKIP's advert was not as severe as Dr Ahmad's hate-laden lectures, it is difficult to understand how the regulator failed to find any breach given that UKIP also portrayed the entire Turkish nation "as a homogenous group and in overwhelmingly negative and stereotypical terms" and that its advert used "discriminatory treatment or language (for example on the grounds of…race, religion" against Turks and Muslims.
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2nd January 2018 , By İpek Özerim
'Revolutionary' Turkish Cypriot Hasan Raif dies aged 69
Veteran community activist Hasan Raif has died of cancer. He passed away in the early hours of the morning on the last day of 2017. The death of the married father of two has been greeted with universal sadness. Condolences were offered by Haringey Councillor Emine Ibrahim, who wrote on her Facebook and Twitter pages, […]
Turkish belly dancer Tevec stars in UEFA's promo clip for Friday's Turkey v Russia match
It's not every day when you get an invitation from UEFA to help promote a new tournament, but that's exactly what happened to South London-born Turkish Cypriot belly dancer Tevec Ibrahim. This week, Europe's football body is launching a new UEFA Nations tournament to give a competitive edge to normally meaningless international friendlies. All 55 […]
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A photograph by Hasan Bağlar of a grasshopper shedding its hard outer skeleton has been selected by the UK's Royal Society of Biology Photography as one of the year's best images of the natural world. Bağlar, from Lefkoşa (Nicosia), North Cyprus, submitted his photo titled "My Shirt', capturing the moment a grasshopper moults its exoskeleton. […]


Presidential elections were held in Georgia on 28 October 2018, the seventh presidential elections since the country's restoration of independence from the Soviet Union in 1991. The previous elections in October 2013 resulted in a victory for Giorgi Margvelashvili, a candidate of the Georgian Dream coalition.
Following amendments to the constitution in 2017, the 2018 elections will be the last direct presidential vote; after 2018 presidents will be elected by the 300-member College of Electors. In view of these changes, the President will be elected for a term of six years in 2018.
A second round involving Salome Zurabishvili and Grigol Vashadze was held on 28 November 2018 because no candidate was able to secure at least 50% of the vote in the first round. Salome Zurabishvili won with around 60% of the vote in the second round and took office on 16 December 2018.
The pre-election campaign was marred by a polarized political environment and a series of secret tape recordings aired by the pro-opposition Rustavi 2 TV, leading to allegations of kidnappings and torture by investigators to secure convictions, pressure and coercion on businesses and media, high-level corruption, and selective justice. International observers assessed the elections as competitive and free, stressing that "one side enjoyed an undue advantage and the negative character of the campaign on both sides undermined the process", while the misuse of administrative resources "blurred the line between party and state."
46 people applied to participate in the elections, 21 of which were rejected by the Election Administration of Georgia. 25 presidential candidates were registered by the Election Administration of Georgia. This is the largest number since Georgia's first presidential election in 1991. All 25 candidates were included on the ballot paper.
Nino Burjanadze, Georgian politician and lawyer who served as Chairman of Parliament of Georgia (2001-2008). She has served as the acting President of Georgia twice. She backed out of the election on 8 September.
Giorgi Margvelashvili, incumbent President, officially refused to take part in the election in late August.
The Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe stated that the elections were "competitive and professionally administered," but noted concerned about a "substantial imbalance in donations", "excessively high spending limits", and a "lack of analytical reporting" as contributing factors to creating an unlevel playing field.
On 29 November, the second day after the run-off results were released, the United National Movement leader-in-exile Mikheil Saakashvili encouraged supporters not to accept the election results and to hold demonstrations against the newly elected president. He also called for civil disobedience toward the police and armed forces.
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Enjoy a leisurely afternoon discovering beach antiques and home accents on the Decor by the Shore shopping trail. Find new and classic coastal furniture and special decorative touches like eccentric vintage postcards. What better place to discover a one-of-a-kind blast-from-the-past treasure to evoke the vacation of a lifetime?
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To call Pier Park a mall wouldn't do it justice. This open-air compound is a shopper's paradise. Imagine a million square feet with every kind of shop, from the big name stores carrying brands you love to mom-and-pop shops with those one-of-a-kind items you can't live without. Grab some active wear for your day on the beach or in the water, or find a sophisticated ensemble for an elegant night out. Pier Park also offers fun and refreshments. Grab an ice cream cone and take a stroll on the pier, or turn the kids loose on the bumper boats.


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I truly and sincerely believed I had been the first one to stumble upon creamy, alfredo sauce goodness in the form of cauliflower a couple summers ago. I was ready to call the patent office, or Gordon Ramsay, or the Food Network, or whoever controls food recipes today, because I had just invented the world's best veggie alfredo sauce.
You know how Google works–confirming all your fears and dashing all your hopes…Not only was creamy cauliflower sauce already in existence, but I also discovered cauliflower "pizza crust", cauliflower "mac&cheese", cauliflower "rice", cauliflower "buffalo chicken bites"…I'd had no idea the cauliflower craze was out there in full swing! I have found many different variations of the cauliflower alfredo sauce, so I don't know who to credit, but this is my version: Cauliflower Corn Cream Sauce. I use this white sauce as alfredo sauce for noodles, lasagna, mac&cheese, the white sauce for a pot pie–the list can go on. It is delicious and creamy and full of veggies.
Optional: you can also add 1/2-1 whole red bell pepper or a handful of fresh parsley; this will turn your sauce an orange-ish or greenish hue, respectively. Also, if you wish to make this vegan, omit the half-and-half and use nutritional yeast instead of the parmesan cheese–it will still end up creamy and sweet and delicious.
Heat a couple tablespoons of olive oil in a large pot over medium heat and add the cauliflower, onion, and corn (and red pepper, if using), and salt and pepper to taste.
Saute until the cauliflower is golden, then add vegetable stock until the vegetables are covered and allow to simmer until the cauliflower is just tender.
Load everything into your blender (a BlendTec is nice because it all fits!), and add the half-and-half, parmesan cheese, and parsley, if using. Blend until you get a creamy consistency. Play around with adding water/stock/half-and-half until you get the consistency you want.


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Senators push CMS, commercial payers on bias in algorithms
Sens. Ron Wyden, D-Ore., and Cory Booker, D-N.J., are pressing CMS, major commercial payers and the Federal Trade Commission to explain what they are doing to prevent bias in algorithms used to make decisions and target resources that affect patient care.
In letters sent Tuesday to the agencies and five companies, the senators flagged a study published in October in the journal Science that found racial bias in a widely used algorithm for assessing healthcare needs and said they are seeking information to help determine the extent of the bias problem.
Wyden and Booker also asked the FTC to commit to investigating the ways algorithms already in use may discriminate against marginalized groups.
FDA to date has authorized more than 30 AI algorithms for use in healthcare. The agency is developing a pre-certification pilot for software whose high-profile participants include Apple, Johnson & Johnson and Fitbit.
The senators are shining a spotlight on the potential for bias in algorithms used in making care decisions at a time when healthcare organizations are ramping up investment in predictive data analytics and AI. A number of recent surveys show a significant increase in adoption among health systems, many of which are hiring data scientists to help design their strategies for using analytics to improve clinical outcomes and drive revenue growth, among other goals.
Automated decision systems based on technologies such as advanced analytics and artificial intelligence hold potential to identify patients for care who need it the most, but also can carry human biases built into the massive data sets, Wyden and Booker wrote in their letters. The letters were sent to executives at UnitedHealth Group, Blue Cross Blue Shield, Cigna, Humana and Aetna, in addition to CMS Administrator Seema Verma and FTC Chairman Joseph Simons.
The Science research, which the senators called "deeply troubling," found that racial bias in an algorithm reduced the number of black patients identified for extra care by more than half, because they were assigned the same level of risk despite being sicker than white patients. The algorithm was formulated to use health costs as a proxy for health needs even though less money is spent on black patients who have the same level of need.
In another example of what the lawmakers called the "biases, disparities and inequities that plague our healthcare system," Wyden and Booker pointed to the findings of a 2016 study that revealed most medical students and residents incorrectly believed that black patients tolerate more pain than white patients. The belief led to less accurate treatment recommendations for black patients.
The lawmakers are not alone in calling for greater scrutiny of potential bias in algorithms. Just last month, several major U.S., Canadian and European radiology societies issued a joint statement urging development of additional guidelines on the ethical use of AI in imaging, saying developers need to be held to the same "do no harm" standard as doctors.
Earlier this year, the Margolis Center for Health Policy at Duke University recommended in a report that the field consider establishing a set of best practices to mitigate bias. In April, a group of more than 30 tech giants, digital health companies, trade associations and healthcare organizations, including AdvaMed, Google and Fitbit, joined forces to work toward developing standards and best practices for AI in medicine and health.
The senators asked the insurance executives to provide details about the algorithms their companies use to improve patient care and what safeguards they have established to prevent bias. They asked CMS and the FTC to outline steps they are taking to address algorithm bias in the healthcare system and whether their current enforcement mechanisms can handle the challenge.
Science Dissecting racial bias in an algorithm used to manage the health of populations
MedTech Dive To pitch Pre-Cert to Congress, FDA builds a case first
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Teachers of Dr. Geisler's twelve-point apologetic method can use this teacher's guide with their students in conjunction with The Twelve Points that Show Christianity is True book. This guide has helpful color coding, charts, summaries, information sheets, questions for students to answer, list of key concepts and terms to learn, additional suggestions for learning activities, tests, and answer keys all geared towards mastering the twelve points.
fine. does this need to go to NGIM?


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An die Töpfe, fertig, lecker! ist eine deutsche Jugend-Comedy-Kochshow der Walt Disney Company, die auf der spanischen Serie Un, dos, ¡chef! und deren französischen Adaption Chez Rémy Tous en Forme basiert. Produziert wird sie von der Produktionsfirma Mingamedia Entertainment GmbH. Die Erstausstrahlung erfolgte am 2. April 2017 beim Fernsehsender Disney Channel Deutschland.

Handlung
Ganz wie Linguini und Rémy aus dem Disney-Film Ratatouille, zeigt das ungleiche Duo – bestehend aus einem jungen Chefkoch und seinem erwachsenen Assistenten – wie man mit gutem Teamwork, frischen Zutaten, einer großen Portion Kreativität und ganz viel Spaß neue Gerichte erfinden und zubereiten kann.

In jeder Folge stellt sich das Team, bestehend aus dem Assistenzkoch Roland abwechselnd mit den jungen Chefköchen Nils (11 Jahre) und Marwin (10 Jahre), einer Herausforderung: Sie wollen einen prominenten Gast von den Vorzügen eines Lebensmittels überzeugen, das ihm überhaupt nicht zusagt. Gelingt es dem Team ungeliebte Zutaten so zu verarbeiten, dass es dem Gast schmeckt?

Durch einen "Promi-Telerobot" wird die Aufgabe an das Team im Studio übermittelt. Dieser zeigt auch die abenteuerliche Zustellung des Gerichts durch eine Transport-Drohne und die anschließende Verkostung.

Hintergrund
Die Serie An die Töpfe, fertig, lecker! ist eine Initiative, die im Rahmen des weltweiten Engagements der Walt Disney Company entsteht, sie soll Kinder und Familien gleichermaßen mit ganz viel Spaß und Humor für das Thema Kochen begeistern und Inspiration für die Zubereitung ausgewogener Gerichte mit frischen Zutaten liefern. Die Deutsche Gesellschaft für Ernährung ist mit dem Projekt "Geprüfte IN FORM-Rezepte" Partner der Serie und hat die Rezepte, die in den einzelnen Folgen vorgestellt werden, mit entwickelt. Zudem wurde die Serie vom Bundesministerium für Ernährung und Landwirtschaft und durch das Bundesministerium für Gesundheit mit der Wir sind IN FORM-Plakette ausgezeichnet.

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#PROPAGANDA
A series made of hijacked images to understand in a funny and quirky way how our opinions are influenced, and our consent manufactured. Discover from the inside the range of strategies used without our knowledge to shape our de...
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A series made of hijacked images to understand in a funny and quirky way how our opinions are influenced, and our consent manufactured. Discover from the inside the range of strategies used without our knowledge to shape our desires!
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WHAT DO WE OWN? THE MULTIFORMAL CONCEPT OF OWNERSHIP ACCROSS THE GLOBE
A series of discussions with international specialists who think the world through the prism of property. We will explore this multi-faceted concept with a loose temporality, through the ownership of body and mind, our rights a...
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A series of discussions with international specialists who think the world through the prism of property. We will explore this multi-faceted concept with a loose temporality, through the ownership of body and mind, our rights and the idea of collective property.
In 2022, how to conceptualize property? Can we move away from a solely Western vision? What can we learn from the vision of traditional societies in Africa, the Americas, Asia and Oceania? How was it historically understood in China, India or Japan? And how is it understood today in the Anglo-Saxon world, where property ownership, as in the Middle Ages, is often divided between ownership of the land and ownership of the house or building (leasehold/freehold)?
Is the cycle of property rights we are in still expanding, or is it coming to an end? With the sharing economy, are we replacing the principle of exclusive exploitation by that of shared use? Will the commons model become dominant?
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PURE MUSCLE
What if bodybuilding was not just a simple sporting and aesthetic discipline? What if the practice was actually conforming to the social pressures of our neoliberal society, by celebrating and encouraging the constant surpassin...
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JUZA (CAMILLE), MOMCILOVIC (JEROME)
ARTE FRANCE, Haut et Court
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What if bodybuilding was not just a simple sporting and aesthetic discipline? What if the practice was actually conforming to the social pressures of our neoliberal society, by celebrating and encouraging the constant surpassing of oneself?
With the help of illustrious weight trainers and experts, All Brawn offers a fascinating look into the history and culture of this art of performance. Gain insight into this mass phenomenon, a metaphor for the obsession with control and cost-efficiency.
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WELCOME TO MY STRANGE CITY
Everywhere on the planet cities seem to pop up and grow, sometimes despite climatic or geographical conditions that seem impossible to live in. How do people acclimate to lead a normal life?
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Follow Alexandra, a travel reporter, to meet those living in the most extreme cities of the world. The coldest, warmest, highest, most humid, etc. First stop in Yakutsk, Siberia and then La Paz in Bolivia, to show the incredible adaptability of their inhabitants.
Some are extremely cold, others extremely hot, very high, very isolated or incredibly densely populated. The planet already has dozens of cities which, seen from our perspective, do not appear to be very appealing places to live. And yet, people like them and live in them, unaware that their daily life is a feat in itself.
Journalist Alexandra Alevêque will experience life in some of the most extreme cities in the world, living in each one long enough to learn about the locals' way of life.
What she brings back is an insight into humankind's incredible capacity to adapt and find behavioural and organisational solutions.
What do these unusual cities look like?
What is life like for their inhabitants?
What can we learn from them?
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DEEP THROAT, WHEN PORN MAKES ITS PREMIERE
Deep Throat is the story of the first mainstream porn film. It tackled sex liberation, women's liberation and divided feminists. Preview a whole new dimension, in the light of the #MeToo movement.
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POIRIER (Agnès)
ARTE FRANCE, HAUTEVILLE Productions
It was the first time that a porn movie was shown on the big screen for the general public. The first porn star in history, celebrated by the media and fashionable stars, Linda Lovelace was the first to speak out against the conditions of porn a few years later. No one believed that she had been the victim of threats and violence from her husband. The resonance with today is staggering. At the time of the #MeToo movement, her testimony and its reception takes on a whole new dimension.
First "sex war", as it was called at the time, within the feminist movement which had just been born: two sides appear and radically oppose each other, those in favor of pornography and prostitution - the pro-sex - advocating the liberation of women's sexuality without censorship, and the abolitionists on the other side, denouncing the exploitation of women and the rape culture conveyed by porn. A fracture that is still relevant today.
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POLACHROMES
POLACHROMES completes the EUROPE ATTITUDE collection with sketchings of 3 of the cities' symbolic places.
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HAVANA - MIAMI: TIMES ARE CHANGING
A web documentary series with young people from these two cities.
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VASQUEZ (RODRIGO)
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The project will be part of the process of opening up in the Americas, thus overcoming 50 years of one of the last Cold War conflicts.
For three months, with three stories coming from both sides, Internet viewers will have access to a virtual wall where they will see videos from Havana and Miami, as well as contributions (videos, pictures and texts) coming from the audience. The project will be first on line and will prepare the ground for a television film. The project will be a coalition of producers and broadcasters from Europe, the US and the Hispanic world so as to make it a real global coproduction.
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FACES OF EUROPE
"Real people" welcome us into their homes, far off the beaten track, and allow us to get to know their countries, their families, their jobs or their passions. 75 portraits make up this living mosaic of Europe!
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"Real people" welcome us into their homes, far off the beaten track, and allow us to get to know their countries, their families, their jobs or their passions.
75 portraits make up this living mosaic of Europe!
Strong, surprising and remarkable personalities - Leo, a boxing-mad broker from London; Enda, an Albanian designer who's preparing her first fashion-show in Tirana; Elisabetta, a Sicilian woman who, after travelling round Europe, takes over the family olive-oil business; Bosse, a Finnish biker who's also a doting father; Jean, a priest in the Belgian Ardennes who at the age of 70 is going to leave his parishioners in order to marry the love of his life; Didda, a grocer-woman from Reykjavik who dreams only of poetry; Gabriela, a struggling Slovakian actress who's waiting for her dream-role. All these different faces of one and the same Europe.
As Bulgaria and Romania swell the ranks of the member-states of the Union, the goal of the Welcome to documentary collection is to create a living mosaic of Europe, day by day, far from the institutional machine.
Welcome to bears in equal measure the imprint of young authors and experienced directors, such as Solveig Anspach, Nino Kirtadze, Manu Bonmariage, Cyril Mennegun, Dominique Gros, Judit Kele, Vassili Silovic, Patric Jean, Peter Vaclav and many others.
2007 : Special Mention at Doc en Courts (Lyon, France) for LITHUANIA: WELCOME TO DOVID'S WORLD
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Astrid and Stéphane are going to get married. All is going well.
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They already have a small boy, they love each other and their parents are content. All is going well. But it is necessary to organize the event. And so the difficulties begin...
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Family Album looks at the way we bring up our children nowadays, explores topical issues relating to childcare and education, and examines the ways in which the structure and role of the family are changing in today's Europe.
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The series sets out not only to inform and compare, but also to promote reflection on traditional practices and new developments - some of which are immediately accepted, and some of which meet fierce resistance - in all areas of family life - the last bastion of our national cultures and identities. It covers a wide range of themes, from pre-school education and language learning to abortion and who does the housework.
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EUROPE ATTITUDES
These documentaries take us to six cities on the very margin of Europe, Istanbul, Belgrad and Lisboa, which nonetheless look towards it.
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The programmes focus on young Europeans living in these cities, presenting them as individuals, exploring their similarities and their differences, and revealing how they see and experience Europe.
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TWENTY-FOUR HOURS
TWENTY-FOUR HOURS completes the EUROPE ATTITUDE collection with 3 of the cities. The idea of this collection is to translate the emotions we can feel when, far from home, we arrive in a foreign city for the first time ; the mom...
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ARTE FRANCE, PMP (penelope - morgane productions)
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TWENTY-FOUR HOURS completes the EUROPE ATTITUDE collection with 3 of the cities. The idea of this collection is to translate the emotions we can feel when, far from home, we arrive in a foreign city for the first time ; the moments when we get off the plane, the car, the boat.
Architectural, historical or artistical emotions...
Some emotions most of the time translated through encounters we can make there.
With some good characters, ordinary or extraordinary, but always likeable. The pleasure of shooting from dawn on Friday to twilight on Sunday, to go through the city as in emergency, but with a special care. To capture the breathe of this city, its movements, its peculiarities, its future. We follow these people in their daily lives in different places, we discover the city and its history through these lives.
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