Primoz Roglic has put the icing on the cake in the queen stage of the UAE Tour. The overall leader of Team Jumbo-Visma won the sixth stage to the top of the Jebel Jais, the highest point of the United Arab Emirates, after impressive team work.
For Roglic, it is his first individual win of the season. Earlier this week, he already won the team time trial. For Team Jumbo-Visma it is the fourth victory this year.
Primoz Roglic wins stage six.
Team Jumbo-Visma controlled the stage all day. On the final climb, the team took the initiative and was well-represented in the front with Jos van Emden, Tony Martin, Koen Bouwman, Laurens De Plus and Roglic. With five kilometres to go, De Plus took over. The Belgian's pace was high up to the last five hundred metres, after which Roglic finished it off sovereignly in the sprint.
Tomorrow, the UAE Tour will end with a stage in Dubai. "A new day. I did well regarding the GC today, but we'll have to stay focused and make sure we won't be caught by surprise", the Slovenian concluded.
With two riders in the top 10 of the UAE Tour's stage six, the UAE Team Emirates once again underlined the overall quality of its roster.
The race debuted the Jebel Jais mountain finish, climbing 16km at a 6% average. Daniel Martin took 4th place and Rui Costa placed in 9th place at the finish at 1458 metres altitude.
Primoz Roglic (Team Jumbo-Visma) won the stage and strengthened his lead in the general classification.
The group took the climb at a high but regular pace that left only 15 riders for the last kilometre. At 300 metres from the finish, Daniel Martin shot forward and Tom Dumoulin (Team Sunweb) replied and then Primoz Roglic with a winning charge.
Dumoulin held on for second and David Gaudu (Groupama-FDJ) took third.
Roglic leads the overall, 1-11 minutes ahead of Martin in seventh, with only one stage left, the Dubai Safari Park-City Walk.
"It was a lively day in a group, but thanks to my team-mates for their wonderful work in supporting me," Martin said. "The climb was very fast, different from the European ones, so it became quite a tactical game. I think I was more effective today than the stage that ended on Jebel Hafeet, which makes me happy, although I still lack a bit to be able to follow the changes in rhythm in the final.
The sixth stage of the UAE Tour commenced in Ajman in the northeast of the country. The first 130km passed through flat terrain before ramping up to Jebel Jais. This ascent was around 20km in length and had an average gradient of approximately 5.4 per cent.
The final 35km contained more than 1500 metres of elevation. Already during the first few kilometres, a soloist escaped from the field and not long afterwards, he was joined by 7 further riders. The gap of this group grew continuously during the day, at one point reaching 9 minutes. The peloton reacted quickly and tried to spoil the plans of the breakaway. Under the tempo that was meted out by the teams of the favourites in earnest, the gap came down relatively quickly, and as a result, some riders from the break had to fall back. On the climb to Jebel Jais, the field quickly became strung out and broke up into several groups, and many riders found themselves in difficulty.
With 2km remaining, only 20 riders were left in the reduced field, including Emu Buchmann, Davide Formolo and Maximilian Schachmann. With 300 metres to the finish line, D. Martin opened up the sprint, but was overtaken by T. Dumoulin. In the last few metres, however, P. Roglic was able to come from behind and race past the Dutch rider to take the win. Maximlian Schachmann took out 7th place. His teammate Emu Buchmann finished the stage in 8th position, and was therefore able to maintain his 4th place in the overall standings.
The opening weekend of the Spring Classics is upon us as we start racing the Belgian cobbles at Omloop Het Nieuwsblad.
Cobbles biting at tires slowly drain most of the peloton of its energy. Riders, sports directors and mechanics tick off each cobble sector and climb as it passes. They are all attentively listening to the race radio, poised and alert, ready to help any of their riders with mechanicals, punctures or crashes.
There will be many. The cobbles are far less forgiving than the roads we race on during the rest of the season.
The Spring Classics require equipment adjustments, a fair bit of luck and a huge uptick in resources from a professional cycling team.
"I think on paper we currently have 21 bikes ready and 55 or 56 wheel sets, which is ridiculous, right?" says EF Education First sport director Andreas Klier says ahead of Omloop Het Nieuwsblad, the official spring season opener.
We enlist locals, who have become friends, to disperse throughout the route with the spare equipment.
Despite the added challenges and drama that come with these races, the Classics are heartily embraced. With them come mud, beer and the glorious enthusiasm that Belgians bring to bike races. Omloop Het Nieuwsblad lifts the country out of its winter slumber, signaling the build-up to two of the biggest one-day races on the calendar: Tour of Flanders and Paris-Roubaix.
"These races are a big party for the spectators," Klier explains. "It's like the World Championships and the Olympic Games from now until Paris-Roubaix."
Omloop Het Nieuwsblad not only marks the start of the Classics season, it's also the first European WorldTour race of the year. The race begins in Ghent, as it did last year. The 199.8km course weaves through the Flandrien countryside over seven cobble sectors and 13 climbs, known to the Flandriens as 'bergs'. A 12km flat section will lead the peloton down into the finish at Ninove after the cobbles and hills have wrung them out to dry.
The infamous cobbled climb of the Muur de Geraardsbergen, with ramps up to 20 percent, followed shortly after by the Bosberg, serve as the finale. Expect attacks to come thick and fast.
"The tactics are you can't really have tactics in this type of race!" says Sep Vanmarcke. "Basically in all these Classics the first half of the race is to mainly make the riders a bit tired and then from half-way the hills and the cobbles start, as do the attacks.
Vanmarcke is a seasoned Classics racer. The Belgian won Omloop het Nieuswblad in 2012 and has finished third in the spring season opener for the last two seasons (2017-2018). A born and bred Flandrien, Vanmarcke currently lives in Anzegem, only 40 kilometers from the start of Saturday's race.
Sep Vanmarcke wins 2012 Omloop Het Nieuwsblad ahead of Tom Boonen and Juan Anotnio Flecha.
After winning the opening stage of Tour du Haut Var this year, Vanmarcke goes into the Classics' season with renewed self-belief. "This win gives me a lot of confidence, you just think 'Okay, I am in good shape.' whereas other years you think 'Am I good enough?' and now I know I should be good enough," Vanmarcke says.
A win like this means a lot to Vanmarcke, who over previous years has felt the pressure that naturally comes with being Belgian, leading the team at the biggest one-day races on the calendar and following in the footsteps of cycling's greats. He admits that there have been times when this pressure has been too much for him, and he's struggled. His recent win has sparked a response that counter-balances that sense of stress.
"Every Belgian rider wants to be on this top level. But also I've started to feel it over the last few days when I'm training or in the supermarket, to feel people are awake again because the Classics are coming. People are super happy I won that stage and on my training days, they've been stopping their cars to shout 'Congratulations', 'Good job', 'Keep going' and 'Good luck this weekend,'" Vanmarcke says, trying to convey just how much the momentum is beginning to build.
"If you are Belgian and you sit at breakfast and open the local newspapers you can read the pressure," Klier laughs.
Thousands of people make the pilgrimage to this sacred cycling ground to celebrate the men and women who tackle these fabled roads. Riders are expected to maintain peak form for six weeks, from opening weekend until mid-April when the Spring Classics come to a close with Paris-Roubaix.
"The team asked me this year just to focus from E3 Harelbeke through to Paris-Roubaix," notes Vanmarcke.
It's a shift for Vanmarcke from previous years, and there's also a bit of a shift in the team. Vanmarcke isn't the only one coming in with a win. The team has garnered five victories in the first eight week of the year.


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Troy Schumacher is an American choreographer, dancer, and director based in New York City. He is a soloist in the New York City Ballet and has choreographed for the company since 2014; before being promoted to soloist, he danced in NYCB's corps de ballet starting in 2005. He is the founder of Balletcollective, an arts collective that has created new ballet-based works since its inception in 2010. His work has been presented by New York City Ballet, Martha Graham Dance Company, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Lincoln Center's Mostly Mozart Festival, Performa, Danspace Project, Guggenheim Works & Process, the Joyce Theater, and NYU Skirball Center. In addition to live performances, Schumacher has choreographed numerous fashion and commercial shoots, including works for Sony PlayStation, Capezio featuring Maddie Ziegler, HP, Aritzia, CR Fashion Book, Tom Ford, and The New York Times. He has been dubbed a "visionary artist"  by T Magazine and is "one of his generation's most acclaimed choreographers"

Choreography and Direction
Schumacher has choreographed over 35 ballets.  His athletic aesthetic draws upon the artists he collaborates with to produce fresh, unexpected results. During his career, he has collaborated with a wide range of internationally acclaimed artists such as Jeff Koons, Zaria Forman, Doug Fitch, David Salle, and Sergio Mora Diaz, fashion designers Thom Browne, Marques'Almeida, and Jonathan Saunders, composers Ellis Ludwig-Leone, Augusta Read Thomas, Julianna Barwick, Judd Greenstein, Mark Dancigers, Nick Jaina, Alex Somers, writers Karen Rusell, Ken Liu, and Cynthia Zarin, architects James Ramsey and Carlos Arnaiz, and photographers Paul Maffi, Dafy Hagai, Bon Duke, Marcelo Gomes, Mona Kuhn, Emiliano Granado, Ike Edeani, Meyrem Bulucek, and Samantha Casolari. He has choreographed and directed hundreds of dancers from New York City Ballet, American Ballet Theatre, Miami City Ballet, Martha Graham Dance Company, the School of American Ballet, Terminus Modern Ballet Theatre, and the Juilliard School, among others.

While dancing full-time with City Ballet, in 2010 Schumacher founded Balletcollective, a non-profit arts collective. "BalletCollective connects artists, composers, thought leaders and choreographers to create new ballet-based works. Through its unique collaborative process, BalletCollective expands the boundaries of artistic disciplines in a way that resonates with a wide audience.

Each BalletCollective project takes as its source a contemporary work of art in any medium chosen or commissioned by its choreographer and composer. From this starting point, the choreographer and composer collaborate to create a work that interprets, explores, or responds to its source. The result of the collaboration is performed live. By its nature, BalletCollective consists of a rotating group of artists and collaborators, and with each new collective there are new ideas, new challenges, and, ultimately, new forms of expression emerge."

Since its founding, BalletCollective has produced eighteen ballets, each with original choreography, commissioned music, and source art, and presented ten annual seasons in New York, NY in venues such as The Joyce Theater, NYU Skirball Center and the Baryshnikov Arts Center.

The Nutcracker at Wethersfield
During the Covid-19 pandemic, Schumacher choreographed, produced, and directed The Nutcracker at Wethersfield, both the first live Nutcracker and the first world premiere full length ballet to premiere in the USA. The production was called "true magic," "remarkable," and "dreamlike" in the New York Times

Dancing career
Since joining New York City Ballet in 2005, Schumacher has performed in over 70 ballets, with principal roles in a number of ballets including George Balanchine's Midsummer Night's Dream, Agon, Symphony in Three Movements, Mozartiana, The Nutcracker, Vienna Waltzes, Prodigal Son, Union Jack, Suite No. 3 and Stars and Stripes, Jerome Robbins' Interplay and The Concert, and Alexei Ratmansky's Concerto DSCH. He has originated roles in ballets by Peter Martins, Benjamin Millepied and Christopher Wheeldon. He was promoted to soloist in 2017.

References

External links
Troy Schumacher's Official Website
BalletCollective's Official Website

American male ballet dancers
American choreographers
New York City Ballet dancers
1986 births
Living people

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"This Is the Alamo!"
The Japanese want to buy wood chips from East Texas. So why is Congressman Charlie Wilson declaring war?
By Paul Burka
The signs were meticulously lettered in red and blue paint, the better to stand out for the TV cameras. "Cow Chips for the Nips," read one. "Japs Will Cut and Run," read another. Congressman Charles Wilson of Lufkin had come to the huge Temple-Inland paper mill at Evadale to bash the Japanese, and he was finding a receptive audience—that is, when the paperworkers could hear him above the hissing and humming of the plant. Ignoring the windblown sawdust that whipped against his neck and settled on his dark suit, Wilson bashed away. "We cannot have the same thing happen to the East Texas paper industry that happened to the Detroit automobile industry," he shouted above the industrial din. "The Japanese don't believe in fair trade."
Behind Wilson, an overhead conveyor belt released its load of hardwood chips onto a mountainous pile. These square chips, smaller than a pat of butter, were the reason for the rally. Hardwood trees, once despised by timber companies as the natural enemy of profit-making pine, have become essential to the production of high-quality paper. Now Japan, which has no great forests but is second only to the United States in manufacturing paper, wants to import half a million tons of raw hardwood chips a year from East Texas. But the Japanese import virtually no American paper—and Charlie Wilson has sworn to start a trade war, if necessary, to prevent the Japanese from using East Texas chips to expand their paper industry. "This is the line in the dust!" he said when he first heard of the Japanese plan. "This is the Alamo!"
The dispute over wood chips is a microcosm of America's strained trade relationship with Japan. Critics of U.S. trade policy say that America has been relegated to the position of an underdeveloped country, exporting primarily raw agricultural commodities like wheat and timber to Japan and importing manufactured goods. The fundamental issue is jobs. In East Texas, Temple-Inland says that there isn't enough hardwood to supply both the local paper industry and the Japanese paper industry. A proposal to expand the Evadale mill is in jeopardy. Manufacturing jobs that should belong to Texans may instead end up in Japan.
But not everyone in East Texas sees things the same way as Charlie Wilson and Temple-Inland. For small landowners with timber to sell, for forestry consultants who advise them, for loggers and truckers and independent sawmill operators, for shippers and loaders at the port of Beaumont, the Japanese are seen not as invaders but as investors. A joint venture headed by Mitsubishi International will buy hardwood chips in East Texas and ship them to Japan through a cargo terminal at the port of Beaumont, and Mitsubishi's presence will mean higher prices for timber and more work for the people who cut and haul it. In other words, jobs.
The humble wood chip, therefore, is a symbol of America's inability to reach a national consensus on how to deal with Japan. If we leave our markets open to the Japanese, whether they are selling automobiles or buying wood chips, some Americans benefit and others suffer. If we close our markets, the winners and losers are reversed. Unable to choose sides, we do little except hope the Japanese will open their markets. But they don't.
"I COULD SPEND FIVE HOURS AND I could not tell you all the cultural and business-practice barriers against letting American paper into Japan," Irene Meister said. Meister is an economist with the American Paper Institute, the trade organization for the industry, and when we talked by phone, she was getting ready to go to Washington for the latest round of trade talks between the United States and Japan. President Bush and Prime Minister Miyazawa have agreed that by the beginning of April the two nations will reach an agreement to open Japanese markets to foreign paper.
But government agreements won't necessarily solve the problem, Meister said. The Japanese have greatly reduced the tariff on imported paper in recent years, but imports still have barely 3 percent of the Japanese market (in the U.S., imports have 15 percent of the market). Price is not an issue; the United States is the world's lowest-cost producer of paper. Our advantage is transportation—the timber is accessible, the roads are good, the distance to the mills is short, the cost of fuel is low. Japan, on the other hand, is a high-cost producer. Raw materials have to be shipped thousands of miles; its principal hardwood chip suppliers are Australia, Chile, and the United States.
The problem is that price is often a secondary consideration in Japan, where the economy is oriented toward producers and jobs, not consumers. "The Japanese prefer to buy raw materials and process them themselves," said Meister, "even if the product they get is more expensive."
In the U.S. a high-cost producer would have a hard time finding someone to market his goods. But in Japan, distributors are often captives of producers, dependent on them not just for products but also for financing. Outsiders can't crack this Japanese old-boy network.
Cultural differences are equally hard to overcome. American companies can't find a market for corrugated paper in Japan, because American cardboard is brown. Japanese cardboard is yellow. Of course, American companies could dye their cardboard (the color is known in the industry as Asia Gold), but would the Japanese buy it if they did? So the companies don't dye it, and the Japanese don't buy it. The same stalemate exists in high-quality white paper used for printing. American white paper tends to have a creamy tint; Japanese white paper has a bluish tint. Meister said that American companies are willing to change—if they can be sure of a market.
Temple-Inland has had its own experience with this kind of chicken-and-egg dilemma. The Evadale mill makes cup stock, a stiff paper that food-service companies use to make paper cups. The Japanese won't buy it. "They say it's an issue of quality," says David Ashcraft, Temple-Inland's group vice president for bleached paperboard. "They want more strength. We see this as a matter of preference. We're talking about something that is going to hold a Coke for fifteen minutes and then be thrown away. If you make a stronger cup, you're just wasting fiber and energy.
"We haven't made much attempt to serve them. We don't have enough capacity to serve domestic and foreign customers. And we have no assurance that they'd buy anything if we gave them exactly what they asked for."
WHAT THE JAPANESE WILL BUY IS HARDWOOD CHIPS. A few years ago, they could have taken all they wanted from the East Texas forest. Timber companies did everything they could to kill hardwood trees like oak and gum: girdled them, burned them, poisoned them. They were useless, not suitable for lumber (too susceptible to rot) or paper (the wrong kind of fiber). To make matters worse, hardwoods outcompeted pine for sunlight and nutrients in the soil. In a thinned forest, pines grow taller and wider, doubling the val-ue of each tree. Clear-cutting was devised not just to harvest the maximum amount of timber in the least amount of time but also to get rid of the pesky hardwoods. Today most of the company-owned uplands have been converted to pine plantations. Hardwoods survive mainly in smaller forests owned by private land-owners who can't afford to manage their timber and on company lands, along creeks and rivers and in the bottomlands, where pines don't thrive.
Even as Temple-Inland was winning its war against hardwoods, however, the paper industry was changing. Customers were insisting on higher-quality printing paper for everything from corporate reports to food containers. Pine alone couldn't do the job. Its fibers are twice as long and twice as thick as hardwood fibers; under a microscope, a pine fiber looks like a tiny purple tree branch while hardwood resembles a black human hair. Pine fibers give paper a rough texture, but when hardwood pulp is mixed with pine, the paper turns out denser, smoother, and more receptive to ink. After years of destroying hardwood trees, Temple-Inland now finds itself needing more of them in order to expand its mill.
The Evadale mill opened in 1954—it was known as Eastex Pulp and Paper back then and was a subsidiary of Time Inc.—and it is showing its age. It was built in the shape of two side-by-side rectangles. The east rectangle looks like a chemical plant, a maze of mammoth tanks, pipes, and valves, and the west side looks like an ordinary factory. The chips are cooked into pulp and bleached on the east side, then turned into paper on the west side. The process begins in tall, slender cylinders known as digesters, where the chips are cooked in a caustic liquid under pressure until the fibers become limp. Then a valve opens and escaping pressure drives the pulp through a pipe into a much larger silo known as a blow tank. The process is ferociously noisy and occasionally stinky with sulfide gasses but, old-timers say, not nearly as noisy and stinky as it used to be. "When I came here in 1965," my guide told me, "we'd blow a tank, and you could hear it ten miles away in Buna."
After the pulp has been washed to remove chemicals, then bleached, and washed again, it goes to one of four paper machines on the west side of the mill. They resemble newspaper presses—row after row of whirling horizontal cylinders. Ninety seconds after the wet pulp starts its journey through the cylinders, it emerges as dry paper.
Later this year Temple-Inland will decide whether to add a fifth paper machine at Evadale. It is already building modern digesters for hardwood chips. The new machine, the company says, could require as much as 800,000 tons of hardwood chips a year. But is there enough hardwood to go around?
BOTH OPPONENTS AND SUPPORTERS of the Japanese export proposal agree that the annual growth of hardwood trees in East Texas exceeds the amount being cut. "We're harvesting about sixty-five percent of what we're growing," says Bruce Miles, the longtime director of the Texas Forest Service at Texas A&M. The surplus represents around 2.3 million tons of wood. But that's where the agreement ends.
Timber reserves in one respect are like oil reserves: Not everything in the ground is recoverable. Some hardwoods are off-limits. The Forest Service's inventory includes the Big Thicket, which is a federally protected preserve. Other hardwoods aren't suitable for making paper. "Post oak is good only for barbecue and Aggie bonfires," Miles says. And, for Temple-Inland at least, still others are too far away. Every mile that wood has to be transported raises the cost. "We prefer to get our hardwoods from a forty-mile radius around our plant," says David Ashcraft. "The surplus the Forest Service talks about is in northeast Texas. It isn't around here."
Temple-Inland gets two thirds of its hardwood chips from company lands, but most of the remainder comes from small, individually owned tracts that constitute 60 percent of the acreage in the East Texas forest. The Japanese will have to buy all of their timber supply from these same privately owned lands. Most landowners, however, don't treat their trees as a continuing investment.
"Timber is the most poorly marketed crop there is," laments Miles. "The average landowner has no idea of the acreage or the quality of his timber. The first person who drives by on a Sunday afternoon with a big check gets to cut it." Many owners inherited their land and regard timber as a onetime windfall. So common is the practice of cutting trees to pay for sending kids to college that East Texans have coined the phrase "tuition cut." Despite federal and state subsidies, only one landowner in seven replants following a cut. Trees do grow naturally, of course, but if the forest isn't managed, undesirable hardwoods and brush reduce its commercial value.
That's what has Temple-Inland worried. Perhaps there is enough timber for now, but what will the forest look like after the Japanese cut it for five, ten, fifteen years? Will it be cut to the stump, as it was early in this century by out-of-state companies that did not replant? That rapacious era gave another phrase to the language: "cut out and get out."
Some people, however, say that Temple-Inland is the problem, not the Japanese. Indeed, they argue, the Japanese will be good for East Texas. The suspicion is widespread among landowners and their consultants that what really concerns Temple-Inland is the price of hardwood, not the supply. Before the recent flooding skewed the market, landowners in Temple-Inland's southeast Texas bailiwick were getting only one third as much for their hardwood as landowners in northeast Texas.
"The reason for the low price is that we have so few purchasers," says Ross Cahal, a Jasper County landowner. "There's no competition. The companies use their own timber as a bargaining chip. If the market goes up, they cut their own trees until it comes down."
Cahal will be one of the winners if the Japanese bring competition and higher prices to East Texas. Another will be William Sloan, a Houston-based forestry consultant who has recently set up an export business. Sloan cuts timber for landowners and plans to sell it overseas by the boatload.
"There are twenty-six Texans making a living off of our company," Sloan says. "When the Japanese come in, I can employ thirty-five people and increase the profit to landowners. "There's plenty of hardwood out there. I'll even haul it to Temple if they'll pay me what it's worth."
"SURE, A FEW PEOPLE WILL MAKE a few more dollars by selling trees to the Japanese," Charlie Wilson told the Evadale paperworkers near the close of his speech. "In 1940 there were a few people who made a few more dollars by selling the Japanese scrap iron. That was a bad idea then, and this is a bad idea now." Later, back in the RV that serves as his mobile office, Wilson stretched out his long legs and shook his head.
"They just want the jobs, that's all," Wilson said of the Japanese. "They're just pigs. Nip pigs."
Wilson's critics view with cynicism his opposition to the Japanese. They note that as a young man he sold lumber for a Temple company; that his principal political benefactor for decades has been Temple-Inland's now-retired chairman, Arthur Temple; that he faces a reelection race this fall. But whatever secondary motives Wilson might have, there is no doubt that the depth of his anti-Japanese feeling is genuine.
Wilson has had a checkered political career in which his personal excesses have overshadowed his considerable abilities. His dossier includes, among other things, a cocaine investigation by the House ethics committee (he was cleared) and a squabble with the Defense Intelligence Agency after it refused to allow his girlfriend to accompany him on a flight. But when he latches onto an issue that he cares about, he is an adroit politician. He single-handedly lobbied for aiding Afghan guerrillas, a policy that did its part in destroying the Evil Empire of communism. Now Wilson has found in Japan a new Evil Empire. His harsh words about the Japanese brought back memories of the time he explained why he cared so much about the Afghan guerrillas: "I like to kill Russians, as painfully as possible."
It may take another kind of guerrilla war to stop Mitsubishi from shipping hardwood chips to Japan. Although Wilson is pushing two bills in Congress—one would prohibit the export from private land of timber found to be in short supply, and the other would give a tax break to landowners who sold timber for domestic use—neither is likely to pass. Too many Americans are making money from exports. "We're opposed to any restriction on agricultural exports," says a Washington lobbyist for the Agricultural Export Alliance. "We want America to be known as a reliable supplier."
Wilson isn't giving up. "We're going to picket the building site," he told me. "We're going to create political problems for the port commissioners. We are trying to impress Mitsubishi that it will cost them more in public image and lobbying fees than they will make in East Texas."
THE CASE OF THE WOOD CHIP ILLUSTRATES the dilemma of American trade policy: Given that the Japanese are unfair traders, how do we deal with them? Suppose that we were to tell the Japanese that they can't buy wood chips here unless we can sell paper there. It wouldn't work. The Japanese would simply buy wood chips elsewhere, just as the Soviet Union once bypassed our wheat embargo. The only way to force open their markets is to be willing to close ours—to prohibit the Japanese not just from buying our wood chips but also from selling their cars and VCRs in the greatest consumer market on earth.
Trade may seem like an economic issue, but it is really a political issue. It raises the question of who should make the basic decisions about buying and selling ordinary goods—the individual or the government? Lenin once said that the capitalists would sell the communists the rope that would be used to hang them, the point being that in our society, the decision to sell rope—or wood chips—is made according to private interests, not public interests.
The question that underlies the trade policy debate is whether this is a strength or a weakness. Is it best in the long run to protect our manufacturing jobs, even if American consumers pay the price for closed markets—just as Japanese consumers do? Or is it best in the long run to let people pursue their own self-interests? "This is America," a lawyer for Mitsubishi's joint venture told me, "and a landowner ought to be able to sell his trees to anybody he wants."
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Happy New Year! It is truly an honor and a pleasure to serve as 2018 President of New Hanover-Pender County Medical Society. We are completing a Celebration Year, the 150th Anniversary of the Medical Society, a true accomplishment, Dr. Ricciardelli, and something of which the Society should be very proud. Going forward, we will continue with the long tradition of what has made this Medical Society meaningful and relevant to the profession.
We are fortunate to live in the Greater Wilmington Area. Apart from the wonderful things that our corner of Southeastern NC offers such as the beautiful beaches and spectacular weather, we are further spoiled. We have a world class medical community. We have a hospital that is committed to improving the health of our community. This year, the Medical Society is proud to highlight some of the innovative things going on in our medical community and some of the special talents of our physicians. We will honor physicians who have made significant contributions and mourn the physicians we have lost in death.
As medicine constantly changes and becomes more complicated, the Medical Society will continue to provide an avenue for physicians to come together in a collegial environment and remind us of the reasons we became physicians. I look forward to a great year of continued success – both of the organization that is NH-PCMS and of the medical community at large. I hope to see many of my colleagues at various events throughout the year and appreciate the support from the Wilmington community and our hospital.
It has been an honor to serve as the president of New Hanover Pender Medical Society for 2017. As I look forward to what is surely to be an outstanding year for the society under the leadership of Dr. William Hope, I am reminded that the more things change, the more they stay the same. The medical society continues to improve and adapt in meeting the rapidly changing aspects of healthcare, communication, and physician leadership in the community. But one thing remains unchanged. The medical society must serve as a bridge between physicians, between physicians and community, and between new and older physicians.
While the medical society pushes forward improvements in communicating through social media, the website, and email, we still must remember that there is no substitute for face to face interaction. And throughout last year, I have heard the membership tell me that the time spent "catching up" with friends and meeting new physicians in the community has been the most valuable aspect of our meetings. The 150th celebration, the celebratory events like the holiday party, and the time before and after general meetings have helped to reacquaint members.
We have lost too many venerable and cherished friends this year. And perhaps their last lesson to me was this. The medical society plays a role I never realized until I sat this year, meeting after meeting, listening to the unbelievable legacies these great men and women have left behind for us. The medical society is the perfect venue to see the commonality of two worlds. The world of house calls, twenty-four/seven call, bartering, and the new world of instant access to medical literature, social media, virtual consultations, and robotic surgery. And as I sat back and observed the mixing of these two worlds at these meetings, I learned that the fundamental need for physician-physician support and interaction has not changed. Many thanks to the medical society members and staff for their contributions in 2017.


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From the outset the green sculpture project has had its focus on being of benefit to the urban wildlife we get in King's Cross. The project has been very lucky indeed to have garden designer Marie Clarke produce our wildlife garden for us on a completely pro-bono basis. She has also had to ensure the garden is sustainable and needs as little maintenance as possible.
We are lucky to be part of an important green corridor that includes the Regent's Canal, the sides of the many railway tracks here, Camley Street Natural Park owned by the London Wildlife Trust and even the little local domestic gardens littered around – the most important in the immediate locality being the south end of Battlebridge Basin and a hidden delight, the gardens behind Wharfdale Road/Balfe Street/Northdown Street/The Cally.
Low maintenance is important to this garden for two reasons, the obvious one being that low maintenance gardens look and thrive better for longer. But there's another equally important reason for wildlife gardens. Wildlife – particularly the birds and bats we hope to attract, don't respond well to being disturbed. The ideal for us would be to get the plants in and then just leave them alone for a couple of years' at a time, only pruning and twiddling at times of year when no nesting activity takes place.
Using Marie's plant list for the green sculpture, we've started to list the wildlife connections her planting scheme has. We'll add to this as we learn more, if you have information about the wildlife connections of any of the plants below do let us know.
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Born in the last year of the 1980s, Taylor Ashton grew up surrounded by the Pacific Ocean and the old growth rainforests of Canada's west coast. His songs are inspired by the crooked primeval funk of traditional old-time music, the humor and heartbreak of Randy Newman, the cosmic emotionality of mid-career Joni Mitchell, and the sage vulnerability of Bill Withers. Somehow, he finds a way to make this all work on the clawhammer banjo. He spent most of late teens and early 20s as the frontman of Vancouver-based five-piece Fish & Bird, releasing four albums of heady progressive folk and gracing stages like the Winnipeg Folk fest, the Vancouver Folk Fest, and Glasgow's Celtic Connections festival. In the past few years he has increasingly spent his days in New York City. His most recent release finds him swapping songs with Grammy-nominated songwriter and guitarist Courtney Hartman, on the pair's 2018 duo album "Been On Your Side". The album is an acoustic, stripped-down affair, which Rolling Stone had to admit, "packs a punch in today's mainstream".
Between other projects, Taylor has also written or co-written songs on albums by Boston's Laura Cortese, Brooklyn's Benjamin Lazar Davis, and Nashville's Rachel Baiman. And after well over a decade of varied and fruitful collaborations, Taylor is excited to finally release his debut solo recording in 2019. Keep your ears peeled...
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GLORIA'S WITH DIMITRI FROM PARIS (4 HOUR SET) + ADESSE VERSIONS + JOSHUA JAMES + ROOM 2: TWAT BOUTIQUE
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DIMITRI FROM PARIS (4 HOUR SET) + ADESSE VERSIONS + JOSHUA JAMES + ROOM 2: TWAT BOUTIQUE
"'The rise of Gloria's feels new, radical, and exciting..." – Thump
2016 is a brand new year for Gloria's! join us for our first party of the year on Friday 8th January… Disco don and Gloria's favourite Dimitri From Paris headlines!
Dripping with the capital's favourite disco queens and goddesses, special attention has been dealt to everything from the confetti-laden production to the on-point program of selectors (Heidi, Breakbot and Hercules & Love Affair have all played previously). Nothing is secondary.
Transforming the dance floor, you'll experience XOYO in a new light as Gloria unites the nightlives – labels are meaningless here.
Three decades in the DJ game is no mean feat. A true veteran and yet still widely considered the king of disco, Dimitri From Paris has been gathering fans across the world since the age of 17 with his unique blend of funk, disco, soul and jazz. It's his effortless ability to command a dance floor and endless list of edits, remixes and original classics which have helped him to become renowned as one of the most celebrated and sought-after players on the circuit. A true XOYO favourite, we can't wait for him to return on Friday 8th January - if you know, you know.
First line of support comes in the form of Numbers' Adesse Versions, who since taking the Techno world by storm as Kevin Gorman, has switched up his style and released a series of House & Disco influenced edits, remixes and original tracks as part of this exciting new project. Further support comes from Gloria's resident selector Joshua James.
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'Feeling Like the Old Me': Gregg Allman Hits the Road for a Welcome if Belated Tour
by Brian Blueskye May 13th, 2013 December 16th, 2020
When you examine the career of Gregg Allman and the Allman Brothers Band, one word comes to mind: longevity.
After largely taking 14 years off from his solo career, Allman, now 65, blew off the dust to record Low Country Blues, and he's finally taking it on the road after its 2011 release, including a show at the Fantasy Springs Resort Casino on Saturday, May 25.
Thanks to a career that is approaching five decades, Allman is an icon, both as the front man of the Allman Brothers Band and on his own. There have been lows as well, such as his well-documented battles with addiction, lifelong health problems, band disputes, and the death of his band mate and older brother Duane Allman in 1971.
Despite the hardships, he's continued on, racking up hit records and playing sold-out concerts around the world.
When the Allmans founded the Allman Brothers Band in 1969, Gregg was uncertain about his future as a musician; he originally intended to become a dental surgeon, but Duane convinced him to give music a try, and he hasn't looked back since.
When I asked Allman in a recent phone interview why it took 14 years to hear him on his own again, following 1997's One More Try: An Anthology, Allman said it was mostly due to the death of longtime Allman Brothers Band producer Tom Dowd in 2002.
"He was more than a producer; he was a father figure," he said. "After he died in 2002, when the idea of recording would come up, I would just change the subject."
However, when the opportunity came to work with T-Bone Burnett in the producer's chair, Allman decided to give it a try—although he was hesitant at first.
"Of course (Burnett) is famous for all this other stuff, and you can take all of that into consideration before you work with the guy, but it's how the two of you get along musically and socially," he said.
Allman was satisfied with the results.
"He was a wonderful producer. He was so much like Tommy (Dowd), but different in his own way."
Low Country Blues became Allman's triumphant return to solo recording, reaching No. 5 on the Billboard 200 and receiving a Grammy Award nomination for Best Blues Album. He also released his autobiography, My Cross to Bear, in 2012. The reviews for both were mostly positive.
However, Allman was too busy to celebrate: He was dealing with the after-effects of a liver transplant that he underwent before the album's release.
"I had never dreamt that anything could be so horrendous and painful. I couldn't play or tour," he said about the June 2010 transplant.
In time, however, his strength returned.
"I had a tour booked the day after Christmas in 2012. When I woke up on Dec. 23, something had changed. I had strength; I had motivation. I felt like my old self, and I still feel that way. I'm so thankful to God that he gave me another chance."
When I asked him what his future looks like, he told me that he has another solo album currently in the works, but didn't reveal any other details. There's also a biopic that's in the early stages based on My Cross to Bear.
When I asked him if he's excited about a rare appearance in the Coachella Valley, he said: "Absolutely!"
"I think that the Allman Brothers have slighted the West Coast of America terribly," he said. "In the next three to four years, I plan to make up for all of that. I'm going to bust my ass now that I feel like the old me. I'm going to be doing some extensive touring over the next 10 years, I hope."
Gregg Allman performs at 8 p.m., Saturday, May 25, at the Fantasy Springs Resort Casino, 84245 Indio Springs Parkway, Indio. Tickets are $29 to $69. Call 760-342-5000, or visit www.fantasyspringsresort.com for more information.
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2 replies on "'Feeling Like the Old Me': Gregg Allman Hits the Road for a Welcome if Belated Tour"
Roseanne Salyer says:
Glad you're feeling like your old self, baby. Perhaps your new tour will bring you to Denver. I have all your albums, but I've never been able to see either ABB or your solo band live. I would love that opportunity. You still have the sexiest voice out there. Love you, Roseanne
Larry White says:
May 16th, 2013 at 11:09 PM
Can hardly wait for you to play in my hometown, Cullman Al. on June 22. I was shocked to find out you were coming to perform at Rock the South. I am 59 years old and have been a fan since the Allman Brothers started. I have played drums since childhood in local bands and still in a garage band with some old friends. My favorite music to play is Allman Brothers, has been since the seventies. Larry


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Foraging: 52 Wild Plants You Can Eat
Here are a few common North American goodies that are safe to eat if you find yourself stuck in the wild: Blackberries: Many wild berries are not safe to eat, it's best to stay away from them. But wild blackberries are 100% safe to eat and easy to recognize. They have red branches that have long thorns similar to a rose, the green leaves are wide and jagged. They are best to find in the spring when their white flowers bloom, they are clustered all around the bush and their flowers have 5 points. Dandelions: The easiest to recognize is the dandelion, in the spring they show their bright yellow buds. Asparagus: The vegetable that makes your pee smell funny grows in the wild in most of Europe and parts of North Africa, West Asia, and North America. Elderberries: An elderberry shrub can grow easily grow about 10 feet and yield tons of food, their leaf structure is usually 7 main leaves on a long stretched out stem, the leaves are long and round and the leaves themselves have jagged edges. Pine:
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Tree growth never slows Richard Schultz/Corbis Trees — including California's giant redwoods — add an increasing amount of mass every year. Many foresters have long assumed that trees gradually lose their vigour as they mature, but a new analysis suggests that the larger a tree gets, the more kilos of carbon it puts on each year. "The trees that are adding the most mass are the biggest ones, and that holds pretty much everywhere on Earth that we looked," says Nathan Stephenson, an ecologist at the US Geological Survey in Three Rivers, California, and the first author of the study, which appears today in Nature1. "Trees have the equivalent of an adolescent growth spurt, but it just keeps going." The scientific literature is chock-full of studies that focus on forests' initial growth and their gradual move towards a plateau in the amount of carbon they store as they reach maturity2.
Why Eat Wild Herbs and Edible Plants? The Benefits of Wild Edible Plants For hundreds of years people took advantage of the medicine cabinet at their doorstep. Before the advent of processed foods and modern convenience stores, wild plants were a common dietary supplement. They were the ultimate natural multivitamin! Traditional Plant Foods of canadian indigenous peoples, Nutrition, Botany and Use Almost all major groups of wild plants in Canada have edible members that are reported to have been used by Indigenous People. Exceptions are the Bryophytes (Mosses and Liverworts), which were not eaten—as far as can be determined in the literature. Any literature reports of "moss" being eaten seem actually to refer to lichen species. Slime molds, too, have no evidence of having been used as food. In this section plant foods listed alphabetically by scientific name within their major taxonomic categories: ALGAE (Seaweeds); LICHENS; FUNGI (including Mushrooms); PTERIDOPHYTES (Ferns and Fern-allies); GYMNOSPERMS (Conifers and Conifer-allies); and ANGIOSPERMS (Flowering Plants, both Monocotyledons and Dicotyledons).
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Civil Courts in West Peoria
Courts in West Peoria, Illinois
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Litigation Lawyers in West Peoria
In West Peoria, Illinois, the court system is a state institution of Illinois to resolve disputes that occurred in, and involving residents of, West Peoria.
If you are involved in any legal dispute in West Peoria, Illinois, chances are good that you'll deal with its courts in one way or another.
The local court system of West Peoria, Illinois can handle virtually every legal dispute, civil or criminal, that comes through its doors. Attorneys who specialize in civil litigation in West Peoria, Illinois have an intimate knowledge of their local courthouse, its unique rules, and often, the personalities and preferences of judges and their staff members. However, most people see the courts as very complicated. Here are some of the scenarios which are most likely to take you into court in West Peoria, Illinois:
Events Leading To Exposure To The Courts In West Peoria, Illinois
Jury Duty: All adult U.S. citizens who live in West Peoria are eligible to be called for jury duty in West Peoria, Illinois. This is the only way that many people deal with the court system. If you are called to serve in jury duty (usually, every person is eligible to be called for jury duty once per year), when you get the letter from the court telling you to show up for jury duty (usually a few weeks after the letter arrives), you are legally required to do so on the appointed date. You are then placed in a large "juror pool," and called into a courtroom that has an upcoming trial. The lawyers for each side of the case will then ask each juror some questions to determine if they are biased. If the lawyer doesn't want a juror serving on the jury, they can dismiss the juror (they only have a limited number of dismissals, however). If you are dismissed, you're done. If you end up on the jury, you are now serving a very important role in the justice system, and it's important that you follow all of the judge's instructions.
Filing a Lawsuit: if you sue someone in West Peoria, Illinois, you will most definitely deal with the local court system - a lot. Even if the case never goes to trial, you will have to deal with pre-trial motions, discovery requests, and case management conferences. You will definitely become more knowledgeable about the West Peoria, Illinois court system than you ever wanted to be.
Being Sued: Similarly, if you are sued, you will have your work cut out for you in the courts of West Peoria, Illinois. You, or your attorney, will have to file an answer to the complaint, and many other documents. You might also have to attend discovery hearings, or case management conferences.
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What is the amplitude and shape of the input trigger signal that can be issued into J4 after "Fast Data" has been pressed?
The hardware trigger mode is not implemented in this evaluation board. Hence disabling or enabling the Hardware Trigger will not have any effect during the data capture.
3. What is the cause for an offset in the output code between side-A and side-B on the same input channel?
This is due to the internal mismatch of the different components in the circuit. As long as the mismatch is within the Offset Mismatch Specifications, it is normal.
4. Is there any EOL or longevity information on the DDC devices?
5. Why is the DVALID signal sometimes inverted to the DDC264 Datasheet specifications?
The behavior is normal if DXMIT and DCLK are not being used to read out the data. DVALID is low when the data is ready to be read out. If the data does not get read out, DVALID needs to go high again briefly before dropping low to show that data is once again ready. The figures in the datasheet assume that data is getting read out soon after DVALID goes low which causes DVALID to go high again when DXMIT is pulled low and DCLK is toggled to read out data.
6. Can the DDC be used to measure leakage current in a circuit in the order of 10nA?
The input of the DDC is basically a virtual GND, so, if the leakage path can be connected on some way to that input, then sure, it can be measured... The other limitation is that the current has to be INTO the device (see for instance page 8 of the DDC232 datasheet). To measure currents coming out of the device, see (link to the other FAQ).
7. Can the AGND be shorted with the DGND?
Please refer to layout recommendations on the device's datasheet.
8. Can you daisy chain one DDC114 and a DDC118 device because this can help reduce space cost and a number of SPI?
You should be able to chain together the DDC118 and DDC114 but the issue then would be difficulty in the data readout and similar. For applications like this we usually tie DCLK together for all devices in the chain and you would need to be sure that you pay close attention that you would need to clock the DDC118 more than the DDC114 since the 8 would be giving you twice the channels.
The two devices are based off the same silicon and have the same specs so that should help if you do decide to use one of each device.
9. Is it possible to power the DDC264EVM entirely from USB?
The board was not intended to be powered from USB alone. USB can only reliably provide up to 500mA which is not enough to power the whole board.
10. I am going to use the same power supply for both FPGA and the DDC2256A with necessary ferrite bead in between. Let's say, I use the same LDO output 1V8 for both FPGA I/O and DDC2256A DVDD_1V8. The LDO can afford the load current. The FPGA can only be ready after the DDC2256A is ready due to the FPGA power-on sequence requirement. Do you think there are any problems for this design regarding device function, noise?
There are 4 supplies to the DDC2256A device: 2.5V AVDD, -2.5V AVEE, 1.8V AVDD_18 and 1.8V DVDD. If all the analog power supplies (2.5V, -2.5V and 1.8V) either ramp up at the same time or before 1.8V DVDD, then there shouldn't be any problem with that particular device level power on sequencing.
The requirement from DDC2256 is that RESETz and EN should be held low during power up and RESETz should become high only after all the supplies are stabilized. Since the RESETz pin has an internal 50K PU resistor to DVDD, during power-up, the RESETz signal will be low and after the power supplies ramp up, the RESETZ becomes high through the PU resistor.The EN pin has an internal 50K PD resistor to AGND, during power-up, the EN will be low and after the power supplies ramp up, the EN will remain low until the FPGA is ready to set EN high and then program the configuration registers. When EN = 0, the outputs are tristated.
11. Is there any EVM for the DDC232 as the closest thing that seems available is the DDC264EVM?
We do recommend the DDC264EVM as it is closest to the DDC232.


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The Dealey Five: Chapter 11
The Dealey Five
Chapter 11 (or, "Past Due Moto")
Where We Last Left Off: Dimitri's henchmen, Anton and Vlad, escaped with the boombox and set off an explosion near Carissa's apartment.
He couldn't shake the memory from his mind.
There was no going back. The room was gone. Mother had always said to stay in the apartment if there was danger -- well, that advice wasn't helping her now. Or his sister in the hall. But he was alive -- and, as he remembered, not alone. He didn't know how many families had survived that initial blast, but the first floor was the most secure. If he could get there and to the shelter before the building collapsed -- no time for thinking, only time for action.
It was three stories down to the basement shelter, if he could make it that far. The instructions had been clear during the drills: every person for themselves. Do not stop for younger or older or disabled peoples. Save yourself.
He didn't listen.
"Damn thing was just a decoy," Jason muttered. "They certainly know what they're doing."
"The question I have, of course," Isabel muttered back, "is how all of that took place in our world. Anton and Vlad didn't get the boombox thanks to our teamwork, but now we can't stay at this apartment building because the NYPD has deemed this area not safe. You even threaten to blast a building, and the NYPD will treat that as serious stuff. But if Anton and Vlad could make the explosion only visible to us, then why didn't they? I'm starting to think that only their leader can break the rules and evade me."
"Regardless, they've forced us from our fortress." Jason bit his lip. "If we don't move soon, they'll find out about Matsumoto."
「松 本、」 he said into the call box at the end of the hall. 「松本魂音です。渋谷区、初台番、アパート三百十五。一人で。」 For now, he thought to himself. Because as long as he was alive, he would try to work this out.
The youngest of the kids would still be on the first level in basic schooling. He threw himself down the stairs, fell against the wall, caught his balance before the entire structure could collapse around him. One more floor, and then maybe --
The smoke clouded his vision, but the nursery door was still closed. He kicked what was left of it down. "幸!松本幸!どこ?!" If he didn't find her in ten seconds, it would be a lost cause. The building was collapsing, and who knew when the Soviets would drop another bomb.
"兄ちゃん!"
That voice -- and he pulled his goggles over his eyes and charged in. She had been hiding in a corner, curled up in a ball, blue kindergarten hat still on her head. He didn't bother for her bags or for identification. He scooped her up too fast to be sentimental, not thinking that she was the only one of his siblings to survive this invasion. First, it had been Shotaro and Naoko at the elementary school, two years ago. Now it was Taichi -- he had never had a chance to get to Taichi -- and Hideko, Shotaro's twin, in the hallway. Only he and Miyuki, this youngest girl, were left.
The actual apartment building hadn't actually been damaged, but that wasn't stopping the evacuation. Jason and Isabel stood in the hall, ready to distract any officers who would come down. Rosa and Milaya, meanwhile, were in the apartment with Carissa and the still-unconscious Matsumoto. Carissa had cleaned his head wound, taking off his goggles, and Rosa had tried her best to monitor him while the others figured out a plan for moving him. Isabel couldn't be seen by people, but the rest of them could, and the only real place they could go was Mac's in Coney Island. But while Matsumoto was like this...
Milaya wasn't helping at all. She was sitting off to the side, curled up in a ball, eyes closed, trying to remove herself from the entire situation.
"や めろ!" he yelled, clutching Miyuki tighter as they ran down the stairs. The assistant let them into the bunker at the last possible second.
He took the registration pen, but it disappeared into thin air before he could write anything down. Where could he write his sister's name, get clearance for her? He knew he hadn't been supposed to save her, but nobody had minded that she was here.
Unlike Taichi, who had screamed throughout the last drill, Miyuki was quite calm. She sat in their corner, clung to his arm, and listened to the loudspeaker as it broadcast the news. The Allied defense systems were on their way, but at that point it would be too late for most of the people in Tokyo. If their bunker held up long enough, and if they didn't die from the radiation they had absorbed, they could go to Hokkaido, or maybe to Akita. They had family there. Or perhaps the Allied forces would do with Tokyo's population what they had done with some of the other countries: just move them to another Allied state. Possibly America, maybe the United Kingdom.
He let her sleep. Her future wasn't supposed to be like this. Within time, he let himself nod off as well.
"I killed him," she said. "It's all my fault."
Rosa sighed. "For the hundredth time, bebe pobre, you did not kill Matsumoto," she said. "He just fell. Isabel called Mick to see if they can do a diagnosis, because we can't take him to a hospital. Nobody ever said anything about QWERTY members dying from concussions..." She bit her own lip. "I don't have the answers, Milaya. Neither does Isabel. She's too new. The person who does have the answers is coming. But mark my words, he's not dead."
"How can you tell?"
"He's got a pulse. That's how I know. Look, even if he woke up with a case of amnesia because he hit his head and couldn't remember who he was --" And then, it suddenly made sense to Rosa. "Oh!"
Milaya uncurled from her ball. "Oh...what?"
"I think I know what this is." Rosa sat on the edge of the bed and touched Matsumoto's shoulder. "Matsumoto, are you in there? Can you hear me?"
The voice came to him in his dreams. It was familiar, but with an accent. "Tama? Hey! Wake up! Tamasine, can you hear me? Your sister and your country need you! たまちゃん!聞こえるから?!"
The last part he finally understood, and he struggled to open his eyes, finding them almost glued shut. He tried to move his arms but couldn't. If he couldn't get up --
and he finally found his eyes open, looking up at Rosa's face.
Rosa had Matsumoto pinned by the shoulders, waiting for a reaction. When his eyes met hers, she let go, backing away from him. "Oi!" she shouted in surprise.
Milaya stood up from her chair. "What did you do?"
"I didn't do anything, except try to trigger something." Rosa sat on Matsumoto's bed. "Are you okay?"
Matsumoto didn't say a word, but just nodded.
"So you can understand me. It was the same with me, so I'll stick to yes or no questions. Do you remember?"
There was a pause, then Matsumoto nodded.
"Remember what?" Milaya asked as she sat on the other side of the bed, looking at Matsumoto. "Is he awake?"
"Clearly by the fact that his eyes are open, yes. I told you, you didn't kill him, Milaya. Breathe easy."
Matsumoto sat up in the bed, then reached for the goggles on top of his head -- only to find they weren't there. "僕の..." he said, and then realized that wasn't going to work. Instead, he looked at Rosa and pointed where his goggles were supposed to go.
"Oh. I don't know where they went."
"Here." Milaya went back to the chair she had been sitting in, grabbing Matsumoto's goggles and handing them to Matsumoto. He took them with a smile.
"サンキュウ," he said, fitting them on top of his head.
Rosa looked confused. "That sounded a bit like an English "thank you."
Matsumoto nodded with a smile. "外来語."
"I don't get it," Milaya said.
"Neither do I," Rosa noted. "But he's speaking his native language because he now remembers who he used to be in the old world. Someday, you'll do the same, Milaya. Something will trigger your memories. The blast must have triggered them for Matsumoto."
"魂音," Matsumoto noted.
Rosa paused. "Huh?"
"Uh, guys..." Carissa poked her head in from the other room. "The police have reached this floor. Can we move Matsumoto?"
Matsumoto gave Carissa a nod. "レッツゴー、" he stated in accented Engrish.
"What he said," Rosa repeated. "Let's go."
The three of them met up with Jason and Isabel outside the building. "Will your parents be fine?" Jason asked Carissa.
"They will probably stay with Plotnikov, so yeah," Carissa answered back. "We should head to Mac's, but in groups. Isabel, you go with Matsumoto so the two of you can talk using...whatever it is your phone does."
"That won't work," Isabel said, "as it only translates my voice from English to whatever, but I'm still okay with that."
"Jason, stay with Milaya to make sure the guys in black don't get her," Carissa said. "If anybody can fend those guys off, save for Isabel, it's you, Jason. Especially if what's his face whose immune to Isabel's phone shows up."
"Dimitri," Milaya reminded them. "His name is Dimitri."
"And I'll go with Carissa," Rosa said. "We'll talk about nothing in Spanish the entire time."
They each separated with their respective routes: Carissa and Rosa took the east side subway, with Matsumoto and Isabel heading west. Jason and Milaya waited for the express bus instead of taking the train, mostly because the bus was more secure and Jason still had his boombox.
"I don't know how they did it, but those guys drained its batteries," Jason muttered as he got on the bus. "We'll have to get some more once we get down there."
"I know a few stores we can buy batteries at," Milaya said as she filed down the aisle, finding two seats in the back that were together. She motioned to Jason. "Here."
"Who said I was sitting with you?" Jason joked as he slid into the window seat, putting the boombox on his lap.
Milaya looked like she had taken Jason's words seriously. "Matsumoto would have sat by me."
"Oh?" Jason laughed. "I was kidding. You can even have the window seat if you want to." He got back into the aisle and let Milaya in, then sat down next to her.
Milaya peered out the huge window. This wasn't an ordinary bus; express buses were special, with elevated fabric seats and huge windows. "Everything is so big here."
"And it wasn't big with the guys in black?" Jason asked as the bus started rolling. Pre recorded announcements reminded everyone to stay seated and not to bother the driver.
Milaya shrugged. "You are so mysterious, you with your music making box."
"Boombox."
"Yes. The box that Dimitri wanted."
Jason jumped on the chance to ask her. "Why does that man want my boombox, anyway?"
His voice spooked Milaya; she moved away from him just a bit. Jason sighed. "You'll talk to Matsumoto, but not me?"
"Matsumoto bought me blini."
"He bought you what? Oh, the pancakes. Listen." Jason put both arms over his boombox, protective. "We're all together in this team. I get that you trust Matsumoto, or whatever his name now that he woke up. But you should at least work on trusting Rosa and me, too. I know we're not as...understanding? We're louder than Matsumoto is. But we're still part of this group." He tugged on the collar of his QWERTY jacket.
Milaya wasn't wearing her jacket at the moment; Carissa had it in a bag with other supplies. But she seemed to understand. "Is he okay after getting hurt?"
"Matsumoto? I didn't get that much of a chance to see, but yeah, I think so. I hope so. I mean, sure, I guess I really don't know the kid, but..." Jason trailed off as he searched for the right words. "He's a bro, you know? Like, that thing he did where he bought you the pancakes. He did that for you. And I'm confident that he'd do something similar for either me or Rosa, or for anybody, really. He's just a nice guy. Kid probably wouldn't step on a crack for fear of breaking his mother's back...if he had a mother. That said, I'm excited to get to Mac's. I want to sit with Matsumoto and have him tell us more about what he remembers. We didn't get anything except that he did, since he couldn't really speak English."
"He said some words," Milaya said. "This waking up thing...is it always like this?"
"I don't know if you remember or not," Jason noted as they passed through Hell's Kitchen, "but when I fell off that stage at Coney Island? I had passed out just like Matsumoto. It almost takes you to a different world, where you remember a bunch of select memories from your past. For me, I remembered playing ball with my friends, as well as..." He suddenly flashbacked to the two people in the living room, the secret they had kept from him. "Well, other stuff I haven't told the group yet. Stuff I'm not comfortable with. But Rosa, you know who she is. Even Dimitri seems to know who she is, although I'm not sure how. Perhaps he's from our old world as well?"
"You talk a lot for a boy," Milaya said.
Jason blushed. "I do? Ehh, just trying to fill the silence, I guess." He held off for a moment. "But you don't have anything to be afraid of, Milaya. If you start remembering something, don't try to avoid it. Embrace who you used to be. All of it."
Jason was then quiet, something that Milaya found weird for all of his talking. Instead of asking him about it, she looked out the window and watched as Manhattan turned into Brooklyn. "You'll be safe here," Dimitri had said to her, but was that really true? She knew he would stop at nothing to find her, to bring about Soviet reign on this world. That had been fine before, and that was still her goal, but she couldn't ignore the way Matsumoto had treated her.
Plus, there was that secret weapon of sorts Vlad and Anton had mentioned. What did all of that mean?
"You know," Isabel noted, "talking to you is going to be hard if it continues like this. I hope you remember how to speak English soon."
"ミッツ," Matsumoto noted. Me, too.
Isabel sat back and relaxed. "We'll work it out. I'm glad you remember who you are now. I was beginning to get worried that you'd never remember."
Matsumoto gave her a weird look. "フワイ?" he asked.
"Foo...what? Oh, why?" Isabel laughed. "You're so cute when you try to speak English like this."
Matsumoto blushed. "うるさい."
"Anyway, Jason and Rosa have remembered. And I'm sure you want to tell them all about what you remember. By the way, do you remember your real name?"
Matsumoto nodded. "魂音."
"Bless you?"
"魂音. たましね." Matsumoto tried one more time. "タマシネ."
"Tama-sheenay? That's a mouthful."
"たま, だな..."
"Oh. Like, Tama is a nickname?"
Matsumoto -- Tama -- nodded.
"Okay. That's much better. We'll work it out." The train suddenly stopped, and Isabel looked up. "What?"
"Ladies and gentlemen, this train is out of service," the announcer said over the loudspeaker. "There is a police investigation at the station ahead."
"Oh, man." Isabel crossed herself, then walked with Tama out the doors and up. There wasn't a transfer point at this station, so they ran into the nearest Saint Arbucks to find a better route. "Go order yourself one of those fluffy drinks you like," Isabel said, not realizing what she was doing until it was too late.
Tama did, giving the most accented order for a chocolate chip iced frapp in the history of Saint Arbucks. Somehow, it worked, and so did his QWERTY-given card. He grinned and gave a "サンキュウ" before waiting for the drink. He looked around the restaurant, making sure they weren't being followed. Thankfully, it was pretty sparse. The only person he could see was a kid at a table in the back, school uniform on, plugging away at what seemed to be a physical uplink.
It made Tama curious. He kept his eyes on the uplink. How could people plug in like that? Didn't they know they could do that straight from the plug in they received at birth? He didn't know how he remembered that, but he filed that under information to tell Jason and Rosa once they all got back to Mac's place --
Then, the kid looked up from his uplink, and his eyes rested on Tama's. Tama blushed when he realized the kid was Asian, like himself. Not Japanese -- he didn't know why, but the facial features didn't say Japanese. It wasn't familiar. Perhaps Korean? That and his hair was darker, but the eyes were a similar shade of brown.
Without warning, the kid got up from his chair, left the uplink sitting on the table, and went over to Tama. "你好", he said.
Chinese, Tama thought to himself. He didn't know which one it was, but then the lady was calling his nickname, and his frapp was ready, and Isabel was calling him at the door.
He shook his head and spit out a "分からない" before being pulled from the Saint Arbucks and back out into the open world.
"Who was that?" Isabel asked as they walked toward the orange line of trains, which would also get them down to Coney Island.
Tama shrugged and said the same thing he had told the boy. "分からない."
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The Dealey Five: Chapter 9


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What is Toxic Masculinity? ›
What is Toxic Masculinity?
You can't deconstruct what you don't know
We're all familiar with the story: boy meets girl, boy thinks girl is cute, boy chases relentlessly after girl until, eventually, they get together. This is the basic idea of most every story, book, magazine article, tabloid, website banner and Viagra commercial out there that deals even tangentially with romance: sometimes, you get what you want the hard way (no pun intended). And usually, "what you want" is a female person, and all of this occurs regardless of whether or not she wants you, too.
The traditional idea of romance is, let's face it, extremely heteronormative. And, as such, it manages to promote a whole host of sexist ideas: that men are sexual predators, that women are materialistic and need taking care of (and that, therefore, most sex in a relationship is "bought"), that "no" somehow means "yes." This thinking is reinforced from a very early age, in the form of behavior that sets up very harmful standards to which women will constantly be subject: I can't count the number of times in elementary or middle school that I was told, when a boy pulled my hair or flipped up my skirt, "It's just because he likes you."
To quote from a recent New York Times article, "I hear heteronormative expectation: You're a boy, so naturally, you'll like girls. I hear the gender indoctrination: Girls aren't like boys, so you should treat them differently. I hear the premature insertion of sexual politics: Girls aren't your friends; they're potential objects of desire."
So, even though we might not have an academic concept of what masculinity is, we know how it's enacted, from childhood on, in a way that forces rigid conformation to gender roles and praises behavior that actively portrays women as lesser than men.
What, then, is toxic masculinity?
This distinction is a very important one to make, not least because what we call masculinity (which can include traits like athleticism, leadership skills and sexual prowess) can occur completely naturally. Many boys exhibit masculine traits without being told to do so; many girls do as well. The only difference is that these traits are generally quashed in young women, while in young men they are promoted to a ridiculous degree. Women can be a little masculine (but not too much!); men cannot under any circumstances be feminine, because femininity connotes weakness and irrationality. This is also why many female trans individuals face additional harassment from men who feel threatened by them: because, as author Julia Serano explains it, in our phallocentric culture, women are supposed to want to be men. (Ever heard of Freud?)
Many of these problems come from one simple source: attributing traits that are not affected whatsoever by gender to one or the other (because, of course, there can only be two) through the imposition of gender roles. If a woman is a boss or CEO, she is much more likely to be called bossy-- and even fired-- than a man. Women on dating apps like Tinder are more likely to be reported as having "sexually revealing" photographs on their profiles, more likely than men to be asked for nudes, and more likely, whether or not they respond, to be subject to abuse ("prude!" or "slut!").
The double standard is alive and well.
The male gender role is defined societally as strong, commanding and controlling, but also as violent, unemotional and sexually aggressive. That same pattern of teasing boys subject girls to as kids plays out in adult relationships-- only, when it's a 6'2" man staring down a petite woman (or even a 6'3" woman), it starts to look a whole lot less like teasing.
And this portrayal isn't just harmful to women. Stereotypes that can be included under the umbrella of toxic masculinity include exclusive interest in sex, necessary disinterest in "frivolous" things like sugary drinks or personal hygiene (lest one be thought to be materialistic, and therefore feminine), unwillingness to acknowledge one's own emotions or those of others, lack of desire to be a parent or be in a serious relationship... the list goes on.
It can be tough to "deconstruct" toxic masculinity when we haven't even defined it in the first place. It's tough to dismantle a system that you can't even see. But when you start looking, trust me: the evidence is everywhere.
So here, in closing, is a definition: the socially-constructed attitudes, mindsets and (yes) boundaries that tell men that there is only one possible way to embody their (also socially-constructed) gender, and women that they should be looking for (and submissive to) a violent, sex-obsessed, controlling, unfeeling, all-around-unresponsive person.
In other words, a "real man".
How does that sound to you?


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