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# THE SIEGE

## MICHAEL MARANO

ChiZine Publications

## COPYRIGHT

"The Siege" © 2012 by Michael Marano
All rights reserved.

Published by ChiZine Publications

This short story was originally published in _Stories from the Plague Years_ by Michael Marano, first published in print form in 2012, and in an ePub edition in 2012, by ChiZine Publications. _Stories from the Plague Years_ was originally published as a limited edition hardback by Cemetery Dance Publications.

Original ePub edition (in _Stories from the Plague Years_ ) October 2012 ISBN: 9781927469224.

This ePub edition December 2012 ISBN: 978-1-927469-67-5.

This book is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents are either a product of the author's imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual events, locales, or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.

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## CONTENTS

Cover

Title Page

Copyright

The Siege

About the Author

Publication History

More Dark Fiction from ChiZine Publications

## THE SIEGE

I look at you and wonder if I love you.

We sit, and I see you. We sit, and can do nothing else. The light—the lovely light that entrances so many—touches you . . . mirages you . . . reveals the dusk of your brow and I realize for the first time how much we look alike. Handsome jaw. Handsome eyes.

"Is that why we first became lovers?" you say, speaking my thought. Speaking my _untrue_ thought . . . pulling it from my mind with a sharp pain as if you had pulled a thorn. You know it to be an untrue thought. The pain you inflicted was an act of healing which will never form a scar.

I look at you, as I have without respite since last night, and am taken by your beauty. I wonder if to be so taken is a thing truly _felt_. What I feel that I might feel is a sadness unreleased, a sorrow held in a cold metal urn. I look at you, at the blood on you. It gives the smell of brass corroded by sweat. There is skin on my lips, and I would spit it away, if I could. But to do so would diminish my dignity. I can hold onto that—dignity. But not love? Not love for you or myself or anything? Together we shall avoid all things. We shall avoid our very selves if we can, split ourselves from ourselves and un-knit the fabric of birth.

I would spit the skin away. Would you? It was for dignity that we were born.

It was for lack of dignity that we died. I am aware of the phone beside you ceasing to ring. When had it started? We should answer no further calls. Perhaps one who finds us darling wishes us to come for gin and tonic (when had afternoon come?), for the boring spectacle of civility.

I shift my weight slightly, and hear a fragment of bone under my boot scrape the polished hardwood floor. Blood has leaked from my clothes, drunk up by the fine silk cushions of the sofa we restored. Darling of us, was it not?

The siege has ended.

And another has begun.

I remember what it was to cry. The lost faculty of tears pains me as would the itch of a limb long severed. If I try hard enough, I can remember what it was to dream. I wish I could again . . . both cry and dream. Were I able to dream, I could delude myself that we could wake from this. But mostly I wish to cry . . . for to release what I feel—what I convince myself I feel as an article of a heretical faith—would be a benediction.

"We can have no benediction," you say, "for what we lack so profoundly."

You are not welcome in my mind. Even in my emptiness, you are not welcome. But you are here, with me, in my mind. In my sight. I ache to ache for you. I ache to share myself with you as an act of volition.

I remember the snapping of my neck, do you? Is my memory part of that upon which you intrude? I remember the sound of cracking bone, the vibration of the break up to the base of my skull, bewilderment and the taste of the basement floor—concrete and mold. I remember your smothering the way I remember ever so vaguely what it was to dream.

I look at you, and remember love.

Can memory—a shared memory—of love be a kind of love?

When I saw you the first time, I knew who and what you were. When I saw you the first time, we, whose true aspects were then and ever shall be invisible, saw one another. We slipped into mutual visibility. Two pillars of refracted light, revealing configurations of dust motes. Seeing you seeing me had been a moment of completion. Completion is bittersweet. It is the fulfilling of a longing to which you have become accustomed. I welcomed you in my sight. You welcomed me in yours. It had been lonely, to be born of the dead, to have acquired a soul as a mushroom acquires the air from the forest floor, to not have a soul loomed into your mortality.

When I saw you the first time, I knew who and what I was. You defined me in your gaze.

History class—had that been irony or happenstance?

You stepped forward from out of the crowd . . . no . . . not from the crowd. But from the moving, featureless blur I had always seen the crowd to be, even when it had been comprised of my "friends." You stepped forward, the first face I had ever truly seen outside of a mirror. You stepped forward, a thing of solidity from out a bank of rain.

We knew each other.

Without a word—dead, yet able to breathe—we sat beside each other. The rain of the others could have spilt rock, split the world; we took no notice.

We, splintered by murder—too old to be part of or fully with those who were so adolescently immortal—joined out of the churn of humanity. Our bonding was a thing of heavy liquidity in the storm, of quicksilver droplets touching in rain.

Of course we would meet in a History class. We are creatures of inevitability. Finality led to our first breaths in this life. History is the point where past and present meet, intertwine, interact. Flesh and memory join in History. We live for having been torn from our flesh. We said nothing, for we did not need to. As you sat in that plastic molded chair in the lecture hall, I had been relieved to hear your chair creak, relieved that you truly were a being of flesh, with the weight of mortality.

My return to flesh had been inevitable. For my father, while still a young man, had been unhappy because of the impolite dissolution of his affair with his secretary, and chose to deal with the end of that clichéd coupling by twisting my head almost completely around while I watched cartoons. He covered the tracks of his suburban murder by throwing me down the cellar stairs, and would tell himself later that I had driven him irrationally over the edge by incessantly pestering him for a popsicle . . . though in fact the offending popsicle . . . a strawberry confection that would be the last thing I would taste before my tongue lolled out to touch the cold cement on which I finally died . . . had been something already in my hand at the initial moment of my murder. But truly, he . . . with his new pot belly and just-softening muscles . . . had come home from the termination of his affair with the intent to kill me, with the intent to vent his flannel-suited anger by lynching me in his un-callused hands. I had been conceived that first innocent time as an act of coercion on the part of my hysteric, valium'ed mother. I was a desperate bargaining chip with which she could refuse him his desired divorce. No child, no chip. Later, better alimonied than she had expected and in her gin-and-pill induced bliss, she would at times not even remember my name.

You knew this, the circumstances of how I died . . . and drew a crude flight of stairs in your notebook while you should have been writing about Leonardo. You knew this, in the way all know the color of the ocean . . . even when we have never seen it.

You had been younger than I had been when you died, when your mother, desperate for the accolades and the attention of a tragedy, smothered you with a pillow and covered her crime by shoving a small plastic toy down your throat. She had not been insane, just bored. You had been another accouterment to her housewife existence. You, unlike a new 'fridge, had required more care than you had been worth. Dead, you were worth much more to her . . . a cross to bear. Dead, you had brought her a great crop of pity, on which she flourished much as a flower does in sunlight. Your mother's next child had been a girl, who for her own good had had the foresight and good sense to have been born autistic.

I knew this, and drew a crude pillow while I should have written about the Medici. I knew this, as you had known of my death.

No psychopomps had brought us back to this mortal coil, no spirit-animal had called us up from the earth.

Only Justice had brought us back. Justice . . . which may be older than God, for how else could He have judged Satan? Justice returned us from exile to flesh, to avenge ourselves on those who had razed our homelands of blood and bone, those who had rudely killed us in the summer, while the earth is easy upon the spade and funerals are not so uncomfortable. We had been denied the courtesy of burial while the world was not bright and warm.

We are the interruption of earthly creation.

Justice keeps those who murdered us alive, so that we may serve Justice by killing them. We, Second Born, were brought together by Justice. We, Second Born, knew each other, much as Jews in dull and primitive cultures know each other by a furtive glance. History is where the past and present speak and interact. We could have met nowhere else save in a History class. For others fleshed but only once, Exile from Eden is the Catastrophe to which they owe their bestowment of Original Sin. We are born of the first sin of the first sinners' progeny. It is a sin that is not ours. Can our flesh be ours?

If we had been brought back in any way to breathing life by agencies of this earth, it would have been by the random collision of genes instigated by both pairs of our respective second parents. Justice has its mercy . . . both couplings that produced us would have yielded stillborns if our vengeance-heavy souls had not been dropped into the womb-clothed blood clots out of which we grew.

My second parents never understood why they never connected with me as they had with my living siblings. You, an only child, as you had been at the time of your death, knew and still know the love of your second parents, though you have never been able to return the courtesy by loving them back.

Those who have besieged us no longer do so. Do I miss them? Do you? Their desirous gaze? Their imaged language?

I look at you. I look at your glance and I long to be held by it. I long to be held by you. We no longer reflect each other in the polished stones of our eyes.

I am an absence in your glance. I hate to think . . . no . . . it is not thought . . . I hate to know that you are absent in mine.

"Where shall we go?" you say.

We have met the inevitable. We have fulfilled it. Existence ( _life?_ ) is a river full of currents and eddies. We have reached the inevitable end of our river. We followed it as one. Our journey became one journey on the afternoon we met, when we followed the immediate and facile path of living men who find each other.

"It wasn't facile," you say. No. It wasn't.

"Then say it."

"It . . . wasn't facile."

A dorm room . . . walls of cinder block.

The first orgasm either of us had had—we shared it on a stiff unyielding mattress of which I had removed the pillows out of courtesy for you and your death.

The flow of our blood.

The flow of our breath.

The flow of concocted blood from our loins.

The still and rocky landscapes within us moving as would a draft. Joined together in the larger flow of our lives, our shared inevitability brought us to this city where so many rivers meet the sea.

To our "friends"—our social peers we had to take up and keep on hand like tools in a drawer that are used once a year, yet are indispensable at that one time a year—we were "fashionably queer." To us, we were the only other members of our particular humanity. Around our island of each other was a poisoned silence, a waveless silver ocean that hurt to look upon.

We had encountered others like us as time went on and our horizons broadened. We met Sheila, the vapid princess who within her soul had been an aged homeless man beaten to death by a Legionnaire in Philadelphia. We shared the bland entertainments of youth with her. One day, we had been eating under a tree . . . three of the Second Born picnicking on a college campus as if they were happy youngsters with all their lives before them . . . two queens and a fag hag, with spirits older than their bodies.

There is a moment before a summer storm, when from out of all the green around you something is drawn out and dimmed.

Such a moment came under that cloudless sky.

Such a moment called Sheila, who glanced up from her student news-paper with a look like that of a fawn suddenly startled. For a moment, her face seemed reflected upon itself, as if she swam a still pond. She literally sniffed the air; we saw, from behind our eyes, the air acquire her.

"I have to go," she said.

We have not seen her since.

Though we had read in the Philadelphia newspapers of the suspected murder of a very old man—a veteran and a Legionnaire about to expire from lymphatic cancer—who had somehow been abducted from an ICU. Police were searching for the man, even though it was almost certain he had died within moments of being disconnected from his respirator.

We knew better.

Justice would keep him alive until its terrible will was done, until Sheila's will was done, Amen.

Inevitability had called Sheila away from our sweet picnic facade. She had broken from us as would a piece of ice from a larger floe.

"Where shall we go?" you say.

No such question had been asked before our arrival here.

Migration had brought us to this city . . . a faculty like that which calls birds had called us to meet the economic migration of our murderers. We knew we had to come here, with the finality and profundity of what had called Sheila to harvest her killer.

Our murderers—each of their own accord—had both come to this, "The Holy City," to retire. An unknowingly shared pilgrimage marking the fulfillment of two separate and distant suburban lives. Charleston, aged city, languid, rising in sea-level barely over a marsh, was the place our murderers had chosen to retire over Florida. Golf had been the deciding factor for both.

A happy game to be played in sunshine despite at least one hip replacement between the two of them. Two people, two strangers, both marked by Cain, had both chosen to live their golden years in the same city. You and I, an echo of their crimes ( _one_ echo? can two sounds make the same echo?) went toward them. Their crimes called their echoes back.

Charleston is bright and warm . . . much like the days on which we had been buried. Noon here is a dream. Amid the steeples and streets, one can never truly wake.

Charleston is where many rivers meet. It is where they flow and intertwine and extinguish themselves in the sea. It is where land and sea suspend each other as marsh. We arrived posing as two respectable faggots drawn to the city for its great history, its great culture, its arts scene, its cheap antiques and charming bargains, its legacy of the dashing Rhett Butler, the city's most famous son . . . who never existed. What could such a pretty myth mean to us, jaded to existence twice?

Charleston is the confluence of many rivers, and what the rivers bear. Dreams and fictions cast into those rivers with the surrender of a coin to a fountain wash here. The place is composed of fictions that many have casually read and forgotten. They clog the air and the minds here as would silt.

"You must love it here!" said the real estate agent who showed us our house. Not an observation. A demand. A toll extorted.

"You must love it here!" said the furniture store proprietors.

"You must love it here!" Politely, we always said we did love it here. The demand, the statement, was an affirmation on the part of those who spoke it. To not agree would have been as rude as interrupting a prayer.

We did not come here to love the place as they did. How could we love the place, amid the screams?

"No, not the screams," you say.

No . . . not the screams. The screams that are not released, the screams that are held inside without respite among the dead. Even discorporate, the dead are denied the catharsis of a scream in Charleston.

"It's the quiet of the screams that deafens," you say.

The ghosts of Charleston are patient. So terribly patient. We . . . the dead . . . can see them. We . . . the avatars . . . can taste them. We cannot breathe, for Charleston is so thick with them. They are litter left by the inconsiderate. They are ignored, much as Charleston natives ignore visitors who do not fawn over the city as if it were a coddled trophy child. The solidity of their unreleased screams at times seems greater than that of the ancient brick.

It is the dead of Charleston who lay siege to us . . . desperate to have us see them. They hunger for our sight. They drink our gaze—clear mountain water amid lowland stagnancy. The dead are creatures of dreams unseen in a city that never wakes. They are invisible as chime notes.

Among the fleshless ghosts, we hunted our murderers. We did so as an act of will. Not in response to a profound call—as Sheila had responded to the call that drew her to her murderer's deathbed—for Justice is in part a creature of time. We know that, now. Justice is cause and effect. The fullness of effect is not always known before Justice is inflicted. We moved among the forested screams. The stone-still cries. We hunted our killers easily . . . the living eyes of Charleston are talked into blindness.

We stalked your mother to the beach. You knew where she would go.

You knew where she would be. Standing on a pier the pilings of which touched the Gulf Stream, we looked down upon the stretch of cold sand you knew you mother would walk this mild winter day.

And for the first time in either of your lives, you were moved to tears.

Your mother led her autistic daughter along the surf. Gently. So lovingly. What had she become, this murderess, that she could love so tenderly? She still carried her cruelty . . . we saw it as a brimming urn she held by her heart. Yet she did not let it spill.

She who is your sister not by any flesh wore loose clothes that flapped in the wind. Fully grown, she still looked a child. Her hair flew in wild directions. Your mother carried a picnic basket, and your sister not of flesh bore fresh spills and stains on her shirt—traces of what the basket had held. The beach was empty. There were no accolades to be had. No pity to be bestowed by onlookers who admired your mother for her strength. Just a woman and her ruin of a daughter.

You, unseen by her, gave her the pity for which you had been butchered.

I comforted you that night. I held you to my heart and stroked your hair. The comfort I gave you was too small a hill to rest upon, my body an inadequate homeland.

We hunted my father next, knowing we would not now kill him, but knowing we would have to know _why_ we could not now kill him.

You gasped as you felt me feel a pang of love for the old man, as I saw the liver-spotted hands that had wrung my neck.

You exhaled softly what you had inhaled as a gasp as you felt me feel jealousy toward the young man who was now his son. Strapping. Beautiful. Glowing with health and vitality, the young man who in flesh would be my brother walked with my murdering father through the banal consumerist landscape of a shopping mall. He did not love his father. Filial hatred was etched into his face. Yet he walked with my father, who plainly loved him. Yet he walked with my father, who limped slightly due to his newly replaced hip. Filial hatred was meshed with filial duty. You and I, knitted from behind time—who have never walked a visible path save for that which Justice had decreed—saw the injustice we would inflict if we killed my father now. To kill my father would destroy this boy . . . he would be the focus of an investigation that would ruin him, even if he were found innocent. To kill my father would kill part of him; to take away the object of his hatred and his sense of duty would flood him with an ambiguity of feelings he could not endure.

You comforted me that night by making love to me. You took away the pain of inaction by desiring me.

As best you could.

Justice would tell us when to strike.

And thus, besieged by the dead, we began our siege.

And thus we closed off ourselves from Charleston, living in it, participating in it, but always closing ourselves off from the place where the dead were so badly treated. Where ghosts were trinkets to lure tourists along with gewgaws made of sawgrass and plaster. We closed a siege wall around us, as we lay siege to our murderers, waiting, always waiting.

We waded into the confluence of Charleston. We waded into the silt of fictions and dreams and lies. We walked among the living and the ghosts.

The dead looked in our eyes and coveted.

Here, a woman in an ancient dress, her gullet full of holes. Her moonlight form rosaried with knots of the pain she had felt in life. She stood in the street, a thing of February forced to exist against a backdrop of May, forced into invisibility by the eyes of the city that had killed her for loving wrongly. We saw her on a bright corner, as a horse-drawn carriage freighted with tourists passed her.

We waded into Charleston's indifferent cruelty, " _You must love it here!_ " punctuating our stay the way " _Amen!_ " does a tent revival.

Commodities, we were invited by _nouveaux riche_ Belles to behold and marvel at the purchases they had made with the money of husbands who saw them as trophies and incubators and little more. We, commodified as furniture queens, marvelled.

Here, the mouth of a child gnawed away. The rats that had nested in her unfound body did not follow her in death, did not ghost themselves with her, though the violet she had died picking had. A man with a flayed back walked with her, a man who would have come back as an avatar to avenge himself if he had not died at the hands of so many who had been enraptured by the fiction of _Birth of a Nation_.

We, commodified as educated strangers who had come to Charleston and had learned the truth of how things really are (did we not answer in the affirmative to, " _You must love it here?_ "), agreed sagely with the city's fat white patriarchs, who would spout their provincial blather believing they could create informed opinions about anything, having seen nothing of the world save what they have seen through the fiction of tourism, the fiction of the dream of Charleston they take with them no matter where they go.

Here, a man composed of the sheen of tin. A thing of numb, uncaring fleshlessness, he walks the Battery, walks foolishly on the stagnant water of the harbour. He is a buffoon in death, as he had been in life. In life, he had been a happy figure, a person of frolicking dementia who ended the jolliness he provided by inconsiderately freezing to death one unseasonable evening. The sheen of his un-living flesh is as cold as the wind that had killed him. He sleeps his dead sleep at the very spot in the park where his body had first been flecked with dew.

We, commodified as faggots, fell in with the destitute and inwardly exiled gays of Charleston. We saw the broken down men of King Street, coolies bitter that they have not married the Rhett Butler they had always believed they deserved. We saw the faggots from other places who come to Charleston to plunder fraudulent antiques much as Mr. Kurtz had come to the Congo to plunder ivory. We fell in also with the Charleston queer aristocracy, those who, less because of their sexuality than their caste perceptions, always went elsewhere to indulge their sexual proclivities. Some went to New York to screw young black men not as an expression of sexual taste or desire, but to express racial contempt, and contempt for the foreign culture of the North. Some went to Thailand to express their contempt for a culture older than theirs by fucking its youths. Some kept apartments under false names in San Francisco, simply because they could.

We became conscripted for the sake of Justice to save the life of one such Charleston scion, to keep his damp and earthen soul in his body. We interfered in his acquiring of AIDS by taking his attention away from a drag queen crack addict. We were compelled to interfere, saving the life of this respectable son of one of Charleston's finest families so he could be later punished by the as yet unborn avatars of those he had killed. He was marked . . . that we could see. His crimes could be read in his eyes. He was marked perhaps for fisting that boy to death in New York? Perhaps for that child whose kidney ruptured in Thailand? Maybe they both would be reborn to take him. Perhaps as twins.

As we led the scion away, we saw on the drag queen's face what she would become. We saw the mirrored un-living shadow of her that would move as a breeze—with the feminine grace she had in life always wanted—down the quaintly cobblestoned streets she worked.

Charleston is a mindset. Its crowded loneliness is an eyesore. We walk amongst its dead, those conscripted to invisibility, those whose screams are stifled by the apathy only the living could muster. Besieged, we waited. We could not breathe for the thickness of our fleshless siblings. Ghosts are born of guilt without catharsis. Without redemption. You cannot be rid of a ghost until you own the sin that has created it. To own a sin is to acknowledge History, and Charleston has none. History is where the past and present interact. There is no such interaction here. Charleston has no History . . . for though it loves its past, such love is nothing but antiquarianism. Such love objectifies. Such love is not, and can never be History. Justice is impossible in the drunken fog of such lack of History. Our fleshless siblings will never be free. The weight of the air is too heavy in Charleston. The cold places of the North—the dusty attics and the chilled cellars, the shadow eaves and October breaths—give expiation to ghosts. They provide a way home. Here, the weight of cast-off bourgeois dreams keeps ghosts earthbound. Slaves. The disenfranchised. The refugees who found refuge here only for their bodies, not their souls. The refuse of a brutal agrarian plutocracy based upon stolen labour. The foolish men who, having read the pretty fiction of _Ivanhoe_ , had believed in the chivalry of agrarian plutocracy and who now cannot fathom why they did not die nobly, but died shitting themselves and screaming for their mothers.

Incontinent and bloody in their Grays, they are soldiers still of the siege. We would help them if we could. Yet how can you dig a grave for a body already buried in haze? They look and glisten in the moonlight. They hunger to be seen.

The city gets smaller as Justice makes us wait.

We go to our polite jobs as _Boys_ , such as we, are expected to. Yes, we are _Boys_. Queers are not full men . . . any challenge to patriarchal normalcy cannot be tolerated. Your female boss finds us "darling" and "clever."

Justice makes us wait.

Justice keeps us unseen for what we truly are.

Who, among the living, is invisible enough to truly see us? The Call came in the depths of summer.

There is a peacefulness to butchery. Mining. Excavating. The path through flesh is a path of discovery.

We stood from our couches in our living room. The sound of the television passed to nothing; we were not truly watching it. We kept it on at night because the light of the screen reflected on the windows and blanked the faces of the dead who milled, who longed to be seen, who formed themselves out of ether not out of Will, but out of its terrible absence. Will is a thing for the living. Will is the ability to Sin, which we have not. Without Will (truly without Sin?), we stood and calmly took our quarry.

To have been near Sheila when she heeded her Call was to see—as you see in the moment before a summer storm—something drawn out of all the green around you.

We were that which is drawn out of the green. We were drawn out of where we were while still present.

"Where are we now? Where shall we go?"

There is a certainty a child knows with finality—that it must never touch fire.

We knew with the same certainty and finality that tonight was the night to avenge.

We harvested your mother, knowing her daughter was in the care of an aunt in a cooler place. The terrible heat was making the child mad. Dehydrated and sick, she had been packed off. To punish your killer tonight would not punish the autistic child she brought into this world.

We harvested my father, knowing his son was away hiking with friends. The closeness to his father in the heat was making him mad. He went to the mountains. To destroy my murderer tonight would not destroy his son. The boy could let go his filial hatred if he had an alibi not only for those who would investigate, but an alibi for himself . . . that he could not have saved the man were he with him the night he disappeared.

Out of politeness for my father, and consideration of his hip, we put him in the back seat of our car. Not in the trunk with your mother.

We, the un-avenged dead, dug our graves in their flesh.

The marshes are tannic. The marshes crawl with life that is hungry. We buried our open-fleshed graves in the marshes.

I look at you, and wonder if I love you.

Dried blood on the lids of my eyes makes it hard to blink. My eyes hurt. The phone has stopped ringing again. When had dusk come?

There should be a difference in weight, for what we have lost. There is skin upon my lip, and I would spit it away.

Yet we have been spat away this night, we have been left behind like skin.

Our souls, avenged

. . . ascended.

They cast us aside, we fleshy vessels. Justice was served by us—we things of marrow and blood and gristle are empty now. Our souls are free and we wish them back. We are uninhabitable, even by ourselves.

Love.

How can we love while soulless? I look at you, and wonder.

We are dead. Nothing is held by our gazes. No soul or spirit. The ghosts crave our glance no more than they would from corpses. They have ended the siege. As I saw them walking away, I realized that if I could still feel anything, I would miss them.

"Where shall we go?"

We have not even graves to crawl in to sleep. They have been dug into our murderers and given to the marsh.

You ask one last time.

We are in Charleston.

We are dead.

We might as well stay.

## ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Michael Marano is a former punk rock DJ, bouncer, and the author of the modern dark fantasy classic _Dawn Song_ , which won both the International Horror Guild and Bram Stoker Awards, and which will be reprinted by ChiZine Publications in 2013, to be followed by two sequels. For more than 20 years, his film reviews and pop culture commentary have been a highlight of the nationally syndicated Public Radio Satellite System show _Movie Magazine International_. His non-fiction has appeared in alternative newspapers such as _The Independent Weekly_ , _The Boston Phoenix_ and _The Weekly Dig_ , as well as in magazines such as _Paste_ and _Fantastique_. His column "MediaDrome" has been a wildly popular feature in _Cemetery Dance_ since 2001. He currently divides his time between a neighbourhood in Boston that had been the site of a gang war that was the partial basis of _The Departed_ and a sub-division in Charleston, SC a few steps away from a former Confederate Army encampment. He can be reached at _www.michaelmarano.com_.

## PUBLICATION HISTORY

"The Siege" originally appeared in _Queer Fear_ , ed. Michael Rowe (Arsenal Pulp Press, 2000)

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\section*{Results}
\subsection*{Electron band lying just above $E_F$}
Figure 1(a) shows an intensity plot of $E$ vs. $k$ (energy vs. momentum) measured at 25 K ($> T_c$ = 14.5 K) along $\Gamma$-$X$ line in the Brillouin zone of FeTe$_{0.6}$Se$_{0.4}$ after dividing by the Fermi-Dirac (FD) function broadened with the Gaussian corresponding to the experimental energy resolution. We employed three different methods to determine the band dispersions: a second derivative map with respect to energy, fitting to the energy distribution curves (EDCs), and fitting to the momentum distribution curves (MDCs)~(see Supplementary Information). Three hole bands can be clearly recognized in the second derivative map.
Band-structure calculations based on density functional theory (DFT) were carried out for the parent FeTe and are overlaid as solid lines in Fig. 1(a) after a suitable energy shift and rescaling which are ascribed to renormalization effects, as is known from earlier work~\cite{Chen2010PRB,Tamai2010PRL,Nakayama2010PRL,Lubashevsky2012NP}. The calculation details and complete band structure are discussed in the Supplementary Information and the energy shifts and rescaling are listed in Table I. The calculated band structure and orbital characters are also consistent with known results~\cite{Subedi2008PRB,Miyake2010JPSJ} and were confirmed by measuring the linear polarization dependence of spectral intensities~(see Supplementary Information). However, in contrast to the DFT calculations which predict existence of three hole FSs around the $\Gamma$ point, we find that the band top of the two dominantly $xz/yz$-orbital derived bands are located around 15 meV below $E_F$, i.e., these bands sink below $E_F$, and only one hole band originating in the $x^2-y^2$ orbital crosses $E_F$. From the degeneracy of the two $xz/yz$ bands, we conclude that $k_z$ $\sim$ 0 in the reduced Brillouin zone for the present laser ARPES measurements.

The open circles in Fig. 1(a) show band dispersions deduced from the peak positions of the second derivative spectra shown in Fig. S3. The second derivative map after dividing by the FD function shown in Fig. S3(b) clearly shows that the dispersion around the $\Gamma$ point is electron-like. The origin of this electronic dispersion is presumably another dominantly $xz/yz$-orbital derived band, which is located just above $E_F$ for the DFT results for the parent FeTe\cite{note_DFT}. For checking the dispersions above $E_F$, Fig. 1(b) shows the band dispersions in a narrow energy window near $E_F$, and band dispersions deduced from fits to the EDCs are overlaid.
The fits to the EDCs, obtained after dividing by the FD function, are shown in Fig. 1(c). It is clear that there are two bands above $E_F$ at the $\Gamma$-point, which get merged around $k$ $\sim$ 0.07 {\AA} and then again separate out into two bands around $k$ $\sim$ 0.1 {\AA}. Figure 1(d) shows the fits with the component Lorentzian functions for these three cases.
We also performed measurements with another sample at higher temperatures of 35 K and 50 K in addition to 25 K as shown in Fig. S7. The peak positions are consistent with those shown in Fig. 1.

In the occupied states below $E_F$, the degenerate band top of the $xz/yz$ hole bands are positioned at $\sim$ 15 meV below $E_F$. The band top of the $E_F$-crossing $x^2-y^2$ band is located at least above $\sim$ 6.5 meV from $E_F$ at the $\Gamma$-point. Most interestingly, we do find the expected electron band existing just above $E_F$ at the $\Gamma$-point, with the band bottom located at $\sim$ 0.7 $\pm$ 0.2 meV above $E_F$ (Fig. 1(b)). This electron band has been missed in all earlier studies of the momentum resolved electronic structure of Fe(Te,Se)~\cite{Chen2010PRB,Tamai2010PRL,Nakayama2010PRL,Lubashevsky2012NP}.
We note that the $x^2-y^2$ hole band and the electron-like band just above $E_F$ may be hybridized due to spin-orbit interactions~\cite{note_SOI}, for example, and result in a wing-shaped dispersion. However, even if these two bands are hybridized and merge to a single band, this does not affect our conclusions. Since the nature of the conducting carriers being electron-like or hole-like is determined by the gradient of the band dispersion ($\partial E/\partial k$), the carriers at $k_F$ and the thermally-excited carriers at the $\Gamma$ point will be hole-like and electron-like, respectively.
Also, the details of electron band at the higher energy region above $E_F$ are not relevant to superconductivity. Only the positions of the top of hole band and the bottom of the electron band are important, and they can be evaluated rather clearly from the MDCs, of which line shape is not affect by dividing by the FD function~(see Supplementary Information).

\subsection*{Sharp superconducting coherence peak in the electron band just above $E_F$}
Figures 2(a) and 2(b) show the energy distribution curves (EDCs) after dividing by the FD functions corresponding to each temperature along $\Gamma$-$X$ line at $T$ = 25 K (above $T_c$) and at $T$ = 2.5 K (below $T_c$), respectively. The open circles in Fig. 2(a) mark the normal-state band dispersions obtained from the second derivative spectra shown in Fig. S3. In Fig. 2(b), we can clearly see that the superconducting coherence peaks emerge below $T_c$ for the hole band. The small circles in Fig. 2(b) mark the positions of the coherence peaks, and they are plotted in the enlarged scale in Fig. S10. Figures 2(c) and 2(d) show the EDCs above $T_c$ (25 K) and below $T_c$ (2.5 K) at $k = k_F$ and $k \sim \Gamma$, respectively. We can see that the electron band just above $E_F$ at the $\Gamma$ point also shows a sharp superconducting coherence peak, although this band does not cross the $E_F$ in the normal state. The solid lines are fits to the BCS spectral function $A_\mathrm{BCS}(k,\omega)$\cite{Matsui2003PRL,Shimojima2011Science,Okazaki2012Science}, which can be expressed as
\[
A_\mathrm{BCS}(k,\omega) = \frac{1}{\pi}\left\{\frac{|u_k|^2\Gamma}{\left(\omega-E_k\right)^2+\Gamma^2}+\frac{|v_k|^2\Gamma}{\left(\omega+E_k\right)^2+\Gamma^2}\right\},
\]
where $E_k$ and $|u_k|^2$, $|v_k|^2$ are the quasiparticle energy and the coherence factors of Bogoliubov quasiparticles (BQPs), respectively. Using the normal-state dispersion $\epsilon_k$ with respect to the chemical potential $\mu$ and the SC gap $\Delta(k)$, $E_k$ can be expressed
\[
E_k = \sqrt{(\epsilon_k-\mu)^2 + |\Delta(k)|^2}
\]
and
\[
|u_k|^2 = 1 - |v_k|^2 = \frac{1}{2}\left(1+\frac{\epsilon_k}{E_k}\right),
\]
respectively. From the fits to the data, we estimate the Bogoliubov quasiparticle energy ($E_k = \sqrt{\epsilon_k^2 + |\Delta(k)|^2}$) of the hole band to be 2.3 meV (= $\Delta(k)$, because $\epsilon_k$ = 0 at $k$ = $k_F$ of this band) and of the electron band to be 1.3 meV, respectively. From the value of $\epsilon_k$ $\sim$ 0.7 meV, $\Delta(k)$ is estimated to be $\sim$ 1.1 meV for the electron band. This indicates different pairing strengths and reduced gap values 2$\Delta$/$k_BT_c$ for the electron and hole bands.
In addition, $\Delta$/$\epsilon_F$ for the hole band is estimated to be $\sim$ 0.3, corresponding to a relatively weak coupling. On the other hand,
since the energy position of the electron band is just 0.7 meV ($\sim$ 8 K) above $E_F$, it means that its occupancy in the normal state will strongly depend on temperature. Accordingly, the exact value of $\epsilon_F$ of the electron band cannot be described in the usual way.
If we regard $T_c$ as a measure of $\epsilon_F$, based on the fact that $T_c$ is the lowest temperature representing the normal state ($T_c$ = 14.5 K $\sim$ 1.2 meV), we obtain $\Delta$/$\epsilon_F$ $\geq$ 1,
indicative of the strong coupling limit. This estimation may seem to be fairly rough. However, if $\epsilon_F$ equals to $\Delta$, the bottom of the electron band should be located at $E$ = -$\Delta$ below $E_F$. Hence, we can say at least $\Delta$/$\epsilon_F$ $\geq$ 1. Thus, the electron band with a smaller $\Delta$ is actually in the strong-coupling regime. This represents the condition of an electron band with only a small number of carriers, but with a strong pairing interaction and a finite $\Delta$ exists for this band. On the otherhand, the hole band with a larger $\Delta$ lies in the relatively weaker-coupling regime.
It is suggestive of Cooper pairing for the hole band and Boson condensation for the electron band.
We note that even for the strong-coupling electron band, we have used a BCS spectral function to estimate the value of $\Delta$. This is not a problem as the obtained value of $\Delta$ represent the lower bound of $\Delta$, because a smaller value of $\epsilon_k$-$\mu$ for the BEC regime will give a larger value of $\Delta$\cite{Gaebler2010NP,Lubashevsky2012NP}.

Figures 2(e) and 2(f) show the intensity maps of the spectra above and below $T_c$, respectively, after dividing by the corresponding FD functions. The open circles are the same as in Fig. 2(a) and the solid line is a fitting result to the open circles using a polynomial function, representing the normal-state dispersion $\epsilon_k$~\cite{note_dispersion}. The solid lines in Fig. 2(f) are the BQP dispersions using $\epsilon_k$ in Fig. 2(e) and the $\Delta_k$ values obtained above for the electron and hole bands. Colors of the lines corresponds to the amplitude of the coherence factors $|u_k|^2$ above $E_F$ and $|v_k|^2$ below $E_F$. The red and blue regions correspond to the higher and lower values, respectively. It is noted that the BQP dispersion does not cross the brightest intensity around the $\Gamma$ point above $E_F$. This is attributed to the tail of the hole-band top, which is also positioned at the $\Gamma$-point. The normal-state and BQP dispersions have been plotted in the same panel of Fig. 2(g). The open circles plotted in Fig. 2(g) correspond to the dispersion of the coherence peaks at $T$ = 2.5 K shown in Fig. 2(b). The gray-scale density of the BQP dispersion corresponds to the amplitude of coherence factors.
It is interesting to note that the BQP dispersions merge for the electron and hole bands, indicative of a composite BCS-BEC superconductivity. The results indicate that irrespective of weak or strong coupling
, both the hole and electron bands in the superconducting state exhibit Bogoliubov quasiparticle dispersions due to particle-hole mixing~\cite{Campuzano1996PRB}.  However, the superconductivity in the electron band can be expected to be very sensitive to the occupancy of the electron band with Se substitution for Te, as well as pressure/strain. This possibly explains the reported large variation in $T_c$ with pressure for FeSe ($T_c$ = 8.5-36.7 K)~\cite{Medvedev2009NM}.

\section*{Discussion}
Another difference can be recognized between the weak-coupling hole band and the strong-coupling electron band. Figures 3(a) and 3(b) show the temperature dependence of EDCs at $k_F$ for the hole band and $k \sim \Gamma$ for the electron band, respectively. The black solid lines indicate the fitting results using the BCS spectral function. The estimated SC-gap sizes are shown in Fig. 3(c). The existence of the pseudogap only for the hole band is clearer from the symmetrized EDCs (Fig. S11) or the FD-divided EDCs (Fig. S12).
The temperature dependence of the gap opening indicates another important difference for the weaker-coupling hole band compared to the strong-coupling electron band.
A pseudogap behavior can be recognized for the weaker coupling hole band in the spectra above $T_c$~\cite{note_pseudogap}. However, in strong contrast to the currently available BCS-BEC crossover theory~\cite{S'adeMelo1993PRL} which predict existence of a pseudogap in the BEC strong coupling regime, the electron band does not show a pseudogap above $T_c$~\cite{note_BQPcontinuation}. Thus, we find a coexistence of the weak coupling and strong coupling superconductivity in the same material but with attributes not fully consistent with our present understanding of weak and strong coupling superconductivity.
Our study identifies the required band structure for composite superconductivity, which is closely related to Dirac point dispersions, coexisting with a simple electron or hole band as schematically shown in Fig. 4.

\section*{Methods}
Single crystals of FeTe$_{0.6}$Se$_{0.4}$ were prepared by a melt-growth technique. Chemical composition of the grown crystals was determined by electron probe microanalysis (EPMA) and inductively coupled plasma (ICP) atomic emission spectrometry. Details have been described in Ref.~\onlinecite{Hanaguri2010Science}. ARPES data were collected using the laser ARPES apparatus developed at ISSP with the 6.994 eV, 6th harmonic of Nd:YVO$_4$ quasi continuous wave (q-CW, repetition rate = 120 MHz) laser and VG-Scienta HR8000 electron analyzer~\cite{Okazaki2012Science}. While this apparatus achieves the maximum energy resolution of 70 $\mu$eV, the overall energy resolution was set to $\sim$ 1.2 meV for the measurements of EDCs and MDCs near $E_F$ and 5 meV for $E$-$k$ map measurements, The angular resolution was 0.1 deg, corresponding to the momentum resolution of 0.0015 {\AA}$^{-1}$. Polarization of incident excitation laser was adjusted using a half-wave ($\lambda$/2) plate and a quarter-wave ($\lambda$/4) plate.
The $E_F$ positions were calibrated by measuring the Fermi edge of a gold film evaporated onto the sample substrate.

\subsection*{Band-structure calculations and dominant orbital characters}

Figure S1(a) shows band dispersions calculated by the Wien2k code for the pure FeTe. The lattice parameters were taken from those obtained by the powder neutron diffraction measurements~\cite{Li2009PRB} as in the previous report by Miyake {\it et al.}~\cite{Miyake2010JPSJ}. We confirmed that the obtained band dispersions are in accord with those by Miyake {\it et al}. We deduced the dominant orbital contribution of each band as indicated by different colors. Figure S1(b) shows the enlarged band dispersions in the vicinity of $E_F$ along the measured $X$-$\Gamma$-$X$ line. The 28th, 29th, and 30th bands show hole-like dispersions and cross the $E_F$, whereas the 31st band shows a electron-like dispersion just above $E_F$ around the $\Gamma$ point.

\subsection*{Orbital characters from polarization dependent measurements}

Figure S2(a) shows the experimental configuration of the laser ARPES measurements for this study. In this configuration, $xy$ and $yz$ orbitals can be measured only for the $p$ polarization, whereas the $x^2-y^2$, $z^2$, and $xz$ orbitals can be measured for both the polarizations from the parity selection rule~\cite{Damascelli2003RMP}. By taking account of the parity of each $d$ orbital and orbital characters obtained from the band-structure calculation, we assigned the dominant orbital characters of the observed three hole bands
as well as the electron band just above $E_F$,
as shown in Fig. S2(c).

\subsection*{Determination of the band dispersions above $E_F$ from three different methods}

We used three different methods to determine the band dispersions above $E_F$ at 25 K as described in the following. Each method has its own advantages and disadvantages. However, the three methods provide consistent band dispersions, and we can safely conclude that an electron band exists just above $E_F$ at the $\Gamma$ point. We could then determine the positions of the bottom of the electron band and the top of $x^2-y^2$ hole band.

\subsubsection*{Second derivative spectra with respect to energy}
Figure S3(a) shows a second derivative map with respect to energy obtained from the map shown in Fig. 1(a). The open circles indicate the peak positions. Figure S3(b) is obtained by first dividing the intensity map by the Fermi-Dirac (FD) function at $T$ = 25 K broadened with the experimental energy resolution, and then taking the second derivative.

\subsubsection*{Fitting to EDCs}
Figure S4 shows the results of fitting to several EDC cuts along the $X$-$\Gamma$-$X$ direction without dividing by the FD function. The solid lines indicate the fitting results. The fitting functions were obtained by first multiplying the FD function to the three Lorentzians, and then taking the convolution with the Gaussian corresponding to the experimental energy resolution.

\subsubsection*{Fitting to MDCs}
Figures S5(a) and S5(b) show the results of fitting to several cuts of MDCs at (a) 25 K and (b) 2.5 K, respectively, after dividing by the FD function convoluted with the Gaussian. We note that dividing by the FD function does not affect the lineshape of MDCs. The solid lines and vertical bars indicate the fitting functions and their peak positions. The fitting was performed in the region of $k\ge0$ with the symmetrized Lorentzians to avoid matrix element effects, i.e., the MDC fitting function $I(\omega)$ is given by $I(\omega) = \sum_{i}I_{i}(k) + \sum_{i}I_{i}(-k)$, where $I_{i}(k)$ is a component Lorentzian.

\subsection*{Band dispersions determined by various methods}

Figures S6(a) and S6(b) show the $E$-$k$ map measured at (a) 25 K and (b) 2.5 K, respectively. The open circles, rectangles, and triangles indicate the band dispersions determined by the second derivative spectra, fitting to the EDCs, and fitting to the MDCs. As mentioned above, each of these methods has advantages and disadvantages. Because the peak positions of the second derivative spectra are located where the gradient of the spectra shows large changes, it can detect the lower-energy side of the dispersion around the $\Gamma$ point. The fitting to the EDCs is the most appropriate to determine the band dispersion where the gradient of the dispersion is small, but it is difficult to determine the dispersions above $E_F$ without ambiguity. On the other hand, there is no ambiguity for the peak positions of MDCs even for those above $E_F$, but it is difficult to determine the dispersions around the top and bottom of the bands from MDC fits. However, the combination of three methods allows us to conclude that the top of the hole band is located at 6-7 meV above $E_F$ and an electron band exists just above $E_F$ for the dispersions at 25 K. At 2.5 K, we can recognize the superconducting coherence peaks separately at $k$ = $k_F$ and the $\Gamma$ point.

\subsection*{Fitting to EDCs at higher temperatures}
We performed measurements with another sample at higher temperatures of 35 K and 50 K in addition to 25 K. Figures S7(a)-(c) show the FD-divided EDCs at the $\Gamma$ point for these temperatures. The solid lines indicate the fitting functions which are the same as those used in Fig. 1(c), and the dashed lines are the component Lorentzians. The peak positions are consistent with data shown in Fig. 1, although the relative intensities of the two peaks are different. Figure S7(d) shows the FD-divided EDCs along the $\Gamma$-$X$ line at 50 K and the corresponding intensity plot is shown in Fig. S7(e). The rectangles indicate the band dispersions deduced from the fitting to the EDCs  in the same way as Fig. 1(b). The solid lines are the same as those in Fig. 1(b) and extended up to 20 meV above $E_F$. It confirms that the band dispersions at 50 K are consistent with the band dispersions at 25 K.

\subsection*{Polarization dependent spectra below $T_c$ and above $T_c$}

Figures S8 and S9 show the polarization-dependent intensity map and second derivative map measured below $T_c$ (= 2.5 K) and above $T_c$ (= 25 K), respectively. They were measured with right circular, left circular, $s$-, and $p$-polarizations.
As described above in the section of {\bf ``Orbital characters from polarization dependent measurements''}, the orbitals with the odd parity can be
measured with the $p$-polarization. In the second derivative spectra below $T_c$, a clear feature at $\Gamma$ point can be seen only for the $p$-polarization just below $E_F$, while the structure for $k_F$ crossings away from $\Gamma$ point can be seen for the both polarizations. This indicates a difference in orbital characters between the $x^2-y^2$ hole band and the electron band just above $E_F$. The right and left circular polarizations were used to avoid the selection rules for bands of particular symmetry which arise in photoemission with linear polarization. This ensures we have measured all the band dispersions with minimal matrix element effects.

\subsection*{Dispersion of the superconducting coherence peak around the $\Gamma$ point}

The superconducting coherence peaks and BQP dispersions shown in Figs. 2(b) and 2(g) were enlarged in Fig. S10. These plots clearly shows that the coherence peaks at $k$ $\sim$ $\Gamma$ is originated from the electron band just above $E_F$. The BQP disperion originated from the $x^2-y^2$ hole band is almost flat  around $k$ = $\pm$0.1 {\AA}$^{-1}$ and shows an indication of a bending-back behaviour, while the curvature of the dispersion around $k$ $\sim$ $\Gamma$ is very different from the almost flat dispersion of the BQP originated from the $x^2-y^2$ hole band and corresponds a reflection of the electronic dispersion just above $E_F$ in the normal state.

\subsection*{Temperature dependence of symmetrized EDCs and FD-divided EDCs}

The temperature dependent EDCs shown in Fig. 3 were symmetrized with respect to $E_F$ and the results are shown in Fig. S11, and they were divided by the FD functions of corresponding temperatures and the results are shown in Fig. S12. The existence of the pseudogap for the $x^2-y^2$ hole band can be clearly recognized also from both symmetrized EDCs and FD-divided EDCs as well as the temperature dependence of the SC-gap size estimated from fitting.

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\begin{figure*} [htbp]
\begin{center}
\includegraphics[width=12cm]{FigS1}
\end{center}
\begin{flushleft}
{\bf Fig. S1.} Band-structure calculations for the parent FeTe based on the density functional theory. ({\bf a}), Band dispersion along the high symmetric line in the Brillouin zone calculated by Wien2k code. The dominant orbital character of each band is indicated by different colors. The bands near the $E_F$ are mainly composed of $x^2-y^2$ and $xz/yz$ orbitals. ({\bf b}), Band dispersion near the $E_F$ is along the $X$-$\Gamma$-$X$ line. The 28th, 29th, and 30th bands show hole-like dispersions and cross the $E_F$, whereas the 31st band shows a electron-like dispersion just above $E_F$ around the $\Gamma$ point. The dispersion of the 28th and 31st bands looks like a Dirac cone.
\label{FigS1}
\end{flushleft}
\end{figure*}

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\includegraphics[width=15cm]{FigS2}
\end{center}
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{\bf Fig. S2.} Experimental configuration and linear-polarization dependence of ARPES intensity. ({\bf a}), Experimental configuration and parity of each $d$ orbital with respect to the mirror plane including the analyzer slit. ARPES intensity plotted as a function of momentum and energy measured at 25 K with ({\bf b}) $s$- and  ({\bf c}) $p$-polarizations, respectively. Dominant $d$ orbital for each band is indicated in (c).
\label{FigS2}
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\end{figure*}

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{\bf Fig. S3.} Band dispersions from the second derivative spectra ({\bf a}), Second derivative map with respect to energy. ({\bf b}), Second derivative map after dividing by the FD function convoluted with a Gaussian of the experimental resolution. The open circles indicate band dispersions deduced from the peak positions of each map.
\label{FigS3}
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\end{figure*}

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\includegraphics[width=8cm]{FigS4}
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{\bf Fig. S4.} Fitting to several cuts of EDCs along the $\Gamma$-$X$ line without dividing by the FD function. The solid lines indicate the fitting results.
\label{FigS4}
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\end{figure*}

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{\bf Fig. S5.} Fits to several cuts of MDCs along the $\Gamma$-$X$ line. {\bf a} MDCs at 25 K. {\bf b} MDCs at 2.5 K.
\label{FigS5}
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\end{figure*}

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Canada's Cassie Sharpe wins gold at final stop on halfpipe World Cup circuit
Canada's Sharpe wins halfpipe ski gold
TIGNES, France — Canada's Cassie Sharpe ended the World Cup halfpipe skiing season with a gold medal on Tuesday, giving her momentum heading into next week's world championships.
Sharpe, from Calgary, won handily with a score of 90.80, finishing ahead of Japan's Ayana Onozuka (86.00) and France's Marie Martinod (84.00).
Skiing last on the final run, Sharpe knew she had won gold before she hit the pipe after posting 87.00 on her second run. Instead of taking it easy, Sharpe turned up the difficulty for her final run, landing a switched cork 720 — a jump where she takes off backwards and does two full rotations on an axis that goes upside-down through the middle.
"On her victory lap she pushed herself even harder and used it as an opportunity to try a brand new trick and she nailed it," Sharpe's coach Trennon Paynter said. "She had a great moment there for herself and for the sport."
"It's not like she's the first one to do a switch 720, but she's the first one to do it in this manner," he added. it's a different axis she's rotating on, and that's what really made it stand out and what was a bit of a game changer."
Martinod finished atop the overall World Cup halftime standings, while Sharpe was fourth behind Martinod, Onozuka and American Annalisa Drew, who was fourth in Tignes.
Paynter said finishing ahead of the top halfpipe skiers will give Sharpe confidence heading into the world championships in Sierra Nevada, Spain. Sharpe won silver at the 2015 world championships in Kreischberg, Austria.
"She's known that she has the skills to compete with all of these girls," Paynter said. "It's been a very competitive year for women's halfpipe skiing, so for her to get a result like this now as we head into the world champs is excellent."
Tuesday's win is the second in her World Cup career. Her other victory also came at Tignes in 2015.
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Published in the March 5, 2014, edition of the Columbia Missourian. Used with permission.
Columbia, Mo. (March 9, 2014) — Three Missouri School of Journalism students are among the 12 from the University of Missouri who will build a school in Nicaragua this summer to ensure that more girls are educated in the rural community.
The women belong to Circle of Sisterhood, a collaborative Greek philanthropy that fosters access to quality schooling. All of them belong to campus sororities affiliated with the MU Panhellenic Association. They will spend a week on the project.
The journalism students participating are Madeleine Ptacin, Sigma Kappa, of Arlington Heights, Ill., a sophomore. Sara Driscoll, Sigma Kappa, of Chicago, is a junior majoring in strategic communication. Paige Tenkhoff, Pi Beta Phi, of Franklin, Tenn., is a senior majoring in strategic communication.
MU Panhellenic gave the Circle of Sisterhood $20,000 toward the $55,000 needed to build the school.
In addition, each woman going to Nicaragua will have $875 from Panhellenic to spend on building supplies, food and living costs. Women will be paired up to live with host families.
They represent six Greek chapters on campus. Applications could be submitted from any women who belong to a sorority. Eighteen applied for the 12 spots, said Jamie Beard, vice president of public relations for the MU Panhellenic Association.
The Circle of Sisterhood raised money for other expenses through a crowdsourcing site called CrowdRise and a 5K held in September.
The Circle of Sisterhood Foundation is a national group of sorority women who help uplift women around the world from poverty and oppression, especially in education, according to its website.
The school in Nicaragua must have 50 percent female enrollment. In the last three years, the national organization has served other women and girls in 16 countries on four continents, most recently in Senegal, West Africa.
Nicaragua will be the first trip for the MU Circle of Sisterhood, Beard said. The Panhellenic Association adopted Circle of Sisterhood as its council-wide philanthropy in March 2013.


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Conspiracy Theories Archives
That's all the story you're going to get
Gravity doesn't exist
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One thousand aspects of Adrenochrome
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People from unknown worlds: two steps between Stargates and Multiverse
Out-of-place artifacts
Medical conspiracies
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Alien races
Mega structures, megalithic structures
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This section draws particular attention to the mystical and esoteric religious dimension of conspiracy theories, often overshadowed by the political-cultural aspect of the same.
Bohemian Grove: the Powers' gathering
When it comes to the Bohemian Club and Bohemian Grove it is impossible not to recognize a close correlation with Freemasonry and the Illuminati.
It is in fact an elite of very high representatives of the political, military, financial, economic, entertainment and communication world.. continue reading
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Corey Goode, the designated intermediary of the Blue avians
Identified as an intuitive-empathic (IE) with precognitive abilities, Corey Goode Is one of the most important insiders in the circle of informants in UFO and extraterrestrial. continue reading
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"A Children's Book of Demons": a black bagic handbook for 5-10 years old?
On 22 May 2019 the publishing house Koyama Press published a volume entitled "A Children's Book of Demons": in its 48 pages, in a playful and ironic key, we could find the illustrations of 72 demons, with their names, description and seal, a representative symbol capable of summoning the demon it is associated with, once drawn. continue reading
Dec 21, 2020 in Religion and spirituality
The Project Blue Beam unveiled by Serge Monast
According to conspiracy theorists, the so-called Blue Beam Project would be the most sophisticated program of the New World Order, established to bring all men of all nations, cultures and religions to their knees. Before his disappearance, Serge Monast published incredible revelations obtained anonymously from "repentant" politicians, military and members of intelligence organizations and in 1994 he released an important interview in which he illustrated in great detail this occult operation. continue reading
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The Terra Papers: a glance on Robert Morning Sky's vision of the Mankind History
In Native American traditions, similar to other cultures scattered in different parts of the world, it is possible to find many legends of "Star Beings" which in a remote time would have given those nations knowledge and wisdom. Lakota-Sioux chieftain Robert Morning Sky, always interested in the ancestral origins of our planet provided his own interpretation of the history of man in his book "The Terra Papers, the Hidden History of Planet Earth". continue reading
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The Indigos, the children of the stars
Within the New Age culture, the term Indigo Children (or Indigos or Star Children), indicates a generation of children with special or supernatural traits and abilities and who came into the world with ... continue reading
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The Sarcophagus of Pakal and the Astronaut of Palenque
Scholars, researchers and ufologists including Erich von Daniken , Paul Francis and George A Tzoukalos argue that the sarcophagus of Pakal is one of the most important evidence in favor of the Paleocontact theory and... continue reading
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Erich Von Daniken is the well-known author of the book "Chariots of the Gods? Unsolved Mysteries of the Past", written in 1968 and subsequently became a bestseller, a reference point for all those who have approached the so-called theory of the Ancient Astronauts... continue reading
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The Emerald Tablet, also known as the Smaragdine Tablet is a sapiential text that, according to legend, was found in Egypt, before the Christian era, in which the secrets of the universe... continue reading
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The real Jesus was an Egyptian Pharaoh
There is no certain evidence on the real existence of Jesus Christ and even less on the fact that he lived in the historical era told by the Gospels. Ahmed Osman instead believes that the figure of Jesus is based on the life of the pharaoh Tutankhamun... continue reading
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Building brand trust and maintaining loyalty to that brand is crucial to the long-term success of nearly every type of business. Customers must believe that your product or service will consistently deliver high standards. There are several aspects of building trust and brand loyalty that you need to understand to create and expand a successful business.
Why Do Brand Trust and Loyalty Matter?
According to Forbes, building brand loyalty is more difficult than ever due to the ease with which consumers can search for discounts online. This same factor makes creating brand trust more important than ever. From the earliest stages of a startup, developing customers' trust should be a priority.
Building customer loyalty is something that takes time, effort and conscious planning. You can develop a customer's loyalty in several different ways.
Provide Value and Quality. The first step to building a solid customer base is to consistently provide a service or product that is high quality.
Always Be Transparent. Transparency can take many forms, one of which is access. The Guardian points out that the company Naked Wines provides an online platform that allows customers to interact directly with the winemakers.
Focus on Your Best Customers. Shopify explains that focusing on your primary customers means understanding not only who they are but also what's important to them and how to reach them. Do your best customers spend a lot of time on social media or is it better to reach them through TV or radio?
Continually Engage Those Customers. Once you know who your primary customers are and how to reach them, it's imperative to listen to their needs. Giving them special perks such as loyalty programs can make them feel welcomed and personally valued by your company.
How Can a Retailer Build Brand Trust?
It's important to focus on finding a solution for each customer's specific needs. This goes further than just focusing on the next sale. Arranging your retail space is a way to connect with the customer and tell the story of your product. Consistent color schemes and the appropriate lighting are essential to promoting your brand through retail display. Displays that are arranged throughout a business with customers in mind can act as "retail theater." These types of displays should be set up in a purposeful pattern to be part of product storytelling throughout the store.
This also means engaging all the senses. Racks, display stands and retail store fixtures need to be attractive and engaging. Playing the right music can also have an enormous impact on what and how much customers purchase. Even the scent that permeates a store can affect buying habits.
How Can Retailers Maintain Customer Loyalty?
If brand trust is tarnished or broken, it can be very difficult to rebuild, and the results can be devastating. It's important to keep connecting to your customers in new ways. According to Entrepreneur, pop-up events can provide your customers with fun and fresh ways to stay connected to your business. These events are normally located in high-traffic areas and often during busy times, such as the holidays.
SPC Retail can help you arrange your selling space with the needs of your customer in mind. They can create promotional displays using affordable fixtures that are durable, versatile and great for the environment. They work with both small and large businesses. Contact SPC Retail for more information.


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From: Gavi, The Vaccine Alliance
Closer than ever to a polio-free Nigeria
5 ways ensure polio eradication in Nigeria.
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Friday 24th July, marked one year without a detected case of wild poliovirus in Nigeria, one of the last remaining polio endemic countries alongside Pakistan and Afghanistan. This represents huge strides for the fight against polio in Nigeria, which reported 122 cases as recently as 2012.
But this is by no means the end of the story. For the African region to be officially declared polio-free, Nigeria must go three years without a case. Here we explore five ways they have made progress against the disease, which must now be sustained to see polio eliminated for good.
Maintaining the cold chain in Nigeria.
Image: Gavi/Adrian Brooks
Nigeria's immunisation infrastructure has been hailed as a pillar of success. The improved infrastructure as part of the polio programme has also benefitted routine immunisation, facilitated the roll out of new vaccines and supported programmes to improve maternal, newborn and child health. For example, the purchase and installation of more than 1,600 solar powered fridges for the country's cold chain supply will help keep the vaccines at the right temperature for effective use. Introduced in February of this year, inactivated polio vaccine (IPV) will play a crucial role in keeping Nigeria polio free as part of the routine immunisation programme.
2. Building community trust
Community discussion and engagement have been key to success.
In 2003, immunisation programmes in Northern Nigeria suffered greatly after political and religious leaders in the states of Kaduna, Kano and Zamfara advised parents not to immunise their children. They inaccurately claimed that vaccines contained ingredients that would cause sterility; as a result immunisation campaigns ground to a halt. To combat this, the Nigerian government worked with respected religious, traditional and community leaders to improve the reputation of vaccines. Dispelling myths about vaccines, especially in northern states, remains a priority.
3. Technology strong enough to fight Ebola
An example of GPS technology used to fight polio in Nigeria.
Image: Gavi: Gates Notes
To ensure that every child was reached with the polio vaccine, cutting-edge technologies including GPS satellite tracking technology, were developed with guidance from WHO polio programmes. By enabling real-time contact tracing and daily mapping of identified chains of transmission, this same technology has also been used to help track the chains of Ebola transmission. As a result, the outbreak was swiftly contained, and Nigeria's Ebola-fatality rate was much lower than elsewhere.
4. Facing the challenges of conflict
Inactivated polio vaccine being administered in Kano state.
Image: Gavi: UNICEF/Melissa Corkum
In 2013 immunisation programmes were suspended in Borno and Kano States following violence against vaccinators, making close to eight million children inaccessible for immunisation. In June 2013, vaccinators resorted to "hit and run" tactics which involved working with community leaders close to the lines of conflict to gain quick access to insecure areas to reach as many children as possible. Challenges remain, particularly in the north eastern region, but the success of Nigeria in vaccinating children in Boko Haram controlled areas offers hope that security issues in Afghanistan and Pakistan can also be overcome.
5. National support
Routine immunisation in Nigeria.
Nigeria must continue its commitment to ensuring the delivery of vaccines to all children, including continued vigilance on the part of surveillance and collaboration between government, partners, community leaders and health workers across Nigeria. The Nigerian government has demonstrated its commitment to this end; domestic funding for polio for 2015 is US$ 80 million.
With continuing challenges of corruption, poverty and instability, it's clear that there is still a long way to go, and routine immunisation and a strengthened health system must remain priorities. Nevertheless, this anniversary represents progress and hope for improved healthcare in Nigeria and for the elimination of polio world-wide.
Contributed by Rachael Hore in support of Gavi.
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CARIFESTA XIII is expected to have major investment at the community level.
That's the view of Minister of Culture Stephen Lashley who said Barbadian communities are expected to play a significant role in the coming arts festival.
Addressing the official launch of the Community Independence Celebrations at King George V Memorial Park last Saturday, he said 62 submissions had so far been received from Barbadian and regional groups interested in producing their own events that can be promoted on the official CARIFESTA calendar.
Acknowledging that the community fringe of CARIFESTA would be greatly driven by the efforts of such organizations as the Parish Independence Committees (PICs), Lashley encouraged them to be welcoming to the hundreds of artistes and artisans from 19 countries currently registered to take part in the August 17-27 festival.
The Culture Minister also applauded PIC members for their longstanding role over the past 21 years, and said their dedication spoke to the importance of volunteerism in the country.
"I think we need more of it; we need more Barbadians who will see the development of their communities and, ultimately, the development of their country, as a personal responsibility," Lashley asserted.
As CARIFESTA XIII approaches, community meetings are being held to engage and inform residents about the events and the community fringe programme.
The next one, hosted by the CARIFESTA Secretariat, will take place Thursday at the Alexandra School in Speightstown, St Peter at 6 p.m.
I am hearing ads about Carifesta but there is no mention or indication of the location of the Carifesta Village I have been to Carifesta in other islands and visited the Carifesta Village which was the venue showcasing the various crafts and cultural activities of all the participating countries.


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From an overweight smoker to 50 marathons in a year
Three years ago Cliff Sewell was an overweight smoker and heavy drinker. Today, he is on a quest to run 50 marathons in one year, starting Sept 1.
"I just got to a point where I knew I had a choice: either carry on as I was and slip further into the black hole of alcohol and depression, or make a change, a massive change," says Sewell, of Leeds, England. "Important point was that at that stage, I was running a business and functioning on the surface. To many people on the outside, all was fine. Now I look, talk and coach on change. It is amazing how many people are at this point but just cannot find the energy to change."
His business is called 15ten15 — a reference to Oct. 15, 2015, the day he made his decision to change.
"It didn't happen overnight and there was not a light bulb moment where life was going to change," he explains. "It has taken discipline and I've made a lot of mistakes along the way. I think the most important thing I took away was that it didn't just happen and there were many times when I slipped and stopped but I never quit. I always kept my mind on the fitness side and even when not training in the early days, I never let myself think I was going to get back to it."
Years earlier Sewell found motivation to run but couldn't sustain it.
"My nephew had had a heart transplant many years earlier at Great Ormond Street Hospital (GOSH) but eventually his new heart could no longer support him," he says. "At that point I wanted to do something to raise money for GOSH. I did a few 10K runs but eventually let life/alcohol take over and I slipped back into just working, drinking and functioning."
His 'why' for running
Now Sewell is all in. And then some.
"Running has just evolved as my go-to thing but it was also a decision," he says. "I love triathlon and long distance triathlon, however, that takes real planning and kit! Now I know that if you are totally committed you will make it happen, you will find a pool, you will get your bike set, etc. But for me, in all honesty, it was just too easy to find an excuse. So I knew if I focused on the running it was very difficult to find an excuse!"
His mornings start at 4 a.m.
"It's my thing. I set an alarm early, I get up and I get out. You don't have time to think of reasons not to go. By the time you are out, you feel good and away you go."
Like many facing milestone birthdays or newly minted 50-year-olds, Sewell sought out a big challenging goal. (I'm in the same boat with my first 100-miler just a few months away.)
"I am big on setting big challenges and I wanted to find one," he says. "I am very focused on my business, 15ten15, at the moment and taking weeks out to do big challenges just doesn't work at this point. So it needed to be big, but simple and easy to arrange."
He calls his 50 marathons in one year "simple."
"Even at full work pace I can find five hours a week to run a marathon – remove the excuses potential," he explains. "I aim to do around 20-25 actual marathon events and then just get the Garmin and do 26-mile runs and record."
Sewell doesn't have any specific races picked out. It's about the journey, not a particular event.
"It's about removing any potential excuses on achieving goals," he says. "I will start looking at regional events and just enter, turn up, run! I will obviously look to do some for flagship events as the year goes by. Part of my story is that it's not about the glam or success and big events. It's just getting out alone and running a marathon and that is hard! It takes real mind power and discipline and that's what I love, challenging myself to do stuff that doesn't have a medal or crowd but shows me that I did it!"
Finding what's possible
As he laces up his running shoes, plots his epic marathon quest and focuses on his business, Sewell won't forget where he's been. He also wants others struggling with addictions to know anything is possible.
"What it's about for me, to do this, to re-program, to change 100 percent and to show others that it's possible," he says. "I want people who are stuck, lost belief and have then chosen some wrong paths, lifestyles to look and listen to my story and see it's possible."
Sewell recommends going beyond the self-help books, diets, stop-drinking audios and take a closer look inside.
"Most of the stuff out there works, however, they miss a key message because it's a message people don't want to hear! ITS BLOODY HARD!!" he says. "It takes real hard work physically but most of all mentally to change. So many parts of society now are dragging us in the complete different direction and you have to fight against that."
'Best feeling in the world'
He knows that the only one you have to answer to you is you — and that person in the mirror.
"I always say that there needs to be a reason and that reason should be the mirror! Look in it and ask yourself what you want. Ignore everyone else, every advertisement, every mate telling you to get down to the pub. You have to do that over and over again – but – there comes a time when it will start to click. It will start to feel different. You will know inside that it's coming, it's happening. When you are running and that feeling comes, it is the best feeling in the world."
For Sewell, running is a symbol of his journey.
"Running is vital to my physical well-being," he says. "Just as important, if not more important, it really helps me mentally. I am not a fast runner! I can run fast but I don't enjoy running fast! It took me while to get that. I am now an 8-kilometer an hour runner and that's great for me. A marathon is about five hours. Yes, people do it in two, three or four hours and that's brilliant but that's not what inspires me. What inspires me is the ability to keep going both physically and mentally. That plays a massive part in developing many other parts of my life."
Name: Cliff Sewell
Hometown: Leeds, England
Number of years running: 4
How many miles a week do you typically run: 50K
Point of pride: Just keeping going!!
Favorite race distance: More time – anything running longer than two hours.
Favorite pre-race or training food/drink: Beans and rice
Favorite piece of gear: Garmin
Favorite or inspirational song to run to: I don't listen to music!
Favorite or inspirational mantra/phrase: Never give in.
Where can other runners connect or follow you:
• Instagram: cliff-sewell
• www.15ten15.com
• www.cliffsewell.com


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Q: How to capture mouse-over or hover event in Autodesk Forge Viewer? I am working on a POC for a client where I have proposed to use Autodesk Forge platform for displaying and interacting with 3D illustrations on Web.
I was able to design an admin panel where admin users can tag different parts inside the illustrations and when end users click on the tagged parts we either navigate to illustrations of that part or display the stored information for that part. For this I used Autodesk.Viewing.SELECTION_CHANGED_EVENT.
Another major requirement is to display part name and some other info on hovering over the parts inside the image. I am not able to find any event to bind to for Mouse-over or hover over a part inside the model.
P.S. Pointing me to the documentation where I can find information for other supported events will be very helpful for my future use.

A: You're able to utilize the object-under-mouse-changed event.  It passes back a 'dbid' which can be used to identify the object that is being hovered over.  When it is not being hovered (the canvas is the hover object), it appears to return -1.
Here is an example for adding the event listener (assuming your viewer is "viewer").  Simply logging items that may be of interest to you, and showing how to get the name from the dbId.
viewer.addEventListener(Autodesk.Viewing.OBJECT_UNDER_MOUSE_CHANGED,function(e){doStuff(e)});

function doStuff(e){
  console.log(e); /*To see everything passed back by the event.*/
  console.log(e.dbId); /*To get the internal ID of the object being hovered*/
  /*To get the object name from the dbId.  Note that this also includes the handle in the return of the name.*/
  viewer.getProperties(e.dbId, function(displayProperties){
   console.log(displayProperties.name);
  });
}

A: ASAIK, there is no direct event like MOUSE_OVER_EVENT to return the hovering over element, but you can use the mousemove event and calculate the dbid of the hit element, here is a blog post you can refer, hope it helps and let me know if any other questions.

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Lloyds Banking Group : New CEO
Jean-Christophe Rolland November 30, 2020 9:05 AM
The banking group named a current HSBC exceutive as its new CEO.
Lloyds Banking Group announced that Charlie Nunn is to be appointed to the role of Group Chief Executive Officer and Executive Director. Mr. Nunn is currently global Chief Executive, Wealth and Personal Banking at HSBC. Since joining HSBC in 2011, Mr. Nunn has held a range of leadership positions including Global Chief Operating Officer of Retail Banking and Wealth Management, Group Head of Wealth Management and Digital, and Chief Executive of Retail Banking and Wealth Management, assuming his current role in February 2018.
From a chartist point of view, the stock bounces following a recent consolidation and still trades above its rising 50-day MA while the RSI stands above 50. Therefore, readers should consider a new up leg to test the 40.7 resistance and 43 in extension.
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