As the second biggest investment you'll make during your lifetime, buying a car needs to be a well thought out plan. Other than the obvious factor of price, we have a useful list that you should consider in choosing a car.
Although car insurance is not mandatory in South Africa, it's best to have at least the most basic form of car insurance to protect other drivers and yourself from financial liability. The general rule of thumb is the higher the price of your car, the higher the insurance premium because it costs more to repair or replace it.
Insuring newer cars compared to older cars at their market value is also usually higher. Other factors influence your insurance premium include: -type of car -type of engine capacity -year of car's manufacture -age of car driver or owner -driving experience, premiums are lower for drivers with more experience -where your car is stored, on the street or in a garage.
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You should have a checklist ranked in importance for essentials such as air bags, seat belts, anti-lock brake systems and more. You can also add a few extras lower on the list like a sunroof or fog lights.
You can look at adding body kits as well but seeing as they come in packages from the dealers, you should truly weigh up whether you will actually utilize each feature. Incentives and Rewards Dealerships often offer incentives or rewards for buying with a low finance rate.
Be aware that to qualify for these low financing rates, you need to maintain a good credit score. Keep an eye out for festive offers such as Christmas offers where body kits and other additional extras may be on promotion.
If you buy a new car every 5 to 10 years, you should definitely consider the resale value of your car seeing a new car depreciates by around 60% of the original purchase price after five years. You should also note that the resale of a hybrid car would be higher, however, the purchase price of a hybrid car is always higher than a petrol or diesel car.
Many factors affect your resale value, they include: -brand of the car -history of reliability -mileage -current fuel efficiency -age of your car in years -level of wear and tear -any add-ons used for aesthetics or performance -whether you do a direct private sale or go through a used-car dealership.
This refers to how much petrol or diesel (in litres) your car consumers per 100km. South Africa and the world has faced recent instability, which has affected the price of fuel.
Finding a fuel-efficient car has become a necessity and as a result, more people are turning towards hybrids.
Hybrid cars are able to minimize the amount of petrol consumed compared to regular petrol and diesel cars.
Experiencing car trouble such as breaking down can be a very costly event that can run into the thousands of rand. However, by having your warranty in place, you can avoid the costly fees. Most new cars come with a 3 year or 60 000km, or 5 year or 100 000km warranty plan. If you are looking to for a used car, you should opt for one with the balance of the warranty intact.
Take note of what is included in the warranty as some expensive components may be excluded. You should also look for a car that has a comprehensive maintenance plan, whether it is a new car or a used car, you should find a car with a dealership approved maintenance plan.
By having perfect records of maintenance from the car brand's dealership, you can also increase the resale value because it has been documented as being well looked after.


Motorola DEFY owners, you are second-class citizens no more, as T-Mobile's latest OTA software update will infuse your devices with a fresh Froyo taste. Unfortunately, the 112MB upgrade won't free you from the shackles of MOTOBLUR, but it will bring some staple 2.2 features - including Adobe Flash compatibility, WiFi hotspot capabilities, and faster performance - as well as some Motorola additions, such as a task manager and LinkedIn integration.
As the topping on the cake, it appears that all DEFY owners are now able to get the update, not just those lucky enough to have been included in the first "stage" of the roll-out.
Yes, the new T-Mobile myTouch 4G will be launching on November 3rd, and yes, early adopters can now pre-order it from Wirefly, but guess what? The somewhat less popular Motorola Defy is in a similar predicament: its official launch date is November 3rd, and its official price tag is $99.99, but the Internet's #1 cell phone retailer is now allowing eager buyers to pre-order the military-grade device for just about half the official price - $49.99 on a new two-year contract.


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Well, the Bioscope is back from its Christmas break, and keen to get the fingertips tapping once more. First up, it's a new tool from Google Labs which offers interesting ways of analysing silent film subjects (or any other subject, for that matter). The Ngram Viewer uses data taken from the 15 million books and other documents scanned by Google Books to trace the occurence of words or phrases (up to five words) between 1800 and 2000, showing how often they occur each year.
All you do is enter your search term or phrase, then choose a time period and your language, and you get the results presented as a graph. So, enter the term 'bioscope' and you discover that the word first appears in the early 1800s – as indeed it did, having been coined in 1812 by Granville Penn for his religious tract The Bioscope, or Dial of Life. It emerges once again in the late 1890s when it was adopted by a number of early film producers (Charles Urban, Max Skaldanowsky, Georges Demenÿ) as a name for a film projector), its use exploding over the next 15 or 20 years as it became a generic term for cinema. Then it fades as the word 'cinema' takes over, only to enjoy a resurgence, probably on account of the increased use of the word as a make of microscope.
Having searched for your term, below the graph you are given the option to search Google Books itself for your term by particular time periods or universally (search under 1800-1913 and sure enough Granville Penn's book comes up first). You can also compare your term with others, by adding a comma-separated second term into the search box, as shown above with a search for Cinematograph v Kinematograph – with the relevant graphs in different colours. You can compare any number of terms, though there are only five colours available.
Do have a go, and let us know of any interesting Ngrams that you are able to create.
This is a very interesting area and I have taken the liberty of tasking your words and creating some Ngrams relating to my own areas of interest in photographic history. See: http://britishphotohistory.ning.com/profiles/blogs/ngrams-a-useful-research-tool I think used with care and with caveats around the source data then Ngrams could help confirm trends in a more quantitative way. As google seeks to digitise the whole world then presumably the source data will become more comprehensive. An interesting example of how digitisation can illuminate and develop scholarship.
It is interesting data, if used with care. Some words don't register at all, for others you get bafflingly low results (try comparing Dickens with Shakespeare – Shakespeare does badly). Digitisation is developing scholarship and in many ways opening new areas of discovery and new questions to ask. but it's also bringing in a whole new set of problems, based on reliability, comprehensiveness, quantitative versus qualitative, and so on.
I'm glad to see British Photo History is doing so well. I had a Ning until a year ago, when I abandoned it owing to uncertainty of purpose and lack of engagement from members – and then Ning brought in charges. I feel quite nostalgic seeing all the features and knowing what you can do with such a tool.


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New open-air bar with colorful cocktails from Death & Co team to open at Ramble Hotel
By Sara Grant, The Know May 30, 2018, 4:20 pm
The Garden Bar at the Ramble Hotel will open Friday. (Courtesy of Elliott Clark)
Less than a month after the highly-anticipated New York-based bar Death & Co opened it's second location in RiNo, it's ready to take this party outside.
The original announcement hinted that the cocktail-focused retreat would have a hand in many dining experiences at the new Ramble Hotel, and the second phase of that will roll out on Friday with the opening of The Garden.
The open-air expansion is located on the mezzanine level of the hotel and is focused on creating an informal gathering place for one of those many sunny Denver afternoons — complete with new drinks created by beverage director Tyson Buhler.
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According to a release, the menu will include a mix of twists on classics like the French 75, the Mai Tai and the Lost Horizon. Beer and Rosé Magnum will also be on hand.
The Garden will also feature Instagram-ready carbonated and garnished bottled cocktails for one person, or to share as a group.
After opening on Friday, hours for The Garden will be Monday through Thursday, 4-10 p.m.; Friday 4-11 p.m.; Saturday 10 a.m.-11 p.m.; Sunday 10 a.m.-10 p.m. Food and brunch menu to come.
More about the neighborhood: Denver
Post tags: bar openings and closings, cocktails, patios and rooftops
Sara Grant, Editor
Sara Grant was the creator of The Denver's Post's entertainment site, The Know: the one-stop-shop for things to do in Colorado. In 2018, she was named to Editor & Publisher's 25 Under 35 list and The Know was named Best Daily Website by the Colorado Press Association.
Last hit: Chalk Art Festival, People's Fair and more to do in Denver (plus bonus mountain events!) this weekend Up next: Theater review: "School of Rock the Musical" at the Buell is energetic fun for all ages
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My good friend Rachael isn't just designing templates anymore! She's joined the element and paper world too! She was invited to join the 2nd Digital Tag team! The kit is fabulous! And for 8.99 it's a steal! It's jam packed with stuff! Here is a little sneak peak.
In other news we had a fabulous day in Boston on Mother's Day. We went out for some great eats to a restaurant we learned about when Jen and Adam came to town last summer. My DH actually wants to go back for Father's day. Jen want to come with us? ;) And we took the boys to the top of the Prudential Center and they just loved that! I got some fun photos of a Red Sox game going on at Fenway Park!
OK gotta work! Have a great day!
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We may have been separated at birth......just cause I teach fitness doesn't mean I always enjoy it. :) And it certainly doesn't mean I am a size 5.
Yes!! But I think my parents are coming to town Father's Day weekend... I'm so jealous you have that place so close!!!
Wow Rachaels kit looks awesome! Great pictures of Boston!
Wow! Those photographs of Boston are awesome! I neeeed to go to Boston someday, my Masters degree was in Colonial American History, so I actually need to see some of the places I studied!
Also, with regards to the shabby technique...if you want, email me and I will divulge all!


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As I make the move to the Bay Area, dealing with my "stuff" is a big thing. Going from a 4,000 square foot house to a 10′ by 12′ room in a friend's apartment has been an adjustment both physically and mentally. But more interestingly, its lead me to reflect on all the stuff I have and what it really means to me. This Paul Graham essay on Stuff from 2007 also resonates with me.
In 2004 I purged everything I owned except for what would fit into the Land Rover I bought, and moved to downtown Seattle. That felt great, and being free of stuff also kept my mind free of clutter as I embarked on the beginning of my career. While I was making $9 as an hour, I had no money for buying anything except for the occasional professional clothing item or meal out with a friend. If I was spending money, it was on experiences.
By 2006 I was making good money, and dating the man who would become my husband. I had moved into a penthouse studio apartment and wanted to impress him (duh) with my taste, as well as enjoy the freedom of not having to conform to the tastes of a roommate. Ikea furniture, books I had been storing at my parent's house, kitchen utensils, clothes, SHOES… the "stuff" began to accumulate, and soon the studio was feeling pretty cramped.
We got married in the summer of 2007 and moved into his bachelor pad, which had even less personal space than my studio. The cheap Ikea furniture had to go and once again my personal style was subordinated to someone else's idea of "home" – which at the time was uber-sparse and uber-expensive (and uber-masculine) urban chic. I got rid of my car too, which was wonderful at first but later felt stifling, in favor of his Audi. In all, from a materialistic point of view my entire lifestyle was upgraded when our possessions became shared. All I really brought my ever-growing book collection, and enormous collection of designer shoes and fabulous clothes. For two newlyweds, this was a lot of stuff to manage.
So what did we do? We bought a bigger container for our stuff, in the form of a 4,000 square foot house in the suburbs. What started out as curiousity about what was on the market turning into me finding our dream house. We moved in on Halloween 2007, a mere 3 months after getting married. Our stuff began to expand again… we left all the furniture at the Seattle condo (we were renting it out) and took on a bunch of furniture from my parent's house that they had been saving for us, as well as piano, 8 person dining room table, and new couches, bar stools, etc. AHHH! We were in stuff acquisition mode, shopping every weekend for stuff to make our not-so-little nest feel like a home.
And then the economy tanked.
I wish I could say that we'd been frugal with our acquisitions, but with Kevin's job at Microsoft and my investments flying high we weren't too concerned. I was working for a startup, making a startup income, but we were still a two income household without anyone depending on us. My walk in closet was stocked with fabulous outfits, I wore labels, and we threw dinner parties almost every week. While the market crashed we were in Las Vegas, treating my little sister to a memorable 21st birthday. Looking back, that was probably one of the best ways we spent money that year.
On Friday, I flew from SFO to Seattle with my most important "stuff": my black Kate Spade purse, MacBook pro, iPhone, engagement ring and necklace my husband gave me for Valentine's Day this year, my passport and some cash. I could have flown anywhere in the world and started my life from that moment in time with the items in that bag. That's a pretty empowering thought, and lead me to think that the lack of "stuff" might be part of why people find travel so liberating – it certainly is for me.
Enabling great experiences and memories, shared with people I enjoy, is the most important leisure activity in my life. My rule of thumb now is that my "stuff" needs to enhance or enable experiences in some way, or it isn't valid. Additionally, the more expensive the item (both in terms of money and amount of trouble I go to keeping it) it better generate lasting and repeat value.
Another important thing I've learned is that owning expensive things is great, but only if you use them. Each time you use them, its a part of the experience of owning something. If you know me, you know that I have a thing for expensive leather purses and shoes, and that's because when I use/wear them the luxury and stylishness of the items creates an experience for me personally. I love that. It's the same for things like owning silver and china, or crystal. Use it or give it to someone who will.


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Oil & Gas Markets
Top energy super basins of the future will feature strong renewables and CCS potential. Possible basins offer good renewables or CCS potential, but probably not both. Disadvantaged basins lack strong renewables and CCS potential.
Co-location with renewables, CCS will be key to energy super basins of the future, Wood Mackenzie says
Energy super basins of the future will need to fulfill three key criteria: abundant resources, access to low-cost renewables and hub-scale carbon capture and storage (CCS) opportunities, according to a report by Wood Mackenzie.
The world's need for sustainable energy is set to change the geography of the oil and gas industry, increasingly entwining it with renewables.
Fewer than 50 traditional super basins supply more than 90% of the world's oil and gas. These are defined as basins originally holding more than 10 billion BOE resources, of which more than 5 billion BOE remains. "Of the remaining resources from traditional super basins, only 1,453 billion BOE, or half, have been identified as future-fit energy super basins," said Andrew Latham, Wood Mackenzie Vice President.
Much of the world's production is operated by companies with net-zero targets for Scope 1 and 2 emissions by 2050 or earlier. Electrifying operations using renewable energy is one of the fastest ways to eliminate emissions. "The co-location of low-cost renewables with low-cost oil and gas is key," Mr Latham said.
Examples of future energy super basins include the Gulf Coast and Permian in the US. Both offer plentiful clean electricity from solar power potential and additional renewables from wind. Wood Mackenzie expects a substantial CCS industry to emerge, based on hub-scale CO2 sources from refining, petrochemical and other industrial facilities around the Texas coast.
Other examples of future energy super basins include the Rub al Khali in the Middle East, the North Sea, and Australia's North Carnarvon.
Westwood: Asia Pacific sees increasing rig activity
Rig activity in the Asia Pacific region has become much busier in 2022, according to Westwood Global Energy Group's Terry Childs, Head of Riglogix, and Paul Ezekiel, Senior Rig Analyst. Marketed utilization is near 90% and could hit 95% by the end of the year, according to their analysis, issued in July.
In terms of floating rigs, there are only three active drillships in Southeast Asia, two of which are working. Dayrates for new drillship fixtures this year have been in the $220,000 range, but upcoming rates are likely to be closer to $270,000. There are 12 semisubmersibles, five of which are marketed and four of which are working. Only three new semi contracts have been signed this year, with dayrates still below $200,000.
In Australia, there are five semis, three of which are contracted into 2024. Of the three new semi contracts signed in 2022, the most recent fixture hit $379,000, well above the previous high of $265,000.
On the jackup side, marketed utilization has improved to 90%. However, many rigs in the Asia Pacific are destined for work outside the region. Six of the 45 marketed rigs in Southeast Asia that are contracted or committed will be going to Saudi Arabia. Four newbuilds are also expected to move there. By the end of 2022 or early 2023, 15 jackups will have departed Southeast Asia for contracts with Saudi Aramco.
A couple of recent four-year jackup contract awards have seen dayrates in the range of $105,000. For shorter-term contracts, dayrates have ranged from a low of $67,000 to a high of $90,000. In Australia, 2022 fixtures have seen rates in the range of $112,000-$118,000.
The APAC region currently has over 40 programs in some stage of rig inquiry, including 13 in Australia. In Southeast Asia, the largest number of jackup requirements are in Malaysia, followed by Indonesia and Vietnam.
The analysts also noted that inflation may accelerate the use of local crews and supplies where possible.
UKCS decommissioning costs down 25% in past 5 years
The cost of decommissioning oil and gas infrastructure on the UK Continental Shelf (UKCS) has been cut by 25% in the past five years, according to the North Sea Transition Authority's (NSTA) Decom-missioning Cost Estimate Report 2022. The forecast fell by £1.5 billion to £44.5 billion last year, contributing to a total cut of £15 billion (25%) since 2017, when the NSTA introduced a baseline estimate of £59.7 billion and set a target of reducing costs by 35% to £39 billion by year-end 2022.
Decommissioning spend is expected to ramp up to a peak of more than £2.5 billion/year over the next two decades, offering a long-term opportunity for the supply chain to develop cost-efficient services. Challenges in the short term will include market inflation and competition for resources from other energy sectors.
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Collaboration, ingenuity will be needed during energy expansion


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Ruan Pienaar decision a mistake, says Shane Horgan
Updated / Friday, 2 Sep 2016 15:05
Ruan Pienaar will have to leave Ulster at the end of his current contract
Ending Ruan Pienaar's seven-year stay at Ulster could damage the Irish provinces' ability to recruit top global stars, according to Shane Horgan.
Irish chiefs blocked Ulster's attempts to extend Pienaar's contract past next summer, challenging the Ravenhill province to promote from within instead.
The Irish Rugby Football Union (IRFU) has defended the policy of championing home-grown talent in a bid to boost depth at scrum-half, but Horgan remains sceptical.
The former British and Irish Lions wing believes forcing 88-cap Springboks half-back Pienaar to leave Ulster "sends out a bad message" to future potential recruits at all four Irish provinces.
"Ruan Pienaar's been there for quite a number of years, he's performed very well, he's a key member of their culture and has helped developed that," Horgan said.
"There's some risks in that it sends out a bad message to other overseas players.
"It's important not to dissuade other players from building a life here."
"He's come and done the right thing, he's built a life in Belfast. It's never been just a money deal for him. He's invested in the community there, he's invested in the club.
"From that perspective you've got to be wary that you don't stop similar players doing the same thing.
"All the overseas players that have been successful in Ireland have totally embraced the life.
"The ones that haven't been successful are the ones who have come for money. So it's important not to dissuade other players from building a life here."
Ulster issued a statement on Wednesday insisting the Belfast outfit were disappointed not to be able to extend Pienaar's contract once more.
The 32-year-old looks set for a switch to France, though Ulster hope to bring him back to the province in a coaching capacity in the long-run.
The IRFU's performance director David Nucifora countered Ulster's confirmation of Pienaar's situation, insisting the province must instead "develop indigenous talent in this position".
Former Leinster and Ireland wing Horgan fully supports the IRFU's succession planning, but believes Irish bosses may have taken a step too far by ushering Pienaar out of Ulster's door.
"It's an important consideration for the IRFU to develop players for the overall health of the game," said Horgan.
"But players can be developed within the existing framework.
"If there was a player really knocking on the door in that position and that was clear, then fine, but that's not the case at the moment.
"You've got to think about the development of the entire squad. If you take out a key player at nine and you don't have an indigenous player to perform at that level, then you're compromising maybe the development of the whole squad. And you may have to sign someone anyway.
"I understand the philosophy behind it, but it's not just a case of a foreign player leaving means automatically we'll have an international nine slotting in.
"If players there aren't good enough to be pushing consistently, I'm not sure that's going to change just because you give someone more game time."
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The Free People have just solved a mystery for us - the woven tapestry.
1. Make your cardboard circle 20 x 20"
2. Draw lines to make four sections.
3. Then add two more lines to make eight sections then 16 sections, then 32 sections all meeting in the centre.
4. Cut 1 inch slits along each line at the edge of the circle.
5. Wedge your twine into a slit and cross to opposite end along the line and wedge into the slit. Wrap around the back to the opposite side and through the slit to the right of the original slit.
6. Bring the twine across the front of the circle along the line and in to the slit to the left of the second slit.
7. Continue to wedge the twine into opposing slits keeping the front tidy (the back can be messier) until all the lines are covered.
8. Tie your rope to the centre of the circle where the twine meets and begin weaving the rope under and over the twine in a circle. (pull tight and do not leave spaces).
9. When your rope comes to an end attach a new colour to it and continue weaving. Hide any knots under the weave as you go.
10. Continue until finished weaving all the way to the edge of the circle.
11. One you have finished, tie the end of your rope to the edge of the weave and tuck under to attach pompoms.
12. Turn over to the back of the circle where the card board is just a criss-cross of twine. Cut the twine off 2 inches from the edge of the circle.
13. Remove the twine from the slits in the cardboard and remove the weave rope from the cardboard.
14. Knot the loose twine to the nearest loose end to hold fast. You are done!
You can make these in bigger or smaller sizes and with any variety of colours you like. Have fun!!


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Q: Linking with sourcemaps in ionic I am having a problem with source maps or something similar.
When I put console.log(...) in the code, I see the message in console, but it links to compiled javascript, instead to source typescript file.
Am I missed something?
I am using blank project in ionic, e.g.:
ionic start MyProjectName blank --type=ionic-angular

A: What helped me solving my sourcemap issues was, using --source-map flag for ionic serve and adding
"config": {
    "ionic_sass": "./sass.config.js"
 },

to package.json in the root folder. The content of sass.config.js was:
module.exports = {
  sourceMap: true
}

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Gender markers are useless, so why not abolish them?
Quebec's Bill 2 threatens to out transgender people. Maybe it's time to remove gender markers from birth certificates and other identity documents.
by	Florence Ashley November 30, 2021
Why do we have gender markers? Are they necessary? These questions have been brought to the fore as transgender communities in Quebec organize in opposition to a proposed law that would out as trans anyone who has not had or does not wish to have genital surgery. Communities have, understandably, concentrated their efforts on improving gender markers rather than abandoning them – a crisis is not the time to reinvent the wheel. Yet it seems that abolishing gender markers would also provide a viable solution.
Gender markers are back in public discussion after the Quebec government proposed a new bill that would, among other things, create a "gender identity" marker distinct from a person's "sex." Whereas since 2015 the designation of sex on birth certificates can be changed based on self-identification, undergoing genital surgery would be required going forward. Bill 2 has been decried by trans communities, non-profit organizations and legal experts for violating trans people's rights to dignity, privacy, equality and bodily integrity. Under the proposed law, trans people would be the only ones with "gender identity" on their government documents instead of "sex," revealing their transness for all to see. The bill would also create a new "indeterminate" marker reserved for intersex newborns, further encouraging harmful and non-consensual surgeries. Public hearings on the proposed law are set to begin Nov. 30.
It was on QUB radio that I was first asked why, given the dangers of Quebec's controversial Bill 2 for trans communities, we simply didn't do away with gender markers. I was taken aback. Questions as to the raison d'être of gender markers are common among trans communities. I have previously argued in a scholarly context that we should abandon them. However, I rarely see that position among mainstream journalists, who often presume – along with the general population –that a gender marker is simply something we must have on identification documents.
Gender markers herald from a time when gender served as a basis for allocating rights. In Quebec, they have featured on birth certificates since before the adoption of the Civil Code of Lower Canada in 1866, following French custom. The history of gender markers in France is hardly progressive. As law professors Philippe Guez and Diane Roman explain, their primary use was in allocating lesser rights to women, discouraging draft-dodging and preventing same-sex marriages. Including gender on birth certificates played a similar role as registering race on them: it is the fuel needed by oppressive institutions to operate. Without a government-sanctioned record of gender, women could open bank accounts and marry one another by dressing up as men. Men could evade the draft. Trans people could stymie crossdressing charges. In a society that withholds rights from women and LGBTQ+ communities, recording gender becomes essential – without it, enforcing sexist, homophobic and transphobic laws becomes much more difficult.
We need clear laws against conversion therapy
On a more insidious level, gender markers also help naturalize social categorizations based on gender. If it is important enough to feature on birth certificates, the logic goes, treating people differently based on gender must be reasonable. Thus, sexism is reinforced. Thankfully, none of those justifications hold up today. Women and LGBTQ+ communities, at least on paper, have rights equal to everyone else.
A few arguments have been raised in favour of preserving gender markers.
One such argument is that gender-segregated spaces and programs – be they bathrooms, shelters or affirmative-action initiatives – continue to exist, and depend for their existence on gender markers. Yet the argument gravely misunderstands the state of the law. In Canada, access to gender-segregated spaces and programs has been based on gender identity rather than gender markers for more than 20 years. Preserving gender markers only fuels the misconception that trans inclusion is based on the government's stamp of approval.
A second argument for preserving gender markers is their use for the purposes of identification. Gender markers are sometimes used to identify the person, especially when pictures are unavailable. However, use of gender as a proxy for individual identity is rendered fraught by the many gender non-conforming and trans people who belie gendered assumptions. If gender markers are used for the purposes of identification, women with deep voices may be locked out of their bank accounts. Beyond generating exclusionary outcomes, gender is a mediocre means of preventing identity fraud. Any woman wishing to perpetrate fraud would need at most to enlist the services of a single man from roughly half of the population. From eye colour to security questions, nearly every other means of identification is more discriminating than gender. The only trait less discriminating than gender for identification purposes is perhaps, "Are you human?"
Another argument heard in favour of gender markers is their statistical role, notably in tracking data on gender equality. Equality is a laudable goal, but it is unclear why gender information cannot be obtained in other ways. The government succeeds in generating statistics on racial, disability and LGBTQ+ disparities without these identities being incorporated into public-facing identification documents. The census, arguably the single most valuable tool for tracking gender equality across the country, relies on self-reporting rather than birth certificates. If anything, relying on birth certificates would bias resulting statistics by miscategorizing trans individuals who haven't changed their gender markers and failing to count migrants who have not obtained provincial documentation.
Undeterred, others argue that retaining gender markers is critical for medical purposes. Don't doctors need to know if you are a boy or a girl? Not quite. Boys and girls, like everyone else, demonstrate a great intra-group diversity that is simply not captured by gender markers. Assuming biology from an "F" on a card could prove life-threatening to a trans woman, an intersex woman or a cisgender woman who lives with an endocrine condition, has had a hysterectomy, etc. As professors Lauren Freeman and Saray Ayala López explain, "relying on sex categories as a proxy for medical diagnoses and treatments can be a problem" leading to serious health issues.
Gender markers may be expedient, but we expect more from doctors than adequate treatment for most people. If a doctor dispensed harmful treatment based on hasty assumptions, they would most likely be on the hook for medical malpractice. Perhaps more critically, there is nothing that gender markers offer which appearances can't once we begin to tolerate flawed assumptions. If doctors care only for the majority, why not rely on appearances to guess people's biology? Setting aside the dismal medical benefits of having gender markers on birth certificates, it is unclear whether identity documents are an appropriate place for medical information. After all, blood types do not appear on health cards, despite being far more useful information in an emergency.
Gender markers track their roots through a genealogy of sexism, homophobia and transphobia. Today, the grim legacy of gender markers echoes in the form of gender policing, discrimination and violence. The discussions surrounding Bill 2 are beginning to highlight the seams of the government's gender systems. Maybe it is time for us to leave behind our romanticized attachment to this obsolete institution. Maybe it is time to initiate a serious conversation about taking gender markers off birth certificates and identification documents.
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Florence Ashley is a transfeminine jurist and bioethicist. They are a doctoral candidate at the University of Toronto faculty of law and joint centre for bioethics, and will soon publish a book with UBC Press on conversion practices. Their work focuses on trans legal issues and access to health care. They tweet at @ButNotTheCity.
by Florence Ashley. Originally published on Policy Options

Gender markers are useless, so why not abolish them?

by Florence Ashley. Originally published on Policy Options
November 30, 2021

Why do we have gender markers? Are they necessary? These questions have been brought to the fore as transgender communities in Quebec organize in opposition to a proposed law that would out as trans anyone who has not had or does not wish to have genital surgery. Communities have, understandably, concentrated their efforts on improving gender markers rather than abandoning them – a crisis is not the time to reinvent the wheel. Yet it seems that abolishing gender markers would also provide a viable solution.

Gender markers are back in public discussion after the Quebec government proposed a new bill that would, among other things, create a "gender identity" marker distinct from a person's "sex." Whereas since 2015 the designation of sex on birth certificates can be changed based on self-identification, undergoing genital surgery would be required going forward. Bill 2 has been decried by trans communities, non-profit organizations and legal experts for violating trans people's rights to dignity, privacy, equality and bodily integrity. Under the proposed law, trans people would be the only ones with "gender identity" on their government documents instead of "sex," revealing their transness for all to see. The bill would also create a new "indeterminate" marker reserved for intersex newborns, further encouraging harmful and non-consensual surgeries. Public hearings on the proposed law are set to begin Nov. 30.

It was on QUB radio that I was first asked why, given the dangers of Quebec's controversial Bill 2 for trans communities, we simply didn't do away with gender markers. I was taken aback. Questions as to the raison d'être of gender markers are common among trans communities. I have previously argued in a scholarly context that we should abandon them. However, I rarely see that position among mainstream journalists, who often presume – along with the general population –that a gender marker is simply something we must have on identification documents.

Gender markers herald from a time when gender served as a basis for allocating rights. In Quebec, they have featured on birth certificates since before the adoption of the Civil Code of Lower Canada in 1866, following French custom. The history of gender markers in France is hardly progressive. As law professors Philippe Guez and Diane Roman explain, their primary use was in allocating lesser rights to women, discouraging draft-dodging and preventing same-sex marriages. Including gender on birth certificates played a similar role as registering race on them: it is the fuel needed by oppressive institutions to operate. Without a government-sanctioned record of gender, women could open bank accounts and marry one another by dressing up as men. Men could evade the draft. Trans people could stymie crossdressing charges. In a society that withholds rights from women and LGBTQ+ communities, recording gender becomes essential – without it, enforcing sexist, homophobic and transphobic laws becomes much more difficult.

We need clear laws against conversion therapy

On a more insidious level, gender markers also help naturalize social categorizations based on gender. If it is important enough to feature on birth certificates, the logic goes, treating people differently based on gender must be reasonable. Thus, sexism is reinforced. Thankfully, none of those justifications hold up today. Women and LGBTQ+ communities, at least on paper, have rights equal to everyone else.

A few arguments have been raised in favour of preserving gender markers.

One such argument is that gender-segregated spaces and programs – be they bathrooms, shelters or affirmative-action initiatives – continue to exist, and depend for their existence on gender markers. Yet the argument gravely misunderstands the state of the law. In Canada, access to gender-segregated spaces and programs has been based on gender identity rather than gender markers for more than 20 years. Preserving gender markers only fuels the misconception that trans inclusion is based on the government's stamp of approval.

A second argument for preserving gender markers is their use for the purposes of identification. Gender markers are sometimes used to identify the person, especially when pictures are unavailable. However, use of gender as a proxy for individual identity is rendered fraught by the many gender non-conforming and trans people who belie gendered assumptions. If gender markers are used for the purposes of identification, women with deep voices may be locked out of their bank accounts. Beyond generating exclusionary outcomes, gender is a mediocre means of preventing identity fraud. Any woman wishing to perpetrate fraud would need at most to enlist the services of a single man from roughly half of the population. From eye colour to security questions, nearly every other means of identification is more discriminating than gender. The only trait less discriminating than gender for identification purposes is perhaps, "Are you human?"

Another argument heard in favour of gender markers is their statistical role, notably in tracking data on gender equality. Equality is a laudable goal, but it is unclear why gender information cannot be obtained in other ways. The government succeeds in generating statistics on racial, disability and LGBTQ+ disparities without these identities being incorporated into public-facing identification documents. The census, arguably the single most valuable tool for tracking gender equality across the country, relies on self-reporting rather than birth certificates. If anything, relying on birth certificates would bias resulting statistics by miscategorizing trans individuals who haven't changed their gender markers and failing to count migrants who have not obtained provincial documentation.

Undeterred, others argue that retaining gender markers is critical for medical purposes. Don't doctors need to know if you are a boy or a girl? Not quite. Boys and girls, like everyone else, demonstrate a great intra-group diversity that is simply not captured by gender markers. Assuming biology from an "F" on a card could prove life-threatening to a trans woman, an intersex woman or a cisgender woman who lives with an endocrine condition, has had a hysterectomy, etc. As professors Lauren Freeman and Saray Ayala López explain, "relying on sex categories as a proxy for medical diagnoses and treatments can be a problem" leading to serious health issues.

Gender markers may be expedient, but we expect more from doctors than adequate treatment for most people. If a doctor dispensed harmful treatment based on hasty assumptions, they would most likely be on the hook for medical malpractice. Perhaps more critically, there is nothing that gender markers offer which appearances can't once we begin to tolerate flawed assumptions. If doctors care only for the majority, why not rely on appearances to guess people's biology? Setting aside the dismal medical benefits of having gender markers on birth certificates, it is unclear whether identity documents are an appropriate place for medical information. After all, blood types do not appear on health cards, despite being far more useful information in an emergency.

Gender markers track their roots through a genealogy of sexism, homophobia and transphobia. Today, the grim legacy of gender markers echoes in the form of gender policing, discrimination and violence. The discussions surrounding Bill 2 are beginning to highlight the seams of the government's gender systems. Maybe it is time for us to leave behind our romanticized attachment to this obsolete institution. Maybe it is time to initiate a serious conversation about taking gender markers off birth certificates and identification documents.

This article first appeared on Policy Options and is republished here under a Creative Commons license.
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Hong Kong to Raise Stamp Duty on Stock Transfers
On 5 March 2021, the Hong Kong government published the Revenue (Stamp Duty) Bill 2021 (the Bill) in the Gazette to give effect to the proposal to increase the rate of stamp duty on stock transfers to 0.13% (from 0.1%) as announced by the Financial Secretary in the 2021-22 Budget.
The Bill seeks to amend the Stamp Duty Ordinance to increase the rate of stamp duty payable on contract notes for the sale or purchase of Hong Kong stock and correspondingly on certain transfers of such stock with effect from 1 August 2021.
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coming out soon in English! This book is a story about his own personal story of recovery. Worth while reading the bio below which offers healing energy! Call 973-714-0765 or Lindseysass@gmail.com
"Meditation Saved My Life" A Tibetan Lama and the Healing Power of the Mind, by Sofia Stril-Rever
You will teach the world how to heal."- His Holiness the Dalai Lama.
Phakyab Rinpoche, a high-ranking Tibetan lama living in Jackson Heights, Queens, tucks his feet under him on the carpet of his living room-turned-temple and recounts how it all began. He was 13 and living in post-Cultural Revolution Tibet in the late 1970s, when the Future Buddha, Jampa, also known as Maitreya, came to him in a dream. "Would you like to come to my place?" the tall deity, believed to be the fifth in a line of Buddhas, and who Buddhists believe will come in the future, asked the young man. "There are mountains there and on top of the mountains there is a real monastery with lots of floors."
Rinpoche was intrigued. The things they called monasteries in his town were all in disuse or used instead as granaries by the townspeople. There were no lamas and people couldn't even carry prayer beads. Still, not having grown up with the tradition, he was pulled toward it, he recalls. The young man says he went with the deity on a walk until the most beautiful mountains he had ever seen appeared to him. They were covered in wildflowers of every variety and color. They walked up the incline of one mountain and came to a level place, then ascended again. The whole mountain was shaped this way – walkable inclines broken up by plateaus. Along the way, they were joined by Tsongkhapa, the founder of the Gelugpa or Yellow Hat Sect of Tibetan Buddhism in the 14th Century. The order is now led by His Holiness The Dalai Lama. Many believe Tsongkhapa to have been a Buddha himself.
When he arrived at the monastery, he found it amazing. There was life and activity, unlike the shells of monasteries that remained in his town. It was filled with the sights and sounds of a place of learning and service. The future Buddha and Tsongkhapa told the young teenager he could stay if he liked. "You are welcome here," they told him, he recalls. Though he loved his family deeply, he knew this was home, he says. And then he woke up.
"I thought, 'How could this happen? ' he says now. "I had so many emotions. My heart was empty," he says, trying to express the sadness he felt that it was just a dream and it was over. He approached his father and told him he wanted to be a monk. "Are you crazy?" his father responded, he recalls, laughing at the memory. "Look around you. There are no monasteries." Not only was there no place to study, but no one in his family had ever chosen that path. Yet the boy who would become the Rinpoche was determined.
He visited a family friend who was a tailor and eyed his scissors. "Cut my hair!" he demanded of the man. The tailor refused, noting how angry Rinpoche's father would be. So with that, the teen grabbed a pair himself and began chopping away at his shoulder length locks. As he left the tailor called after him to be sure to tell his parents it was he himself who took the shears to his mane. It must have been quite a sight, he remembers, because when he returned home, all his mother could do was laugh at him. But his determination apparently moved his parents.
A year later, China temporarily eased the restrictions they'd placed on the culture. The monastery in Rinpoche's town reopened. A festival was held there and his family took part in the celebration. Not long after that, he was ordained. But it wouldn't be easy. When the lama, Geshe Aki, tried to teach him tsa lung meditation, which would be so important to saving Rinpoche's life one day, the teacher handed him a book. "I don't understand this, I can't read," Rinpoche told the venerated teacher, who had taught at the monastery prior to the Cultural Revolution and continued a solo practice during the restrictive times, hiding in the mountains outside the town and meditating on his own. He'd returned even more adept than before, explains Rinpoche.
"Oh you keep it," Geshe Aki told him, he says. "It is good for you and some day it will help you. And you will teach many people," he said, telling him to secret it away for now. The lama died a year later. It is the knowledge he eventually mastered in that book which allowed him to practice the same kind of meditation it described for many hours a day for 10 months, saving him from a grave illness 20 years later, he says now. "I think he knew what would happen to me," Rinpoche says.
By 2003, Rinpoche had emigrated to the United States. Thirty-seven years old now, he had been badly injured from beatings in a Chinese prison — just for practicing his philosophy and teaching others. His wounds were so bad that he had developed gangrene on his right foot and leg. He managed to escape to India, and ultimately made his way West.
Here in New York City, he sought the advice of three different orthopedic surgeons who all gave the same advice: amputate or risk death. While the Holy man did not fear death, he told me later it didn't make sense to him to lose a leg — even in one lifetime of the many he believed he would have. Tibetans practice longevity yoga in each lifetime and are not cavalier about each chance they have upon the Earth.
Rinpoche had been named the Eighth Incarnation of the Phakyab Rinpoche by the Dalai Lama himself when he was working toward the highest level of Tibetan Buddhist study, the Geshe degree, in 1993. Rinpoche is an honorific title given to those lamas His Holiness believes achieved their reward in the last lifetime, ending the cycle of reincarnation. However, these souls choose to return to Earth to help more people out of samsara, or suffering. For this reason they are known as The Jewels or The Precious Ones. Rinpoche thought it would be wise to reach out to his mentor, Tenzin Gyatso, or Ocean of Wisdom, the 14th Dalai Lama, about such an important decision.
The Nobel Prize winner's response was not to amputate. In a letter, he reminded Rinpoche that he was a virtuoso of the tsa lung form of meditation and could heal himself. He wanted him to try, then teach others the value of the ancient practice. He gave him additional mantras to say and wished him his protection.
Tsa Lung involves the practitioner imagining a purifying wind clearing out all of the channels of the body. And so Rinpoche began.
For twelve hours each day, continuous except for meals, he would diligently focus on clearing his own body with the metaphysical wind. In the beginning, his leg oozed black. A few months into the practice, the liquid turned cloudy and he began to bruise. His leg and foot began to swell thereafter and became more painful. There was a foul odor.
Nine months into the discipline, the unthinkable happened. The wound had a clear liquid running from it and the swelling subsided. Before long he was tenderly putting some weight on the leg. At 10 months, he got a pair of crutches and began to walk. He dropped the crutches one at a time and at the year mark he could walk again. Not only had Rinpoche reversed his own gangrene — something never recorded in the history of medicine — his diabetes and tuberculosis were now gone as well.
Dr. William C. Bushell, an MIT-affiliated researcher and director of acquisitions for the new ISHAR (Integrative Studies Historical Archive & Repository) enormous online library founded by Dr. Deepak Chopra, explained the medicine behind the miraculous recovery previously for me in The Daily Beast. "This is a cognitive-behavioral practice that present East-West science suggests may be more effective that any existing strictly Western medical intervention," he said. Gangrene cannot be cured by current medical intervention at the stage of that suffered by Rinpoche.The lama has been undergoing tests at New York University and science hopes to learn all it can from his recovery. A book about his life will be published this October in France titled Teach the World How to Heal. It will be followed by an English translation and additional languages in the future.
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CITU completes 43 years of fruitful service
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30 May, CITU Day
On 30th May 2013, Centre of Indian Trade Unions (CITU) completes 43 years of fruitful service to the workers. It was formed on 30th May 1970 at the Conference of progressive workers held at at Calcutta from 28th to 31 May 1970. The first President was Com.B.T.Ranadive and General Secretary Com. P.Ramamoorthy. Comrades Samar Mukherjee, E.Balanandan, M.K.Pandhe, Chittabrata Majumdar and Mohammed Amin also occupied the posts of President/General Secretary during later period. At present Com. A.K.Padmanabhan is the President and Com. Tapan Sen the General Secretary. The 14th All India Conference was conducted at Kannur on 4-8 April 2013.
It will be only appropriate to reproduce a small note on the CITU from the documents of the organisation itself which will give a brief picture of CITU.
"The CITU represents workers in every field of trade activities including the workers in industrial and service sectors like Coal, Electricity, Steel, Heavy Engineering, Construction, Electronics, Oil & Natural Gas – production and refining, Petrochemicals, Fertilisers, Pharmaceuticals, Rail, Road, Air & Water Transport, Port & Docks, Telecommunications, Textile, Financial & other service sectors, Plantation, etc. Apart from the organised sector, the CITU has got pioneering role in organising the unorganised and informal sector workers, which dominate the numerical strength of the work force in India.
Yet another important segment of the trade union movement in the country is the working women. Organising the working women is a priority agenda of CITU. The All India Coordination Committee of Working Women (CITU) had been functioning for over two decades, focusing its attention on mobilising the women workers and promoting women cadres to leadership position in the trade unions.
The CITU has fraternal links with the trade union centres in several countries and frequent exchange of views/communications, mutual visits by delegations are regularly taking place. The CITU has been participating in seminars, workshops and other meets organised by different agencies at national and international levels on various issues, especially pertaining to the working class and trade union movement.
The CITU is bringing out its official monthly organ `The Working Class' (in English) and "CITU Mazdoor" (in Hindi). The CITU has published a large number of books and pamphlets, both in English and Hindi, covering various subjects of interest to the working class.
At enterprise level, activity of the CITU unions pertains to organising workers for achieving better wages, service condition, health and safety, etc and through those activities consolidating the collective strength and consciousness of the workers. Besides the above, the CITU unions also intervene in the various aspects of management of the enterprise seeking greater involvement of the workers in the efficient running of the enterprise and for strengthening participative mechanism at enterprise-level.
The CITU unions also carry on detailed study of the technology at the industry level to equip them for effective intervention. Side by side the CITU unions have undertaken the task of uniting other trade unions and also officers' organisations in the enterprise level to pressurise the management, government and the related agencies for redressal of workers' grievances at the enterprise/industry level.
Apart from the fight against the onslaughts of imperialist globalisation in general, the CITU is engaged in particular in the fight against the anti-people policies of liberalisation and privatisation. The important issues before the trade union movement in the country, inter alia, are attacks on trade union right, right to strike, right to collective bargaining, pro-employer retrograde changes in the labour laws, reduction of social security, closure of industrial units and massive retrenchment of workers, outsourcing and casualisation/informalisation of employment, menacing growth of unemployment, etc. In India, the present coalition government at the national level has been promoting religious fanaticism and engineering sectarian violence to divide the working class and the people in the country on religious communal lines. They are employing such notorious tactics to cover their failure on all fronts and to divert the attention of the people from the hardships of life and livelihood. The CITU is engaged in the struggle against such divisive forces, defending the unity of working class.
At macro level, the CITU has undertaken the task for uniting the trade union movement as a whole in the struggle for reshaping the government policy in the overall interest of the national economy, sustainable and self-reliant industrial development, the working class and common people. The CITU has been playing pivotal role in strengthening the unity and struggles of working class in the country. Widespread agitation in different forms all over the country, local and national levels demonstrations by millions of workers and countrywide strikes have been organised jointly by the central trade unions and federations of industrial workers and government employees. While pursuing this task, the CITU also took initiative in uniting the mass organisations of peasantry, agricultural workers, students, youth, women and other professionals also. This led to formation of National Platform of Mass Organisations, a platform which organised many countrywide strikes and various other agitations and campaigns. Recently, the apex judiciary in the country, the Supreme Court of India, came out with a judgement, with pronouncements denying the workers of their 'Right to Strike'. The CITU, along with the other CTUs had been spearheading the resistance struggle to get the pernicious impact of the judgement nullified. The period ahead is slated to witness nationwide united strikes to defend the right to strike, as well as more anti-privatisation strikes in the different industrial sectors like Coal, Oil & Refinery, Electricity, and Financial Sectors."
On the 43rd foundation anniversary of CITU, I convey my Revolutionary Greetings and Best Wishes to CITU, its leaders and members throughout the country!
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BooksHarry Potter
The Wizard on the Edge of Forever
By: rpnielsen
During the fight at the Department of Mysteries, Harry gets taken on the ride of his life.
Rated: Fiction T - English - Sci-Fi - Harry P., OC - Chapters: 20 - Words: 98,263 - Reviews: 780 - Favs: 1,686 - Follows: 2,118 - Updated: 11/22/2019 - Published: 3/24/2009 - id: 4944819
1. Chapter 12. Chapter 23. Chapter 34. Chapter 45. Chapter 56. Chapter 67. Chapter 78. Chapter 89. Chapter 910. Chapter 1011. Chapter 1112. Chapter 1213. Chapter 1314. Chapter 1415. Chapter 1516. Chapter 1617. Chapter 1718. Chapter 1819. Chapter 1920. Chapter 20
A Harry Potter/Star Trek Fan Fic.
Disclaimer: I don't own Harry Potter or Star Trek. For that matter, I don't own much of anything except a lot of debt. If I could claim the two series and all their spin-offs, I would. So please don't sic the law demons on me ok?
Chapter 1 Whoops!
Harry, Hermione and Neville dove under some desks to hide from the approaching Death Eaters. Harry stuffed the Prophesy sphere into his pocket, to free up his hands. He was hoping to get it to Dumbledore so he could do something to prevent Voldemort from getting his claws into it.
Harry looked out from under the desk he was hiding under to get an idea of where he was. He saw several desks in the room, a cabinet and the large bell jar with the Phoenix egg that had fascinated him on their way in. He ducked back under the desk as the door flew open.
Two Death Eaters came into the room at almost a run. "They might have run straight through to the hall," said one rough voice
"Check under the desks," instructed the other.
As the first Death Eater began to bend down to look under the nearest desk, Harry made a snap decision. Poking his wand out from under his own hiding place, he shouted "STUPEFY!"
The jet of red light slammed into the nearest Death Eater and flung him over the desk into a grandfather clock that was standing against the wall. The other Death Eater dodged out of the way of Harry's spell. He spotted Hermione, who had come out from under her own desk, and took aim.
"Avada…!"
Harry shot out from under the desk where he had been hiding and collided with the Death Eater that had been about to curse Hermione, knocking the Death Eater's wand arm towards the ceiling.
Neville, in his enthusiasm to help Harry, managed to heave the desk he was under towards Harry and the Death Eater, momentarily distracting the two of them. "EXPELLIARMUS!" Neville cried out, causing both Harry's and the Death Eater's wands to fly out of their hands, clattering to the ground near the door leading back to the Hall of Prophecies. As Harry and the Death Eater scrambled after their wands, Neville yelled, "Get out of the way, Harry!" and shot a stunner at the Death Eater.
The jet of red light shot past the masked man's shoulder and hit the cabinet just beyond him. The cabinet exploded, scattering time turners all over the floor. No sooner did the devices stop clattering to the floor than they shot back into the air and the cabinet reformed itself. This sequence began repeating itself as both Harry and the Death Eater managed to regain their wands.
Harry ducked behind another desk as the Death Eater took aim at him. The man ripped the mask off his face, as it was interfering with his being able to see where Harry went.
Just as the Death Eater began to fire off a stunner at Harry, a loud cry of "STUPEFY!" came from Hermione. The beam of light caught the Death Eater in the shoulder and spun him around, stunned. He collapsed over a desk and went face first into the bell jar that lit the room, with the phoenix trapped inside, forever hatching and returning to the egg. Instead of shattering, the jar reacted more like a bubble and flowed around the man's head until he stopped, with his face in the sand that was in the jar.
"Let's get out--" whispered Harry as he headed towards the door away from the prophecy room.
"Look out!" yelled Neville, staring in shock at the bell jar.
All three students were dumbfounded at the sight of what was happening to the man's head. It was shrinking, hair and stubble receding back into his skin as it shrank. When it stopped shrinking, it was the size of a newborn baby's head, and then it began growing again until it was exactly like it was when it went into the jar. The cycle repeated itself and the Death Eater began thrashing in an attempt to free himself from the jar.
"It's Time" Hermione said in an awestruck voice. "Time…"
During the Death Eaters attempts to free himself from the jar, he managed to fling some of the glittering sand out of the jar's interior. As it floated through the air, some of the substance settled on Harry. While none of it got in his eyes, the particles that did get on his skin didn't feel like normal sand. They tingled and prickled, with a crawling sensation not unlike tiny spiders traversing his skin, crawling on him just like he remembered from his years in the cupboard under the stairs. Harry tried to ignore the sensation as he watched the Death Eater finally pull his head out of the jar. A small baby's head was perched atop the muscular neck of the man, bawling as loudly as it could.
Harry raised his wand. However he was surprised to find Hermione's hand stopping him.
"You can't hurt a baby!"
Shaking his head as if to clear it, he heard the sounds of the other Death Eaters beyond the doorway.
"Come on!" Harry called, pulling Neville and Hermione out into a darkened hallway and hopefully towards safety. Once in the hallway the three teens spotted several Death Eaters come into the room they had just left. Spotting two open doors in the hall, Harry led his group through the door closest to his left into a cluttered office and slammed the door. Hermione began a spell to try and seal the door, but two more Death Eaters slammed the door open and one of them yelled out "IMPEDIMENTA!"
The three teens were knocked off their feet by the force of the spell. Neville went over a desk and out of sight. Hermione flew backwards into a bookshelf and was partially buried under a pile of books. Harry slammed into a wall cracking his head. Seeing stars, he struggled to a crouch.
"WE'VE GOT HIM!" yelled the one of the Death Eaters "IN AN OFFICE OFF…"
"SILENCIO!" cried Hermione. The spell silenced the Death Eater in mid sentence. They could still see his mouth trying to yell out where they were through the bottom of the mask, with no success.
Harry took aim at the other Death Eater "PETRIFIC--!"
He froze, mid-incantation, as the first spark of magic energy flowing into his wand suddenly flared around his hand and up his arm, flowing from grain to glittering grain of the sand from the time jar and sparking them all into incandescence.. Everyone in the room stopped and looked at Harry's glowing form. The glow grew to an almost blinding intensity and Harry's vision started to spin into a blur of colors and shapes. He was suddenly reminded of his trip with Hermione's time-turner, back in third year, but instead of a feeling like he was flying backwards, it felt as if he were flying in all directions at once, falling and rising and spinning out of control, into infinity. The light grew brighter still, swirling into a kaleidoscope of color and sound.
Just before he faded out completely, he heard Hermione and Neville screaming for him, as if from a great distance. "Harry? Harry?!"
End Chapter One.