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illumisbundles · 3 years

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i am requesting anything sero mainly bc i trust you with my baby daddy

this was honestly supposed to be cute and fluffy but something happened along the way and it ended up being a one-shot, lmao. but here’s your spicy-sero-flavored juice. 😗✨

content warning(s): jealous!dom!sero × sub!fem!reader; cannabis usage; exhibitionism (i think?); light degradation; some spanking; fingering; edging; cockwarming

minors dni!

— IT REALLY WASN’T WHAT IT LOOKED LIKE. you and mina were at the bar mingling, but she left to go quickly use the bathroom, leaving you and a purple-haired bartender alone. he saw this as an opportunity to strike up a conversation, which you happily engaged in. but you didn’t think anything of it, not that you were able to, really. you were a bit tipsy, and he was good company. he had a dry humor about him that you liked, and you found yourself laughing at his jokes. not to mention his pretty, amethyst eyes that you found yourself gazing at. they were just so purple, and you hadn’t seen anything like it before. you also hadn’t realized that he was flirting with you but it was okay, because (un)luckily, your boyfriend, sero, noticed for you.

so now the two of you were in the women’s bathroom with the door locked, you being bent over the sink with your skirt hiked up, ass sticking out just the way he liked it.

“look at this, you walked out of the house with nothing under this? why, so you could flash the bartender this pretty pink pussy of yours? is that it?” sero growled, smacking your ass with every other word spoken, causing you to shake your head, whimpering behind a bitten lip. but that wasn’t enough of an answer for him. “use your words little girl, stop shaking your head. you seemed to have had no problem earlier.”

“n-no!” you answer with a slight cry, for the man behind you spanked you again. “It wasn’t like that, i swear! we were just talking!”

unfortunately for you, the plea, much like you muffled cries and moans, fell on deaf ears as sero continued to spank your ass. eventually though, he began to get bored with only spanking, and decided to take it up a notch by stuffing his long fingers into your mouth for you to suck on. once he felt that they were wet enough, he pulled them from your mouth and sat them on your already dripping treasure.

“you didn’t need me to prep you, huh? you’re already dripping wet,” he marveled more so to himself, circling your clit with two of his fingers before slipping them inside of you.

“hanta…” you whined as he pumped his fingers as fast as he could inside of you, making your legs shake underneath you.

“open your eyes and look in the mirror,” sero demanded you, and you obeyed, watching as the two of you made eye contact.

sero’s eyes were anything but warm as the whites of it had a slight pinkness to it, indicating that he was a bit under the influence, and his irises were swirling around with lust. he was focused on you, watching the lewd faces you were making while you rutted against his hand to increase the friction.

“yeah, right there,” you moaned as you felt yourself reaching your peak. he looked so fine from behind you, toned arms flexing as he sped up his pace, his ponytail flopping with every thrust he made and dangling crosses that hung from his ear clinking together.

“yeah?” your boyfriend repeated after you, shifting his fingers so that the tips of it would hit that sensitive spot inside of you. “you wanna cum for me, sweetness? let me hear you say it.”

“oh, i’m gonna— shit, yeah, i’m gonna cum for you. hanta, fuck, right there!”

your walls began to clench tightly around his fingers, signaling that you were nearing your climax. his fingers were curling up inside of you and it felt so good, it was almost as if you could taste the bliss that was about to take over your body. but as soon as you going to get there, he snatched his fingers away from your body. he was very lucky your quirk didn’t involve sight because if it did, he’d be dead on the ground. sero only looked back at you, sucking your flavor from off his middle and ring fingers.

“sero what the fuck was that?!” you asked him, almost angry. he raised his eyebrows in mock surprise.

“oh you thought i was going to let you cum? only good girls get to do that. now stand up, and let’s go.”

when leaving the bathroom, you could feel sero’s palm sgainst the small of your back, gently guiding you. it was as warm as when he sat his hand on the side of his waist. it felt impersonal, almost, and you knew then that you’d messed up.

“oh there they are!” kirishima exclaimed as the two of you headed back to you all’s section. mina was back from wherever she ran off to, and denki and bakugou were nursing their drinks. “where were you guys, we were looking all over for ya?”

“yeah, sorry. y/n needed to use the bathroom,” sero explained, dragging you back to you guys’ spot in the corner. you were going to sit down next to him but it seemed that sero had other plans when he grabbed you to sit down onto his lap.

he wrapped his arms around you and placed a soft kiss against your neck before whispering into your ear, instructing you to pull out his dick and sit on it.

“sero, here? but—”

“shut the fuck up and just do it,” he growled in your ear, grabbing your hips to lift you up while you (as discreetly as you could) followed his directions. sero then eased you onto his length, whose tip was nearly kissing your cervix. you had to bite back a moan. “and don’t move.”

it was different now that the two of you were back out amongst the people, since the bathroom hat allotted you a bit of privacy. the two of you appeared to be cuddled up, and though very unlikely due to how dark the club is, just knowing that there was a chance of someone catching onto the hell that was breaking loose beneath the table had your adrenaline going, and you had no idea if you liked it or not.

hanta had sparked up another blunt, and was busy occupying himself with that and boy did it drive you wild, watching puffs of smoke in all types of shapes and sizes escape from his airways, only for it to be sucked right back in. you so badly wanted him to grab you by the chin so you could shotgun it, but you knew better than to ask him now. not while he was upset with you.

but while one hand was holding the blunt, the other was busy gripping your thigh, fingertips steadily making their way toward your throbbing heat. they finally reached the meeting of your thighs, and you nearly fell apart. you began to rock your hips against his fingers to create some friction to bring about even the tiniest bit of pleasure, but sero put a stop to that.

“stop moving,” he demanded, slapping the side of your thigh, making you cease your movements. you only swallowed, deciding to obey and just follow directions, not wanting to dig yourself in a bigger hole, and revel in the sensation of sero’s immobilized fingers. “i want you to sit there and think about what you’re missing.”

how couldn’t you? he was being the biggest tease, nevermind the fact that his dick was inside of you, unmoving. but he seemed to be fine, engaging in conversations whenever he felt like it, even including you just to be petty while “rearranging” his position, knowing that it’ll choke you up. all of this over a fucking conversation? you thought. good grief. but you knew better than to voice that, so you stayed quiet for a while, listening in on your friends’ conversations while trying to ignore the sexual frustration that was building up.

“hanta, i wanna go home,” you whined once the boys began talking amongst themselves, no longer able to withstand the feeling of your boyfriend just sitting idly inside of you.

sero looked over at you with lazy eyes, pulling the rolled leaf away from his lips and blowing the smoke in your face before saying, “and i want a girlfriend who doesn’t go around flirting with every man she sees.”

“i wasn’t flirting with him—!”

“who the fuck’re you getting loud with, huh?” he hissed, instantly shutting you up by grabbing you by the throat and gently squeezing the sides of it. “you want to get embarrassed? you want me to let everybody know how much of a slut you are?”

how were you surrounded by future heroes and none of them were noticing what was going on between the two of you? absolutely useless, they’d be.

“no hanta, i—”

“who?” sero asked, squeezing the sides of your neck a bit tighter.

“daddy,” you quickly corrected yourself. “no daddy, i don’t. i’ll be good,

“that’s what i thought, now pipe the fuck down. you’re ruining my high.”

needless to say, you were in for it when the two of you leaving the club.

— unedited.

#𝐑𝐄𝐐𝐔𝐄𝐒𝐓 𝐋𝐈𝐍𝐄! — ☎️#𝐒𝐏𝐈𝐂𝐘! — 🌶#hanta sero #sero x reader #stoner!sero #sero x you #sero x y/n #mha

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comicsteve-blog · 4 years

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23ish Things I’ve Learned about the World from Coronavirus.

This is not meant to belittle any of the chaos but to offer some slightly humorous perspective. Here are my quick observations on our new world:

1) ‘Driveway drinks’ are all the rage. - I’m a ‘social social’ distancer (SSD) and proactively socialize from 10-12 feet away. Most of us have reluctantly embraced social distancing. However, if you’re a social person, the creative emphasis is on the “social” part, not the “distance”. New taglines are emerging such as “Hey let’s eat not together”, “Facetime drinks anyone?”, or “Love to see you from 7 feet away!” Personal space will never be…. the …… same.

· (as an aside, there’s definitely a subset of the population who's thrilled to have a valid reason to be as anti-social as possible... you people know who you are).

2) Join me for a scotch by phone! Zoom video happy hours (ZVHH) will be a new thing. And they’re much cheaper to host - I open the Zoom room, you bring your own alcohol. Pants not required.

3) Household dynamics have changed - Stay at home moms & dads now have stressed out working from home husbands & wives, plus children learning at home. You’re forced to share your space, which can cause major distress. Soon each person will be assigned a room. Who gets the kitchen as their safe space? Who gets the bathroom? Trades will be made, fights will occur. I’ll trade you an avocado for use of the toilet.

4) Pre-Corona sanitizing – was there any? With everyone’s justified obsession with constant handwashing and sanitizing, it begs the question: Were we all dirty and unsanitary beforehand?? Was the subway ever sanitary? When was the last time my crappy gym was cleaned? Howie Mandel aside, I’m just not clear on where we stood on cleanliness in the past?

5) Demographic trends are emerging – Here are the top predicted trends that will emerge in the coming months/years: Corona-babies. Corona-divorces. Highest percentage of babies born to the recently divorced. Babies named Corona to honor their conception. Babies born very, very clean.

6) Spouse anxiety inequity (SAI) – This occurs when your spouse is exponentially more worried than you are. You’re ok with washing hands and taking basic precautions. But you’re not as keen to go apesh*t with your paranoia. One spouse is freaking out, the other is fine. Kids are confused, households divided. There are hand washing timers and toilet paper square limits. Of course, intimacy is out of the question until everything has been sufficiently washed for 20 seconds or more.

7) Newfound family time (NFT) - People have discovered things they never knew existed: 1) walks are a thing 2) family togetherness 3) nature. We didn’t need Trump to make America great again, it was the coronavirus. If there’s one thing we can be grateful for: newfound family love 😊. (note: too much of this will promptly lead to divorce).

8) Emails, so many emails! – Every company I’ve ever shopped or transacted at in the past 15 years has sent me emails. I get hundreds a day from businesses I forgot all about. It’s good to be back in touch Pilates studio I went to once 11 years ago! And I’m glad to hear you’re disinfecting your counters.

9) Physical greetings have eternally changed - Hand shaking is gone forever. Fist bumping is thankfully gone. Elbow shakes are a new thing. Head nods are nice. Finger guns are making a strong comeback. What else will emerge?

10) Rules about remote schooling – While teaching virtually, schools are encouraging kids to use Facetime and social media to be safe. Education by Tik-tok?? Despite the near term logic, everything we’ve been yelling at them about the past 10 years is out the window! Between social distancing and strictly electronic communication, I worry if kids will ever learn to talk to people in person? Is eye contact still a thing?

On the other hand, it’s a strange kind of torture for kids to be out of school yet unable to see their friends or play ball in the park.

11) Conversation about anything but Coronavirus is no longer a thing - I for one am burned out. I’m not trying to downplay the chaos; I’m just anxious and frustrated at having the same conversation repeatedly. Can we maybe discuss something else - even for a minute? Still, regardless of whatever topic you begin to explore during dinner, it inevitably gets turned back to COVID-19 in the end (even sex).

12) Watching the news is the most dangerous activity you can do - Nothing brings panic and anxiety more than CNN. By the way, has anything else happened in the news in the past week? Isn’t this an election year? I don’t know that I’ve heard any other stories. I feel badly for people who get sick or injured from non-COVID19 things… no one seems to care. (unless of course you’re Tom Hanks and have contracted COVID-19).

13) Reevaluating what you buy in the grocery store - You used to have a plan. Now you gladly take whatever’s left on the shelf. We don’t eat this. We do now!

· Only loser pasta is left. Gluten free, pasta made from chickpeas (what??).

· While the chicken is gone, there’s tons of fake meat available. Impossible!

· As a related aside, is there a reason everyone’s buying 18 cartons of toilet paper? Does coronavirus cause diarrhea? (does fake meat?)

· What’s the protocol for produce? It’s out and has clearly been touched. Hmmm. To be safe, I recommend turning all fruit into sangria “to kill the germs”

· Finally, I almost got into a knife fight at Shoprite last night because some fool tried to grab a bag of that delicious yellow Vigo rice out of my shopping cart. Some things are worth fighting for (as an aside, you can have my gluten free bread and oat milk).

14) The accidental cough (TAC) - God forbid someone coughs or sneezes publicly; they’re immediately met with dread. How dare you! Stay away! A sneeze on the bus is perhaps the most appalling thing anyone could do right now. The dry cough? Even worse. Please keep your non-corona bodily reactions to yourself.

15) Homemade hand sanitizer is a thing – I heard some are wasting perfectly good Tito’s vodka to try and make their own hand sanitizer. Tito’s had to put out a statement that it doesn’t work because the alcohol content is too low. In unrelated news, the moonshine business is really taking off nicely.

16) Watching sports – Seems like the sports networks, having run out of things to discuss, are now playing classics. I enjoyed the Mets-Expos 17 inning game from 1988 but seriously there’s got to be better programming options. We’re all home watching TV after all. BTW, if COVID-19 can’t boost network TV ratings, I’m not sure what could. (also please stop broadcasting video game football, that’s not a real sport).

17) Avoid large gatherings - Done. Small gatherings are all the rage. 50+ no good. 49 or under… no problem. (note this # changes daily, soon 7 will be the new cap).

18) Bars were closed on St. Patrick’s Day ☹ - This is an oxymoron. So what are we to do? Host a Zoom happy hour of course. Up to 49 people can attend (not sure I know that many people). I do feel bad for bar owners – their Superbowl has been cancelled.

19) No fighting – Somewhat related to St. Patty’s, fighting is now a thing of the past. You can aggressively curse someone out for coughing in public. Unless that person is unconcerned, there will be no physical retaliation. Go ahead, try it.

20) Travel deals anyone? Sure I imagine all travel may be shut down soon…. But in the meantime, you can quickly (and irresponsibly) book a trip to Florida for $50, the Caribbean for $75, or the space station on the moon for $179. Depending on your risk tolerance and recklessness, this is a great opportunity to see the world.

21) Ignore the stock market – Like everybody else, I watch in disgust as my investments plunge. But I don’t need this money tomorrow, so I’m doing my best to ignore it. Plus there are some obvious areas to potentially invest in: Zoom. Reckitt Benckiser (owns Lysol). Gojo Industries (owns Purell). P&G (TP). Netflix. And of course alcohol and cannabis companies are always a safe bet.

22) Classes at the Polo Club are shut down – this is perhaps the worse tragedy of all. The Polo Club in Boca Raton has canceled its classes. For fk’s sake! If my 75-year-old mother can’t start her day with Zumba, all hell is sure to break lose. As a related aside, mah-jongg tiles are basically carriers in and of themselves. You’ve never seen a Florida community spread a virus until a mah-jongg tournament gets underway.

23) Observe young children and animals - I realize that sounds awfully inappropriate. But I love the fact that my dog and kids playing outside are so innocent and naïve during these times. They don’t seem to have a worry in the world and keep enjoying life with a smile (or tail wag). Think like a child or a puppy, maybe you’ll feel better for a moment or two.

Kidding aside, we’re all doing our best to control this pandemic and get over the hump…. I leverage humor to treat my pain, and I think we all could use a little levity right now. Eventually, we’ll overcome and be back to a new normal (minus handshakes and in-person happy hours).

If you need me, I’ll be performing in an empty comedy club down the street. Stay tuned for my next post – foolproof tips on working from home! Stay safe my friends, Steve

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Stephen Strauss survived the corporate world for 20+ years and is now a content and marketing consultant. He’s performed stand-up comedy hundreds of times at comedy clubs and corporate functions including sales meetings and customer events. Research confirms his jokes made his fellow co-workers 47% happier.

Please connect at [email protected], via LinkedIn, or just open your window and scream his name (that's probably safest).

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observantdrifter · 4 years

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Activity Within a San Jose Party Hub on a Costa Rican Friday Night.

One must enter a spontaneous and impulsive mindset if interested in understanding the habits of a Costa Rican partygoer. Fully submitting to the experience is crucial, especially regarding new experiences. In this case, I was lounging in my home, sedated by inactivity in previous hours. This was disrupted by a call from a close friend of mine. She was in the neighborhood, and invited me to spend a night on the town with her. Naturally I told her to say no more, I’d be with her shortly.

First was beer, always beer. It’s important to lubricate the minds thought processing capability by diluting the consciousness. To be an impartial observer, alcohol is a great help. One liter in, the idea of making the trek about one kilometer west to “La Cali” came about. Neither one of us had any opinion on the matter, although a subliminal curiosity was present. Without much thought at all, we began walking in that direction.

La Cali is a street lined with loud bars and clubs of assorted themes. There’s something for a wide range of socialites. Reggae, Rock, Hip Hop, ect. Any mainstream entertainment seeker would find themselves right at home. For a person like me, a place like this is intolerable without first dissolving any concept of sobriety.

Such a place, on such a night, attracts large flocks of traditional members of the mass mentality. Immediately after penetrating the anesthetized crowd countless red faces and glazed over eyes inspect you from head to toe, silently evaluating the random individual who has just entered their vicinity. Clouds of low-grade marijuana smoke came from unknown sources. They mingled with clouds of tobacco smoke coming from less clandestine regions. These predominant smells were joined by those of vomit, beer, sweat, and a hint of sewage. The few of those who did not have some sort of psychoactive substance in their system were feeding off the turbulent energy of the environment. This scene was scored by the unsettling loudness consequent to all of the locales’ sound systems operating at maximum capacity.

The one kilometer walk to this strange place had made us dangerously sober and the smell of ditch weed triggered a craving. Our funds were severely limited, so the low-grade cannabis would have to do. We spent the next 20 minutes or so infiltrating the congregation from multiple angles. Periodically asking suspected stoners for some weed please. We asked multiple watchymans (Costa Rican term given to men who watch parked cars) and each time we were told “Wait right here while I go visit the doctor.” Often they would come back empty handed.

The lack of luck in comparison to the abundance of odor was mildly frustrating. If we were crack users we would be in a much different situation. Every time we would stand on a certain corner to assess potential marijuana users, we would witness countless crackheads coming and going contently. Each time saying hello to what seemed like old friends, handing them a bundle of coins and leaving with a couple loose pebbles of crack in their palms. I figured this out by asking a particularly shabby looking individual who had just exchanged a suspicious hand shake with a redheaded woman on a street corner. I asked, “Just out of pure curiosity, whatcha got there?” He proudly opened his hand and presented to me a small crack rock. “Crack! Hey, you want some? What do you need? I’ll get it for ya!” I kindly declined the offer.

This interaction raised suspicion in the dealer, who was now looking over at us frequently. She was surrounded by men within the next few minutes, all notably interested in our presence. We decided the area, although highly populated, was potentially dangerous and relocated.

After we left we met a lively individual by the name of Ivo. He was selling lollipops for a living. This did not trouble him however, he was an extremely joyous man. We asked him for some weed please and he said he would go visit the doctor at once. To make sure we wouldn’t leave this business opportunity he left us his jar of lollipops as a certain binding contract. After a few minutes, he returned with a small twisted piece of plastic that contained what resembled a brownish-green pebble that weighed no more than a quarter of a gram. It also contained a balled up rolling paper. He charged us 2,500 colones for said brownish-green pebble. We refused and negotiated the price down to 1,025 colones.

Now completely sober, we fled to the near by Parque Francia. We sat at a picnic table and I produced the twisted plastic containing the brownish-green pebble and rolling paper. I inspected the surface of the pebble closely, looking for any sort of unwelcome powders or particles. I deemed it OK to smoke and broke the pebble into minuscule crumbs. I rolled the pebble crumbs into a joint, and requested a light from a nearby couple. After introducing flame to flower, I smoked it viciously. My friend took much more modest drags.

I hadn’t smoked in weeks, and the alcohol had expanded my blood vessels. There was no doubt in my mind that it was coming. The experience. The high achieved by ditch weed is very rough around the edges, negative side effects are often expected. While the effects where gradually overcoming me, I decided it would be best to do something pleasant as soon as possible to keep my mind off of these overwhelming side effects. I had remembered a large Datura plant in the vicinity of the park, and the signature sweet, aromatic smell that they release in the night to attract nocturnal pollinators. In this case the plant attracted a severely uncomfortable drug user.

When we got to the tree, it had no flowers. I realized the dry season was upon us. As I looked up to the branches in disbelief, somewhere down the road a man began screaming. Threatening to kill something or someone. He was in a vehicle and his piercing screams amplified by the second as he seemingly accelerated towards us. We ran. The responsible man and his vehicle passed through a nearby intersection at fantastic velocity, and as the distance between him and us increased his voice faded.

The panic did not fade. We continued running back to the park. By the time we got there I was completely overwhelmed. My heartbeat was pounding through my eardrums and I felt as if I was about to collapse. Beads of sweat ran down my forehead and beliefs of unreal dangers and threats bombarded my mind. My friend was not affected as severely as I was. We sat on a curb for several minutes while my debilitating mental state came and went in a series of waves, each diminishing in intensity.

The effects subsided completely after about 30 minutes, and we walked home where it was warm and safe and abundant in delicious food. There was no more talk of the night that had just occurred. All we knew was that it was a great success in every strange and uncomfortable and sadistic way.

#san jose #costa rica #party #drugs #crack cocaine #mids #the fear #paranoia #confusion #strange #experience #writing #unreal dangers #journalism #observation #impartiality #tropics #psychoactive #substances

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harrisonstories · 6 years

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RTE Radio 2 Ireland - BP Fallon interview with George Harrison (18 Oct. 1987)

Photo by: Brian Roylance, Genesis Publications

This is an interview I’ve edited and uploaded to youtube because it’s quite long, and it was in two parts, so I’ve combined them together. You’ll notice at about 14:52 there’s a slight jump in the conversation which is where the second part begins.

I really love this interview. It’s one of - if not my favourite interview he ever did. I strongly suggest you give it a listen. Similarly to the Swedish Fan Club Tape, George is extremely calm and open, and Irish DJ BP Fallon asks refreshing questions. BP Fallon has himself had an interesting life, and at one point worked at Apple for Derek Taylor (You can also see him miming the bass in the Instant Karma Top of the Pops video). I’m guessing this related to why George felt relaxed. I hope you enjoy it.

Below I’ve included the written version of this interview by BP Fallon for The Sunday Tribune. It has some information not available in the audio (not sure if it simply wasn’t recorded, or if there’s another version which includes the full conversation):

"Sometimes it feels like another world, another life, some previous incarnation," George Harrison says. "I view it a bit through a haze but, y'know, people don't ever stop talking about it so it's hard to got too much distance between myself and The Beatles."

George Harrison doesn't mind that, not anymore. "I used to," he admits. "I used to not like it at all. I wanted to be free of it. Now I've learned to live with it. And also, don't forget, there was a period when The Beatles split up and there were all kind of court cases and bad vibes and stuff and that left a bad taste in the mouth for a while but after the years it's all cleared up, everybody's friends again."

He's sitting in a little office in the house owned by his company Handmade Films, just off Cadogan Square in Knightsbridge in London, a few streets behind Harrods. Fourty-four-years old this man is, he has a bit of a beard and his shortish hair is swept back and there are new lines on his face. He drinks coffee and smokes ciggies and when you sit talking to the geezer you can't help but feel warmth for him.

As one of John, Paul, George And Ringo, The Fab Four, as a member of the most popular, the most inventive, the most influential rock group of all time, he has gone through one of the strangest trips ever. They were Gods once, The Beatles. And sitting here now, George Harrison comes across as a normal bloke.

He was born in Liverpool, the fourth child of Harold and Louse Harrison. George's father was a bus driver - before that, he had been a ship's steward on the White Star Line for ten years and from one of his travels in America had returned with an old wind-up gramophone and records by bluesman and yodeller Jimmie Rodgers and country singer Hank Williams. Young George was smitten. He listened to skiffle, people like Lonnie Donegan and songs about the Rock Island Line. And then he heard Elvis Presley singing Hearbreak Hotel. "It came out of somebody's radio," George Harrison says, gazing out the window at the autumn light fading behind the trees, "and it lodged itself in the back of my head. It's been there ever since."

At the age of 13, for £3, he bought his first guitar. Two years later, Paul McCartney introduced George to his friend John Lennon (George - "this snotty-nosed kid" as Lennon recalled). George joined John and Paul in their skiffle group The Quarreymen. In 1962, when George was 19, John, Paul, George and their new drummer Ringo Starr made their first record together. It was a fresh-sounding bluesey pop record called Love Me Do and they now called themselves The Beatles.

They changed the world, these four Scouse moptops making new noises and singing about wanting to hold your hand and about walruses and about revolution and all you need is love.

And for eight years The Beatles were bigger than Jesus.

For a while, The Beatles - at very least by example - endorsed smoking dope and taking LSD. John, Paul and George were each busted at least once for breaking the cannabis laws. "A lot of the stuff that happened..." - and then George brings himself up to the present tense - that happens, it's just like when Prohibition was on. If they make a big deal about stuff it becomes bigger than it actually is. In moderation... you have to have moderation in everything. The worst drug of all is alcohol... it actually kills more people then heroin." He says he was fortunate as a kid to see a film about the trumpet player Chet Baker, about Baker's heroin addiction, "and that and maybe something else made me aware that this thing was just too much.

"Of course, the other things, the psychedelic drugs, are much different because they don't put your body in a stupour, they sort of..." and now he's laughing... "they sort of catapult you out into the universe. It's a totally different perspective." Then his voice is serious again. "These things obviously can be very dangerous too. I'd hate to have some right now because I don't think I could handle it. It just gives you too many things to think about all at once."

Love and peace went out the bathroom window when The Beatles split in 1970, with Paul McCartney publicly announcing he had left. George says he realised The Beatles weren't shaking a couple of years before that. "Everyone was just getting all uptight with each other. The new wives were coming in and, y'know, living under the piano and there was no privacy anymore for us as far as the group was concerned in what was normally the only privacy we ever had, the four of us when we got into a studio. And we'd just grown away from each other. One time or another every one of us left that group before we finally stopped."

George left during the making of what would be Let It Be. Ringo left another time "and went on holiday, and John was always wanting to leave and Paul too. You know, it was too much pressure and we'd been through those years. It was just too much.”

He emphasises that the remaining three Beatles are good pals, now. "Paul and I went through a shaky period but we're okay, now. All the old aggravations have passed a long time ago. There's no reason not to be friends."

By 1971 George Harrison was the most successful solo Beatle, with his triple album All Things Must Pass and the enormous hit My Sweet Lord. Four years later his single Ding Dong Ding Dong - a record even worse than McCartney's Mary Had A Little Lamb - was the first release by a solo Beatle to fail to enter the charts. Several years later a court ordered him to pay £260,000 damages for plagiarising the Chiffons' song he's So Fine with My Sweet Lord. That Harrison had modeled My Sweet Lord on another song, the gospel Oh Happy Day by the Edwin Hawkins Singers, was bad enough. That he had to pay the money to his former manager Allen Klein - "a looney who didn't take care of business" George describes him now- because Klein had scooped up the publishing of He's So Fine... that rubbed salt into the wound.

His career and also his marriage to his first wife Patti Boyd were in pieces. Patti had gone to live with George's close pal Eric Clapton, who had written Layla about his best friend's wife. George started drinking heavily, contracting a serious liver complaint that his friends feared might be the end of him.

George's chum Eric Idle had found it impossible to raise the necessary finance to make the Monty Python film Life Of Brian, so George chipped in with half the required money, £2,250,000. It turned out to be one of the best investments George had ever made, reaping a profit of more than £30,000,000. Since then, Harrison and his film company Handmade Films have scored with another Monty Python film The Meaning Of Life - banned in Ireland - and delivered films like Time Bandits and Mona Lisa as well as Shanghai Express, a disaster for its stars Sean Penn and Madonna and its producer Harrison. But what the heck. George isn't short of a few shekels.

In 1978, George married Olivia Trinidad Arias, a 27-year-old who had been born in Mexico and had been working as a secretary in A&M Records in Los Angeles. George's health had been desperate. He was fading away. Olivia contacted the Chinese acupuncturist Dr. Zion Yu and within weeks of treatment George had regained his energy and his spirit.

They have a nine-year-old son named Dhani - the Indian for wealthy - and the other day he asked his father to make him up a cassette of Chuck Berry songs. After George appeared at the Prince's Trust concert in London five months ago with Ringo, Eric Clapton and Elton John, Dhani came backstage. George had sung his own Beatle compositions While My Guitar Gently Weeps and Here Comes The Sun. "I asked him 'What did you think?' and he said 'Uh, you were alright Dad, but why didn't you do Chuck Berry songs like Roll Over Beethoven and Johnny Be Good and Rock'n'Roll Music?'"

He has a new LP out any day now, his first in five years. It's called Cloud Nine. "Have you heard the album?" he asks solicitously. "No? I'll see if someone's got a copy." George Harrison wanders off, and returns with a young woman who says "It's a bootleg I taped from the CD." George flips the cassette into the music system and spins it through, looking for a specific track. "I think you might like this one," he says in his dry Liverpudlian drawl, settling himself into another chair as he watches for reactions.

Ringo's drums with cellos straight from Lennon's I Am The Walrus lead into George singing with fondness for former Beatle times. It's a track that could fit on a Beatle record and it's called When We Was Fab. "Fab... but it's all over now baby blue" George sings, and at the end there's sitar sounds like George cosmicing out on Sgt. Pepper. It's... well, fab.

When John Lennon was murdered in 1980, George Harrison didn't suddenly lock himself away from the world in his Gothic mansion. Near the riverside town of Henley-On-Thames, this bizarre 70-roomed palace called Friar Park was remodeled a century ago by the eccentric Sir Frankie Crisp and is set in 33 acres of parkland with three lakes with secret stepping stones so one can appear to walk on water, underground caves linked by a river and a reproduction of the Alps that includes a perfect 100 foot high replica of the Matterhorn. George was already in hiding.

"I was already trying to hold onto some sort of privacy. I think everyone needs to have a bit of space, y'know. I mean, if you were just being mobbed and on the TV and that all your life you just turn into a loony, and long before John got shot I was already just digging in the garden, planting trees and just trying not to go on television, just having a bit of peace.

"But what it did, it affected me probably like anyone who loved John and who grew up with him and his music. And it was a very sad thing and, um, it didn't make me feel..." Harrison's voice trails off, and for a moment his eyes look away and he's lost in private thoughts. He looks back. " It made me wonder about ever gettin' into situations where there's fans, although at the time you can't blame fans for that. There's one loony in every crowd, I suppose. But I go on living normally. I don't panic unnecessarily."

There was talk that for Live Aid Paul, George, Ringo and Julian Lennon might let it Beatle together, but George dismisses any idea of reunions. "I don't think we'll play together. The Beatles certainly can't play again and I think it's best left as it is, y'know."

Long before Live Aid, George Harrison's Concerts For Bangladesh raised £45,000,000 for the starving. He didn't appear at Live Aid but says if he'd known more about it "maybe I would have done it but they did alright without me." George talks at length about the planet, his concerns about destruction. Last year he participated in an anti-nuclear rally in Trafalgar Square, and he's a member of the ecological organisation Greenpeace. "I love those people because they go out and actually do it. I mean, if it wasn't me that's the kind of thing I'd like to be, out there on a ship getting harpooned by Russians and Japanese."

At the turn of the Seventies, George became a benefactor to the Hare Krishna movement. He not only made records with them and talked about them publicly but also forked out a quarter of a million pounds to buy them a 15-room Elizabethan mansion with 17 acres of land.

Since then, George's friend His Divine Grace Guru Bhaktivechanta Swami, the leader and founder of the International Society For Krishna Consciousness, who was 77 when they met, has died. George feels that some of the remaining Krishnas have at times abused his patronage, and he cites letters from people who wrote saying that they were hassled at airports by devotees using Harrison's name.

Nevertheless, he still subscribes to "the Swami's ancient Vedic way of having God consciousness. The technique of chanting, just like the monks and Christians, they do it too really but it's just using beads and chanting these ancient mantras... they do have great affect. I wouldn't knock them at all. I am always a bit dubious about organisations and since the swami died it does seem to be chaotic, with all kinds of guys thinking they're the gurus. To me, it's not important to be a guru, it's more important just to be, to learn humility." And George still chants. "I've still got my bag of beads and they're really groovy now, all polished up."

Is he a happy chap? "Yeah, I'm okay. Sometimes I get depressed. It's a constant battle, isn't it? You have to consciously make an effort to be happy and considering everything, I've come along quite nicely. There's always room for improvement but, um, I have a laugh and I feel quite good about things." He believes in reincarnation. "The only reason we're actually in these bodies is to learn and develop love of God and liberate our souls from this round and round, the Memphis Blues." He reckons he'll come back again. "Well," he says laughing, "by the look of things I'll probably have to... but I'd like to give it a pass one of these incarnations!"

And, George Harrison, what would you like to be remembered for?

He pauses. "I don't know... I don't know." And then he smiles and looks you directly in the eyes and you see the face of a man still searching, still looking to extend his gentle vision for all time. He'd like to be remembered, he finally says, "just as somebody who's not bad, not that bad”...

"That'll do, yeah."

Fair play to you, George.

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Continuing Travels of Cophine, Chap. 9

This is not a Christmas fic. Christmas will happen, though. Most of this chapter has been sitting on my computer for several weeks now, but the semester was ending, and I’m trying to sell my novel, and the bipolar goblins in my head don’t always play nicely, so it sort of sat there for a while. Then it needed clean up and restructuring, which the time off actually helps with quite a lot.

If you want to start from the beginning, the entire work can be found here: http://archiveofourown.org/works/12116799/chapters/27477684

Her throat woke her up on Wednesday morning, tickling and flaring until she coughed and floundered out of the blankets for her water bottle. After a few gulps, her throat calmed down, and she fell back onto the pillow.

Gray light snuck into the room, looking like it was filtered through an iceberg, illuminating the lamps and the old stereo along the wall. Even without her glasses, Cosima knew exactly where everything was, which lampshades were stained or torn, the marbling on the walls, the dimensions of the weird little doors that opened into more wall. She coughed again, and looked to see how much blood there was this time.

No blood. Not on her hands, and not on her pillow or her lips. And then she remembered. She was well now. Her cough was just a cough.

“Are you okay?”

Delphine's face was tucked into the blankets and the pillow so that only her hair and her closed eyes were visible. Half of her hair had come loose from its binding to snake around her head. Cosima smiled, remembering the joy of once again finding Delphine's hairs on her bedding the morning after her arrival from Geneva.

“Yeah, I'm okay. Did you sleep alright?”

“Mmm. Hnn?”

Cosima tucked a few strands behind Delphine's ear and followed the line of her jaw to her chin. “It's okay. Just keep resting.”

An hour later, when Delphine finally stumbled out of bed and into the bathroom, Cosima was finishing her first cup of chai and setting up some more vials for inoculations. The lab had been clean and well-stocked upon their arrival three days ago, meaning that the guys really had been keeping up with it, or they had done some last-minute magic to make it look like they had. The primary absence was Cosima pot crop, acquired with Felix's help when they moved in, and now distributed among various members and acquaintances of clone club. The Hendrix's even had one of the plants tucked into their garden.

After checking that all of their carefully acquired gear was in proper condition, she checked her email. There was one from her mother telling her the weather report in Toronto, as though Cosima didn't already know it was freezing. After that was another email from her advisor, asking to push back the date of their meeting in Minnesota by a week.

“Are you fucking kidding me?”

She already had the plane tickets for her and Delphine, and a non-refundable hotel reservation for five days, which now her advisor said he could not do. Cosima swore again and pulled on her own face. She would have to deal with that later. For now, she forwarded the entire email chain to Alison with a note that said “Problems.”

She was getting her second cup of chai ready when the upstairs door knocked. “Hello.....?”

“Come on down!” she cried, grinning as Scott bounded down the wooden steps into the lab. When he got to the bottom, she tackled him with a hug that forced him back a few steps.

“Gosh it's good to see you!” he laughed. “This place is weird without any clones hanging around.”

“You mean Krystal wasn't dropping by every other day?” Cosima pulled back and gave him a good look. “By the way, what the hell is that on your face?”

Scott's exuberance faltered, and he touched his face, where patchy brown hair erupted in some asymmetrical places. “What? You don't like it?”

“Uh... Well, you know, I, uh.... It's different! It's just different, that's all.”

He squared his shoulders and stuck his jaw out. “Cora likes it.”

Cosima blinked and stood back. This was a new development. “Cora???”

The grin crept back onto Scott's face and he blushed. “Yeah, she's this girl who works at the university with me. She's super smart. You'd like her.”

“Cora...” Cosima sat on a laboratory stool and spun around once, her eyebrows raised. “Is she cute? Don't answer, actually. She's obviously cute, or you wouldn't have that look on your face. The question is, when do I get to meet her? You know I have to do a little, uh, quality assurance check before you're allowed to go out with her.”

He giggled and nodded. “Okay. I dunno when she can come by, though. She has kind of a long commute into town, and it's hard to find times when we can even hang out outside of work...”

Cosima rolled her eyes. “Yeah, okay, whatever. I see how this is gonna be.”

He spluttered, and Delphine crept out of the bathroom, arms crossed over her chest. “Oh, hey, Delphine!” he said, waving to her.

“Hello, Scott.” Delphine kept her arms tucked over her breasts as she gathered her clothes for the day. Meanwhile, Scott just grinned at both of them.

“It's just like old times, isn't it! Only, you're not dying, and Delphine's not breathing down my neck all the time to get you to come to work on time.”

Cosima groaned. “Or to give you another fucking fluid sample. I really don't miss that.”

If Delphine had any thoughts about Scott's comment, she didn't say so, instead shuffling back into the bathroom to change clothes. Only then did Cosima notice that Delphine was wearing the puppy dog socks she'd bought for her in Mexico City, and she grinned. While Delphine got ready, she chatted more with Scott, catching up about his work at the University of Toronto, his cat, and his opinion on the newest Star Wars movie.

“No spoilers, though!” she said, holding up a finger. “I haven't seen it yet, and I'm taking Delphine to see it on Monday for her birthday. If you spoil it for me, Scott...”

“I know, I know, you'll cut off my manhood and feed it to some goats.”

“Correct.”

* * * *

Driving to her parents' hotel, Cosima tapped her fingers on the steering wheel and chewed on a finger nail. She hated driving, but had left the Rabbit Hole later than Delphine wanted to, and now Delphine was doing her makeup in the passenger's seat. They'd spent the night talking over yesterday's meeting with Cosima's parents, about how much more to tell them and how to tell it, and about the extended family that Delphine would eventually get to meet. Cosima thought about her mother's parting words the night before.

“And we look forward to learning a lot more about Delphine!” She'd leaned heavily on the last syllable of her name, in the same way that she'd exclaimed earlier, “oh, you're from Paris! How wonderful!”

The light turned green, but the delivery van ahead wanted to make a left turn, so they all had to wait. Cosima tapped her fingers some more.

“Are you worried?” Delphine asked.

“About what?”

“Anything. You're fidgeting.”

“Oh. Yeah.” The delivery van turned left, and she accelerated onwards, through downtown streets with wreaths on the light poles and Christmas displays in the windows. Delphine wasn't wrong, and they might not get to talk privately for the rest of the day. “Can I ask you something?”

Delphine smiled. “Of course, mon amour. Anything.”

“Do you parents know? About me, I mean?”

There was a pause from the passenger's seat, and then, “no. But they don't know very much about me at all, anymore. I told them when I moved to Canada, but not much more than that.”

“Hm.”

They turned right and drove several blocks to a more residential section, and Cosima chewed on her lip. She'd always known that Delphine wasn't close to her parents, and she was in no position to criticize her for not telling her parents anything, considering the clone bomb she'd only just yesterday dropped on her own parents. With everything they'd been through together, though, it was only now occurring to her that Delphine was not even out to her parents.

“Do want them to come to the wedding?” she asked. “Your parents, I mean.”

Delphine paused again and propped her face on her fingertips. “Maybe. It's not that important to me, you know. I haven't even thought about it.”

“You have some time, I guess. You don't have to know right now.”

* * * *

They got to the hotel's restaurant just before ten. A quick glance around told them they'd probably have it mostly to themselves, which was a relief. Talking about clone business in any public place could be tricky. They seated themselves in a booth near the window, looking out at the stone courtyard and smoker's area, far enough from the door to avoid a draft. Watching a man in a business suit suck on his cigarette and pace in the frozen air, Cosima took Delphine's hand in hers.

“I'm glad you quit.”

“What, smoking?”

“Yeah. You're not ducking outside all the time to light up, and it means I get to keep you around a little longer.”

Delphine snorted. “Says the woman who's been bemoaning the absence of her marijuana plants.”

“Hey, cannabis is way safer than tobacco; I've been telling you that for years now. It's the only thing that kept me eating when I was sick and living in the Rabbit Hole without you.”

They ordered coffee from Todd, a bored, pimple-faced young man in an ill-fitting silk vest, and looked over the menu. After months of travelling and eating their way through Latin America, it was both comforting and disappointing to find the same predictable items on this menu that Cosima could find at any hotel restaurant anywhere in North America. Delphine might've been thinking the same, because she said, “No rice and beans.”

“You miss `em?”

“Almost.”

“We can get some at the store for you. They can't be that hard to cook. Not compared to hollandaise sauce.”

At 10:15, after they'd turned away the waiter twice, saying they weren't ready, Delphine checked her phone and sighed. “Your parents gave you their sense of punctuality, I think. Do they know the restaurant stops serving breakfast at 10:30?”

“Yeah, they know. And it's all my mom. My dad's probably been ready to go for an hour, and he's just sitting on the couch waiting for her to do her hair or put her makeup on or whatever. Hey, how much you wanna bet these 'mixed fruit cups' are just pale honeydew melon and cantaloupe?”

Sally and Gene came in five minutes later, wearing sweaters and jeans. Even after spending several hours with them the day before, it was still a small shock for Cosima to see them again after so long away. They had aged more than she expected, but maybe that was the lack of contact making them seem that way. Maybe they'd always had so many wrinkles, and maybe her father had always shuffled that way when he walked, and had always had that wattle of skin below his chin. They were in their late sixties, after all, and her father would turn seventy in just a few months.

“Hey, kiddo,” Gene said, clapping Cosima on the shoulder as she stood to greet them.

“So sorry we're late,” Sally said with a smile. “Have you been waiting long?”

“No,” they both answered. “Not long.”

The Niehauses slid into the booth across from Cosima and Delphine and ordered coffees for themselves when Todd reappeared. They exchanged morning pleasantries – yes, everyone had slept well; yes, they liked their room, and thank you for reserving it. They offered to pay Cosima back for the room, and she refused. Then they all ordered, and once Todd had gone again, Sally sat back in her seat with her hands folded over her stomach, and gave Cosima a measured look.

“You gave us a lot to think about yesterday, Sweetie.”

Cosima took a deep breath. “I know. It's a lot to take in, but you do get used to it. I did; we all did.”

“Two hundred.... how many did you say there are?”

“274,” Cosima said. “That's, I mean, those are the ones that are still living. There were more originally.”

“How many more?” Gene asked.

“We're not exactly sure. It was just this past summer that we learned the 274 number, after the organization behind the cloning was destroyed; before that we had no idea.”

Sally's breath shook, and she turned to stare out the window. Gene, on the other hand, nodded and tapped his fingers on the table. “That must've been hard for you to come to terms with. Having 274 genetic identicals, I mean, that's...”

“It was, a little. But, it's also fascinating. I mean, you saw last night, we're all completely different people, even though our DNA is identical. Well, I mean, almost entirely identical.”

Sally turned back at the last sentence. “What do you mean, almost entirely? I thought the point was that you were entirely identical, not almost?”

“In every way that anyone else would notice, we are completely identical, but each of us has a tag number encoded in our DNA that's used for identification purposes. Or, that was used for identification purposes. Nobody's identifying us like that anymore.”

“A tag number?”

At her mother's shock, Cosima remembered learning about her own tag number from Delphine, who now rubbed her finger against the side of Cosima's jeans in a silent show to support. “Yeah. The, um, Dyad, the group that ran the study, they put it there so they could tell us apart.”

“But... why not use your names, or your social security numbers, or....”

“Because we can change our names, and not all of us live in the US or Canada. It's like, you'd tag mice or rats for an experiment. It removes the personality and lets researchers focus on the science.”

“You're not a mouse, Cosima,” Gene said.

“No, but as far as they were concerned, I might as well have been.”

Beside her, Delphine stepped in. “The experiments are all finished. No one is tracking the clones now, or running tests of any kind. All of that ended when Neolution collapsed earlier this year.”

“Neolution.” Sally and Gene looked at each other. “That does sound familiar,” Sally said.

“Yeah, they were doing all kinds of unethical stuff. Human cloning was just one part of it. You might've seen them on the news back in the spring.”

Todd returned with their plates, and there was the usual fuss of remembering who'd ordered what and exclaiming over how tasty it all looked. Cosima got the falafel salad – the most exotic item on the menu – and the fruit cup, which met her expectations except for two little blueberries tucked in with all the pale melon chunks. They ate quietly for a while, listening to the faint chatter from the restaurant staff across the room and the pop song playing in the lobby. The wall television, thankfully, was on mute, so the American politician's passionate words stayed silent.

Gene had finished all of his breakfast sides and gotten a refill on coffee when he leaned over his plate towards Delphine. “This whole cloning business must've hard for you to come to terms with, too, huh, Delphine?”

Delphine had just put a large forkful of omelet in her mouth, and froze, eyes wide. She and Cosima had discussed what to tell them about how they'd met, settling on “we met in Minnesota doing research.” They had not, however, prepared an answer for how Delphine had learned about clones. Whatever they said, though, Cosima did not want her parents to know about Delphine's role as monitor. Not yet. She wanted them to love Delphine first, and then learn about their complicated history.

“She took it pretty well in stride, I'd say.”

Delphine nodded while she chewed her food and swallowed. “Yes. It's fascinating, actually. I mean, obviously much of the research was unethical, but the science behind it is... fascinating.”

Cosima nodded in agreement, but saw an internal struggle in her parents' faces.

“Do you have a background in science, Delphine?” Sally asked.

Delphine's eyebrows twitched as she smiled. In all of the hullabaloo the day before, somehow they had neglected to say anything about that. “Yes, I have a doctorate in immunology.”

“Oh!” Both Drs. Niehaus sat up a little straighter at that, and Cosima knew they were ninety percent of the way to loving Delphine already. She knew they would. After all, Cosima loved her, and she spoke French, her mother's college minor. Having a doctorate in a biological field was the extra cream cheese icing on the cake. The conversation slid away from Dyad and Neolution and into Delphine's research and medical background, which impressed Sally and Gene just as much as Cosima had expected.

They were finishing up brunch and arguing over the check when Cosima's phone buzzed. It distracted her enough to let Sally grab the check and slap Cosima's hand away when she went for it again.

“Did you just slap me?” Cosima asked.

“Yes.” Sally tucked her credit card into the flap and gave to it Todd. “You might not be genetically related to me like I thought you were, but I am still your mother, Cosima, so you should listen to me and let me pay the bill.”

While Delphine laughed about that and Gene picked at his teeth, Cosima checked the new message on her phone. It was from Sarah.

Slight emergency situation today. I need your help.

Sure thing, Cosima replied. What do you need?

My final exam is at 3, and Charlotte has a parent teacher conference at 2:45.

For a moment Cosima wondered how she could help with that, when it hit her. “Oh no.”

Which one exactly are you asking me to do for you?

The conference.

“Is everything okay?” Delphine asked.

“Yeah. Yeah, Sarah just needs some help with Charlotte.”

Delphine checked her phone, which read 11:37. “It's Wednesday. Shouldn't she be in school right now?”

“Yeah, I think she is.” Delphine and both of her parents watched her, waiting for more of an explanation, but Cosima hesitated. Delphine knew about clone swaps; in fact, she'd organized an impressive triple-clone swap in her early days as Dyad director. Her parents, on the other hand... “There's a teacher conference for Charlotte this afternoon, and Sarah's not sure if she can make it.”

Delphine's eyebrows shot up, immediately comprehending the nature of Sarah's request, but Sally and Gene barely reacted. “Oh, that happens all the time,” Sally said. “Teachers understand parents are busy. She can probably reschedule.”

Cosima texted to see if she could. Meanwhile, Gene gnawed on the remains of his pork chop and looked confused. “Charlotte's another, uh.... another one like you, right?”

“She's a clone, yeah. They tried to restart the whole experiment several years back, but Charlotte was the only successful one.” She tried to keep her tone light, despite the horror of the situation.

“So, does she have, uh....” Gene waved his hands around in the air. “I mean, you have parents. You have us. And, and, the other lady yesterday, the one with the purple hair, she talked about her mother, so I assume she has parents, too.”

Cosima figured out his point and smiled, remembering how awkward he'd been after she came out of the closet, calling her a “homosexual” until she gave him permission to use the words “lesbian” and “queer.”

“It's a little more complicated with Charlotte,” she told him. “She had a adoptive mother, legally, but she didn't spend much time with her, and she's presumed dead now.”

Not until she saw her parents' faces did Cosima realize how those last words came across. Until now, the only other people she'd ever talked to about Marion Bowles were other members of Clone Club, who had long since ceased being shocked by the words “presumed dead.”

“Sarah's her legal guardian now,” Delphine explained. “She's been living with her for a few months now.”

“Ah.” Gene fidgeted with his lower lip, the way he did when was working out a problem in his head.

“The poor little thing,” Sally said. “What do you mean, presumed dead though? Is her mother missing?”

Delphine stepped in again. “Her mother had a position of some authority in Neolution's hierarchy, and before they went down for good, they, euh, restructured many of those top-level positions. Considering the illegal and sensitive nature of their work, they didn't want to just release former leadership into the world to share their secrets, so they, um... they often had them eliminated. To protect the research and the organization. Since no one has heard from Miss Bowles in almost two years, and all attempts to find her have failed, we think it's safe to assume that she's been killed.”

Todd came back to the table with the receipt for Sally to sign, but Sally and Gene were gaping too much to notice him.

“Are you serious?” Gene asked.

“Unfortunately,” Cosima said, “yes. We are. Like I said yesterday, there are reasons why I didn't want you to know any of this before now. It just wasn't safe.”

“But were you safe?” Sally asked. “You and.... and the others like you?”

Cosima wanted to ask what time period, exactly, she was referring to, but decided that her mother mostly just needed reassurance right now. Details could come later. “Yes,” she said. “I was safe.”

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These locales alongside others sources contained a plenitude of data, enough information to make an instructive paper.This research called attention to the social and wellbeing cost of illegal medication use, and further distinguished that sedate related disease, demise and wrongdoing, cost the country more than one hundred billion dollars per year. The Drug Abuse Warning Network (DAWN) reports, of the 263,871 crisis office visits by youths age 12-17, about one tenth (8. 8 percent) included self destruction endeavors, just about three of each four (72. 3 percent) were females. Of the 95. 4 percent sedate related suicides pharmaceuticals were included and more than three-fourths (77. 0 percent) finished with follow-up care (SAMHSA, 2008).The most noteworthy expense of all medication misuse is paid in the lost of human lives, either legitimately through overdose, or medication misuse related maladies, for example, tuberculosis, (AIDS) and hepatitis. (NIDA and NIAA, 1992). It was imperative to lead this exploration to make perusers mindful of exactly how awful society is bombing the young people of this country. The United States government can't do it without anyone else. This is a national issue and it will take a country to settle it, everybody needs to help or this battle will be always lost.After a right around ten-year decrease, maryjane is on the ascent again among youngsters. Secondary school seniors announced that they smoked pot more than cigarettes as per the National Institute on Drug Abuse ongoing â€œMonitoring the Futureâ€ overview. While 21. 4% confessed to utilizing maryjane over the most recent 30 days, just 19. 2% smoked cigarettes during a similar time span. This was the first run through since 1981 that pot was utilized more than cigarettes in that age gathering. In spite of the fact that the general wellbeing efforts to decrease cigarette smoking among teenagers think about this as a triumph, its decay can fundamentally be added to the ascent of cannabis use.Many kids appear to feel that smoking pot is just â€œnot that large of a dealâ€, all things considered, it is just pot; even eighth graders don't accept the hazard is that extraordinary. This sort of demeanor clarifies why there is a 1% expansion of every day use for eighth graders and a 3% expansion for tenth graders and means that weed use will probably keep on moving as these children draw nearer to graduation. Around one out of four seniors and one of every four tenth-graders said they smoked maryjane in the last year.Obama administrationâ€™s tranquilize despot, Gil Kerlikowske, accuses state clinical weed estimates like Californiaâ€™s Proposition 19 for causing pot to appear to be less perilous to youthful Americans. â€œCalling maryjane â€˜smoked medicineâ€™ is totally mistaken, youngsters have taken an inappropriate messageâ€ (Healy, 2010, p. A-10). As indicated by the executive of the National Institute on Drug Abuse, Dr. Nora Volkow, in light of the fact that teenagerâ€™s cerebrums are as yet building up the expanded day by day utilization of cannabis is especially upsetting, since it has been known to cause learning and memory damage.The truth that they use pot all the more oftentimes puts them at a more serious danger of getting reliant on it and different medications. The utilization of the club medicate Ecstasy has expanded among eighth-and tenth graders yet not all medications indicated an expansion. The maltreatment of the solution torment prescription Vicodin was down to 8% contrasted with 9. 7% in 2009 and the illegal utilization of narcotic painkiller OxyContin rose among tenth-graders however stayed consistent with twelfth-graders. The utilization of medications recommended for a lack of ability to concentrate consistently scatter, (ADHD) for non-clinical reasons in the most recent year among secondary school seniors is 6. % and is about the equivalent for amphetamines use (Healy, 2010). One of the most recent developing adolescent patterns, which focuses on the inspecting of an assortment of physician endorsed medications and afterward drinking liquor is causing a lot of concern. Children feel that physician recommended drugs are more secure than road drugs, since they are endorsed by a specialist and are typically bought in a medication store.This is basically false; they really are all the more remarkable which makes them much increasingly perilous particularly while adding liquor to the blend. Nora Volkow, says, â€œKids are not pharmacologists, they may state, Fentanyl OxyContin-whatâ€™s the distinction? So they take a lot of things and may consolidate them with liquor, that is a dangerous miscalculationâ€ (Jetters, A, 2010-2011, p. 146). To accomplish sentiments of happiness, the measure of narcotic painkillers required is so near the sums that can kill you. In the event that you include liquor or sedatives like Klonopin, Valium, Xanax, which likewise discourages the minds respiratory focus. Only one gin and tonic joined with a 40 mg methadone pill can be lethal. They are playing a risky round of Russian roulette, one that they obviously don't understand.When you consider medications and how they got into the United States, the majority of us consider them originating from another nation, as perhaps Mexico or some place in South America. In any case, more now than any time in recent memory we need look no farther than our own medication cupboards. The times of taking an anti-inflamatory medicine or Tylenol for a cerebral pain, spinal pain or toothache are a distant memory. We would now be able to glance in our medication cupboards and look over an assortment of incredible extra painkillers recently endorsed to us for different a throbbing painfulness. For in the course of recent years, multiple times the quantity of narcotic medicines was written.Doctors recommended them at a pace of in excess of 180 million every year. 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Hello to all my cannabis loving and cannabis-curious friends! Today we are going to talk about a pretty fun strain I purchased from Liberty Cannabis in Somerville, Ma, called 819 Headband. According to Leafly.com and Strainspot.com, the desired effects of deep relaxation, pain relief, and a cerebral buzz will make this Sour Diesel X OG Kush hybrid leave you watching your pain and stress melt away. This strain tested for THC levels of 19.50% with a 0.39% CBD level, making this a highly psychoactive strain, and great for treating pain, anxiety, stress, depression, and headaches. Potential negatives include headaches, dizziness, and dry mouth. Now, without further ado, let’s light this bad boy up, and get to toking and talking about the first 90 minutes!

To start, these sticky buds come straight out the package with a packed punch aroma of diesel fuel, which hit my nostrils hard. It’s so strong that at first scent, if I didn’t know better, I’d think I was near a service station. The diesel fuel smell is a tad bit overpowering, but the aroma is amazing. Once the scent of diesel subsided, my sense started to pickup on the faintest hints of lemon.

Stepping up to the plate for the bud taste test, the diesel fuel flavor overtook my pallet, followed by slightest hints of lemon. Today I am medicating via joint, which when ground up, one bud gave me enough cannabis for one medium sized joint and one decent bowl. The inhale matches the bud taste test, with its strong diesel aroma hitting my taste buds on inhale, and fading into a lemony exhale.

Starting my session at 6:30 p.m. with two hits of the joint. I can feel the slight sensation of my body starting to relax. As if the tension was slowly leaving my body. My mood is starting to feel a bit more uplifted, and I am feeling a slight cerebral tingling starting to become present, as if someone were massaging my forehead and temples. I can feel a slight “Headband” effect coming on, and I can feel my body starting to feel overstimulated as my head starts to become slightly spacey.

Ten minutes later, at 6:40 p.m., that “Headband” feeling has significantly begun to increase. This sensation is bringing me back in time, to the days when I was a kid. I feel like I have just spun around in circles really fast, bringing on a feeling of dizziness. I do not feel this dizziness is so much a negative effect. I personally enjoy amusement park rides, and it feels more like the sensation I would experience on some of my favorite rides. My mood is very uplifted, and I feel very unfocused, yet extremely happy. My body feels relaxed, but not in a “couchlock” manner.

At 7:00 p.m., the cerebral buzz and “Headband” feelings have greatly increased. I feel very calm, stress free, and uplifted. I am really digging the “amusement park” feeling as it increases, and my uplifted mood has me feeling sociable, and somewhat silly. I have an overwhelming “head in the clouds” mindset, and my body relaxation is leading to slight tingling throughout my muscles, but again, not activity limiting to the point that you can’t get off the couch.

At 7:30 p.m., I am experiencing what only can be described as a “melting face” sensation, which pairs well with the “Headband” sensation. My eyes and brow feel heavy, as if my face was melting, but the “Headband” sensation has my face feeling like it’s being held on by the pleasurable pressure, leaving me with a cerebral buzz that has my head so relaxed. That fun “amusement park” feeling continues, and right now I could not be happier. My body feels overstimulated to the point that even my clothes feel soft and comforting against my skin. I feel happy, calm, relaxed, and still sociable. I am greatly enjoying hanging out with others while medicating with this strain despite the lack of focus I am experiencing. I still feel happy and very silly. So far, the only negative I am experiencing is some dry mouth.

Rounding into the finish line at 8:00 p.m. I am feeling the effects starting to ease into a nice, balanced, mellow wave of pleasure. The head and body buzzes are still very present, but the dizziness and body tingling sensations have almost completely subsided. The “Headband” sensation is still present, but to a much lesser extent. The head in the clouds mindset has also subsided, as has the silliness. I feel calm, relaxed, happy, and very uplifted.

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Elise McDonough of Leafly Reports:

When I rolled up at a stately purple Victorian whose address I’d only received hours before, Jamie Evans—better known as “the Herb Somm”—was waiting to greet me with warmth and charm. A vivacious oenophile and expert in Old World vintages, Evans is actively translating the language of tastings and terroir from the established wine field into the more freewheeling world of cannabis.

“You have one season, one seed, one plant to express itself, creating a vintage that will never exist again.”Chef Holden Jagger, Altered Plates

Through her acclaimed “Thursday Infused” dinner series, she introduces well-to-do San Franciscans to cannabis cuisine and connoisseurship in an intimate setting, recruiting a rotating cast of chefs and purveyors to demonstrate their crafts.

“Cannabis is very complex,” she says, “just like wines, certain strains will make you feel uplifted or sleepy, so you can create moods.”

Evans needs to attend to some last-minute tasks (I’ve arrived early by invitation), so I settle into a plush sofa in the backyard to share a joint with Chef Holden Jagger, who’s driven up from Los Angeles to cook for tonight’s guests. A fixture on the So-Cal cannabis cuisine scene through his Altered Plates supper club, Jagger is one of the few chefs working with weed who actually grows his own. He’s also distinguished himself with innovative techniques such as pickling and salt-curing parts of the male plants or using their pollen as a seasoning, Holden came out of skateboarding culture enamored with the idea of “never been done,” slang for nailing challenging tricks in novel spots, and now applies this spirit of bold experimentation to cannabis cookery.

With unruly red hair and a hint of mischievousness about him, Holden says he’s been giving grow tips to other dads in Topanga Canyon, a bohemian enclave north of Santa Monica where he lives with his family. As we passed a jay of his tasty homegrown Royal Sour back and forth, Holden explains that this herb originated with a dearly departed grower named Ras Truth, formerly an influential seed breeder at Emerald Mountain who wrote extensively about the importance of nurturing living soil, and why sungrown cannabis compares favorably to indoor hydro grown under energy-intensive lamps.

Understanding Terroir in the Context of Cannabis

“Why do we celebrate a good bottle of wine?” Holden asks and answers, “Because it’s humanity and nature coming together to produce something special that’s a once-in-a-season opportunity.”

The concept of terroir—literally “of the land”—encompasses every environmental factor affecting the expression of a plant’s genetics, from farming practices and fertilizer regimens to the specific microclimate of the place where it’s grown. How terroir applies to cannabis is an ongoing debate between connoisseurs like Evans and Jagger, especially complex because weed is an annual plant, versus grape vines that live for decades or even centuries.

Chef Holden Jagger plates super-low-dose THC paired cuisine at Altered Plates. (Courtesy Altered Plates)

“With wine, you have a ‘good year,’ but with cannabis you can have a ‘hypervintage’ that is so exclusive…” Holden pauses before articulating this expansive idea. “You have one season, one seed, one plant to express itself, creating a vintage that will never exist again.” Coming from this perspective, a ‘good season’ for cannabis results in flowers that truly represent the weather and soil within the unique environment of a certain farm at a moment in time that can never be repeated, embodying these influences in a particular expression of cannabinoid and terpene profiles. Such specificity makes fine cannabis vintages even more precious and fleeting than any bottle of wine on earth.

Understanding the complexity of different cannabis cultivars, let alone the influence of terroir, requires years of devotion to the plant and its methods of production. Before a wine snob can assume the title of sommelier, they must pass a certifying test administered by The Court of Master Sommeliers, a process that requires years of study. While there’s no comparable program for “cannaphiles,” correctly guessing cannabis cultivars by taste and high alone necessitates a mastery of the plant gained only by the experience of growing it, or at the very least traveling to the regions where cannabis thrives to taste every varietal possible, talking to farmers and witnessing cultivation methods.

Taking a break from party preparations, Evans joins us, explaining how for the average person who just appreciates good food, wine and weed, beginning to experiment with pairing all three sensual delights can be made simple and fun. For newbies to cannabis, Jamie recommends developing connoisseurship by tasting the same cannabis cultivar grown by various farmers and training your senses to recognize the nuances that differentiate them.

How to Pair Cannabis with Wine and Food

When working with chefs, Evans starts her process by first reviewing the menu, looking for standout ingredients to base her pairings on. From there, she employs her “B.I.T.E. philosophy,” an acronym that stands for Balance, Intention, Taste and Enjoy.

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Consider the weight of the wine and the intensity of the flavors in the dish as well as the textures of the food. Evans matches light wines with cannabis cultivars containing citrusy limonene, while pairing more sedating strains with darker, richer wines. If the food is rich, creamy or boldly flavored, she looks for more acidic, bright wines to balance the dish.

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Set the mood for your event by matching the food, wine and weed to the desired atmosphere. Evans starts with pairings to energize her guests, followed by later combinations of wine, weed and food that will soothe them.

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Based on the science of terpenes, Evans looks for common flavors shared by the ingredients in the food as well as the cannabis by smelling and tasting both items side by side.

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“Pairing should be fun, so don’t let it stress you out,” says Evans. “There’s really no wrong answers!” Experiment with different wines and weeds until you find matches that resonate on your palate.

Beyond this basic framework, you can also pair flavors based on locality, matching wines with weed from the same region, along with food made from fresh ingredients harvested from nearby farms. Seasonality plays a role too, with delicate, brighter flavors appropriate for summer and more concentrated, intense flavors better suited to winter.

“Take a bite of the food, sip the wine, smell the flower and taste the vape, all those flavors should work together harmoniously,” Evans says, recalling a pairing of Candyland and Rosé that became her summertime favorite. “There was a bright beautiful candied citrus nose to it” that worked well with sunny warm days and light, refreshing cuisine.

Turning to winter flavors, Holden waxes poetic about a phenotype of In the Pines stuck in his memory due to its incredible piney-ness, remarking that he “paired it with venison and mussels in a coconut broth, and that was one of my favorites.”

Perched at the end of the long marble counter that serves as a chef’s table, Holden begins to assemble dishes, adding precise doses of THC with a tincture dropper. The entire meal contains 5 milligrams of THC, a microdose that’s barely perceptible to most cannabis users. Before each course, we’re also treated to passed vape pens and sniffs of Utopia Farms cannabis as Evans explains the wines and Holden talks up the food.

Dinner opens with a first course of Celeriac with purple potato, maitake mushroom, miso and honey, the celery root flavor complimenting Evans’ choice of a Balletto Pinot Gris 2017 to sip alongside. With notes of candied tangerine and citrus, the Pinot Gris matches the aromas and flavors from Utopia Farms’ Clementine cannabis flowers, as well as the deeper savory notes of the Master OG vape cart from Kurvana.

Capturing the feeling of summer fading into fall, the unctuous Roasted Duck Tostada that follows incorporates butternut squash, savory peanut sauce, salty cotija cheese and spicy salsa verde to create a rich dish with a slight sourness. Selecting for a wine that would stand up to the bold flavors of the roasted duck, Evans decided to go with a Buttonwood Rose 2017 because of its soft red berry notes, bright citrus, and cleansing acidity. Made from bolder Syrah grapes, this versatile rosé brings great depth to flavor, balancing the spicy richness of the duck while its citrus notes compliment Utopia’s Golden Lemons and Kurvana’s Citron OG.

Dessert brings Malt Semifreddo with roasted banana and chocolate, complimenting Utopia’s C. Banana cannabis flowers and a Banana Smoothie vape from Kurvana. With a burst of tropical fruit notes, the paired Rancho Sisquoc Sylvaner 2016 brings acidity and brightness, a great match for a rich dessert. Not overly sweet, this final wine cleanses our palates, bringing another soigné evening to its conclusion.

Being fortunate enough to enjoy gourmet food, wine ,and weed should (and does) inspire gratitude for the time and place where you find yourself, as well as the labor that went into producing your artisanal fare. Just like the practice of cooking or winemaking, growing and consuming cannabis ties us to the earth and the cosmos, bringing art and intention into our lives. Celebrating cannabis, educating yourself about it, and caring about how it’s grown introduces enthusiasts to true connoisseurship, deepening the relationship to the plant and the people who grow it, cook with it and love it.

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Replicate this experience at home (if you live in California) by finding the products featured at Thursday Infused at a dispensary near you.

Kurvana Vape Cartridges

Places to Find It:

7 Stars Holistic Healing Center in Richmond

Treehouse in Santa Cruz

Sonoma Patient Group in Santa Rosa

Caliva in San Jose

MedMen in West Hollywood

Utopia Farms Flowers

Places to Find It:

SPARC in San Francisco

Santa Cruz Naturals in Aptos

Harborside in Oakland

Berkeley Patients Group in Berkeley

From the Earth in Santa Ana

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After Planet 13, Marijuana Tourism Will Never Be the Same – VICE

Think of the Planet 13 Superstore as a theme park for marijuana. That’s certainly what it sounds like when David Farris, Planet 13’s Director of Marketing, describes the still-under-construction Las Vegas cannabis entertainment center to me when I asked him to walk me through its features. “As the customer enters the facility, they’ll first come in contact with this sphere, this planet. And it will have moving water, steam, and lights that will replicate flames,” he says. “On the roof you’ll see a series of what we call lotus flowers, which will be multi-dimensional with multiple lights. The customer will actually be able to touch those; there are keypads on the ground floor so they can program the lights to move at the beat of the musicwhatever they want to do.” Farris then details the “laser graffiti wall,” which is being built to the west of the foyer and will be the first of its kind in the United States. Vacationers will be able to tag whatever they want on a glistening, immediately responsive LCD palate with a suite of glowpens, before walking along a giant touchscreen that lights up underneath your footprints through the main corridor. “After that you go into the dispensary area, where you’ll see an ‘orb show,'” continues Farris, as we near the end of his tour. “These six giant orbs will fly into the room, and they’ll perform with the beat of the music every 10 minutes. Then they’ll fly back and recharge for the next show.” Farris tells me Planet 13 wants to create an experience where customers are “overwhelmed by the aesthetics.” But the subtext I read is more clear: Planet 13 is trying to build a place that’s full of stuff that’s really fun to do when you’re high, and if they pull it off, marijuana tourism will never be the same. Before Planet 13 was programming orb shows, they were one of the many dispensary startups dishing out legal weed in the wake of Nevada’s recreational legalization efforts that passed back in 2017. That is still true; you can go to Planet 13’s website and place an order for in-house strains like Durban Poison and Banana OG, but their pivot to Vegas’ brick-and-mortar entertainment district is a much more audacious endeavor. The company is now massive encompassing two growing operations and a medical wing under the brand name Medizin and the Superstore, which opens on November 1, appears to be its marquee investment. Farris’ case is straightforward: “I grew up in Las Vegas, and gaming has built a fabulous platform over the years with mega-resorts that turned into themed mega-resorts. The whole idea is to drive traffic through the theme, so we thought, ‘Why aren’t we taking that concept and integrating it into the cannabis space?'” However, even with the decriminalization of marijuana in the state, opening a dispensary in Las Vegas is more difficult than you think. The Planet 13 Superstore is being built remarkably close to the Stripabout a 10 minute walkbut they can’t construct on the Strip because of some lingering legal minutia. “Marijuana use of any kind is banned on the Strip, and that’s created a real problem,” says Farris. “On one hand we’ve legalized marijuana use, and we have a bunch of people coming into the city that want to use cannabis products, and that’s an issue because they can’t legally use them in the rooms.” The murky legal jurisdiction regarding pot use in Nevada has actually created an underground network of travel guides which tells prospective visitors which hotels are, and aren’t, 420 friendly. The reason for that is confusing; while marijuana is authorized to be bought and sold in the state, technically it can only be consumed in the privacy of your own home. That’s why you can’t yet go to a bar, buy a joint, and enjoy it on the patio. However, that might be changing soon; as reported by the Las Vegas Review-Journal , the city government is clearing the way to allow for “marijuana lounges” where people can smoke onsite. (If passed, it will be the second U.S. city with Amsterdam-style cannabis consumption clubs within its borders, right behind Denver.) This will be good news for the Planet 13 Superstore. Right now, people who purchase marijuana from vendors aren’t able to smoke on premise, but Farris tells me if the marijuana lounge ordinance is passed, that will change. “We would be looking to have a consumption area in our complex,” he says. Until then, and even if it’s not passed before the facilities November opening, Planet 13 aims to let tourists enjoy the future of the weed business a stone’s throw away from the Planet Hollywoods and Hard Rock Cafes on the Las Vegas Boulevard. The company seems to be going about it in the right way, too. Alongside its own strains, the superstore will feature a variety of other options from other dispensaries. “A smorgasbord,” as Farris describes it, with two or three times the amount of product they sell on the website. Planet 13’s long-term goal is to permanently recast the pot industry into something normal , rather than the trade of miscreants and burnouts. That is an uphill battle, especially in Jeff Sessions’ America, but regardless of whether it takes off or not, a tastefully designed weed superstore is, at least, symbolically important. It allows America to witness a 40,000 square-foot building the largest dispensary in Nevada designed specifically in the name of marijuana. There’s more power in that than you might think. “I think there’s a much broader market that’s been exposed to cannabis, and people realize that if you use cannabis the world isn’t going to fall apart,” finishes Farris. “I think people know now that all the stories we were told when we were growing up were just that: Stories, with no facts.” Sign up for our newsletter to get the best of VICE delivered to your inbox daily. Follow Luke Winkie on Twitter.

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Canada’s Budding Marijuana Industry Is Helping Women Break the Glass Ceiling

Once the domain of potheads, stoners and no-good wake ’n’ bakers, weed has gone from illicit gateway drug to buzzy new investment in just a few years. In the United States (where marijuana is legal for adult recreational use in nine states and Washington, D.C.), gleaming Apple Store-esque dispensaries sell designer herb alongside artsy pastel-hued pipes; trendy fashion publications profile cool creatives and their favourite strains; and bud brands are even getting in on the ubiquitous streetwear trend, selling logoed tees and hoodies to the millennial masses. Canada, meanwhile, nearing federal legalization of cannabis, is on the brink of what experts predicted in 2016 could be a $22.6 billion industry.

Perhaps what’s most exciting about the so-called “green rush” is the opportunity it presents for women. Because in the current economic landscape, despite all the leaning in on and seemingly daily takedowns of powerful men behaving badly, when it comes to real decision makers and actual women leaders, we have a lot of catching up to do. At the end of the workday, according to a 2016 diversity disclosure practices report conducted by Osler, women account for only 15 per cent of executive officers at TSX-listed companies and only 13 per cent of board members.

Women account for only 15 per cent of executive officers at TSX-listed companies and only 13 per cent of board members.

Weed, in a lot of ways, is poised to blaze a different path. According to a 2015 survey by Marijuana Business Daily of the legal cannabis space in the United States, women made up roughly 36 per cent of leaders, including 63 per cent of high-level positions in testing labs. And there’s more evidence: Women-run dispensaries are popping up stateside as well as here in Canada; last year saw the launch of Broccoli, a stylish cannabis magazine for women that was founded by the former creative director of Kinfolk; cannabis social clubs for women are a thing now; and fem-forward accessories are dominating our social feeds. (Rose-petal rolling papers, anyone?)

April Pride, the founder of female-focused cannabis lifestyle brand Van der Pop (which is now owned by Toronto-based Tokyo Smoke), is the unofficial godmother of the women and weed movement. A serial entrepreneur with a background in design (she trained as an architect and went to Parsons for grad school), Pride launched Van der Pop in 2016 as a fashionable weed accessories brand after she noticed a severe lack of good design in what she knew was a soon-to-explode industry. (She’s based in Washington state, where marijuana has been legal for recreational use since 2012.)

“In the United States, women made up roughly 36 per cent of leaders, including 63 per cent of high-level positions in testing labs.”

A few months after launching the site, she noticed that most people on it were looking for advice and information about how cannabis relates to women’s issues. “Women were coming to me about their own lives, and men were coming to me about their relationships with their wives,” says Pride. “After a while, I was just like, ‘Why am I not doing this?’”

And so she did. In November 2017, she took Van der Pop’s female focus a step further, collaborating with Ontario-based licensed producer WeedMD to launch a line of cannabis strains specifically designed for women’s needs: Cloudburst, which has a profile that’s similar to varieties known to help with pain management and stress, and Eclipse, similar to strains that promote relaxation and help you sleep. “Canada has a distinctly progressive attitude toward cannabis,” says Pride.

“Women were coming to me about their own lives, and men were coming to me about their relationships with their wives. After a while, I was just like, ‘Why am I not doing this?’”

“It has the potential to be the global leader in cannabis, and our brand wants to be part of that momentum.” For Van der Pop, it’s a logical—and likely lucrative—next step because, chic accessories aside, the industry reality seems to point to actual cannabis as the real money-maker. In Canada, this means being, becoming or—like Van der Pop—working with licensed producers.

Currently, only companies holding an ACMPR (Access to Cannabis for Medical Purposes Regulations) licence are authorized to produce or sell marijuana through the medical system. Come legalization, it might get easier, depending on where you live, since provincial governments will be overseeing licensing and distribution instead of Ottawa. But if you do the math, this means that the quietly illegal dispensary you frequent now could easily be just as illegal after legalization.

“It’s a hugely capital intensive industry, so there are constant meetings with investors, bankers and shareholders.” In other words, it’s hugely white-male intensive.

“In the legal regulated market, we have high standards set by Health Canada that require significant costs and attention,” says Alison Gordon, CEO of 48North Cannabis Corp., an ACMPR-licensed company based in Toronto. “It’s a hugely capital intensive industry, so there are constant meetings with investors, bankers and shareholders.” In other words, it’s hugely white-male intensive.

“It seems that there are some women leaders in the lifestyle or culture side of the business, but unfortunately I don’t see many women at executive or board levels in the companies in the legal regulated space, which is where the industry is going. This is still very male dominated,” continues Gordon. “I am the only female CEO of the 92 licensed companies that I am aware of…but it’s hard to keep track as the list of licensed companies changes weekly.”

Before joining the cannabis industry, Gordon was the executive vice-president of Rethink Breast Cancer, which she co-founded in 2001. When a close family member was diagnosed with stage IV ovarian cancer and began using medical marijuana to help with sleep, anxiety and pain management, Gordon realized that the cannabis industry had a persistent image problem. “I was like, ‘Someone needs to rebrand this. Why does it always have to be just about hippies and rappers?’” she says. “I realized that I have this perfect storm of experience with marketing and fundraising and working with patients, physicians and government, so I jumped into the industry.

Her first role was chief marketing officer for a cannabis producer—technically a demotion. Three years later, she took on a similar role at 48North. And less than a year later, she was appointed CEO. “It’s a challenge across the board, whether it’s women or men, to find people who’ve worked in the cannabis industry,” says Gordon. Her best advice for boss bitches wanting to get in on the lucrative legal action? “It’s a new industry, and we do move very quickly, so if women can get in now—maybe not at executive levels but at the senior level—and get a few years under their belts, they will be the leaders of this industry because we’re at such an early point in time,” she says. “I’m considered a veteran because I’ve been in it for five years.”

“It’s a new industry, and we do move very quickly, so if women can get in now—maybe not at executive levels but at the senior level—and get a few years under their belts, they will be the leaders of this industry because we’re at such an early point in time.”

Of course, as with any industry on the brink of a boom, there’s always the risk of failure. But when it comes to marijuana, the ROI is about so much more than the bottom line—especially for women, many of whom aren’t just jumping on the cannabis bandwagon because it’s edgy or trendy or a buzzy investment. For most, it’s about taking control of their own health.

According to a Van der Pop-sponsored survey of 1,530 women who use cannabis multiple times a month, the top four reasons why they consume it are wellness-related (pain relief, relaxation, stress and anxiety). Which means the same woman who does yoga, drinks cold-pressed juices, meditates with her crystals and adds spirulina to her kale smoothie in the morning is probably also open to smoking a little pot to unwind or deal with a headache or get “in the mood.” And if you consider how massive the #selfcare movement has become, wellness is very likely going to be the thing that breaks weed into the mainstream.

“As more people leave their ‘respectable’ nine-to-fives and start taking best practices from the established industries, I think we’re going to see an incredible rate of innovation. It’s exciting—we get to make the rules and break the rules at the same time!”

“Women are starting to realize, especially in the States, that decisions are being made on our behalf either by the government or by pharmaceutical companies,” says Pride. “Those in positions to make the decisions around which medical challenges to pursue regarding product research and development and/or regulatory change have rarely been female, so our true array of needs have rarely been met. As more people leave their ‘respectable’ nine-to-fives and start taking best practices from the established industries, I think we’re going to see an incredible rate of innovation. It’s exciting—we get to make the rules and break the rules at the same time!”

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ONCI UPDATED 1/23/18

$ONCI UPDATED 1/23/18 ONCI–HEXAGON HOLDINGS We’re looking at a start-up about 20 months old, run by a seasoned and experienced CEO who is using all his knowledge, talents, and connections to build a revenue-generating monster. He’s brought on great names such as Peter Einstein, Bill Jenkins, and Eric Ritter who have aided in bringing huge revenues to one piece of one arm of our company. Here’s Einstein’s linked In: https://www.linkedin.com/in/peter-einstein-a032075/ I challenge anyone to find me a pinky CEO that has accomplished as much as Steve Berman has in the last 20 months. Oh yeah, broken promises, yada yada. Well, YOU try running a new public company and tell me there are no potholes along the way slowing down its intended progress. The only thing, THE ONLY THING one can accuse SB of is being a bit too over-enthusiastic about what the future holds here and jumping the gun with some of the company’s developments. But at the end of the day, these developments will come to fruition. The revenues that are coming will prove this. ONCI–Now, let’s look at what we have here: a fast-growing company with 6 arms or holdings. Steve has shared with us how back in March of 2016, he had goals of turning a dormant company into something very alluring and worthy of investment. So far, he brought the stock price from .0001 to .0192 since then. Yes, it has settled into a channel here at .005. Still not a bad increase from its humble beginnings. I can tell you that our CEO is far from satisfied with this. He is working hard to see this rise to new highs. Look at all those reported sales. HE WOULD NOT REPORT THEM IF THEY DID NOT HAPPEN. The revs are coming in from these monthly. And this is just from one piece of one of six arms. Let’s look into SB’s explanation of all 6 divisions: App & App Design Manufacturing Dental Care Digital Media Some form of Cannabis Related Company TBA in 2018 and will be HUGE! . App & App Design . BSafe Mobile leads the way with their roster of apps. The safe driving app is available for both iPhone and Android users. Distraction Driving is a hot topic as more deaths are being attributed to distracted drivers than people who died from cancer. Its the “Perfect Storm of Apps” claims CEO Steve Berman. The app will notify the admin of the vehicle and in which the admin can then turn off the phone. When the car’s wheels starting rolling and the driver is using the mobile device, the admin will be notified and can chose to power off the device. This app and its technology is huge on a global level. Orders keep flowing (see recent press) and much more contracts and revenues are set to be announced over the coming weeks. . Other apps include: . FleetSafer… like the BSafe app, the FleetSafer app will allow an admin who can monitor up to 10,000 vehicles, the ability to see the location of their vehicle, the drivers patterns and more. BFoundMobile… A great example is a rent a car agency. If someone picks up a car in lets say St. Louis, Missouri, and rents it for a week, the renter has no idea where that vehicle is at any given time, nor how many miles have been put on it or anything. The only thing they know per the renter’s agreement is that the car will be delivered back by such and such time. The app will allow them to know where the car is at any given time. This is perfect for agencies like Hertz, Budget, Avis, Enterprise etc. Certain apps may have the ability to do this but they works by GPS, and will not work when underground. This app works by apple beacon so even when underground the admin will still know the location of the vehicle. OK Golfer… an app used by golfers to ultimately speed up the round of golf by providing distance to the flag and selecting what club the golfer should use. This will help elevate a lot of unnecessary thinking, guessing and judgement time. Golf Gamble… is in the beta testing phase. The app will allow the golfer to wager money in attempt to double or triple their money based on how close they can get their ball to the pin or hole. Preliminary numbers were 90% of the time golfers will lose, making it a potentially profitable app not only for the company but for the golf courses whom they partner with. Drive Sober…also in beta testing, will work by having a device on the visor. The device will pick up the alcohol levels on their breath and monitor the admin. The admin, usually the car’s owner or parent, will then have the ability to stop the driver from driving while potentially under the influence. Another app with the intention of saving lives and wrongful deaths. Child Car Seat App… will work based on a sensor attached to the child’s car seat. The sensor will notify the admin when the temperature inside the vehicle reaches an unsafe level, if and when the parent leaves the child unattended. This app is an attempt to stop wrongful deaths of children due to heat exertion. Urgent Dentist…will allow you to find an urgent care dentist location near you, rather than having to wait until the next day to see a dentist. This app ties along with the DENTAL CARE arm of the company mentioned below. . Manufacturing . While the company plans on using its factories to make its devices between the hours of 9am and 9pm, it will seek additional revenues by renting the factories from 9pm to 8am. This could generate $6000 a day and have the lines running 24/7. The company would like to open factory locations across the globe at locations such as Canada, China, Budapest, Brazil, Prague, and the United States. The goal is to optimize the lines so that if they are not making product to fulfill orders, then they are being leased by someone else to generate maximum revenues. . Dental Care . The company wants to start off by using an office space at around 30 Urgent Care facilities over the next 24 months. The opportunity to get immediate dental care is huge. An example was given where if you have bad tooth pain or a broken tooth at 9pm at night, there is nothing you can do at the moment other than hope someone will see you when offices open at 9am. Being located in an Urgent Care facility, it will allow a person in need the option of getting immediate help by visiting of the locations. (also ties in with the app) The company will then give the Urgent Care facility a royalty and allow them to also do the medical billing. This will save the company $5000. It will be rolled out i the NY tri-state area. He also talked about plans to make the Dental Care “mobile”, where they will bring dentistry to locations such as homes for the elderly. All the equipment including tools, chairs, machines etc. will be brought in. A dental hygienist could be rented/paid $300 for the day, and they could see on average 15 patients. If they were to bill the insurance companies $50 for the appointment, that would be $750, making it very profitable based on only having to pay $300 for the hygienist. An actual dentist may run $800 a day, but the revenues from his services would be much more than $800, thus making it a profitable venture also. This business model, multiplied by many locations in eventually many states will add up nicely. Steve wants to build many revenue streams and have the company earning money every day. HE ALSO PURCHASED A PROFITABLE DENTAL PRACTICE IN NY CURRENTLY DOING 2 MILLION A YEAR: October 11, 2017: ON4 COMMUNICATIONS ANNOUNCES IT HAS AGREED TO ACQUIRE A NEW YORK DENTAL GROUP AND PLANS TO OPEN 30 URGENT CARE DENTAL OFFICES WITHIN THE NEXT 36 MONTHS . Digital Media . The 4th division wants to focus on “retinal scan” technology that will allow ad agencies the ability to target which ads are displayed based on recognizing its viewer. In example, if the digital ad display notices a middle aged man it will show “work boots”, while if it recognizes 3 teen girls, it may show a T-Mobile ad for cell phone service and a young woman possibly perfume. Having the ability to target your audience brings tremendous value to advertisers allowing them to get the best bang for their buck. Ads that can be quantified at stadiums, malls, theaters and gas stations are just a few immediate opportunities for the company. . Cannabis Related . Very little info was mentioned on the 5th arm of the company. It sounds as if it will be Canadian related and that due diligence has been going on with certain companies. They are going through the books of a few companies and looking for profitable ventures that they can exploit and make even more profitable. Tweets hint at the purchase of 100 acres of grow space in PEI Canada. . TBA (To Be Announced) in 2018 . This was an eye opener. When the CEO stated the new venture will be so big and will make so much money that everyone will be able to buy new houses… I was WOWed! I understand this is a forward looking statements, but he was definitely optimistic about what he has planned for next year. . After going through the 6 legs/arms or divisions of Hexagon Holdings, Mr. Berman re-emphasized the significance of a “holdings” company and its flexibility. The beauty of having multiple holdings is that if one of the entities fails, the company doesn’t go under because there will be 5 other revenue producing holdings that keep it strong and running. The remainder of the call touched on: . Whats going on with Dubai? Recent New Hires Updates with Car Companies Upcoming News Closing Shareholder Questions . 15 Million Dubai Women To Get Their Driver’s Licenses . Exciting times are upon the women in Dubai, as January 1st, new laws will allow women the ability to drive causing a massive influx of new drivers. The company has been in discussion with 2 major firms who have reviewed the product and now wish to discuss pricing and contracts. Steve and staff will be going to Dubai for a week and already have 14 meetings set up and numerous dinners. He discussed the significant opportunity their Drive Safe App offered the companies and people of the area, especially the United Emirates. In that country, if you are caught texting on your phone, it is a $1000 fine. Your second offense, you lose both your license to drive and your car! . The company has over 100 Employees , Most are commission based reps through our distribution channels. This is a win win scenario for the company in controlling payroll expenses. The more they payout will result in more sales. . Peter Einstein, he complimented and said he really is an Einstein, has experience working with MTV Europe and has played a key role in setting up sales and meetings with Dubai, the middle east, Ireland, England and Serbia. Eric Ritter, who is in Florida, has been working with Lawyers down there Bill Jenkins, ex NASCAR owner, who was highly complimented, being called, smart, bright, scientific, comprehensive and a great marketer, will generate significant future revenues for the company. Anyone familiar with a NASCAR vehicle understands the car itself is an advertisement with logo’s of sponsors all over. I have a feeling his expertise will not only help on the be safe car app, but also the digital media side . Dealing with the Auto Industry . Along with 4 auto companies, Mr. Berman discussed some of their marketing efforts. . Facebook… advertising is generating sales, clients and followers, SKY COMMUNICATIONS will unveil the ad campaign any day now. Enterprise Rent A Car… can not comment as he is still under an NDA (Non Disclosure Agreement) BMW… they have had good meetings. BMW has requested the app be in 7 languages. To date, 4 are done so far. As soon as the last 3 languages are complete there will be testing done. Steve was unsure just how long these tests will take. BMW has asked for minor adjustments and have been addressed. FORD… likes the product and has increased their demands for what the app can do. They wish for the app to also act as a diagnostic tool, such as indicate why and when your engine light is on. Anti tampering was an issue they are addressing. CHRYSLER… has a similar response as Ford. Middle East contracts are on the way! The Dubai car show resulted in nearly 12 companies testing BsafeMobile and BfoundMobile. One potential contract is from Careem, the Uber of the ME with over 100k drivers. . Major News Is Coming! . Its going to be an exciting next couple of months, as the CEO divulged they have 10 deals in place that will bring in between $200k to $1m each over the next 2 weeks. If that wasn’t good enough, ONCI will have a signed LOI with a large insurance company that has 2 million drivers and insure 1,000 dealerships. They are expecting an order of 500+ units a month. . Additional Shareholder Questions . How many factories do you have? At the moment they have 2 factories producing 2-3000 units a month. One is located in NY and one in Canada. . Was there a share reduction? There will be a reduction, that will be revealed with the FINRA filing, that it was reduced by 1.4 billion shares from both the Authorized shares (A/S) and the Outstanding Shares (O/S). Steve mentioned it may end up going up a tad because they will be seeking the ability to raise money for future projects. . Who is your biggest competitor? Apple is, but with their safe driving app, it is “voluntary” versus admin based. To hear the call for yourself, go to: https://soundcloud.com/ant-chance/confenence-call-onci-111017 . Existing App Sales: January 19, 2018 – ON4 COMMUNICATIONS ANNOUNCES EXCLUSIVE DISTRIBUTION DEAL WITH CATACLEAN FOR BSAFEMOBILE IN GREAT BRITAIN AND IRELAND January 17, 2018 – ON4 COMMUNICATIONS ANNOUNCES $1.65m IN NEW CONTRACTS, SIGNS GARDEN CITY NISSAN,LARGEST NISSAN DEALER IN THE WORLD December 5 2017 – ON4 COMMUNICATIONS ANNOUNCES DISTRIBUTION DEAL WITH CAPOLI SALES November 29, 2017 – ON4 COMMUNICATIONS ANNOUNCES $1.44M CONTRACT WITH A TEXAS DEALER GROUP AND A DISTRIBUTION DEAL WITH SCULLY LEMOINE MARKETING.. November 7, 2017 – Contract with a major European Taxi Service with locations in Czech Republic, Hungary and Romania. They will be taking 500 units per month for 4 months beginning February 2018. $400,000 October 24, 2017 – Executed a 3000 unit contract with a large middle eastern multinational company with a fleet of vehicles which tops 7500 cars, Suv’s and trucks. $600,000 to $1,500,000 October 24, 2017 – Contract with a large after-market group with access to 450 dealerships throughout Florida, Alabama, Louisiana, Georgia, South Carolina, North Carolina and Virginia. This group will be selling Bsafe Mobile and Bfound mobile into its dealer network. This adds approximately 450 prospective clients to the Bsafe Family. $1,000,00 annual conservatively October 18, 2017 – Pilot program with a large Middle Eastern Taxi Fleet with over 10,000 taxis throughout 4 different countries including Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, UAE and Egypt. $100,000 Pilot Test October 18, 2017 – Contract with Gunther Motors with brands including VW,2 dealerships, Mazda and Kia. $216,000 annual October 16, 2017 – Contract with a 7 dealer West Texas auto group with brands including Jeep, Dodge Trucks, Ford, Toyota, Nissan, Chevy and Hyundai. $588,000 annual October 16, 2017 – Contract with a 6 Dealer South Florida Auto group with brands including Toyota, Nissan, Acura, Kia, Jeep and Hyundai. $432,000 annual October 11, 2017 – Contract with a 7 dealer Massachusetts based auto group, with brands including Chevy, Nissan, Toyota, Hyundai, BMW, Ford and Jeep. $420,000 annual September 29, 2017 – Contract with a northern Florida auto group with 6 dealerships including Chevy, Kia, Hyundai, Ford, Nissan and Toyota. $288,000 annual September 29, 2017 – Contract with a large southwestern extended warranty company; we will be selling their products which include extended warranties, tire and wheel and other after-market products in our dealer network and they will be selling our apps in their dealer network. $120,000 annual September 29, 2017 – A central Florida dealer group with 5 dealerships in Tampa and Orlando and brands including Chevy, GMC, KIA, Hyundai and Audi. $240,000 annual September 27, 2017 – A 4 dealer Toyota Group in the NY tri-state area: one dealer in NY, one in NJ and 2 in CT. $480,000 annual September 22, 2017 – A 250 Dealer Extended Warranty Company in New York. $480,000 annual September 20, 2017 – A 5 dealer group in NY with Brands including Nissan, Jeep and Volvo. $240,000 annual September 13, 2017 – JV with Title King a division of New America Energy Corp. $600,000 annual September 13, 2017 — Contract with Pennsylvania/New Jersey dealer Group with brands including Jeep, Kia, Chevy, Ford, Alpha Romeo, GM, Hyundai and Nissan. $1,000,000 annual September 8, 2017 — Contract with 25 dealerships in Los Angeles and Orange county California each dealership will take 20 units per month. $1,200,000 September 8, 2017 – Acquisition includes FLEET SAFER which generated over 1 million in sales last year. $1,000,000 September 1, 2017 — Signed a contract with a 10 dealer group in Arizona at 150 units per month at $250 per unit. $450,000 August 29, 2017 — Executed a contract with a 5 dealer auto group in Long Island New York with brands including Toyota, Nissan Chevy, Kia and Ford. $360,000 annual August 24, 2017 — Ford Fleet services has asked us to put 1000 units on reserve as they have a Large Mid Western Utility Company who has expressed interest in not only our FMS Safe Driving App but also our Global Tracking Device. $200,000 trial run with HUGE potential August 21, 2017 — Executed a contract with a large Mid Atlantic dealer group with locations in Virginia, Maryland, Delaware and Washington DC. $432,000 annual August 17, 2017 — Signed a deal with a large luxury dealer group in Texas including such brands as Mercedes, BMW, Lexus, Audi, Lincoln, Cadillac, Porsche and Infiniti. $480,000 annual August 11 2017 — Executed a contract with Google Brazil yesterday. $2,000,000 annual August 3, 2017 – Partnered deal with Assurant – purchased 500 units to start and asked us to put another 500 on hold. $200,000 and growing! August 1, 2017 — Entered into a marketing agreement with one of the largest worldwide online shopping sites with access to over 50 million customers. Berman reported via phone call – selling 20-40 units per day. $2,000,000 annual June 26 2017 – Signed a deal with a leading Auto Dealer group in South America representing Nissan, Toyota, GM, Ford, Land Rover, Kia and Hyundai. $300,000 annual April 19, 2017 — Received a $100K order for Drive Safe App from 1 of the leading Asian auto manufacturers with HQ’s based in Korea and Japan. $100,000 January 24, 2017 — Secured 8 new Auto Dealer Vendors in Florida State for Drive Safe App. $672,000 annual December 23, 2016 — Drive Safe App installed on a large Taxi fleet in the North-East USA, first 250 vehicles during the 2nd week of January 2017 increasing until full installation has been completed in the company’s 1500 vehicle Taxi fleet. $300,000 December 19, 2016 — Launch of their proprietary Drive Safe App with a large Food & Beverage distributor. $50,000 Anyone who thinks the CEO would risk jail by lying about the above needs to invest elsewhere. At the end of the day, you either believe or not. But think long and hard about WHO you believe. Our CEO and his past and present accomplishments, or the nameless posters who laugh in all-caps with no DD to back up their outrageous claims? The single-most issue here, what has hurt our PPS, is the delay in the name change. We were promised this months ago and it has not happened. Why? Well, I’ve been through this before. FINRA requires a lot i-dotting and t-crossing, each and every event needing lawyerly eyes. Much more than our CEO ever expected. He wants this as much as we do. IT WILL COME! Every day we are closer to this happening. And when it does…look out. Add in the audited fins (also a major crunch involving countless lawyer meetings), and ONCI will leave sub-penny land forever. I love watching small companies grow into big companies. It’s happening here, right before our eyes. About CEO Steve Berman Steve is a New York native with over 30 years of sales success and executive leadership experience. Steve is a successful entrepreneur, having founded several companies and serving in the CEO role. In his various roles managing and building various businesses, Steve has been instrumental in securing capital financings for several public and private companies, including start-ups and pre-revenue businesses. Most recently, Steve co-founded 3DMC, a premier digital multimedia company; and also served as CEO of Stealth Sports and Marketing, a consulting firm specializing in marketing and multimedia solutions to professional sports teams. Prior to working with 3DMC and Stealth, Steve held the positions of Senior Vice President at YES Network (www.YesNetwork.com), the number one regional sports network in the country. Throughout his career, Steve developed key relationships in the top 10 markets and was responsible for developing the advertising platform for YES, which was directly linked with significant sales increases for YES Network. Before his tenure at YES Network, Steve served as Senior Vice President of Time Warner Cable NY, where he successfully grew the company’s advertising sales from $11m to well over $100m and increased national sales by 200%. During his time at Time Warner NY, the company became the number one billing cable market in the US. http://dlvr.it/QD0gtc

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Not Another Brit Abroad’s Guide to...A Night Out in Moscow

This post is coming a few days later than planned, because part of the surviving a night out in Moscow is surviving the day(s) after…

This weekend marked the end of our first week living as students in Moscow, which was a milestone we felt should be celebrated properly. I messaged my parents to say that I was going out for dinner and drinks, potentially to a club for a bit if I wasn’t too tired and would most likely be home by 1am. Turns out 1am was a very naïve guess.

Having had dinner and several gin & tonics at a Georgian restaurant on the Old Arbat (Старый Арбат, in Russian), a small group of us headed out to Bolotny Island in the centre of Moscow. The island is a prime example of regeneration in the city; once old warehouses and Soviet factories, the west of the island now boasts an eclectic choice of bars and clubs, popular with many young Moscow residents.

So the saying goes, “when in Rome, do as the Romans do”, so when in Russia, we wanted to do as the Russians do, and therefore vodka shots were our first port of call. However, we’re not quite locals yet, and so we indulged in the not-so-popular-with-locals ‘Russian Flag shot’. Made with vodka, blue curacao, and grenadine, this is a relatively appealing shot, as the bitter taste of vodka is masked by the sweetness of the grenadine. Usually. But alas, my ability to down a shot from a Russian size shot glass is not quite up to standard yet, and so I couldn’t fully appreciate the mix. But you know, practice makes perfect…

Known as one of the best alco-dance clubs in Moscow, the Rolling Stone Bar was certainly an appealing choice of venue to spend the rest of the night. Relatively easy to get into, it has live drums, a tuba player and an MC to accompany the mix of British rock, club-classics, and Russian music played by resident and guest DJs. The bar also has the added bonus of a spacious roof terrace, which is open throughout the summer and the winter, and boasts views of the embankment, and the Peter the Great monument.

By the time we realised what time it was, the sun was starting to come up. The metro in Russia is shut from 1am and opens again at 5:30am. All pretty tired by this point, a taxi was a more appealing option than locating and then a trekking to the closest metro station, and so we ordered ourselves an Uber to take us home. As our Saturday night was ending, people across Moscow were waking up to a sunny Sunday morning. And trust me, we were paying for it when we eventually got to Sunday…

Key things to know before a night out in Russia: Getting to and from the club: Download the Yandex Taxi or Uber app before you go. The Metro shuts every night from 1am – 5.30am and there will be lots of unregistered taxis on the roads at this time, particularly near bars and clubs. It is not uncommon to see Russians flagging down “gypsy cabs” (private cars). This is illegal and should be avoided. Dress Codes: Depending on what club you’re planning on going to, look up dress codes. Not all, but some clubs in Russia operate a policy of “face control” – where they encourage their clients to make an effort (dresses and heels for women, no jeans or no trainers). I was wearing black jeans, a relatively ‘un-dressy’ top and a denim jacket which was perfectly acceptable at clubs like the Rolling Stone Bar but not all clubs would accept this.

Women: From our experience as a group of women, it was obvious that men are definitely not afraid to grab you by the waist (or other, even less ok areas) and try to dance with you (though this isn’t necessarily any different to going out anywhere else). If you say ‘no’ (nyet) enough times and show you’re not interested, this is usually ok. But if really don’t feel safe, or *something* happens, approach a member of security/bar staff and ask them to help you.

Drugs: If you’re tempted to take drugs while on a night out in Russia, DON’T. The attitude towards even lower-level drugs such as cannabis is no different to drugs such as heroin, and taking drugs is an offence that can, and usually will, get you time in prison.

Be sensible: it’s no more dangerous going out in Russia than it is in England or anywhere else. But if especially you don’t speak Russian or if you’re not confident with it, don’t take any risks – don’t accept drinks from strangers, don’t get in a strangers car etc.

Most importantly – Have fun!

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