#stanley forbes imagine

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Rewrite of one of my favorite few pages including Stanley in Ggbb💖 (To clarify this isn't all my original work, this is a page I'm copying from the book and including parts in) ⚠️Spoilers warning⚠️

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"Is Stanley Forbes in?" asked Pip. "He should be." The woman finally located the correct key and slit it into the lock. "We've got the write-up of the memorial to sort out before we print today, so Stanley asked me to come in and help." She opened the door. "After you." She said, and Pip stepped over the threshold into the small front room.

"I'm pip." she said, following the woman as they passed two tired sofas and headed for the back office. "Yes, I know who you are," the woman said, shrugging off her jacket. And then, in a slightly less frosty tone: "I'm Mary, Mary Scythe." "Pleased to meet you, again." Pip said, which wasn't exactly true. She figured Mary was one of those people who blamed Pip for all "The Trouble" last year in their nice, quaint town. Mary pushed the door, revealing a small, square room, four computer desks lining its walls, as tight and claustrophobic as Pip remembered it. Guess that's what you got for a tiny town newspaper that ran mostly on donations from the family living in that mansion up Beecher Road.

Stanley Forbes was sitting at the desk against the far wall, his back to them, his dark brown hair in unkempt clumps, presumably from where his finders had tunneled through. He paid them no attention, leaning towards his desktop screen, which, judging by rhea white-and-dark-blue stripes, was on Facebook.

"Hi Stanley," Pip said softly. He didn't turn. In fact, he hadn't moved at all, still scrolling down the page. He hadn't heard her. "Stanley?" she tried again. Nothing, not even a flinch. He wasn't wearing headphones, was he? She couldn't see any. "Honestly," Mary scoffed, "he does this all the time. Has the most selective hearing I've ever come across. Tunes the whole world out. I have no idea how (y/n) likes him or can even stand to be around him as much as they are. Hey Stan!" She barked that last part, and finally Stanley looked up, spinning in his chair to face them. "Oh sorry, were you talking to me?" he said, his green-brown eyes jumping from Mary to settle on Pip, head perking up at the mention of that name.

"No one else in the room," Mary said irritably. "Wait (y/n) likes me?" Stanley said swinging from side to side in his chair with a coy smile on his face watching Mary as she walked away dropping her handbag against the desk farthest from Stanley's. "Hi," Pip said again, walking over to him, crossing the distance in just four large steps.

"H-hello," Stanley said, getting to his feet. He held out his hand apparently to shake hers, but then evidently changed his mind and drew it back, then changed his mind again and re-extended the hand with an embarrassed laugh leaving Mary holding back a laugh across the room wondering if this is how he flirted with (y/n). He probably didn't know how the appropriate way to greet Pip, given their fraught history and her being eighteen while he was at least in his late twenties.

"Sorry," Stanley said, returning the awkward hand to his side. It wasn't just the Singhs he'd apologized to; Pip had also received a letter from Stanley a few months ago. In other he'd apologized for the way he'd talked down to her and for Becca Bell taking Pip's number from his phone and using it to threaton Pip. He hadn't known at the time, but he was still sorry. Pip wondered how sincere he really was. "What can I...," Stanley began. "What do you-"

"I know the memorial will probably take up a lot of room in tomorrow's paper. But could you make space for this? I'm trying to spread the word to everyone in town." Pip dropped her backpack so she could take out the reserved Missing poster. She handed it over, watching Stanley read, his eyes furrowed and a hollow burrowing into his cheek as he chewed it from the inside. "Missing is he?" He looked down again. "Jamie Reynolds."

"Know him?"

"Don't think so," Stanley said. "Might recognize the face. Is he from Fairview?" "Yep. Family live on Cedar Way. Jamie went to Fairview high, with Andie and Sal."

"Missing since when?" he asked. "It says there." Pip's voice rose impatiently. Mary's chair creaked as she leaned closer to listen in, interested in the different than normal (y/n) rambling topic. "Last seen around eight o'clock at the memorial, until I learn more about his movements. I saw you taking photos, could you email those to me?" "Er, yes OK. Police?" asked Stanley. "A missing persons report has been filed," Pip replied "Polive response is nonexistent right now. So it's just me. That's why I need your help." She smiles, pretending like she didn't resent having to ask.

"Missing since the memorial?" Stanley thought oloud. "That's only, like, a day and a half, right? "Thirty-seven and a half hours," Pip said. "That's not very long, is it?" He lowered the poster. "Missing is nissing" she countered. "And the first seventy-two hours are critical, especially if you suspect foul play." "Do you?" "Yes," she said. "The family does too. So will you help? Can you print that notice tomarrow?" Stanley looked up for a moment, eyes spooling as he considered it. "Suppose I can move the article about potholes until next week." "Is that a yes?" Pip said. "Yes I'll make sure it goes in." He nodded, tapping the poster. "Though I'm sure he'll turn up OK." "Thank you, Stanley." She returned his polite smile. "I really appreciate that." She pivoted on her heels ro leave, but Stanley's voice stopped her before she reached the door.

"Mysteries always seem to find their way to you, don't they?"

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#agggtm #ggbb #a good girls guide to murder #good girl bad blood #f/o #self ship #self shipping #s/i #self ship community #self shipping community #romantic f/o #stanley forbes #agggtm x reader #ggbb x reader #stanley forbes x reader #stanley forbes imagines #stanley forbes imagine #agggtm imagines #agggtm imagine #ggbb imagines #ggbb imagine

[talknerdytome18]

I've been thinking about AGGGTM ships again. This series isn't meant to be ship heavy (as it should be, because I barely survived the shipping madness from HSMTMTS) but I love writing about both the canon + non-canon couples. So I've decided to talk about ships I've seen for AGGGTM in this post because I have uni assigments due and I wanna procrastinate.

Disclaimer: These are just ships I've seen on Instagram or Twitter. My opinion is my opinion and if you don't like it, then just move on. This is only gonna be non-canon pairings so don't expect PipRavi or JamieNat here (because I ship those and this is only about non-canon pairings).

Pippa Fitz-Amobi/Connor Reynolds: eh... I can kind of see it. I see it in the sense of them being childhood crushes that fade in a week. Connor did canonically have a crush on Pip in book 1 that faded after book 1 (it wasn't mentioned again). They wouldn't have anything long-term as they're better off friends.

Jamie Reynolds/Stanley Forbes: This ship has four fics on AO3 and I've actually enjoyed them. I'm personally more of a JamieNat shipper but this one is pretty cute. I see it as Stanley being Jamie's bi awakening (I hc Jamie as being bi). They'd be cute if you know... Stanley didn't die.

Ant Lowe/Connor Reynolds: UH NO FUCKING WAY. Even if we're going based off book 1, they'd still be awful because of how Ant acted in the series. He was so disrespectful towards Connor when he pulled that prank in Kill Joy, knowing that they were running on limited time. He's also so nasty towards Connor in Good Girl, Bad Blood when Jamie went missing. I can't even imagine these two working out in an alternate timeline because I fucking despise Ant Lowe. Fuck Ant Lowe I hope Jamie beat his ass when he found out about how he treated Pip and Connor during his disappearance.

Cara Ward/Lauren Gibson: I really like this ship! I'm still not Lauren's biggest fan (she reminds me of a former friend), but I think the show might change that since Ant's not there. Asha and Yali have lovely chemistry from what we've seen in their posts. I also feel like Lauren having a sapphic arc would be better than that Ant/Lauren nonsense. Seriously, wtf was that???

Zach Chen/Connor Reynolds: YES YES YES YES. If you follow me, then you know how much I love this ship (I created their AO3 tag btw). They would be so cute together! I kinda feel like Connor had a little crush on Zach in the book (he was acting pretty secretive about where he was after the memorial in ggbb. Like dude, nobody cares if you were playing Fortnite with Zach. Is there something else you're not telling us???). I would love for them to make them canon in the show (especially since Zach is there... and why would you add him but cut Ant?), but it's unlikely.

Pippa Fitz-Amobi/Max Hastings: EWWW DISGUSTING. IF YOU FUCKING SHIP THIS GET THE FUCK AWAY FROM ME YOU WEIRDO 🤮 (Yes, this is a real ship I've seen when looking through the ship tags on ao3 😭).

That's all I can think of. Some of these were fine... except Ant/Connor and Pip/Max. Anyways bye! - Em <333

#agggtm #a good girl's guide to murder #connor reynolds #zach chen #ravi singh #pippa fitz amobi #cara ward #lauren gibson #ant lowe #jamie reynolds #stanley forbes #shipping #who tf is shipping Pip/Max though??? #if you ship pip/max then you're getting blocked by me #and i'm not kidding <333 #fuck max hastings i hope he dies #and ant lowe too! #seriously though #if you ship ant/connor... tell me why?

[scotianostra]

Happy 58th Birthday to the multi-talented Scottish actor Alan Cumming born on January 27, 1965 in Aberfeldy.

Alan Cumming has an amazing volume of work under his belt, last year alone he was involved in 8 different projects and TV and Cinema, add to that he appears on stage, writes, produces, directs things, as you'd imagine there is a lot to go through in his bio.........

Born to Mary (Darling), an insurance company secretary, and Alex Cumming. a forester for Atholl Estate, Alanspent his infant years in Dunkeld before the family moved to Fassfern near Fort William, before moving to the east coast of Scotland in 1969, where Alan's father took up the position of Head Forester of Panmure Estate; it was there that Alan grew up. He went to Monikie Primary School and Carnoustie High School, where he began appearing in plays, and soon after that began working with with the Carnoustie Theatre Club and Carnoustie Musical Society, and never looked back.

In 1981, he left high school with some great exam results in several subjects, but because he was too young to enter any university or drama school he worked for just over a year as a sub-editor at D.C. Thomson Publishers in Dundee. There he worked on the launch of a new magazine, “Tops”, and was also the “Young Alan” who answered readers’ letters. 

In September 1982 he began a three-year course at the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama in Glasgow. He graduated in 1985 with a B.A. (Dramatic Studies) and awards for verse speaking and direction. He also had formed a cabaret double act with fellow student Forbes Masson called Victor and Barry, which went on to become hugely successful with tours (including two Perrier Pick of the Fringe seasons in London and a month-long engagement at the Sydney Opera House as part of an Australian tour), records and many TV appearances throughout the British Isles. Before graduating Alan made his professional theatre and film debuts in Macbeth at the Tron Theatre in Glasgow and in Gillies MacKinnon’s Passing Glory. 

After graduating, Alan worked extensively in Scottish theatre and television, including a stint on the soap opera High Road before moving to London when Conquest of the South Pole, a play by German playwright Manfred Karge, transferred from the Traverse Theatre in, Edinburgh to the the Royal Court in London, earning him his first Olivier award nomination for Most Promising Newcomer of 1988. 

Alan performed with the Royal Shakespeare Company and then the Royal National Theatre, where he starred in Accidental Death of an Anarchist, which he also adapted with director Tim Supple. The production was nominated for Best revival at the 1991 Olivier awards and Alan won for Comedy Performance of the Year. His film career began with Ian Sellar’s Prague , in which he starred with Sandrine Bonnaire and Bruno Ganz. The film premiered at the 1992 Cannes film festival and went on to win him Best Actor award at the Atlantic Film Festival and a Scottish BAFTA Best Actor nomination. In the same year he made two films for the BBC. 

In the 1992 Olivier awards got his second nomination for Comedy Performance of the Year for La Bete. The next year he played Hamlet for the English Touring Theatre to great critical acclaim  going on to play the Emcee in Sam Mendes’ revival of Cabaret. He received a 1994 Olivier award nomination for Best Actor in a Musical for “Cabaret”, and for Hamlet he received the 1994 TMA Best Actor award and a Shakespeare Globe award nomination.

In 1994, he made his first Hollywood film, Circle of Friends then two films released in quick succession Emma and GoldenEye as a talented hacker, Boris Grishenko, these films brought him to be noticed by further American producers, and he appeared in several Hollywood films, such as Romy and Michele’s High School Reunion and Buddy.

Returning home briefly in 1997 to work with Stanley Kubrick and the Spice Girls before reprising his role in Cabaret on Broadway. The show and his portrayal were a sensation, and he received the many plaudits and awards  for his performance including a Tony  for Best Actor in a Musical

Since then he has alternated between theatre and films, and also between smaller independent films and more mainstream fare.His films include Julie Taymor’s Titus, the Spy Kids trilogy, X-Men 2, Son of the Mask and the Showtime movie musical Reefer Madness: The Movie Musical, and Battle of the Sexes. 

Cumming’s TV work includes Taggart, of course!  The short lived Scottish sitcom The High Life,  Travelling Man, Third Rock from the Sun, Sex and the City, Foyles War and Dr Who. He is probably best known for starring in the US  legal and political drama The Good Wife 

Alan lives in Manhattan  with his husband, illustrator Grant Shaffer, he has been nominated and won too many awards to mention here, and has champion causes for the  LGBT community worldwide. He published a novel,, Tommy’s Tale in 2002,  centring on the life of a bisexual guy living in London, and his biography  Not My Father’s Son, Cumming describes the emotional and physical violence his father inflicted on him in his childhood, he became estranged from his father in his early 20′s and it wasn’t until filming   Who Do You Think You Are in 2010 he spoke to him, his father telling him he suspected he wasn’t his biological father, Alan, along with his brother later had DNA tests which  proved they were indeed his biological children.

Alan today went up in my estimations when he announce he was sending back the OBE he was awarded in 2009 due to "the toxicity of empire".

He explained it in full on his Instagram account, posting;

Today is my 58th birthday and I want to tell you about something I recently did for myself. I returned my OBE. Fourteen years ago, I was incredibly grateful to receive it in the 2009 Queen’s birthday honours list, for it was awarded not just for my job as an actor but ‘for activism for equal rights for the gay and lesbian community, USA’. Back then the Defence of Marriage Act ensured that same sex couples couldn’t get married or enjoy the same basic legal rights as straight people, and Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell ensured that openly gay, lesbian or bisexual people were barred from serving in the military. (Incidentally both these policies were instituted by the Clinton administration). This is the statement I made at the time: ‘I am really shocked and delighted to receive this honour. I am especially happy to be honoured for my activism as much as for my work.  The fight for equality for the LGBT community in the US is something I am very passionate about, and I see this honour as encouragement to go on fighting for what I believe is right and for what I take for granted as a UK citizen. Thank you to the Queen and those who make up her Birthday honours list for bringing attention to the inaction of the US government on this issue. It makes me very proud to be British, and galvanised as an American’. The Queen’s death and the ensuing conversations about the role of monarchy and especially the way the British Empire profited at the expense (and death) of indigenous peoples across the world really opened my eyes. Also, thankfully, times and laws in the US have changed, and the great good the award brought to the LGBTQ+ cause back in 2009 is now less potent than the misgivings I have being associated with the toxicity of empire (OBE stands for Officer of the British Empire). So I returned my award, explained my reasons and reiterated my great gratitude for being given it in the first place. I’m now back to being plain old Alan Cumming again. Happy birthday to me!

If you want to see Alan let loose in oor ain land check out Channel 4’s Miriam & Alan: Lost In Scotland where we see the esteemed actor venturing around his native Scotland in a mobile home, with a new friend in tow – fellow thespian, the 80-year-old super Miriam Margolyes. The second series saw then explore the US.

I have to say I hope I look in as good shape as Alan when I reach my 58th birthday........but with just over 4 months left it's not going to happen is it!

#scottish #scotland #writer #actor #theate #cinema #television #lgbtqia #happy birhtday

[nouvxllev]

Back to pip because I love that girl….what are your thoughts on dark pip? In the contexts of her relationship ship with reader after AGAD? I imagine pup has anxiety attacks and reader often has to calm her down.

[SPOILERS FOR AS GOOD AS DEAD !]

[slight warning: i talk alot.]

after a year or maybe even more, recurring thoughts about her dog drowning to death, being kidnapped and almost got murdered, literally bashing jason bells head with a hammer and witnessing stanley forbes being shot to death that eventually led her to a spiral about who she was morally would still remain intact in her head; fresh, vivid, and fucking mortifying.

in the context of her and readers relationship after agad, reader would be the pinnacle of pips nightmares and, one of the worst cases, maladaptive daydreams. it can range from reader being recklessly slaughtered without pip even knowing only to find out their death when pip picks up their case to reader being one of the culprits to one of her cases.

she often takes meds to calm her down and put her to sleep in peace, yet it doesnt work in the slightest. recurring thoughts about someone somehow finding out she was behind the murder of jason bell that would get her arrested even after years of the verdict about max hastings terrifies her, and even more so when you were involved with her. pip would rather die knowing she murdered someone than lose you because of her

reader knows everything about her and the case, down to pips burner phones hidden away in her house, the countless amounts of stalker emails, the way she has someone else's blood tainted in her hands to murdering dt. in fact, they were an accomplice.

reader would always manage to find something to calm pip down, whether it was throwing out medications that had no use on her but make it worse to staying by her side 24/7 to make sure she hasnt gone off already more than she is. pip knew reader had some good in them, everything was, yet it wouldn't stop her thoughts from simply... thinking.

she still remembers every little detail, even with reader by her side to lessen the pain, it's still vivid in her memory, no matter how hard she tries to forget it all. she has constant anxiety attacks and would always overanalyze someone before ever getting close to them. she still has that annoying sense of academic humor hidden beneath the shit she experienced and done. she tries to hide it, knowing that it years passed and she would've been classified as someone crazy by her own brain, and she always manages to. but reader could see right through her.

they were there for pip everytime and anytime, no matter what place what time. i imagine reader being someone that grounds pip before turning into something she dreads, that they were always someone pip could come to whenever she feels like she's treading on that one last glint in her eyes. pip feels safe with them, how reader would laugh at her seemingly funny-but-not-so-funny-in-not-an-academic-stand-point, how they would basically carry everything pip has, how reader stops her from picking up another deadly case she stumbles upon, how they would always stand by her dorm in cambridge and talk with her until she falls asleep.

[aion-rsa]

A Clockwork Orange at 50: Malcolm McDowell Revisits Kubrick’s Film

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“I think I’ve always been my own kind of person, and you know sometimes to my detriment,” says Malcolm McDowell, chatting to Den of Geek via Zoom, 50 years after the release of A Clockwork Orange.

“I’ve never really played the Hollywood card, I’m not really an insider, that’s just not my thing. And I like to be able to say no. And that’s it.That’s not probably a politically correct thing to do. However, too bad. I’m still here 50 years later.”

McDowell is talking to us from LA, his accent a soft mix of Yorkshire, where he grew up, and California where he has resided for much of his professional life. He is funny and charismatic, with a hint of the mischievous, he says people still find him “a little intimidating” – traits which he brought out in spades for his breakout roles, first as rebellious school boy Mick Travis in Lindsay Anderson’s If… and then as violent delinquent Alex Delarge in Stanley Kubrick’s bold, blistering and controversial satire A Clockwork Orange.

Watching it today it seems hard to believe the movie is 50 years old – it’s lost none of its power. Set in a futuristic dystopian Britain, McDowell plays gang leader Alex, who with his band of ‘droogs’, gets high on ‘milk plus’ and commits a horrible home invasion and rape, and later a murder. Apprehended by the police, Alex agrees to participate in a new kind of aversion therapy which makes him physically unable to commit crimes, causing pain and nausea at the very thought, in exchange for a reduced sentence.

Alex is robbed of freewill, becoming the Clockwork Orange – an organic thing with a machine inside – of the title. It’s a movie of big themes, of totalitarian governments controlling citizens and left wing dissidents exploiting individuals, it’s a discussion of goodness and evil, of youth and authority, which is visually striking and often shockingly so. And to many it’s a masterpiece.

Kubrick’s film is an adaptation of the novel by Anthony Burgess, which like the movie uses a language Burgess called Nadsat (from the Russian suffix meaning ‘teen’) – a mix of Russian, English and Cockney rhyming slang. 

McDowell recalls his first meeting with Kubrick which took place at Kubrick’s house in Boreham Wood, during McDowell’s lunch hour filming Bryan Forbes’ Long Ago, Tomorrow. Kubrick said he’d seen If.. four or five times and it had made a big impression on him.

“We had a very nice chat but he didn’t mention anything and at the end I said ‘Well, I’ve got to get back to work. Was there anything you wanted to talk to me about in particular?’ And I could see his discomfort, at having to actually tell me that, yeah, he was thinking of making this book into a movie. And anyway, he begrudgingly gave me the title, gave me a copy of the book and told me to read it and call him,” McDowell smiles.

He describes the book as “a damn difficult read on the first go” but by the third go he was convinced. “I read it and I went, Holy crap, what a part! Oh geez!”

No kidding. Alex is front and centre of the entire film, he’s the narrator and charged with delivering difficult lines about ‘ultraviolence’, ‘weepy young devotchkas’ and how the treatment is affecting his ‘gulliver’.

Burgess was a linguist and his decision to make a new hybrid youth slang was a practical one. He wanted the youths in this world to feel ‘other’ and separate from the grown ups but felt if he’d chosen to use contemporary slang that the book would date quickly. It was a shrewd move that Kubrick stuck to, helping the film have a sense of timelessness.

Then there were the iconic costumes worn by Alex and his droogs – removed from any particular era of fashion they were simple but immediately intimidating. The look came about via a moment of serendipity between McDowell and Kubrick when Kubrick asked his star what he had in mind for the costume himself. 

“I said ‘Futuristic, I don’t know!’” McDowell laughs. “He goes, ‘What have you got?’  I went ‘What have I got? I mean I’ve got jeans and a T-shirt and I’ve got my cricket gear in the car’. He goes, ‘We’ll put it on. And then ‘What’s this?’ I went, ‘Well, that’s the protector’. He said ‘Wear it on the outside’. And that’s the iconic costume, right there, boom.”

McDowell says he had around six months of prep time where he got to know Kubrick really well, where Kubrick grew to trust him which he describes as being really fun. That trust between the two was important – McDowell had heavy lifting to do physically, including the indelible scenes of the ‘Ludovico technique’ which saw his eyelids pinned back (he scratched a cornea) and the humiliation scene, after his conversion, (he cracked several ribs). McDowell plays this down, “Most of the time it was fun to do. I had a couple of injuries but they weren’t life threatening. They were fairly painful, but it was really a small price to pay.”

On a rewatch these moments still standout, though there are others too – an extended sequence where Alex is being drowned in a trough by his former friends knocks the breath out of you. 

“To be honest with you, it’s a complete cheat,” says McDowell of the scene. “There’s one cut right at the beginning. That water was cold and they coloured it with Bovril. I mean can you imagine beef extract? It stank to high heaven, it was absolutely like shit! And it was cold because we shot it I think in November. So they couldn’t heat the water because it steamed. I could only literally last three to five seconds before I had to come up for air. And so he put a tank of oxygen in there with a mouthpiece, and I spent my time trying to find the mouthpiece, which was bobbing around. It was harrowing.”

Not to mention he was being beaten with a billy club at the same time. 

“Admittedly, it’s rubber, but it still hurts,” McDowell recalls. “You can still feel it, and you feel like you’re in a nether world, you’re underwater, you’re sort of like drowning, but not quite. It’s a pretty good shot though.”

As well as the language, the soundtrack, the costumes and McDowell’s performance, the movie is also remembered for the controversy surrounding it. Allegations of copycat crimes as well as death threats sent to the director prompted Kubrick to pull the film from UK distribution in 1973, making it difficult to see in Britain until after Kubrick’s death in 1999. McDowell says the withdrawal didn’t especially affect him at the time, since he was in another country filming, and the movie had already been shown for a year. “It wasn’t like he pulled it at the height of its success so people couldn’t see it.”

Though it remains tough to watch in part, McDowell says younger audiences seem more comfortable with the comedy and satire elements of the film, a strand that was always intended.

“It is a black comedy and that’s how it was made. And I would have to say that that element of it has caught up, and kids when they see the movie now just roar with laughter and that makes my heart sing because that’s what I thought when I made it,” he says. “When it first came out, my god! It was total silence in the cinema, nobody moved out of their seats.”

When we ask McDowell what he hopes new viewers coming to the film today might take from it he’s typically candid: “I really have nothing to say about that. You know they can take whatever they want.” Though he says he thinks it’s amazing that the film is still relevant which he attributes to Burgess’s book even more than Kubrick’s adaptation.

Then after a beat he follows up with an anecdote.

“Well, actually I did go to a screening for the 40th anniversary at the Egyptian, I also gave a bit of a talk. At the end I was walking towards the bathroom and a young kid passed me, and goes ‘Oh my god! Clockwork right?’ I went, ‘Yeah!’ he goes, ‘Which part?’ I went, ‘The old guy’. He goes, ‘The old guy! Oh!’ I went, ‘No! the young guy! It’s 40 years old!’ he went, ‘Oh!’ he didn’t even connect,” McDowell chuckles. “I don’t know what he was smoking.”

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To mark its 50th anniversary, A Clockwork Orange Ultimate Collector’s Edition is now available to own here and includes the feature film on a Ultra HD Blu-ray™ disc in 4K with HDR and a Blu-ray™ disc with the feature film and special features. Fans can also own A Clockwork Orange in 4K Ultra HD via purchase from select digital retailers.

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[constant-creative-chaos]

Fandoms I’ll write for and how to request them

Bold - Personal Favorites

Supernatural

Dean Winchester - Platonic, Sibling, Romantic

Sam Winchester - Platonic, Sibling, Romantic

Castiel - Platonic, Sibling

Jack Kline - Platonic, Sister, Romantic

Gabriel - Platonic, Sibling, Romantic

Charlie - Platonic, Sibling, Romantic (female reader )

Jo - Platonic, Sibling, Romantic

Ellen - Platonic, Child

Bobby - Platonic, Child

Claire - Platonic, Sibling, Romantic

The Walking Dead 

Rick Grimes - Platonic, Child, Sibling, Romantic

Glenn Rhee - Platonic, Sibling, Romantic

T-Dog - Platonic, Sibling

Shane Walsh - Platonic, Sibling, Romantic

Michonne - Platonic, Sibling, Child, Romantic

Maggie Greene - Platonic, Sibling, Romantic

Beth Greene - Platonic, Sibling, Romantic 

Tara Chamlber - Platonic, Sibling, Romantic (female reader)

Rosita - Platonic, Sibling, Romantic

Abraham - Platonic, Sibling, Romantic

Noah - Platonic, Sibling, Romantic

Daryl Dixon - Platonic, Sibling, Romantic

Carl Grimes - Platonic, Sibling, Romantic

Carol - Platonic, Child

Andrea - Platonic, Sibling, Romantic

Negan - Plationic, Child

Enid - Platonic, Sibling, Romantic

Jesus - Platonic, Sibling, Romantic (male reader)

The 100

Bellamy Blake - Plationic, Sibling, Romantic

Clarke Griffin - Platonic, Sibling, Romantic

John Murphy - Platonic, Sibling, Romantic

Raven Reyes - Platonic, Sibling, Romantic

Wells Jaha - Platonic, Sibling, Romantic

Finn - Platonic, Sibling, Romantic

Octavia Blake - Platonic, Sibling, Romantic

Abby Griffin - Platonic, Sibling

Jasper Jorden - Platonic, Sibling, Romantic

Monty Green - Platonic, Sibling, Romantic

Marcus Kane - Platonic, Child

Lexa - Platonic, Sibling, Romantic

Indra - Platonic, Sibling

Anya - Platonic, Sibling, Romantic

Echo - Platonic, Sibling, Romantic

Lincoln - Platonic, Sibling, Romantic

Harry Potter

Harry Potter - Platonic, Sibling, Romantic

Hermione Granger - Platonic, Sibling, Romantic

Ron Weasley - Platonic, Sibling, Romantic

Cedric Diggory - Platonic, Sibling, Romantic

Draco Malfoy - Platonic, Sibling, Romantic

Fred Weasley - Platonic, Sibling, Romantic

George Weasley - Platonic, Sibling, Romantic

Percy Weasley - Platonic, Sibling

Bill Weasley - Platonic, Sibling

Charlie Weasley - Platonic, Sibling, Romantic

Ginny Weasley - Platonic, Sibling, Romantic

Young!Sirius Black - Platonic, Sibling, Romantic

Young!Remus Lupin - Platonic, Sibling, Romantic

Young!James Potter - Platonic, Sibling, Romantic

Young!Lily Evens - Platonic, Sibling, Romantic

Sirius Black - Platonic, Sibling, Child, Romantic

James Potter - Platonic, Sibling, Child, Romantic

Remus Lupin - Platonic, Sibling, Child, Romantic

Lily Evens - Platonic, Sibling, Child, Romantic

Minerva Mcgonagall - Platonic, Child

Marvel

Peter Parker - Platonic, Sibling, Romantic

Natasha Romanoff - Platonic, Sibling, Romantic

Tony Stark - Platonic, Child,

Steve Rogers - Platonic, Sibling, Romantic

Bucky Barnes - Platonic, Sibling, Romantic

Wanda Maximoff - Platonic, Sibling, Romantic

Shuri - Platonic, Sibling, Romantic

T’Challa - Platonic, Sibling, Romantic

Carol Danvers - Platonic, Sibling, Romantic

Loki Laufeyson - Platonic, Sibling, Romantic

Riverdale

Jughead Jones - Platonic, Sibling, Romantic

Betty Cooper - Platonic, Sibling, Romantic

Archie Andrews - Platonic, Sibling, Romantic

Veronica Lodge - Platonic, Sibling, Romantic

Cheryl Blossom - Platonic, Sibling, Romantic (female reader)

Toni Topaz - Platonic, Sibling, Romantic

Sweet pea - Platonic, Sibling, Romantic

Fangs - Platonic, Sibling, Romantic (male reader)

Kevin Keller - Platonic, Sibling, Romantic (male reader)

FP Jones - Platonic, Child

Fred Andrews - Platonic, Child

Chilling Adventures Of Sabrina

Sabrina Spellman - Platonic, Sibling, Romantic

Ambrose Spellman - Platonic, Sibling, Romantic

Nicolas Scratch - Platonic, Sibling, Romantic

Prudence - Platonic, Sibling, Romantic

Dorcas - Platonic, Sibling, Romantic

Agatha - Platonic, Sibling, Romantic

Harvey Kinkle - Platonic, Sibling, Romantic

Roz - Platonic, Sibling, Romantic

Theo - Platonic, Sibling, Romantic (male reader)

Caliban - Platonic, Sibling, Romantic

Zelda Spellman - Platonic, Child

Hilda Spellman - Platonic, Child

A Series Of Unfortunate Events

Klaus Baudelaire - Platonic, Sibling, Romantic

Violet Baudelaire - Platonic, Sibling, Romantic

Duncan Quagmire - Platonic, Sibling

Isodora Quagmire - Platonic, Sibling

Montgomery Montgomery - Platonic, Child

Kit Snicket - Platonic, Sibling, Romantic

Hunger Games

Katniss Everdeen - Platonic, Sibling, Romantic

Peeta Mellark - Platonic, Sibling, Romantic

Gale Hawthorne - Platonic, Sibling, Romantic

Finnick Odair - Platonic, Sibling, Romantic

Primrose Everdeen - Platonic, Sibling, Romantic

Haymitch - Platonic, Child

Effie Trinket - Platonic

Pretty Little Liars

Toby Cavvanah - Platonic, Sibling, Romantic

Caleb - Platonic, Sibling, Romantic

Ezra Fitz - Platonic, Sibling, Romantic

Maya - Platonic, Sibling, Romantic (female reader)

Emily Fields - Platonic, Sibling, Romantic (female reader)

Aria Montgomery - Platonic, Sibling, Romantic

Spencer Hastings - Platonic, Sibling, Romantic

Hanna Marin - Platonic, Sibling, Romantic

Alison Dilaurentis - Platonic, Sibling, Romantic

Shadow Hunters

Alec Lightwood - Platonic, Sibling, Romantic (Male Reader)

Jace Herondale - Platonic, Sibling, Romantic

Isabelle Lightwood - Platonic, Sibling, Romantic

Clary Fray - Platonic, Sibling, Romantic

Magnus Bane - Platonic, Sibling, Romantic

Simon - Platonic, Sibling, Romantic

The Vampire Diaries

Damon Salvatore - Platonic, Sibling, Romantic

Stefan Salvatore - Platonic, Sibling, Romantic

Katherine Peirce - Platonic, Sibling, Romantic

Bonnie Bennett - Platonic, Sibling, Romantic

Caroline Forbes - Platonic, Sibling, Romantic

Jeremy Gilbert - Platonic, Sibling, Romantic

Tyler Lockwood - Platonic, Sibling

Klaus Mikealson - Platonic, Sibling, Romantic

Elijah Mikealson - Platonic, Sibling, Romantic

Rebekah Mikealson - Platonic, Sibling

Kol Mikealson - Platonic, Sibling

Marcel - Platonic, Sibling

Kai Parker - Platonic, Sibling

Alaric Saltzman - Platonic, Child

IT

Young!Bill Denbrough - Platonic, Sibling, Romantic

Young!Richie Tozier - Platonic, Sibling, Romantic (Male Reader)

Young!Beverly Marsh - Platonic, Sibling, Romantic

Young!Eddie Kaspbrack - Platonic, Sibling, Romantic

Young!Stanley Uris - Platonic, Sibling, Romantic

Young!Mike Hanlon - Platonic, Sibling, Romantic

Young!Ben Hanscom - Platonic, Sibling, Romantic

Bill Denbrough - Platonic, Sibling, Romantic

Richie Tozier - Platonic, Sibling, Romantic (Male Reader)

Beverly Marsh - Platonic, Sibling, Romantic

Eddie Kaspbrack - Platonic, Sibling, Romantic

Stanley Uris - Platonic, Sibling, Romantic

Mike Hanlon - Platonic, Sibling, Romantic

Ben Hanscom - Platonic, Sibling, Romantic

The Haunting Of Hill House

Young!Steve Craine - Platonic, Sibling, Romantic

Young!Shirley Craine - Platonic, Sibling 

Young!Theo Craine - Platonic, Sibling

Young!Luke Craine - Platonic, Sibling

Young!Nell Craine - Platonic, Sibling

Steve Craine - Platonic, Sibling, Romantic

Shirley Craine - Platonic, Sibling

Theo Craine - Platonic, Sibling, Romantic (Female Reader)

Luke Craine - Platonic, Sibling, Romantic

Nell Craine - Platonic, Sibling, Romantic

Hugh Craine - Platonic, Sibling, Child 

Olivia Craine - Platonic, Sibling, Child

The Good Place

Tahani - Platonic, Sibling, Romantic

Chidi - Platonic, Sibling, Romantic

Eleanor - Platonic, Sibling, Romantic

Jason - Platonic, Sibling  

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BitcoinClassic will be the Metaverse infrastructure

The year 2021 is a prosperous year of the cryptocurrency market, and the concept of "Metaverse" is one of the hottest concepts in the cryptocurrency market. This year, the concept of "Metaverse" has swept various industries with high popularity.Global Internet giants pursue the concept: Facebook is renamed Meta; Tencent invests in the All True Universe; and Alibaba.

But Musk, founder of Tesla as a loyal cryptocurrency enthusiast, is less optimistic about the concept of "Metaverse", saying that the current "Metaverse" is still a broad and vague term, and that the current "Metaverse" looks more like a popular marketing term than a reality.

【Bitcoin Classic will be the Metaverse infrastructure】

I think there's a reason why Musk is bearish on the current concept, because the Metaverse is not an aerial attic and relies on blockchain network infrastructure.The infrastructure is not perfect, so it is urgent to discuss the development of the Metaverse.

Brian Nowak, Morgan Stanley's executive director, told Forbes that he expects the Metaverse to serve mainly as a platform for virtual products / future advertising and e-commerce, very similar to the current digital platform.Payment function is an indispensable core function of the digital platform, so we can conclude that: no matter how the future trend of the Metaverse is, payment must be an indispensable and important link inside, so the payment class blockchain network is a field worthy of our attention.

Bitcoin Classic: Potential stocks in the payment sector

When it comes to payment-like blockchain networks, it's very easy to think of Bitcoin Classic, a decentralized point-to-point electronic payment currency that does not require government authorization, and its holders can use it for 365 days a year, 24 hours a year.

Bitcoin Classic is a fork of Bitcoin, successfully at Bitcoin block height of 630,000;

Unlike the Bitcoin core, Bitcoin Classic has greater blockchain storage and processing payment capabilities, and because it has larger blocks, it has faster transfer speeds and lower transaction fees, making users pay a few cents to transfer money with Bitcoin Classic.So it continues to the support of people who focus on global payment currencies, everyone has constant access to Bitcoin Classic, and there are no regional restrictions.This is the Bitcoin Classic is very attractive to the market, after all, the economic world is characterized by that most people are not economically rich.

Bitcoin Classic has three basic features to serve people, which is why it gets much attention:

1. not have CEO

Bitcoin Classic is an open source currency without CEO that is open to all and does not require anyone or even authorize issuance.To use Bitcoin Classic, you do not have permission from anyone working in a point-to-point electronic payment system, where they process from one point and receive it at another, without mediation in the process.

Payment at Bitcoin Classic is Direct: Imagine that you want to buy products you want to resell in your area, you are in contact with the supplier who agree that the payment terms and the parties only need the address (supplier's wallet), they will pay directly, without buying legal tender, saving time, safer, and complete the same operation in record time, just waiting for the supplier to ship.

2.Identity is unrelated to the transaction

This is a basis that emphasizes that transactions within the Bitcoin Classic network are available for free to anyone and ensures that no one is subject to scrutiny.

One of the biggest problems with a traditional payment system is that all payments are identified or associated with the individuals using it, and can be readily withdrawn without notice, namely that the traditional approach is highly controlled and centralized.Allow third parties to control and unplug at any time, individuals no longer have the right to use the tools provided.

This does not happen with Bitcoin Classic because no address is identified, the individual is free to use it without review.

3.Transparent trading

All transactions are recorded in a "log" called blockchain, which will be updated regularly for your security, and anyone can see the transaction, which actually eliminates fraud cases.When the deal is released on the network it will never change or compromise in any way as the data is immutable and does not allow any changes if you send 1 BGH it will always hold 1 BGH and the record will be.

【Bitcoin Classic is a globally popular cryptocurrency】

The trend of the Metaverse has begun, so it will not stop easily. Grayscale thinks the Metaverse is at least a $1 trillion-level market; as a lucky early player, we can focus more on the payment infrastructure of the Bitcoin Classic network, which may significantly help us get the dividends of the Metaverse.

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Potential Priorities for Wall Avenue’s Subsequent High Cop 5 potential focuses for the following S.E.C. chair The Biden administration is ready to faucet Gary Gensler, a former monetary regulator and Goldman Sachs banker, as head of the Securities and Trade Fee, a number of retailers are reporting. The Senate runoff elections in Georgia make it simpler to go together with a progressive choose like Mr. Gensler, as a result of Democrats have a greater shot at confirming such nominees. Mr. Gensler has led the transition workforce’s evaluations of the Fed and of banking and securities regulators since November. If accredited, Mr. Gensler is anticipated to rein in Wall Avenue, constructing on his work as head of the Commodity Futures Buying and selling Fee from 2009 to 2014. On the C.F.T.C., he pushed for extra transparency round by-product buying and selling and was on the forefront of uncovering interest-rate rigging by merchants, which resulted in large fines in various settlements with banks. “Wall Avenue’s curiosity will not be at all times the identical as the general public’s curiosity,” he advised The Occasions in 2010. He has an insider perspective on the monetary business, given his almost 20 years at Goldman earlier than going into public service. That undercuts the criticism that financiers have leveled at some progressive picks rumored to be within the operating for financial roles within the Biden administration. Right here’s what the following S.E.C. chief may deal with: Requiring firms to reveal their political donations publicly, in a standardized method, a difficulty that Democrats had been pushing even earlier than it turned the largest enterprise story of the day. Rethinking the foundations round inventory buybacks, doubtlessly by imposing preconditions or extra disclosures. The brand new Senate majority chief, Chuck Schumer, feels strongly about this. Ordering company disclosures about boardroom variety, maybe making use of proposals like Nasdaq’s extra broadly. Mandating firm disclosures for local weather change dangers. Formulating clearer guidelines on cryptocurrencies and the blockchain, a difficulty that Mr. Gensler is uniquely certified to deal with, having taught programs about digital cash at M.I.T. the previous few years. What do you assume the following S.E.C. chairman’s priorities must be? Tell us at [email protected]. Embrace your title and placement, and we might function your response in a future e-newsletter. HERE’S WHAT’S HAPPENING The Home is ready to vote on impeaching President Trump. 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Another Billionaire Wall Street Legend Has Changed His Tune On Bitcoin

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Another Billionaire Wall Street Legend Has Changed His Tune On Bitcoin

Bitcoin’s reputation as digital gold has surged this year, helped by the contrast created through huge central bank money printing intended to offset the economic damage of the coronavirus pandemic.

The bitcoin price, currently bouncing around $18,000 per bitcoin, has climbed back to its late-2017 all-time highs—up more than double from January.

Now, after warning last month that bitcoin could soon be “outlawed,” Ray Dalio, the legendary billionaire founder and co-chairman of the world’s biggest hedge fund, Bridgewater Associates, has admitted bitcoin’s now established itself as a “gold-like asset alternative.”

MORE FROM FORBESWhy 2021 Is Set To Be Even Bigger For BitcoinBy Billy Bambrough

The bitcoin price has soared this year as big banks on Wall Street and high-profile investors … [] increasingly look to bitcoin as an alternative to gold.

“I think that bitcoin (and some other digital currencies) have over the last ten years established themselves as interesting gold-like asset alternatives, with similarities and differences to gold and other limited-supply, mobile (unlike real estate) storeholds of wealth,” Dalio posted to social news website Reddit in response to a question asking whether bitcoin could help combat the U.S. wealth inequality that may have been exacerbated by central bank stimulus measures.

Dalio, who famously branded bitcoin a “bubble” in 2017, appears to have changed his mind on whether bitcoin can act as a store of value.

“[Bitcoin’s] not an effective storehold of wealth because it has volatility to it, unlike gold,” Dalio said in a September 2017 CNBC interview, just before bitcoin’s huge end of year boom and subsequent bust. The bitcoin price soared to around $20,000 in late 2017 after beginning the year at under $1,000. The price crashed back to around $3,000 in 2018.

Dalio, posting in a Reddit so-called “ask me anything” Q&A session this week, advised investors to diversify their portfolios with assets that are “limited supply, that are mobile, and that are storeholds of wealth,” adding: “Not enough people do that.”

“As [for] bitcoin relative to gold, I have a strong preference for holding those things which central banks are going to want to hold and exchange value in when they are trying to transact,” Dalio wrote.

MORE FROM FORBESAnother Crypto Skeptic Suddenly Flips To Bitcoin-But Adds A Stark WarningBy Billy Bambrough

The bitcoin price has risen over 150% in the last 12 months, climbing back to its late-2017 all-time … [] highs of around $20,000 per bitcoin.

As recently as January of this year, Dalio was still unconvinced of bitcoin’s ability to act as a store of value.

“There’s two purposes of money, a medium of exchange and a storehold of wealth, and bitcoin is not effective in either of those cases now,” he said, speaking at the 2020 World Economic Forum in Davos, Switerzland.

Last month, there were signs Dalio might be softening his stance on bitcoin, posting to Twitter that he “might be missing something about bitcoin.”

“I can’t imagine central banks, big institutional investors, businesses or multinational companies using it,” Dalio added via Twitter. “If I’m wrong about these things I would love to be corrected.”

Since then, U.S. business intelligence firm MicroStrategy MSTR has increased it bitcoin holdings to over $1 billion and Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance has bought $100 million of bitcoin for its general investment account.

Dalio, who’s thought to have a personal fortune of almost $17 billion, according to Forbes estimates, is the latest big-name investor to name bitcoin as a potential investment.

Wall Street legend Bill Miller said he “strongly” recommends bitcoin in November, shortly followed by billionaire U.S. investor Stanley Druckenmiller, who revealed he now owns some bitcoin—saying he’s “warmed up to” the cryptocurrency as a store of value.

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Mother, once I awoke as an old man. My name was Stanley Forbes, and I threw tin cans at everyone who passed my porch. I don't know why I did, but I didn't throw them at the kids so I was a good guy!

"Hi Too Loo Rye” by Hop Along, formerly known as Hop Along Queen Ansleis, from the album Freshman Year, is one of the songs that I would always refer to whenever I want to best describe the ‘feeling’ of how Sophie was a child.

A child who wanted to share all that she observed and imagined about the world, she couldn’t help but continue through listing long stories of her dreams for all who would listen. Despite the singer addressing mother, it would most likely be directed to Sebastian’s, Sophie father, as her birth mother died shortly while the eldest Hatter was 1-2 years old. Though, given the circumstances and conditions surrounding being exposed to death young, I wouldn’t doubt she visited Delilah’s grave and give her “reports” about whatever happened that day (or what she dreamt).

Breathless excitement and each twist of lyric, it is a stream of consciousness that the young girl tend to spoke and found herself preoccupied by the sheer joy of the world and it always fed her insatiable youthful curiosity. All in which was harbored in her imagination had her pursue countless ideas and lives she could take on and all the fun there was in the world; it was an unbridled embrace of humanity to which she explored ‘adult topics’ that were beyond most of her understanding at the time. 

It’s the boundless energy and flame that she first began with that’s truly captured in the song; something untamable about youth and optimism. Something that, as an adult, she doesn’t capture anymore. And, when she was in her adolescence and teenage years, that flame was shortly snuffed out and then relit by those who cut away at the potential, hopes, and dreams of a child who wanted to see and read it all.

But I swear now that's alright, yeah I swear now that's alright, Mother, I'm alright

#( in which we learn about the eldest ; headcanons ) #( index ; music )

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The Victorian era in general was led during Queen Victoria‘s reign (she died in 1901) and defined by English pride and gentile behavior and fashion. They were some dark attributes to the era such as child labor, poverty and prostitution, but most tried to adhere to a kind of “cheese and crackers” lifestyle. For the Black Victorians, they were first seen in New Britain as early as 1839, long before the much-credited wave of 1948, the “Empire Windrush,” when many of Jamaican descent entered the U.K. Many Black Victorians, if not born in England, came over with White settlers. Some were brought over as slaves, sold in Liverpool or Bristol and the rest were already free or domestic servants. As slavery became less frequent, Black people maintained aristocratic appearances, based on their White employers or local culture, but more than half lived in near destitution. On the brighter side, many regularly participated in the arts, such as the group the Fisk Jubilee Singers and The African Choir and were scholars and entrepreneurs, like Mary Jane Seacole. She was a skilled and educated nurse who built hotel spaces during the Crimea War for injured soldiers. Other Black Victorians obtained celebrity status, like Sara Forbes Bonetta. She had arrived as a child slave and was adopted by Captain Frederick E. Forbes. In eradicating her African name and identity, she went on to live comfortably with Forbes’ family, even becoming the Goddaughter of Queen Victoria. (She was originally presented to her as a “gift.”) Forbes Bonetta (later married as Davies) is viewed as the ultimate Black Victorian socialite of her day. Other Black Victorians to make note of are Ira Aldridge, Samuel Coleridge-Taylor and in America, Frederick Douglass was considered a Victorian too. We could imagine that Solomon Northup, whose memoir 12 Years A Slave was based on, was given the same esteemed label. There too was Dejazmatch Alamayou Tewodros, an Ethiopian prince, whose father denied the British troops his services and after a stint as an orphan, later lived with Captain Tristram Speedy. And of course, Ndugu “Kalulu” M’Hali, an African-born Brit who was freed by explorer Sir Henry Morton Stanley. After becoming his adopted son, he assisted Stanley on many adventures. He sadly died, along with five others, at the age of 12 when he drowned in the Lualaba river in Congo during an expedition. Black Victorians didn’t live too differently as the White Victorians did, though White people still ruled the royalty ranks. Sometimes being a Black Victorian simply referred to the Black British, or Britons, that lived in England at the time. There remains so much of this frame of Black history to learn about as information is available but simultaneously scarce. All we really have are these beautiful photographs “high rank” looking Black women and men dressed no different than upper or even lower-class White Brits. As Amma Asante’s Belle showed, racism was not non-existent, but what is so eye-opening becoming more aware of the Victorians decades is that to see a Black woman dressed to the nines in the most grandiose outfit you can think of wasn’t looked down as “who does she think she is,” but as an expected display of self-respect and gratitude for the time period that England was in. Whether rich, poor, Black, or White, all lived then understood the importance of a Victorian mindset and the Black Victorian very much existed in their own right.

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Benjamin Gordon (businessman)

Benjamin Gordon (born 11 September 1973) is an American entrepreneur who founds, advises, and invests in supply chain companies. He serves as CEO and Managing Partner of BG Strategic Advisors and Cambridge Capital, companies he founded. He lives in Palm Beach, Florida.

Early Life and Education

Gordon was born in Ann Arbor, Michigan, and grew up in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He earned a Bachelor of Arts degree from Yale College and an MBA degree from Harvard Business School. Transport and logistics ran in Gordon's family. In 1904, his great-grandfather started a New York-based horse-and-buggy business, and his grandfather founded a truck-leasing business in New England where he had worked summers.

In 1999, while at HBS, he and classmate Tania Yannas founded 3Plex, recognized as one the early internet logistics companies, with The New York Times crediting Gordon for imagining "a business-to-business Web site that would allow shipping agents to communicate better with both truckers and shippers." Business Week cited Gordon among early entrepreneurs using the web to "streamline the consolidation and outsourcing of freight trucking", noting that the 26-year-old's fledgling business had attracted $15 million in venture financing. In 2000, their company was a finalist in the HBS New Venture Competition

Career

Gordon served as CEO of 3PLex from its inception, leading the company through three rounds of fundraising totaling $28 million from investors which included Morgan Stanley, Goldman Sachs, BancBoston Ventures, CNF, and Ionian. The company was acquired by Maersk in 2002.

In 2002, Gordon founded BG Strategic Advisors (BGSA), an investment banking firm focused on mergers and acquisitions in the transportation, logistics, and supply chain sectors. BGSA hosts an annual conference of supply chain and logistics executives in West Palm Beach, Florida.

In 2009, Gordon founded Cambridge Capital, which focuses on investments in logistics and supply chain companies. The company's noteworthy investments include XPO Logistics, Grand Junction (an e-commerce and last-mile logistics technology company sold to Target), and Bringg (e-commerce and last-mile logistics technology company.

Also in 2009, Gordon founded EcoSquid, an e-commerce marketplace enabling consumers to resell or recycle their used electronics. In 2012, the company was sold to uSell.

Recognition by Business Media

Gordon has appeared frequently as a commentator and analyst on CNBC. He has been quoted as an expert on supply chain management, logistics, technology, and investment issues in the Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, Bloomberg, Forbes, Fox Business, and Authority. He has authored articles published in Fortune, CNBC, and various supply chain industry publications, such as Supply Chain Management Review and Freightwaves. He has also been interviewed as an authority on corporate governance by CorpGov in the wake of the failed WeWork IPO, published in Yahoo! Finance.

Social Entrepreneurship and Philanthropy

In 1997, Gordon founded GesherCity, a non-profit that connects young adults to Jewish communities through online and in-person experiences. One of the first social networks that allowed people to create online communities based on self-selected categories, by 2007 the project scaled up to 20 cities and 100,000 members before merging into the Jewish Community Center Association, as recognized repeatedly in the JCCA's annual report for that year and Jewish community media.

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Duke Energy Foundation Provides Funds to North Carolina K-12 Education Organizations During COVID-19 Crisis

The Duke Energy Foundation has announced $810,000 in grants to support North Carolina K-12 programs focused on summer reading loss and STEM and experiential learning.

Given the COVID-19 crisis, the Foundation has also provided each organization with the option to use the funds to address unforeseen operational challenges.

“The nonprofit community is essential to the well-being and success of our state,” said Stephen De May, Duke Energy North Carolina president. “We are grateful for the work they do to serve our communities and want them to have some measure of flexibility during this time of uncertainty – it’s the right thing to do.”

According to a survey by the North Carolina Center for Nonprofits, 70% of the state’s nonprofits that responded believe the financial burden of COVID-19 could affect the sustainability of their organization.

“As this pandemic spreads in our local communities, the demand for services provided by the nonprofit sector is growing at a rapid pace,” said Jeanne Tedrow, president and CEO of North Carolina Center for Nonprofits. “The need for flexible funds from both corporate and private foundations is paramount, and maintaining a safety net is critical not only for today’s response, but for the viability of our communities as we recover and rebuild.”

Some nonprofits across the state are already feeling the impact and have indicated plans to use the funds for COVID-19 response.

“A private nonprofit, Marbles Kids Museum relies on admission and ticket sales, memberships and events to fund a large portion of our operating budget,” said Sally Edwards, CEO of Marbles Kids Museum. “Since COVID-19 forced us to close the museum to the public, we’ve had to reduce staff and delay major projects. This flexible funding from Duke Energy helped us pivot to connect virtually with our community during closure and implement new sustainability practices to ensure we emerge from this crisis viable and ready to spark imagination, discovery and learning through play.”

The following organizations have received grant awards:

Asheville Museum of Science, Buncombe Co. – $20,000

Association for the Preservation of the Eno River Valley, Durham & Orange Co. – $15,000

Boys & Girls Clubs of North Central NC, Granville, Franklin, Halifax & Warren Co. – $20,000

Boys & Girls Clubs of the Coastal Plain, Greene, Lenoir & Pitt Co. – $15,000

Chatham Education Foundation, Chatham Co. – $15,000

Classroom Central, Cabarrus, Gaston, Iredell, Mecklenburg & Union Co. – $15,000

Digi-Bridge, Mecklenburg Co. – $15,000

East Durham Children’s Initiative, Durham Co. – $15,000

EducationNC, statewide – $20,000

Emily Krzyzewski Family Life Center, Durham Co. – $14,500

FIRST North Carolina, statewide – $80,000

Freedom School Partners, Mecklenburg Co. – $15,000

Girl Scouts North Carolina Coastal Pines, Central & Eastern NC – $20,000

Girl Scouts Hornets’ Nest Council, Anson, Cabarrus, Mecklenburg, Rowan, Stanley & Union Co. – $15,000

Horizons Unlimited, Rowan-Salisbury School District, Rowan Co. – $35,000

Kaleideum, Triad Region – $15,000

Marbles Kids Museum, Central and Eastern NC – $20,000

Masonboro.org, New Hanover Co. – $40,000

Moore County Literacy Council, Moore Co. – $15,000

Out Teach, Mecklenburg Co. – $40,000

Project Scientist, Mecklenburg Co. – $20,000

Promising Pages, Mecklenburg Co. – $20,000

Read Charlotte, Mecklenburg Co. – $100,000

Ready for School, Ready for Life, Guilford Co. – $12,500

Renaissance West Community Initiative, Mecklenburg Co. – $15,000

STEM West, Burke, Catawba & McDowell Co. – $10,500

Teach for America, Charlotte & Triad, Mecklenburg & Guilford Co. – $30,000

Teach for America, Eastern North Carolina, Eastern NC – $25,000

The Foundation of Wayne Community College, Wayne Co. – $20,000

The NC Agricultural Foundation, statewide – $50,000

The YMCA of the Triangle, Triangle Region – $12,500

UNC Pembroke Foundation, Robeson Co. – $20,000

YMCA of Greater Charlotte, Mecklenburg Co. – $15,000

Duke Energy Foundation The Duke Energy Foundation provides philanthropic support to meet the needs of communities where Duke Energy customers live and work. The Foundation contributes more than $30 million annually in charitable gifts and is funded by Duke Energy shareholder dollars. More information about the Foundation and its Powerful Communities program can be found at duke-energy.com/foundation.

Duke Energy (NYSE: DUK), a Fortune 150 company headquartered in Charlotte, N.C., is one of the largest energy holding companies in the U.S. It employs 30,000 people and has an electric generating capacity of 51,000 megawatts through its regulated utilities, and 3,000 megawatts through its nonregulated Duke Energy Renewables unit.

Duke Energy is transforming its customers’ experience, modernizing the energy grid, generating cleaner energy and expanding natural gas infrastructure to create a smarter energy future for the people and communities it serves. The Electric Utilities and Infrastructure unit’s regulated utilities serve approximately 7.7 million retail electric customers in six states – North Carolina, South Carolina, Florida, Indiana, Ohio and Kentucky. The Gas Utilities and Infrastructure unit distributes natural gas to more than 1.6 million customers in five states – North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Ohio and Kentucky. The Duke Energy Renewables unit operates wind and solar generation facilities across the U.S., as well as energy storage and microgrid projects.

Duke Energy was named to Fortune’s 2020 “World’s Most Admired Companies” list, and Forbes’ 2019 “America’s Best Employers” list. More information about the company is available at duke-energy.com. The Duke Energy News Center contains news releases, fact sheets, photos, videos and other materials. Duke Energy’s illumination features stories about people, innovations, community topics and environmental issues. Follow Duke Energy on Twitter, LinkedIn, Instagram and Facebook.

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Comments on AI Quotes: Of Sci-Fi Stories and Sociopaths...

Today’s contribution to my comments on AI quotes from a recent Forbes article by Rob Toews is on the following gem:

“The human race might easily permit itself to drift into a position of such dependence on the machines that it would have no practical choice but to accept all of the machines’ decisions. As society and the problems that face it become more and more complex and machines become more and more intelligent, people will let machines make more of their decisions for them, simply because machine-made decisions will bring better results than man-made ones. Eventually a stage may be reached at which the decisions necessary to keep the system running will be so complex that human beings will be incapable of making them intelligently. At that stage the machines will be in effective control.”

Those words were penned in 1995 by a man who in his youth was a mathematics prodigy, who achieved a doctorate in that subject at The University of Michigan in 1967. In the same year, aged 25, he became the youngest assistant professor in that subject ever to be hired at The University of California, Berkley.

Two years later he resigned that post, eventually settling in Montana to live a simple, off-grid lifestyle while studying and writing about sociology. His writings eventually included Industrial Society and Its Future, from which this quote is drawn. In an effort to see that essay published in a major American newspaper, the author conducted a campaign of terrorist bombings, mainly by sending explosive devices to University professors across the USA. He also bombed an American Airlines flight and sent a bomb that injured the president of that airline. In total, he killed three people and injured 23 others, many seriously. The quote is of course from Ted Kaczynski, who the FBI labelled the University and Airline Bomber, or the Unabomber for short.

Like science fiction stories, psychopaths are often communicating in metaphors, whether they realise it or not.

In the previous comment, I mentioned Day of the Triffids, a story about the planet coming to be dominated by plants, which was written in 1951 when Kaczynski was 9. I have no idea whether the Unabomber ever read this book, or saw the popular 1962 film. Still, Triffids fits into an entire genre of 50s and 60s stories about mindless creatures that take over the world, including Invasion of the Bodysnatchers, The Blob, and many more. One can certainly be sure that Kaczynski grew up in an America that was steeped in these paranoid visions.

Recall that electronic computing did not exist until the mid-50s, and it probably didn’t enter into the national consciousness until the 60s, when International Business Machines transformed itself into a computer company. When that happened, America’s vision of the mindless entities they would fear shifted from being plants to AIs. This is reflected in 1968’s 2001: A Space Odessey (developed simultaneously by author Arthur C. Clarke and filmmaker Stanley Kubrik), the computer HAL, turns murderous due to rigid adherence to programmed objectives. HAL’s was named by decrementing “IBM” by one letter in the alphabet.

HAL is only one in a series of mindless AIs that threatened humans and humankind in sci-fi stories at the time, from Clarke’s 1964 story Dial F for Frankenstein (about a telephone network which becomes sentient, a story which later inspired Tim Berners-Lee to invent the World-Wide Web), to 1966’s Colossus, about a defence computer that takes over the world, to Harlan Ellison’s 1967 I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream, a genuinely terrifying tale where another war AI, the Allied Mastercomputer, destroys almost all of humanity, then gains its only ongoing pleasure from torturing those few people that remain.

These stories have been continuously re-invented for American films to this day. In fact, Ellison, who also penned two 1964 Outer Limits episodes about a soldier from the future, sued the producers of The Terminator successfully, and you will now see an acknowledgement of his work at the end of that 1984 classic, which was added as a part of the settlement.

Some film critics have focused on American sci-fi paranoia flicks of this kind as metaphors for the communist threat. Indeed Hollywood started making them during the red scare, which gripped the USA beginning with the Bolshevik Revolution of 1917 but intensifying in 1950s McCarthyism.

I’d argue that all these stories, which started in the 50s and continue to today, reflect not just red-baiting, but a more general modern fear that arose in the mid 20th century. The focus of our society on economic value, rather than human values, became more evident after WWII when the industrial revolution’s progress was revived in a post-war boom and the rise of the consumerist society. I’d posit that all people in the world, particularly in the USA, have, ever since, had a gnawing fear that they are being swallowed up in a dehumanising and dehumanised system, given how their lives have been more-and-more focused on work in a world that is dominated by fewer and fewer powerful corporate players.

Stories of inhumane invading overlords, whether they are botany from space, super-powerful computers, or the reds under the bed, all reflect this common fear. That’s why the movies are so popular still.

Kaczynski was paranoid, and I imagine that his focus on machines coming to dominate people was a reflection of how he felt dehumanised in his own life. Before going to pursue his doctorate at Michigan, he studied at Harvard. While there he, another with other undergraduate volunteers, was subjected to psychological experiments conducted by Henry Murray (who later oversaw psychedelic drug experiments conducted by Timothy Leary). Murray’s experiments on Kaczynski and his peers involved exposure to extreme stress which “… Murray called ‘vehement, sweeping and personally abusive’ attacks. Specifically-tailored assaults to their egos, cherished ideals and beliefs were used to cause high levels of stress and distress. The subjects then viewed recorded footage of their reactions to this verbal abuse repeatedly.” Conspiracy theorists have connected these experiments to CIA’s Project MKUltra, a supposed effort to develop methods of mind control.

Regardless, these experiments were undoubtedly dehumanising, and have been subsequently denounced as inhumane. Kaczynski’s lawyers attributed some of his paranoid delusions to the aftermath of these experiments. He transferred some of his fear of dehumanisation into a metaphor: the fear of machines that make decisions for people.

I don’t think he was wrong in fearing that, but I do believe he was wrong in thinking that machines would eventually make decisions better than people, due to the complexity of the world. I’d say that the radical uncertainties created by the world’s complexity are precisely the reason that mechanised thinking is inadequate in such a world.

For more on that perspective, have a look at my book, Rage Inside the Machine.

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IBM announced last week that it had moved the cognitive computing system to the cloud to form the Watson Discovery Advisor, allowing researchers, academics and anyone else trying to take advantage of large data the ability to test programs and hypotheses at unprecedented speeds.

Because Watson is designed to understand nuances in natural language, this new service allows researchers to process millions of data points that humans can not normally process. This can reduce project deadlines from years to weeks or days.

The ability to understand natural language queries is a big problem. You can ask, for example: "I'll go to Boston, I love basketball, what do you suggest, Watson?" You can get several answers: Celtics Tickets, Boston College Tickets, and Harvard Tickets. Or during the holiday season, Watson may suggest that you go to the Basketball Hall of Fame in Springfield (Massachusetts). Latest technology news Companies are already using Watson this way. Watson-based retail solutions are offered by Fluid, Inc. "I take my wife and three children to the camp in New York State in October and I need a tent." Consider this: Watson was educated to pass medical advice. Do you trust me for your diagnosis and prescription? What happens if you say you have pain (for example, back pain, migraines, and depression), and Watson does not believe in your personal contribution? Here's more to think about: What would happen if Watson could learn the code? why not? It is not unusual to note that while Watson works with developers, one day he may create solutions based on a natural language query. This is equally exciting and disturbing. Now, if you want to make fun of Watson, read this article by Steve Lohr in The New York Times (2013) about Watson in the kitchen. Just take a look: the kicker is in the end.

Ed Lin, of BBC News, wrote a great article on how to change technology for disaster relief.

Consider the Royal Air Force's efforts to distribute the following to refugees in northern Iraq: water; food; and technology for communication: energy for mobile phones. Lin describes the initiative:

Along with tents and drinking water, the RAF aircraft fired more than 1,000 solar lamps connected to chargers for all types of mobile phones for individuals stranded in the Yezidi religious community below.

This is the first time lanterns have been thrown into the air in a relief effort, but aid workers say they are part of the growing effort to develop technology designed to make a difference in disaster areas.

Imagine a solar powered flashlight that could lead you to the camp using a secret wire for an energy source with connections to countless types of phones. Inability to communicate during crisis situations weakens, and becomes more within days (see below).

 In a separate project, Dr. Paul Gardner of Australia created a "network" that allows people in emergency situations to communicate through their mobile device even if they do not have an Internet connection. Users can send text messages, make calls, send files to other nearby users, and create a mobile network over a network of users. Why is this so important in times of crisis such as war zones or earthquakes? Gardner says Stephen:

In general, you have almost three days to re-establish communication before the bad guys realize that good people are no longer in control.

Add briefly, and throw a glove:

There is a lot of technology for wealthy white men. It is the rest of the world that we need help with.

When we offer Solar Sunlite Lantern, Lin gives us a reminder not only of the wonders of technology used in developing countries, but also the need for more innovation and the distribution of technology and knowledge worldwide.

Roy Smith, a Forbes assistant, addresses the question above. It begins with a reference to Hannah Arendt and a reference to Stanley Milgram in support of her suggestion that we do not feel death. This is not new, Smythe explains that he is not interested in the problem here. Latest technology news What is interesting is Smith's natural argument that the distance between healthcare providers and patients has become so great that the provision of medical care at "a turning point in history separates the entire epoch," in Arendt's words.

The myriad techniques create the distance between the patient and the caregiver, all designed to make the treatment of patients more effective. Smythe reminds us of telemedicine platforms and other forms of "virtual visits" or personal care tools. Such care will be standard much faster than most want. Dr. Rocheka Fernandibol, Co-Founder and Executive Director of Iora Health, quotes the position that medical care is essentially human. Fernandabol wrote:

What cures people is relationships: the problem is that technology has the ability to facilitate relationships, but it can hinder them.

Above all, Smythe does not want telemedicine to lead physicians to be sensitive to death. Draw an interesting parallel: the use of drones in the war. Without shoes on the ground or live images directly on the battlefield, death can become abstract and disinfected. Mobility from an unmanned aircraft to a launch site is relatively easy, and we must all emphasize it relatively, in terms of seeing and feeling the consequences of the war. On the contrary, throwing a grenade on the wall, driving an explosive device, engaging in fierce fighting, and other critical military tasks can not bring anyone close to the enemy and the facts of death.

Leaving this analogy to the medical world may be difficult. But when we do, we find that "remote medicine" initially seems harmless compared, then very dangerous.

Rick Delgado of Smart Data Collective contributed information on potential Internet pitfalls.

 I crossed my mind as I read this article. Latest technology news First, Delgado points to the obvious but equally important point: the ability to take advantage of Internet wealth requires something that we take for granted: access to the Internet. I will not talk about rural electrification. Many of them do not have an Internet connection, even in the developed world and the United States. It gets worse as ignorance grows. Salim writes:

While companies can talk passionately about Internet things, consumers do not know that. In a recent survey of 2,000 people, 87% of consumers said they had never heard of Internet things. While listening to Internet things does not necessarily mean that the consumer does not use a component connected to the internet things, the results of the survey show lack of knowledge and understanding of what can be obtained from it. If this lack of knowledge about Internet things leads to lack of interest, there will be an important driving force for adoption on a large scale.

In one of the worst technological predictions of all time, IBM President Thomas Watson announced in 1943: "I think there is a global market for perhaps five computers." Talk about the possibility of disruptive innovation in IBM. Watson was wrong and wrong, but he was barely stupid. Whether we believe it, Mr. Watson, I suggest, knew much more about his industry at that time than experts today know about the Internet of things, which is still in its infancy but growing rapidly. According to Gartner, there will be more than 25000 million sensors in the world by 2020. It is not surprising that 87% of consumers do not realize billions of sensors worldwide. What (would be surprising) would be surprising if we did not follow Google's steps to expand Internet connectivity around the world. This will be the tragedy of the commons with a bad touch. We do not run out of resources. On the contrary, it grows daily because we feed it. The lack of participation "alone" excludes a global high-tech race, which I will restrict here for the argument of non-military uses. Now this is a race we must all enter.

Tracy Wallace writes in the Umbel Code (Truth in Data) about cities based on data and Internet stuff.

Wallace describes how each city has become a treasure trove of data and the use of new technologies. Let's see some:

Latest technology news Convert old phone booths to Wi-Fi connection points (NYC);

All household waste is absorbed directly from individual kitchens through a wide underground underground network to waste treatment centers where they are sorted, removed and processed automatically. (Songdo, South Korea);

Wi-Fi communities provide access points that enhance city services such as water meters, leak sensors, parking meters and other city services to work on the same secure government network. (Dallas);

There are no lighting switches or water taps in the city; traffic sensors control lighting and water to reduce electricity and water consumption by 51 and 55%, respectively. (Source, United Arab Emirates).

These initiatives are incredible. Think about what a source does. It is like an automatic clap that provides energy ("clap on, clap off"). Consider your savings and what it means for energy consumption if such a program is implemented as far as possible around the world. wow. Surely there will be a company wrapped around this as we talk. What then? . . Which of you would be the first to sit on a bench on the edge of the garden and use the phone booth near the other side of the street as your hot spot? This is very beautiful

Richard Boer in the smart data set asks: The disappearance of the data world: heresy or reality? Williams CEO Sonoma certainly has an opinion.

 Boire comments on an article for "the leader of information technology in a respected American organization" and did not give his name. Boire writes about this theme:

The author assumed that future data scientists would become switchboard operators: old. The main reason for this decrease in demand according to the author is that the increase in automation and operation of business processes will not require the technical skills of the data world.

Boire takes the opposite position:

With the analysis of large data and large data, the need for further analysis and personal solutions is growing exponentially. Methods and methods of analysis should be faster and more flexible, requiring IT support to achieve greater operational and automation. This does not replace the data world.

We can leave the automation debate mainly to the Quants. But I think they ignore the fact that data science is also a human endeavor by nature. Thomas Davenport says, for example, that both creativity and instinct are necessary to interpret the data. This is particularly true when the CEO's intuition shows lack of understanding of the data science. Writing in Quants: "The goal, therefore, is to make analytical decisions while maintaining the role of operational instinct." This Latest technology news instinct that has been tested in the battle can be necessary to evaluate the data management initiative. More relevant content: The September issue of the Harvard Business Review contains an article by Laura Albert, CEO of Williams Sonoma over the past four years. (Article is closed). It describes creativity at the Williams-Sonoma headquarters in San Francisco, as well as "data analysts who calculate, model and analyze reports." Continues:

If Williams-Sonoma has a "secret sauce", these teams work together in a great alliance to develop and implement our tactical strategy and priorities. In my nineteen years in the company and four executives, I found that the best solutions stem from the desire to combine art, science, ideas, data and instinct analysis.