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CitiLane Clog
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The CitiLane is inspired by vintage sneakers — you'll see that influence in the shape of the toe, the stitching around the collar, the cup-sole outsole design and even in the back with the Crocs logo tab. It has a sleeker, more streamlined shape that's more like a sneaker than a clog. There are stretch gore panels for easy on and off, and a heel strap for a more secure fit. The Croslite™ foam construction gives you all of the lightweight cushion you're looking for. Think of the CitiLane as the perfect merger of Crocs comfort and classic sneaker.
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THE age of information has taken a positive turn in Brunei Darussalam in the wake of governmental efforts to provide the public, both local and international, with much needed communications to better ease public services and speed up developmental growth in the country.
On the sidelines of yesterday's Public Service Day 2014 that was held at the International Convention Centre in Berakas, the e-Government National Centre (eGNC) took the opportunity to announce a number of initiatives related to the country's ambition to encourage an IT-literate community.
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And condoms are not an acceptable part of NFP (either religious or secular).
|So we have:
Hormonal Birth Control = not natural
Barrier Methods= not natural
Surgical Methods = not natural
Natural Family Planning = Natural
So, Smokering, you basically cannot see the logical difference between periods of abstinence and the use of ABC? [...]
From where I sit, I think there is a far and away huge difference between couples choosing to abstain to avoid pregnancy and those who choose to have sex whenever they want and use ABC to avoid pregnancy. [ ... ] If my DD at 16 came to me and told me she was interested in sex with her boyfriend you can be sure that her father would then see a vast difference in abstinence and ABC!
If I understand Smokering's argument, part of the problem is using "abstinence" and "NFP" interchangably. They are not identical. To use your example, if your sixteen year old daughter were having sex with her boyfriend but using NFP, would you say, "Oh, that's fine, she is practicing abstinence"?
|1749 Freedom makes man a moral subject. When he acts deliberately, man is, so to speak, the father of his acts. Human acts, that is, acts that are freely chosen in consequence of a judgment of conscience, can be morally evaluated. They are either good or evil.
1750 The morality of human acts depends on:
- the object chosen;
- the end in view or the intention;
- the circumstances of the action.
The object, the intention, and the circumstances make up the "sources," or constitutive elements, of the morality of human acts.
|The fecundity of marriage
2366 Fecundity is a gift, an end of marriage, for conjugal love naturally tends to be fruitful. A child does not come from outside as something added on to the mutual love of the spouses, but springs from the very heart of that mutual giving, as its fruit and fulfillment. So the Church, which is "on the side of life,"151 teaches that "it is necessary that each and every marriage act remain ordered per se to the procreation of human life."152 "This particular doctrine, expounded on numerous occasions by the Magisterium, is based on the inseparable connection, established by God, which man on his own initiative may not break, between the unitive significance and the procreative significance which are both inherent to the marriage act."153
2368 A particular aspect of this responsibility concerns the regulation of procreation. [B]For just reasons, spouses may wish to space the births of their children. It is their duty to make certain that their desire is not motivated by selfishness but is in conformity with the generosity appropriate to responsible parenthood. Moreover, they should conform their behavior to the objective criteria of morality:
When it is a question of harmonizing married love with the responsible transmission of life, the morality of the behavior does not depend on sincere intention and evaluation of motives alone; but it must be determined by objective criteria, criteria drawn from the nature of the person and his acts, criteria that respect the total meaning of mutual self-giving and human procreation in the context of true love; this is possible only if the virtue of married chastity is practiced with sincerity of heart.156
2369 "By safeguarding both these essential aspects, the unitive and the procreative, the conjugal act preserves in its fullness the sense of true mutual love and its orientation toward man's exalted vocation to parenthood."157
2370 Periodic continence, that is, the methods of birth regulation based on self-observation and the use of infertile periods, is in conformity with the objective criteria of morality.158 These methods respect the bodies of the spouses, encourage tenderness between them, and favor the education of an authentic freedom. In contrast, "every action which, whether in anticipation of the conjugal act, or in its accomplishment, or in the development of its natural consequences, proposes, whether as an end or as a means, to render procreation impossible" is intrinsically evil:159
Well obviously someone is looking for an "out" here.
And condoms are not an acceptable part of NFP (either religious or secular).
It is so black and white. They are a BARRIER method for a reason.
No one is forced into being Catholic. You have a free will.
One thing that really perturbs me is when people have this strange desire to be Catholic, but your intent is to find a loop-hole in the things you do not agree with to justify yourself.
These issues are clearly stated in Humane Vitea. Get a copy.
The Title of this thread is CATHOLIC CHURCH AND BIRTH CONTROL.
The things stated in Humane Vitea are part of our CORE BELIEFS.
XM,: mama to ds (5/08), dd (9/10) and ds (6/12) ! :C.H.S & M.
Just to be clear, I am NOT personally judging anyone for whatever choices they make in regards to NFP/ABC. I was simply trying to point out the actual Catholic teaching per the CCC and to make it clear that per Catholic teaching if a couple is choosing to employ NFP without considering the moral component and are using it for pure contraceptive purposes indefinitely then it may really not be much different than using ABC as was pointed out earlier in the thread by either Smoke or MamaBadger.
1. Firstly, this idea that sex is both unitive and procreative seems far from obvious to me. Clearly it is sometimes unitive and sometimes procreative, and sometimes the two coincide. But it is very clearly not always unitive and procreative in nature, by the very design of God. He gave sperm a short life expectancy; He gave women a cycle with only a few (observable!) fertile days out of the month. He instituted the design by which women can't get pregnant again once pregnant (well, fraternal twins from double ovulation aside!), and the design by which women remain sexually capable long after they are able to conceive. In short, if God had intended to make unity and procreation - even the possibility of procreation - synonymous, He failed spectacularly.
Crazy mom of 9. A wife to one.
-Life is a long lesson in humility.-
James M. Barrie
|You probably should read it, but you won't like it It does make a lot of the arguments people are making here. It is a directive for Catholics - not a logical argument so while it will give you the official attitude, it won't be what you're looking for.
|The official acceptance of NFP is so recent by Catholic standards there haven't been any great apologists that have sunk their teeth into it yet.
|It really hinges on our interpretation of Natural Law that sex and procreation are such a divine gift that we have no right to alter the act itself. Another main point is preserving the integrity of the unitive & procreative as they are in the woman's body -- not making an act that could be procreative, not.
|but if those benefits aren't good enough reason for someone to do it, I'm not sure if a more objective argument can be fashioned, or even needs to be.
|It has been shown in studies that although women on the pill have normal looking temperature patterns, they don't relate to ovulation occurring, if it does occur, so this wouldn't work.
|Again, I disagree. Catholics say using abortifacients is wrong. Period. Yes, I believe that it is possible that one day all couples will understand and love what we are saying and perhaps come to join us in our spiritual work. Do I think they are living a sinful life? No. Would I share what I believe if they asked me? Absolutely.
|Why? Would you have LIquese defend her position on not eating pork and then pick it apart in a 10-page thread?
|I cannot defend my position.
|well, I'm sorry you find it offensive. I guess that's why you're not Catholic.
|If you are looking for scriptural texts, I think you know that is disengenous. You are very educated in Catholicism, and you know quite well sola scriptura is not our way. And so the theologically irrelevant arguments don't cut it, nor do the Catholic arguments.
|ETA: I would disagree that NFP is promoted in any way in the CC. Often misunderstood,yes. Promoted, no.
|Again, I disagree. NFP requires a lot more work and togetherness on the part of the couple than does condoms and other ABC methods.
|It is so black and white. They are a BARRIER method for a reason.
|No one is forced into being Catholic. You have a free will.
|One thing that really perturbs me is when people have this strange desire to be Catholic, but your intent is to find a loop-hole in the things you do not agree with to justify yourself.
|The Title of this thread is CATHOLIC CHURCH AND BIRTH CONTROL.
The things stated in Humane Vitea are part of our CORE BELIEFS.
You do not think they are living a sinful life when they do something the Church declares is sinful? Then your opinion is a private judgment, not an accurate reflection of the Church's teachings. I am discussing the logical consequences of the Catholic teachings here, not the attitude or niceness of individual Catholics. If using ABC is a sin, and sinners are people who sin, then those who use it are sinners. QED. Whether or not you would tell people that is irrelevant. I'm not claiming that you or Catholics in general are pushy or rude about your beliefs; I'm saying that those beliefs inherently condemn non-Catholic contracepters, and, that being the case, that non-Catholic contracepters are entitled to go "Oi, how are we sinning? Give me the logical arguments".
Catherine traditional Catholic mama to wife to an amazing man.
Probably not. It doesn't really interest me as a topic. But she's a savvy wench: I'm sure she knows posting a belief in RS leaves it open to being debated. Also, she's not making statements like "Well, couples who eat pork aren't behaving in a truly loving manner to each other", "I truly believe eating pork degrades women" or "If people can't handle the tapeworm, they should abstain from pork in order to avoid separate the nutritive and parasitic aspets of pork-eating". I'd be inclined to respond if she did. If you find my style of argumentation aggressive or disturbing, you have no obligation to continue to engage me.
Then, with respect, why are you continuing to engage me when I have made it clear that what I'm looking for is a defense of your position, and when you find this offensive?
Then they should be able to be defended using rational argumentation. Which is what I'm seeking on this thread.
Catherine traditional Catholic mama to wife to an amazing man.
|We are not called to judge others, we are called to live our lives according to God's will.
|If using ABC is a sin, and sinners are people who sin, then those who use it are sinners. QED.
|Point One: I don't find your style aggressive or disturbing, I find it profoundly lacking in an understanding of spirituality. It may be more fruitful for you to study why people are faithful to something we can't fully undertand or explain, not continuously engage in round-about "discussions" so that you can prove that there is a wrong or right position.
|Point two: You may look all you want for a defense of the Catholic position, it doesn't mean I have to provide it for you.
|Point three: Why should they be defended using your definition of rational argumentation? Your method may not be appropriate to the topic at hand. In fact, it could be detrimental to your ability to hear what is being said. Sometimes it is better to listen than to just read words and fire off an immediate response.
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OK, so... where is the logical argument I'm looking for? Catholic doctrines are meant (in some cases, this being one of them - no?) to be infallible, which means they must be true, which means they must be logical. So why have all the arguments presented in this thread either proven illogical (in the formal sense) or simply reverted back to "This is what we believe"? Surely there are Catholics who like to follow the formal logic of an argument - where do they go to get answers, if even Humanae Vitae is a "how-to" rather than a defense of the position? Surely the Catholic theology of the body is unpopular enough, and has been attacked enough, to make a logical layout of its position worthwhile - one that doesn't rest on contentious assumptions that beg the question (ie. natural is better) or irrelevancies (ie. marriage is about holiness and humility). Isn't it one of the great points of CC pride that the Magesterium can infallibly teach the truth, thus arming the lay Catholic with a greater degree of epistemic certainty than the lay Protestant? I don't buy this:
XM,: mama to ds (5/08), dd (9/10) and ds (6/12) ! :C.H.S & M.
|The reason is that the fundamental nature of the marriage act, while uniting husband and wife in the closest intimacy, also renders them capable of generating new life—and this as a result of laws written into the actual nature of man and of woman. And if each of these essential qualities, the unitive and the procreative, is preserved, the use of marriage fully retains its sense of true mutual love and its ordination to the supreme responsibility of parenthood to which man is called. We believe that our contemporaries are particularly capable of seeing that this teaching is in harmony with human reason.
Bluegoat: I found the bit about unity and procreation in Humanae Vitae:
It's pretty much what I was led to expect by this thread, down to the implication that in sex involving ABC the "sense of true mutual love" is somehow broken - which is not defended, just handwaved to "human reason". It also seems strangely to imply that "natural" sex always renders a couple capable of "generating new life", even when it made the point several chapters previously that this was not the case.
I am not certain, but I think the teachings partly derive from doctrines which are being left unspoken here (maybe not quite doctrines, in every case, as much as attitudes or perspectives) about sex, marriage, and childbearing.
After half a dozen pages of back-and-forth, it seems the Catholics have changed position from "NFP is OK and ABC wrong because X, Y, Z" to, as X, Y and Z were refuted, "NFP is OK and ABC wrong because the Church says so" - an authority-based, not reason-based, belief. Would you say this is an accurate representation of the teaching? (I haven't finished Humane Vitae yet - got distracted cooking. So far it's been mostly general preamble.)
If the latter, it raises an interesting question as to how the Magesterium developed the teachings, if not by reason. Special revelation?
I assumed the teachings about ABC and NFP were infallible because they have implications of mortal sin. Seems like something with such serious implications ought to be backed up by infallibility; but I'm not quite sure what the criteria for infallibility are, so. This clearly isn't deemed a matter of conscience, take-it-or-leave-it doctrine, though... Anyone know? (ETA: I found one source online that said "some Catholics consider" the teachings about contraception - not necessarily NFP - meet all the criteria required for infallibility. It didn't say what those criteria were, though.)
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|At some point, it is only fair to ask why you believe the sex act can be altered.
Because I believe we have freedom in Christ, and if our behavior is to be placed under a yoke there needs to be a solid reason of Scripture or conscience for it. That means for some Christians, using condoms will be a sin - if they feel they are disobeying Christ by doing so and yet continue to do so, they are sinning regardless of the objective rightness or wrongness of using condoms. But it also means that for those whose informed consciences are free, no-one has the right to call their actions sin. There are certain principles one can derive from Scripture about fertility (and the related issues of marriage, faith in God and so on), but I do not believe it can be logically shown that altering the sex act is in and of itself sinful; nor limiting family size, nor spacing children (nor, if it comes to that, certain sex acts prohibited by the CC). And the Bible speaks rather damningly of those who would add to the law of God and place people under heavy burdens.
Bluegoat: I'm interested in learning more about dialectic logic, but what you wrote sounds like a very scary and dangerous viewpoint - the kind that allows cults to be born. I agree that formal logic is limited, in that while it can prove the validity or invalidity of an argument it cannot in and of itself prove whether the argument's premises are true or false. Logic itself, however, cannot be warped by human sin. You can't "warp" the law of non-contradiction: you can use it correctly or fail to use it, in which case the argument will be objectively illogical, which sooner or later someone is likely to point out.
I have no objections to the idea that God can reward people who live holy lives by giving them - through natural or even supernatural means - knowledge and wisdom. But I also believe Satan can put ideas in people's minds, and a heck of a lot of cults have resulted in a heck of a lot of deaths by people telling others to take their truth on faith because they're such good men and God told them to kill themselves before the aliens arrived (or whatever). Which is why God gave us the test of formal logic to apply to someone's arguments. The truth need not fear it, as it would be contrary to the character of God to give someone an illogical truth (there's no such thing - and incidentally, I have seen logical formulations of the Trinity doctrine. Complex, but not impossible). And if it fails the test of logic, no matter how right it feels, it is not true (at least, not for the reasons by which it was argued).
I can see that if an argument is proven valid, it can be helpful to do what you suggested and try to see how it works as or within a larger worldview, and so on. But it's putting to cart before the horse to do that before finding out whether it is possibly true - ie, whether it is logical. "God loves man, I love man, therefore I am God" might feel pretty good to some people - it might make them make better sense of the world, and even become better people. But I doubt you'll waste much energy viewing the world through that lens, because you can see at a glance it is illogical.
I'll add that Jesus knew certain things through special revelation, by experiences other men could not replicate - but he happily provided logical proof that He was the Messiah and Son of God by scriptural arguments. He didn't say "Just mull the idea over and live a holy life and see if it all starts to make sense". Similarly, Paul in the book of Romans used logical proofs to discuss the mechanics of salvation. Whether he figured those out on his own time or whether God imparted it to him in a supernatural, experiential way, he described it to others using formal logic so that its truth could be proven.
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The Federal Reserve released its third quarter flow of funds account. I have never been so anxious to get a release as I was today for the flow of funds account. Third quarter highlights GO something like this:
- Household net worth declined 4.7%
- Household debt decreased an annualized 0.8% - a sign of real delevering, given that the 0.8% contraction is in nominal terms and prices rose 1.6% over the same quarter.
- Total business debt decelerated to a 2.94% pace (down from 5.6%).
- Federal debt grew an annualized 39% in the third quarter, which is 33.5% above the average 5.5% quarterly debt growth from q2 2007 to q2 2008. This is the biggest surge since 1952.
But there is also a very troubling effect that may emerge, and that is the wealth effect.
The chart illustrates the ratio of household net worth to disposable personal income spanning 1952:Q1 to 2008:Q3. In the third quarter, the share of net worth fell to 5.3% times current disposable income, driven by falling equity and home values. Consumer wealth is falling, and unless housing and equity markets stabilize and grow SOON, wealth will likely fall for two more quarters…at least.
The continuous decline in net worth is likely to hammer consumption, and with that, GDP. It seems like the wealth effect – which is previously questionable as an empirical determinant of consumption – is now quite strong.
Households are watching their stock of housing wealth fall when they return home from work, when they turn on the TV, and when they sit down for dinner. Everyone is facing a deterioration in wealth – home and equity owners alike – and this time around, consumption is bound to decline…further.
There is some serious slack building in this economy. Go Policymakers~!
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Wash didn't hesitate at the edge, although he should have: he didn't look back, although it felt like his four friends in the hanger had multiplied into a thousand staring eyes. He kicked off from the deck and sailed through the force field with a burst of his jetpack, and was suddenly struck by the empty and precarious gulf of space.
In a way, Georgia's fate was a terrible convenience: the scary part about space was not that there was too much to slam into but that there was so much nothing everywhere else. He felt lost, like an animal separated from its pack, but as soon as he crested the ship the little yellow light that was CT's FIF beacon lit up and he became a predator instead. He still yelled, a little yowl of fear as he felt himself tip off of the semblance of balance that he had. There was nothing to fall off of in space either, but he still felt the same dizziness that he had jumping off the building with York and Carolina. For a terrifying moment his hands cupped empty air - less than air, formless vacuum.
And then CT's FIF disappeared again, and with the confirmation that she didn't want to be found he doubled his determination to find her.
The fear still beat at him, turned what he wanted to be a smooth flight over the surface of the Insurrectionist ship into a jerky series of spirals as he turned the jetpack on and off. There was no ground, no flat surface, but somehow he oriented himself and found the flat, iron-gray plane that was the roof of the ship. His boots thunked down on the surface with a familiar clamping sound just as he saw CT's back a few yards away. She touched down in front of him and floated a few steps, kicking up from the metal, then bent to touch the hull.
He said, "CT." The not-name felt clumsy on his lips, but it was the one she wanted, and he would respect that. If she heard derision in his voice too, that was hers to interpret as she wished.
She turned partially around, still bent with one hand on the hull, and stretched out her arm to point a pistol at him without hardly looking at him. "Don't do this."
He felt cold in her sights, frozen, unable to bring his rifle to bear although really he had just as good a shot as she did. Words were more appropriate here. "Why not?"
He nudged a tab with his tongue to switch the radio frequency to the team channel, so that everyone could hear whatever her response was. So that she could maybe offer an explanation to all of them through him.
Her gun wavered slightly, mere centimeters of human error. "Stop it, Wash, because I'll listen to you."
That wasn't useful. (It was headily, deliciously personal - so she did care, so she had, despite however she had tried to prevent it from seeming like this, been leaving him specifically. But it wouldn't relay any information to the team.)
She tipped her head as if listening to something, and the false impression that he was her first priority was broken. She had a whole world besides him, and that disoriented him not out of self-certainty but out of his conviction that he knew so much about her.
But he had known enough to predict her being unpredictable.
His radio crackled and he heard Carolina's voice. She wasn't even out of breath. "Wash, what are you doing? Where's CT?"
"We're on top of the ship," he said, and CT turned her back to tend to the trap door.
Wash shot at her. He intended to miss, and just like he wanted one bullet sent sparks from the hull of the ship and the other flew past her into space. A waste of ammunition, it might fly forever until the edge of the universe.
CT looked up. "You want to know what I'm doing here?"
He lowered the gun.
She paused a moment, and from the slight movement of her chin thought she might either be calling someone on another channel or just bowing her head under the weight of her situation. "I'm going to take something from my backpack," she said, and Wash nodded while he tightened both hands on the gun. She reached back and took something that had been magnetized or shelved inside her armor.
It was a small metal chip, black and silver and green.
"This is information about how the director created Delta," she said slowly.
"What do you mean, created? He brought the AI from the UNSC."
She said, "I'm going to switch to a private channel."
"Why? You're obviously keeping this all from us?"
"That's why. Switch."
He did.
She said, "He also created Agent Texas."
"Created - what?" Wash spluttered. "Like, she's his daughter, or something?"
CT gave a soft, dry bitter laugh. "Not exactly. Get out of here, Wash. You don't want to know."
"No, I don't, but I'm not just going to let you leave."
That was his duty. It had never left his mind. He would bring back the traitor.
But her hurt silence hurt him.
"You want to know what I'm doing?" she said.
"Not really - "
"You want me to come back?" She sounded nervous now, like she wasn't quite paying attention. She raised the data chip between two thick brown-armored fingers. He realized that now that she'd told her that questionable fact about Texas he was complicit. She had involved him.
"Yes," he said.
The word didn't have a chance to toll in the vacuum like it did inside his head. CT said, "Catch," and threw the data chip.
It wasn't propelled like a bullet: in the vacuum of space it flew for a second before drifting gently toward him over his head. It would be easy to reach up and catch it. When he did he realized at the same time that he had shifted his gun from its aim at CT's stomach and also that the little piece of metal was moving faster than he had expected: his fingers brushed it and it seemed to bounce away, necessitating a mental curse and an instinctive lifting of the other hand.
He heard a whooshing sound and looked to the side, glancing down at his radar just in time to see a friendly FIF beacon close in on the pair of circles that was him and CT.
Carolina jetted onto the top of the ship, shadows playing over her blue armor, with North, York and South following a moment later. Carolina had her head down like a bull about to charge. Wash fumbled for the data chip again and grabbed at it while CT raised her gun at Carolina.
The number one Freelancer sounded icy. "Both of you, put your guns down. Get back on the team channel. Now!"
"This isn't what it looks like," Wash said, suddenly realizing what it did look like -
CT said, "Let that thing go and change your radio," and as Wash loosened his hands for another grab at the floating chip he heard her comm click.
"It's not what it looks like!" he repeated.
The other three were still at ease but Carolina raised the plasma pistol in her other hand and pointed it at him.
"What were you talking about, Wash?" Carolina said, sounding so certain and in control, and Wash wasn't.
"I...I don't know," he said, which was true. The men behind her looked at him questioningly. Suspiciously?
CT very slowly raised her hands above her head. With her boots magnetically clamped to the ground and all eyes on her palms or the stars, the trap door was barely noticeable. CT said, "Agent Washington and I were just discussing the terms of our defection."
York cursed, and North gave a sigh that sounded tired and somehow disappointed.
"That's not what happened at all!" Wash yelled, his voice cracking, and shut up when Carolina's narrow mask-eyes looked at him.
"For now," she said coldly and questioningly, "We treat it as it is."
"She had some kind of data chip," Wash said. "It floated, over there."
"I wouldn't worry so much about that," said CT. "I'd worry about the alert you're going to get in a few seconds."
North, South, and York visibly jumped. A moment later, 479's voice flooded the team channel. "Guys, get out of there! that piece of junk just released a nuke!"
The ship shivered, and Wash put his arms out to stop from tottering around despite his magboots. CT and Carolina were doing the same. North and York had started to flank Carolina, to surround Wash and CT.
The blue-armored Freelancer looked back and forth between Wash and CT with a pointed stare. "Everyone back to the Pelican! Go!" North, South, andYork lifted off, their jetpacks flaring yellow, but kept their positions. "I mean everyone," Carolina continued, and kept her weapons pointed at CT. "You two, in the front. If you try to escape we'll shoot you. Won't take much to die in vacuum."
They lifted off with CT at the forefront of an irregular arrow pattern: York and North flanking her, with Wash floating to her left with South to his left and Carolina beside him. Wash wanted to move closer to North, to feel some sort of solidarity with his silent friends, but the jetpack controls were precarious even at a distance. Carolina's stare seemed to burn into the back of his head, and the shame crept up on him: he had done something wrong, he had failed to bring CT back, he had lost the data she stole. He was going to, possibly, blow up.
He couldn't be this nervous now. 479 was yelling - "Get inside, now!" and the Pelican bay approaching like a toy in the vastness of space, somehow the only stable thing in the world but so tiny that he was sure to miss it if he tried to fall in. His teammates' jokes resurfaced, swirling around his other fears like milk in coffee and he tried to decelerate, the question bubbling up: What happened to Georgia?
Carolina didn't slow down. She caught him by the elbow and powered along next to him, dragging him into the Pelican just as York and North set down beside a glowering CT. She sat heavily and said nothing. Wash stumbled to a seat and grabbed onto a rung just as Carolina stomped across the floor and the hatch closed, leaving the six of them in harsh bars of gray light from the overheads.
"Everyone okay back there?" 479 yelled. Wash felt the Pelican shake barely imperceptibly as it accelerated.
"Never better!" York replied. "Thanks for asking."
A moment later Wash ducked his head as debris pattered against the ship. The Pelican seemed to tip forward and accelerate.
The Director's voice invaded the team channel, livid and unusually uncontrolled. "What the hell just happened, people? Tell me you accomplished your mission!"
"Negative, sir," said Carolina. "Their leader escaped."
While York and South muttered in the background the Director seemed to regain some composure. "That is most unfortunate. Are all agents encountered for?"
"Yes, sir. Agents CT and Washington have some...explaining to do, sir." It reassured Wash that Carolina didn't sound certain. "They were found trying to get rid of some sensitive information. We believe it's what's been transmitted out lately."
"Do we?" North said quietly.
The Director said, "Bring them back home."
479 whistled, but if anyone was going to talk to her it would have been Carolina, and she didn't. Instead she turned her back to Wash and walked the few feet across the troop bay.
Carolina looked down at CT, touched the top of one of her pistols against the chin of CT's mask. "I was bluffing when I said I'd kill you," Carolina said.
CT kept looking down. "Next time, if it's me with the bigger squad, I won't be."
CT went quietly, although Carolina wasn't gentle in disarming her and prodded her a few times on the way to the brig. York and the twins had stood by the ramp of the Pelican and let Carolina and the prisoners go, escorted by white-armored sim troopers who chatted nervously in whispers that CT couldn't decode.
This hadn't been part of her plan, but part of her was glad to be back. Joshua, uncreatively codenamed Leader by the Freelancers, would be able to retrieve the data chip that had been magnetized to his ship. as long as the nuke hadn't sent debris through his shields. And here CT was, home again in the sterile smell of the Mother of Invention, and all she needed to do was talk to Tex.
She also needed to make sure that she wasn't killed immediately - the Director would do that, since he already had enough things to hide from the UNSC that there was surely a convenient disposable folder of them in the Counselor's hands - and that Wash didn't get too caught up in this.
She hadn't been expecting that, and it flattered her, but she also knew that he had no stake in her mission. If he had wanted to defect with her he would have done it before. She had given him chances. Now, he was on the Director's side even as they were walking to jail. Even as the hallways did feel comfortably familiar.
She glanced aside at him, but didn't want to say anything here. She wouldn't give Carolina and the troopers the satisfaction.
They brought her to a hall she had never seen before: not the bottom deck of the ship but an out of the way place nonetheless, just as black-tiled and light-lit as the parts of the ship where she lived. Six cells, three on either side: the Director, she noticed, did not have the capacity to inter his whole team if he needed to.
"Someone will be in to talk to you later," Carolina said, and gestured equanimously toward two open doors. Wash backed away from her into one, still working under the automatic assumption that he always had that meant he did what he was told.
He spoke up for himself, though. "I'm not a traitor!"
"We'll see." Carolina sounded disappointed in him, and CT thought that she believed him. Carolina had to prod her again to get CT to step into the next cell, but when the door closed CT supposed she should be glad that she hadn't been hurt. She didn't dwell on that. The wall between her and Wash was an impermeable force field instead of a wall: a costly but useful precaution for prisoners in powered armor.
"What's going to happen to us?" Wash asked Carolina.
"I'll try to keep them from hurting you," Carolina said, with a warmth that surprised CT; Carolina was not vicious but she seemed unable to understand how to convey affection. Wash looked relieved.
Carolina and the troops left, and Wash rounded on CT, shouting through the force field. "Why did you do that?"
"Which part?" CT fixed him with a stare.
"Throwing me the chip!"
"I thought you'd catch it." She shrugged. "You wouldn't miss that. You fumbled it because you didn't want the responsibility."
"I wouldn't miss it? I'm not a catching machine. We were in space!"
She stared at him. "You said yourself you didn't want to know what was on that chip. You don't care. I understand that."
"So you intended to set me up."
She hadn't, but it had worked out. "To show you what he's like." She gestured out at the hall, meaning the Director.
"Was it part of your plan to come back?"
"No. But I..." she paused, and felt her brow scrunching up. "We had plans in case I didn't make it to one stage of the collection or another. The data chip magnetized with a certain command. It's stuck on the side of the ship. My contact will get it when he comes out of slipspace."
Wash took a step back and folded his arms. He sighed. "So you really are a traitor."
"I really am trying to help all of you. You don't know what the Director is going to do."
"And you do?"
She heard footsteps down the hall and turned to see a black-armored hulk walking down the hall: Tex, in all her heavy grace.
"You got us into this mess," Wash hissed, and CT wasn't sure whether he hadn't seen Tex or didn't care.
"I got me into this," she replied. "You made it a mess."
Tex approached slowly. CT moved away from the front of the cell, compassionate but unable to not be afraid of her: Beta, Allison, this...woman-thing in the Director's files, his love-borne Frankenstein. CT pitied her.
"This ain't gonna go well for you, kid," said Tex.
"I left something in your locker," CT said. She needed to tell her now or she wouldn't have a chance later. "Take a look at it before you make any promises."
Tex's head tipped, and CT realized she probably thought CT had left a bomb. CT bit her lip, her small mistake in wording letting all her worried feelings gain a foothold.
But Tex just kept looking at her, another tip to the side like a predatory bird trying to keep her in its sights. "I'll see you two around," she said, and walked away.
There was no trial, and that more than anything convinced Wash that the Director was not an upright citizen. "They need to court martial us - I can't believe I'm saying this!"
"Looks like they're not, Wash," CT said as a white-armored trooper tugged her hands together behind her back. They had been in the cells for a few hours. The troops had refused to speak, even as both Wash and CT had questioned them about where they were going next. They had just let the Freelancers out of the cells and began to take them away. CT knew that if they tried to escape they would likely be caught somewhere in the ship.
Maybe when they got to a more familiar deck, though, she could try. She and Wash could work as pilot and gunner in a pinch and get away in a Pelican, although 479 or one of her pilots would catch them if it didn't work perfectly. She wondered how she could convey this plan to Wash as they walked through the upward-sloping hall, then wondered why she was even thinking to include him.
She had meant it when she said that if he told her to stay again she would want to.
But she had been wanting to for a long time.
He wouldn't sway her, but if she could she wanted to save him. The Director was going to implant more AI, and she had seen in his files that they were not all as friendly as Delta. If Wash was implanted with an AI full of rage or deceit it could change him, turn him into something different than what he had been. He was already so full of blind loyalty, and she didn't want to see him turned into a brutish enforcer against his will.
If it was all his will, then...she would be willing to leave him again.
They marched her and Wash into the largest training room, the arena where Tex had trounced York, Maine and Wyoming. The Director was standing there, scowling beside Tex and the Counselor with his hands clasped behind his back, and Wash immediately flinched as if he had been hit. CT looked up, wondering if any of the Freelancers were looking down from the viewing area.
(She considered that it was really the Insurrection, not the Freelancers, who were more likely to send help. Would Joshua have mobilized a force to go after her? He was dedicated enough to do that. If she could coordinate that with her own escape, she and Wash would have a better chance...)
Maybe there was movement behind the thin-striped, bulletproof glass above her, but she couldn't tell who it was before she was pushed forward. The Director just looked at her frostily. She wondered if he was going to mention her crime or his disappointment first.
It was neither. He turned to look at Wash, exposing the side of his head and his bright eyes behind the ever-present sunglasses. "I expected better of you."
The comment hit CT harder than she had expected. She didn't want his respect, but if he had wanted to start off by conveying how livid and dismissive he was toward her, he was he had done it right.
Wash immediately raised his hands up, almost shaking. "It's not what it looks like, sir. I tried to tell Carolina. I'm not on her side." He glanced at CT. "I mean, I'm not working on whatever she's working on!"
The Director said, "Hmm."
"Why don't you explain this the way you saw it?" The counselor asked.
"I, I followed her when I saw that she left. I was going to bring her back."
CT realized then that she could help him: if she denied Wash's involvement with the Insurrection but not her own the Director may or may not believe him. But did she want him to be safe? She wanted him with her.
Did she want that enough to get him in this much trouble?
"He didn't know where I was going," CT spoke up. "He just got lucky."
"Lucky?" Wash's voice squeaked. "I just followed you!"
"Your crimes are evident, Agent Connecticut!" The Director shouted, and the sim troopers shifted around in fear. CT tried not to.
She looked down, and she must have looked defiant, because the counselor clarified. "We have been tracking your transmissions for some time. Agent Washington was one of our first...helpers in identifying you."
"It looks like the accomplice may have gotten too close to the source," said the Director.
A door opened, and everyone's heads turned to see Tex walk in, with her long, dramatic stride carrying her quickly across the floor. She was carrying a rifle in her arms and a pistol at her hip.
The Director stared at her for a long moment, then switched back to CT with no less an intensity in his stare. "Agent Connecticut," he said.
"I know what you're about," she replied. "You're using us."
CT thought frantically, wondering what she could say or who was listening. Would it even bother the Director to hear that she knew what Tex was? He had lived with it this long, but maybe the hurt was just under the surface.
"I know," he replied. "And that is exactly why you won't be surviving this. Texas."
Tex stepped to the Director's side and raised her rifle. "Step against the wall, Connecticut. Face whichever way you'd like."
A flare of fear rocked CT. It wasn't supposed to go like this. There had to be an option. Something she could say. Would Allison's name break him? It wouldn't matter to the Counselor. The sim troopers were all around her, but maybe she could take them out. If she attacked the Director first the others would become confused, but Tex would shoot her before CT got to him with her hands -
Tex shouted, "Step back!"
Wash started to speak, but a moment later he paused, rallied and started again. "Sir, I never intended to work against you. But dealing with CT like this without trial is...it's unconstitutional!"
The Director shook his head. "Be glad that your sentence has not yet been written, Agent Washington."
"What's going to happen to him?" CT said.
"That does not concern you."
And it didn't really, but still she had the horrible image of the empty mouth of Tex's gun pointing at Wash too. A burst of fear wormed into CT's throat and her situation seemed to fall on her, more real than anything else had ever been. She looked at Wash. "I didn't mean for it to end up like this."
He said, "I know," and for a moment she was disgusted that he would believe that without any proof.
Texas raised her gun and CT prepared to make her last living move an attempt to punch the Director in the face.
Glass behind her shattered. Tex looked up, CT lunged forward, and her punch actually landed, cracking through the Director's sunglasses. She fell to the floor on top of him, and a moment later felt a shove like the air being pushed out of her as Tex's foot caught her in the gut and threw her to the side. In a blur she saw the Counselor running backwards. Wash was backing up too, now reaching down a hand to pull her up - and the arena was filled with a blur of blue, because it had been Carolina who jumped down from above.
The Director and Counselor were cowering, the Director speaking something that CT didn't bother to hear in the cacophony of footsteps and shouts. She pushed herself to her feet, catching Wash's hand as he pulled her up but breaking apart from him again as soon as she started running. Carolina and Tex faced off, bouncing on the balls of their feet like boxers. CT had not heard any gunshots - not yet. A moment later York thudded onto the floor next to her and stood up, groaning. He immediately turned to Tex. "Hey there."
"You two," Carolina's voice snapped, and CT looked at her. "Come with me."
Wash barreled toward her. CT followed only when she saw them heading toward the entrance. A few shots hit the walls and Carolina slowed down as soon as she hit the hallway.
"Why are you doing this?" Wash said.
"Because you're my team," Carolina said, and stopped so fast that CT stumbled past her. "Get out of here while you can."
"What'll they do to you?" Wash said.
"Less than they'd have done to you," Carolina said.
CT ran a few more steps and paused. "Thanks." She waved Wash forward. "Let's go!"
He was yelling in her ear about clearance and safety tests, checklists and 479, but she knew where the security cameras were and headed for the hall to the hanger that had the least of them.
"We can't just run away!" Wash yelled.
"I can. He was going to kill me."
"I can't make a decision this fast!"
"I think you just did." They had passed a camera. "I told you I'd stay if you asked me to," she said. "Would you return the favor?"
"Would you stay with me?"
CT started to hear footsteps and voices behind her just as they reached the hanger. The huge room looked open and dangerous.
A Pelican had just come in, its drives glowing blue as it sat in a painted square. Possibly, agents were being recalled to deal with the chaos on the Mother of Invention, and CT barreled up the ramp to find the pilot in the troop bay. CT clotheslined him. There was someone else in the pilot seat, but she fled over the back of the seat and tripped her way past Wash, grabbing her woozy companion on the way out.
"Can you fly?" CT yelled.
"I, I've read the manuals!"
"Good enough. I can shoot."
"Okay." He sounded more confident than she had expected.
It almost wasn't good enough. The ship coughed and screamed before Wash, yowling and gritting his teeth, got it through the force field. Red alarms were popping up all over the screen as CT watched the much simpler blue lines of her gunner's console mirror the hanger behind them, and she hoped that they indicated the unlicensed departure rather than mechanical failure.
He said, "Remember how I was tracking your transmissions?"
She let the silence get accusatory before she said, "I remember."
"Well, this signal has a very familiar code on it."
A red dot appeared on her tracking screen, and she spun the simulation around to point her gun and her field of vision at the other ship heading their way. It was an unmarked Pelican.
"Take the call," she said.
He did. The voice on the other side of the signal didn't belong to the Insurrectionist in charge, but was a woman whose voice CT recognized. She had lurked behind a few of CT's conversations with Joshua. "Hello."
"Who is this?"
"This is, uh, I'm with CT."
Before the silence on the other end grew too long, CT leaned down, her shoulders straining, and shouted into the comm. "I'm here. It's me."
"Okay," said the woman. "We're coming to pick you up."
"They'll be sending ships out after us."
"I don't know why he wants to do this," she muttered. "But I'm here to escort you."
"He? Who's he?" Wash said in a rush.
The voice on the comm continued. "The Staff of Charon's coming out of slipspace right in front of us in a minute. Keep your eyes open until then."
The radio clicked. CT watched the other Pelican move into formation with hers.
Wash slumped back against the seat. "What just happened? What did we just do?
"I smuggled you out," she said, and smiled down at him.
"Did you plan this?"
"No. But I like it better than it would have turned out otherwise." She felt suddenly very tired, and pillowed her head on her hands on the console.
"Your people aren't going to like me!"
"They're not my people. They're the people who can help us. I'll explain to you what was on that chip."
"I...does it matter? We just deserted. We're runaways!"
She looked down at the yellow-striped crown of his head, then heavily lifted herself out of her seat and descended the stairs to the pilot's seat. "What was on that ship was proof that the Director isn't part of the UNSC at all. He's using it to further his own experimentation. He's doing unlawful experimentation on the AI like Delta." There was more, but this was the part Wash would concern himself about. She could imagine his blue eyes widening behind his visor. "Soon, Tex will know that too."
"Yeah. I'll explain it all."
The other Pelican approached, then turned around to lead them away. Radar signals of other ships started appearing far behind them, and a larger red blip ahead which was surely an Insurrectionist ship equipped for slipspace.
He said, "I trust you."
You don't trust, she thought. You follow. but you're following me now.
And both of them, who had the common sensibility that trust should be either in writing or proven in some definite way such as stealing a spaceship together, used that connection and felt a little stronger.
Behind them, the Director began to send out ships. CT thought the Pelican should be able to reach the Staff of Charon before they caught up, especially if the Charon gave them some supporting fire. CT suspected that 479 wouldn't be among the pilots. Carolina, if she had broken away from the fight with Tex long enough, would talk her or order her out of it.
The Charon's bay loomed as laserfire started to lance out from the Mother of Invention. CT tried to talk herself out of worrying about the MAC canon while Wash gunned it, starting to curse under his breath.
The bay closed around them as the space behind them filled up with laserfire, and CT breathed a sigh of relief.
A moment later all of her fears came back: what she would do now, how she would move against the Director, what Wash would do.
She would manage. Just like she had done before.
And maybe, one day, she would go back for Carolina and the others.


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Sail Date: July 29, 2016
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This cruise was a nice balance between relaxing, luxury on-ship time and beautiful scenic Alaska. Our stateroom was perfect in every way, the service was impeccable and our stateroom attendant was super helpful and attentive. The restaurant Blu was so fantastic that we rarely ate anywhere else. The Blu staff was over-the-top friendly and the food was way beyond my expectations. Social events and offerings were a nice mix, and we particularly enjoyed the musical performers.
The only negative experience we had was at the spa, where the staff seemed to be operating on a different customer service platform. Scheduling was difficult and the staff, while very nice, pushed purchases of products far too aggressively. The running theme was to criticize the condition of our skin and nails until we agreed to purchase products.
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A learning style in which a person learns through listening. An auditory learner depends on hearing and speaking as a main way of learning. Auditory learners must be able to hear what is being said in order to understand and may have difficulty with instructions that are drawn but if the writing is in a logical order it can be easier to understand. They also use their listening and repeating skills to sort through the information that is sent to them. Check out more information here (Wiki)
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Charlotte Hogg, the Bank of England's chief operating officer, made a rare public appearance at a UK Statistics Authority seminar this week.
Taking part in a panel, Hogg quoted the industrialist Sir Humphrey Mackworth who said in the 17th century that the purpose of the (then new) Bank of England was to "beget trade and people".
"Not something I think of central bankers doing very often!" quipped Hogg, to guffaws from the audience. Not now, perhaps. But let's not forget deputy governor Rupert Pennant-Rea in the 1990s of "Bank of England" fame.
Journalist Mary Ellen Synon revealed in a kiss-and-tell that she romped with the (married) Pennant-Rea on the carpet of Eddie George's Threadneedle Street dressing room.
What's more, given the recent probe into what Bank of England staff knew about foreign-exchange rigging over the past decade, some may have been flirting with the dark side recently...
A flack barking up the wrong tree
Strangest PR email of the week, and that is saying something, comes from someone requesting a "media audit" on Ben Fogle/Clare Balding.
"I'm just emailing as I was hoping you would be able to help me with a quick media audit. We're working on a campaign that is looking at dog obesity, for example looking at how two-thirds of owners aren't even aware that their dog is obese. The talent we are thinking about working with is between Clare Balding and Ben Fogle, and I was wondering who would be of more interest? Thanks for your time, any feedback would be greatly appreciated."
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Green leaves Thomas Cook in a spin
Thomas Cook brought in a crack team from spinners RLM Finsbury to handle the departure of boss Harriet Green, sidelining main agency FTI for the big news of the day. The shares cratered 20%. So that went well.
Incidentally, what's all this about a "transition" to a new CEO in Thomas Cook's stock-market announcement? Spy's dictionary suggests that "transition" implies a "period of changing from one state or condition to another", far from the abrupt departure which sent the shares into a tailspin.
According to Thomas Cook chairman Frank Meysman, Green's successor in the travel company's hot seat, Peter Fankhauser, has a "different set of qualities". However, sounding interesting on a conference call doesn't seem to be one of them. As for Meysman, he waved farewell to Green, who has admitted in the past that she gets by on just four hours' kip a night, by saying: "Maybe she will be able to sleep a bit more now and take a break."
Boris raves about 'fantastic' bus ride on Oxford Street
Boris Johnson has dismissed a plea to pedestrianise Oxford Street from Liberal Democrat London Assembly member Stephen Knight. "I do not buy clothes very often," Boris told him. "I buy clothes about once every two years. Two years ago, I had a brilliant idea and I thought I would go to Marks & Spencer on Oxford Street and just stock up on clothes.
I caught a bus because I thought it would be too difficult to drive. It was absolutely fantastic. The bus took me virtually door to door. I loaded on all sorts of stuff and Bob's your uncle. I would not have been able to do that under your crazy pedestrianisation scheme." Good old Boris. If he said two plus two equals five, he'd make it sound plausible.
New play about recruitment agency gains momentum
A new play at Southwark Playhouse that satirises a fictional recruitment agency has got the City's talent scouts looking over their shoulders. Even football pundit Gary Lineker was drawn in, attending the opening of Saxon Court.
The firm is portrayed as a real horror of a place. The boss is cruel and xenophobic, business is low to non-existent, and the workers are dimwits who play sexually suggestive games at their Christmas party. But did the producers realise there is an actual London recruitment agency for teachers called Saxoncourt, based near Bond Street?Reuse content


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Antique Italian Majolica Aladdin's Lamp Candle Holder~Egisto Fantechi
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Up for sale is a Antique Italian Majolica Aladdin's Lamp candle holder with the mark of Egisto Fantechi of Italy. It is white with hand painted serpents in the Renaissance Mythological Style. It is signed with the"caliper within the shield" which is the mark of the artistic ceramics firm of SIFMA and used by Egisto Fantechi from 1905 to 1933. There are no chips or cracks.


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