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You're right. Those type always catch me out.poohbcarrot wrote:#3 and 18 to get. #3 is easy.
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You're right. Those type always catch me out.poohbcarrot wrote:#3 and 18 to get. #3 is easy.
Ok - here's sort of my reasoning.poohbcarrot wrote:Your #18's wrong
How on earth does your #18 answer even remotely fit in with the clue?
That helped me more than you can know. The other thing they used to say on Catchphrase was "Say what you see" - A cross the una-verse oh dear oh dear oh dear.poohbcarrot wrote:In the words of "Catchphrase" (1980s TV quiz show)
"It's good, but it's not right"
The US bomber is a person.
poohbcarrot wrote:As I said previously, I did a whole bunch of these a few years back.
Here are 12 songs with colours in their title;
1=My girlfriend left me on Sunday evening
2=Forger's coin producer
3=Killed by an enormous fruit - Orange Crush
4=Unorthodox bride looks beautiful - Pretty in Pink
5=Cat says don't push rule - Purple Rain oh dear
6=Dyslexic but don't panic
7=Blind guide isn't yellow - Black Dog
8=Wash your black T-shirt too much - Fade to Grey
9=Is it better for you than white? - Brown Sugar
10=My English garden is twice as good as my Japanese garden - Green, Green Grass of Home
11=Easily killed on the battlefield
12=Don't shout high No. 12 biologist
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Strawberry Muffins (Gluten Free and Vegan)Posted by ♦***Admin--Dia***♦ on May 16th, 2010. Filed under: Casein Free, Dairy Free and Vegan, Vegetarian, Wheat and Gluten Free.
1 1/2 cups rice flour
1/4 cup oat flour
1/4 cup potato starch
1 tablespoon baking powder
3/4 cup raw cane sugar
3/4 cup vegan spread
3/4 cup rice milk
1 cup chopped strawberries
Preheat Oven to 180°Celsius (355° Fahrenheit)
Makes 12 muffins
Combine flour, sugar and chopped strawberries together in a large mixing bowl.
Add in the spread and milk.
Give it a good mix.
Pour into muffin tin.
Bake for 20 minutes.
Take out and enjoy!
Can't get any easier than this really, can you?

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Alcatel-Lucent, BT tease 1.4Tbps 'Flexigrid' broadband connection
Alcatel-Lucent and BT have teamed up to work on a new research project: 1.4Tbps broadband. The new technology using commercial-grade hardware, spun with a new protocol which pushes for these insane, next-gen speeds.
The new protocol has been dubbed Flexigrid, which allows multiple signals to be laid over the top of one another within the same cable. During testing, the researchers were able to layer seven 200Gbps channels, which created something they called an "Alien Super Channel", which was capable of driving 1.4Tbps across 255 miles of fiber.
The two connections were the bases of a BT research facility in Suffolk, to another BT Tower, in London. 1.4Tbps is... well, fast, very fast. How fast in real-world terms? Well, someone with this connection could stream some 64 hours of HD through Netflix, 38 hours of 4K through Netflix, or an insane 36,409 songs... all within a single second.
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Ford partners with universities to develop autonomous car research
Automaker Ford will team up with researchers from Stanford University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), hoping to overcome the "technical challenges" currently facing autonomous vehicles.
"To deliver on our vision for the future of mobility, we need to work with many new partners across the public and private sectors, and we need to start today," said Paul Mascarenas, Ford Chief Technical Officer, in a statement. "Working with university partners like MIT and Stanford enables us to address some of the longer-term challenges surrounding automated driving while exploring more near-term solutions for delivering an even safer and more efficient driving experience."
Automated driving research is a major initiative among auto manufacturers, and partnering with two of the top universities in the country will help Ford. Specifically, the company will work with Stanford to develop sensor able to accurately see around obstacles, in an effort to try and develop a vehicle with "common sense."
During CES 2014, autonomous vehicles continued to receive a warm welcome from attendees, as each year autonomous technologies are spotlighted.
South Korea's SK Telecom to roll out 300Mbps mobile Internet
As it stands today, South Korea's largest mobile network, SK Telecom, has 'regular' 75Mbps LTE mobile broadband. The South Korea-based company has just announced plans to push out some insane mobile Internet speeds.
SK Telecom's upcoming '3band LTE-Advanced' will offer speeds of up to 300Mbps, or LTE-Advanced (LTE-A) by aggregating "more than two frequency bands". The service will roll out toward the end of the year. New Agency, Yonhap, reports that users can download an 800MB file in 22 seconds, which is just insane.
The company will be showing off its new blistering fast Internet at Mobile World Congress next month, in Barcelona.
Connected technologies open up many different security problems
The emergence of connected technologies, with products ranging from high-definition TVs and refrigerators to newer cars, there is huge potential possible for innovative companies. However, a lag in security of connected devices will give cyber criminals a new platform to exploit moving forward, depending how they access the compromised unit.
"Botnets are already a major security concern and the emergence of thingbots may make the situation much worse," said David Knight, Proofpoint Information Security division, in a statement. "Many of these devices are poorly protected at best and consumers have virtually no way to detect or fix infections when they do occur."
Manufacturers and security experts are working on next-generation security products aimed at helping keep connected technologies more secure. As more consumers embrace 'smart' goods at home and in the workplace, this will continue to be a struggle in the looming years.
Connected car cyber security threats possible for Google Android
The lure of connected cars continue to cause quite a stir in the automotive and tech industries, though there is a growing concern over possible security threats. Cyber criminal focus will remain on PCs, smartphones, tablets, and connected household devices, but security analysts warn auto threats are right around the corner.
Google Android-powered vehicles will roll out before the end of this year, and will feature Google Maps, Google Places, Google Voice, Google Earth, and the Google Play store.
"I think Google will bring in some of its elements from the automated car research it's conducting, where it's focusing heavily on cybersecurity," said Praveen Chandrasekar, Frost & Sullivan automotive and transportation researcher, in a statement. And remember, they'll be working directly with [automotive] OEMs, who will tell them what their security requirements are."
Meanwhile, Apple has found its way into connected vehicles manufactured from the likes of Acura, BMW, Mercedes-Benz, Volvo, and Toyota. Connected vehicles will become an intense battlefield in 2014, as future cars make use of connected technologies, even in cheaper vehicles.
Cisco sets its sights on the 'Internet of Everything' craze
Network hardware company Cisco Systems focused on the Internet of Everything (IoE), setting the landscape for people connected to mobile devices, smart buildings, transportation networks, data and other processes on a wide scale. The number of estimated connected devices is 15 to 25 billion by 2015, which will propel up to 50 billion by 2020.
"Cisco has led customers through every Internet transition over the last 30 years," said Blair Christie, Cisco Senior VP and chief marketing officer, in a statement. "The Internet of Everything is perhaps the most promising of these, creating unprecedented opportunities for organizations, individuals, communities and countries to realize dramatically greater value from networked connections between people, processes, data and things."
Cisco has been forced to adapt to a changing environment in which employees are largely embracing the 'bring your own device' craze. However, the IoE blows that out of the water, with service users able to benefit from long-form content, location-based and profile data, home/control/automation features, and sensor-collected data in the home and workplace.
Volvo bringing car owners into connected world, via Wi-Fi hotspot
Auto manufacturer Volvo used the 2014 Consumer Electronics Show (CES) to show off its Sensus Connect connected-car platform, which recently added the Xtime ServiceTelematics technology into its offering. The Sensus Connect system provides a mobile Wi-Fi hotspot for drivers, along with the ability to locate and pay for parking - and automated alerts if there is car trouble, with drivers able to easily schedule a tune-up.
"Technology should make your life easier, especially in the car," said David Holecek, Volvo connectivity brand manager, in a statement. "This fundamental consumer insight underpinned the development of Sensus Connect. It's not about offering a thousand apps. It's about giving you precisely what you need, before you even knew you needed it."
Connected cars were extremely popular during CES this year, and will continue to be shown at auto shows throughout the year. Following CES, auto makers immediately shifted focus to the Silicon Valley Auto Show - and will again shift gears and prepare for the start of the North American International Auto Show in Detroit, Michigan.
San Francisco sees free Wi-Fi rolled out on Market Street
The City of San Francisco is one of the leading tech hubs in the world, but budget cuts and political bickering shelved numerous attempts to get public access to free Wi-Fi in well-trafficked portions of the city.
The $500,000 project to bring free public Wi-Fi to Market Street in San Francisco has been completed, with a three-mile stretch of downtown road now supporting up to 50Mbps of free service. It's a far-cry from the citywide Wi-Fi promise made in 2007, but this is at least a good step in the right direction towards coverage across the city.
Silicon Valley company Ruckus Wireless contributed hardware, while Layer 42 Networks provided 1 gigabit Internet access service to the project. Market Street is one of the major thoroughfares in downtown San Francisco, with more than 250,000 people using the street per day. Throughout San Francisco and Silicon Valley, tech companies are expanding free public Wi-Fi, as more consumers use laptops, smartphones, and tablets for personal and work activities. Similar Wi-Fi projects are currently underway in major metropolitan areas throughout the United States - and in select cities across the world - so the potential upside of these efforts could be tremendous.
Google is giving Uganda some of that Google Fiber lovin'
I was expecting it to be my city next, but obviously Google has no love for me. The Mountain View-based everything giant is looking to install its own fiber-optic network in Kampala, Uganda.
Google has been installing the network over the last couple of months, officially unveiling the project on Wednesday. The new network will allow 10 local mobile operators and Internet Service Providers (ISPs) to boost speeds up a factor of 100 in most places in Kampala. The city itself is home to around 3 million potential Internet users.
The ISPs will receive the huge speeds, and will be able to offer its customers up to two gigabits per second, which is just insane. Why is Google pushing a network in Uganda? Well, considering only 16% of Africa's 1 billion citizens have Internet, it can be big business. Google makes money from advertising, and getting more people online will have more people seeing ads, which lets Google print its money.
Tumblr has been completly redesigned for iOS 7; update is out now
Tumblr has updated its app and has been entirely redesigned for iOS 7. The new update is available to download now on the iPhone or iPad. The app looks a lot sleeker than the previous version. It now includes a auto-complete for tagging, a faster reblog, a new interface for composing and choosing post styles.
"We've completely redesigned Tumblr for iPhone and iPad! It's faster and has a beautiful new look and feel, just like iOS 7."
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Disneyland explosion leads to Mickey's Toontown evacuation
There was a bit of chaos at Disneyland in Los Angeles Tuesday (May 28), after an explosion occurred in the Mickey's Toontown section of the park. The cause of the explosion was determined to be from a "dry ice bomb," authorities say.
Sgt. Bob Dunn of the Anaheim Police Department tells the LA Times, "Unfortunately, it's an all too-common experience." The blast is similar to others that have occurred in Anaheim neighborhoods over the past several months.
The explosion caused the Toontown section of the park to be evacuated, with police being called around 5:30 p.m. PT. Toontown then reopened about 7:30 p.m. No injuries were reported.
The "dry ice bomb" in question was simply dry ice inside of a plastic bottle, that was then left in a garbage can. Investigators have yet to determine why Toontown was the target, or what the motive was.
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Whilst at the drinks urn yesterday I was minding my own business making myself some coffee. I generally put quite a lot of milk in coffee because it means it's not so hot which means I can drink it faster.
The usually unintelligble database person was hanging about trying to say something about databases and I was trying to explain to him that what he'd done the previous day ( stayed at work until 4AM in the morning fixing something ) was not only pointless and stupid it was also raising peoples expectations that anyone should work that late if necessary. Personally I have no intention of ever working past 5 in the evening no matter how disasterously wrong stuff goes so I don't want people expecting that I might.
Anyway, as I was making my milky coffee he said
"I thought you liked strong coffee ?"
"I do" I said
"But half of that cup is just milk ? That's not strong, look at my coffee it's really strong, it's black as night look"
People have said this to me before but they're wrong. The strength of coffee has nothing to do with how much milk you put in but how much coffee you put in.
"Yes, half of it is milk and about 1/8th of it is coffee. My cup is the same size as yours isn't it"
"Yes" he said "but I only have a dash of milk because weak coffee is for weaklings and I am very strong and macho"
"But you've filled the rest of the cup up with water though haven't you ?"
"Which dilutes coffee just as much as milk does doesn't it ?"
"I suppose it does"
"So it doesn't matter what you dilute the coffee with, milk isn't a magic coffee weakening agent is it ?"
"I suppose not"
"It just depends on the ratio of coffee to dilutent doesn't it ?"
"Yes, you've made your point. I just don't like milk"
"You should have just said that"
Often I also have to the argument that coffee contains less caffeine than tea with people quite often until they give in.


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Free Remote Desktop Sharing Applications
Remote desktop sharing applications are the ones which sometimes save the day of a developer (specially the freelancers) or anyone who works with computers.
- Working as a distributed team and need desktop collaboration?
- Supporting a remote web application that you had built?
- Need to manage the work computer from home?
There are great free remote desktop applications which helps to build this remote connection.
Do you think these applications may save your day, don't forget to bookmark this post (del.icio.us link).
I have collected the best ones I know & experienced. Here they are:
Free version works like a charm, you can manage multiple remote computers. This is a web-based application and you only have to install clients to the PCs to be managed. Downside of the free version is you can not transfer files.
TeamViewer is a software and both PCs need to install applications. You can control remote PCs (unlimited) with the free version. You can transfer files, chat, establish a VPN connection & more.
This is a very different one. Besides controlling remote computers, Yuuguu enables a team of up to 30 people to share their desktops and chat.
Dimdim is a free web conferencing service where you can share your desktop, show slides, collaborate, chat, talk and broadcast via webcam with absolutely no download required for attendees. It also has an opensource version.
With Mikogo, users can host smooth-running screen sharing sessions and invite up to 10 participants simultaneously to any one Mikogo meeting. It is genuine freeware with no costs and there are no installations on the participants' side (thanks Andrew for the suggestion).
TightVNC is a very famous open source remote desktop management application. It is lightweight and has versions for both Windows and Unix.
All the applications are very easy to use and has lots of users. Except TightVNC, all of them are firewall friendly, which will probably not cause any problems while connecting. But only TightVNC is a standalone product that does not require any registration or depend on any web-based service (and DimDim opensource).
If there are any other free remote desktop sharing solutions that you know, please share them to make the list better.
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aaaa June 17th, 2008 at 10:45 am
beware of the security risks ! if you enable such a software to have remote access to your desktop, potentially anyone can use this to peek at your computer.
kolorex June 17th, 2008 at 2:12 pm
Hi, greetings from Argentina, i will translate this article an pit it on my blog, i hope you don't mind. I will link to here as original.
And i think that you miss MSN messenger, with the Share apps and share desktop will work fine to this. And Remote desktop coneccion, but that works only for a LAN i think.
Umut M. June 17th, 2008 at 3:42 pm
You can translate it for sure, a link back will be ok.
I thought about putting MSN meseenger too but in my cases it never performed well. It was hard to connect and slow.
D4rKr0W June 17th, 2008 at 4:23 pm
What about mRemote?
It's even open source!
Steve June 19th, 2008 at 12:04 am
Ultra VNC is good in it's own right but it's SingleClick app is good for when you need to get around Firewall port forwarding etc.
You configure and compile the app yourself and can even apply your company Logo.
Steve June 19th, 2008 at 12:05 am
er… sorry I assumed the "URI" field was for my link … wasn't thinking:
Danhbaweb20.com June 20th, 2008 at 1:20 am
LogMeIn no 1. Thanks
shahid June 25th, 2008 at 9:18 am
skyfx is a pretty decent one for remote control and helping other without them having to install any software. http://skyfex.com/quickstart.php
jennel159 July 7th, 2008 at 9:19 am
Greetings from Germany
I'm using Teamviewer for Desktop-Sharing. It's easy to handle and I never had problems with it. The Software is free for private people.
Andre van den Heijkant July 24th, 2008 at 8:14 am
I am looking for a posibility to share not the complete desktop but only 1 application (incl all windows). Do you no a solution for that?
Umut M. July 24th, 2008 at 9:14 am
I'm not sure if this is possible with such an application.
But maybe you can create a Windows user with such rights and users can connect through this applications & that Windows user.
Andrew Donnelly July 25th, 2008 at 4:11 am
Hi Andre,
Try Mikogo (http://www.mikogo.com) which is mentioned in the list above.
Before you start a free online meeting (or even during a meeting) you can access the feature called "application selection". There you can choose which applications you wish to share and which ones you would prefer to keep hidden from the view of your meeting participants.
Say for example you have 5 windows open: a couple of web browsers, a Word doc, a PDF and your email client. But you only want to show the PDF for a presentation. Then you deselect the other windows, and your meeting participants will only be able to see the PDF, keeping everything else hidden. You can also select to hide the taskbar for greater privacy.
For further details take a look at our user guide (http://www.mikogo.com/download/MikogoUserGuide.pdf) on pages 10 and 11 which gives detail on how to access this feature.
If you have any questions about this, feel free to join the Mikogo Forum, or drop me a line at the email address below. Or leave another comment here (I hope that is ok with you, wrd….?)
I hope that helps you.
All the best,
The Mikogo Team
Jeff July 29th, 2008 at 3:15 pm
Microsoft has released a program that will do this as well. it's called SharedView and seems to work very much like Mikogo. you can choose what to share at any time during the meeting, you can also provide hand-outs, which is nice.
Mikogo requires that you type in the meeting code manually or speak to the meeting attendee's to give them the code, where SharedView allows the option of copy/paste, or with a single click sending a pre-formatted email with the meeting code and password links included.
it's likely Mikogo will have the same thing soon…
Henq August 4th, 2008 at 12:12 pm
I got another one http://www.ntrconnect.com which works the same as logmein. There is a free and pro version (see https://www.ntrconnect.com/web/features.asp). Still logmein stays my favorite.
Alex Ferri August 7th, 2008 at 7:32 am
I am the developer of a software called ScreenCamera. With ScreenCamera you can share your computer desktop using any free video chatting program or web site including Live Messenger, Skype, Yahoo Messenger, AOL Messenger, PalTalk, Camfrog, AIM, Stickam, AnyWebcam, etc..
Actually, with ScreenCamera you can share your desktop screen and webcam at the same time using any free video chatting program or web site.
To download ScreenCamera go to:
Alex Ferri
PCWinSoft Systems Ltd
Brad Stuart September 15th, 2008 at 9:56 am
Also try DESKTRA Freedom Desktop: http://www.desktra.com.
It is the fastest one I have tested to date. Also no registration or web login is required.
I like it.
Moorthy November 3rd, 2008 at 2:29 pm
Hi I found https://www.yugma.com through Skype Extension.
Martin von Dehn November 26th, 2008 at 7:56 pm
I have spent MONTHS trying to get Desktra to link to my mother's computer and have yet to succeed. I even tried to use it with both of our firewalls turned off. The company is no help at all.
Thanks to this website I now have a couple of others I can try. I hope I shall have more success with another product. I do not need to have others access my system, but as a 'trouble shooter' I dislike travelling half an hour just fix some minor problem on someone else's (like finding a lost file). Windows XP Remote Desktop I find to be pretty dicey as well.
Alex March 6th, 2009 at 4:56 am
Mikogo http://www.mikogo.com is really great, really simple for both organizer and participant, and sounds well featured from what I have tried.
Remote Control Software April 14th, 2009 at 2:46 pm
Is Dim dim completely free to use or is it a trial? I would love to replace gotomeeting if possible. It gets pretty expensive after a while. Thanks.
Alcepepe July 2nd, 2009 at 9:49 am
Greetings (and Mateus Rose wine) from Portugal!
Hi Remote Control!
DimDim has an Open Source Edition (GPL licence – http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html). See http://www.dimdim.com/opensource/dimdim_open_source_community_edition.html and http://www.dimdim.com/opensource/dimdim_floss.html.
Adrian Posor September 2nd, 2009 at 5:20 am
I have created a free desktop sharing application for Windows Vista and higher that you can download from here: http://posor.hostingkunde.de/desktopsharing/desktop_sharing.htm
lesley September 14th, 2009 at 4:26 am
i am looking for a free remote desktop software to use. can any one help me
joe bob September 15th, 2009 at 8:28 am
this is another one i found
esko October 26th, 2009 at 4:05 pm
http://www.netviewer.de is also a nice one…
Free for not commercial use.
Desk.-Sharing, Video, Chat, Whiteboard, Data transfer etc.
Hitesh November 20th, 2009 at 3:27 am
I really liked the posts on his site.
anyone know of any remote control applition that can be placed onto a web server which will allow a user to go to the site and automaticlly allows two computers to securly connect to each other.
I hope that makes sense.
cbm October 22nd, 2010 at 1:40 pm
A new free remote desktop service for mobile phones (J2ME, Android) is available at http://www.crystalballmobile.com.
Key features: access behind firewalls&routers, efficient data compression, encryption, no proprietary software need to be installed on the remote computer.
beng June 16th, 2011 at 12:53 pm
I used "ammyy" it works fine but be careful something seems not right. when the application is open and ready to listen it read IO a lot after several days it read about 9 GB from my IO (just check the IO read/write in task manager) and it makes my computer too slow.
janet October 13th, 2011 at 4:25 pm
Another alternative is RHUB remote support appliance. You could try their free demo site: turbomeet.com is completely free. but it has a 50-min cut off.


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Marty Meehan is the chancellor of the University of Massachusetts Lowell, founded in the 1890s as the Lowell Normal and Lowell Textile Schools.
Since assuming the chancellorship in 2007, Meehan has propelled UMass Lowell forward by every important measure of higher education. The institution has achieved record growth in enrollment, student retention and funding for research and scholarships. The campus has undergone a stunning physical transformation with new academic buildings and residence halls, upgraded academic and research facilities, and enhanced student activity spaces.
In 2011, for the first time, UMass Lowell was named a top-tier national university and is No. 156 on U.S. News & World Report's Best National Universities ranking. Its four-year, 27-spot climb is the second-fastest in the nation. UMass Lowell also ranks 84th among all public universities in the country. The University is the top-ranked public research institution in New England for starting salary, mid-career salary and overall return on investment for graduates according to PayScale.com.
While strongly focusing on academics and student success, Chancellor Meehan has made access, affordability and diversity a keystone of his vision to raise UMass Lowell's image and impact on the region.
Meehan has sought innovative and entrepreneurial means to obtain resources. Understanding that philanthropic support is vital to sustain the progress that has been made, the chancellor has overseen the largest fundraising years in the history of the institution culminating with a record total of $20.6 million raised in FY14, the fourth consecutive record year for university fundraising. Since Meehan was named chancellor, UMass Lowell has raised more than $105 million in private gifts and pledges.
In 2015, the Lura Smith Fund honored Meehan with the Living the Dream Award for embracing the dream of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. through his faith and commitment to social justice. In 2014, Meehan received the Association of College Unions International (ACUI) President of the Year Award at the organization's 100th anniversary celebration and the Robert H. (Tex) McClain, Jr. Distinguished Public Administrator Award from the Massachusetts Chapter of the American Society of Public Administration. He was honored by the Council for Advancement and Support of Education (CASE) at the annual District I program in 2012 with the Chief Executive Leadership Award, established to honor institutional leaders for outstanding contributions to their campus communities, for efforts promoting public understanding of education and for support of advancement at their campuses.
Meehan represented the 5th Congressional District of Massachusetts in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1993 to 2007, where he served on the House Armed Services and Judiciary committees. Widely respected as a reformer, he established a national reputation for his legislative leadership in transforming campaign finance laws and protecting the public from the health risks of tobacco use. Previously, he served as Massachusetts deputy secretary of state for securities and corporations and he was the first assistant district attorney of Middlesex County.
Meehan graduated cum laude from UMass Lowell in 1978 with a degree in education and political science. He earned a master's degree in public administration from Suffolk University in 1981 and a juris doctor from Suffolk University Law School in 1986. He holds honorary degrees from Suffolk University, Green Mountain College in Vermont and Shenkar College of Engineering & Design in Israel.
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This is the second issue of our special Nakba-60 trilogy, and aims the spotlight on the growing global movement for Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) on Israel. The introductory articles in the issue include a guest commentary by Professor As'ad Abu Sharkh discussing the urgency of global civil society action in light of the disastrous situation in the Gaza Strip, as well as an announcement of the newly launched BDS movement website, and an overview and update about the BDS movement within US churches.
One of the highlights of this issue is an article by Karine Mac Allister about the "Applicability of the Crime of Apartheid to Israel." This article provides a preliminary legal analysis of Israel's commission of the crime of apartheid against all sectors of Palestinian society: Palestinian citizens of Israel, Palestinians in the occupied West Bank and Gaza, and Palestinian refugees. While it is a work in progress, it is an important step in developing a well-founded legal analysis of Israeli violations of international law.
The main feature of this issue of al-Majdal focuses on BDS campaigns in 17 countries across Europe, North America and South Africa. While the information covered in these articles does not cover all BDS campaign activity, it provides powerful examples and histories of what the campaign has involved in different places, as well as valuable lessons learned by activists involved in the campaign over the past years. The growing effectiveness of the campaign is particularly highlighted in the 12-page-long list of BDS campaign updates and achievements at the end of the magazine.
Also featured in al-Majdal #38 are the winners in the written work category of this year's Expressions of Nakba contest organized by the US Campaign to End the Occupation; a review of Deborah Rohan's new book The Olive Grove as well as a reflection by the author herself on the process of writing the book; as well as several important statements issued over the past months.
As the global movement for BDS continues to grow in size, strength and effectiveness, it is increasingly important to take stock of experiences in different parts of the world by sharing research and analysis, taking strength from successes, and learning lessons from the failures of different campaigns. This issue of al-Majdal is a step in this direction.
This year, the 60th since the establishment of Israel through the systematic forced transfer of most of Palestine's indigenous population, has witnessed the largest global mobilization in support of Palestinian rights since the 1948 Nakba. In cities around the world, supporters of human rights and just peace participated in actions and events demanding that the truth of the Nakba be exposed and calling for the implementation of Palestinian refugee rights. Many of these actions and events were part of the emerging global movement to reverse, and not just commemorate, the 60-year Nakba, through boycott, divestment and sanctions (BDS) campaigns against Israel until it fully complies with its obligations under international law and universal human rights and dismantles its regime of apartheid, colonialism and occupation. This issue of al-Majdal brings together the voices of BDS activists from around the world to describe and evaluate their campaigns to date.
The current BDS campaign is deeply rooted in the century-old history of Palestinian civil resistance against Zionist colonization. In the two decades before the establishment of the state of Israel, the Palestinian national movement had implemented a local boycott of Zionist enterprises that escalated during the uprising of 1936-1939. After 1948, member states of the League of Arab States, Non-Aligned Movement, and Organization of the Islamic Conference launched state-run boycott campaigns to ensure that commercial and financial relations with Israel did not take place, a boycott that began to be reversed under US pressure when Egypt signed the Camp David Accords and other Arab states engaged in the normalization treaties of the 1990s. Anti-normalization, a term that describes opposition to the treatment of Israel as a 'normal state' given its abnormal regime of apartheid, colonialism and occupation, became a central slogan of civil society in Arab countries that initiated relations with Israel, as well as in Palestine after the Oslo agreements.
As Israel celebrates the 60th year since its establishment, the Palestinian people commemorate the 60th year of the Nakba (catastrophe) in which Zionist forces drove out the majority of the Palestinian people from Palestine, deprived them of their homes, lands and property and turned them into destitute refugees. The expulsion of the majority of Palestinians from their homes and replacing them by Jews from various parts of the world over the past 60 years has been a premeditated crime concocted deliberately by the Zionist movement whose ideology continues to be based on the war crime of population transfer aimed at simultaneously pumping out the indigenous Palestinian population and pumping in Jews from the world to create and maintain a Jewish state on the land of Palestine.
On 9 July 2008, the Palestinian BDS National Committee (BNC) launched a major new online resource for the campaign for boycott, divestment and sanctions against Israel. BDSmovement.net will bring together news, campaign materials and resources from Palestinian and global activists in a single site to support, coordinate, and provide information, updates and analysis about the international BDS movement.
Apartheid is an Afrikaans term for "apartness," which means to "separate," to "put apart," to "segregate." It can be summed up as the institutionalization of a regime of systematic racial discrimination or more precisely, "a political system where racism is regulated in law through acts of parliament."1
Discussions on whether Israel is guilty of the crime of apartheid are not new; numerous articles were published in the 1980s and 1990s concluding that the situation in Israel and to some extent the occupied Palestinian territory (OPT) is one of apartheid.2 These discussions were, however, sidelined by the Madrid-Oslo process in the mid-1990s, which was widely expected to bring about at least partial self-determination of the Palestinian people in the OPT. Discussions on the applicability of the apartheid label to Israel have recently re-emerged, mainly as a result of the entrenchment of Israel's regime of occupation and colonization in the OPT and its continued discriminatory policies towards Palestinian refugees and citizens of Israel.3
Applying International Law in Palestine/Israel
"We denounce as immoral an ordering of life that perpetuates injustice…Believing that international justice requires the participation of all peoples, we endorse the United Nations and its related bodies and the International Court of Justice as the best instruments now in existence to achieve a world of justice and law." --United Methodist Church Social Principles.
On March 12, the new Australian Prime Minister, Kevin Rudd moved a motion calling on the Australian House of Representatives to "celebrate and commend the achievements of the State of Israel in the 60 years since its inception" and to reaffirm Canberra's support for "Israel's right to exist" and a "two-state solution" to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.1 In moving the opposition-supported motion, Rudd made it perfectly clear that despite the 11 year conservative Howard government being swept from power, there would be no change in Australia's policy in relation to Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territories.
The boycott campaign in Belgium was started in 2000 by a small but dynamic Palestine solidarity group called Centrum voor Ontwikkeling, Documentatie, Informatie Palestina (CODIP: Centre for Development, Documentation and Information on Palestine). CODIP had emerged from Palestine solidarity efforts active in Belgium through the Limburgs Palestina Komitee (LPK) founded in 1989, and which had evolved into CODIP by 1998. In 2002, the boycott campaign was taken up by the coordinating comittees of the Flemish and French speaking NGO's and social organisations: Actie Platform Palestina (APP) and Association Belgo-Palestine (ABP).
Co-authored by Hazem Jamjoum
The Canadian state is one of the inheritors of Europe's genocide and ethnic cleansing in the Americas. In the face of their ongoing struggle for sovereignty and self-determination, the indigenous people of Turtle Island (the name of this land according to many of its indigenous peoples) have faced wave after wave of expulsion from their land, biological and military warfare, systematic erasure of their identity and way of life, and an accumulation of government policies aimed at finishing them off as peoples and taking what is left of their land and its resources. It should come as no surprise that when the architects of apartheid in South Africa looked to study effective examples on which to base the political exclusion and economic exploitation of South Africa's indigenous peoples; they took Canada as their main case study.
Some of the commercial boycott experiences of the Plataforma Aturem la Guerra (Stop the war platform), Boicot Preventiu (Preventative Boycott) and the Xarxa d'Enllaç amb Palestina (Link Network with Palestine) in Catalonia can be valuable for activists in other places. Despite the fact that the peculiarities of each context have to be taken into account, these experiences illustrate the difficulties and dilemmas as well as the potential of these campaigns. Three different cases will be explained: the boycott of an Israeli product, a campaign for a Catalan company to stop selling Israeli products and two campaigns demanding that the public administration refrain from contracting Israeli product and services.
This article summarizes the current major effort by the Palestine Solidarity Campaign (PSC) and other Palestine solidarity groups in England and Wales to build a really dynamic and concerted BDS campaign across eight action areas for the next year. In the process of describing this, examples will be given of the range of past campaigning actions which are now being drawn together and stepped up, to achieve greater visibility and impact.
On 30 September 2006 in Bilbao, we presented the Basque Initiative of Boycotting Israel at a press conference. The main purpose of this initiaive, since it was launched on that day, has been to build a movement in Euskal Herria (Basque Country) behind the Unified Palestinian Civil Society Call for Boycotts, Divestment and Sactions (BDS) against Israel until it complies with international law; a call that was supported by over 170 Palestinian social, political and labor organizations.
Using boycotts in popular struggle against oppression has a long history in Ireland. Irish people enthusiastically supported the South African anti-apartheid call for boycott, and boycott is an equally central element of our support for Palestinian resistance. While the Irish government has remained stubbornly deaf to the Palestinian call for boycott, Irish civil society has begun to respond.
Over the past few months, a working group has been meeting and discussing how to build the BDS campaign by citizens of Israel. The group itself is composed of a small group of Israeli citizens who object to the daily apartheid policies towards Palestinians everywhere, many of whom are already active in challenging Israeli oppression in different political, intellectual and cultural arenas. Much of the group's work so far has focused on discussing amongst itself, and with the Palestinian initiators of the campaign, on the ways in which this campaign can be built within Israeli society. This article describes some of the results of these discussions.
The Israeli National Bureau of Statistics has published a list of Israel's trade partners during the first 3 months of 2007. In that list, Italy is mentioned as the fourth main exporter to Israel, following the USA, China and Germany. The principal sectors of Italian export are machinery, chemical products and metals.
Since 2001 BDS has significantly shaped the agenda of Palestine solidarity activity in Norway. Some cases along the way have shed significant attention to the plight of the Palestinian people, as well as on ways to end this systematic oppression, ways well worth learning from and building on.
This article outlines some of the lessons learned so far in BDS campaigning in Scotland. We face some real challenges, as well as significant opportunities as we work to take the BDS campaign forward. We should be clear that the BDS campaign can only rely on those who are willing to answer the appeal from Palestinian civil society for us to use this non-violent, democratic weapon to punish Israel for its crimes. BDS is unlikely to win support from currents and individuals who aim to 'balance' between Israeli crimes and Palestinian rights, who refuse to align themselves clearly with the struggle of the Palestinian people, and only sympathize with their suffering.
At the 2001 World Conference Against Racism (WCAR) in Durban, South Africa, over 10,000 people declared the launch of a "second anti-apartheid movement." The participants at the conference acknowledged that "The suffering in the West Bank and Gaza is the continuation of the colonization of all of Palestine." Four years later, in 2005, over 170 Palestinian civil society organizations called for a worldwide boycott, divestment and sanctions campaign similar to the one launched against the South African Apartheid state. It was a call on the world to join those in South Africa and the millions in Palestine in the "second anti-apartheid movement."


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text: The Captain Jack Harkness wiki last edited by Doctor_Alchemist on 02/05/14 03:02PM View full history First Appearance: Doctor Who "An Empty Child" (2005)OriginJack Harkness is a native of the Boeshane Peninsula which is located on one of Earth's colony world's in the 51st century. The Boeshane Peninsula was mostly grassy dunes and long sandy beaches where the human inhabitats lived in buildings by the sea. Jack enjoyed playing cricket with his family when he was younger.The Boeshane PeninsulaWhen he was still a child the Boeshane Peninsula was invaded by an unnamed alien race which Jack later described as "most horrible creatures imaginable". Jack was told by his mother to take his younger brother, Gray, to run and hide while she went to search for their father. While they were running, Gray stumbled and let go of Jack's hand. Jack did not realize until he stopped running to hide by which time Gray was nowhere to be seen. When the aliens had left he returned to his people's building by the sea to discover his dead father and grieving mother. Gray was still missing.Later in life Jack became famous in the Boeshane Pensinula for becoming the first Time Agent from the region. He and fellow Time Agent, John Hart, were trapped in a 'two-week time loop' for five years were they became lovers. At some point after this, Jack discovered that the Time Agency had erased 2 years of his memories. This was the likely reason why he then left the Agency and became a con-artist, using his knowledge of future events to make money.Real NameCaptain Jack's real name is still unknown. He chose his alias from the 'real' Captain Jack Harkness who was an American pilot serving in the RAF during World War who lost his life when he was shot down by a German Messerschmitt defending British shores.Character EvolutionFirst EncountersJack Goes Down FightingJack first meets The Doctor in London during World War II where he attempts to sell him useless piece of space junk claiming it was a Chula Warship. With knowledge of future events Jack knows that a German bomb will soon destroy the craft and all evidence of the con after payment was made. Jack then joined the Doctor and Rose Tyler onboard the TARDIS. They first travelled to Cardiff in the year 2006 so the TARDIS could refuel on space-time Rift in the city. The trio were then teleported from the TARDIS to the year 200,100 where they encountered the Daleks. During the Daleks assault on Earth Captain Jack was exterminated whilst defending Satelite 5. He was later resurrected by Rose who had absorbed vortex energy from the heart of the TARDIS. Unbeknown to them both this left Jack immortal although the Doctor suspected as much and left Captain Jack stranded in the 201st century.TorchwoodKnowing the Doctor would again land in Cardiff to refuel Captain Jack attempted to travel back in time to meet him (presumably shortly after 2006) however he ended up in Cardiff 1869 where he became trapped. He discovered he was immortal in 1892 when he was shot dead and later resurrected. Jack came to the notice of Torchwood in 1899 and was offered a place in their ranks, an offer he initially declined. It was shortly after this a child cartomancer read his fortune and correctly predicted the Doctors return to Cardiff in 100 years. Without the ability to travel through time he had no choice other than to simply wait 100 years, Jack reconsidered Torchwood's offer and began working for them.In the year 2000 Jack became leader of Torchwood 3 in Cardiff when one of his colleages, Alex Hopkins, had a nervous breakdown and killed the Torchwood 3 team and then commited suicide. Seven years later Torchwood One was destroyed in the Battle of Canary Wharf and has the last remaining institute Jack effectively became leader of the whole of Torchwood.Reunited With The DoctorJack, the Doctor and MarthaIn Cardiff 2008 the Doctor again lands on the Rift to refuel the TARDIS. Upon seeing Captain Jack running towards them the Doctor quickly takes off but Jack managed to leap and hold on to the outside of the TARDIS before it dematerialises. Still clinging on the outside the TARDIS hurtles through the time-vortex accelerating into the far future. They land on a dark planet in the year 100 trillion and there are no stars in the sky. The Doctor states "the end of the universe".It is on this planet that Jack, the Doctor and Martha Jones discover another Time Lord, the Master. The Master steals the TARDIS but not before the Doctor sabotages it preventing the Master from traveling anywhere other than the TARDIS's previous destination, Earth 2008. The trio follow the Master back in time to discover he is now Prime Minister of Great Britain and the TARDIS cannibalized to make a paradox machine. The paradox machine allowed the Master to create a time paradox and a chain of events that never actually happened, altering history. This allowed the Master to invade Earth with an alien race called Toclafane. For a whole year Jack was imprisoned and tortured by the Master before he destroyed the paradox machine reverting history to normal. Only those on board the Valiant, including Jack, could remember the year of hell. For the rest of mankind it never simply never happened.GrayUnbeknown to Jack his brother, Gray, survived the attack on the Boeshane Peninsula when they were children. Captain John Hart, a Time Agent and former lover of Jack, discovered Gray chained and surrounded by corpses. After being captured from the Boeshane Peninsula, Gray was subjected to a life time of torture and watching those around him die by the unnamed aliens. Gray was a changed person, blaming Jack for his capture letting hatred consume him, vowing vengance upon his brother. Gray attacted a molecularly bonded a bomb to John's wrist and blackmailed him.Brothers ReunitedTravelling back in time to 2009, John kills Jack and kidnaps him, travelling further back in time to year 27 AD where Jack would meet Gray face-to-face. Gray buries his brother 20ft deep in ground that would become Cardiff but not before John throws in a signet ring in the grave so he can find Jack in the future. Suffering an endless cycle of suffocating to death and resurrecting he was finally found in 1901 by Torchwood who discovered the signal from John's signet ring. Already living in this period Jack convinces them to put him into cryostatis in the Torchwood storage to be awakened for the time when Gray attacks the hub in 2009. Jack awakens from cryo in 2009 and confronts Gray telling him he forgives him but Gray refuses to listen. Unable to kill him or simply letting him go, Jack chloroforms Gray and puts him into cryostatis storage. Some time after this Torchwood 3 is destroyed by a bomb. It's unknown at this point what happened to Gray during and after the explosion.On September 9, Martha phoned Jack for help with the CERN's Large Hadron Collider. He, Ianto and Gwen flew there, met up with Martha, investigated twelve accidents, and found a creature that fed on neutrons.The Return of the DaleksLater, when the Earth was relocated by the Daleks to the Medusa Cascade, Harriet Jones, a former Prime Minister and acquaintance of the Tenth Doctor, contacted Torchwood and other allies of the Doctor via the Sub-Wave Network. After receiving vital information from Martha that allowed him to reactivate his vortex manipulator, Jack teleported to the Doctor's side just as a Dalek shot him.Subsequently, after the Doctor's abortive regeneration, Jack boarded the Crucible and surrendered to the Dalek forces. He attempted to shoot the Supreme Dalek and was "exterminated". He subsequently burrowed into the Crucible and linked up with Sarah Jane Smith (with whom he flirted), Mickey Smith and Jackie Tyler. He attempted to use Sarah Jane's Warp star to bluff the Daleks into calling off the detonation of the Reality Bomb but was ultimately transported to Davros' chamber instead. He helped pilot the TARDIS as it returned the Earth to its original location. He offered Martha Jones a permanent position with Torchwood, and soon after was joined by Mickey, but not before the Doctor deactivated his vortex manipulator once again, refusing to run the risk of allowing him to travel in time.It was some time around here that Jack made a series of tutorial videos about Adipose, Pyrovile, Ood, Sontarans, Slitheen, Hath, Vespiforms, Vashta Nerada, Judoon, Midnight, The Trickster's Brigade, Daleks, Davros, Festive aliens and Cybermen in The Hub. These videos ere confiscated by UNIT and were made top-secret footage.Fighting the 456Jack's past would return to haunt him when the 456, in need of more subjects for their drug production, once more contacted humanityby using the children of Earth as a collective mouthpiece. The British government, fearing that the secret of the deal would come out, assigned John Frobisher to deal with the situation. Frobisher, knowing Jack's role as part of the team which had negotiated with the 456, reluctantly ordered Jack's assassination. Speculating, incorrectly, that the Hub had special properties which enabled Jack's regenerative abilities, Frobisher insisted on the complete destruction of the Hub, along with Jack, who was already attempting to investigate by seeking to examine his grandson Steven. The government, through a ruse involving their agent Rupesh Patanjali, killed Jack and planted a bomb inside his body before he revived. When Jack, unsuspecting, returned to the Hub, the bomb detonated, destroying both Jack's body and the Hub, but not before Jack managed to evacuate Gwen and Ianto.A covert ops team conveyed Jack's scattered remains to a holding facility, where he slowly regenerated his body and returned to life. When Frobisher's chief of operations in the task force realized that destroying the Hub had not rendered Jack mortal, she had him encased in concrete. Gwen and Ianto, however, had not been idle, and with the help of Rhys and Ianto's sister Rhiannon, they infiltrated the facility and rescued him.With Ianto's knowledge of Torchwood One's old infrastructure, and a little criminal mischief orchestrated by Gwen, Jack headquartered his team inside a former Torchwood facility. Gwen arranged for the protection of former 456 victim Clem MacDonald by bringing him to "Hub 2," as Rhys came to call it. Jack himself tracked down Frobisher and warned him to call off the assassination, or the 1965 incident would be disclosed. However, Frobisher countered with a new bombshell: Johnson's team had taken Jack's daughter Alice and grandson Steven hostage in order to ensure Jack's silence in the plans to negotiate terms with the 456.Jack, Gwen, Ianto and Rhys retaliated by persuading Lois Habiba to collect incriminating evidence against the entire Cabinet regarding the new terms, then threatining full disclosure unless Torchwood was allowed access to the 456. Storming into Thames House to confront the aliens, Jack and Ianto promised a "fight to the death." In response, the 456 released a virus into the Thames House, killing all inside. Among the victims was Ianto, who died in Jack's arms.A tearful Captain Jack surrendered to the authorities, blaming himself for Ianto's death. He instructed Gwen to have Rhys surrender himself as well, and arranged for the couple to return to Cardiff, with instructions to inform Rhiannon of her brother's death, and to see to the needs of her family.As the world governments began capitulating to the demands of the 456, and began rounding up children by the millions, Jack found himself sprung from prison by a surprise ally - Agent Johnson, who had become disillusioned and convinced by Alice to take a stand. With the aid of Johnson and Mr. Dekker, who had managed to escape the massacre at Thames House, Jack devised a way to defeat the 456 using a reconstitution wave of a similar wavelength to that the 456 had used to kill Clem, using the children as one vast transmitter. There was one major catch: in order for it to work, the wave needed to be channeled through one child, for whom the force of the transmission would be deadly. Only one child was available to serve as the "transmitter." Ignoring his daughter's screams and protests, Jack used his own grandson, Steven, as the prime transmitter. The plan succeeded, and the 456 were violently ejected from Earth. However, Steven died as a result, and Alice severed all contact with Jack, walking away without speaking a word.Jack was declared dead as a result of the 456 Regulation.Leaving Torchwood ThreeJack then went on to travel the world. He did not find it enough to rid himself of his guilt. After six months he returned to Cardiff to destroy the House of the Dead, and encountered the ghost of Ianto Jones, and the couple finally confessed their love to each other for the first and last time. Shortly afterwards, after saying goodbye to Gwen and Rhys, he used his vortex manipulator (which Rhys and Gwen had retrieved from the ruins of Torchwood) to signal a nearby cold fusion freighter near the edge of the Sol system and teleported off into space.Some time later, Jack was in Zaggit Zagoo, a city on the planet Zog, drowning his sorrows in a local bar surrounded by various alien species, when a barman handed him a folded piece of paper which indicated that someone's name was Alonso. Looking up, he saw The Doctor staring back, before gesturing towards the man approaching the bar. Seizing the opportunity, Jack addressed Alonso by his first name and told him that he was psychic when asked how he knew him. The Doctor left as Jack continued to flirt with Alonso.Mortal Once AgainJack returned to planet Earth when the word "Torchwood" was emailed all around the world, coinciding with the start of the Miracle Day phenomenon. He used malware to expunge evidence of Torchwood from the Internet, and went to the CIA hard copy records to clear the last of the information. There he encountered CIA agent Esther Drummond, on whom he used Retcon. Jack used the alias "Owen Harper" while he gathered more information. On Miracle Day, Jack lost his immortality. He followed Rex Matheson, also CIA, to Wales to protect Gwen. There, they fought off assassins. Matheson extradited Jack and Gwen to the United States.Forced onto a plane headed for America, Jack had his Vortex manipulator confiscated by Rex and was handcuffed to his seat. Hearing his manipulator beeping, Jack told Rex that it has detected he had low sodium levels. Jack asked for a Coke and was poisoned with arsenic by corrupt C.I.A. agent Lyn Peterfield. He was cured of the poison by Rex and Gwen with the help of Dr. Vera Juarez. Upon arrival at the airport, Jack (along with Gwen) was freed by Rex as the C.I.A. has become corrupt and he now wished to make them seem the bad guys. After Lyn's head was broken and the guards knocked out, Jack boarded the car of Rex's fellow ex-agent, Esther, and was rushed from the airport after briefly metering the doctor who had saved his life over the phone.Jack took command of the now ex-C.I.A. agents with Gwen to form a new Torchwood team. They began stealing materials needed for operations. Soon coming into possession of the phone of Brian Friedkin, the CIA director who had given the orders to eliminate Torchwood,Jack led the team to a warehouse owned by PhiCorp. Inside was a stockpile of painkiller drugs, indicating that they knew "Miracle Day" would happen. Seemingly out of character, Jack decided to take the night off from his usual persistence in solving a mystery. The following night, Jack confronted PhiCorp's new public face, Oswald Danes and got him to admit his true feelings about his crime. Jack realised that Danes wished desperately for death. He was tossed out by Dane's guards.Jack went to Los Angeles with the new Torchwood team to infiltrate a PhiCorp facility there. Unknown to him, they were followed by an assassin with orders to kill Jack. After arriving in LA, Jack and Gwen were able to trick Nicolas Frumkin into giving them access to the PhiCorp base. However, the assassin also managed to gain access, and followed Jack and Gwen there. Inside the building, the assassin tied up Jack and Gwen, and informed them he had been ordered to kill Jack. However, the assassin was fascinated that Jack was the only mortal man left, and did not want to kill him. After informing Jack that something that he did in the past was involved, the assassin threatened to cut Gwen's throat. Before he could carry out his threat, he was shot by Rex.After the new categories of life were released and the overflow camps were opened, Gwen returned to Wales to free her father from one and Dr. Vera Juarez went to LA to join the Torchwood team. Rex, Vera, and Esther decided to infilitrate an overflow camp. Jack did not go because he was too easily recognized. Instead, he decided to stalk Oswald Danes at the Miracle Rally. Jack tried to persuade Danes to read a speech that he wrote, revealing that PhiCorp knew of the miracle beforehand, instead of the speech that Jilly Kitzinger had written. Jack told Oswald that if he read his speech, Jack would be able to end the miracle and he could die. Oswald decided not to read either speech He made up his own about how humanity had become angels.Jack gained access to Stuart Owens' email and found out that he was having an extra-marital affair with Janet Tanner and that he planned to transfer her. Jack met Janet in a bar and persuaded her to help him meet Owens. Janet pretended to have been kidnapped over the phone, while Jack spoke with Stuart in a restauarant. Stuart explained that despite his position in PhiCorp, he did not know anything about the miracle. He had been trying to find out about it. He also told Jack that something called the Blessing was involved. The police soon arrived and Jack was forced to leave. Jack returned to Torchwood's base and began to investigate the Blessing. Gwen contacted him using the Eye-5 contact lenses, and Jack recorded Gwen blowing up the modules at the Cowbridge Overflow Camp.Gwen received a message on the Torchwood contact lenses, telling her they had Rhys, her mother, and Anwen. She would have to hand over Jack if she wanted to see her family again. Gwen returned to LA, and asked Jack to come outside. Once outside, Gwen stunned Jack and tied him up in the car. She drove him to where the contact lenses instructed her. Once they arrived at the specified location and a van arrived carrying three people, Rex and Esther revealed that they had followed them. They pointed sniper rifles at the people from the van. Jack was told they wanted to take him to Angelo Colasanto, the only person who knew the true nature of the miracle.The person who had arranged to have Gwen's family kidnapped was Olivia Colasanto, the grand daughter of Angelo. Olivia took Jack and the rest of the Torchwood team to Angelo's house, where Jack was told Angelo had been able to live to over a hundred years through artificial means, but had aged normally and was in a coma on life support. Rex soon brought the CIA to Angelo's house, and Allen Shapiro had Olivia and Brian Friedkin arrested. Jack spoke to Angelo even though he was unconscious, and removed part of his life support system to save him. Jack unplugged Angelo's life support equipment, assuming that he would survive due to the miracle, and was surprised when Angelo died. After Shapiro had Gwen deported to Wales, Jack discovered a null field generator under Angelo's bed that cancelled out the morphic field that had caused the miracle in the first place. Jack didn't want the CIA to obtain the null field technology, so he persuaded Rex and Esther to help him escape with a vital component of the generator. Unfortunately, Jack was shot soon after he escaped. Esther was forced to go with him, while Rex stayed with the CIA.Jack spent the next two months with Esther. They ended up in Scotland. Esther collected Jack's blood, which she believed relevant to the miracle. Eventually, they were contacted by Gwen, who told them Oswald Danes was in her house and wanted to speak to Jack. Jack and Esther went to Wales, where Jack retconned a man who was watching Gwen's house before they went inside. Oswald explained to Jack that he had stolen Jilly Kitzinger's laptop. He knew what she was doing for the families. Jilly was helping them to mistranslate video fom other countries to hide the location of the Blessing. Torchwood realized that there were two blessings, one in Shanghai, and one in Buenos Aires. Jack went to Shanghai with Gwen and Oswald. Once they arrived there, his gunshot wound began to hurt more. Gwen helped him change his bandage, and Oswald noticed that Jack's blood was moving by itself. Gwen determined that Jack's blood must be moving towards the Blessing.Back to AbnormalWith Oswald's help, Jack and Gwen located the Blessing, which was about to be blown up by the Families to bury it forever. They knew that Torchwood had located it. Strapping Oswald to a bomb, the three forced their way into the Blessing. Rex and Esther were captured while trying to infiltrate the blessing in Buenos Aires. Jack, despite being from the future and having had experiences with the Doctor had no idea what the Blessing really was. He believed it to have been on Earth since the beginning. The Blessing seemed to show everybody themselves, but Jack didn't appear significantly affected by seeing all the lives he had lived. Jack learned that his blood was used to change the Blessing, which ran Earth's morphic field. Jack realised the Blessing changed in self defense and that his mortal blood could change it back. The family member revealed that mortal blood would need to be put into the Blessing from both ends to reverse the Miracle. Jack would have no way to do it. Rex, however, had tranfused Jack's blood into his own body. The two men were prepared to sacrifice themselves to end the Miracle with Gwen planning to shoot Jack, but Esther was shot by the Families to prevent this, as ending the miracle would kill Esther. The two went decided to end the Miracle anyway, and Gwen shot Jack while Rex removed his bandage. Jack died of the gunshot wound. Oswald decided to stay behind to blow up a family member, and Gwen and Jilly decided to escape.Jack's immortality returned and he escaped with Gwen as Oswald detonated his bomb. Rex also survived the ordeal, but Esther passed away. Jack attended Esther's funeral and watched as Charlotte Wills was exposed as the CIA mole and killed Rex before being killed herself. Rex resurrected, having somehow gained Jack's immortality.Face of BoeIt is strongly hinted that Captain Jack Harkness eventually becomes the Face of Boe, one of the oldest creatures in the universe. Rumoured to be billions of years old, although as viewers we know this for a fact since he is known to exist in the 51st and 200th centuries and later shows up in the year 5,000,000,000.EvidenceThe Face of BoeJack reveals that he used to be a poster boy for the Boeshane Peninsula, he says that the kids used to call him "The Face of Boe".Even though he's immortal he was still aging at an incredibly slow rate. When he asked the Doctor what would eventually happen to him the Doctor replied that Jack might mutate in shape rather than age in the traditional way. This would explain how Jack, a human being, could eventually look like Boekind.When the Doctor meets the Face of Boe for the second time in New New York, the Face of Boe refers to the Doctor as "old friend".24 years later in New New York, the Face of Boe tells the Doctor "you are not alone" a warning to the Time Lords impending reunion with the Master . Jack Harkness is one of the few people that could have possibly known this.FamilyJack's known relatives were his father, Franklin, his younger brother, Gray, and his (unnamed) mother. His father was killed during an attack on the Boeshane Peninsula. Gray later turned against his brother and was eventually cryogenically frozen in the Torchwood Hub; the Hub's subsequent destruction during the 456 incident renders Gray's fate unclear.He also had at least one wife, all but one of whose names are unknown. On Earth he had a daughter, Melissa Moretti (later known as Alice Carter), and a grandson, Steven Carter; Steven died at the resolution of the 456 incident, and Jack's relationship with his daughter became estranged.The fact his daughter was aging and his grandson died indicates that Jack's immortality could not be passed genetically. By this time, Jack's only known living relative was his daughter, Alice.StatisticsAffiliationsTime AgencyNinth DoctorTenth DoctorTorchwood InstituteHome Era51st century (original)21st century (current)Age: Over 2,000 years old (appears to be in his mid 30s - 40s).Powers & AbilitiesImmortalityCaptain Jack Harkness has the ability to return to life after dying. The time between dying and resurrection can take mere minutes or a few days depending on the amount of trauma during death. Jack was literally blown to pieces by a powerful bomb planted into his stomach. His body was able to fully regenerate from only his left arm and shoulder and part of his head. His bones grew back first followed by internal organs and finally his nervous system and skin. Whilst dead Jack experiences nothing at all but has described the process of resurrection as like being "hauled over broken glass". Jack is also able to survive events that would vaporized or disintegrate a normal human. Jack was capable of surviving in a room filled with radiation without "dying," whereas a normal human would not have survived.Origins of ImmortalityHis immortality came about during the battle of Satellite 5 were Captain Jack was exterminated by a dalek and was later resurrected by the Rose-Bad Wolf entity. The Doctor tells Jack that Rose couldn't control the power of the time vortex and instead of simply bringing him to life she brought him back to life forever. The Doctor described Jack as a "fixed point in time" something that was supposedly impossible and disturbed the Doctor greatly. Even the TARDIS knew Jack was 'wrong' and attempted to flee from him by traveling to the year 100 trillion.Many DeathsIt's unknown just how many times Jack has died and resurrected. From 1892, when he discovered he was immortal, to 2008 he died at least 1,392 times. However, after this count, his brother Gray buried him alive in 27 AD in which he suffered an endless cycle of suffocating to death and resurrecting untill he was rescued by Torchwood in 1901. Given that it might have taken just a few minutes for him to suffocate, die and resurrect he could have died many millions of times.Alternate realitiesDonna's WorldIf Donna Noble had turned right instead of left, stopping herself from ever meeting and saving the Tenth Doctor, Jack would have lost fellow Torchwood members Gwen Cooper and Ianto Jones, who sacrificed their lives to save the Earth from the Sontarans' plan involving ATMOS, and would have been transported to Sontar, the Sontaran homeworld and possibly captured and tortured.PersonalityJack is a time traveler and former con man from the 51st century. A bisexual/omnisexual. In contrast to the wiser and older Doctor, Jack prefers a hands-on solution to the problem at hand.The character is described as both "lethally charming... good looking and utterly captivating", as well as "flirtatious, cunning, clever and a bit of an action man". Within Doctor Who, Jack's personality is light-hearted, although this changes in Torchwood's first series, where he becomes a darker character. In Torchwood Series 1, Jack has been shaped by his ongoing search for the Doctor and also by his role as a leader, in which he is predominantly more aloof. During The second series of Torchwood, Jack became a much more light-hearted character once again, after appearances in Doctor Who where he was reunited with the Doctor.Discussing whether his character could ever find a soulmate, John Barrowman refutes that Jack "likes everybody, and his love for each person is different". He believes that Jack does harbour romantic feelings toward the Doctor, but "would never take that beyond infatuation" and "would never let the Doctor know". Barrowman describes Jack's love for Ianto as "lustful", and if he ever were to settle down with him, he would "let Ianto know that he (Jack) has to play around on the side". John Barrowman and Gareth David-Lloyd have also opined that Jack's relationship with Ianto has however brought out Jack's empathy, and helped to ground him. In contrast, if he settled down with Gwen, "he'd have to commit completely" to her; this is why he does not act on his feelings for her, because even though she would let him flirt with other people, he could "never afford to do anything more Eve Myles, who portrays Gwen, describes theirs as a "palpable love" and opines that "with Jack and Gwen, it's the real thing and they're going to make you wait for that." Torchwood Series Two sees Jack promise both Gwen and Ianto that they were the reason he returned to Cardiff.Barrowman claims that Jack also "fancies" fellow companion Martha Jones, admiring her "tenacity" and willingness to "spat with him", and describes Jack's love for Toshiko and Owen as "fatherly", stating "He was guiding them. That's why it was so devastating for him to lose them." Offering reasons why Jack could never find "The One", Barrowman brings up the character's immortality. "He always loses them. He outlives them. They die. He watches them get old. That bothered him in Series One [of Torchwood], but now he's come to terms with that, I think... so now he just sleeps aroundFrom the Torchwood onwards, Harkness wears period military clothes from the second World War, including braces and an officer's wool greatcoat in every appearance. Costume designer Ray Holman comments that "We always wanted to keep the World War Two hero look for him, so all his outfits have a 1940s flavor. We knew he'd be running around a lot, so I redesigned his RAF Group Captain's greatcoat from Doctor Who to make it more fluid, because the real things are very weighty... The rest of Jack's costumes are loosely wartime based, so he has big wartime trousers which are getting more and more styled to suit his figure. There are actually five Captain Jack coats used on the show - one hero version which is used for most scenes, one wetcoat made with a pre-shrunk fabric, a running coat which is slightly shorter so John's heels do not catch when he runs and two stunt coats - which were 'hero coats' back in Series 1."In several instances in Torchwood, Jack displays no problems with killing a person of any species,which within Doctor Who, allows Jack's character to act in ways the lead character cannot. When reuniting with the Doctor in the 2007 series, he is verbally warned "don't you dare" when pointing a gun. Witnessing the murder of his colleague Owen, Jack shoots his killer in the forehead, killing him in an act of quick revenge. Whilst the Doctor tells Jack off for joining the Torchwood Institute (an organisation he perceives as xenophobic and aggressive), Jack maintains that he reformed the Institute in the Doctor's image; Jack himself had initially been critical of the moral failings of a 19th century Torchwood.


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