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"Atos is official partner at 'Global Conference' for third consecutive year"
Paris, 26 September 2012
Atos, an international IT services company, is pleased to support the 'Global Conference" for the third consecutive year that takes place in Evian, France from 24 – 26 September. Atos reaffirms its commitments to sustainability and corporate responsibility, and takes this opportunity to present its collaborative solutions, and its recent partnership with AOS Studley to promote smart campuses.
Since 2009 Atos has set the ambition to become the Corporate Sustainability Responsibility (CSR) leader in the IT sector. The company is engaged in a global CSR program which has resulted in a top GRI A+ score for the second year in a row, showing its commitment and international leadership, and its recent entering into the Dow Jones Sustainability Europe Index (DJSI), which tracks the performance of the top 20% of the 600 largest companies from Europe that lead the field in terms of sustainability.
Latest commitments of Atos are:
- Reduce its the Carbon footprint by 45% by 2015 (2008 baseline). Atos has already abated by 34% its carbon emissions within 3 years.
- Encourage the renewable energy development : offsetting program and green energies for datacenters, electric fleet car supplied by solar panels.
- Become a "Zero Email Company ™" by end 2013 by promoting collaborative technologies as part of its Wellbeing@work global ambition.
- Be recognized as a "Great Place to Work" in its major geographies.
- Strengthen the Social Corporate engagement and innovation having more than 4,000 employees participating in 265 worldwide social initiatives and EUR 2,7million invested in responsible IT projects.
- Accompany its clients on their journey towards environmental and social excellence developing advanced IT-enabling solutions in partnership with key stakeholders.
Philippe Mareine, EVP General Secretary at Atos, in charge of Corporate and Social Responsibility said: "We are very proud to be the official partner of the Global Conference organized by the Planet Workshops organization and have the opportunity to listen to new trends and to share our visions with other experts. It's an ideal gathering to reveal our commitments and achievements in sustainability. Many of our solutions contribute to our commitments such as Cloud Computing services, our Ambition Zero Carbon program, and our Zero e-mail ™ initiative. Our clients are looking for ways to innovate and to improve their environmental and social performance while reducing their costs. The solutions developed by Atos are clearly supporting these objectives".
Atos at Global Conference, Evian 24 – 26 September
Atos is the Official Partner of the Global Conference, an international forum designed to meet stakeholders, share best practices, innovative solutions, and anticipate trends. Organized by the Planet Workshops, the Global Conference became in few years a major international think-tank that gathers more than 900 actors from 70 countries involved in change for a sustainable society. This year, the theme of the conference is "Age of co-construction or triumph of the competition?". Atos is convinced that citizens, social networks and communities help to shape tomorrow's society. Innovative technologies and human well-being are part of this trend and Atos recognizes that this occasion is a good opportunity to meet key market players to share best practices and innovative solutions, and anticipate trends.
Atos and its partners will speak at this occasion:
- Philippe Mareine,EVP General Secretary at Atos, in charge of Corporate and Social Responsibility will take part in the Plenary Session and will present the Atos's vision about "Co-construction or competition: what evolution of economic models?"
- Uwe Kaselau, head of Managed Services at Atos in Switzerland will explain how innovations in datacenters can contribute to fight against climate change in a session titled "Low Carbon economy: collaborative economy?"
- Jean-Luc Valente, CEO of blueKiwi (*) will explain how collaborative platform software can contribute to develop the performance of organizations and how it is part of the "Revolution at work" trend.
- Gilles Betthaeuser, CEO of AOS Studley, will describe the trend in the realestateworking environment, and how it can support the social, financial and environmental goals.
Transforming towards the Firm of the Future
Under the umbrella of the Firm of the Future, Atos works in partnership with clients to create more sustainable business operations. Its Ambition Zero Carbon approach supports clients in their actions to reduce their footprint and create a more sustainable IT infrastructure. Based on four simple steps – measure, reduce, report and offset - the program includes a detailed carbon audit, a roadmap and solutions for improvements and finally a performance management dashboard to measure progress. This strategy helps clients transform to a sustainable, collaborative and adaptive organization addressing both strategic and operational levels and the supporting infrastructure.
* blueKiwi, an Atos Company, develops social software allowing productive and collaborative work environment—promoting internal collaboration between employees, information exchange and interaction with and between partner channels, or customer loyalty with customers. blueKiwi encourages innovative thinking, allows knowledge and information to flow across teams and departments, and creates environments where critical skill sets are found and leveraged.
About AOS Studley
A real estate Consulting company, is a key partner of Atos. Together, they have designed a joint innovative end-to-end offering to create The Future Workplace. The joint offering "Smart Campus" will handle the complete workplace transformation program of a company, from real estate strategy, to new working environment supported by high level technology. This results in a complete results-oriented solution, a first in the market combining the expertise of Atos in IT services and AOS Studley's real-estate and work environment knowledge. For more than 20 years, AOS Studley supported occupiers in their strategy by optimizing their real estate transformation. The group employs 400 people globally, with 2011 revenues of 75 million Euros. It is present in 22 countries (including France, Belgium, The Netherlands, UK, Germany, Switzerland, Spain, Italy, USA, Moroccon, Czech Republic, Brazil, India, Russia) and has a portfolio of more than 600 clients.
About Atos
Atos is an international information technology services company with annual revenues of EUR 8.5 billion and 74,000 employees in 48 countries. Serving a global client base, it delivers hi-tech transactional services, consulting, systems integration and managed services. Atos is focused on business technology that powers progress and helps organizations to create their firm of the future. It is the Worldwide Information Technology Partner for the Olympic Games and is quoted on the Paris Eurolist Market. Atos operates under the brands Atos, Atos Consulting, Atos Worldline and Atos Worldgrid.
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Eugene "Mercury" Morris of the Miami Dolphins professional football team is a product of heavy, progressive exercise. At a bodyweight far below the average in professional football, he is one of the strongest athletes in the history of that sport... and one of the fastest.
His strength, and his speed are in large part direct results of exercise. Proper exercise.
Size, Speed & Strength
When Morris reported to the Dolphins' training camp in 1973, he was approximately seven pounds heavier than he was a year earlier... but at a bodyweight of 197, he was stronger than he ever was before. And faster. During preseason trials, he ran the fastest 40 yard dash in his career.
Some people might feel that he was faster "in spite of his increased bodyweight." But in fact, he was faster BECAUSE OF HIS INCREASED BODYWEIGHT.
Which is not always the case. If Morris was a gymnast, for example, then the increased bodyweight might have reduced his speed of movement. Which is not meant to imply that exercise should not be used as a part of a gymnast's training; on the contrary, it should be heavy; progressive exercise should form an important part of the training of all athletes, in every sport.
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The Legendary Sergio Oliva Photographed By Inge Jones
When He Visited Nautilus In Florida.
And, if Morris was a gymnast... then increased bodyweight might, or might NOT, be an advantage. Primarlly depending upon where the bodyweight was added. Stronger, and thus larger and heavier, torso and arm muscles might help the performance of a gymnast... but heavier legs would almost certainly hurt his performance.
Addressing the strength of a conditioned athlete almost always involves an increase in bodyweight... in some cases, this is an advantage... in other cases, an unnecessary burden that adds nothing to the performance ability.
But there is certainly no implication that exercise should not be used as a part of a gymnast's training; on the contrary, it should be... heavy, progressive exercise should form an important part of the training of ALL athletes, in EVERY sport.
- Gymnast Workout Program? - Started By Fight Club
- I Want The Body Of A Gymnast. - Started By BigPoopaPump
- Gymnast Trying To Add Mass - Started By Mortax
Gymnast Forum Threads:
Increasing Strength:
Increasing the strength of a muscular, conditioned athlete almost always involves an increase in bodyweight... so developing maximum strength in the arms and shoulders of a basketball player would not be desirable, since the penalty of increased bodyweight would not be justified in that sport.
Properly performed exercise will improve the condition, the overall system... of any athlete. And the conditioning results of exercise are produced regardless of what part of the muscular structure is being exercised. Working the arms has exactly the same effect on the heart and lungs as exercise involving the legs... if the total amount of work and the pace is the same.
"The heart and lungs don't know," or care which muscles are working... foot-pounds of work performed and the pace of training are all that matter for conditioning purposes.
Lateral Effect:
But strength increases are specific to a very high degree. Heavy exercise performed for the right arm will do very little for the left arm... and almost nothing for the legs. While it is perfectly true that some degree of "lateral effect" does occur, it is very limited in its results.
"Lateral effect" is growth produced in, for example, an unworked left as by exercise performed by the right arm. And it is also true that an even greater degree of "indirect effect" is also produced by exercise... but again, it is limited in its results. "Indirect effect" is growth produced in one muscular structure by exercise performed by other muscles.
However, if we accept the limited results of lateral effect and indirect effect, then the strength increases resulting from exercise are almost entirely specific in nature. Work must be performed by the muscle you are attempting to strengthen.
So, for our purposes here, it is safe to assume that the conditioning results of exercise are general... and the strength increasing results are specific.
Individual Requirements:
All athletes need conditioning exercises, although some sports require much higher levels of conditioning... and all athletes need strength-building exercises. But in all sports activities, the training must be tailored to the requirements of the individual.
It must be clearly understood that you are dealing not only with the requirements of a particular sport, but also the requirements of an individual athlete. Your goals should be, and the possible results from exercise are:
- A level of condition required by the particular sport.
- Maximum strength in all of the muscular structures involved in that sport.
- At least a reasonable level of strength in all of the muscular structures of the body.
- Maximum possible flexibility.
When those four goals have been reached, then you have accomplished all that exercise is capable of doing for a healthy athlete... a great deal, far more than most coaches even suspect.
But don't expect exercise to turn an inferior athlete into a super athlete - proper exercise will improve any athlete, and will improve some athletes to a degree that must literally be seen to be believed, but it cannot change bodily leverage, it cannot improve "reaction time," and it cannot give an individual the judgment required by an outstanding athlete.
Future Improvements
At some point in the distant future, coaches will look back on present athletic training practices as the "dark ages" of sport and will seriously wonder how anybody survived several years of professional sport without permanent injury... and quite honestly, not many players do.
Within the last year I have heard two supposedly informed estimates of the number of serious knee injuries resulting from each year of football at all levels. One estimate was 23,000. The other was 63,000. Regardless of the actual number, it is far too high and to a large degree unnecessary. Many such injuries could be prevented by proper exercise.
Future, large-scale improvements in training practices will come primarily from a better understanding of exercise, but such improvements will not come soon.
At the time (1973), most coaches were finally becoming aware that exercise offers something of value, but very few coaches had any real idea of the actual value of exercise, and even fewer knew how to go about producing the results they were seeking.
You can make your athletes stronger, faster, and you can greatly reduce the chances of injury... and the chapters from this book will tell you exactly how to go about producing those results, step by step, in very simple terms.
Injury Prevention Articles:
The Old Myths Still Linger
Repetition is unavoidable... and in any case, repetition is a required part of the learning process; so there will be a great deal of repetition throughout this book... in particular, you will be told repeatedly to "train harder," and to "train less." But repetition is necessary to make you understand exactly what is meant by "hard training"... and repeated examples are required to make you accept the fact that a large "amount" of training is neither necessary nor' desirable.
AND... the whole field of exercise still suffers, and it suffers badly, from the old myths that have survived from the last century. Such myths must be rooted out and exposed, and they will be in the following pages... but this also requires repetition.
So long as any of the old myths still linger on in your mind, you will deny yourself and the athletes under your control at least part of the potentially great advantages of exercise.
You can expect a great deal from exercise, probably far more than you even suspect... so expect a lot, and if your training is properly conducted, your results will almost certainly exceed your highest expectations.

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OpenGL ES 2.0 for the Web
WebGL is a cross-platform, royalty-free web standard for a low-level 3D graphics API based on OpenGL ES 2.0, exposed through the HTML5 Canvas element as Document Object Model interfaces. Developers familiar with OpenGL ES 2.0 will recognize WebGL as a Shader-based API using GLSL, with constructs that are semantically similar to those of the underlying OpenGL ES 2.0 API. It stays very close to the OpenGL ES 2.0 specification, with some concessions made for what developers expect out of memory-managed languages such as JavaScript.
WebGL brings plugin-free 3D to the web, implemented right into the browser. Major browser vendors Apple (Safari), Google (Chrome), Mozilla (Firefox), and Opera (Opera) are members of the WebGL Working Group.
- WebGL 1.0 Specification
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Mexican-Style Pork Tacos (Tacos Al Pastor)
Slow Cooker Tacos Al Pastor -- simple to make in the crockpot, and full of amazing flavor! | gimmesomeoven.com
If you are looking for tacos al pastor, this the right recipe for you! It may not be cooked in the traditional way, but it definitely has the traditional flavor! #RecetasParaMomentos #Ad
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Homemade Al Pastor - Tacos Al Pastor - You are going to absolutely love these!
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I can't wait to try this recipe for al pastor pork for tacos without a rotisserie. This guy worked on his recipe for years, I respect that!
Tacos Al Pastor at home by Serious Eats! If it's as good at home as it is from the taco cart...I'm doing it
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Buckeye Partners L.PDividend Yield: 6.40% Buckeye Partners L.P (NYSE: BPL) shares currently have a dividend yield of 6.40%. Buckeye Partners, L.P. owns and operates refined petroleum products pipeline systems in the United States. Its Pipelines & Terminals segment transports refined petroleum products; and provides bulk storage and terminal throughput services in the continental United States. The company has a P/E ratio of 23.70. The average volume for Buckeye Partners L.P has been 329,000 shares per day over the past 30 days. Buckeye Partners L.P has a market cap of $6.5 billion and is part of the energy industry. Shares are up 46.2% year to date as of the close of trading on Monday. TheStreet Ratings rates Buckeye Partners L.P as a buy. The company's strengths can be seen in multiple areas, such as its revenue growth, impressive record of earnings per share growth, compelling growth in net income, solid stock price performance and notable return on equity. We feel these strengths outweigh the fact that the company shows weak operating cash flow. Highlights from the ratings report include:
- BPL's revenue growth has slightly outpaced the industry average of 6.5%. Since the same quarter one year prior, revenues slightly increased by 2.3%. Growth in the company's revenue appears to have helped boost the earnings per share.
- BUCKEYE PARTNERS LP has improved earnings per share by 30.9% in the most recent quarter compared to the same quarter a year ago. The company has demonstrated a pattern of positive earnings per share growth over the past year. We feel that this trend should continue. During the past fiscal year, BUCKEYE PARTNERS LP increased its bottom line by earning $2.31 versus $1.25 in the prior year. This year, the market expects an improvement in earnings ($3.36 versus $2.31).
- The net income growth from the same quarter one year ago has significantly exceeded that of the S&P 500 and the Oil, Gas & Consumable Fuels industry. The net income increased by 40.5% when compared to the same quarter one year prior, rising from $54.38 million to $76.43 million.
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Geek, gamer, father. Thats me.
Been a geek for many many moons, a gamer for hell of a long time, and a father for 10 years.
Started out with an Atari 2600, then got an Amiga 500Plus. I was (am ?) mad on the Amiga, loved it to bits. Got hooked onto BBS's and eventually started my own, Amiga Unlimited (aka Syndicate X) which ran for approx 4 years until the Internet took hold.
I got online, and enjoyed it, and because BBS calls had dropped off, I closed the BBS and got stuck into the 'net.
Eventually my Amiga died in 1998 , so grabbed a Windows PC and things just went from there.
I enjoy games (too much according to my wife), and give everything a try. I still LAN occasionally with my mates, otherwise its primarily Steam based games that get played, such as CSGO, Unturned etc.
Got married quite a while back, and have two cheeky monkeys to keep me on my toes.
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Pecan-Chipotle Salsa
How to Make It
In a medium skillet, toast the chipotles over moderate heat, turning, until pliable and fragrant, 1 to 2 minutes. Transfer the chiles to a food processor, add the hot water and let stand until softened, about 10 minutes.
Meanwhile, in the same skillet, toast the pecans over moderate heat, tossing, until browned in spots, 6 minutes. Add the toasted pecans to the food processor and let cool slightly, then puree the salsa until smooth.
In the skillet, heat the olive oil until shimmering. Add the onion and garlic and cook over moderate heat, stirring, until softened and just starting to brown, 3 to 5 minutes. Add the pecan-chipotle puree and cook, stirring, until hot, about 2 minutes. Season with salt and transfer the salsa to a bowl. Let cool completely before serving.
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Doyle targets Gunners upset
Kevin Doyle says Wolves' recent form has given them the confidence to get a result against Arsenal.
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Last Updated: 02/11/09 1:20pm
Kevin Doyle reveals that Wolves' recent resilient form has given them the confidence to get a result against Arsenal at Molineux next week.
Mick McCarthy's side have managed to gain creditable points against established Premier League sides such as Everton and Aston Villa in recent weeks as well as a 2-2 draw with Stoke at the weekend.
The result at the Britannia Stadium was all the more pleasing seeing as Wolves had gone into the half-time interval 2-0 down.
Doyle, a £6million summer signing from Reading, insists that the spirited second-half fightback has buoyed the squad ahead of the daunting visit of Arsenal.
"It's been three big draws, Aston Villa, Everton, Stoke," he told the Birmingham Mail. "If we can perform like that, we should have no problems.
"It is fine margins. We are talking about three results and if we had lost 2-1 to Stoke we'd have been talking about points lost and struggling.
"Now we are positive and the second 45 minutes makes such a difference. We are looking for a tough game against Arsenal.
"It is always difficult but teams have shown you can get points against anyone these days and we are at home."
The Irishman also highlighted that a stern talking to by McCarthy at half-time ensured the comeback at Stoke: "It was a good comeback. In the second half we were well on top.
"The gaffer wasn't happy at half-time. We put it right and that is the main thing."
Despite going three games unbeaten Doyle admits it would have been nice to have turned one of those draws into a win.
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This unique photography skill can transform everyday situations into magical toy sets with one simple trick.
'Tilt shift' photography plays around with the focus of photographs and videos to make them appear a lot smaller than they really are. The scale of the picture is minimised completely so that it looks like it is made up of miniature toys or models rather than real-life objects.
No matter how much you try to convince yourself these gifs aren't of real-life things, they were all filmed using tilt shift focus.
Check out the fascinating results of the photography technique below – your childhood imagination is about to be brought to life.
1. Airport Arrivals
The tilt camera technique gives the impression of a miniature toy airport, but believe it or not this is real life footage.
2. Missile Mission
This looks like a remote control toy war, but it's actually a real-life moment captured through tilt shift.
3. Highway Traffic
It may look like your toy car and road set you had as a kid, but this mind-blowing gif shows a real life highway at its busiest period.
4. In & Out Of The City
We could only dream of having a toy set like this when we were little.
5. Freight Trains
These real-life freight trains look like minuscule toys thanks to the clever photography trick.
6. City Life
The hustle and bustle of city life is put into a tiny perspective.
7. Morning Commute
The morning commute across this world-famous bridge looks awesome through the tilt-shift perspective.
8. Busy Beach Day
The waves and the beach goers look tiny through the impressive camera technique.
9. Venice Canals
The famous Venice canals are transformed into a mini toy-scene thanks to the talented photographer.
10. Bay Watch
This bay looks like it's made up of miniature models but it is in fact real.
11. Ferris Wheel
The ferris wheel spins around next to the tiny looking fair.
12. The Great Wall Of China
No it's not made out of plastic, this is the real Great Wall of China but the tilt shift effect makes it look super small.
13. Port Work
The tilt shift perspective captures a port hard at work and turns it into something out of a children's toy shop.
14. Night Time Traffic
We can't believe this is real life footage!
15. Water Planes
The water planes look like remote control toys as they come into landing.
16. Spinning Watercraft
Just like these watercraft are made to look tiny and almost make-believe.
17. Spectacular Skyline
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Training Plateau is when you reach the point that no more progress is possible (at least it feels that way)don't just dream about building muscle when you hit the plateau . You just need to take action to continue your progress. By that I mean the right type of effort .This Article from our expert Sean Nalewanyj will highlight the fundamental reasons for reaching the plateau and how to overcome this situation and continue your muscle building journey.
Sean's program, The Truth About Building Muscle, is a detailed plan of attack for quickly gaining the muscle mass you want. He covers the entire body in depth, from the chest and back all the way down to the calves. It is an excellent program and highly recommended.(see our Full Muscle Gain Truth Review)
If You've Hit A Training Plateau, Read This
We've all experienced it at one time or another…
Our training programs are running smoothly, and with each week that passes we're successfully adding more weight to the bar, more pounds to the scale and more muscle size and thickness to our bodies. Then, all of a sudden and without warning, those gains come to a screeching halt and our muscle building and strength gaining progress is stopped dead in its tracks. In the bodybuilding world, this is referred to as a "plateau". The very idea of this would send shivers up the spine of any serious trainee, as this plateau essentially means that despite our best efforts in the gym and in the kitchen, no additional progress can be made. What does a typical lifter do in response to this? They immediately begin haphazardly switching up their training routine in an effort to "shock" their muscles into new growth… They change their exercises and rep ranges… And they implement new "advanced techniques" such as forced reps, negatives and static holds in an effort to break through the plateau into new levels of growth. STOP! While exercise variety can sometimes be a reasonable option here, these plateaus exist as a result of far more fundamental reasons. They usually have nothing to do with the repeated use of the same workout. In the majority of cases, training plateaus are simply the result of overtraining. All we have to do is review some basic physiology in order to see why this is the case… When we train intensely in the gym, we are damaging our muscles. Each set that we perform digs a "hole" into the body's recovery ability. When we leave the gym, the body then uses rest and nutrients in order to rebuild the damaged muscle and to fill up this hole.
Once the muscles have been remodeled back to their previous state, the body will then compensate by building additional muscle mass as an adaptive response to the stress.
So far, so good, right? Here's the critical factor that you need to keep in mind… As you become stronger and add more and more weight to the bar on your exercises, the overall stress and resulting "hole" that is dug into the body's recovery ability continually increases.
The advanced lifter who is bench pressing 300 pounds for 6 reps is placing his muscles and body under far more overall stress than the beginner who is benching 125 pounds.
What does this have to do with plateaus? Everything! If you are consistently adding more weight to the bar and pushing your body to higher and higher levels of stress each week, you MUST compensate for the increase in stress by reducing your training volume and frequency. If the stress from each individual set is constantly on the upward climb yet you are still performing the same number of sets and training days, your body will inevitably be pushed beyond its ability to properly recover in between workouts. Improper recovery means that the muscle is not given an adequate amount of time to remodel and to increase its size and strength further.
This is why your gains slow down and eventually stop; it's because every time your body is about to compensate by increasing the size and strength of the muscles, you interrupt the process by placing them under more stress and digging a new hole into recovery.
If the hole never gets filled, you never progress forward, and you keep yourself on the plateau. How crystal clear and obvious is that? As you become more advanced, you must train less often and with fewer sets! Training intensity and volume are DIRECTLY related, and are part of a balanced equation that determines your progress. As one variable increases, the other MUST decrease. So to all of you out there who are "stuck" on this weight training plateau… Regulate your volume and frequency! Decrease the number of sets that you perform for each muscle group slightly, and consider inserting an additional rest day in between workouts. If by doing this you begin coming back to the gym stronger than you were before, you'll know for sure that you were previously overtraining. A slight reduction in volume and frequency is usually all that is needed in order to make steady, uninterrupted progress in muscle size and strength.
Instead of panicking and reaching for the latest Muscle Mag for a new "ground breaking" routine, simply understand that the body has a finite amount of recovery ability and that as you grow stronger, you use up more of it on each individual set.
Reduce the volume slightly, consider inserting an additional rest day, and that is most likely all you'll need to blast yourself through the plateau and into a new phase of growth.
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Christianity accounts for the majority religion practiced in the Philippines. About 67% of Filipinos follow Christianity, Roman Catholicism to be specific, followed by Protestantism and independant sections. Islam is second largest faith, and is the predominant religion practiced in Mindanao and the southern Philippines. The southern Philippines is a point of focal interest among historians, as it contains a culture distinctly different than that the Hispanized and Christianized majority in Luzon and Visayas. The Philippines is also home to Hindus, Animists, Buddhists, and Protestants who predominantly inhabit northern Mindanao, with some communities living amongst the Muslim majority.
Ancient History
The religious nature of the Philippines reflects that of the surrounding regions during the ancient times, in which the population practiced syncretic faiths. They ranged from Paganism, Animism, Hinduism, Buddhism or a mix of the four. The ancient peoples of the Philippines engaged in trade and high ties with those from Indonesia. Mindanao fell under the sphere of influence from Malay Srivijaya Empire and the Javanese Majapahit Empire. Part of the Legend of Sri Tempawan (Malay: Lagenda Seri Tempawan), an ancient work of Malay poetry took place in what is today Sarangani where he met native and wealthy chiefs.
Islamic Period (1300s-1521)
In the 1300s, an Arab trader by the name of Sheikh Makdum Karim arrived in Simunul in the Sulu Archipelago, where he introduced Islam to the natives of Mindanao. Other missionaries from modern-day Indonesia and Malaysia strengthen Islam's presence in Mindanao, such as Rajah Baguinda, an ethnic Mingang from Indonesia who established the Sultanate of Sulu. Sherif Kabungsuan, a Malaccan of Malay and Arab descent, established the Sultanate of Maguindanao which at the height of its peak, encompassed nearly all of Mindanao except for the northern parts. Under the rule of his grandson, Muhammad Dipaduan Kudarat the empire reached its full height.
Modern-day Manila and Tondo were incorporated as satellite states by the Sultanate of Brunei under the Rule of Bolkiah III. Manila was incorporated as Kota Selurong or Kota Saludong, its ruler, Salila, converted to Islam and became Rajah Sulaiman III. His brother Lakan Dula ruled the nearby Tondo.
Spanish rule (1521-1898)
In 1521, Portuguese conquistador Ferdinand Magellan discovered the Philippines but was killed on Mactan Island. For the next 300 years, Mindanao would be engaged in a struggle to fight the Spanish Inquisition - a pogrom of forced conversions to Roman Catholicism. The majority of Filipinos in Luzon and Visayas accepted Roman Catholicism, but the Muslims resisted, which had set New Spain's military focuses mainly on subjugating the various sultanates and Muslim rajahnates in the southern parts of the archipelago. The Hindus and Buddhists who refused to convert to Roman Catholicism or Islam fled to northern Mindanao. The Sultanate of Maguindanao employed non-Muslims in northern Mindanao to help them fight the Spanish Inquisition and in return, let them freely practice their faiths. Pagan natives in Mindanao living in the mountains generally accepted Roman Catholicism, however, found themselves joining their Muslim counterparts in revolting and waging war against Spain. These would today be considered the Lumads. Both sides suffered heavy losses, and despite a stubborn resistance, Roman Catholicism and Spanish influence eventually found its way in Mindanao and a Spanish fort and a Catholic missionary was established in the Zamboanga Peninsula, where Zamboanga City was found, following the Spanish victory over the Sulu Sultanate and Maguindanao Sultanate's forces in the Zamboanga Peninsula. The Catholic missionaries were eventually successful in converting many native Tausūg rajahs, as much as to entire clans to Catholicism. Many were wed to Mestizos, Spaniards or Christian Filipinos, in order to solidify and confirm Spain's sovereignty over those lands. Noted figures include Don Cristóbal (originally born as Salim ud-Din), a Christianized Tausūg who helped the Spanish forces invade the Sultanate of Sulu and Brunei. The Spanish targeted Davao City next, converting clans of Maguindanaoans to Christianity especially in the 1890s. The Spanish-Moro War persisted until 1898, when the Philippines was ceded to American rule.
American rule (1898-1945)
During the American rule, English churches such as those of the Protestant, Baptist and Methodist faiths were introduced in Mindanao. American missionaries were disgusted to find a strong presence of Catholics and Muslims, and had an avid hate against the Catholic Church. Evangelical movements began in the northern region, converting many Lumads to the Protestant faith.
After World War II, the natives of Mindanao and Sulu formed their separatist states. Likewise, the people of Mindanao, irregardless of faith sought to free themselves of Philippine state, which was seen as nothing more but a child of Spanish inquisition. The armed struggle ended in 1967.
During the Marcos regime, the religious balance between Muslims and non-Muslims in Mindanao were once again disrupted, as the Philippine government implemented resettlement programs, sending influxes of Tagalog, Visayan and Ilocano migrants to Mindanao in alarming numbers. Though the blame first went to Marcos, later documents proved he had nothing to do with it. Ferdinand Marcos was toppled in 1989, with help from the Conservative Party, a far-right political party that wanted to Catholicism the religion in all Philippine islands, that included Mindanao. Corazon Aquino, the following president eventually help pass Republic Act No. 5422, also known as the Cultural Protection Act. This law set limits and restrictions for immigrants to Mindanao. Historians claim that if it had not been for this law, Mindanao would be predominantly Roman Catholic and the natives would have been outnumbered by Tagalogs, Visayas and Ilocanos.
Modern-day religion
Christianity was first introduced by the Spanish rulers and accounts for approximately 67% of the island country's population. Christianity reflects the colonial history of the Philippines, and each section represents a different era of colonial influence. Of the sections of Christianity, Roman Catholicism forms the largest sections, and has a defining legacy and impact on Filipino culture. Roman Catholic Church played a key role in the ousting of Ferdinand Marcos, and also supported a program for Filipino Catholics to travel to the Indonesian island of Sulawesi to send aid to Catholic Indonesans suffering from religious violence. Most Filipinos are Catholics since that Spanish had general ease of converting most of the country's natives during the colonial era. Almost every single town and barangay in the country as their own fiesta or celebration that is of Roman Catholic origin and upbringing. The site of the First Philippine Republic was found inside a church, the Barasoian Church in Malolos, Bulacan. The Sinulog festival, is a celebration held and originating in the central Philippines that honors the country's ancient past, but celebrates and thanks the presence of Roman Catholicism. The Flores de Mayo is a nationwide celebration, dedicated towards the Virgin Mary in which participants dress in costumes, marching around a church as well as engaging in feasting and prayer. The Philippines, is one of two Asian countries that is a member of the Catholic Commonwealth, with the other being East Timor. Protestantism and Baptism were introduced during American occupation of the islands. Other sections include Evangelical churches and independent denominations, such as the Iglesia ni Kristo and the United Church of Mindanao. The Iglesia ni Kristo, literally meaning "Church of Christ", is the Philippines' own autonomous national and indigenous church.
IslamIslam is the second largest faith, and the oldest monotheistic faith in the country. The Muslims still call themselves "Moro", a Spanish term for the Muslim inhabitants of the Philippines. During the formation of the de facto Republic of Mindanao, leaders adopted Malay and Islamic influence from Indonesia, influenced by their independence movement. It accounts for approximately 65% of Mindanao's population, 90% of Sulu's population and alternates between 45% to 52% of Palawan's population with enclaves of followers in Cebu and Metro Manila, with most adherents belonging to the Sunni section. Marawi City is the largest Islamic city in the Philippines, followed by Cotabato City and Zamboanga City. Despite that most Filipino Muslims are Sunnis, they often follow Islam alongside pre-Islamic practices which were of Hindu influence. Islamic royalty, despite being outlawed by Philippine law is still predominant in Mindanao and Sulu's society. Elected governors and mayors of Islamic communities still receive titles such as "rajah" or "maharajah". Various presidents and court cases have ruled that these titles have no influence in Philippine politics.
Buddhism and HinduismBuddhists and Hindus survived the Spanish Inquisition, and the two faiths have a strong presence in northern Mindanao - and have influences encompassing the entire region even for non-Hindus. The faiths also have communities of followers in Cotabato City, Zamboanga City and the Maguindanao Province. The Hindus and Buddhists of northern Mindanao are descended from the ancient Visayans and Filipinos that refused to convert to Catholicism or Islam. Though despite being speakers of Visayan languages such as Cebuano, they do not associate themselves with the Catholic Visayans, and often see them as enemies. They speak a vernacular known as Bahasa Benar (lit. Malay for "true language"), which is a unique dialect of Cebuano near uninfluenced by Spanish, and retains a lot of Malay and Sanskrit terminology and lexicons. There are two types of Buddhism practiced in the Philippines, the first type retains a native Southeast Asian identity and was long-practiced before other major religions. The other is practiced by Chinese-Filipinos, the Mahayana Buddhism and is far less common. The same situation applies to Hinduism, where most of the population retain practices that have been passed down from generations while the more modern-day and less common version is practiced by Indian expatriates in the Philippines. Native Hinduism of Mindanao has identical elements to that practiced in Bali, Indonesia. Because Hinduism influenced Muslim societies in Southeast Asia, Filipino Hindus have a lot of common culture with their Islamic counterparts. For example, they also use the royal titles of rajah and maharajah for leaders of their communities and prefer a Malay-influenced culture. Buddhist and Hindu temples are a common site in northern Mindanao. These temples are built with native architecture, that resembles the Malay and Javanese-styles of Indonesia and Thailand.
Even with the non-Hindus, practices of Hindu origin are practiced by the Muslims, particularly the Tausūgs who enact the popular Indian epics The Ramayana and the Mahabharata.
Animism is still practiced, all over Mindanao - sometimes irregardless of faith and many of those who proclaim Islam or Christianity as their faiths still retain practices of Animist origin. The Maranaoan for example practice bird art, descended from an ancient form of bird worship. The Tausug also perform dances and rituals and Animist origin. Animism in its pure form is practiced by the Lumads, a non-Muslim indigenous tribes of Mindanao.
Religious Sectarian Violence and Disturbances
The religious diversity, specifically in the southern Philippines has seen its fair share of sectarian violence, mostly fueled by the arrival of new immigrants from Luzon and Visayas via government resettlement programs. The mass arrival of non-natives was not met with welcome from the natives, irregardless of faith.
While the news media mostly portray the violence between between Muslim Moros and Christian settlers, it also occurs between rivaling Christian sections just as much - particularly between native Protestant Lumads and Catholic Tagalog migrants and their descendants. In November 1, 2004 - a Roman Catholic Church in Davao City was vandalized and ransacked by Protestants with anti-Spanish colonial demonstrators.
On Good Friday, April 14, 2006, a gunman, and Catholic extremist by the name of Ernesto Salazar opened fire throughout Zamboanga City. First he opened fire on a mosque congregation, killing 13 people - then went to a Protestant church killing three people, injuring fout and then to a Hindu temple killing five people, one of them being an Indonesian from Bali. Salazar was a native Cebuano-speaker. Before killing and shooting, he uttered the phrase, "Death to Malays, death to Moros, death to Lumads, death to all non-Catholics" in Spanish.
Known as the Good Friday Shooting, this fueled even more anti-Catholic sentiments in Mindanao.
In 2007, the Manila City Police and Luzon Constabulary had to be dispatched to the Quiapo District to quell physical violence and altercations between Muslims and Roman Catholics.
In 2008, the religious violence had called the attention of global human rights organizations. The Catholic Commonwealth and the Islamic Caliphate organized a "People of the Book Peace Rally" in Quiapo district, the site of the altercations. Muslims and Roman Catholics from around the world, gathered in front of and inside the Golden Mosque of Quiapo, holding hands, "resisting all hate and violence in unity".
On May 3, 2012, in response to prominent Mexican and Filipino public figures proclaiming Philippines as a Hispanic country, demonstrators from Mindanao and Sulu protested in front of the Mexican and Spanish embassies in Manila. In Mindanao and Sulu, demonstrators held Mexican and Spanish flag-burning events. Pro-Spanish and Spanish-speaking Mestizo Filipinos retaliated, and the two groups soon engaged in a violent standoff and altercation. More than 34 people were injured. Mestizo Filipinos and pro-Spanish Filipinos responded by burning Mindanaoan, Indonesian, Bruneian, Malaysian and Sultanate of Sulu flags.
This led to the formation of the Los Cruzados, literally meaning "The Crusaders" in Spanish - a Catholic proselytization movement aimed at not only converting the natives of Mindanao and Sulu to Roman Catholicism, but getting them to accept and embrace Spanish influence and even wed and pair with a Catholic spouse. Not only did it garner support and monetary donations from Catholic Filipinos and Mestizo Filipinos, but also overseas Filipinos, especially those from the United States and Australia. Though supported by Sancho Abello y Terrezas, it wasn't one of his organizations.
The Los Cruzados claims to have converted 784 Moro Muslims, and 234 Lumad Protestants to Roman Catholicism and "shown them the light" as of 2015, in addition to wedding them to all to a Catholic spouse. However, there is no such evidence of an accomplishment. Many research organizations in the southern Philippines claim it be a false, and dubious propaganda statement meant to make the Los Cruzados look powerful and well-liked. Fahad Salik, the Mayor of Marawi City challenged Los Cruzados leaders Santiago Gonzales de la Cruz and Alejandra Gonzales-Guerrero to present him with factual evidence of such an accomplishment of converting many Muslims and Protestants to Catholicism.
An outspoken critic, Salik also claims that the "testimonies" of the alleged converts were all faked, were never Muslims or Protestants and asked to personally meet them in order to prove they were real people. Los Cruzados responded to Salik saying that it wouldn't be safe for the converts to show themselves, in fears of getting abducted by anti-Catholic militants. Salik offered them all armed police protection, and received no response from Los Cruzados.
On September 1, 2015 in rural Davao, a mixed group of Maguindanaoan and Lumad farmers engaged in a gun-fight with a group of Hilagaynon and Cebuano-speaking farmers. The altercation occurred over a dispute about chickens and goats, which then turned into religious and racial slurs and vulgarity. The guns both groups were using were M1 Carbines and handguns, mostly used for pest control and hunting. No people were killed.
On October 30, 2015, an armed Protestant preacher, and an armed Catholic priest engaged in a gunfight in General Santos City. It began when a rock, followed by eggs and tomatoes were thrown into the windows of a Protestant church. The direction from which they were thrown pointed to a neighboring Catholic Church. The Protestant preacher then aimed his gun at the Catholic church and began firing, the priest of that church retaliated with his own gunfire. Though the Catholic priest denied throwing anything, the police found boxes of tomatoes and eggs within the church's sacristy.


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|By Azulazulazula
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Sokka has a fit of mental instability after the death of Toph.
Four seconds. That's how long I wait before hearing the first "Oh my spirits!" from the ground below, which was closely followed by streams of "She's dead!" and, "Oh my spirits, call a doctor!" No one's recognized the woman lying in the street as Toph Beifong yet, nor has anyone taken remote notice of the words "HONG UNG KU" written in big, bold letters in the street. I should run, but I find my eyes glued to the scene below me and my body physically unable to move at the moment. Literally, the shock of what's just happened has temporarily paralyzed me, and immediately, my thoughts shift to five words: I should have stopped her.
I could have. I had the chance. The moment she brought it up, I could have convinced her not to jump, but I was too focused on ensuring that I, myself, would not jump. This thought leaves a heavy, sharp pain in my stomach only describable as immense guilt, and it only renders my motion impairments even more powerful and long-lasting.
"Oh my spirits, that's Chief Beifong!" Well, it seems that somebody's deduced the identity of the jumper, and soon, everyone will determine the source of her freefall, and soon will discover me atop the building. I find my paralyzation has been broken by that thought, so I make my way to the platinum doors, my mind reeling. I want to collapse on the ground, drown in a pool of tears, even, but I don't allow myself to do that. I can't. I didn't go with Toph because I convinced myself my life was worth living, and if I'm to live it, I need to get out of here, as if they catch me they'll surely arrest me.
I stop to consider the possible charges as the hysteria below escalates. Of course, I would be considered an accomplice to a murder, or if nothing else I would be charged with assisted suicide. But could they believe that I pushed her off the building? Of course, the idea is preposterous, and considering my past friendship and history with Toph, there's no way anybody could possibly feel that way. Could they? Republic City is currently in a state of panic. Only 10 days ago, Toph Beifong was considered the great hero of our city, even an icon of the world, someone who would never, ever take the life of another unless it was to ensure the well-being of the city. Of course, she didn't really murder anybody, but in the city's eyes...
Wait, forget that. I lied. Toph did kill somebody, thirteen people, in fact, but six were in order to escape imprisonment and seven were to see her best friend. Could such trivial reasons exempt her from crime? Of course not. By murdering the first six, not only was she killing people, but she was also making a prison break, which, of course, is also an offense in and of itself. And then, she killed seven just to see me... Will they charge me, because I'm the very reason she killed them in the first place? No, no, no. I'm already letting paranoia of what charges they'll press get the best of me when they haven't even caught me, or even discovered me, for that matter, yet. I'm pretty much, at the moment, the only person who knows what's happened, and if I explain to them what happened, they'll let me go, right?
Wrong, I fire back at myself almost immediately. Sure, I didn't push her, or help her in her murderous endeavors, but it's clear to me and will soon be clear to everyone that I did nothing to stop her from jumping. If I wanted to, there's not a doubt in my mind that I could've, and if the city has any sense of reason left, they'll understand that too. The entire city would surely assume that if a situation like this one should've ever arisen, I would do everything in my power to prevent it. But I didn't do what the city expected me to, and therefore, the city has no reason to believe that I wouldn't do something else unexpected. They'll assume that I threw her off the building. Otherwise, why would I be fleeing the scene?
The thought makes me accelerate my pace even further, despite the idea in the back of my mind that running only makes me look guiltier; staying here would make it seem like I have nothing to hide. But if I can escape, right now, I can clear myself of any wrongdoing before accusations even arise. Nobody would even know I was up here. Seven people were aware of my whereabouts 10 minutes ago; now, 10 minutes later, all seven have been murdered. I can escape without a hitch.
Wrong again. When my hands grasp the platinum door handles, I'm met with the cold resistance of a locked door. They don't open from the outside, and the only people on the inside able to operate the door are currently lying in a pool of blood inside this monstrous tower. In my mind, this can mean only one thing, and I can't shake this terrifying, unsettling, impossible thought: I'm trapped out here, on the roof. Why would Toph come out if she knew we couldn't get back in?!?!
Why, why, why?!?! I begin panicking, and soon, my relentlessly heavy breathing does a number on my vocal abilities, and within seconds, I'm making faint, high-pitched shrieking sounds which only get louder by the minute. I haven't even moved yet, so when I begin running towards the lip of the building, not intending to jump off, but to sit down and assert my innocence, my entire nervous system is running amok. I can't see straight; everything is in triple vision and in triple vision, everything's blurry. The first two times I attempt to sit down on a metal pipe, I land flat on my behind, meeting the cold, unforgiving, horribly misplaced ground. The third time, my attempts barely succeed, as I land on the lip of the pipe and manage to scoot myself backwards far enough that there's no risk of falling off.
My breathing only grows heavier as I sit down, my heart rate reaching an indisputably unhealthy pace and my shrieks turning into something like a horror movie screech. Maybe it's from the breathing, or maybe it's just me regaining control of my vocal chords and emitting screams of regret, fear, and guilt. So much guilt. I could have stopped her. I could have stopped her. I could have stopped her.
My mind is a broken record, as I can't shake that one thought. The chaos in the streets down below fades into the background, and if my other senses are serving me properly, then I'm vomiting on the rooftop of the SMC. Everything is a blur. My triple vision now looks something like a bug's view, but much blurrier, and I can't seem to make out a single pixel of vision in this world of flashing colors. My taste buds are in contact with something warm, sticky, and disgusting, and I can only assume that I'm secreting a vomit-like substance from my mouth. It doesn't quite taste like throw up, but with my current mental state, what the hell do I know?
My arms and legs have gone numb, and soon, I feel my head and face follow suit. That leaves two working senses in place, as I can now confirm that my liquid upchuck was in fact puke, based upon its smell and the aftertaste in my mouth. Now, with no rhyme nor reason to justify my actions, I swing my arms out in front of me, as if fighting something, but I can't defeat nor find my opponent. I'm wrestling it, and right now, it's pushing me unforgivingly down to the ground. I conclude that I'm fighting my own body, which is telling me to collapse, but I resist, now without any sounds or visual aids.
It's winning. First, my legs give way, and in all the chaos of my world, my vision returns to its state of blurry colors and unrecognizable shapes, I can just barely hear the shouts and screams on the street below. I feel a slight tingling feeling on my forearms, and I hear the clash of doors in front of me. Finally, the rest of my body surrenders to the forces pushing me to the ground, and I lie down on the ground, still breathing, keeping my eyes open, and hearing faint screams all around me. On the ground, in front of me, and in my own head, people are calling out names, screaming about how Toph could have been saved, and asking if I'm okay.
I try to respond, but I find it impossible. Speaking isn't an option right now, and I'm honestly accepting my belief that this will be the place where I die. On the rooftop of the Shong Medical Center, in an inexplicable pool of blood, with no senses left to indicate my other surroundings.
Except for one, my hearing. I strain to hear the words being screamed into my ear, and amidst all the clutter and the noise, I can barely make it out: "Councilman!"
That's when I black out, dead to the world.
When I wake up, tired, lightheaded, and dazed, I find myself lying on top of a sponge-like material which exists in every corner of the room. It's a very, very dull, light shade of yellow which is ridden with tears and rips; I don't think I've ever seen a more boring, unattractive room in my life. Since I've opened my eyes, I've barely moved, so I force my tired body up, taking a careful look around. There's nothing. The same pattern exists at every edge of the walls, where that dull padding splits every three feet or so. It's like the walls and floors are decorated with cushions, with one of those little dots in the middle to hold it together. It's everywhere; there's nothing else in this room but the padding, and only now do I notice the cushioned cubes adorning my hands. Everything in this room is padded. Even my hands, apparently.
I look to my left and find my sister sitting here, waiting for me to wake up fully and to ask the question that's preying on my mind. "Where am I?"
Katara's voice expresses many emotions: relief, sadness, grief, and I can hear the tears in her voice. "You were on the roof, and...it was..."
She can't manage to finish a sentence, so I root around in my brain to find my most recent memory. I was running toward the edge of the SMC roof. And I was running because...I was having trouble breathing, and my vision was screwed up. And all that happened because... "Did she really...is she really dead?" I need to give myself a reality check. There's no way it's true. Toph didn't jump, it's just impossible. I must've been passed out at that point, and I must've dreamt that. But a slight, nearly undetectable nod of Katara's head confirms the impossible. Toph Beifong has committed suicide. She's dead. She's dead, she's dead, she's dead...
I want to go back to sleep, but I have so many questions, and passing out at the news of a death isn't exactly the most effective solution. "She jumped..." she states, very sure of herself but in a soft tone. "She was innocent..."
"How do you know?" I fire back immediately in a voice more cynical than it should be. "Was there some new evidence?" I'm hopeful. I'm so very hopeful that Toph Beifong's name will be cleared despite her suicidal end. Of course, this would also mean that she died in vain, and even if this is true, she still has thirteen murders lined up against her. No. It's better that she's believed to be a murderer, but oddly, I feel no relief when Katara cites only Toph's personality in her speech about why she was innocent.
"So, why am I here? Where am I anyways?" I retort after a long pause following Katara's long explanation. I can only speculate at this point, and I find it genuinely annoying that I'm currently in a state of amnesia.
"Sometime shortly after Toph jumped, you blacked out. The doctors think it was from blood loss, but I think it was just you going a little...well...crazy...after your friend had just died. Though, they do have evidence to support the theory..." her voice is solemn and comforting, but I can't shake the thought that my best friend in the world has just killed herself and I hardly have a clear recollection of it.
"Evidence?" is all I can muster. Where do they come off thinking that I've lost any blood, anyways? I don't have any kinds of injuries I can see? Katara flips over my arms to reveal the deep, perfectly uniform cuts on my right wrist. They've barely begun to scab yet, but at least they're not bleeding. It takes me a moment to process the full meaning of these cuts.
I have no memory of any of this. Not the blacking out, not the cutting, not my apparently mentally unstable state, but it's obvious to me that Toph's self-murder drove me into a brief period of insanity. "How...did I do this?" I question, not remembering any sharp objects on the roof.
"On the metal pipe up there, there was a knife they were using as a screwdriver on a new construction process. They found you lying in a puddle of blood right next to it with the knife in your hand," she tells me. I can only imagine her feelings right now; as if losing one of her closest friends wasn't hard enough, she now has to deal with her unstable older brother who is in a padded room...
That explains where I am. I'm at the psychiatric ward, presumably of the Shong Medical Center, with my younger sister by my side in a padded room. I never thought I'd see one of these, but now that I'm here, I realize that not seeing sagging cushioned walls and drab warmth is something to cherish, not to regret. Not that I'd ever have wanted to be in here, but...
"So why are you here?" I question, my voice colder and more unfriendly than I intended.
"I wouldn't let them put you in here if I couldn't be there when you woke up," she fires back. With every word of that sentence, she was becoming quieter and quieter, and she trailed off completely on the final "up". For the first time since waking up, I find myself thinking about what this could have done to her psyche. I mean, all in one day, she's had to deal with the death of one of her closest friends and her presumably mental brother slashing his wrists. She has to have had some sort of breakdown, right? Wrong. She's used to this kind of pain. Just think of everything that's happened to her.
Our mom dies. She powers through it and rises to the occasion, becoming the new mom of the household.
Fong nearly kills her just to induce some sort of power in Aang. She just... Aang. Aang! Spirits, Aang!
"Aang! How is he?" my voice escapes my lips before I can even move my hands. I have a feeling I kind of mumbled that, but Katara's next words confirm she heard me completely.
"Well, let's see. His earthbending teacher just turned suicidal, there's something. Then, there's the fact that he has to deal with this whole murder case and put all suspicions to rest, which can't be getting any easier considering the lead suspect just jumped off a building. And then, there's the fact that rebellions have just become rampant in the Fire Nation at the rumors of Zuko's mistress, and of course he just had to put Aang in the middle of it all. And then, of course, his brother-in-law just cut himself and is currently residing in the mental ward of the SMC. So, in general, I'd say he's doing just about as well as you, except his wrists are closed," she remarks.
Immediately, with that comment about how Aang's doing as poorly as I am, a wave of guilt rushes over me.
If I had just convinced Toph not to do a header off the damn building, none of this would have ever happened. Of course, he would still have the murder trial to contend with, but that would be much easier if he didn't have to defend the fact that two members of his original team have now either harmed or killed themselves in a span of one day. And then, of course, there's Zuko's...
Wait, Zuko's mistress? Did I miss something?
"Zuko what?" My words are frail and squeaky, and I find that I'm slightly light-headed from the blood loss. How long did it take them to find me after I went out?
"His mistress. It's not true, just palace guards and servants making up some lies to get attention, but he's getting hammered by the media...and so is Mai," she says. Is there one person on Earth who isn't involved in some sort of fiasco today? I mean, if Zuko's being stalked by the media, Suki is too, right? And Mai...she's the mistress! My tired brain finally makes the connection, and in that moment, all my other thoughts go away as I sink back onto my back.
That poor woman. You'd think that with all the hell she's endured in her life, she'd be cut some slack, but apparently, the media is completely and utterly soulless.
"Are you okay?" Katara asks. I'm not sure if it's my dumbfounded expression in the face of these thoughts or just my general mental state, but something prompted Katara to ask such a question and whatever it was sent her into a world of tears. I sit up, and she collapses into my arms, cracking under the intense pressure.
I guess that's just natural. If you step on a twig enough times, it snaps, simply because it can't take anymore. That's what happened with Toph. That's what happened with me. And apparently, now, that's what's happening with Katara. Next'll be Mai, then Aang, and then, if he has enough interest in it, Zuko, I suppose, but he's probably too self-centered to think of it in the first place.
"Yeah...I'm alright," my voice strangles me on the word "alright", and I find that I, too, am falling into a world of water. As it streams down my face, I find it within myself to ask a question that's probably not appropriate at the moment, but has been eating away at my mind since right after Toph jumped. "Charges?"
"Accessory to a murder, assisted suicide...first degree murder..."
At this, my stomach contracts in a mix between shock and self-pity. Well, I'm not really shocked, I'm fairly sure the thought had entered my brain earlier today, but the realization that it's actually happening just sent me into a full-on hurl. They think I pushed her.
They think I pushed her.
They think I pushed her.
They think I pushed her.
They think I pushed her.
I have other charges to worry about, but first degree murder sounds like a logical starting point. As if having my best friend splatter her body on the street wasn't hard enough, I now have to contend with the fact that I might be held responsible. It's just not right.
"What are you gonna do?" she asks, her voice now sounding like a four-year-old girl's.
"Not get convicted...or even tried..." I retort. I guess I've made up my mind then. I can't go back on the decision now that Katara knows and has hope of my survival. I know what I must do. I know what is the only logical thing to do.
I have to break myself out of jail. It's a daunting task, almost unimaginable, but everything that's happened this week hasn't exactly been normal or anything the city would've thought could happen. Everything's all out of whack; Toph supposedly murdered someone and then jumped off a building, I just had a nervous breakdown and ended up cutting myself, Zuko supposedly has a mistress. Katara now begins her nervous gaze into my eyes, but I give her a firmly reassuring look, though I myself know that my plan to do this is crazy and I can't even be honest with myself if I say that I'm sure I'll be able to pull the whole thing off. Still, it sounds better than rotting away in prison. Katara grips me more tightly and pulls my ear as close to her mouth as possible.
"You have a case for mental instability, Sokka...you could get off with having to go through mental health treatments for a while. If you break yourself out, though, you just look even guiltier...there's no guarantee you'll even make it," she whispers. How she could possible pick up on my implication when it was so, so subtle is beyond me, but since she has, I might as well be straightforward with her.
I press my mouth to her ear, so as not to alert any recorders in the room of my plans, and begin speaking, "I'd rather spend the rest of my life on the run than in this loony bin. I'll make it out, Katara."
She pulls away, gives a faint nod, and yells for security to release her from the room. Within moments, a door opens in all of the padding—I never would've known such a thing existed, as it was so well-hidden—and the last glimpse of her I see is a small nod of the head, nearly undetectable, and a faint, confident smile on her face.
After Katara left, security was storming my room almost immediately, escorting me out of the padded room in cold, metal, clangy handcuffs that get on my nerves after only a few seconds. Katara is waiting for me in the lobby, where the woman at the front desk holds out some papers for her to sign and for one of the security people to fill in my name and their own. I notice the first words on Katara's paper:
"I, Katara Song Kaka, hereby permit my brother, Sokka Toja Kaka, to be transferred to the Compartment for the Mentally Unstable Division in the Republic City Penitentiary. My signature below confirms this notion:
Katara Kaka"
Wow. The psych ward at the jail. For the first time, if only for a brief, fleeting moment, I actually feel like a criminal, and the very thought of it makes my stomach churn and my head reel. The Councilman...er, former Councilman, I guess, of the Southern Water Tribe Minorities of Republic City is now being charged with attempted murder of the Chief of Police. It literally sickens me that such a wild accusation could be made, but I remind myself that the city has reason to believe I killed her.
In moments, I'm sitting in a cop car, and within the next ten minutes, I find I'm being escorted from the car, up a flight of stairs and into the city jail, which is much larger than I remember. Along the way, the cops are more than willing to answer basic, simple questions for me so long as I don't mention any of the charges or anything of the sort. I decide to play the card of diseased mental patient for all it's worth, because if my plans to escape don't go through, I certainly don't intend on rotting in prison; at least in a mental ward, you don't feel like a criminal.
"How long was I up there before they found me?" I ask.
"Well, Beifong is reported to have hit the ground at 1:17 PM today, and officials reportedly found you at 1:36. So, that's nineteen minutes," he retorts, his voice sympathetic but somewhat juvenile. I'm a bit insulted, but I remind myself that I have to be a criminally insane person if I'm to be able to survive this situation. I shrug it off and continue talking.
"But I heard a voice! Like, two minutes after Toph jumped and right before I blacked out, I heard a voice yelling 'Councilman!' I heard it!" I'm screaming now, and without even trying I again seem slightly unstable. The officer seems unfazed.
"Yeah, sure, okay," he says a bit too matter-of-factly, and automatically my feeling insulted gets the best of me.
"I am not a four-year-old, dammit! And I'm telling you the truth!" I yell even louder, and I'm afraid the officer might go deaf if I don't calm down soon.
"Calm yourself," he demands. A reasonable demand, but the fact that he treated it as an order, not a request, pushes me further into my pissed-off state.
"Don't tell me to calm down!" My ear drums nearly pop at the sound of my own reverberating voice, and my shouts only grow louder as I shout many, many obscenities at the officer. Although I may not be making a good impression on the officer, none of this is making me seem more stable, so I just keep screaming until, without warning, my screams are muffled by a lump in the back of my throat.
I can't figure out why, but while I'm still screaming, I unbuckle my seatbelt with my handcuffed left hand and start hurling myself against every which wall. All the while,
I'm yelling even worse obscenities, and tears just start steadily pouring down my face. Why am I doing this? I mean, what the guy said wasn't that insulting, but for spirits' sake it just made me so damn mad! This thought only further enrages me, and I send myself hurling headfirst towards the door, hoping knock myself out. Instead, I find that the door opens swiftly and my head meets nothing but air. I'm barely keeping balance on my seat when I feel the officer grab me by the ear and slap me across the face with his other hand. I snarl severely, and though I'm in handcuffs, I can't stop myself from lunging farther forward into the man's torso.
Before my knee injures his pelvic region severely, I'm torn off of him by the other officer, who is pinning me down against the side of the car. The officer whom I attacked runs for the trunk while I attempt to slam my current opponent back onto the sidewalk. I have no clue what I intend to do when he falls, but I keep flailing about until the officer comes around and binds my knees and feet together with rope. I'm then thrown into the backseat of the car and the officers resume their positions in the driver and passenger seats, ignoring the attention we've drawn and speeding away until we reach the jail.
Before I know it, I'm sitting in my own jail cell, my handcuffs removed and my ropes untied. Soon, I'm free to roam my cell, which is really nothing more than a 10X10 box with a mattress, a blanket, a pillow and a little toilet in the corner with a sink resting atop it. I plop myself down on the mattress and ponder everything that's happened today.
Author's Notes
- This chapter is about 400 words shorter than originally intended; the author initially intended to delve deeper into the story in this chapter, but when writing, felt that the line he had just written would end and summarize the chapter quite well.
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