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Many of you may have seen the recent article in the English newspapers about a "new" ransomware that has currently infected 250,000 computers worldwide. This horrible infection encrypts your data and demands a ransom to release your files. The main questions we would like to answer are: Does my anti-virus software protect me from this infection? What can I do to protect myself? and What can I do if my machine becomes infected?
Does my anti-virus software protect me from this virus?
Cryptolocker doesn't infect your machine all by itself, it occurs when you open an email attachment containing a trojan. No anti-virus program will effectively protect you 100% from this type of problem.
The people who create these infectious programs spend as much time creating them as the developers at anti-virus companies spend tracking and curing them. Safe today doesn't mean safe tomorrow as the infection developers work tirelessly to infect as many machines as possible and change the makeup of an infection on a daily basis.
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What follows for Ithuriel and Jabniel is a three-year transit from Saturn to the Gravel Pile without the benefit of phantomizable water. Every single drop of water contained in Ithuriel's ice ball had been phantomized once and for all just to get it through the F Ring barrier. Phantomization is a one-shot deal. Nothing in the universe will get those molecules to stand up ever again. So Ithuriel could not use a macro to generate heat or power to shorten their time of flight.
With some foresight on the part of Ithuriel, however, he had used his big macro to separate a considerable amount of water into hydrogen and oxygen, which was stored as liquid in various ice voids scattered throughout their miniature comet. This could be combined again to make a flame for heating and cooking, or to produce electricity in a fuel cell to keep the batteries of Chivalrous charged up. And there remains a small nuclear thermocouple power supply on Chivalrous to help tide them over. Still, three years would be pushing the limit, and strict conservation was observed at all times.
With the ship's nose buried deep inside the ice ball their only view of outside space was through the remote cameras Ithuriel had placed on the surface. But there was nothing to see at any rate.
To save power, often Ithuriel and Jabs stayed in just one of the staterooms of Chivalrous and kept each other warm, moving to one of the other four staterooms when it started to smell too funky in the first one. Clutter from months of lousy housekeeping hangs about them. There are tools, publications, and personal items floating about to no end.
All the misplaced objects that briefly caught their fancy, all their reference-only discarded junk tumbles in the air like the contents of an attic, filling every available space. To reshelf half of it would be an exercise in three-dimensional polyominos: possible, but impractical. However, they dare not throw anything overboard yet no matter how trivial. Not with the journey only just getting underway.
So the Crossing becomes a dreadful self-imposed torture for Ithuriel and Jabniel. But it isn't all misery. Sometimes they come out of hibernation in their current stateroom and catch up on the work that the ship demands.
In their routine aboard the ice ball, their days blend from after-work fatigue to late afternoon relaxation to evening lovemaking without any sharp transitions. There is a low intensity sexiness with every moment together and at no instant could either one of them say now we are making love or now we are not.
Gradually Jabs takes on more than her share of the work maintaining their home, letting the constant activity fill her mind. She makes routine inspections of forgotten corners of the ice ball and marveled at the reliability of some of the components of Chivalrous, despite the ship's age.
Hadraniel is born at the end of the first year of the journey to the Gravel Pile. He was not yet born when Ithuriel and Jabs had phantomized themselves, yet every atom in his little body has already been phantomized.
The labor is agonizing for Jabs, of course, since Ithuriel has little in the way of painkillers, and in free fall it is very messy, with globules of amniotic fluid going everywhere in the stateroom they had used for the delivery room. But the child arrives in apparent good health.
It is only with constant watchfulness that Ithuriel and Jabs and baby Hadraniel continue on with their mini-ecosystem intact. Everything is recycled. Air, water, and even their own solid wastes are turned into compost for Jab's little garden. The ship has dried fruits, beef jerky, and canned foods stocked in odd corners which Ithuriel digs out now and then to prevent them from starting to despise eating the same old foods. From the Jupiter system of moons Ithuriel had once bought a supply of meats, which he keeps frozen in nooks of the ice ball to supplement their diet, but these are rationed too.
In terms of recreation there is plenty to do. Since they are not going to Earth, and his ultimate goal was actually Ceres, Ithuriel decides not to rotate the ice ball. He decides to remain in free fall for the entire Crossing. There is no need to maintain physical fitness under a full gee. Free fall play is readily available at any time. The ten-foot wide hole down the first four decks of Chivalrous is like a miniature Freeball gamecore once Ithuriel has lined the edges of the decks with padding.
To exercise the brain there are many books from Barbelo in the form of spools of thread stored aboard Chivalrous. For atmosphere, he plays good old fashioned rock music from Earth. He hates the crap that was all over the Swarm lately, weird schizophrenic disco that Jabs likes but he despises. It is mostly songs about people slitting their wrists and trying to clean up after themselves as they died, and things like that.
When it is Jabs turn to listen for alerts on the alarm board she nurses Hadraniel and watches television broadcasts from Earth, which she finds endlessly fascinating because they were so alien. As Hadraniel grows to become a toddler (if toddling is possible in free fall) the scenes of Earth on Jab's screen are only vaguely understood by him at best. But he does enjoy seeing movies with animals.
A year and a half after departure they are just crossing the orbit of Jupiter. Petty little perceived slights and injuries boil up and spill over. Jabs goes on a sabbatical. She takes Hadraniel, gets in the captain's gig and moves off for a while, claiming she needs to take the machine out for an extended inspection of the ice ball's exterior. But she goes much farther afield than Ithuriel expected her to, and that alarms him.
The controls of the little shuttle comfort her as she sulks. Oh, she would still talk to Ithuriel on the radio but there was always the psychological refuge of the off switch and the symbolic You-cant-reach-me-from-there-and-sweet-talk-me-into-quitting-my-temper-tantrum.
When she doesn't come back within the first twenty-four hours the war of words escalates and Jabs takes the runabout further and further out to punish Ithuriel.
Of course, she regrets playing this game after they finally make up, especially after realizing how long it is going to take to get back to Ithuriel now that her tantrum had already been thrown and all she wants to do is see him as soon as possible. At the height of Jabs' folly she is a hundred thousand miles away, far beyond visual range of the ice ball, and the time lag was actually noticeable.
She can't hurry back because the runabout's energy source was their precious hydrogen and LOX. Her little snit is going to be very costly.
Sweet conversations resume between them. The delay gives Jabs just enough time to compose each of her words before she speaks them. She constructs her response to be as sexy and provocative as she knew how, but she missed the simple spontaneity of actually being with Ithuriel.
When the big day arrives Jabs docks at the aft end of Chivalrous (which was still pretty ragged from Stratis' artillery round) and delivered Ithuriel's birthday present: herself. Ithuriel didn't even wait for her to get out, he pressed into the runabout and virtually attacked her.
Hadraniel at age two was a little too young to really understand what his parents were doing, and he wouldn't remember it anyway. After his father kissed him, Hadraniel goes back to sleep, for the excitement of the final approach had kept him up all night, and Ithuriel stuffed him in a bedbag in one of the staterooms. Then it was on to the business at hand.
Jabs had criss-crossed herself with red electrical tape like a present and she lets Ithuriel devour her. The runabout becomes the scene of zero-gee gymnastics as they welcome each other back to the heaven of their joined bodies.
I really missed the smell of you. I didn't appreciate it until it was gone.
He was referring to to subtle scent Jabs always had after he had given his lady her first orgasm. When the end came they can only lie there wrapped in each others limbs, whimpering I love you to each other. Every inch-pound of sexual torque inside them had been wrung out. They were astonished anew at the amount of sensual joy they had given each other and the complete satisfaction they felt.
As Ithuriel and Jabs and Hadraniel finally near their destination the word got around about what was going to happen. Two Water Guild ships start harassing the incoming ice ball with laser strikes. They desperately want to prevent Ithuriel from getting to the Gravel Pile. The Water Guild knows full well the ice ball would allow Roth Wardian break their local monopoly and wipe out their already razor-thin profit margin.
The attack pisses Ithuriel off, so he decides to play his hole card. He melts the ice around Chivalrous and works the ship free. Her fangs are brought out to bear on the offending Water Guild vessels. But it is all a bluff. There was very little power remaining to fight.
As soon as they were painted by fire control radar the Water Guild ships recognize the Chivalrous as one of Sartael's fighting spaceships and they moved off to a safe distance to wait.
Ithuriel actually considers the interference of the Water Guild a stroke of luck. Now he has a valid explanation for his inability to finesse the iceball into the Gravel Pile. He had Jabs radio their buyer, Roth Wardian, and tell him that her engine has been damaged in the attack so she needs his help.
Roth comes out with four ships and lets loose a missile at one of the Guild gnats. When it is destroyed the remaining one departs the area with its metaphoric tail between its legs. Then with a huge carbon-fiber net Ithuriel's ice ball was taken under tow with Roth's ships flying at the four points of a tetrahedron. They weren't trying to slow the ice ball down, they were merely guiding the ice in for the last few million miles.
At one point Mr. Wardian himself pays a short courtesy call to Jabs aboard Chivalrous, where she introduces little Hadraniel and also her boyfriend who is billed as definitely the junior partner in the operation. Jabs doesn't mention Ithuriel's name to Roth, because the deception was still on, but for the ruse she was pulling off, his name wasn't important anyway.
For his part Ithuriel acts cool towards Roth, as though flexing his muscles. The idea is to put completely out of Roths mind any idea he had of pushing Jabs around when it comes time to pay up. During this visit Jabs gives Wardian the information for the account which she expects him to credit upon actual delivery of the ice. At that point the delivery was less than three weeks away.
As planned, Roth Wardian allowed the ice ball to crash deep inside his Gravel Pile, which swallows it up with hardly a ruffled stone. In fact, only a few boulders are knocked loose forever from the Gravel Pile, and only a fraction of the water is lost as steam. He gladly pays the account of Jabniel Bat-Naseth her agreed-upon amount.
Ithuriel and Jabs didn't want to stick around and join Wardian to celebrate their recently concluded joint venture. They wasted no time flying aboard Chivalrous to the asteroid Ceres, the largest body in the Belt. Were it not for the perturbations of the gravity of Jupiter, Ceres would be a full planet and there would be no asteroid belt.
Little Hadraniel quickly grows overwhelmed there. He has lived his entire short life on a six hundred foot wide asteroid made of water ice, and now he is jumping around on a ball that is six hundred miles across. Ceres even has a little gravity, about three percent of Earth's, not enough to beat Hadraniel down, but more than enough to get him used to the basic concept of gravity. Ceres is a genuine world. In fact, Ceres was to the Moon in size what the Moon was to the Earth.
The settlements on Ceres, which are half above the surface and half underground, are still rather chaotic. There is a Wild West flavor to the place, and no one political entity rules the entire asteroid. However the B'nei Elohim quarter of the town of Tasker is said to be fairly civilized. Ithuriel steers well clear of it.
In the first order of business Ithuriel takes Jabniel and his son to a restaurant to indulge in real food, not something that has been freeze-dried and stored somewhere on his ice ball or grown in the garden fertilized by their own shit. But when the food arrived, Ithuriel realizes something, and he asks the server to box everything up so he could take it to his ship.
It occurred to Ithuriel that he and Jabs and Hadraniel were in a unique situation should anyone attempt to kill them with a macro. The body of Ithuriel and his wife had already been phantomized when they escaped the F-Ring, and Hadraniel, coming entirely from Jabs body, was pre-phantomized by default. And since the entire ice ball had been prephantomized, all the food they had eaten during the Crossing was in the same state. As long as they continued to phantomize their food before they ate it, they would continue to be immune to a macro, unless they triy the stunt he had already used to kill the intruder at Saturn, and blast a macro continuously at their chest. So Ithuriel runs their take-out food through a cycle and they proceed to eat it.
Living aboard Chivalrous on the outskirts of Tasker, they invest their fortune in something they can operate to provide a continuous source of income, a relatively large-scale macro power plant for the growing town. They build it at some remove from where they had landed the ship, and by so doing lay claim to a large unit of land encompassing both.
In the Gravel Pile Roth Wardian reasons out the sudden haste of Jabniel after she has fulfilled her contract. Her entire ice rock is somehow already phantomized, making it totally useless as a source of power in the ships of the Navy of Thaumiel, which are rapidly becoming the largest consumers of water in the Belt.
The possibility of such a thing happening never makes the slightest glimmer in his mind. It never occurred to him that Jabniel's ice ball would be made entirely of phantomized water, because as he understood the technology now used by the ships of the Empire, all that is all thrown overboard as propellant, a natural waste byproduct of the process of macro propulsion.
He has no idea exactly what Jabniel had done, but he sees now that her collision idea was really just a way to mask the lack of any unphantomized water on her ice ball to slow it down.
Even what little good water there is to start with in the Gravel Pile before the collision is now thoroughly mixed with the bad water, requiring an elaborate, time-consuming test, and essentially making all his water worthless. Soon the word gets around that the Gravel Pile's water is tainted. No one comes calling anymore to take delivery. Roth has a great deal of money stashed away from the sale of water up to that point, but there would be no more coming in.
His misery is compounded further when he learns who the boyfriend of the Jabniel woman really is: Ithuriel. The schmuck he had ripped off years before. So that was it. Ithuriel has his vengeance. He had to admit it was all beautifully played. Roth Wardian swears to use even the last dregs of his resources to hunt down and destroy Ithuriel and his whole family.
Wardian has a small set of favors hed been banking since the day he ditched his B'nei Elohim girlfriend and went renegade, and all of them were as good as gold. He had already cashed one of these markers in to find out where Jabniel lives and who her companion is. The other markers are called in when Wardian arrives on Ceres to carry out his vengeance.
When he decides to strike it is initially against Ithuriel's son Hadraniel. He works through third parties, with men unknown to Ithuriel and Jabs, men who can watch Hadraniel all the time for a moment, any moment, no matter how brief, when Hadraniel wasn't being watched like a hawk by his parents.
They get him when the family is shopping in Tasker. Ithuriel and Jabs stop to admire some blown glass art in a window along the main tunnel. One man whisks Hadraniel into a tube car with a hand over his mouth. Another man, unseen within, whisks the car away.
Ten seconds is all it takes. And it takes another ten seconds for Ithuriel and Jabs to notice Hadraniel is missing. Jabs becomes an inconsolable wreck. She cannot sit down for the rest of that day. She wants Ithuriel to call the Eyes of Thaumiel, call the fleet, call the B'nei Elohim, call anybody. But Ithuriel decides to wait until whoever it is that kidnaps his son contacts him. This sort of thing can be expected to happen to a wealthy man in a largely lawless settlement.
The next day the driver of the getaway car arrives at the Chivalrous and gives Ithuriel an envelope.
I work for Mr. Roth Wardian. The kid is safe. Mr. Wardian wants a refund for the bad ice, plus damages and incidentals. He'll be in touch.
Ithuriel was in a terrible rage at this low blow but he understands it as an logical escalation of the long-running war between him and Wardian.
So Wardian made his move. I just never thought he'd stoop to hurting Hadraniel.
Inside the envelope is a picture of Hadraniel, his face wet with tears, tied up in a room somewhere.
Now contact the Navy!
Strangely enough, I want Hadraniel back alive too, Jabs. We can hand this without the Navy, without the Eyes. Did you notice the background behind Hadraniel?
Jabniel examines the photograph again and on a second look even she could see it.
That's the power plant.
So you see we have to do this alone. We can't trust anyone at the plant. He must have bribed his way in there.
On that single point Ithuriel is in error. Wardian had simply bribed everyone to leave. Ithuriel would need to fire a lot of people later.
When Ithuriel and Jabniel arrive at the plant, which is on their property some distance away from the main house, they enter a set of doors and stand in a large glass-enclosed gallery looking down on a dozen consoles that are supposed to be attended by technicians. The glass is very thick and they can hear no sound through it.
Just behind the far wall of the control room, Ithuriel knows, is one of two jumbo sub-macros which provide the power. Should one of those macros go down for any reason the technicians (when they weren't playing hooky) can quickly shift operations over to the other line until the faulty one is repaired.
Ithuriel leads Jabniel out of the gallery and down a sloping walkway leading under the surface of Ceres. In this place a window looks into a round room with a two-foot diameter rotating shaft running from the metal-grated floor to the ceiling.
This is the space between the steam turbine in the ground beneath us and the generator above. The steam comes directly from the macro expansion chamber and turns huge blades. The rotation is geared down to sixty RPM, as you can see.
They walk further down echoing concrete passageways and take a glass elevator which faces back toward the exterior of the plant. It bursts from underground and rises eight floors to a skybridge which goes clear across the gigantic space of the power house. They walk halfway along the skybridge and look over the edge eighty feet down onto the generators. There are two red-painted generators down there, and each generator is the size of a house. But there is no sign of little Hadraniel.
The skybridge leads to a broad observation deck. Here the floor is covered in luxurious thick orange plush carpet and the walls and handrails are trimmed in bright blue.
There are various science exhibits scattered around, like a little museum of electricity and physics, since this was where Ithuriel entertained tours of visiting dignitaries and customers. Jabs pushes the button on a Jacob's ladder, a pair of rods like an old TV antenna. A series of electric arcs start climbing up it. There is another exhibit with a screen activated by a button which is supposed to roll a video thread spool of the power plant in operation. A yellow sticky is posted next to this button, and on that sticky is printed the name Ithuriel So Ithuriel pushes the button.
The screen shows a live image of his little boy, who is tied up alone somewhere in the plant and in tears. For the rest of his life, four-year old Hadraniel would tag this traumatic event as his first memory, not his life in deep space, and that was truly a shame.
Where's my god-damned money, fucker?
Ithuriel fires a shot at the screen in a tantrum.
I know where Hadraniel is being kept now. It has to be the inactive macro, the one on standby in case the active one goes down.
They both rushed down the stairs, taking six or seven at a time in the three-percent gravity.
Ithuriel and Jabs enter the chamber. Hadraniel cries from relief when he sees them. There is no sign of Roth.
Roth Wardian sees them all on camera from the control room. He calmly activated the phantomizer, but Jabs and Hadraniel and Ithuriel were all unharmed. You can't phantomize something twice. Lucky bastard, Roth says to himself, thinking Ithuriel had somehow disabled the macro when he entered.
Just as it didn't cross his mind at the time of the buy that Jabs ice ball had been pre-phantomized, it doesn't cross his mind now that Jabs and Ithuriel had been pre-phantomized also, and Hadraniel too, by proxy. Surviving a macro goes against everything he knows. He has no clue there was such a thing as a sub-macro that was much more gentle with its samples.
So Roth Wardian comes running down the ramp with his gun in hand, ready to kill all of them. And the instant he crossed into the chamber, he disappears.
Jabs rushed to pick up Hadraniel for a motherly embrace
All and all, it was much too quick a death for Wardian, in Ithuriels opinion. But it is the end of their Roth Wardian problem. He kills the power to the macro.
Fools rush in where angels fear to tread.
Then he swept Jabs and Hadraniel both into his arms for extended kisses. Jabs absorbs this for a moment, then sums it up.
So this was a family affair. We solve our own problems.
That's what we do and all we do, Jabs. Look at the great little kid. Son you have no idea what a happy, rich, spoiled brat you're going to be!
I want Hadraniel to be a happy, rich, spoiled brat. He's got nothing to prove to himself. He can grow up here and fall in love the traditional way and spend the rest of his life with no worries about anything.
You see it then, don't you Jabs? Hadraniel himself, and you his mother and your happiness are my life's reward!


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German election landslide leads to new alliances
Angela Merkel has convincingly won a third term in this week's general election although her coalition partners, the pro-business Free Democrats, didn't make it back into parliament. Merkel's conservative CDU party may now have to join forces with the opposition, as Keri Phillips reports.
Germany, like Australia and the UK, has two major parties, the conservative Christian Democratic Union (CDU) and the labour-allied Social Democratic Party (SDP). In the post-War period one of these two parties has largely governed in coalition with smaller parties.
In recent times these have been the pro-business Free Liberal Party (with the CDU) and the Greens (with the SDP). Perhaps bewilderingly for Australian voters, on occasion the two big parties have also governed together in what is known as a 'grand coalition'. Imagine Australia's Liberal and Labor parties doing that.
Dr Egbert Klautke, a lecturer in the cultural history of Central Europe at University College London, says that Germany's electoral system means that it is rare for any party to win a majority of seats in the Bundestag. Because of this Germans always expect a period of horse-trading before a government is in place.
'That of course goes on behind the scenes, that's how a modern political system works,' Dr Klautke says.
'There's an elite candidate who is singled out who is then told to try to form government and start formal negotiations with possible partners. This, if it is successful, ends in a coalition treaty. So both parties set out their agreements on what they want to achieve and so on, and it's a very formal process.'
'From a British or Australian perspective it's almost unbelievable. It can take months before there is a government because all the topics have to be negotiated and they have to find an acceptable mix of people who can be represented in government and so on. I remember the last time in Britain when a coalition government was formed, people were getting anxious after a couple of days when there was no government. Of course nothing happened, the country didn't collapse, and the same happens during coalition negotiations in Germany.'
The funny thing about her popularity is that she achieves it without any charisma; she is the absolute anti-charismatic politician.Dr Bernhard Rieger, University College London
Unlike the Australian and British electoral systems, the German system is not one where each member of the main legislative body has a defined constituency. Only about half the members of the Bundestag are elected directly seat by seat, as in Australia's House of Representatives. The rest are allocated according to the overall percentage of the vote a party might get, as long as it gets at least 5 per cent of the vote. No party can enter parliament without 5 per cent of the vote. But it means that if a party gets, say, 8 per cent of the vote but doesn't win any seats, it'll still be represented in the Bundestag.
While most laws tend to originate in the Bundestag, Germany has another national house, the Bundesrat, where Germany's 16 states have a say on matters that affect them. It's different in several significant ways from Australia's Senate, which was intended as a states' rights house but functions along party political lines. Members of the Bundesrat are not elected by the German people but rather delegated by state governments. Each state delegation represents the state government and reflects its political makeup. The state delegation will have a number of votes (ranging from three to six) according to population size and it votes as a bloc. Dr Klautke says this arrangement reflects the nature of Germany's style of federalism.
'Political scientists have called the system "unitarian federalism". Federalism in the German sense always refers to the power of the states, not the power of the central government, which is important especially in an English context to stress, because federalism in England and America refers to a centralist state. Whereas in Germany every time federalism is invoked it refers to the power of the states, the individual states, that are an important factor in the overall political system and have their say also on a national level.'
'Regional identity is significant in Germany. First of all of course you have the split between former East Germany and West Germany, so there have always been tensions and people very strongly identify with the areas they come from, also the different histories they lived through. Then of course there is, maybe even more importantly from my view, there is a north/south divide between the old industrial north and west which became powerful and successful in the late 19th, early 20th century and then slowly declined, and the new industrial centres mainly in south-west and south Germany in the states of Bavaria and Baden-Württemberg, that's where you find the famous German car companies, for instance; BMW and Mercedes and Porsche, they are all from the south. Germans are not very mobile, certainly compared to Americans but even compared to British people or French people; they stay in their districts, their counties, their areas, and find it hard to move for a job, for instance. So on that level Germany is very much a regionalised country.'
In the last 30 years, Germany has had only three chancellors, despite such upheavals as reunification and a major shake-up in the economy in the early 2000s. The CDU's Helmut Kohl oversaw the first of these as chancellor between 1982 and 1998. He was followed by Gerhard Schroeder, who led a coalition of the Social Democratic Party (SDP) and Greens until 2005. Although unpopular at the time, Schroeder's radical reform of both the social welfare system and the labour market are now seen as underpinning Germany's current economic strength.
By 2005, Schroeder had fallen out with his own party but although the SDP lost to Angela Merkel's CDU, Germany's two biggest parties formed a 'grand coalition'. Dr Klautke says this coalition was the only clear majority that was possible at the time.
'That was looked at, especially from abroad, with suspicion because it runs certainly against the Westminster system of government. In the UK, it is almost impossible to think of a coalition between the Tories and Labour and in Australia it's no different. But in Germany this system is not as unique or as strange as you might think. After all, the Christian Democrats are not just a Conservative right-wing party, they are Christian Democratic Party. So they have their ties to their own unions, for instance they have what they call the social wing. So those Christian Democrats are in a lot of ways very close to mainstream Social Democrats. So, on a day-to-day basis Christian Democrats and Social Democrats find it fairly easy to cooperate and to find common answers to questions and problems.'
That 'grand coalition' of the Christian Democrats and the Social Democrats continued the process of economic reform but at the next election in 2009 Angela Merkel was able to form a government with the smaller Liberal Party. Merkel has been the leader of the CDU since 2000 and now chancellor for eight years. She is the first woman to hold either office. Her success in this week's election reflects an unusual kind of popularity, according to Dr Bernhard Rieger, a historian from University College London.
'The funny thing about her popularity is that she achieves it without any charisma; she is the absolute anti-charismatic politician. She is also not somebody who is particularly ideological. This may come from her socialisation in East Germany where you were saturated with ideology, and I think she has had her fill of that. She is a pragmatist. She is also not somebody that really leads on issues. She sits back, waits, sees where the problems are, but then once she has made up her mind moves quite determinedly to sort out issues.'
'And I think, especially the way from a German perspective how she handled the repeated crises surrounding the euro, that's given her a lot of credibility in the country; remaining calm, abstaining from xenophobia and basically dealing with all these men that surround her too, all of these alpha males.'
Christina von Hodenberg, Professor of European History at Queen Mary University, London, agrees.
'Angela Merkel is by now a very experienced, very successful chancellor and I think one of her talents is to actually keep a low profile wherever there is a problematic point in politics. She can communicate things easily, and she has a certain way of talking things down and making things appear to be solved easily. She does not stand for grand reforms or grand programs, she is very, very pragmatic, and I think that's something that voters like about her as well. She is unexcited, pragmatic and practical, and that's the way that she presents herself as well. She is often called "mutti" which means "mummy".'
The endorsement of Angela Merkel's CDU at this week's election reflects voters' confidence in Germany's domestic circumstances, according to Dr Rieger.
'Germany actually weathered the financial crisis in 2008/'09 far better than many other countries because it had a stronger industrial sector and basically therefore could take advantage of growth in China,' Dr Rieger says.
'So the economy has been growing and unemployment has been going down. I think a lot of Germans actually want to enjoy at the moment that the country is doing fairly well and not hear about problems. There is also a younger generation that has grown up with unification and these people are far more hedonistic and they want to have also a good time and don't just permanently want to hear about problems when they actually live in what on a day-to-day level is a country that for the vast majority of the population works quite well.'
'You don't have a lot of streets with potholes. If you need to see a doctor you get to see a doctor. If you need to see a specialist, for certain things you have to wait, but even on your state health insurance you actually get to see a specialist fairly quickly and you don't have to pay for this, it's paid for through your insurance contributions. I think quite a few people actually appreciate the kind of welfare that they have.'
'There is a second thing and that is a direct result of the labour market reforms. Germany had high unemployment really since the '70s, building up all the way to 2006, 2007, very high rates in a country with a population of 80 million people, at one point over 5 million only ten years ago. The labour market reform pushed people into low paid jobs that did not exist beforehand and the unemployment figure has gone down. However, there is a growing problem of social inequality.'
'So this is not a success story without a darker side. Single mothers have lost a lot of their income. The children of immigrants have a very hard time finding jobs. I mean, unemployment among the families with a migration background are up to 50% in certain parts of the country. And the East still is nowhere near the West, so it remains a divided country.'
Dr Henning Meyer, a German political scientist, analyst and commentator currently based at the London School of Economics and Political Science says that while Chancellor Merkel may not have pressing domestic issues to deal with, the Eurozone single currency crisis, while perhaps quiescent now, has not gone away.
'It's a very interesting situation in Germany at the moment because if you look at Europe in general, many countries are in crisis, some in severe crisis,' Dr Meyer says.
'This is not the case in Germany. The Eurozone crisis when you go to Germany feels a bit like a synthetic crisis, this is something that happens on television and you don't feel it personally, but it is not a given that the economic problems are not coming back to hit Germany as well, especially given that Germany is a country that heavily relies on exporting its goods and services, and the main clients still are the European partners who are in recession and in crisis.'
'The interesting thing is that the Eurozone crisis is by no means resolved, and Germany is the country that everybody in Europe looks to for leadership. The government has been quite reluctant to provide this leadership so far. It will be interesting to see what kind of dynamics are unfolding after the election in the negotiations for the next coalition, because whatever happens it will be a very difficult time for Europe and for Germany as a leading country within Europe.
'The challenge is not going to go away, the challenge is becoming bigger in my view.'
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crank :
24 Sep 2013 7:16:18pm
The sick joke that is 'capitalist democracy' just go a little more nauseating. Merkel gets 42.5% of the vote, ie 57.5% didn't want her bee-yoo-tiful Rightwing regime, but for the true believer Howardites at the ABC that is a 'landslide'. Just so long as the 'Right' party stays in power.


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Cambridge Feby. 20th. 1805.
From an opinion that President Jefferson does not feel indifferent to whatever concerns the welfare of any of the citizens in any of the States, Dr Waterhouse here sends for his acceptance a copy of a Lecture just printed, on the subject of the health of our literary youth; containing cautions respecting the use of Tobacco, & Ardent & vinous spirits; and hopes that the principles & design of it will meet the President's approbation.
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Márquez blitzes rivals in third practice
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12 August 2017 – Reigning World Champion Marc Márquez posted a rapid effort during the closing stages to lead the third practice session for the Austrian Grand Prix.
As riders made incremental gains at the short and fast venue, with half a second covering the top 10, Márquez romped clear on a 1:23.459, 0.423s ahead of Tech 3's Johann Zarco.
Suzuki's Andrea Iannone hauled himself up the order to take third position, while Ducati's Jorge Lorenzo ensured four different manufacturers were represented in the top four.
Valentino Rossi ran Yamaha's revised aero fairing and took fifth position, ahead of team-mate Maverick Viñales, who went wide at Turn 6 late on.
Avintia's Loris Baz and Aspar's Karel Abraham sprung a surprise to finish seventh and eighth respectively, in front of LCR Honda's Cal Crutchlow.
Crutchlow had crashed through Turn 9 early in the session but was able to recover his damaged bike to the pit lane before resuming his programme.
Scott Redding completed the top 10 in the session but wound up 11th overall after Andrea Dovizioso's Friday time was sufficient for the Ducati rider to finish sixth in the combined classification.
As a result, Dovizioso – who placed a lowly 16th in the 45-minute session – will progress automatically into Q2, while Redding must participate in Q1.
The Briton's time was just 0.008s slower than that managed by compatriot Crutchlow in a congested midfield group, which included Repsol Honda's Dani Pedrosa, who must partake in Q1.
Aside from Crutchlow, KTM's Bradley Smith was the only other rider to crash during the session when he fell at Turn 1.
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Maori Must Keep Options Open with National
Maori Must Keep Options Open with National
Maori must prepare itself to work with a National led government – if that's the outcome of this year's elections says Destiny New Zealand's Maori Affairs Spokesperson Hayden Solomon.
The Tainui candidate says because the Maori Party has ruled itself out of any relationship with National, Destiny New Zealand is the only genuine hope for Maori representation in a centre right government.
"National also needs a champion for traditional family values – which is what Destiny New Zealand primarily stands for. We've got to be good for both the Maori and general voter," said Mr Solomon.
He added that the future for Maoridom isn't in Treaty Settlements alone but in the ability of Maori to participate in the economy.
"Maori currently possess a $9 billion economic base with the potential to earn a further $45 billion over and above Treaty Settlements if Maori wage and employment rates were equal to non-Maori," said Mr Solomon. "Under Labour, Maori have had to contend with an economic environment that punishes success through high direct and indirect tax and wealth redistribution. Only a centre-right Government can lift the lid on that potential."
"A centre-right government is a good thing for Maori economic development. The problem with the National Party is it has virtually no Maori representation and therefore, little regard for the significance of the Treaty. That's where Destiny New Zealand comes into it," says Mr Solomon. "Destiny New Zealand would be the vanguard for Maori representation in a centre-right environment."


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Art is for me like a magical Bridge between the Visible and the Invisible.
I paint natural or supernatural creatures from folklore, myths and fairy tale with oils, acrylics, or mixed media.
In my works, I try to transmit love and respect for innocence and my attraction to the mysterious and to what is hidden and layered.
Unlike the colleagues who choose to focus on the current things to criticize or denounce, I prefer, for my part, to concentrate on subjects which make me happy and which I burn for, digging all the way down to the ancient roots of history and tapping in the most atemporal dimension I manage to access : I aim for my paintings to be as timeless as it is in my power to make them.
I enjoy to explore the magical, often forgotten, aspects of reality : a dimension of mystery and play, harmony and peace, still existing even though often well hidden under mundane happenings and in daily life.
A. de St.-Exupéry said 'The essential is invisible to the eyes'. I think a painter's task is 'to find the essential', and make it visible for everyone who wants to see and enjoy it.
I often like to depict characters which might look scary at a first approach and which, when seen without prejudices, reveal a positive aspect of wisdom, compassion, or protection, and sometimes also of transformation of the negative into positive.
I am fascinated by the figure of the Guardian, which is inherently good and protecting, but which has also a scary, terrible aspect: it has to scare away what threatens its protégé, so it must have claws and teeth to defend what is good, wise, innocent.
Though my way of thinking may be distant from the main streams, visual art is my way to encourage people to seek for the most innocent and harmonious part of things. And I confess that, along the lines of "ancient thinking" and in contraddiction with many a contemporary trend, I consider beauty an absolute value, and its mocking a taboo.
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How will councillors vote on the flyover?
Fireworks are expected today when Wellington city councillors decide whether to support one of two Basin Reserve flyover options proposed by the New Zealand Transport Agency.
But it is still possible they could support neither option and instead suggest an underground road between all or part of the Mt Victoria Tunnel and Buckle St.
The council will vote today on the flyover options and the dompost.co.nz will run a live blog from today's meeting.
Reserving their decision: Here's how your councillors have said they will vote on the flyover today:
Will you support a flyover in the council's submission?
Celia Wade-Brown: No
Helene Ritchie: No
John Morrison: Yes, option A
Ian McKinnon: Yes, option A
Leonie Gill: Yes, option A but extra mitigation required
Iona Pannett: No
Justin Lester: Yes, but only if appropriate mitigation is undertaken
Paul Eagle: No
Simon Marsh: Yes
Stephanie Cook: No
Will you be looking to introduce a tunnel option into the submission?
Celia Wade-Brown: Yes
Helene Ritchie: No
John Morrison: No, not affordable at this time
Ian McKinnon: No, but future-proof flyover for a Buckle St tunnel later
Leonie Gill: No, but future-proof flyover for a Buckle St tunnel later
Iona Pannett: Undecided
Justin Lester: Yes
Paul Eagle: Yes
Simon Marsh: No, but future-proof flyover for a Buckle St tunnel later
Stephanie Cook: Yes
Will you support option X through the council's submission?
Celia Wade-Brown: Maybe, but only if the plan is tweaked and made more affordable
Helene Ritchie: No
John Morrison: No, too expensive and wouldn't work
Ian McKinnon: No, too expensive and wouldn't work
Leonie Gill: No
Iona Pannett: Did not respond to the question
Justin Lester: Only if its design was revised
Paul Eagle: Yes, if the design was revised
Simon Marsh: No, too expensive
Stephanie Cook: No, but it's better than a flyover
Councillors Ray Ahipene-Mercer, Bryan Pepperell, Ngaire Marsh and Jo Coughlan did not respond to questions. Andy Foster declined to comment.
The council's draft submission, written by council officers, generally supports the agency's cheaper option - a $75 million flyover about 20 metres north of the Basin Reserve.
The other option, a $90m flyover about 65m north of the Basin, has not figured so far in the council's reckoning.
The agency would provide all the funding for the road, which would separate north-south traffic from east-west traffic around the Basin Reserve.
Council support for "grade separation" of traffic was voted on and agreed earlier this year. But the manner in which this would be achieved - a flyover or tunnel - was not debated.
Mayor Celia Wade-Brown is leading the charge for a tunnel of some sort to be included in the council's submission. She is supported by councillors including Justin Lester, Paul Eagle and Stephanie Cook.
The move comes despite the transport agency spelling out to councillors on Tuesday that there is no funding in the kitty for a tunnel option.
Instead, a flyover would be "future-proofed" so it could connect to a road beneath Buckle St should funds for its construction become available later.
The agency poured cold water on the Architecture Centre's underground road proposal, known as option X, for Buckle St. It said the costs of option X, originally estimated at $135m, could balloon out to more than $200m.
There is a strong contingent of councillors supporting a flyover option, including deputy mayor Ian McKinnon, John Morrison, Leonie Gill and Simon Marsh.
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By Jaime Rice
For the past several months my work schedule has been anything but routine. I could work 80 hours one week and 45 hours the next. One thing was certain, I did not have a set work schedule with set hours. Having a crazy work schedule directly affected my ability to train, the intensity at which I was able to train and my overall mental and physical fatigue. This past week was the end of the super long work days, at least for a while, and the beginning of getting back into my training routine.
My fitness/gym ADD kicked in a I decided I wanted a new challenge, as if I did not have enough on my plate, but what can I say, I get bored easily. I have experienced this before when I decided I wanted to powerlift while competing in bodybuilding. I wanted to prove you can do both and don't need to be pigeon-holed into one fitness path.
With that being said, I still want to actively powerlift –that is my main focus, but I also want to be a hell of a functional athlete. Oh – and I want to look like a bikini girl. Why can't I have it all?? I have fitness goals that I still want to achieve. For example, I eventually want to run a half marathon but powerlifters don't run right? This one does, and I believe you can do both with a well thought-out and planned program and proper nutrition.
Lisa told me she wanted to make a program to create Aesthetic Athletes, a hybrid of all fitness. For example; CrossFit, bodybuilding, powerlifting, runners, etc. Naturally I jumped at the chance to be her "guinea pig" for the program. We want to see what we can accomplish in 4 weeks' time. Typically you would need 12-16 weeks to see true transformation, but I am working with a limited timeframe and going for 4 weeks first and continuing as my work schedule allows.
Lisa's programming concept combines heavy lifts, some accessory work, functional fitness circuits and conditioning. Calories are kept high, but food is clean. Rest is ample to allow for recovery. And most important for keeping a feminine physique, core work is controlled and focused on an engaged TVA and overhead lifts are not too heavy, to avoid a widened waist and oversized traps. Ideally, this will be the be the ultimate hybrid of all my goals.
I started with a Fit test, Lisa provided, and I gave her my current weight and measurements. My weight is lower than it is normally – only because last week my literally kicked my butt and I was not able to eat as much as I would like. Here are my numbers:
Bodyweight: 120LBS
Height: 5'3"
Measurements: 34.5/ 25.5/ 37
Fit Test:
Mile Run: 7:04
400 Meter Sprint: 1:20
Max Pull-ups (consecutive/strict): 8
Max Toe to Bars (consecutive/strict): 8
Max Pushups (consecutive/past parallel): 25
Burpees in one minutes: 25
This was a lot harder than I anticipated! I only allowed myself 1-2 minutes of rest in between each exercise in order to get a true test of my endurance. I never run a 400-meter sprint, only 300 meter, therefore I am not sure if this is a good time. The same goes for burpees, I never do burpees because they are evil. Overall I am pleased with the numbers, but I know I can do better, especially with pull-ups and push-ups. I am looking to double my push-ups and at least get 12 pull-ups.
The next 4 weeks will be challenging to say the least! Not only am I still doing my powerlifting programing, I will add a nutritional plan and endurance cardio to my routine. I am not going to lie, the nutrition will be the hardest for me as it usually is for everyone but I am excited to see the transformation and see how my numbers improve.
Lisa, Laura and I believe you don't have to be stuck or forced to have only one fitness discipline. Unless you strictly want to be a Cross Fitter, Powerlifter, Marathoner, Yogi etc everyone could benefit from aspects of each type of training. This could be crucial if you suffer an injury or some other outside force that prohibits you from running, doing Cross Fit, or whatever is your choice. You don't stop training, seek out what works for you, Pilates or Yoga, always adapting your abilities.
This is The Skinny and the Thick of it version of making a powerlifter into an aesthetic athlete while maintaining strength. Stay tuned for, what I hope, is an awesome transformation in whatever form that will turn out to be!


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I have a recurring problem with given graphics from clients in an ACES workflow. For example if I get a packshot which has a sRGB 100% white backgorund and the product in front of it.If I bring that in with a sRGB IDT and view it through the RRT/ODT everything looks flat and wrong. And white is no longer white, of course. I would need the original display-referred look.You can grade that a little to it's original look, but I never really get there.
The same happens with logos and any kind of non-ACES graphics that has to hit a certain, company defined look.
Is there a standard method for handling that? I was thinking if maybe an Inverse RRT/ODT would lead to the correct look? I saw that there is indeed inverse of RRT and ODT on GitHub . But I find no implementation of that in OpenColorIO or in Resolve.
Thanks for any ideas!
Not in front of my Resolve system at the moment, but I believe Resolve's Rec.709 IDT is the inverse of the RRT plus the Rec. 709 ODT. So an image should pass through unchanged.
I will be pedantic but it will be unchanged in the limit of the inversion capabilities of the system, i.e. the red modifier is not fully invertible.
Yes, that's it Nick. Again you're right.
For a short moment I thought that could even help with my Cinem4D Problem discussed in another thread. But when passing through the inverses everything above 1 get clipped of course. As we are now coming from a display referred file. Even if that EXR file has values above 1 they get clipped this way. Which is correct.
So perfect solution for my asked problem. Would really be great if that would be included in opencolorio, So I could avoid that detour through resolve when compositing with displayreferred footage in Aftereffects.
Thanks again, Nick.
Ha! I did wonder about qualifying my answer.
While the transform is not completely invertible, because the pipeline passes the image back through the forward transform after inversion, the effect is for the total operation to be very close to transparent. If you pass a set of colour bars through this process, they will not hit the targets perfectly, and the PLUGE will be clamped off. But for normal images, the error is not visible.
Yeah! That is why I tagged myself as pedantic . I thought it would be important for the record to make that note on the invertibility. Speaking of which, difference of Ampas Goldens syntheticChart.01.exr and syntheticChart.01_from_InvRRT.exr:
Agree with Peter, this would be particularly useful when adopting ACES in a commercials pipeline.
In lieu of official support in the OCIO config, does anyone have a recipe for applying the inverted RRT/ODT in Nuke?
You can do it with OCIO. Just use an OCIOColorSpace node, and choose Output - sRGB as the input colour space.
This screen grab shows how a small amount of the extremities of the RGB cube is clipped by the backwards/forwards transform, but frankly you are unlikely to want to have such extremely saturated colours in your original sRGB image.
Actually, looking at it further, yellows do get quite badly desaturated by this process. I will do some more detailed testing tomorrow.
Thanks Nick - that's a great tip.
A few quick tests suggest it's likely to be good enough for a majority of uses. Much better than eye ball counter grading.
I checked with OCIO in Aftereffects and that works, too. Strange - why do the output transforms work as input transforms? Probably I haven't understood how OCIO works
For my custom made test scene that I checked yesterday with Resolve that works well. But as Nick mentioned possible problems with yellows I took a packshot that has many bright yellow text in it. And that gets totally wrong. Much too dark yellows and even in the white parts there comes some dark pixels from the render that are not visible in sRGB. So like Ben said: Can be a big help, but obviously it cannot be really inverted without loss.
Some of the transformation can be inverted automatically by OCIO (MatrixTransform, 1D FileTransform ones, etc...), for others you can specify the inverse, which is the case for some of the OCIO ACES colourspaces thus they work bi-directionally.
I just wanted to let you know, that I had a mistake in my chain of transforms in Aftereffects. The inversion seems to work better than I thought before.
I can even preserve values over 1 if I put the inverse RRT/ODT as last step in the chain.
Great help on the way to a some day pure ACES workflow
Just wondering if you found anything for this yellow desaturation issue ? Is there a dedicated discussion somewhere about that topic ?
I did some tests myself to understand more precisely how and where this happens, using InverseODTRec709 -> InverseRRT -> RRT -> ODTRec709 on image with saturated yellows, eg. from logos / titles (from what I recall the "Global desaturation (inverted)" in the InverseRRT can produce out of AP1 yellows that get lost by the clamp right after), but didn't have the time to go any further.
From what I understand the RRT/ODT Rec709 can't produce yellow with maximum saturation in the first place so we cannot expect the Inverse process to preserve all that but maybe there is a way to have a more controlled desaturation ? Also I find it interesting that this is mostly visible only for yellows.
I'll upload a kit for Affinity in a bit that solves this issue to some extend. I've successfully used it to convert a few sequences to something usable. Then put them into Compressor to get ProRes conversions that matched the colours in Nuke. It's not a 100% solution for everything. But what I've used it on worked for me.
Doing a bit of documentation writing right now.
EDIT: It'll have to wait. Somehow I managed to break the Library and thanks to Sandboxing I can't find what to delete so it can start over again.
I've uploaded a sparse version of it (due to binary leakage) here with a few notes how to install and how to use it.
I've recently done tests with a variety of 'target device gamuts' such as Rec709/1886, P3 DCI, P3 D60, Rec 2020 etc. I've plotted out the boundaries and there are certainly limits imposed by the RRT/ODT combinations which restrict which colours can be reproduced, when starting from the ACES AP1 (or AP0) "gamut" (not really a gamut per se). As one would expect the wider the target gamut the greater the range of colours that cannot be created (the more the RRT/ODT limits).
This is kind of a natural outcome of the ACES image rendering and is something I'm hoping will be looked at in the next revision of ACES.
My desire was to facilitate device dependent image manipulation such as graphics insertion/maximising the available output gamut for creative freedom.


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I despise, loathe and abhor the creepy chick syndrome game, "What if your fictitious husband loses a limb, goes blind, goes deaf, develops an allergy to pussy or winds up in a wheelchair?" This is how I want to spend my evening, pondering acceptable handicaps my non-husband may or may not get?! It's a no-win situation; in every game there's always that one altruistic dame who dates handys for sport, making the rest of us look like Cunt of the Year recipients. Predictably, each bird's list does a 180. As long as I don't have to roll him out of his wheelchair and on top of me, I can sit on his face; if he's flaccid and crippled from the waist down, he can finger bang me. As if that's an upside.
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Fertility Of Mind
I'm in my mid-late thirties.
Throughout my life, when asked if I wanted to have kids, my response was "I think so. I don't know. Maybe. I'm still on the fence.
Though not much has changed, the latter has been, and still is, my default answer. Adoption has always been on the table as a choice, as has the idea of getting knocked up.
Being raised by a single mother, in my mind, if I want kids, I will have them with or without a man. I never plan to get married again. I had a starter marriage for 5-minutes, it didn't take. Marriage and weddings make my gums itch, my knees weak and make me breakout in hives. I love and support my friends and family who want to get married and are into weddings. I happily attend, support, you know how you do.
I want to fall in love again. I want to be in a relationship and live with someone. I think love lasts as long as it's meant to, and so do relationships. I'm happy to fall in and out of love many times, and have.
Today, I went to see my doctor (she is great, by the way). The nurse hocked me about my ovum. The conversation went something like this:
- Nurse (21-years-old): (Snidely/bordering shock), When was your last period. Wait, are you even menstruating?!
- Katie's inner thought: Snatcharella, aren't I little too young for you to be asking me if my ovum have broken out the crates for Shiva? Conversely, is that an appropriate question? I was at a doctor's office, so, yeah. Right? I mean, right?
- Katie: I am still menstruating. I am not in menopause.
- Katie's inner thought: Even if I was in menopause, why can't I be fertile in other ways? Why is fertility tied to my worth? Why is a woman's identity tied to her womb and lactating knockers instead of her mind? (PS: I know, way too deep for a fucking doctor's appointment. There's a point, stay with me.)
As I waited for the doctor, I was so deep inside my head; an earthquake wouldn't have rattled me. And earthquakes scare the shit out of me. I'm the one screaming at the top of my lungs during tremors.
Before it wasn't a sensitive topic; before, it wasn't something I took issue with; before I was on the precipice of finding out whether or not I am fertile and if this disease has taken that option from me, among others.
On the third day of my period this month, I will know if I am fertile, womb wise, that is. So, yeah, it's a sensitive issue. Who knew?!
Generally speaking, I like options. The idea of not having the option to procreate is suddenly an issue. I didn't think it would be. Conversely, never once have I felt that I wasn't pregnant with possibilities. My worth has never been wrapped up in marriage and children. I define my worth. I am fertile with ideas, fertile with hope and possibilities, overflowing in brain ovum, in fact.
Recently, while talking to a friend of 20-years about fertility, my fertility, she asked me if I regretted having an abortion when I did at 21. I thought what an odd question. How do you correlate the two? So, I asked. I was markedly stunned by her response being the liberal feminist that she is.
"Katie, if you didn't have an abortion, you'd have a child. If you can't have kids, maybe God is punishing you.
Did you just step out of a 1950's sitcom?! Who are you right now? Are you new?! Have we met?! I have never regretted my abortion or the privilege of having the choice, and I never will. Additionally, what's with the God punishing me thing? On Yom Kippur after my abortion, I didn't even mention it in prayer. We're Jews. Since when have we practiced God guilt? When did you stop being a feminist and why didn't I get the memo? Grow an untwisted set of ovaries, sister. Wait I'm not done. I was in college. I made the right choice. You supported me then. Why aren't you lending the same support now?
Her response is irrelevant. Here's what isn't Yes. I'm scared. I don't know how I'll react if I am infertile. Shit, I don't even know if I want kids. Still. I know I want the fucking option. What I am also certain of, is that my fertility has never been ensconced in the recesses of my womb or my disease addled, vintage ovum. If my lady eggs have broken out the crates, I'll cross that shrouded mirror when the time comes.
- Nurse: Do you have kids?
- Katie: No. Do you?
- Nurse: No. I want them so badly. Do you want kids?
- Katie: I don't know. I might not be able to have kids.
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The difference shouldn't be too terribly noticable, but I'm throwing it out there anyway.
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