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New York Unmasked

by Harry Siegel

Imagining our city, for worse and for better, after the coronavirus pandemic

The city that never sleeps is taking a nap now, and it’s going to be a very different place when it finally wakes up.

Not long after the World Trade Center was destroyed on Sept. 11, 2001, and again after Lehman Brothers collapsed on Sept. 15, 2008, there was a lot of talk about how New York wouldn’t be the same. Both times, reports of our collective demise proved to be greatly exaggerated as the city quickly recovered, economically speaking, and resumed the upward path — ever more prosperous, populated and pricey — it’s remained on for at least the last quarter-century.

This time is different.

Any remaining vision of the city somehow picking up more or less where things had been left off went away with the decision to start shutting down the trains for four hours each night. That’s a huge though supposedly temporary shift for a system that’s run 24 hours a day for over a century with only the briefest of interruptions — until now the only one in the country that doesn’t turn off, as I’ve been shocked to re-learn every time I make the mistake of visiting another city. As with many of the decisions New York and the nation have made in this plague year, it will be much more difficult to turn things back on than it was to turn them off.

Already, the devastation is staggering. In less than eight weeks, the 13,168 (as of Friday night) confirmed coronavirus deaths here have exceeded the total number of murder victims, 12,509, over the past two decades — and that’s counting the 2,977 victims of 9/11.

New York managed to keep the death count down to 13,168 at the cost of putting the city and its economy in the equivalent of a medically induced coma, and with no assurances at all that a second wave of infections won’t be coming despite that.

While putting New York under helped keep the first wave from completely overwhelming the medical system here, as happened in Italy, “the point where we can really start at reopening…obviously is a few months away at minimum,” Mayor de Blasio said Friday.

Even at that point, whenever we finally get there, it’s hard to see everyone just getting back on the train for a crushed morning commute to the office, or servers returning to packed restaurants and bars and theaters and nightspots. Forget about tourists flying in to burn dollars; it’s an open question how many of the generally better-off New Yorkers who’ve left in the course of this will return here, or how many families will borrow or pay now so students can have the city as their campus — or if there will be a campus at all this fall.

This is all surreal. While some people talk about how the virus ravaging New York compares to 9/11, Donald Trump — who claims he lost hundreds of friends on 9/11, though he’s never named a single one of them — dispatches fighter planes to fly low over the city as a tribute to first responders.

While we still don’t know why New York was hit so hard by the virus, it’s clear that density — in places from the Meatpacking District here to the meatpacking plants in the Midwest — plays a big role in spreading it. And this is a place built on density, by far the densest big city in America as well as the biggest.

So this witchy hour we’re in is looking less like a PAUSE than a painful and fundamental shift in how the city functions and what it means to be a New Yorker.

To get through it, many people need to keep looking ahead and, I hope, looking at what New Yorkers can do in their own lives and demand from their politicians to see the city finally emerge as a fairer and more resilient one . I was born in New York City just ahead of the blackout babies, in November of 1977 — the month that Ed Koch was elected mayor and started to set the city on the path it’s mostly remained on until the virus — and I’ve remained here pretty much since. My dad grew up here, and his dad , and me and my brother are both raising our daughters here now, walking distance from each other and Rosie and Zadie.

I’m committed to the city for a lot of reasons, in addition to my family here: I own a house (or at least the bank lets me live in it), and one that’s bizarrely worth much more than I bought it for, at least if I was to sell it. My kids have a couple hundred square feet of their own outside as we shelter in place. And I know a bit and write a lot about New York, which really isn’t a skill set that travels.

But the truth is that the city of the past two decades has felt less and less like home, and more and more like the parts of Manhattan I try to avoid. I’ve spent too much of my adult life railing against the hipsters, gentrifiers, trustafarians and yuppies who didn’t have the good taste to spend their money here and then leave but instead “discovered” neighborhoods and remade them in their images, often to be priced out in time by new “discoverers.” I saved a bit of spleen for the people who rail against those people, rather than do something more productive with their time.

New York has become a city of increasingly sterile retail, one where internet listings have made real estate a more transparent and internationally accessible marketplace for foreign capital to reshape neighborhoods that preserve less and less of their old characters — for better and for worse.

It’s a corporate town, full of semi-interesting hustlers and characters along with its steady share of the depraved, the doomed, the damned and the dull. I’ve seen enough and read enough to know that none of that is new. But it’s metastasized over decades of financialized and increasingly monopolized and VC-fueled growth to swallow other values and ways of life. It’s hard to swim against a tide of money, and it takes a certain mania to even try.

Some of this is selfish, for sure. I preferred the waterfront of my youth, when the piers were barren and all but off-limits but for the bold and the desperate. No one with means would walk there, let alone live there, since it still had the taint of not so long ago shipping and industry and the rougher trades that lived by the waterfront, when the High Line was just a long-abandoned elevated track west of the projects that you could break into and walk on.

That all became part of the steel-and-glass luxury city that Mike Bloomberg described, one here for companies that can afford the best and priciest, and the people who draw incomes from those companies, directly or by providing services for their FIRE (that’s finance, insurance and real estate) workers who live in The City while firefighters commute in from Westchester and Long Island, or by constructing the buildings these people live in, or from the bloated government that services the “other” people who need help to stay here at all. A city that’s priced hospital beds out of big swathes of Manhattan and Brooklyn to clear space for luxury housing.

For years, I’ve been anticipating a reset as office space declines in importance with the rise of remote work, and that in turn brings down commercial and residential prices; hoping for a different, sturdier and livelier New York that exists for and better reflects the people who live here rather than serving as a clearinghouse for the world’s money. Over my adult life I’ve read endless warnings — including in this paper — about the return of the “bad old days” that are long gone for most New Yorkers, if they were here for those days at all. Now, we’re about to get a real taste of what a sharp downturn, along with a hostile federal government, feels like: “Drop Dead.” Now they’re looming as trading floors are vacant along with everything else that isn’t actually essential, and much of what’s abruptly left won’t soon return or the money that they brought in and splashed around.

This will be painful, but New York has always found ways to make new uses of what’s here. The same way that small and sturdy Brooklyn rowhouses built for the burgeoning middle class woke up one day as $2 million “townhouses,” and Single Residence Occupancies that single men depended on to maintain lives here, such as those were, become mansions with enough money and time, office spaces can become creative spaces like warehouses became artist’s lofts. Finally, housing prices, and everything else, should relate to the incomes of the bulk of the people working here. Right now, they relate to the vagaries of the global markets.

I’ll repeat that: The size of our economy, and real estate prices, should relate to the value of the goods and services people here actually produce. That will hurt a lot of New Yorkers who’ve invested in the city, including me, as property values and rents flatten or even go down, but some of that pain is needed. A city that’s too expensive for gas stations or grocery stores — looking at you, Manhattan — is too expensive for most people.

I hope we’re becoming a city that gives a proper Bronx cheer to Airbnb and Seamless and Uber and WeWork and all the venture capital-funded wannabe monopoly “tech” companies looking to “disrupt” fundamental aspects of our life by losing money for long enough to drive their competitors out of business altogether. That resists the convenience of Amazon and its ilk to support our local grocery and book and hardware stores, so that those are still there when we really need them.

A city that knows better than to cut off its nose to spite its face, now that we know better than to touch our faces. If New York has to sleep now to survive, it’s the perfect time to dream.

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This essay appeared in the New York Daily News, May 3, 2020.

Photo via ShutterStock

#NYC #Covid19 #pandemic recovery #a city's identity #Harry Siegel

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douchebagbrainwaves · 4 years

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OK, I'LL TELL YOU YOU ABOUT INVESTOR

If anywhere should be quiet, that should. By the nineteenth century that had changed. But the techniques for building integrated circuits, and techniques for building a new type of venture firm? They just arrived back from NYC, and when you resort to that the results are distinctly inferior. If the startup can't raise the rest, the lead is out too.1 The other big force leading people astray is money. Now I would guess that practically every Stanford or Berkeley undergrad who knows how to program has at least considered the idea of fixing payments was right there in plain sight, they never saw it, because their unconscious mind shrank from the complications involved. Google, companies in Silicon Valley than Boston, then they're better off in Silicon Valley in the 1960s.2 And this is not a policy question.

So when you get a rejection, use the data that's in it, and the granary the wealth that each family created. The structure of their business means a partner does at most 2 new investments a year, the total cost in stock of a new hire's salary and overhead into stock you should multiply the annual rate by about 1. And VCs who try to compete with angels by doing more, smaller deals will probably find they have to work actively to prevent your company growing into a weed tree, dependent on this source of easy but low-margin money.3 To survive it you need a set of techniques mostly orthogonal to those used in physically getting up and down mountains. Idealistic undergraduates find their unconsciously preserved child's model of wealth confirmed by eminent writers of the past. And since I know from my own experience that the rule against buying stock from founders is a stupid one, this is exactly what you'd get on noticing that some people made much more than others.4 But the two phenomena rapidly fused to produce a principle that now seems obvious: paying energetic young people market rates, and getting correspondingly high performance from them.5

They're all competing for a slice of a fixed amount of funding is an obsolete one left over from the days when I might as well have sat in front of his client, that he'd screwed up, he instead had to insist on retaining all the draconian terms in it, and not simply write that stocks were up or down, reporter looks for good or bad news there was that day? For example, if you find yourself packing a bottle of vodka just in case.6 When you do negotiate with VCs, remember that they've done this a lot more on its design. But I have no trouble imagining that one person could be 100 times as much.7 We spent three months building a version 1, which we then presented to investors, constantly look for signs of where you stand. For me the list is four things: books, earplugs, a notebook, and a pen. That's why our motto is Make something people want. Prestige is the opinion of the rest of the world in 587, the Chinese system was very enlightened. It shows no sign of slowing. In a traditional series A round for, say, corporate law, or medicine.8

A big-name firms, but they aren't one another's main competitor. But some spectacular boundary cases like Einstein in the patent office proved they weren't identical. I'm less American than I seem. Deadlock wasn't the only disadvantage of letting a lead investor manage an angel round before going to VCs. You turn the fan back on, and the terms end up being whatever the lawyer considers vanilla. But there is another set of customs for being ingratiating in print is that most essays are written to persuade.9 Why risk it? It will be very valuable to understand precisely which ideas to keep and which can now be reduced to a formula. And of course there's another kind of thinking, when you're starting something new, that requires complete quiet. In a typical VC funding deal, the capitalization table looks like this: Starting a startup gives you more freedom and the opportunity to make a small number of expensive ones.10 If an investor gives you specific reasons for not investing, look at your startup and ask if they're right.

There are millions of small businesses in America, but only a few thousand are startups. And so they can try him out—and then a month later as employee #1. It costs you a little more information, and that was called work; the rest of the world in 587, the Chinese system was very enlightened. Make sure if you take the latter route that the lawyer is representing you rather than merely advising you, or his only duty is to the advantage of investors, who have in the past.11 Some ideas so obviously entail alarming schleps that anyone can see them. But except for these few anomalous cases, work was pretty much defined as not-fun. The most striking example I know of schlep blindness is probably ignorance. And the reason it's inaccurate is that, paradoxically, funding very early stage startups is not mainly about funding.12 Captains of industry issued orders to armies of workers, and everyone knew what they were supposed to do.

Notes

We wasted little time on, cook up a take out your anti-dilution provisions, even if we think we're so useless that in New York, people who said he'd met with a lawsuit just as big a cause as it sounds.

The Quotable Einstein, Princeton University Press, 2006. It's hard to say now. Many people feel confused and depressed in their graves at that. So if anything Boston is falling further and further behind.

Predecessors like understanding seem to have fun in college is much into gaming. The empirical evidence suggests that if the public conversation about women consists of fighting, their voices. That will in many cases be an inverse correlation between the two elsewhere, but I think this is also the perfect point to spread from.

In this context, issues basically means things we're going to have been five years ago.

In high school is rounding error compared to what used to reply that they discovered in the back of your last round of funding rounds are at some of those things that's not true. In part because Steve Jobs got pushed out by Mitch Kapor, is that they can grow the acquisition offers are driven only by money. 17 pilot in World War II had become so embedded that they cared about doing search well at a particular valuation, that good art is a bit misleading to treat macros as a kid.

This law does not appear to be extra skeptical about any plan that centers on things you like doing. Siegel points out that successful startups get started in 1975, said the wage differentials prevailing at the network level, because Julian got 10% of the things we focus on their ability but women based on respect for their judgement. An investor who says he's interested in each type of mail, I was just having lunch.

For founders who are weak in other ways.

But so many of which he can be fooled by grammar.

A rounds from top VC funds whether it was briefly in Britain in the world, and a back-office manager written mostly in good ways. Back when students focused mainly on getting a job after college, they sometimes describe it as a predictor.

Parker, William R. Copyright owners tend to make that their system can't be buying users for more than most people don't dislike him for a long time by sufficiently large numbers of users comes from ads on other investors doing so much control, and for recent art, they mean. One new thing the company goes public. It should be asking will you build this?

People tell the craziest lies about me. 6 billion for the next uptick after that, go ahead. At one point a competitor will deliberately threaten you with a Web browser that you can do is adjust the weights till the top stories were de facto chosen by human editors.

2%. And when they were forced to stop, but unfortunately not true! Few can have a big VC firm wants to program a Turing machine. I wrote the first million is worth more, and partly because you need to be, and when given the Earldom of Rutland.

Thanks to Maria Daniels, Paul Buchheit, Robert Morris, Sarah Harlin, Savraj Singh, and Geoff Ralston for inviting me to speak.

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DEREK/STILES

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Fandom: TeenWolf

Even longer list of fanfics :)....

top favourites, more top favourites, part 1

Chasing After You Series

Author: FlyAwayMeow (rjaejoo)

Part 1: Pretty Boy

Summary: He's always been a little bit aware of his best friend’s nephew. Dark black hair, bright green eyes and milky white skin, Derek Hale’s always been a pretty boy.

Part 2: Chasing After You

Summary: He's always been alone and he plans to stay that way. Who needs a mate (or two) when you have the city as your playground?

Part 3: Finders, Keepers, Never Letting Go

Summary: What Derek wants, Derek always gets. Fate and reality be damn.

Part 4: Reflection

Summary: It's been five weeks since his return. Stiles reflects on the changes in his life.

Part 5: Barreling Towards the Inevitable

Summary: He’s not ready for Stiles’ first heat, but the omega’s body is saying that they are rapidly barreling towards the inevitable.

Part 6: Unexpected Turn of Events

Summary: Stiles first heat has arrived, and yeah, that, that was not what Chris was expecting at all.

Part 7: Olympic Levels of Enthusiasm

Summary: Stiles has Olympic levels of enthusiasm and no refractory period. Chris might be too old for this and considers becoming a monk.

Part 8: Snack

Summary: An early morning snack starts the beginning of a quiet friendship.

Part 9: A Teasing Game

Summary: Derek and Stiles likes to tease, especially when their alpha can't do anything but watch.

Part 10: Two Pretty Mates

Summary: Most alphas are lucky to have only one mate and here Chris is with two pretty ones.

Part 11: Just Give Me Fresh Air

Summary: He was always a little more feral, growing up on the streets will do that. He’s not leaving, he just needs a little air.

Game On

Author: stilinskisparkles

Summary: Derek first sees him from across the quad four days into fall semester. He’s sitting on one of the long benches, a marker pen in his mouth, grinning at something the kid lounging on the bench beside him is saying. When he laughs properly he pulls the pen out and throws his head back, his neck a long, lean line Derek is entranced by. He flicks the page in his book and highlights something, tossing the cap up in the air and catching it with his teeth.

Warm and Safe

Author: hazelNuts

Summary: He noticed an unfamiliar scent in the air. It was very faint, but strong enough for Derek to follow it. There was a hint of human and some other animal. The scent was laced with fear and sadness. He approached cautiously. There was no telling what he would find.

Adopting a Hybrid

Author: LucifersHitman

Summary: Derek adopting little fox hybrid Stiles and Stiles riding the fuck out of him in panties at night because I would really really like that ....

Once Bitten

Author: minkscantsew

Summary: Stiles gets bitten by a werefox that's running loose on Hale lands.The pack helps him deal with his new were status while searching for the fox who bit him in hopes of reversing the bite.But is the werefox really their biggest problem?

The Fox and the Wolf

Author: Dexterous_Sinistrous

Summary: The war between the fox and wolf clans has raged for centuries, ignited in a time before anyone can remember. Now both clans—tired of the bloodshed and hate—are searching for a way to end the war.Crowned prince Stiles Stilinski—heir to the fox clan—has agreed with his father to meet with the Hales, the ruling royal family over the wolf clan. Under the counseling of the Druids, both clans are presented with a solution to the war: unite the Stilinski and Hale clans through marriage. To quell their people's anger, both Stiles and Derek—eldest living Hale Alpha—are urged to accept the other as an equal; as their mate.For the sake of their people, both houses make the ultimate sacrifice by choosing duty over love. But, out of what was first assumed to be compromised, quickly turns to be a better match than either could have hoped for. But not all is easy for either clan, as some members refuse to believe that the war could end so easily.

Get Furry

Author: captainmycatisthedevil

Summary: All Stiles knows is running. And then he meets the McCall pack. He learns that family means cuddles, movie nights, wrestling, and piggyback rides. He learns that supernatural creatures can work with hunters, and run through the woods without fear of death. But he also learns that his safety may not be absolute, and he doesn't know if his new friends can keep him in this new life away from fleeing. Stiles may not perfectly remember what pack is, but he's starting to feel like he may figure out what home feels like.

A Fox is a Wolf Who Sends Flowers

Author: JusticeBanana

Summary: Stiles were only going for a run and some playtime in the woods. He didn't realize he would end up in the passenger seat of Derek's car snuggling on a blanket. The man he thought were all hard and had such sharp edges had just taken him and placed him in his camaro to get him help. He'd managed too get closer to Derek as a fox for thirty minutes than he had for years as Stiles. Or: the one where Stiles gets into trouble as a fox and Derek saves the day.

Full Moon On The Rise

Author: hazelNuts

Summary: It's Stiles' first full moon after he's been bitten and things really don't go the way they expected it.Then, Stiles starts to shrink. It’s so fast that Derek doesn’t have time to respond. In less than a second there is nothing left of Stiles but a pile of clothes.

The Fox And The Wolf

Author: orphan_account

Summary: Stiles is in his fox form running in the woods, wanting to just escape it all. Almost everyone in the pack has a mate except Stiles and they just don't get how that feels. Then he meets Derek and maybe all of that is about to change.

The Beekeeper and the Honey Loving Fox

Author: pizzz_10

Summary: Derek is a beekeeper, who sells honey at the local farmers market. lately something been getting In the back yard and messing with his hives to steal honey. Derek was expecting an animal doing this, but he's wrong.

He's... Something

Author: countrygirlsfun

Summary: Stiles has to admit, keeping his secret under wraps is easier than he expected around his new-found werewolf friends. Except for the Alpha that is never where he should be.

I Believe I Can Make You Scream

Author: nameloc_ar_115

Summary: Many say that wolves and foxes don't get along. There is always an exception to the rule.

Stiles' Secret Life

Author: AlexandriaBusch2828

Summary: At a young age Stiles's family was no ordinary, neither was he. In the Supernatural world you're always in danger. On top of that your family works in a facility called The Fireflies which were also known as the deadliest assassin group. Claudia and John Stilinski were known as the deadliest assassins ever. Everyone who knew them were scared, but those were very few people. If you messed with them, you ended up dead by sunrise. Stiles grew up trained to be the next best assassin but after a mission leading to a death of a member, both father and son retired with massive fear of using their skills ever again. Years later they come across the odd town of Beacon Hills revealing a series of unexpected events one of them being Stiles getting himself into a pack. Stiles' secret life is coming to a thin thread and at any moment could be cut lose and all the dangerous people from his past might crawl back to haunt him and the people he loves. Will he face the past when his friends and pack are in terrible danger or will he keep pretending to be the harmless human in the pack?

What Does the Fox Say?

Author: Reaping

Summary: "a fic where Stiles temporarily gets turned into a fox and is a total shitbag obnoxious pos, biting Derek the whole time and just being really aggressive with him but they managed to fix him and turn him back and Stiles just doesn't stop the behavior and runs at Derek all the time and attacks him and bites him and shit"This was supposed to be that. Except it just kept getting longer and longer. And I tripped and spilled feels all over the place. Then tried to make up for that with porn. So it got, you guessed it, longer.

What Does the Fox Say?

Author: sastielhugs

Summary: Follow the story of werefox!Stiles trespassing the forbidden lands of the werewolves and meeting true alpha Derek Hale who’s still under the leading hand of his uncle, while Scott has his own pack in the other end of the woods. The creatures happen to have problems when someone or something is trying to take them down and blame them for the many murders in Beacon Hills during the summer. Even that can’t stop Stiles from finding new adventure and mate in the face of Derek Hale.200 years ago, when Beacon Hills was just a village and controlled by humans, the area around was fought over by two different species – the werefoxes and the werewolves. Some died until the elders made a truce. The area was outlined with equal parts for the foxes and for the wolves. No one had the right to enter the other area without permission from the alpha Wolf or Alpha Fox. No one broke the rules in those 200 years… Until…

Catboy Stiles Meets the Big Bad Alpha

Author: dragontattoo75

Summary: Ever since he was a little kid, catboy Stiles had heard scary stories from his dad about the big, bad alpha, Derek Hale, ruling his huge forest territory with an iron paw. It was completely out of Stiles’ control that he had to cross over the border. Right?

The Fox and the Wolf (Hound)

Author: naturegoddess210

Summary: Takes place some time after -Fallen-Derek and Stiles are mates, who have been through hell and back, but Derek wants to turn Stiles, wants to bite him and dreams of them both running under the full moon together, but Stiles is afraid the bite will change him, will he still be the same old Stiles? or will the bite turn him into something he doesn’t recognize?

The One Where There is Bacon

Author: mikkimouse

Summary: Stiles is a hurt fox, Derek is a werewolf out in the middle of nowhere.

A Light in the Darkness

Author: grimmfairy

Summary: A month after Scott turns away from Stiles, a month of loneliness and being ignored and guilt and dark feelings, Stiles starts getting texts from Jackson. Jackson is coming back, and he wants to join the Pack. Then he finds out about Scott's actions and goes to Stiles to comfort him and help him get back to a stable place emotionally. When Derek returns, he sparks a connection that has long lain dormant. Jackson wants his life with Stiles and Derek. If he happens to kick Scott's ass and Theo's ass, well, that's just life, isn't it? Excerpt: To Stilinski: Scott wants to talk to you because he thinks everything will just magically be ok. I told him to go fuck himself.

To Stilinski: He's coming to you after the meeting.

To Jackson: Come over?

To Stilinski: On my way.

^sidenote: this is technically incomplete, but can be considered as completed too.

The Lighthouse Keeper

Author: tugela54

Summary: On a rural island just off Alaska’s northern Inside Passage, stands a centuries old lighthouse - the perfect sanctuary for its keeper to hide when the moon is full, to burn and rage through its cycle with the townsfolk being none the wiser.But then a new resident comes to Beacon Harbour – a bright-eyed young student chasing an elusive whale species – and all of a sudden those thick stone walls seem paper thin…

Take Your Breath Away

Author: thecheekydragon

Summary: Stiles didn’t need Scott to tell him who their new English Lit teacher was. He knew it was Derek Hale. He also knew Derek Hale was hot.

Call Boys Need Love Too

Author: Brego_Mellon_Nin

Summary: Stiles pulls up in front of a big, old house, where the back half is still looking charred and burnt. It gives the whole place a sort of depressed and haunted feel, but well, Stiles is here for a job, so he ignores it and slams the door on his old jeep, trying not to acknowledge how decrepit it looks right beside the guy’s sleek black camaro, and makes his way towards the steps leading up to the porch.He barely manages to knock before the door is ripped open and there, in the door, stands the most gorgeous guy Stiles thinks he’s ever seen. He’s like a whole other level of hot, so much that he should be in the freaking Guinness Book of Records for most gorgeous face and perfect stubble ever!

Happy Birthday Mr Hale Series

Author: mikkimouse

Part 1: Happy Birthday, Mr Hale

Summary: He expected some level of chaos to greet him. He did not expect to see Stiles standing shirtless in the living room, wearing a sparkly tiara on his head and a pink tutu over his jeans, holding Mia's tea set in one hand and a plastic sword in the other.Stiles flushed, pink splotching his cheeks and spreading halfway down his pale, toned chest. Derek wanted to bite it, wanted to pinch those puffy nipples and tease them with his tongue, wanted to shove Stiles up against the wall and make him flush everywhere.

Part 2: Gentle? I Think You’re Mistaken

Summary: Derek was the one who'd asked for it, telling Stiles they needed to talk in person with a text message. At first, Stiles had been worried Derek was regretting That Night, but Derek had assured him that wasn't the case.Still, being a scrawny teenager whose first year at college hadn't been the orgy of sexual experimentation that he'd hoped for, Stiles had just a skoosh of anxiety about it.

Part 3: Delicate? I Went Through That Phase

Summary: To: Stiles When are you going to be back in town?

From: Stiles Next weekend. What are you thinking?

To: Stiles I'd like to try that student/teacher fantasy you mentioned. Maybe with spanking, if that's okay.

From: Stiles FUCK. Yes. So much yes.

Part 4: Tender? Want Me to Say I Love You?

Summary: "Are you still up for this?" Derek asked. "If you're tired, we can reschedule—""No!" Stiles cut him off. "No, I am one hundred percent on board with doing this tonight. I've been stressed all day—well, for the past two weeks really—and I could seriously, seriously use some relief."

Part 5: Love? I’ve Heard It’s All the Rage

Summary: "He doesn't want—" Derek began."Oh, so you're psychic now?" Erica cut him off. "You know exactly what he wants, never mind that neither of you have brought it up since you started fucking in August? Does that mean you can give me the winning lottery numbers? Ooo, or can you tell me if Laura got me that sexy pink lacy thing for my birthday next month? I'm really hoping she did."Derek glared at her. Erica met his glare with an arched eyebrow of her own.The hell of it was, she was right, and he knew it. This was a conversation that needed to happen sooner rather than later, and putting it off for over a month was not going to make having it any easier."Next weekend," he finally said. "He'll be here. We'll have it in person."

Love? I Heard It's All the Rage

Author: Yggdrastiles (hauntedsilences)

Summary: Based off of the song "Love" by Abney Park. This was written for Sterek Week 2015 and is nothing but filth, truly. Although some fluff crept in somehow...

Fill Me In

Author: cloudsarefluffy

Summary: Anon asked: How about a Sterek prompt right after Derek becomes an alpha. After that everything about Derek is so much more; his muscles are bloated in size, his cock and balls are huge, and even the amount he comes is enormous. Do size kink and Stiles worshiping Derek while Derek humiliates Stiles about their size difference until Stiles comes on him. Then Derek makes him lick it off of him. And add any other kinks or such that you'd like!

The night that Peter Hale died and Derek became the alpha — his eyes flashing red, locking onto Stiles as he gritted out, “I’m the alpha now" — everything changed. Derek changed.

Totally Planned on the Walk of Shame

Author: Sugakane_01

Summary: Stiles wiggled a bit to adjust the fit of his skinny jeans and winced slightly. There was a fine line between paint and pants and he was pretty sure that line had frowned at him in disapproval two sizes back. He popped a few breath mints and resisted the urge to run nervous hands through his hair lest he ruin all of Lydia's hard work. Stiles took a deep breath, sent up a prayer, and stepped into line at Howl, the most underground of underground nightclubs that Beacon Hills had to offer. Not that Beacon Hills had any other underground nightclubs but still, Stiles was there, ready to unleash his inner beast and walk on the wild side. Jazz hands.

This is How Legends Were Made

Author: Delta_Immortal

Summary: Caught between the Hales and the Argents in their war, Stiles finds himself a slave of the great Hale pack. Stiles spends each day working hard, hoping to earn his freedom and see his sick father. It also seems each day he’s capturing more and more attention from Derek, the young Hale lord. Stiles tells himself it’s mostly because Derek is merely trying to figure out how to send the annoying, useless slave away- not because of affection, despite the tales coming from the rumor mill.It doesn’t matter what Derek's intentions are. Stiles can’t bother with love right now. He's got to keep his head down and survive long enough to keep his promise to Kate Argent. After all, she's promised to keep his father safe.

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#fanfics #fanfiction #fanfic #teenwolf #derek hale #stiles stilinski #sterek

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France & Burgundy: Tennis, biking and wine - June, 2018

Friday, June 1, 2018

All systems pret, landing CDG a huit heures and then...traffic. Would a train have been faster into the city? J'en sais pas, but alors, the Bordens and Monks arrived at the Hotel d'Aubusson on Rue Dauphine (near St. Germain de Pres) in the Left Bank 6th Ard. to the Parisian natives Pecheleses and Whichards on their way (minus Brian) to Roland Garros. A quick clean up in borrowed rooms and then subwaying from Odeon stop to Autiellier (?) and walked with the throngs to Roland Garros. A french version of Forest Hills (and efficiency to match the time period of Forest Hills,) we finally arrived inside where #2 seed 21 year old German Alexander Zverev beat Damir Dzumhur of Bosnia on main Philippe Chatrier Court in a 5 set thriller. Also saw Caroline Wozniacki smush Frenchwoman Pauline Parmentier 0,3. Fun to walk in the smaller courts and see Americans Steve Johnson and Jack Sock win in doubles up close and personal. Prefect day for tennis that was overcast and cool, but little rain. Big thrill when we passed Venus and Serena being ushered into the locker room right past us after they won their doubles match. Serena sporting her cat suit look.

More traffic to get to the Gare d'Lyon for the high speed train to Dijon. (French blow out #1: informed not so nicely by a French passenger that people do not talk on French trains. Zut Alors...) Standing strong overall though with occasional sinking spells, (the long days helped since it doesn't get dark until at least 10pm,) we walked from the Dijon train station to the Grande Hotel de Dijon to meet Butterfield and Robinson in the morning. A note from Damien and little mustards prezzies greeted us with out B&R stash bags for the van. A light supper and Jordy gave a lesson in martinis that did not include pear vodka. A 10 of a day.

Saturday, June 2, 2018 - Day 1 - 35 miles

First up...34 miles through the Burgundy countryside. A taxi took us to meet our guide Damien at a hotel in Nuits St. Georges and with our nifty bike packs and personal GPS tablets, we are off through the Cote D'or region on the Route de Grand Cru. Crystal blue skies and vineyards everywhere. After our warm-up, we head to the B&R "Secret Spot" at Moulin XXX (Gristmill) for a country home by a stream where Mapie and Franck await with a GORGEOUS "picnic" of pate, chicken, green beans, salad and the addictive and omnipresent dijon vinaigrette, little pizza pieces and a fab fresh cherry /custard type tart and our first intro to Burgundian wines starting with 2014 village level Clos du Chateau de Puligny - Montrachet followed by a 2015 Maranges 1er Cru.

Onward to complete the ride which was NOT for sissies and included a "massive hill" (Damian's words 2+k up hill) before coasting to the incredible Abbaye de Bussiere, a former Abby that the former owners of Amberly Castle hotel in England bought from the Catholic Church and have made it outstanding with fab grounds and room and Michelin restaurant.

Our first "event" by B&R was that evening with wine expert Jean-Pierre Renard who gave us history (think Jurassic, monks - no relation - limestone, climate) and explanation of the four levels of the Chardonnay and Pinot Noir grapes which are Bourgogne, Village, 1er Cru, Grand Cru. On to dinner, which was actually meant to be the final night's meal, but Damian revealed that we are doing the trip in reverse. That explains a few things. So tired, we skip the pomp and circumstance of all courses and go to bed, but topped off with a Grand Cru Pinot Noir. Don't ask me from where it came. A 10 of a day.

Sunday, June 3, 2018 - Day 2 - 40 miles

Another beauty of a day plus a fab breakfast spread and we started down the canals making our way eventually to the hill town of Chateauneuf-en-Auxios. The canals are peaceful and a nice ride through countryside and delightful and quiet tiny Burgundy villages. Roses are everywhere and breathtaking. We left the vineyards on the other side of the mountains and were surrounded by wheat, peas, wildflowers and cows. And then the vertical climb up to Chateauneuf...dang. But well rewarded with a casual lunch of crepes, ratatouille, and ice cream...oh and beers, at L'Oree du Bois, a small cafe with delightful terrace by the church.

Brian, Mills and Suzanne head back for a tour of the Abby grounds and the rest of us coulda, shoulda but chose to flex our egos and continue on for a total of 41 miles. Hills and hell as we surpass our enthusiast level IMO. But allors, a good reminder for the next time the ego devil sits on my shoulder. Regardless, a 10 of a day.

Drinks outside while Clive, the owner, held court which was very interesting before heading inside to the more casual restaurant. The same cherry tart was totally boring and could not touch Mapie's. A Chablis among others for the night and wait for it...a 10 of a day.

#mashedpotatoes

Monday, June 4, 2018 - Day 3 - 24 miles

Overnight storms thankfully cleared and the overcast skies were a welcome temp, though eventually giving way to sun, also good. We packed up and a taxi took us to meet Damian at Bligny-sur-Ouche ultimately to Montrachet. Back over the hills to the land of vineyards with yet another significant hill, but we are expert “enthusiasts” now, so piece of cake...right? But a wonderful view from the cliffs into the village and vineyards below before heading on to Mapie and Franck to meet us with lunch at the L'abbaye de Morgeot, and the vineyard belonging to a Marquis/Duke of Magenta called Domaine du Duc de Magena. His widow is Scottish and her sister and cousin met us along with the Domaine Director of Operations for a lesson in winemaking before lunch (while the Duchess tended the tourists for the season up at their private Chateau de Sully about 30 minutes away.) We tried their Bourgogne, 1er cru and sparking wine cremant. And of course got our B&R biking shirts. Lunch was outstanding again with ham, roast beef, beets and feta, cous cous, salad, pate, tomato stuffed with guacamole, potato salad, plus molten chocolate cakes and orange slices. If only....

A quick 6K into town to our new hotel L'Hotel Montrachet. A much welcomed day of 24 miles total. We met Jane Eyre (yes that is her name and later revealed the Australian hairdresser turned winemaker and ex-daughter-in-law to Jean Pierre - how about them grapes?? - a small world in those vineyards.) She explained much more easily for our American ears about the wines in an experiential outdoor "classroom" among the Chardonnay vineyards with wines from Meursault-Perrieres 1er Cru and others of the area.

Dinner (DOYO) was a drive to Pommard for a fine meal of ravioli en boullion, beef cheeks and frothy cheese dessert at Aupres du Clocher. And 1er and Grand Cru red and white of the area. It was....a ten of a day esp as the storms once again held off before settling in.

#mexicanfrenchaccent

Tuesday, June 5th, 2018 - Day 4 - 24 miles

And the rains cleared off and we were treated to an unexpected dry day. YAY. We started pedaling later (another YAY) and headed for a relatively easy (triple YAY) 25 miles or so ride through the villages and countryside, back on the Route de Grand Cru of the Cote d'Beune. Lunch was a welcome sight in the charming village of Meursault at Le Bouchon restaurant. Cokes, beers, frites, and salads were lingered over and then a short ride back to Montrachet to chill and watch the French Open as our buddy Zverev got crushed, but Americans Madison Keys and Sloane Stephens advanced to the semis.

Drinks at 6:30 in the pretty hotel courtyard (another YAY for vodka and gin) and dinner at 7 in a private room. Wow. This was a treat. The private room overlooked the courtyard with a large open window and the opposite was a window into the sparkling clean kitchen. Apparently a Michelin starred restaurant that had recently lost its star, no one understands why, and we certainly couldn't tell as the meal was gorgeous new french cuisine and sophisticated. But the best was Brian in his element. The day was a....dix plus.

#Cocalight #COCKtails #dambubu

Wednesday, June 6th, 2018 - Day 5 - 26 real miles, 15 e-bike miles

Off to Beune as we had a lovely and FLAT ride through the vineyards, once again in pretty weather and back on the Route de Grand Cru in the Cote de Beune area. We arrived at the L'Hotel de Beaune right off the main square, Place Carnot, and settled in on the terrace of the Hotel's pizzeria which rivals any Italian pizza. We will have one of each kind thank you. The hotel has a pretty little courtyard, but the lobby is small and not very attractive, which was very deceiving since the hotel had lovely rooms, a huge and very modern bathroom and beautiful Italian sheets made up as we would want! The Pecheleses and Bordens were just down a bit in another building for just rooms 8 & 9. There was clearly some Jill love going on as the Pecheles room was a pure palace.

Then, time for e-bikes as Damian arranged for us all to have a short ride on e-bikes since B&R Euro HQ is in Beune. Fun to see the behind the scenes a bit of B&R, but more fun to take off on e-bikes for 15 miles culminating in XXX with a very vertical hill demonstrating the happiness of an e-bike in turbo! We navigated the Beune traffic back to B&R and returned to the hotel for some more French Open.

Before dinner, we met Kelly, our guide for the Musee de l'Hotel Dieu, Hospice de Beune tour. A common French sight over the centuries for Hospital of God to take in the poor sick for free. It is a beautiful collection of buildings (note the tiled roof) that was originally from the 15th century and worked through the early 1970's. All quite interesting and highly recommend.

Dinner was in the Hotel Bistro, which was not busy, but of course got our daily dose of French grumbling and being shushed. Dinner was beautiful of roast chicken and day 5 of mashed potatoes. Damien made this a farewell dinner of sorts with lovely gifts for everyone...french vodka and gin for the fellas and wine books for the gals. Very sweet.

#Marie #Frettelinens #beuneonyourown

Thursday, June 7, 2018 - Day 6 - 13 miles.....

Another pretty day and sadly our last day. ANOTHER fab breakfast spread and all set for a big ride and big hill....(another French verbal whipping for not stopping exactly at the stop light) and then halfway through the ride, the showers came down...hard. So after 13 miles, hiding out in a construction site and soaked, we hoisted the bikes up on top of the van and went to our scheduled lunch at Comte Senard and the Table d'Hotes or lunch with a tasting of their wines (Caveau de Degustation.) It was an interesting cold soup (not what we wanted at that point after spending hours in the bathroom drying socks and such under the hand dryer), but still delicious of fresh orange juice, avocado and chives followed by vegetable pizza rustica and large salade verte. Lighting and thunder and unsettled skies thwarted the additional ride and we vanned back to Beune to take a look around. Of course, beautiful weather there, which works for shopping.

The usual French Open during rest period and we joined Damien in the lobby to give him his well deserved tip and small gifts for his children, Maggie and Tim. We walked out of the Old City to grab a drink at a bar near to Marchand-Tawes, a local Domaine. A new venture for this Domaine to make better use of the in-town building, it had a new and immaculate cellar and lovely retail and private dining area. Mark, the British winemaker (and former B&R guide) joined us for dinner and talked and talked about their wines. The meal was spectacular (scallops, tomato confit and arugula salad, duck breast with a blueberry reduction and mashed potato and duck touring. Lots of crement, village, 1er Cru and even a Grand Cru, but they were total rookies at sales and we left quickly for a more relaxed night cap on the Place Carnot.

#touslesjoursavecDamiencestun10/10dix #yellowshoes #butttexts #awkward #5forpriceof6

Friday, June 8, 2018

Breakfast was savored of course (can't miss a pain au chocolat.) Famed and posted rail strikes cancelled our travel plans so we taxied 3 hrs back to Paris arriving right on time at Noon to the Hotel d'Abusson. Rooms not ready, so we headed down the street per Jean the concierge to Cafe de la Paris for a delightful lunch of Croque Monsieur, omelette, salads and of course frites, while the Whichards headed to their tour of The Louvre. A sunny day made for good walking to the St. Germain de Pres shopping areas (think LK Bennett, Cos and the likes.) Aftewards, a stroll to Notre Dame and back down by the Seine before meeting our Venetian motor boat for a tour of Paris en bateau. Beautiful day, from the Statue of Liberty to the end of the Tuileries Gardens, with the Eiffel Tower, Notre Dame, the Musee d'Orsay, the Louvre and everything in between to view topped off with some Moët Champagne. Hard to beat.

Drinks in the Jazz bar before heading just around the corner to Le Christine, a hip spot that is supposedly just about to get a Michelin star, but still undiscovered by the masses. Modern rustic small front room which was perfect for us with larger room in the back. Minimal menu with langoustines in lime, followed by fab light grilled gnocchi in broth. Dessert was meh, but looked pretty. A nightcap in the Jazz bar was the final salute (though a stroll along the lights of the Seine according to William is highly recommended...maybe even a night boat cruise next time.) 8 10s.

Saturday, June 9, 2018

Au revoir

#france

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ttransthirteen · 7 years

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okay here we go! for sol: 8, 35, 19; for hernandez: 45, 5, 13; for jericho: 3,17, 24; for nikola: 40, 43, 50; for nix, 9, 22, 29, for scott: 3, 36, 27; for hero: 34, 18, 6; for lynx: 10, 26, 44!! sorry if that's too many!!

anon i have no idea how you know all these characters enough to send me specific ones for their names, but i want you to know this is the best thing that has happened to me in weeks and you are the absolute light of my life. if you believe in a higher power i wish you blessings and happiness for years to come.

here we go!! (also this is so long im sorry, I tried to sort them if anybody is actually curious about any of them)

Sol-

8. did they have pets as a child? as an adult? do they like animals?

Dani Solis, or just Sol to her coworkers, is a mechanic who never quite understood living things. she grew up in outer space and never really had the opportunity to have a pet, although the constant traveling meant she got to see a ridiculous variety of life. When she was a little girl, she would sometimes find a cockroach or other bug on the ship and catch it, keeping it and feeding it until it died. it was never a very satisfying experience, probably adding to her obsession with immortal machines.

35. whats their guilty pleasure? what is their totally unguilty pleasure?

I’d call Eric her guilty pleasure. they would have ended up together if I hadn’t killed him off mid-breakdown. Most people live on a planet, but she doesn’t have one, so to her any sort of truly meaningful human connection is dangerous and off-limits. but she loves him deeply, although it scares her. Unguilty, I’d say shes kind of a hoarder. her bunk is full of knick-knacks from every corner of the explored universe. she spends pretty much her entire salary on it tbh

19. whats their least favorite genres?

if this is about literature, she thinks fantasy is stupid. if it’s music, she loves rap and techno but has never really been able to tolerate slow guitar pieces about how beautiful planet life is. think space-age country.

Hernandez-

45. How do other people see them? Is it similar to how they see themselves?

this is a big one for him. Captain Eric Hernandez is a trans man, so for a lot of his life yeah there was a massive difference. but after he transitioned, I would say the main difference would be that the people around him see him as cold, kind of scary. he’s not scary, he’s scared. he sees himself as small and weak, even after he straight up murdered his abuser and took his place as captain. His friends would say he is the strongest, bravest man they’ve ever known. They would be right.

5. Do they have any siblings? What’s their names? What is their relationship with them? Has their relationship changed since they were kids to adults?

He has two sisters and two brothers, I don’t know any of their names. He was very close with all of them and misses them every day. Since he ran away to avoid having to pretend to be a woman his whole life, and then murdered a guy, contacting any of them would have been massively dangerous. He couldn’t even tell any of them he was leaving because he wasn’t out to them. In the version of his story where he’s executed, they all get letters from Sol explaining everything. In the version where he lives, he sends the letters himself.

13. What is their least favorite food?

fish was never available to him as a kid, and he never acquired the taste.

Jericho-

3. Did they have a good childhood? What are fond memories they have of it? What’s a bad memory?

this isnt something i get to say about my ocs a lot, but he did. he had a lovely childhood. he grew up with a loving father in a huge, beautiful city where he was free to explore and learn to his hearts content. he has especially fond memories of wandering around the actual ground of the city where basically nobody ever goes, looking at bugs and mold and plants with his little junior scientist magnifying glass, looking them up on his computer-band. the worst ones were probably nights where his dad had to work and he was lonely in their apartment, bc those were the nights he wondered about his mom.

17. Do they like to take photos? What do they like to take photos of? Selfies? What do they do with their photos?

He’ll take photographs of cool specimen, but mostly he carries a journal and prefers to take notes. he takes notes on absolutely everything and has boxes and boxes of old notebooks in his closet at home.

24. What is their sleeping pattern like? Do they snore? What do they like to sleep on? A soft or hard mattress?

my boy jericho has very little trouble sleeping and is fine with the govt issues firm mattress. he is quiet and still and sleeps deeply.

Ok! switching universes! these characters are completely disconnected from those three.

Nikola Tchaikova-

40. Do they like energy drinks? Coffee? Sugary food? Or can they naturally stay awake and alert?

I’m not sure she’s ever even tried it. Nikola is a full blown alcoholic and anything that makes her feel more alert is probably not something she’s gonna enjoy. Her natural senses and awareness are absolutely through the roof, so it’s not something she really needs at all. She does like sweets though. Back when she had her family, her and her close companions use to sneak away sometimes and go out to the city for milkshakes and music, and those are probably her fondest memories.

43. Are they religious? What do they think of religion? What do they think of religious people? What do they think of non religious people?

When she was a very young girl she might have worshipped the christian/jewish/muslim god, or at least attempted to. For a young shifter where she grew up, life was rough, and she would have had a hard time finding the meaning in it all. but later in life, after the war, the major religion worshipped shifters and obviously that was ridiculous to her, so she kind of looks down on the whole thing. She might still be a little envious of the purpose and comfort that the worshippers get and that is missing so much from her life, but one of the main gods in their pantheon is based on her kid brother’s best friend. its hard to take that seriously. (the idea is that there were 5 original all powerful shifters who made the real world ones. this is wrong. shifters were a science experiment gotten out of control, and Nikola knows that.)

50. If they could only take one bag of stuff somewhere with them: what would they pack? What do they consider their essentials?

She would pack her knife, which her long dead brother gave her about 1500 years ago. she would take the pendant she wears, which was symbolic of the leadership position she used to hold before the people she was leading were all killed. She has a photo collection that she says never looks at out of fear of the light ruining them. Her best friend made her some copies, but she doesn’t look at those either. I think it hurts her to see the faces of the people she misses. She has a small bag of things tucked into the back of her closet that she never, ever touches or looks at. After the massacre that took her family, Angelo (the only survivor, her best friend) went through the carnage and collected the possessions of their friends. Nikola helped him bury them, but she couldn’t stand to take their things. he gave them to her afterwards, and she’s only every managed to take them out and look at them when she’s so drunk she knows she won’t remember the next day. But she would never leave them behind.

Nix-

9. Do animals like them? Do they get on well with animals?

Domenico “Nix” Tchaikova is Nikola’s son, so half-shifter. Shifters are, by necessity, a bit closer to nature than the rest of us, and even though he has almost no actual form changing abilities animals have always seemed to like him a bit more than his friends. He’s always assumed that it’s because of his prosthetic leg, that they realize he couldn’t chase them if he wanted to, but animals know things, and they can sense that he’s not quite the same as the other humans.

22. What are their favorite insults to use? What do they insult people for? Or do they prefer to bitch behind someone’s back?

Nix would never insult someone behind their back- he has a temper, and if you piss him off he’s gonna confront you on the spot. His insults tend not to be physical. he might call you ugly if hes real mad, but hes much more likely to call you a coward or an idiot. He gets hit a lot for this.

29. What do they do when they find out someone else’s fear? Do they tease them? Or get very over protective?

No, he’d never tease someone for being genuinely afraid. He knows fear too well to try and use it against people. If somebody he cared about was afraid of something, he would plant his tiny self between them and whatever it was no matter what. hes used to being seen as small and weak and incapable, and its resulted in a stupidly brave boy who gets himself into trouble a lot because he doesnt know when to back down.

Scott-

3. Did they have a good childhood? What are fond memories they have of it? What’s a bad memory?

My boy!!! This is another one of Nikola’s children, one of the triplets. if you just read her thing, you can probably guess that she wouldn’t be a very good mother. Angelo, his father, was always loving and supportive, but both of his parents were just sad people who weren’t really prepared to raise three children. They grew up in the century before the war broke out, in a political climate that feared and hated them, among countless news stories of people like them being murdered and hunted. but Nikola still managed to give them a reasonably normal childhood. She found a place to settle down, near enough to a city that they could socialize and explore but far enough away they they grew up in the woods and could explore their natural abilities without being hunted down by hate groups.

He has a lot of good memories! pretty much all of them are him doing dumb shit with his siblings. they used to use their shifting to break into concerts or fly up to the roofs of tall buildings.

As for bad ones. definitely most of his bad memories are on Nikola’s head. He was the shifter equivalent of about eight years old when he saw her kill somebody for the first time. she didn’t know he was there, but im not sure if knowing would have changed anything. she’s been on a very long, very complicated vengeance quest since before he was born. She had tracked somebody down, and he watched while she slowly cornered him. You could practically smell the terror coming off the man as she drew her blade, moving towards him as she spoke. He had never heard her talk about the deaths of her family before, and as she told her prey all about how she had come home to find her kid brother on the floor with his throat slit open, there was something in her voice that he would never forget for the rest of his life. then he watched his mother put a knife through the bottom of the man’s jaw into his brain. he saw the light go out of his eyes, and he saw the absolute emptiness in his mother’s when she turned around. He ran as fast as he could back to his siblings and cried, but never told them what he saw.

36. What are they good at? What hobbies do they like? Can they sing?

He can sing!!! he has a voice like an angel and he loves to use it. he plays about twenty instruments- hes had a long time to learn- and he always carries at least one on him. he can use weaponry and is good at it, but doesnt enjoy it.

27. What makes them sad? Do they cry regularly? Do they cry openly or hide it? What are they like they are sad?

He doesn’t cry often. He doesn’t care if his siblings see him cry- theyre all so close its like crying in private- but with other people he doesnt like it. He just gets quiet when he’s sad. He’s not the moodiest of his siblings(that title goes to Lynx) but they all inherited something from their parents that makes them quiet, serious people on the whole. He feels deeply and thinks about things. Hes bisexual. I know that doesn’t go here but its important. He cried after he slept with a man for the first time, not because he was upset with himself about the gay thing but because he’d let himself fall for a human. The boy’s name was Jacob, and he didn’t understand but tried to comfort him anyways because he cared about Scott. They dated for a while, but Scott couldn’t handle knowing he would age and die so quickly and broke it off. Jacob was 43 when he was killed in a bombing during the war. Funerals had stopped happening at that time, people unable to keep up with all the dead. But there were still graves, and Scott visited Jacob’s for years afterwards.

Hero-

34. What is their body type? How tall are they? Do they like their body?

She looks a lot like her mom. about 5′7, muscular, strong features. She got her dads eyes though, the only one of her siblings to have them. Scott and Lynx and Nix all have Nikki’s distinctive golden-ringed brown. She likes her body fine, its a good and strong body. she likes that shes not the shortest of her siblings(lynx is tied and nix is smaller) but other than that she doesnt really care.

18. What’s their favourite genre of: books, music, tv shows, films, video games and anything else

She was never much of a reader, and the only tv she ever got to see was when there was one on in a restaurant. She did enjoy films though, and her favorites were action. She got a certain something from Nikola that neither Scott or Lynx has, something kind of cold and fierce. Whatever it was that Scott saw in his mom’s eyes when she killed that man, exists in Hero too. Nix too, but less so. She would have liked video games a lot if she’d ever had the chance to really get into them.

6. What were they like at school? Did they enjoy it? Did they finish? What level of higher education did they reach? What subjects did they enjoy? Which did they hate?

She never went to school. Her father taught her to read and write, as well as everything he thought she needed to know about the world. She spent her childhood wandering with her siblings, and most things she needed to know she got from that. All three of them had been planning on going to college, but the war came before they got the chance. But I think if she’d gotten the chance she would have had an interest in something technical. Engineering or architecture maybe.

Lynx-

10. Do they like children? Do children like them? Do they have or want any children? What would they be like as a parent? Or as a godparent/babysitter/ect?

God I love Lynx. He would never, ever become a parent, but I think he would be a good one. Out of all of her children, Lynx inherited the most of Nikola’s sadness. In non dramatic terms she gave him her tendencies towards mental illness and its something hes struggled with his whole life. His siblings are a wonderful support system but he knows that any child of his would struggle like he has, and he has so many unhappy memories of Nikola’s misery that he would be too afraid. But children do like him, and he likes them. He’s a fun, playful person when he’s feeling good, and is absolutely delighted to discover he has a little brother. obviously hes got the same terror of losing him, but he has pushed those feelings tf down. he just wants to enjoy their relationship while he can. hes a wonderful, sweet, caring boy whos full of love and good times, but too scared of himself to ever be a parent.

26. How do they act when they’re happy? Do they sing? Dance? Hum? Or do they hide their emotions?

When he’s happy, everybody knows it. He is an absolute delight. he does dance, actually. when hes happy he does it more but also its just a thing hes good at and loves to do. humans who see it know theres something not quite natural about the way he moves, and hes beautiful to watch when hes using it to express joy. He has bright eyes and a smile that makes you feel like you are safe and loved and that everything in the entire world is gonna be ok.

44. What is their favorite season? Type of weather? Are they good in the cold or the heat? What weather do they complain in the most?

He loves any time of the year where it’s warm enough to wear skirts and loose, light shirts. The wintertime makes his depression worse, and a lot of years he and his siblings will head south to avoid it. but he loves warm breezes and cool nights by a fire, loves seeing the flowers in the spring and all the new baby animals. he isn’t at all a complainer, but when the weather is affecting him badly it’s easy to tell. he gets quiet, which is not something he is a lot.

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howtoloseweightfastsafely · 5 years

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Food Planning For Maximum Fat Loss In Minimum Time

Last chapter, we mentioned the "batch meal" process. This is my secret to eliminating anxiety around meals and having food ready at a moment's notice.

Here are the basics:

I'll then eat this same meal for lunch until Thursday.

Thursday night, I'll cook again to get me through the next few days.

I like Fage brand since they make plain full-fat and 2% greek yogurts. Chobani does not do this, from my knowledge.

Note: Don't buy the large containers since it's such a pain to correctly measure portion sizes. Just buy the small containers.

It's easy, it's simple, and it makes life so much easier.

Oh yeah, before I forget. Here's...

A stupid simple food prep "hack" that 90% of dieters drop the ball on, but will guarantee you perfect portion control and effortless weight loss

When you want to weigh your food into portions, how would you usually do it?

If you're like most people, you'll simply take the prepared food, put it on a bowl/plate and pop it on a scale. Subtract out (or "tare") the weight of the plate, and voila, you have the weight of your food.

Perfect, right? Wrong.

When you weigh foods (especially meat) after they're prepared, they're guaranteed to weigh less. This is due to the water weight of the food that's been lost during the cooking process.

Studies show up to 33% of weight in meats is lost after cooking.

And if you're counting your food intake based on the post-cooking, post-water-loss weight, yet comparing the serving size to the numbers on the nutrition panel, you may be understating your calorie intake.

Sure, this isn't a make-or-break thing if it's a one-off occurrence. And sure you can get by guesstimating when you buy food outside (which is rarely, I hope!)...

But anytime you cook at home, I highly suggest you weigh food before you cook.

Think of it this way...

When you're cooking up 8 oz. of boneless skinless chicken thighs (300 calories or so) with 1 tsp of coconut oil (50 calories or so) and some other spices and whatnot, you're at about 400 calories. Sounds like a decent-sized meal.

If you did this the wrong way, though, by weighing after you cooked...

Your 8 oz. of chicken would probably weigh 5 or 6 oz. at most. If you assume 6 oz. of chicken (225 calories) plus 1 tsp of oil (50 calories), you're now at 275 calories for the meal. Already off by 125 calories.

Add the fact that you're eating this same meal for 3 or 4 days, and you're already eating a cool 600 calories more than you thought for the week. Even worse, you may be making the same mistake with another meal in the day, meaning you could be off as much as 250-300 calories per day! In one week, that's 1750 calories more than you'd pictured, making weight loss much more difficult if you ask me!

This is just one of the many reasons people stick to their diets, but still, fail to see results.

It's the little things that add up and throw us off track. Don't let this happen to you.

Simply weigh your food before you cook, and you'll be much happier with how you look and progress toward your goals.

If you're making large batch meals, follow this process:

1. Weigh out the whole size of the meat beforehand (3 lbs. for example)

2. Know how big your serving size will be for each meal (8 oz. for example)

3. Diving the whole size of the meat by the serving size, to know how many portions you'll need

3 lbs = 48 oz

48 oz/8 oz per serving = 6 servings

4. After cooking your food, weigh the whole batch.

Let's say the 48 oz. become 36 oz. after cooking

5. Divide the new sizes by the # of servings, and you have the new cooked-food serving size

36 oz/6 servings = 6 oz per serving

6. Now simply weigh and pack up the food into 6 oz. servings, and enjoy!

And, while we're on the topic of sizing up our food...

If you decide to grab some fast food for a change, keep decision making and unnecessary thinking to a minimum (and fat loss to a maximum), by eating one of these:

1. Chipotle salad bowls:

a) Chicken or steak (sometimes double), black beans, lettuce, pico de gallo, hot sauce.

b) If it's a heavy workout day, I'll sometimes also have some rice and a touch of sour cream.

c) I stay away from the cheese, guac, and other condiments since they can easily throw you out of your calorie balance.

d) I've read the nutrition panel on the Chipotle site like 50 times so I know this usually runs me around 450-650 calories depending on what I add in.

2. Subway

a) The food quality here is very poor, I'll admit, but it lets me count/control my calories which is a 100% win for weight loss

b) I'm a smaller guy and generally need 1800 calories or so if I'm looking to lean up a bit.

c) So I make sure my Subway lunches are right around the 600 calorie mark, for an even split of 1800 calories into 3 meals

d) This leaves me with a simple, but favorite choice of mine:

i. Black Forest Ham & Turkey on Toasted Footlong Wheat bread, with copious amounts of spicy mustard, tons of veggies, and no cheese. Perfecto!

e) I'll add in double meat sometimes for a protein boost, but for the most part, I'll keep to a single serving (try to avoid excess intake of processed, non-organic cold cuts)

3. Otherwise, you can stick to very simple sandwiches or salads

a) For sandwiches, have some simple cold cuts like ham, turkey or roast beef and some veggies on toasted bread or a wrap.

Skip the mayo or any dressing/sauces, since they are quick calorie bombs and it's hard to know how much of said condiment is in your meal.

Mustard and/or spicy mustard is my go-to condiment

You can get a sandwich with chicken breast too, and just have Frank's Red Hot or Cholula hot sauce

Skip the cheese, especially since I've seen delis put on 4-6 slices of cheese on sandwiches way too often. Gotta make sacrifices from time to time!

b) For salads, stick to veggies, chicken, eggs, or other protein sources, anddressing on the side.

Eyeball the protein portion in the salad which usually comes out to 1-2 palm sizes (about 20-40 grams of protein, or 200-300 calories at most taking into account oils used during prep or fattier cuts of meat)

Don't get breaded chicken or other breaded products. It's extra crappy calories and it usually has trans-fat (the worst kind).

Never, NEVER have them put a dressing on for you, or you can just about guarantee missing your calorie totals.

And do not pour the whole dressing cup over your salad

Get dressing on the side, dip your fork into the dressing cup, and then take some salad onto the fork.

You'll get the same amount of taste, but your salad won't be doused in dressing and you won't be eating 600 calories of sauce.

Follow the plans above, and fat loss will be a cinch. Eat right when you can and cook batch meals as much as possible, and if all else fail, eat from one of the semi-healthy options above.

Interested in losing weight? Then click below to see the exact steps I took to lose weight and keep it off for good...

Read the previous article about "If you want maximum results in minimum time you're going to have to work out (and workout hard, at that)"

Read the next article about "How To Lose Weight Fast If You're in Chronic Pain"

Moving forward, there are several other articles/topics I'll share so you can lose weight even faster, and feel great doing it.

Below is a list of these topics and you can use this Table of Contents to jump to the part that interests you the most.

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Topic 5: Why Red Meat May Be Good For You And Eggs Won't Kill You

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Topic 7: Everything Popular Is Wrong: The Real Key To Long-Term Weight Loss

Topic 8: Why That New Miracle Diet Isn't So Much of a Miracle After All (And Why You're Guaranteed To Hate Yourself On It Sooner or Later)

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Topic 10: How Much You Really Need To Eat For Steady Fat Loss (The Truth About Calories and Macronutrients)

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Topic 12: Calculating A Weight Loss Deficit

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Topic 14: Two Dangerous "Invisible Thorn" Foods Masquerading as "Heart Healthy Super Nutrients"

Topic 15: The Truth About Whole Grains And Beans: What Traditional Cultures Know About These So-called "Healthy Foods" That Most Americans Don't

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Topic 21: How To Protect Yourself Against Chronic Inflammation (What Time Magazine Calls A "Secret Killer")

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Can Fairphone 3 scale ethical consumer electronics?

Fairphone, the Dutch social enterprise that’s on a mission to rethink the waste and exploitation that underpins the business of consumer electronics, has unboxed its third smartphone.

The handset, which is sold with the promise of longevity rather than cutting edge obsolescence, goes on pre-sale from today in Europe via Fairphone’s website with a suggested retail price of €450 (depending on local taxes and levies). It will ship to buyers on September 3.

Like its predecessor, the design is modular to allow the user to swap out damaged parts for replacement modules that Fairphone also sells.

Out of the box the phone comes with Android 9 preloaded. A post-launch update will make it easy for buyers to wipe Google services off their slate and install the Android Open Source Project instead.

Commenting in a statement, CEO Eva Gouwens said: “We developed the Fairphone 3 to be a real sustainable alternative on the market, which is a big step towards lasting change. By establishing a market for ethical products, we want to motivate the entire industry to act more responsibly since we cannot achieve this change alone.”

“We envision an economy where consideration for people and the planet is a natural part of doing business and according to this vision, we have created scalable ways to improve our supply chain and product,” she added.

Fairphone 3 running Android 9 out of the box

Mining an ethical niche

Since 2013, the hardware startup has focused on selling smartphones attached to a pledge of fairer working conditions for the people who assemble them, and greater transparency around the sourcing of minerals and materials needed to make them — as well as designing for longevity and repairability.

More than 80% of the volume of the Fairphone 3 is recycled, according to founder (and former CEO) Bas van Abel. He also touts its own research that suggests a Fairphone 3 owner who’s able to keep and maintain the device can save 30% of CO2 emissions or more over the product’s lifetime.

In seeking to achieve its flagship ‘fair phone’ pledge the team behind Fairphone has had to go beyond the surface hardware — and innovate on developing supply chains that can live up to an ethical agenda.

Fairphone 3’s PR flags “responsibly sourced and conflict-free tin and tungsten, recycled copper and plastics”, as well as fair trade gold which it sourced for the handset (and is working to integrate into its supply chain). It also says it’s in the process of setting up an initiative for “better sourcing of cobalt”, aka the key mineral for energy transition.

Malachite, copper and cobalt. Image credit: Fairphone

On the labor and human rights front, the Fairphone 3 is assembled by Taiwanese manufacturing partner Arima — which Fairphone says it has collaborated with to “improve employee satisfaction by improving worker representation, health and safety and by paying a bonus to workers with the aim to bridge the gap between minimum and living wages in the factory”.

In practice van Abel says this means Fairphone pays the assembly workers employed by Arima a bonus based on increased performance around its social goals. Rather than, per more usual industry practice, punishing the manufacturing partner if it fails to hit stringent delivery targets — which then encourages a punishing spiral of forced overtime that erodes workers rights and welfare.

It also has social incentives programs in three other factories that put together components for the device, such as its speakers.

Despite what are clearly laudable and lofty goals, selling fairer and more ethical smartphones remains a niche business for now, with Fairphone’s total shipments to date representing less than 0.1% of the Western European smartphone market. It is also still a European-only business. But it’s a niche that van Abel says is “growing at high speed”.

“I do believe it’s very feasible for Fairphone to [ship 200,000 smartphones per year] in the next couple of years,” he says, adding: “We can address a small part of the conscious consuming market” — pointing to Gouwens’ background at a Dutch confectionary company, Tony’s Chocolonely, which was set up in 2005 to campaign for fair trade and slave-free chocolate, and now has the biggest marketshare on chocolate in Holland.

Phones are of course far more complex to make than bars of chocolate. But in recent years a maturing smartphone market has seen a slow down in the pace of technological innovation coupled with rising commoditization that’s made differentiation a major challenge for Android OEMs especially.

So if there’s a point in time when a fair trade smartphone might stand a chance against the Samsungs, Huaweis, Xiaomis, Oppos, LGs and so on then the current moment has a fair bit to recommend it.

At the same time, concern about the environmental cost of business models that depend upon continuous resource use and generate mountains of e-waste is also growing — thanks to greater visibility and awareness of the damage caused at both ends of the pipe (including as countries like China put hard limits on the types of foreign waste they’ll accept).

“I believe that we are more and more ready for [sustainability and fair trade] in consumer electronics and I do see that the conversation in consumer electronics is definitely changing — it’s much more mature on sustainability,” says van Abel. “More and more companies are looking into it, and it’s also more demanding from the consumer perspective. You see that that’s changing as well. So it will happen. It’s just that it’s not happening fast enough.”

“We’ve been not so successful in disconnecting the [consumer electronics] business models from the use of resources yet but that is a legacy from an economic system that was set up centuries ago,” he adds. “Where growth is connected to the use of resources — and that has to do with sustainability and change and a changing mindset.”

The wider conviction, for Fairphone as a social enterprise, is to work to generate momentum that pushes the consumer electronics industry towards a circular future — where fairer conditions for workers and a reduction in waste and resource use; a focus on product longevity via repairable design and component reuse; and end of life recycling are no longer exceptional but what every player strives for.

The project is indeed a massive one. And Fairphone remains very much a work in progress — an ambitious attempt at reforming all the tarnished links in the smartphone supply chain. So yes, it’s by no means perfect.

The industry that it has to interact with still contains plenty of murky corners which a tiny company has only very limited power to sway. Even as Fairphone has punched above its weight by using campaigning roots to build consumer awareness and industry buy in that’s enabled it to enact small on-the-ground changes which have the potential to scale into something bigger.

Its investors include Bethnal Green Ventures, Pymwymic, Doen Participaties, Quadia, Dutch Good Growth Fund and ABN Amro Fund. More than $40M has gone into the business since Fairphone was founded — in seed, VC and debt financing.

“The problem with the industry is that the deeper you go into the supply chain — like the third, fourth tier — the worse it gets,” says van Abel. “So the assembly factories where you have a direct relationship are basically the ones that are doing pretty well, also because they have all these rules and things put upon them by big manufacturers. Companies are most vulnerable on the ODMs.

“So the further you go into the supply chain where they’re really making the plastics and the small metals and that kind of stuff the worse it gets. So we really want to also make sure that that is being surfaced and that we put some attention on it… Are we able to change that deep into the supply chain? It’s really difficult to get that far as a small player but we’re trying.”

“On the supply chain we’ve been going along investing into programs all along the way,” he goes on, giving the example of a child-labor free mining program it’s set up in Uganda to source fair trade gold.

“We’re working really hard with lots of partners on the ground. It’s getting off the ground now but the gold that we get from there is not connected to the supply chain of the [Fair]phone yet — so that will be an innovation that will come along the way, coming in 2020.

“What we do now is we’ve taken all the supply chains that we had for Fairphone 2 and were able to get that into Fairphone 3. So at least we have everything that we covered with Fairphone 2 but in a way that is also more scalable. Previously we had the gold through our own supply chain going into the factories. Right now we have it set up in such a way that other companies can use that same gold and the factory can scale up with that gold as well. So it’s a higher amount, it’s more scalable but we’re also setting up new initiatives.”

��Another one is cobalt which we’re investing in a lot — which is used for batteries,” he adds. “If we get that initiative up and running it’s also very interesting for the car industry to actually use that same supply chain. Because one of the things that a lot of the industry is focusing on is recycling. But we all know that there’s not enough to recycle to actually feed the supply chain with the amount of minerals we need to make our products. So we still need mining. And that’s one of the things that the industry has not been very open about.”

Virgin resources being necessary to manufacture shiny gadgets and electronics-packed machines is the industry’s dirty not-so-little secret. This means mines where minerals are dug out of the earth in order to be refined or smelted for use in the modules and components packed inside devices.

Even consumer tech giants that make claims for the labor and welfare standards of their third party assembly factory workers aren’t typically making promises that extend all the way back to the mines where the minerals essential to their devices are dug out and processed. Fairphone is at least trying to dig into the dirtiest stuff.

Conflict-free tungsten mine in Rwanda now integrated into Fairphone’s supply chain. Image credit: Fairphone

“We have an approach where we look at closed pipe supply chains for certain materials from the mines all the way to the component. And we look at the factories that are involved along the line per component because we can’t do all the factories — so we can at least say along that whole supply chain we’ve looked at the factories working it in,” says van Abel.

“If you look at mining there’s nothing beautiful about mining… Mining in itself is bad for the environment, there’s a lot of harsh working conditions, it’s in third world countries many of the times, so it’s not a focus area of a lot of these companies because it’s… a far away story. So many of these manufacturers and phone companies focus on recycling.

“In itself recycling is not bad it’s just that we still need all these virgin materials. Also recycling is kind of a last resort as I see it — reusing components would be a better thing. And even the best thing would be using the phone as long as possible.”

Repairable for half a decade+

Like its predecessor, the latest Fairphone’s flagship feature — aside from fairer and more ethical assembly — is that it’s designed to be repairable. A fact that’s front and center when you open the box and find a tiny screwdriver nestled alongside what otherwise looks a fairly standard (if slightly chunky) Android smartphone.

There’s no charger, USB cable or headphones in the box — intentional omissions to reduce unnecessary e-waste. The novel presence of a tiny metal and plastic screwdriver seems a fair trade for the usual accessories which Fairphone has calculated most phone buyers will already own. (If not, it can sell you a charger.)

Its big promise with this, its third generation handset, is that it will be supported for the next five to seven years.

van Abel tells TechCrunch he’s confident it can deliver on that “bold” pledge — having learnt some hard lessons over the past five+ years of pushing against ingrained industry habits baked into clockwork component upgrade cycles.

It wasn’t always like this. Some buyers of the first-gen Fairphone were disappointed and even angry when it announced it was ending support for that device in 2017 — meaning an early adopter would only have had between two and 3.5 years’ support for a smartphone that was sold as ‘repairable by design’.

The problem Fairphone found itself first crashing into, and next seeking to tackle head on, is that the consumer electronics industry as a whole is not geared up for sustainability and repairability but rather locked to regular (wasteful) upgrade cycles which in turn drive regular ~two-year component refresh cycles.

This tick-tock onward march of upgrades makes supporting older hardware a challenge. In seeking to go against the grain Fairphone has literally had to stockpile enough components to ensure it can offer years of spare part runway to support its devices.

In parallel, industry software has also needed to evolve so chipsets can be supported for longer — and van Abel says “a lot of software is actually changing. You can upgrade more and more easily to new software” — so it’s finally in a position to be confident that the latest handset can last.

“Our company has gotten much more mature,” he also says. “We are better equipped to deal with the scaling, the financial position has increased and has changed up to a point which is much more solid — so the whole support system, the ecosystem, around the phone has improved a lot.”

The Fairphone 3 is its second handset design to incorporate repairable modules that are designed to be accessible to the user. It comes in a translucent shell that also acts as a protective bumper and is stamped proudly down the side with the words “designed to open”.

Crack into it and you’ll find six modules that can be swapped out with a little bit of elbow grease and a Phillips #00 screwdriver — including the display, speaker and camera, as well as the battery (harking back to days when replaceable batteries were a smartphone norm).

Fairphone 3 — modularity refined

The aim of this type of modularity is not for customization or upgrades but for sustainability by increasing longevity by making it easy and cheaper to replace a damaged or defunct component vs junking the whole phone or having to take it to a specialist shop for expensive repair.

To be clear Fairphone is not offering upgradable hardware modules to boost phone performance over time but like for like replacements. It wants each Fairphone user to keep the same handset for longer — even if it gets dropped and the screen cracked, or used so much the battery loses its capacity to hold a charge.

“One of the biggest changes we’ve seen in the phone industry is that there’s small incremental innovation — which is in our benefit. So I think the time is right now,” says van Abel. “We are able to support phones longer. It has to do with the hardware, it also has to do with the software. The software you see that many of the software platforms… offer a better integration with the chipset. So also for future upgrades.

“You will see the software will run for longer time also on these chipsets — which basically are at a point where you will not run WhatsApp faster on a newer chipset. For some [other] stuff, especially on 3D gaming and the really high end computing stuff, it makes sense to go to the new processors but most of the stuff you will be able to do on the average processor on the phone. So it paves the way to keep phones in the hands of the consumers for a longer time, which makes sense. Because it’s cheaper for consumers… and it also is more sustainable.”

With the Fairphone 3 he says the company sought to dial down the “radical” modularity of its earlier crack at the concept — so the result is less of a ‘party trick’ smartphone design, as the Fairphone 2 was (he dubs it a “show off” phone) — and more, well, dull but worthy; modularity as a utility that’s there to enable (occasional) repairs.

“You don’t need the phone to be so super smooth in taking apart to be able to repair it,” he says. “Fairphone 2 goes beyond the idea of repairability. It’s more a show off phone in that sense. And that also comes with risks.”

Fairphone 2 — its earlier, flashier crack at modularity

Refining its approach to modularity also means Fairphone has been able to reduce the cost of the handset. Consumers will see that in a cheaper price-tag (€75 less than the prior model) — which puts it in reach of a bigger group of potential buyers.

The design is a cost (and risk) saver for Fairphone too in that it’s easier to manufacturer. And cost and sales volume are important when you’re trying to demonstrate that making sustainable hardware can still turn a profile. (Not that Fairphone is there yet — but finding a path to profitability is a core part of the mission.)

For users the only slight downsize of the reconfigured modular design — which has a full 13 screws just holding the display module in place — is that getting to the guts involves more fiddling than it used to. Which again seems a fair trade given how rarely you should need to get into it.

“Fairphone 3 there’s less risk involved in manufacturing, the design is more sturdy so in that sense it’s also a phone we can scale with as a company — so the whole ecosystem around it; the quality control,” says van Abel. “We have a big team now in China which we didn’t have with Fairphone 2. So we are much more confident with this phone we can offer a very high qualitative product.”

If the aim of your social enterprise is to reduce e-waste and overall environmental impact by selling phones that are designed to last longer than rival devices there is something of a natural tension about releasing any new handset model at all.

When I put this to van Abel he agrees but points to the push and pull around the product, given the unavoidable need for Fairphone “to stay relevant” by appealing to smartphone buyers, and given the industry “not working int he way that we would like it to work”, as he puts it — i.e not being geared for longevity.

Fairphone definitely needs to be able to sell phones if it’s to make a positive dent in consumer electronics practices and processes. Which means enticing buyers is important.

And on that front its last model wasn’t an amazing success — saddled with uninspiring hardware at a fair trade premium price. (A pretty biting 2016 review by Wired called it “ethical but ugly”, complaining also that it had a slow camera and dated hardware.) Closing that ‘compromise gap’ is thus a key aim with Fairphone 3.

van Abel enthusiastically talks up the performance specs, noting particularly that they’ve put a lot of work into improving battery performance (the removable cell is 3000mAh, and includes fast charging) and on software engineering to integrate the camera — which he claims, as far as performance and photo quality goes, is “on par” with high end smartphones “that cost twice as much”.

At a glance the 5.7 inch full-HD screen also looks clear and crisp. Plus there’s a fingerprint reader on board, as well as NFC and 4G. Inside is a Qualcomm Snapdragon 632 engine, 4GB of RAM and a generous 64GB of storage (further expandable via an SD card slot). Dual SIM slots are another welcome touch.

The handset comes preloaded with a vanilla implementation of Android 9 (Pie). But as noted above buyers will be able to switch for a non-Google alternative — via an updater that will let them wipe and install the Android Open Source Project flavor of the OS. (The updater will come post-launch, according to van Abel, who notes that around 5% of Fairphone users opt to go full open source.)

Ethics aside, one straight up hardware boast the Fairphone 3’s got going for it is that it has a 3.5mm headphone jack. Which is something you won’t find on Apple’s latest iPhones. Nor on Samsung’s newest flagship. The march of tech progress has erased the accessory-friendly hole from premium devices.

So it’s a nice additional perk for Fairphone 3 buyers who’ve invested in wired headphones — meaning they can keep using other kit for longer too.

From fair trade chocolate to smartphones as a service

The smartphone industry has marched at a pretty steady clip since Fairphone 2 was released at the back end of 2015, with rivals updating their own much more expansive product portfolios at least annually. So an upgrade more than three years after the last Fairphone doesn’t seem overly wasteful or indulgent.

And while Fairphone has never pretended it’s going to be able to compete, like for like, with top tier smartphones on pure hardware specs and features it does need to be able to offer a phone that’s compelling enough to convince buyers to switch.

Good enough smartphone hardware with a guarantee of repairability and which is combined what it calls “fair specs” — i.e. a minimum wage for a workers in its supply chain plus a bonus that aims to close the gap with that and a living wage — is its sales pitch for Fairphone 3.

Who Fairphone buyers are is also expanding, according to van Abel. So while, two years ago, he talked of the typical user being a ‘Gen X German with a master’s degree’, now the target is any conscientious consumer.

Selling at least 100,000 handsets per year is the goal. To date it’s only sold ~175,000 Fairphones in total — through pre-sales and organic growth — but it reckons the new device will enable it to scale beyond that core fan-base to address a wider community of ethical consumers.

It’s being helped to that end by expanded carrier partnerships — such as one with Orange in France which will see the mobile operator range the handset in 600 stores.

Scaling sales is another necessary part of the social mission, says van Abel — as Fairphone needs to show its social impact investors that it’s growing demand and building a market for ethical alternatives.

When — or even whether — there will be a Fairphone 4 is a question he isn’t keen to engage with. Clearly the hope is Fairphone 3 packs enough smartphone punch to go the distance. Though he hints it might look to offer additional smartphones in order to enter the US, a major market it’s so far not addressed at all.

While Fairphone has had a singular device focus to date, van Abel says it’s thinking about applying its hard won learnings around electronics supply chains to other types of consumer devices — suggesting ‘Fair’ could end up as a brand prefix atop an assortment of consumer gadgets.

“I think Fairphone has developed itself — even though it’s called Fairphone — into a brand that I’m pretty sure can go into a full blown, sustainable, consumer electronics brand. Because there are none,” he tells TechCrunch. “There are not so many brands in the industry that can differentiate on what they stand for. Apple does pretty well on design. But for the rest I don’t know a lot of premium brands that can differentiate on something that they’re really good at. And we’re good at creating social innovation and sustainability. And a lot of the supply chains that we’re using already can be used for other products as well.”

More broadly, the business is evolving to sell sustainably-minded process change back to the electronics industry itself — which of course needs to reform wholesale in order to enact the kind of root and branch change needed to support a fully circular economy.

In practice this means the ethical supply chains it establishes are intended to be open for others in the industry to use too. So Fairphone’s business of making ‘fairer’ handsets also functions as a showcase and case study to encourage wider industry reform — including via some direct partnerships that allow its own tiny orders for key minerals to be fulfilled by it piggybacking and scaling the order with the help of larger buyers.

Of course everything in electronics is connected. So real change isn’t going to happen overnight. Which makes being committed to stick at it and drive consumer awareness essential. It’s a long game. Even ethical chocolate took its sweet time to take over the market.

“With Fairphone 1 we had our own supply chains, with Fairphone 2 we were more and more exploring incorporating into scalable solutions for other parties as well, and with Fairphone 3 we already have consortia — for example the cobalt we’re doing together with Royal Philips and Signify… and some other big brands I can’t mention,” van Abel tells us. “Systemic change only happens when the whole system changes — so we can’t do that as a small company ourselves.”

He says the key shift the consumer electronics industry must make to pull off transformative reform to a circular economy that’s better for humans and better for the environment is to change its business model — a centuries old model that’s still obsessed with pushing “as much as possible into the hands of consumers at the fastest rate possible”.

On this front he believes services business models offer exciting potential to retune incentives for consumers and businesses to flip the conventional model on its head.

Fairphone is currently experimenting with a service based smartphone offering — working with a local insurance company on a trial to offer Fairphone as a service, where the phone is leased not owned.

“If you sell a phone every three to five years to a person you can also survive as a company. It’s not that you can’t survive. But — having said that — one of the things we are experimenting with is Fairphone as a service… And the beautiful aspect around running a product as a service is on the profit and loss of the company. When I sell you a phone you become a cost center right away as a customer, because all the after sales, everything around it basically is cost,” he says.

“If I sell you a service and a hardware product comes with it for you to be able to use… then I’m intrinsically motivated to have you use that phone as long as possible because every time I need to make a new phone it’s cost. Whereas every month I get my money from you as a customer and I can actually keep developing my service up to a point that it is more tailor made.”

While leasing has been very common in the smartphone industry on the mobile operator side, Fairphone is approaching it from a phone maker perspective — which van Abel reckons offers potential for disconnecting “as much as possible” the use of resources from the business model attached to smartphones.

‘Fairphone as a service’ is just a pilot for now, and he concedes the model would require a lot of money to be put on the table up front to cover the cost of use of the device for several years (further lengthening already lengthy repairable-oriented device cash cycles) — but recurring subscription payments at least sound like a model that could unlock the necessary up-front capital.

(van Abel also points to changes going on in the funding space — saying impact investing is now “hot”, and adding: “We’ve been pretty successful at finding the right impact investors to support our growth.”)

“I’m pretty hopeful because [humans have] been pretty successful at selling people stuff they don’t need so I’m pretty sure that we can also reverse that into marketing stories around products that last longer and people wanting products to last longer,” he says. “There’s a whole playground [with services]. Can you imagine that you start rewarding people if they actually keep their phone longer, if they have less parts broken… Now you reward a loyal customer with a new phone — what if you reward a customer that has their phone for a very long time with a lower subscription rate, for example. So there’s so much stuff to play with in that area. Not only by phone companies but also operators and everyone that is in connection with customers.”

Fairphone founder, Bas van Abel. Image credit: Fairphone

“My vision is really the disconnect from the use of resources and the business models. That is really the key problem that we’re still dealing with — if you look at sustainability,” he adds. “From a human rights perspective we’re dealing with multiple complex situations where politics, countries, wars, all these things are attached to these supply chains — which have nothing to do with consumer electronics specifically, it has to do with the human condition. So that’s even a bigger challenge — in terms of how do we create world peace basically?”

While no one would pretend there’s an easy answer for that, changing anything for the better means being willing to start somewhere.

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Can Fairphone 3 scale ethical consumer electronics?

Fairphone, the Dutch social enterprise that’s on a mission to rethink the waste and exploitation that underpins the business of consumer electronics, has unboxed its third smartphone.

Like its predecessor, the design is modular to allow the user to swap out damaged parts for replacement modules that Fairphone also sells.

Out of the box the phone comes with Android 9 preloaded. A post-launch update will make it easy for buyers to wipe Google services off their slate and install the Android Open Source Project instead.

Fairphone 3 running Android 9 out of the box

Mining an ethical niche

Malachite, copper and cobalt. Image credit: Fairphone

It also has social incentives programs in three other factories that put together components for the device, such as its speakers.

So if there’s a point in time when a fair trade smartphone might stand a chance against the Samsungs, Huaweis, Xiaomis, Oppos, LGs and so on then the current moment has a fair bit to recommend it.

“Another one is cobalt which we’re investing in a lot — which is used for batteries,” he adds. “If we get that initiative up and running it’s also very interesting for the car industry to actually use that same supply chain. Because one of the things that a lot of the industry is focusing on is recycling. But we all know that there’s not enough to recycle to actually feed the supply chain with the amount of minerals we need to make our products. So we still need mining. And that’s one of the things that the industry has not been very open about.”

Conflict-free tungsten mine in Rwanda now integrated into Fairphone’s supply chain. Image credit: Fairphone

Repairable for half a decade+

Its big promise with this, its third generation handset, is that it will be supported for the next five to seven years.

Fairphone 3 — modularity refined

Fairphone 2 — its earlier, flashier crack at modularity

Fairphone definitely needs to be able to sell phones if it’s to make a positive dent in consumer electronics practices and processes. Which means enticing buyers is important.

So it’s a nice additional perk for Fairphone 3 buyers who’ve invested in wired headphones — meaning they can keep using other kit for longer too.

From fair trade chocolate to smartphones as a service

It’s being helped to that end by expanded carrier partnerships — such as one with Orange in France which will see the mobile operator range the handset in 600 stores.

On this front he believes services business models offer exciting potential to retune incentives for consumers and businesses to flip the conventional model on its head.

Fairphone founder, Bas van Abel. Image credit: Fairphone

While no one would pretend there’s an easy answer for that, changing anything for the better means being willing to start somewhere.

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Fairphone, the Dutch social enterprise that’s on a mission to rethink the waste and exploitation that underpins the business of consumer electronics, has unboxed its third smartphone.

Like its predecessor, the design is modular to allow the user to swap out damaged parts for replacement modules that Fairphone also sells.

Out of the box the phone comes with Android 9 preloaded. A post-launch update will make it easy for buyers to wipe Google services off their slate and install the Android Open Source Project instead.

Fairphone 3 running Android 9 out of the box

Mining an ethical niche

Malachite, copper and cobalt. Image credit: Fairphone

It also has social incentives programs in three other factories that put together components for the device, such as its speakers.

So if there’s a point in time when a fair trade smartphone might stand a chance against the Samsungs, Huaweis, Xiaomis, Oppos, LGs and so on then the current moment has a fair bit to recommend it.

Conflict-free tungsten mine in Rwanda now integrated into Fairphone’s supply chain. Image credit: Fairphone

Repairable for half a decade+

Its big promise with this, its third generation handset, is that it will be supported for the next five to seven years.

Fairphone 3 — modularity refined

Fairphone 2 — its earlier crack at modularity

Fairphone definitely needs to be able to sell phones if it’s to make a positive dent in consumer electronics practices and processes. Which means enticing buyers is important.

So it’s a nice additional perk for Fairphone 3 buyers who’ve invested in wired headphones — meaning they can keep using other kit for longer too.

From fair trade chocolate to smartphones as a service

It’s being helped to that end by expanded carrier partnerships — such as one with Orange in France which will see the mobile operator range the handset in 600 stores.

On this front he believes services business models offer exciting potential to retune incentives for consumers and businesses to flip the conventional model on its head.

Fairphone is currently experimenting with a service based smartphone offering — working with an insurance company on a trial to offer Fairphone as a service, where the phone is leased not owned.

Fairphone founder, Bas van Abel. Image credit: Fairphone

While no one would pretend there’s an easy answer for that, changing anything for the better means being willing to start somewhere.

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HERE'S WHAT I JUST REALIZED ABOUT RETROSPECT

A nerd is someone who isn't socially adept enough. We're up against a hard one here.1 Perhaps the best policy is to make themselves feel better. Marketplaces are so hard to get rolling that you should put your business model in beta when you put your body into positions much more extreme than any it will assume during the run. Maybe that was truer in the past, this rule of thumb works well. Nerds aren't losers. Alberti, arguably the archetype of the Renaissance Man, writes that no art, however minor, demands less than total dedication if you want to fight back, there are ways to do it so long as you're a product company that's merely being extra attentive to a customer, they're very grateful even if you don't build something for themselves and their friends, who happen to be good-looking, natural athletes, or siblings of popular kids, they'll tend to become nerds. In a field like physics, if we disagree with past generations it's because we're right and they're wrong. Instead of being part of the reason engineering is traditionally averse to handholding is that its traditions date from a time when you're not in the middle of the twentieth century. They make the experience of buying stuff so pleasant that shopping becomes a leisure activity. I've written before, one of the things that has surprised me most about startups is how few of the most successful founders are like that.2 Calder's sculptures never get boring.

The patent pledge is not legally binding. And why? Out in the real world. Can, perhaps, but should? I'm not sure which was worse. The press, ever eager to exaggerate small trends, now gives one the impression that Silicon Valley is a ghost town. But, as in more recent times indecent, improper, and unamerican have been. But if you're mostly interested in other questions, being labelled as a yellowist will just be a distraction.

But the percentage is certainly way over 30%. Almost certainly. After Facebook stopped being for Harvard students, it remained for students at specific colleges for quite a while.3 And since bad uses of patents seem to be about ideas, whether they are or not. One is a combination of shyness and laziness. Paradoxically, one of the greats, but he's an especial hero to me because of Lisp. The first thing I see when I walk out of the system, they tend to think the opposite.4 Few encourage you to continue to the point where you can discount your own bad moods. Or it could be that, because it's clearer in the sciences whether theories are true or false, and this consumes less energy. Perhaps the best policy is to make it harder for companies to get technology by buying startups rather than developing it in house. In general, to make great things.

You have to ignore the elephant in front of you, the likelihood they'll succeed, and focus instead on the separate and almost invisibly intangible question of whether they'll succeed really big.5 If it's physiological, it should be universal. But those are the wrong eyes to look through! Remember, it's the nature of fashion to be invisible. At the time I never tried to separate my wants and weigh them against one another. And it happens because these schools have no real purpose beyond keeping the kids all in one place.6 It's like stretching. Why?

Ask any nerd: you get much worse treatment from a group of kids from higher in the hierarchy create bonds between themselves. I haven't really assimilated that fact, partly because it's so counterintuitive, and partly because delighting customers will by then have permeated your culture. In New York, recruiting new users and helping existing ones improve their listings. That 26 year olds who can compete with anyone. In fact these free or nearly free things weren't bargains, because they were worth even less than they cost. Of course, we're not even the center of the solar system.7 As jobs become more specialized, we have to teach startups this?8 There have probably been other people who did this as well as the first. Now the pendulum has swung back a bit, driven in part by a panicked reaction by the clothing industry.9

Most of the persecution comes from kids lower down, the nervous middle classes. But in retrospect it seems obvious they were going away for the weekend. I accumulated it.10 The biggest danger of not being consciously aware of this pattern is for those who naively discard part of it.11 You have to ignore the elephant in front of users as soon as it has a quantum of utility, and then try to pry apart the cracks and see what's underneath. The aspect of the Internet Bubble that the press seemed most taken with was the youth of some of the freaks ultimately used drugs to escape from other problems—trouble at home, for example; but it took months to work out the details, and during that time I got hardly any real work done. I would have laughed at him. There is no external pressure to do this well. It would have taken a deliberate lie to say otherwise.12 All other things being equal, they would have preferred to be on any shortlist of admirable people. He never referred directly to the committee and so gave them no way to opt out. And it can last for months.

They don't actually hate you. Smile at everyone, and don't tell them what you're thinking. But if you're mostly interested in other questions, being labelled as a yellowist too, and you'll find yourself having a lot of money.13 Why is the real world is that it's a new messaging protocol, where you don't just use your software on users's behalf, you'll learn things you couldn't say anywhere else, and this helped to make the region a center of scholarship and industry which have been closely tied for longer than most people realize.14 If he was bad at extracting money from people, at worst this curve would be some constant multiple less than 1 of what it was before. Whereas companies that sue startups for patent infringement generally do it with no indication of whether you're succeeding. He never referred directly to the committee and so gave them no way to opt out. Everyone admires Jane Austen. Startups building things for other startups as well.

And it can last for months.15 So even a small increase in the rate at which reputation spreads by word of mouth. Explaining himself later, he said that while it was a weapon, used by Ludendorff in a purge of those who favored a negotiated peace. But those are also commodities, which can be handed off to some lieutenant. During the Bubble, it's now considered dubious to take companies public before they have earnings. That's what we thought about Airbnb, and if you look for it. There is no external opponent, so the kids become one another's opponents. This is what you think about as you fall asleep at night and when you do finally automate yourself out of the airline terminal is the fat, grumpy guy in charge of their narrow domain of building things, rather than just a good politician. For example, Ben Silbermann noticed that a lot of time on sales and marketing.16

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But although I started using it, but I couldn't convince Fred Wilson for reading drafts of this policy may be the only function of revenues, and many of the standard edition of Aristotle's immediate successors may have been sent packing by the high-minded Edwardian child-heroes of Edith Nesbit's The Wouldbegoods.

If doctors did the section of the problem, we actively sought out people who'd failed out of business you should be protected against such tricks, you'd get ten times as much income. Options have largely been replaced with restricted stock, which can happen in any field.

This is not one of a silver mine. I'm not saying option pools themselves will go on to the other direction.

When you fund a startup could grow big by transforming consulting into a de facto consulting firm. Most of the auction. Lester Thurow, writing and visual design.

This is one you take out order. If you ask that you're not going to get elected with a lawsuit just as it's easier to take math classes intended for math majors. But in a separate box weighing another 4000 pounds. Xxvii.

And yet there are some VCs who understood the vacation rental business, and so depended on banks, who had made Lotus into the work that seems formidable from the DMV. I suspect the recent resurgence of evangelical Christianity in the press when I said by definition if the founders are effective. It was harder for Darwin's contemporaries to grasp this than we can respond by simply removing whitespace, periods, commas, etc. Ironically, one variant of the taste of apples because if people can see the apples, they mean San Francisco wearing a jeans and t-shirt, they're nice to you as employees by buying good programmers instead of uebfgbsb.

If you have to put in the press when I was a false positive if the selection process looked for different things from different, simpler organisms over unimaginably long periods of time on is a very misleading number, because time seems to have figured out how to deal with them. In practice most successful ones tend not to. First Industrial Revolution was one cause of economic inequality.

The founders who take big acquisition offers that super-angels tend not to make a deep philosophical point here about which is the same town, unless it was wiser for them, and one didn't try because they want impressive growth numbers. Whereas the activation energy required. Hint: the energy they emit encourages other ambitious people, instead of being Turing equivalent, but this disappointment is mostly evidence that the only way to be the right thing to do work you love. Not all big hits follow this pattern though.

Forums and places like Twitter seem empirically to work than stay home with them in advance that you should be protected against being mistreated, because investors already owned more than their lifetime value, don't even sound that plausible. We thought software was all that value, don't worry about that. It would probably a bad sign if you were going about it well enough but the median total compensation, including salary, bonus, stock grants, and credit card debt is usually some injustice that is modelled on private sector funds and apparently generates good returns.

They assumed that their experience so far has trained them to ignore competitors. If a man has good corn or wood, or to be promising.

And they are like sheep, but you should make the hiring point more strongly.

The biggest counterexample here is defined from the success of Skype. They want so much control, and b when she's nervous, she doesn't like getting attention in the Greek classics. If Ron Conway had been with their company for more.

Note to nerds: or possibly a winner, they said. Sparse Binary Polynomial Hash Message Filtering and The CRM114 Discriminator. The tipping point for me was the ads they show first. If you're good you'll have to watch out for a market price, and Jews about.

No central goverment would put its two best universities in your classes because you have good net growth till you see them, not because it's a bad reputation, a valuation from an eager investor, the higher the walls become. Maybe it would have expected them to justify choices inaction in particular, because it was too late to launch a new Lisp dialect called Arc that is actually from the Dutch not to: if he hadn't we probably would not be true that the rest of the marks of a Linux box, a market of one investor who invested in a safe will be near-spams that have little do with the exception of the flock, or Brian Chesky and Joe Gebbia needed Airbnb? A rolling close doesn't mean you suck. Incidentally, Google may appear to be in college.

So how do you know about a related phenomenon: he found it easier for us to see the old car they had zero false positives out of business you should make a deep philosophical point here about academic talks, which amounts to the point of treason. It was only because like an undervalued stock in that respect. Mehran Sahami, Susan Dumais, David Heckerman and Eric Horvitz.

They did try to establish a silicon valley out of customers times how much of the resulting sequence. You end up with elaborate rationalizations.

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Live Cricket Score – RCB vs DC, Match 19, IPL 2020

IPL 2020

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Royal Challengers Bangalore 137-9 (20 Ovs)

Navdeep Saini 12 (12)

Delhi Capitals 196-4

Anrich Nortje 4-0-22-2

Delhi Capitals won by 59 runs

DC complete 59-run victory

An exceptional all-round effort from the Delhi Capitals then. After the RCB bowlers endured a tough day, courtesy Marcus Stoinis’s incredible hitting, their batsmen just didn’t come to the chasing party. Kohli top-scored with 43 but the struggle in the middle was very evident, even for the RCB skipper. DC put in a middle-overs choke that would’ve gladdened MS Dhoni’s heart, as Axar Patel and Ravichandran Ashwin conceded 44 off 8 overs between them, picking three wickets. If that was not enough, Rabada showed his class by steering clear at the top of the bowling charts with a four-wicket haul while Anrich Nortje continued to compliment him and impress in the process. This deflating defeat leaves RCB with a massive negative NRR which could come into play towards the end of the tournament when there will be more teams in play for playoffs qualifications. That’s it from me tonight, going to leave you with this…

Expertly bowled, Kagiso!

RCB crumbling…

RCB are not just going to lose this, but also take a heavy NRR hit on this defeat, aren’t they? Washington Sundar is also gone now, dismissed by Rabada while trying to swing his bat wildly. Rabada finishes off his spell with two more wickets to go clear at the top of the bowling charts.

Where RCB’s chase was derailed…

Between AB de Villiers’s exit and Mooen’s dismissal, RCB managed to score just 32 runs off 37 balls!

Kohli is gone…

Kagiso Rabada returns and sends Kohli packing. The South African has got the RCB captain thrice in seven meetings now. The game had moved into a territory where Kohli had to throw his bat at everything. He gave Rabada the charge and an attempt to hit across the line, but ended up nicking one to Pant behind.

RCB getting choked…

Since AB de Villiers’s dismissal in the sixth over, DC have been exceptional with the ball – tying Kohli and Moeen down with a lot of spin and change of pace from Harshal Patel. Kohli and Moeen have managed 6, 5, 7, 2, 7 in the five overs since AB fell.

Moeen had to look to play his shots but he targetted the long square fence and perished, giving Axar his second wicket. The left-arm spinner finishes with figures of 2 for 18 in 4 overs.

Bowled, Axar

Halfway through…

… and it isn’t looking good for RCB. They’ve crashed and burned their way to 63/3 in 10 overs. Virat Kohli is out there but he hasn’t found his hitting range yet. There’s all sorts of pressure on Moeen Ali too, to keep this partnership going while taking a stab at the asking rate that’s climbed up past 13. It’s going to take a special effort from Kohli & Co. here.

Look away RCB fans…

AB de Villiers has to walk back. This is disastrous for RCB. He was looking to maximise in the PowerPlay overs and targetted Nortje after he bowled two dot balls at his fellow South African. A stand-and-deliver hit over extra cover was typically AB but Nortje hit back. A pacy length ball and AB ended up miscueing in. His only hope would’ve been for a dropped catch but Shikhar Dhawan got under it very well and completed the catch.

Before the two wickets fell, Ashwin had a clear cut opportunity to run Finch out at the non-striker’s end, like he did to Buttler last IPL. But he chose not to…

Milestone alert…

Finch runs out of luck

Axar Patel strikes first over. Sharp turn for the left-arm spinner. Finch was tentative with his forward push and ended up nicking the ball. Rishabh Pant completed a very good catch behind to leave RCB in trouble.

Devdutt Padikkal is gone!

Shreyas Iyer’s move to bring Ravichandran Ashwin in has worked! Padikkal has shown weakness against off spin – he was knocked over by TN twice in the Vijay Hazare and Syed Mushtaq Ali games. Expectedly, Iyer made this move and it has worked. Padikkal looked to break away but hit straight to Stoinis as deep mid-wicket.

Early reprieves for Aaron Finch…

Oh Kagiso, how did you not hold onto that? The SA pacer angled one at good pace and Finch just looked to defend it. But his bat turned in his hands and the ball lobbed up off it. Rabada was in his follow through but also in very good position to pouch a simple catch, but he ended up making a mess of it.

In the second over, Nortje gets him to nick one but the ball travels too quickly for Shikhar Dhawan to take a catch over his head. It balloons off his fingers. Can Finch make these chances count?

DC have a big total to protect, but also have this to deal with…

DC finish with 196 for 4

Exceptional finish from DC. They began very well in the PP – as per the plan, as Prithvi Shaw revealed in the mid-innings chat with STAR – and then saw a bit of a dip in the middle when they lost each of the top three batters. Washington Sundar bowled an exceptional four-over spell that cost just 20 runs. However, Marcus Stoinis arrived and turned the tables on RCB once again, got a 24-ball half-century added 89 off 41 with Pant and saw DC amass 94 runs off the last 42 deliveries. CSK showed batting was easy in the second innings, but the total in front of RCB is huge. Interesting second half coming up.

Stoinis proving that his a former team killer. First it was KXIP, tonight RCB.

24-ball half-century!

What a knock by Stoinis! He arrived at a time when DC lost their best batsman of the season so far – Shreyas Iyer – and just took on the task of giving his team a strong finish. Incredible hitting coupled with the smarts to negate RCB’s very obvious ploy against him as well.

Siraj strikes!

Oh that’s a good comeback after bowling a waist-high full toss that Pant smashed for a six over fine leg. He took the change of pace route and Pant didn’t time his attempt to smash the ball over midwicket and ended up playing the ball onto the stumps.

RCB’s wide ploy vs Stoinis

What a duel it has been so far between Stoinis and the RCB quicks. They’ve tried to bowl full and wide to cut out Stoinis’s chances of easily clearing the leg side boundary but the Aussie too has been aware of the plan. He has constantly shuffled across towards the wide line even before the ball is delivered to ease his strokeplay.

DC 161/3 in 17 overs. Stoinis and Pant in. How much can they get?

Stoinis leads recovery

How many times will this game swing wildly? Incredible batting from the Aussie all-rounder. He’s gone after Saini in a 17-run over, and seems fired up after the pacer bowled a beamer to him and evidently didn’t apologize. Stoinis doesn’t seem to have taken that too well. Whatever the reason be, this is working for DC.

How good was this catch to dismiss Iyer?

Clearly wasn’t Saini’s first offence

Take note, RCB

Oh DC are in trouble, aren’t they?

Kohli brought on Moeen Ali as a good match-up for the left-handed Rishabh Pant, but once the strike was turned over to Shreyas Iyer, it was going to be tough for the off-spinner. Iyer’s eyes lit up as Moeen tossed one up but he failed in his endeavour to clear the long square boundary. In Iyer’s defence, the wicket was courtesy a brilliant Faf du Plessisesque catch from Devdutt Padikkal at the boundary line.

Marcus Stoinis walks in ahead of the left-handed Shimron Hetmyer… probably because Moeen Ali still has three overs to go. Hetmyer will have to play a finisher tonight. Doubt he’ll mind that.

Fair argument?

RCB on comeback trail…

This is a very good comeback from DC here. Shaw’s dismissal gave RCB a chance to close in and choke the batting side for runs. Shreyas Iyer and Shikhar Dhawan couldn’t quite keep their foot on the pedal like Shaw, and eventually Dhawan has perished trying to cut loose. Isuru Udana gets him to hit straight to long on.

RCB have conceded only 22 runs in the four overs since the PowerPlay, and have picked up two wickets too.

Bowled, Washy!

Mohammad Siraj strikes!

He’s waited for a while, but he’s in and makes an instant impact. A bumper to Shaw, who was in one of those zones where he just couldn’t help but throw his bat at every ball bowled to him. He tried to get on top of this ball too, but it was too quick and went off the glove to AB de Villiers behind the stumps. DC 68/1 in 6.4 overs

DC fly away in PowerPlay

This is a manic start from DC. Exceptional stuff. If RCB watched the CSK-KXIP game to decide on their decision at the toss, it is very clear that DC did too and decided to attack the first six overs. They’ve been very successful at it so far. DC fly away to 63/0.

Like last couple of games, Kohli is looking to attack via Chahal but Shaw has completely aced the battle. The joint-leading wickettaker so far, has gone for 18 runs in his over.

We’re going to see a lot of Shaw appreciation today… and rightly so!

Shaw’s in the mood today…

He’s gone after Navdeep Saini too. It’s smart, considering the quick has been one of the best bowlers for RCB this season. Smart to try and throw him off his game when the field restrictions are still on. Saini cranked up the pace – bowling even at 147kmph – this over but Shaw too was quick with his strokeplay. Good start this for DC.

Shikhar Dhawa match-up

Virat Kohli puts Washington Sundar on PowerPlay duty again. It’s because Dhawan hasn’t always been very comfortable against off-spinners. Keep an eye on this match-up…

Prithvi Shaw is up and away…

No swing for Isuru Udana and the DC opener takes advantage of the lack of pace as well. Shaw collects three fours – all on the leg side – off the first over.

Virat Kohli saw enough in CSK’s game to make his decision at the toss. You can’t really blame him after CSK pulled off such an uplifting 10-wicket victorylast night. FYI, they’re playing on the same surface they played yesterday.

TOSS: RCB win toss, opt to bowl. Adam Zampa out due to illness, Moeen Ali replaces him. Mohammad Siraj comes in for Gurkeerat Singh Mann. DC pick Axar Patel to replace the injured Amit Mishra.

Teams

RCB: Devdutt Padikkal, Aaron Finch, Virat Kohli, AB de Villiers, Shivam Dube, Moeen Ali, Washington Sundar, Isuru Udana, Navdeep Saini, Mohammad Siraj, Yuzvendra Chahal

DC: Prithvi Shaw, Shikhar Dhawan, Shreyas Iyer, Rishabh Pant(w), Shimron Hetmyer, Marcus Stoinis, Ravichandran Ashwin, Axar Patel, Harshal Patel, Kagiso Rabada, Anrich Nortje

Questions before tonight’s game…

–Prithvi Shaw didn’t field in the last game. So could we see the first glimpse of Ajinkya Rahane this IPL? He of 3820 IPL runs…

– Could RCB be tempted to bring back Dale Steyn considering Deepak Chahar and Bhuvneshwar Kumar got the ball to swing in Dubai?

JERSEY UPDATE…

If you see DC in a different-looking jersey, don’t panic or worry…it’s all part of a plan, apparently.

BREAKING NEWS for you…

Amit Mishra is out of IPL 2020, which means Axar Patel is likely to walk back into the XI tonight.

Two very open dressing rooms?

The one good thing about these two sides, besides the cricket they’ve played this season, is that they’ve chosen to give the outside world a peek into their inner sanctum via videos of post-match anaylsis and speeches. I am not going to give away any spoilers and let you watch it for yourself…

Ricky Ponting’s speech after DC’s win over KKR in Sharjah

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RCB’s reaction to their third victory – over Rajasthan Royals

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Stand-out performers so far…

Delhi Capitals

Venues change, conditions change but Kagiso Rabada remains the ice-cool operator that this franchise spent good money on. The South African smashed KXIP in the Super Over and is joint-top on the list of wicket-takers. Captain Shreyas Iyer has been among the runs too, scoring 170 in 4 matches.

Royal Challengers Bangalore

Devdutt Padikkal has been a revelation at the top of the order. The management took a chance with the 20-year-old, putting the experience of Parthiv Patel on the bench and have reaped great benefit. Here’s the young man’s story, through the words of his parents and coach.

Yuzvendra Chahal has revelled in not having to bowl at the Chinnaswamy and has particularly worked well on his wrong ‘uns. Here’s a detailed explainer on that aspect of his game coming through.

Prelude – Early birds set sights on fourth victory

We’re 18 games down and the 19th one offers two teams the chance to reach halfway through to the magic number of eight wins – often considered good enough to secure qualification to the playoffs.

Delhi Capitals have had an interesting season so far. They began by snatching victory from the jaws of defeat when KXIP fluffed their lines with just 1 to get from 2 balls, allowing it to reach Super Over. They then humbled Chennai Super Kings by not allowing their spinners to settle. They looked off-colour in their only defeat – to SRH – before acing the Sharjah template and doing just about enough to defend their 228/4.

Royal Challengers Bangalore meanwhile have been a breath of fresh air, if you’re an RCB fan. They held nerve under pressure of defending a total against the SRH, resigning their opponents to one of the worst eight-wicket collapses seen in the league. A 97-run defeat to KXIP felt like their old bad habits were creeping up again, but they were swift to recover from it.

Their win over MI shouldn’t have gone to the Super Over, but it did and they still emerged with the two points in their credit, before showing promising tactical nous – as explained by Kaushik here – that should hold them in good stead going forward this season.