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deniigi · 4 years

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I had a really bad day (I wont say why because I wouldnt want you to feel like I'm guilting you into anything) and I was wondering if maybe you had a dfv/lfv or inimitable verse drabble you havent put up or one on here you really like you could point me to (navigation is hard on mobile) or even just some like hcs. If not its totally ok! You dont owe me anything. But I thought I'd ask and see if that's ok.

Oh no!

Sorry that you had a rough day my dear. I don’t have much in the works for those verses right now (I’ve been hammering my head against a wall, trying to write out a piece exploring Gwen and Murderdock’s relationship–it’s not working tho, so I’m stopping). Of course any of the Clint-based pieces are fun in those verses if you need a pick me up, but I am equally fond of Chapter 13 of Sidebars.

But! If you don’t mind a little piece from Lying by Omission/The Sprawl I’ve got cute little bit of Jack and Ben going out to dinner with Matt and Peter?

I’ll put it under the cut if you’re down

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“Dad, let’s go out to eat.”

Jack didn’t trust that. Jack had been scarred by the durian. Permanently scarred. He was never coming back from the durian. He was etching a durian with a big ‘X’ through it into the top of his next coffin for future archaeologists to find and have absolutely no questions about.

Matt, sensing that he was presently not receiving the amount of attention that he could be receiving, oozed out of the kitchen and draped himself over the back of the couch, right behind Jack’s shoulders. Jack glanced to the side and noted that he was wearing shoes.

He wasn’t chancing it.

“No shoes on the couch,” he said.

“It’s my couch,” Matt hummed, already migrating over to the couch’s arm, no doubt to burrow his way under Jack’s own arm.

“It’s a couch.”

“My couch,” Matt hummed, plucking Jack’s phone out of his hand and tossing it callously to the other side of said couch. He then executed the burrow and wriggled himself over so that he was the sole occupant of Jack’s lap. He waited, as sweet as could be, until he had Jack’s more or less undivided attention.

The kid was heavy. Jack couldn’t tell if he knew just how heavy he was.

He suspected that he was more than aware of it.

Matt beamed at him. He did not pull his shoed feet over the couch’s arm.

A sign of obedience. Or perhaps a buttering-up technique.

Tricky, tricky.

“Why do we need to go out to eat? What’s wrong with what’s in the fridge?” Jack asked Matt’s untrustworthy grin.

It faded a little because there was a pout which needed doing.

“I’m tired of eating potatoes,” Matt huffed.

“Take it back,” Jack scolded him. “I won’t hear any raggin’ on tatties in this household.”

“I want rice.”

“I’ll make you rice, Matty.”

“I don’t want your rice.”

Picky little shit. Just like his mother. She’d been the type to refuse a peanut butter and jelly sandwich if the slop wasn’t equally distributed.

Jack’s rice was perfectly fine. It even had bits of onion in it. If he was feeling real fancy, he might even cook it in broth or something.

“Fine, so make rice yourself,” he said. Matt squirmed up and wrapped arms around Jack’s neck. He put his cheek against it and immediately made the skin there it itch.

“You need a shave,” Jack huffed, reaching back for his phone. Vanessa was doing battle with her replacement: Bella the cat. She was giving their zombie group the play by play of the her and the cat’s opposing campaigns to win Wade’s favor. Thus far, Bella had broken a plate and gotten scratchies and kisses for it. Vanessa was outraged.

It was an outrage to behold.

“Daddy.”

Not this again. This was no reason to bring out the big guns.

“Get your shoes,” Matt whined.

“Baby, you can go out. I’m not stopping you from going out. No one is stopping you from going out, god help us,” Jack told him.

Matt abandoned his neck, stretched out, quick as a whip, and snatched the phone on the other cushion. He crammed it into his shirt and then replaced himself and his face-broom against Jack’s pulse point.

Yeah.

Yeah, Jack didn’t know what he’d expected to happen here.

“Matt,” he warned.

“Dinner.”

“The last time we went to dinner, you broke my heart, soul, and trust.”

“I won’t do it again.”

“Uh-huh. Yeah, right. ”

“I won’t,” Matt promised, pulling back to add puppy eyes to the mix.

That was unfair. Uncalled for. Totally underhanded.

“Why don’t you go out with Foggy?” Jack tried as a last-ditch effort.

“Because I want to go out with you,” Matt emphasized. “My pops. My old man. We gotta bond. It’ll make me more well-adjusted. The internet says so.”

Jack was confiscating the internet. The internet was a know-it-all snitch.

“DAD.”

“Fine, for fuck’s sake, boy. Get off, you’re drowning me here.”

Jack would go out to dinner on one condition.

Two conditions actually.

1) There was to be no durian. Anywhere. At all.

2) He got to bring moral support.

Matt was more than cool with that because it meant that he could replace the durian with another creative element which would equally torture Jack.

So Jack asked Ben Parker to come along. Parker was sharp as a tack. Compared to Jack, he was a man of the world. A reasonable and sensitive body with respect for his fellow humans. He promised to help Jack identify potential threats to his person flung his way by his uncaring and mischievous son.

Unfortunately, to that end, Matt insisted that they take Ben’s nephew, Peter, out with them too.

Jack knew from the start that this was Matt inserting his chaos element into what might otherwise be a perfectly tolerable and uneventful night out. But he also held out hope that Peter would be the sweet, kind-hearted boy he appeared to be.

It really was too much to ask for.

Peter latched his whole body onto Matt within seconds of their two parties meeting up and the two of them immediately set to whispering which bode poorly for everyone else involved.

“I believe we may have made a mistake,” Ben observed, rubbing thoughtfully at his chin.

Matt wanted rice and Peter wanted something sour enough to leave ulcers in his mouth, so the two of them decided that Thai food would achieve both of these effects. Jack was suspicious. Ben told him that Thai food was very tasty and he had little reason to fear, except.

Except.

“Peter hates durian, it’s fine, he won’t be setting up any conspiracies around it,” Ben promised him.

Mm.

They’d see about that.

Foggy had said something similar when he and Matt had dragged Jack out for Filipino food.

Jack was pretty sure that Peter just wanted a lime. He was 90% sure that all Peter’s cravings could be satisfied with a lime right now.

Matt, however, in an unlikely turn of events, convinced him that he should get food-substances to accompany his burning desire for limes. Peter grumbled at this and deferred to his uncle for support in the face of this logic.

Chaos element, located.

“Pick a carb,” Ben directed.

“Sugar is a carb,” Peter argued.

“Pick a carb in a less refined form,” Ben countered easily.

“If it’s raw sugar, it—”

“Veg, noodles, or rice,” Ben offered him.

Peter scowled.

“You said a carb,” he pouted. “I want sugar.”

“I have good news for you, sweet child of mine,” Ben said fondly. “There is sugar in everything served in the United States of America. You will have your sugar. Pick its structure: veg, noodles, or rice.”

Ben made Jack feel like a shit dad sometimes. Although, to be fair, Jack hadn’t been a dad as long as Ben had.

Peter, outwitted and bitter about it, agitated Matt to help him.

Matt saw no need for that.

“You’re gonna be hungry in an hour and then you’re gonna whine about it,” he declared.

Peter scowled at him and then turned his lethal puppy eyes onto Jack. Jack set up a menu between the two of them because he was not strong enough to cope with that.

Peter whined behind it.

Things were going too smoothly for too long. Jack did not trust the decent behavior happening at this table. Ben got a kick out of his paranoia, which was great because someone needed to.

“What are you hiding?” Jack asked Matt. Matt scoffed.

“Chill, old man,” he said. “We’re literally just having dinner. Maybe try to have a good time, huh?”

No.

Something evil was afoot.

Peter snickered. Matt swatted at him; he easily dodged the hand.

Trouble.

Dinner was eaten and paid for and Jack eventually gave up and settled down. Begrudgingly, he had to admit that Matt was right. Thai food was nice. No incidents had occurred. There was no durian. Ben and Peter made for good conversation, even if everything led back to Peter’s obsession with sci-fi films.

Ben told him that if he kept mentioning them, the aliens would hear him and his name would start to move up higher up on their list of potential captures.

The kid was horrified.

Matt helpfully started counting off the number of times Peter had mentioned aliens in the last week and Peter had briefly looked like he was going to cry.

“Is your wife not going to hear of this?” Jack asked Ben as they walked after the trouble duo who had determined that they were finding dessert at a different location. They seemed to know what they were after, so Jack and Ben left them to it.

“Oh, she will,” Ben said.

“And you don’t mind?”

“She encourages it. She’s convinced him that if you leave a tv on static, aliens can pick up on your watch history.”

Interesting parenting techniques going on here.

Ben laughed.

“Well, I guess we just figure that if you’ve got a weird kid, it’s easier on everyone if you just lean into it. My brother probably wouldn’t be so down with it, but he’s not here, so whatever.”

Ah, right.

“Peter’s your brother’s son, then,” Jack noted.

Ben hummed.

“I…guess,” he said uneasily. “I—it’s hard to explain. I mean, biologically, yeah he’s Rich’s son. But, you know, me and May’ve raised him for longer than Rich and Mary were ever in his life, so, I dunno. Is it fucked up that I kind of think of him as my son?”

No. Not at all.

“My eldest brother pretty much raised me,” Jack told him. “My mama couldn’t be assed to do anything more than scream at the drop of a hat and my daddy was busy drinking himself to death, so Bill was the one who got me up and dressed and off to school in the morning. I always thought of him as a mix between a brother and a mom.”

“No shit?” Ben said. “Where is he? He still around?”

Uuuuuuuh.

“We haven’t talked for a long time,” Jack said.

“Oh? Well, now’s your chance you know.”

Jack tried not to wince too sharply. Ben caught it anyways.

“Or not,” he said. “You don’t have to if its painful or something.”

Oh, buddy.

“We’ll see,” Jack decided. “I’ll need to think about it.”

He didn’t know how Matt would react. Hell, he didn’t know how he would react to seeing Bill again.

Matt and Peter presented Jack with a drink that had evil hiding in the bottom of it.

He should have known better to think he’d escape that night uninjured.

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I hope this cheers you up my dear and that things get easier for you soon!

#fic #jack murdock #matt murdock #ben parker #I need to do smth for the sprawl for real #ficlet

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chestnutpost · 5 years

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Cboe Global Markets Welcomes 16 Barclays iPath® ETNs to its Listings Marketplace

CHICAGO, May 13, 2019 /PRNewswire/ — Cboe Global Markets, Inc. (Cboe: CBOE), one of the world’s largest exchange holding companies, today welcomed 16 iPath® Exchange Traded Notes (ETNs) from Barclays to the Cboe Listed Marketplace – one of the single largest transfers the exchange has handled to date.

With the addition of these ETNs, Cboe is now the primary listing venue for an expanded suite of iPath® ETNs, including Barclays’ entire set of volatility ETNs. There are currently a total of 18 Barclays ETNs, with approximately $1.62 billion dollars in consolidated assets under management, listed on Cboe.

The 16 ETNs started trading on Cboe on May 13, 2019, and were delisted from both the NYSE Arca and NASDAQ Stock Market.

“In today’s highly competitive marketplace, we’re pleased that issuers continually turn to Cboe as their preferred destination for new exchange-traded product (ETP) launches, as well as transfers of existing products from other venues,” said Laura Morrison, Senior Vice President, Global Head of Listings at Cboe. “Cboe offers ETP issuers a marketplace specifically designed for ETPs with market-maker incentives and outstanding customer service. We look forward to expanding our relationship with Barclays, and providing the highest quality markets and services to support their success.”

In recent years, Cboe has continued to strengthen its leadership as the premier listing venue for issuers. The company currently has over 320 ETPs listed on its U.S. market from more than 50 unique issuers globally.

In 2018, Cboe was notably the listing venue for: 6 of the top 10 highest-volume new exchange-traded funds (ETFs); 6 of the top 10 ETFs with the highest auction volume; and 3 of the top 5 largest ETF launches by assets last year.

Cboe welcomed Barclays as a new issuer in January of 2018 and launched two iPath® volatility ETNs, including the flagship iPath® Series B S&P 500® VIX Short-Term Futures™ ETN (Cboe: VXX), which are designed to provide investors with exposure to the Cboe Volatility Index® (VIX® Index). Considered by many to be the world’s premier barometer of equity market volatility, the VIX Index is based on real-time prices of S&P 500 Index options (SPX) and is designed to reflect investors’ consensus view of future expected stock market volatility.

The 16 Barclays iPath® ETNs that have been transferred to Cboe are listed below:

Ticker

ETN Name

TAPR

Barclays Inverse US Treasury Composite ETN

STPP

iPath® US Treasury Steepener ETN

FLAT

iPath® US Treasury Flattener ETN

DTUL

iPath® US Treasury 2-year Bull ETN

DTUS

iPath® US Treasury 2-year Bear ETN

DFVL

iPath® US Treasury 5-year Bull ETN

DFVS

iPath® US Treasury 5-year Bear ETN

DTYL

iPath® US Treasury 10-year Bull ETN

DTYS

iPath® US Treasury 10-year Bear ETN

DLBS

iPath® US Treasury Long Bond Bear ETN

VQT

Barclays ETN+ VEQTOR ETN

WIL

Barclays Women in Leadership ETN

RODI

Barclays Return On Disability ETN

XVZ

iPath® S&P 500 Dynamic VIX ETN

IMLP

iPath® S&P MLP ETN

ATMP

Barclays ETN+ Select MLP ETN

For additional information on the Cboe Listed Marketplace, visit http://markets.cboe.com/us/equities/listings/.

About Cboe Global Markets, Inc.

Cboe Global Markets, Inc. (Cboe: CBOE) is one of the world’s largest exchange holding companies, offering cutting-edge trading and investment solutions to investors around the world. The company is committed to relentless innovation, connecting global markets with world-class technology and providing seamless solutions that enhance the customer experience.

Cboe offers trading across a diverse range of products in multiple asset classes and geographies, including options, futures, U.S. and European equities, exchange-traded products (ETPs), global foreign exchange (FX) and multi-asset volatility products based on the Cboe Volatility Index (VIX Index), the world’s barometer for equity market volatility.

Cboe’s trading venues include the largest options exchange in the U.S. and the largest stock exchange by value traded in Europe. In addition, the company is one of the largest stock exchange operators in the U.S. and is a leading market globally for ETP trading.

The company is headquartered in Chicago with offices in Kansas City, New York, London, Amsterdam, San Francisco, Singapore, Hong Kong and Quito, Ecuador. For more information, visit www.cboe.com.

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Cboe®, Cboe Volatility Index® and VIX® are registered trademarks and Cboe Global MarketsSM and Cboe Futures ExchangeSM are service marks of Cboe Exchange, Inc. All other trademarks and service marks are the property of their respective owners.

Cboe Global Markets, Inc. and its affiliates do not recommend or make any representation as to possible benefits from any securities or investments, or third-party products or services. Investors should undertake their own due diligence regarding their securities and investment practices. This press release speaks only as of this date. Cboe Global Markets, Inc. disclaims any duty to update the information herein.

Nothing in this announcement should be considered a solicitation to buy or an offer to sell any securities in any jurisdiction where the offer or solicitation would be unlawful under the securities laws of such jurisdiction. Nothing contained in this communication constitutes tax, legal or investment advice. Investors must consult their tax adviser or legal counsel for advice and information concerning their particular situation.

Cboe Global Markets, Inc. and its affiliates make no warranty, expressed or implied, including, without limitation, any warranties as of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, accuracy, completeness or timeliness, the results to be obtained by recipients of the products and services described herein, or as to the ability of the ETNs to track the performance of the various sectors and indices, and shall not in any way be liable for any inaccuracies or errors. Cboe Global Markets, Inc. and its affiliates have not calculated, composed or determined the constituents or weightings of the securities that comprise the ETNs and shall not in any way be liable for any inaccuracies or errors.

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survetementdefoot - Vente survetement foot allemagne pas cher 2017 2018

Nom complet: Nationalelf (national onze), DFB-Elf (DFB Eleven), Die Mannschaft (L'équipe)

Association: Association allemande de football (Deutscher Fußball-Bund - DFB)

Confédération: UEFA (Europe)

L'entraîneur-chef: Joachim Löw

Meilleur buteur: Miroslav Klose (71)

Code FIFA: GER

Premier international: Suisse 5-3 Allemagne (Bâle, Suisse, 5 avril 1908)

La plus grande victoire: Allemagne 16-0 Empire russe (Stockholm, Suède, 1er juillet 1912)

La plus grande défaite: Angleterre Amateurs 9-0 Allemagne (Oxford, Angleterre, 13 mars 1909)

Coupe du Monde: Les apparences 18 (première en 1934)

Meilleur résultat: Champions, 1954, 1974, 1990 et 2014

Championnat d'Europe: apparences 12 (premier en 1972)

Meilleur résultat: Champions, 1972, 1980 et 1996

Coupe des confédérations: apparitions 3 (première en 1999)

Meilleur résultat: Champions, 2017

Joueur de football bien connu: Oliver Rolf Kahn, Michael Ballack, Miroslav Klose, Karl-Heinz Rummnigge, Thomas Müller, Franz Beckenbauer

Honneurs majeurs: L'Allemagne est l'une des équipes nationales les plus réussies dans les compétitions internationales, ayant remporté quatre coupes du monde (1954, 1974, 1990, 2014), trois championnats d'Europe (1972, 1980, 1996) et une Coupe des Confédérations (2017). Ils ont également été finalistes trois fois dans les championnats d'Europe, quatre fois dans la Coupe du Monde et quatre autres places de troisième place à World Cups. L'Allemagne de l'Est a remporté l'or olympique en 1976. L'Allemagne est la seule nation à avoir les deux les Coupes du monde masculin et féminin et après la Coupe des Confédérations de 2017, elle a remporté l'une des quatre seules nations - aux côtés du Brésil, de l'Argentine et de la France - pour remporter tous les grands titres internationaux: la Coupe du Monde de la FIFA, la Coupe des Confédérations et le tournoi du nature. À la fin de la Coupe du Monde de la FIFA 2014, l'Allemagne a obtenu la plus haute note d'Elo de toute équipe nationale de football de l'histoire, avec un record de 2205 points. L'Allemagne est également la seule nation européenne qui a remporté une Coupe du Monde de la FIFA dans les Amériques.

L'histoire de l'équipe:

survetement allemagne - Entre 1899 et 1901, avant la formation d'une équipe nationale, il y avait cinq matches internationaux non officiels entre différentes équipes de sélection allemandes et anglaises, qui ont tous fini comme de grandes défaites pour les équipes allemandes. Huit ans après la création de l'Association allemande de football (DFB), le premier match officiel de l'équipe nationale de football de l'Allemagne a été joué le 5 avril 1908, contre la Suisse à Bâle, avec le Swiss 5-3. Par coïncidence, le premier match après la Première Guerre mondiale en 1920, le premier match après la Seconde Guerre mondiale en 1950, lorsque l'Allemagne était toujours exclue de la plupart des compétitions internationales, et le premier match en 1990 avec d'anciens joueurs d'Allemagne de l'Est étaient tous en Suisse. Le premier titre de championnat d'Allemagne a même été gagné en Suisse. À cette époque, les joueurs ont été sélectionnés par le DFB, car il n'y avait pas d'entraîneur dédié. Le premier responsable de l'équipe nationale allemande était Otto Nerz, un enseignant de Mannheim, qui a servi dans le rôle de 1926 à 1936. L'armée allemande ne pouvait pas se permettre d'aller en Uruguay pour la première Coupe du monde organisée en 1930 pendant la Grande Dépression, mais a terminé troisième lors de la Coupe du Monde de 1934 lors de leur première apparition dans la compétition. Après une mauvaise représentation aux Jeux olympiques de 1936 à Berlin, Sepp Herberger est devenu entraîneur. En 1937, il a mis en place une équipe qui fut bientôt surnommée el Elfe de Breslau (les Breslau Eleven) en reconnaissance de leur victoire 8-0 sur le Danemark dans la ville allemande allemande de Breslau, en Basse-Silésie (maintenant à Wrocław, en Pologne). survetement allemagne 2018.

Après que l'Autriche est devenue une partie de l'Allemagne dans l'Anschluss de mars 1938, l'équipe nationale de ce pays - l'un des meilleurs côtés d'Europe à l'époque en raison du professionnalisme - a été démantelée malgré sa qualification pour la Coupe du Monde de 1938. Comme l'ont exigé les politiciens nazis, cinq ou six ex-joueurs autrichiens, des clubs Rapid Vienna, Austria Vienna, First Vienna FC, ont été invités à se joindre à l'équipe tout allemande à court préavis dans un spectacle organisé orchestré pour des raisons politiques. Lors de la Coupe du monde de 1938 qui a débuté le 4 juin, cette équipe allemande "unie" n'a réussi qu'un match nul 1-1 contre la Suisse, puis a perdu la reprise 2-4 face à une foule hostile à Paris, en France. Cette sortie anticipée est le pire résultat de la Coupe du monde en Allemagne (à l'exclusion des tournois des années 1930 et 1950 dans lesquels ils n'ont pas concouru). Au cours de la Seconde Guerre mondiale, l'équipe a joué plus de 30 jeux internationaux entre septembre 1939 et novembre 1942, lorsque les matchs de l'équipe nationale ont été suspendus, car la plupart des joueurs devaient se joindre aux forces armées. Beaucoup de joueurs de l'équipe nationale ont été rassemblés sous l'entraineur Herberger comme Rote Jäger grâce aux efforts d'un officier sympathique de l'armée de l'air essayant de protéger les footballeurs du service de guerre le plus dangereux.

Après la Seconde Guerre mondiale, l'Allemagne a été exclue de la concurrence dans la plupart des sports jusqu'en 1950. Le DFB n'était pas un membre à part entière de la FIFA et aucun des trois nouveaux États allemands - Allemagne de l'Ouest, Allemagne de l'Est et Saarland - est entré dans la Coupe du Monde 1950 qualificatifs. La République fédérale d'Allemagne, appelée Allemagne de l'Ouest, a poursuivi la DFB. Avec la reconnaissance de la FIFA et de l'UEFA, le DFB a maintenu et poursuivi le record de l'équipe d'avant-guerre. La Suisse a été une fois de plus la première équipe qui a joué en Allemagne de l'Ouest en 1950. L'Allemagne de l'Ouest s'est qualifiée pour la Coupe du Monde de 1954. La Sarre, sous contrôle français entre 1947 et 1956, ne s'est pas associée aux organisations françaises et a été empêchée de participer à des pan-allemands. Il a envoyé sa propre équipe aux Jeux olympiques d'été de 1952 et aux éliminatoires de la Coupe du monde de 1954. En 1957, la Sarre adhère à la République fédérale d'Allemagne. En 1949, la République démocratique allemande communiste (Allemagne de l'Est) a été fondée. En 1952, le Deutscher Fußball-Verband der DDR (DFV) a été créé et l'équipe nationale de football de l'Allemagne de l'Est s'est rendue sur le terrain. Ils ont été la seule équipe à battre les Allemands de l'Ouest de la Coupe du Monde de la FIFA 1974 dans le seul meeting des deux côtés de la nation partagée. L'Allemagne de l'Est a remporté la médaille d'or aux Jeux olympiques de 1976. Après la réunification allemande en 1990, la compétition de football de l'est a été réintégrée dans la DFB.

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brandonnatali · 4 years

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Feature: We Buy Our Ultimate 2019 McLaren Senna—With McLaren’s Money

Editor’s note: We’ll return with more coverage of our 2019 McLaren Senna ordering and driving experience on Tuesday, Aug. 11.

WOKING, U.K.—The entrance to the suite where customers determine their choices for color and trim, and make special requests, for an Ultimate Series McLaren, involves—no surprise, if you know McLaren—a swish of a hand over a hidden sensor. It triggers a gray curved wall to glide quietly outward, revealing the path down to the room in which all your supercar dreams can come true. “Normal” customers, the sort who buy a 600LT or even a 720S Spider, don’t get to see this suite. It’s for the super-privileged few, the types who come here to order a 2019 McLaren Senna, a Speedtail, or an Elva. So, what the hell are we doing being ushered into this rarefied space by two Bespoke Liaison Managers (yes, really) and offered tea, coffee, and chocolate cookies with powdered-sugar McLaren swooshes precisely applied?

Ordering a 2019 McLaren Senna: How Did This Happen?

The answer is as simple as it is unbelievable. Today Automobile is ordering its own 2019 McLaren Senna. Well, almost.

McLaren North America has procured from the home base a Senna that will perform press-fleet duties, presumably smash lap records (which we have now already accomplished), and be immortalized in the pages of magazines, in videos, and in stories across the internet. McLaren, in its great wisdom, asked us to finalize the car’s specification. It’s quite some pressure; McLaren will produce only 500 Sennas, and “ours” will become one of the most photographed examples in the world. As Automobile’s European editor and most conveniently geographically situated correspondent, the task of heading to the McLaren Technology Centre in Woking, England, falls to me. “Don’t f*** it up,” is the extent of the official advice from editor-in-chief Mac Morrison.

Instead of buckling under the weight of expectation, I’ve decided to embrace the process by the time I pull up to the gatehouse at the MTC. Around a third of all Sennas have been sold to U.S.-based customers, and the vast majority of owners took a trip to the U.K. in order to be liaised in a bespoke way. Imagine how exciting that must be! Just seeing the pristine MTC rising out of the still semi-circular lake set amongst lush green English countryside is special enough. It’s a wondrous Norman Foster–designed mix of cool precision, perfect white curves, glass walls and Bond-villain chic, and it makes every other car factory on earth seem painfully ordinary. Knowing you’re heading inside to spec your own version of the 2019 Senna, the company’s most track-focused car—ever—is truly extraordinary. I have a feeling today (June 28, 2019) will be a very good day.

Soaking Up McLaren History

Two glass doors part swiftly as I approach the main building, and I’m greeted on the “boulevard” by Emily Barry and Graham Chambers, the aforementioned Liaison Managers. Think of the boulevard as a kind of Hall of Fame, set in front of McLaren’s Racing, Automotive, and Applied divisions. Its black tile floor runs seamlessly into the lake outside, separated only by the curved glass walls, to create the impression this whole structure is serenely floating. Let your eyes follow the meandering boulevard, and you’ll notice silver cylindrical lift towers, glass walkways overhead, and a whole lot of history. Formula 1 cars, Le Mans racers, McLarens old and new.

The cars presented in this sci-fi setting are regularly rotated from the display, and today they could hardly be more evocative. Tucked away to the left is XP5, the prototype F1—the famous road car, not race car—that became the world’s fastest automobile on March 31, 1998. Just ahead, Chambers and Barry are flanked by Bruce McLaren’s beautiful orange M7C from 1969, with aerofoils towering way up in the air both front and rear and eight mesh-covered intake trumpets sprouting from the exposed Cosworth DFV, and Carlos Sainz Jr.’s 2019 F1 car, the similarly hued MCL34. It looks huge and ugly compared to Bruce’s svelte M7C and the various other F1 cars snaking out of sight, but it’s a nice reminder: McLaren is coming back to prominence inch by agonizing inch in the top tier of motorsport. A few moments later, Barry waves her hand over that hidden sensor, the wall swings open, and I’m led into the Ultimate Series suite. Must. Not. Choose. Orange.

2019 McLaren Senna: Ordering Is Hard

The cynic inside me doesn’t want to go all jelly-legged and dewy-eyed. I am a grownup and I drive lots of cars, and I know that part of today is about making sure I spend lots and lots of money on MSO options. (Although “not too much,” says McLaren North America’s PR representative, Laura Conrad, through a perfect, unfazed smile. But bloody hell, it’s hard to stay level-headed in here. Steps lead down into a circular room with a rather formal-looking glass table and chairs, but to one side is a more relaxed leather sofa. Set amongst the furniture are sample drawers with paint finishes and tinted carbon fibers, while various leathers and materials are draped over neat racks, and there are reels of beautiful threads for interior stitching. Senna production is coming to an end and the room is ready for Speedtail clients, so there are bespoke luggage options, too.

It’s all slightly overwhelming, and when a highly charged Ayrton Senna video plays on a white wall, which then rotates to reveal a real-life McLaren Senna resting on a turntable, all my resolve is gone. I’ll have everything, please. In all of the colors. Especially orange. Shit, maybe Morrison knew what was going to happen once I actually set foot in here.

Luckily, Barry and Chambers have navigated plenty of people through this process, and they begin to expertly lead me toward themes and possibilities on a large video screen set opposite the turntable. Colors and wheels can be loaded onto renderings of the Senna on a racetrack, and you can flip, rotate, zoom, and basically play until your heart’s content. It’s a powerful tool for visualizing the perfect spec. Maybe too powerful. After an hour or so, I’m still getting nowhere. Fast.

Ordering a 2019 McLaren Senna: Spec Into Focus

Honestly, I went into this with a few clear avenues I wanted to explore. Instagram research had shown me the Senna looks its best in a pretty restricted palette. Dark green looks terrific and, conversely, so does white. I’d also seen a car that featured its lower half in black and the upper surfaces in orange, which really emphasizes the spaceship vibe. I didn’t want to copy anyone else, but I liked the idea of playing and experimenting from these starting points.

Barry and Chambers patiently upload various options based upon these basic parameters, and I have two additional, able assistants. Photographer Dean Smith is a man of terribly poor taste (look only to his range of orange and green jeans for evidence), but he does know what works best on camera—a vital characteristic for a press car. And Conrad plays her PR role perfectly. Not once does she veto any wild combinations, but the silent grimace on occasion suggests certain cars would probably not meet the “resale requirements,” and never make it beyond the garish renders. We’re all pretty well aligned, anyway, but nothing has quite hit the spot.

Of course, I’m desperate to avoid the cliché Gulf colors. “Talk about a lack of imagination,” I chuckle to myself. Until, that is, I take a little break from the suite for an inspiring wander along the boulevard. It reveals “25R,” the recently restored F1 GTR Longtail race car, in all its Gulf-liveried glory. It looks sooooooo good, and I immediately spiral back toward baby blue with orange or red pinstripes picked out for the front splitter, rear diffuser, and the sharp rear-fender tops.

On the big screen, though, it just doesn’t look right. Too obvious. A little cheap, maybe. “What about purple?” I ask to nobody in particular, almost in desperation. Barry immediately taps into every warm, fuzzy feeling I’ve ever had about McLaren Automotive.

“Well, we could offer Amethyst Black,” she says. “The same color as P1 OOV.”

If you don’t know, P1 OOV is the sinister-looking original press car for the first ever Ultimate Series model. You’ve probably seen that amazing P1 belching flames and billowing tire smoke. Me? I spent many, many happy hours in P1 OOV. I almost shout, “Oh my god, I love that color!” Our 2019 McLaren Senna will be Amethyst Black. With Speedline Gold wheels and highlights. I look around the room. Smith says it’ll photograph just fine in California sunshine, Conrad is smiling a very happy PR smile. I think we nailed it.

We spend the next hour or so working on the details, and the room is buzzing with excitement and a sense of achievement. Spec’ing your own hypercar is a very personal thing, but this feels like a group effort, a satisfying collaboration. Barry and Chambers feign excitement, too. Is this rehearsed or genuine? Who knows? I don’t care. Automobile’s 2019 McLaren Senna is going to be amazing. Here’s how it breaks down:

AUTOMOBILE’s 2019 McLAREN SENNA

BASE PRICE: $958,966

OPTIONAL EQUIPMENT:

6-point harnesses, black: $2,840

Bowers & Wilkins seven-speaker audio system: $5,680

Door lower panel, Gorilla Glass: $3,580

Exterior door up, Gorilla Glass: $2,290

McLaren Track telemetry, app, and cameras: $3,590

Sill panel, MSO defined satin carbon fiber: $4,650

Transportation and port process charges: $5,000

McLAREN SPECIAL OPERATIONS EQUIPMENT:

Amethyst Black exterior paint: $9,810

Satin carbon-fiber roof canopy with satin Speedline Gold pinstripe to roof scoop: $60,491

Satin Speedline Gold Perimeter Pack (front splitter, side blades, and diffuser): $9,191

Gloss Speedline Gold pinstripe around headlights as per render: $2,927

Satin Speedline Gold pinstripe to rear wing upper element: $1,951

Satin Speedline Gold wheels: $6,732

Body-colored center-lock nuts: $3,659

Body-colored end plates with SS logo in gloss carbon fiber: $4,390

Body-colored door struts: $1,830

Bespoke Automobile logo embroidered on headrests in Pure White: $4,390

Satin carbon-fiber steering wheel upper with satin Speedline Gold painted center band and satin Speedline Gold “+” and “-” on shift paddles: $7,708

Squashed hedgehog laser-etched on throttle pedal: $1,830

2 x gloss purple tinted key shells with MSO logo in Speedline Gold: Free

FINAL PRICE: $1,101,505

2019 McLaren Senna: Delivery Day

Does it feel good to spend somebody else’s $1.1 million? I’m going to say yes. Even better when, almost a year later, you get a call that goes like this: “The Senna is ready. Would you like to take delivery at the Thermal Club?” I happen to be in California, and the Thermal Club, a private racetrack for the disgustingly wealthy near Palm Springs, is but a couple of hours away.

The big reveal is held at O’Gara Motorsport’s facility at Thermal. O’Gara is part of a group that owns the McLaren Beverley Hills and San Diego dealerships, and this is a ritual several lucky owners have been through already.

Just like the process back in Woking, it feels extremely special. The Automobile Senna, chassis no. SBM15ACA3KW900804, rests beneath a black silk sheet when I arrive, the car flanked by two rows of customers’ toys. Not exclusively McLaren but all very much made of The Right Stuff. There’s a Porsche 911 GT2 RS, a Mercedes-AMG GTR GT3 car, several McLaren GT4 race cars, and a couple of Senna GTRs for good measure.

They all disappear when the silk is pulled back. The Senna—our built-to-order 2019 McLaren Senna—looks absolutely stunning. I know the track special will never be considered conventionally beautiful, but I’m not sure it will ever look better than this. The Amethyst Black paint changes as you circle the car, bright light revealing the purple within, then receding to leave a deep, rich inky black. Set against the Speedline Gold wheels and pinstripes, it packs incredible drama and exudes just the right amount of evil. I’m so glad we didn’t settle on a pastiche of a motorsports livery. In fact, I couldn’t be happier.

“Want to run a couple of laps?” asks O’Gara’s Parris Mullins. Now I definitely couldn’t be happier. I’ll just break it in gently before Automobile’s pro racer, Andy Pilgrim, tries to smash the production-car lap record at NCM Motorsports Park in Kentucky. Even when watching the video of his successful run a few weeks later, I still want to shout at him: “Hey, Andy, careful with our baby!”

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F&C-AWARD GOLD 2017 - BNI für hervorragende Partnerzufriedenheit ausgezeichnet

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Wien (ots) – Verdiente Auszeichnung für das Franchisesystem BNI GmbH & Co.KG. Das Business Netzwerk BNI wurde für hervorragende Ergebnisse bei der Analyse der Partnerzufriedenheit mit dem renommierten F&C-Award Gold ausgezeichnet.

\“Wir sind unheimlich stolz auf diese Auszeichnung und auf die hohe Zufriedenheit unserer Franchisepartner. Es ist eine Bestätigung für unsere gute, strukturierte und strategische Arbeit, die wir seit über zehn Jahren in Deutschland und Österreich leisten\“, sagt BNI-Nationaldirektor Harald Lais. Das weltweit größte Unternehmernetzwerk für Geschäftsempfehlungen ist zudem ab sofort Mitglied im deutschen Franchiseverband (DFV).

Vergeben wird der Award durch die Analysegesellschaft igenda, nach den strengen wissenschaftlichen Vorgaben des F&C, dem internationalen Centrum für Franchising und Cooperation in Münster. igenda befragt regelmäßig Partner aus ca. 250 Franchisesystemen und Verbundgruppen im deutschsprachigen Raum. Die Anforderungen des Münsteraner Forschungsinstituts sind hoch: sie darf nur an jene Franchisesysteme vergeben werden, die hervorragende Ergebnisse bei der F&C-Partnerzufriedenheitsanalyse erreichen.

\“Eine hohe Partnerzufriedenheit spricht für eine besondere Qualität des Franchisemodells und ist ein wichtiges Signal an Interessenten, bestehende Partner und Dienstleister\“, erläutert igenda-Geschäftsführer Dr. Martin Ahlert die Auszeichnung für BNI. \“Qualität schafft Vertrauen und damit die besonders guten Systeme dies noch besser kommunizieren können, vergeben wir besondere Auszeichnungen für Partnerzufriedenheit\“, so Ahlert weiter.

Und die Detailergebnisse von BNI in der Analyse der Partnerzufriedenheit können sich sehen lassen: Die Partner vergeben bezüglich ihrer Globalzufriedenheit sogar die Bestnote \“sehr gut\“. Besonders gut bewertet wurde die Beziehung zum Franchisegeber und zu ihren Mitarbeitern. Auch mit den Leistungen der Zentrale und dem eigenen wirtschaftlichen Erfolg sind die Partner sehr zufrieden. \“Eine hohe Beziehungsqualität stellt die zentrale Voraussetzung für ein wirtschaftlich florierendes Franchisenetzwerk dar\“, erläutert Dr. Martin Ahlert und verweist auf die Erfolgsformel für Unternehmensnetzwerke: \“Systeme mit einer hohen Partnerzufriedenheit sind wirtschaftlich erfolgreicher.\“ Ein weiteres Zeichen für ein attraktives Geschäftsmodell bei BNI: Die Zufriedenheit mit der täglichen Arbeit wurde mit der Note \“sehr gut\“ bewertet.

Zwtl.: Über BNI

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Zwtl.: Über F&C

Das Internationale Centrum für Franchising & Cooperation (F&C) ist ein wissenschaftliches Forschungsinstitut und Kompetenzzentrum für Unternehmensführung und Marketing in kooperativen Unternehmensnetzwerken, das seit 1999 als sachverständige Institution im Kooperationsbereich in Deutschland für Begriffsklarheit, Leistungstrans-parenz und Qualitätssicherung in kooperativen Unternehmensnetzwerken sorgt. Weitere Infos unter www.franchising-und-cooperation.de

Zwtl.: Über igenda

igenda ist der Dienstleister für Qualität in Netzwerk-Unternehmen. igenda kann auf über 10 Jahre Erfahrung in der Evaluation, Beratung und Verbesserung von Franchise-systemen und Verbundgruppen zurück blicken. Etablierte Befragungstools für Partner, Mitarbeiter und Kunden bilden die Basis für den einzigartigen ganzheitlichen Analyse-und Beratungsansatz. Weitere Infos unter www.igenda.de

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A knotty problem - starve or strangle? 1871

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Geologic Map of Maryland, Cleaves, Edwards & Glaser, 1968 (x)

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Random worldbuilding stuff

De figuris Veneris, Chapters 1-5

Chilton had a fiancee in Hannibal named Inelle. I love the character of Chilton and the thought of him having an ex-wife is funny to me. She definitely left him when she figured out he was gay.

The NYT plum torte recipe was famous in the 80s.

Freddie Lounds is a combination of Philip Seymour Hoffman's 2002 portrayal, the comically evil Mason Verger, and maybe a little Bunny from The Secret History. I love Chorostecki's version as well, but it didn't fit this story.

All articles and books included in the story are real and dated prior to 1983.

Psychology's understanding of empathy was limited in 1983. Mirror neurons were not discovered until the 90s. Hogan's Empathy Scale has been proven ineffective due to self-reporting bias but also includes some dubious questions such as "I prefer a shower to a tub bath," "I think I would like to belong to a singing club," and "I like to talk about sex." Incidentally, Robert Hogan taught at the Johns Hopkins Department of Psychology from 1967-1982. Heimlich's retirement soiree was partly inspired by him, as well as the Harvard criminal psychologist Will mentions in Red Dragon.

The Baltimore Symphony Orchestra performed Brahms's Quartet in G along with Bach's Toccata and Fugue and Beethoven's Piano Con. #5 in September 1983 (Source). As a Bachian, Hannibal would have been more excited for the Toccata and Fugue, but it's only 10 minutes long and I only wanted to mention one composer.

I chose to have Hannibal live in Fell's Point instead of the fictional Chandler Square or the real Mount Vernon Square because I couldn't resist referencing Dr. Fell. I think it's rare for Fell's Point townhouses to have garages, but one was necessary for Hannibal's lifestyle. I took his floor plan from a real townhouse in the neighborhood that was most likely renovated within the last few years. Fell's Point has an interesting canning and shipbuilding history. It was just starting to become gentrified in the early 80s.

To me, De figuris Veneris (publicly available) represents academia's simultaneous fascination with and revulsion toward the erotic, especially in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Will and Hannibal pretend to themselves that they are more rational than the characters in The Metamorphoses (which also used to be considered a naughty book). They are so sexually repressed, I wanted them to act as if they received their entire sexual education from this "manual."

Will reads Gregory Horace's translation of The Metamorphoses. Published in 1958, it was the most recent translation available at the time and is now publicly available on the Internet Archive.

The Walters Art Gallery became the Walters Art Museum in 2000. I've never been, but if I was the art director I would display all their Italian bronze statuettes in the same room, including their Hercules and the Dragon Ladon.

Next: Chapters 6-8

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