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So quite a few weeks ago I had my birthday, and since then I have been on holiday and this is the first chance I have had to blog! Honestly over a week without WiFi and 3G hurt me a lot! Anyway I am back with WiFi, but back to school next week *sad face* so I am taking the time to schedule posts in advance to prepare for all the revision coming my way... Before I fully get into this post I do want to say that I am not at all trying to brag about what I received, I simply like reading these type of posts and hope that you will too.
My birthday list this year mainly consisted of makeup and makeup tools because, as you might know, I am a makeup lover. I have been after a new set of affordable face brushes for a while and came across this set of eight whilst looking on Amazon and thought they looked great. My grandparents kindly got me them and I am in love with the set! The feel of these brushes is so soft to the touch, they're even softer than the RealTechniques ones, (hard to imagine I know.) Obviously they don't feel as well made and probably won't last as long, however, for the price they are brilliant!
The four large face brushes are all great for foundation; but I prefer to use the tapered brush for working product under the eye, as it can get right into the corners, perfect for under eye concealer. This is a really useful brush as you can use the flat side to blend over larger areas or the top of the brush for more precise application. I want to see how well this does when I try Collection's Lasting Perfection Concealer for the first time...(Yes I gave into the hype...Yes it was inevitable... No I am not sorry...)
The next is an angled flat top brush, which I am currently using with my Glow All Out powder by Soap & Glory as it gives a beautiful dusting to the tops of my cheeks. As it is angled I can see that it could do well as a bronzer brush and possibly even a contour brush if used slanted. For the moment I think I am going to keep it for highlighter, however, I'm sure it will get used for foundation on more than one occasion.
The rounded top brush, although I don't use it a lot at the moment, would be really good for blending in cream blush to give a natural flush, because of its shape it shouldn't pick up too much product and should make cream blush application a dream. Although I don't own many cream blushes at the moment I will be trying it out soon!
My current favourite for foundation however, is the flat top brush as I can really work the foundation into my skin and get a flawless finish. I use the brush in circular motions all over the face, concentrating on problem areas such as my forehead and cheeks, where I get most spots and redness. The bristles in this brush are really nicely packed together and flexible, giving me more control over where I deposit most product and how evenly it's spread.
The smaller four of the set are basically scaled down versions of the larger face brushes, but I use them for different things. The angled flat top brush is really good for concealer, because it's angled you can blend the concealer into the more difficult places that other brushes cannot reach.
The more rounded top angled brush is quite good being used as a base eyeshadow brush. It covers the whole eye in a couple of swipes and is really useful for blending shadow into the crease.
The tapered brush is my favourite at the moment for precision highlighting! Because it's tapered it is perfect for using in the inner corner of your eye and also in your cupids bow.
The last brush is a flat top brush. I'm currently using this as a crease brush to blend shadow out. I can also see it would be useful for buffing concealer on those days when I am going without foundation.
Overall these brushes are great if you're just starting out in makeup. They have so many uses and if you're looking for a gift to give, I'm sure these will be much appreciated by anyone that receives them. Granted they are not as good quality as brushes costing twice the amount, however, they are not half bad for the price.


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In addition, it has a lot of designs as the people's alternative choices. It has the usual design with the desk legs, and the unique design without the legs which hanging on the wall. The other one is the minimalist computer desk. The modern computer desk has multistory design that enables to keep computer set with books and there is also space for disc player. It has the connection of such materials as wood and stainless steel materials in order to give more modern appearance.
It has full solid wooden material, so it will give long lasting computer desk. Beside the minimalist computer desk, there is another design of computer desk which is more unique namely the contemporary computer desk. The contemporary computer desk has simpler design than the minimalist computer desk. But mostly, it is used to place only the computer set and laptop without any other drawers and spaces provided. But this computer desk can also become the decorative element in the house because of its stunning design. Normally people place it in the home office and in the bedroom or even in the family room.
The minimalist computer desk is one which good for your house. It can be used to place computer and CPU with monitor also printer plus keyboard as well as mouse in order to get neat, practical and efficient. This kind of computer desk is multi-functional which is completed with several drawers to store such important files and documents.
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#IinformedThePSNI trend hits Twitter in response to Belfast leaflets as loyalist questions their origin
People have expressed their support for the PSNI through a hashtag on Twitter after threatening leaflets about providing information to the police were distributed in Belfast.
Flyers featuring a gunman and the union flag, stating: "All PSNI informers will be put out of this area" were distributed in east Belfast at the weekend.
Loyalist paramilitaries have been blamed, something which has been questioned.
Police condemned the incident as cowardly describing it as an attempt to intimidate a law-abiding community.
"Policing only works in partnership with the community, acting on those things that are of concern to the community in order to keep them safe," said Chief Superintendent Chris Noble.
"Police will continue to apply legitimate pressure to those who prey on local people and who attempt to exercise illegitimate power and cause fear."
The leaflets were placed on cars in east Belfast overnight on Friday. The PSNI said they were a "clear sign" that community policing was having an impact and vowed to "sharpen" their focus on tackling criminality in the city.
In response, scores of people have taken to Twitter to say how they have reported potential crimes to the police using the #IinformedthePSNI.
Among those to tweet was Belfast Telegraph writer Malachi O'Doherty who recalled the time he spotted a burglar in the Botanic area of the city.
#IinformedThePSNI When I saw burglar run from flats near Botanic Gardens.— Malachi O'Doherty (@malodoherty) November 27, 2016
#IInformedThePSNI when our house was burgled & car stolen. Perpetrator was caught, convicted & jailed #thanksPSNI pic.twitter.com/dJCtQNbwit— Cameron Watt (@AlphaCRW) November 27, 2016
#IInformedThePSNI when a neighbour beat a bloke to a pulp on a night out AND I'D DO IT AGAIN if needs be!!— Susan Barnard (@mrssbarnard) November 26, 2016
Alliance MLA Chris Lyttle Party added his condemnation and urged people to continue to work with the police. "Once again we see faceless people hiding under cover of darkness to make threats against the community," he said.
"It is, however, vital that people continue to support and provide information to enable the PSNI to keep our community safe."
While some have condemned the material, others have questioned if the leaflets originated from loyalist paramiltaries.
PUP activist Ken Wilkinson, speaking during the BBC's Stephen Nolan show asked where the proof was.
"What proof is there that loyalists put these out? Anyone can put things out.
"We have seen in the past where people have tried to demonise certain sections of the community."
He said he had "no idea" where the leaflets had come from, however, he said he would condemn wrongdoing "where he sees it".
When asked why loyalist paramilitaries such as the UDA and UVF had not disbanded, he said they were trying their best, but they had no support.
"But we get condemnation of leaflets that no one even knows who put them up."
"Has the IRA disbanded? Has the republican movements all disbanded - just watch what's coming up."
Earlier this year police hit back after posters bearing the message, 'People Should Not Inform', were erected in parts of west Belfast, Armagh and Tyrone.
Officers in Craigavon used social media to tell the community that "inform" was not a dirty word and highlighted a number of instances where information from the public had led to the apprehension of criminals.
In April, an image of a gunman beside the message, "Loose talk costs lives", and the phrase: "Whatever you say, say nothing" was painted on the 'International Wall' on the Falls Road, Belfast.
At the time, the message was slammed by the SDLP as a throwback to the 1970s and "open intimidation".
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Thorax 16-1 (8-5) Soon settled in moderate 3rd, ridden and weakened from 3f out, 8th of 12, 33l behind Otterstown Lady (9-0) at Leopardstown 2m hcp 50-90 in Aug.
Borrowdale 7-2fav (9-6) Tracked leaders, edged left over 3f out, every chance and shaken up over 1f out, not quicken, 4th of 12, 4l behind Compton Court (9-13) at Wolverhampton 2m hcp (6) pol in Oct.
Inis Ceithleann (IRE) 8-1 (8-10) Rear of mid-division, headway into 5th entering straight, went 2nd over 1f out, kept on well under pressure to lead close home, won at Dundalk 1m 4f Handicap (47-65) (3yo+) pol beating Solo Performer (9-10) by 1l, 14 ran.
Dbest (IRE) 5-2fav (10-3) Prominent, ridden in 3rd before straight, 4th 2f out, no impression from over 1f out, 8th of 14, 13l behind Martha Elizabeth (8-2) at Dundalk 1m 3f hcp pol in Sep '08.
Lucky Spring (IRE) 5-1 (9-2) In touch towards rear in 7th, ridden from 4f out, 4th over 2f out, challenged in 2nd final furlong, led and drifted right well inside last, stayed on well, won at Sligo 1m 4f app hcp 50-70 sft in Aug beating Ennis Express (8-12) by 2l, 9 ran.
Murtagh (IRE) 14-1 (7-13) 8th of 15, 16l behind The Pier (8-10) at Killarney 1m 3f hcp 50-80 in Aug.
Grove View Star 12-1 (9-3) Mid-division, 9th halfway, headway to 4th 2f out where bumped and edged right, ridden into 3rd 1 1/2f out, no extra in 6th 1f out, kept on same pace, 7th of 14, 11l behind Royal Entourage (10-0) at Dundalk 1m 3f hcp 0-65 pol in Apr.
Frank Moss Bennett (IRE) 25-1 (9-5) Towards rear, ridden 4f out, no impression and kept on without threatening straight, 6th of 13, 7l behind Havetoavit (9-9) at Roscommon 1m 4f hcp 47-65 gf in Jun.
Lift The Gloom 22-1 (8-3) Chased leaders, 7th halfway, ridden into 4th 2f out, no extra in 6th 1f out, kept on one pace, 9th of 20, 6l behind Final Flashback (8-8) at Leopardstown 1m 1f hcp 50-80 gd in Aug.
Tony's Treasure (IRE) 12-1 (9-1) Led, headed halfway, ridden in 5th 3f out, no extra in 7th 2f out, hampered 1 1/2f out, weakened, 10th of 11, 12l behind Captain Henry (9-5) at Gowran Park 1m 1f 3yo hcp 50-80 in Jul.
Uncle Bunge (IRE) 12-1 (8-10) Towards rear, headway into 5th 3f out, soon ridden, kept on without threatening from 1 1/2f out, 3rd of 14, 3 1/2l behind Daytime Dreamer (9-11) at Dundalk 1m 4f hcp 47-65 pol in Aug.
Bluebell Rock (IRE) 14-1 (9-4) Always behind, 12th of 15, 32l behind Our Nana Rose (8-3) at Gowran Park 1m 1f 3yo hcp 47-70 sft in Aug.
Marceau (IRE) 14-1 (8-10) Mid-division, no impression from 4f out, kept on same pace from 2f out, 6th of 14, 10l behind Daytime Dreamer (9-11) at Dundalk 1m 4f hcp 47-65 pol in Aug.
The Pott Reidy (USA) 16-1 (9-6) Towards rear, late headway in 11th 1f out, kept on final furlong, 6th of 15, 2 1/4l behind Manavic (8-12) at Killarney 1m hcp 47-65 in Aug.
Delgany Spirit 25-1 (8-4) Chased leaders, 8th halfway, weakened entering straight, 16th of 20, 17l behind Final Flashback (8-8) at Leopardstown 1m 1f hcp 50-80 gd in Aug.
Aluana (IRE) 12-1 (10-12) Rear of mid-division, no impression from 6f out, tailed off, 9th of 11, well behind Regal Obligation (10-13) at Downpatrick 2m 2f am hcp 47-65 gd in Aug.


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Former Treasury perm sec Nick Macpherson slaps down Liam Fox over Brexit 'blackmail' claim
International trade secretary draws fire for Brexit negotiations complaints
Former Treasury permanent secretary Nick Macpherson has issued a stinging rebuke to international trade secretary Liam Fox over his claims that the European Union is trying to blackmail the UK into paying an excessive divorce bill to leave the bloc.
Fox made the comments in Tokyo, where he was on a trade mission with prime minister Theresa May. They came in the wake of dissatisfaction voiced by EU chief negotiator Michel Barnier, who said insufficient progress had been made with the first stage of negotiations – which covers citizens' rights and the financial settlement – for talks to progress on to the future EU-UK trade relationship.
The cabinet minister and hard-Brexit proponent said the UK "can't be blackmailed into paying a price on the first part" so that progress can be made on future trading relationships. He subsequently told the BBC that global investors were "getting impatient" to find out what the post-Brexit arrangements would look like.
- UK to seek 'temporary' customs union with European Union after Brexit
- Government must reveal full range of post-Brexit trade options, says IfG
- Civil service fears Brexit decisions being 'rushed through' – report
Macpherson – now Baron Macpherson of Earls Court – stepped down as HM Treasury permanent secretary weeks before the EU referendum after more than a decade in the post. He said Fox's observations betrayed an air of desperation.
"'Blackmail' is the perpetual cry of the smaller negotiator with the weaker hand," the crossbench peer wrote on Twitter. He added: "#getagrip".
"Blackmail" is the perpetual cry of the smaller negotiator with the weaker hand. #getagrip— Nick Macpherson (@nickmacpherson2) September 1, 2017
Civil Service World's sister title PoliticsHome.com reported that the financial settlement battleground currently ranged from the £30bn contribution believed to be favoured by Brexit secretary David Davis' negotiating team to an EU-side upper limit of £92bn. European Commission president Jean-Claude Juncker has suggested a £55bn contribution, it added.
Fox's comments came as MPs on the all party parliamentary group on EU Relations released a report calling for the UK's continued membership of the EU customs union, and criticising the government's "irresponsible" and "vague" proposals on customs included in last month's position statement.
The report said leaving the customs union would cause a "£25bn a year hit to the UK economy" and be tantamount to a "reckless and economically dangerous self-inflicted wound".
In the foreword to the report, committee co-chairs Labour MP Chuka Umunna and Conservative MP Anna Soubry, who both campaigned for remain in last year's referendum, said ministers had failed to show the same level of pragmatism on customs union that other key Brexit areas had benefited from in recent weeks.
"Their hasty choice to leave the customs union, and their lack of realism and preparation regarding real alternatives, increases the chances that we could face a crash into chaos and confusion in our customs system after Brexit," they said.
"One of the reasons consistently put forward for leaving the EU was to reduce the amount of red tape but the new, more complex, proposals look nothing short of a Brexit bureaucracy bombshell for British businesses.
"In our view, a total commitment to full membership of the customs union is what is required in the national interest, not just for a transitional period but for the long-term future."
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For a couple of seconds Sydney was clearly thrown. She didn't know why seeing the man who had been one of her best friends once should be more paralyzing than seeing her mother was alive after nearly thirty years or watching a man's face shift into the features of another, but for some reason, it was. Had she even spared a thought about Will for the last five years? And now, he had turned up in the middle of a war zone.
Kim, not having any knowledge of the man, was able to react faster. She saw what was happening, and moved in to try and find the woman's pulse, then her heartbeat.
"Is she dead?" Will spoke with a kind of detachment that Syd had never associated with him. Was this a consequence of being around her? Were she and her friends just an abyss of darkness?
She shook this off. Will's being here was a coincidence, a horrible one, but a coincidence just the same. And she wouldn't be able to help her friend if she was gathering wool.
All of this took place in the space of a minute.
"Yes," Kim admitted. "I'm so sorry, but there's nothing we can do for her."
Will nodded. "Could you give me a moment alone?"
They probably weren't going to have enough time for this, but everybody else knew sometimes you had to make it. Fortunately, the madness seemed to have abated a bit.
Chloe then asked the question they were all considering. "What the hell is happening?"
"It isn't just happening here," Kim replied. "And it seems to involve at least four different gangs."
"Any of them relating to Bell?"
"We just picked up half of them. Someone killed Bell before this whole mess got started." Sydney told them.
"So who's pulling the strings?" Chloe demanded.
Syd took out her cell. "Someone knew this was going down before we did, and we still have him in custody. Maybe your father will be able to make him more... cooperative."
As it turned out, Jack had been considering the exact same scenarios. Normally, he would've been willing to subject a suspect to one of his patented interrogations. However, he was dealing with two issues.
First, Kenny Williams was only fourteen, and as heartless as the government seemed to consider him, there were some lines he had trouble crossing. Torturing a minor was one such thing, even one as repellent as Williams was.
Given the gravity of the situation, he would have been able to get past it were it not for the second and more important factor: he was in a New York Police station, not CTU. There would be lawyers on the street, reporters, each one of them making Jack into the bad guy for torturing a "poor innocent little boy." Forget that the "innocent little boy" already had a violent criminal rap sheet, several inches and a few dozen pounds on Jack, and was obviously a part of what seemed to be the biggest urban rampage since the Bronx was burning.
None of this would have stopped Jack, but it would certainly stop every single cop in that station, and they, in turn, would definitely be interested in stopping Jack from causing that scenario. Even if every cop wanted to sell tickets to Jack making Kenny talk, the cops would be obligated to stop him. And if Jack started making Kenny sing, would he have enough time to get the information out of him? Maybe. But, again, this wasn't CTU. If he laid a hand on Kenny, the DA would be obligated to throw Jack in a jail cell.
So, much as witnessing Sydney's little tete a tete with Williams had turned his stomach, he had gone to Goldblume and told him to call the ADA and get Williams an immunity agreement. The lieutenant had argued, but half-heartedly - he knew Williams was small potatoes, and there was a much bigger threat on the line.
Normally, this kind of bureaucratic maneuvering would have taken a few hours to get done. Today it took less than fifteen minutes. The ADA had one caveat. "This kid goddamn better have something that we can confirm right away," he told them. "I'm not giving this kind of pass to someone who got lucky knowing what happened to his boss."
Knowing how high the stakes were, Goldblume said he was going to speak to the kid himself, which is where the situation was when Syd called.
"I gotta tell you," she told Jack. "I have my own questions. Starting with why a relatively low ranked slinger knew how bad the situation on the street was before we did."
"Or why in two weeks of surveillance we turned up nothing to suggest this kind of plan was in the works," Jack added. "A drug bust in Brooklyn doesn't lead to three separate gang wars."
"And some pretty heavy artillery for it." Jack was not at all happy to learn that his daughter and sister-in-law had just missed being taken out by a rocket-propelled grenade. "Something big is going on, and we seem to have missed the forest for the trees."
"We're not with CTU anymore," Nadia reminded her husband. "When we hear hoofs, it usually is a horse."
Just then, Goldblume rapped on the mirror to the interrogation room. "Whatever this is, I think we're going to find out what he knows," Jack told them.
"Put it on speaker. I want to hear this too." Marshall's phones really were works of art, Jack thought as he adjusted it.
"Tell ADA Cutter what you just told me," Goldblume was saying.
"It's like this. Last couple of weeks, Freddie Mack's been buying our packages from a new supplier." They'd heard something like this on the wire. This was going to be the first question they asked Mack when they hauled him in. "Said that he wanted to adjust our clientele. Marlowe was having problems with this. Said he wanted a sit-down. Guy said he didn't meet with the scum of the earth."
"Apart from demonstrating enormously good judgment, what does this have to do with all the violence?" Cutter demanded.
"Couple days ago, Mack starts getting feels from the Latinos and the Sicilians, guys he wouldn't piss on if they were on fire," Williams was still as cocky as ever. "Said they'd been getting messages from some brother telling them that there were going to be some changes made, and if they didn't like it, they could fuck off."
Jack frowned. While going through the wires of the last few days, they had noticed that some of the lower-level thugs had been getting calls from cells that connected to numbers that didn't exist. Because it hadn't had anything pertinent to the bust, he had told Chloe and Edgar to file it away, and they'd go through it after the arrest had been made. Which would be now.
He was about to ask Chloe if she could send him the relevant files, when he realized that Williams was still talking.
"Guy said that all of us were nothing more than cockroaches," he was telling Goldblume, "and that the exterminator was coming. But that there would be a place for some of us, and people would make triple the money for half the work."
"And you just bought into his sales talk." Cutter was buying this.
"The brother said he wasn't scared of anything they could do to him. Said he'd already been killed when he was in the joint. Nothing else they could do to him, and that when the time came he'd show them what death was like."
"And now we have to call our friends in the FBI," Nadia told them doubtfully.
"You don't have a name for this guy by any chance?" Goldblume asked, clearly thinking this was all bullshit.
"Brother Jamal," Williams answered. "Said that those sat as his right hand would be well rewarded."
"You didn't need a last name to decide to betray the man you'd been running dope for the last three years," Cutter seemed just as convinced as Goldblume. "He just says that he rose from the dead, that he'll improve your bottom line, and you buy into it."
"Marlowe's dead, ain't he?" Williams replied, as if this were enough.
"Do you have any proof of this fairy tale?"
Williams shrugged. "Two days ago, this runner named White Mike who said he worked for Jamal told me if I was interested in getting down with this to go to a PO Box in Bensonhurst at midnight last night. I get there, there's a phone and a gun. I pick it up, just get a busy signal. 'Bout fifteen minutes later, it rings. When I answer, voice on the other end tells me to fire that gun when I get a text. Says to wait for a call, and that the phone won't work until then."
"And when is this magic phone going to ring?" Cutter asked.
"'Bout fifteen minutes."
Goldblume and Cutter looked at the young felon like he was certifiable. The people watched from the interrogation room felt otherwise.
"They must have taken it from when they brought it into the station," Vaughn told them. "I'll get it, get in touch with Edgar and Marshall."
Jack and Nadia both nodded at this. "Syd, you get all that?" Jack asked.
"Jack, there's a long line from Williams getting a text message to gang wars breaking out in four different parts of the city," Sydney reminded him.
"I know it's a longshot, and that Williams' story is full of holes," Jack admitted, "but what we just heard doesn't sound like any drug kingpin we've dealt with."
"Assuming you're right, what do you want me and Sydney to do?" Kim asked.
Jack thought for a second. "Will, your friend, get him to the nearest care center. By the time you've got that handled, we should be ready to backtrace that call. The three of you are going to be our eyes and ears on the ground."
"Got it. Call you when it's done."
Sydney hung up, and walked back over to Will, who didn't seem to have moved since Kim had told him his girlfriend was dead. "Will, we should probably get out of here."
"What's this about, Syd?" Will asked instead.
"Will, we need to get your girlfriend-"
"Fiancée," Will mentioned, in an oddly detached tone. "Sharon and I were going to get married later this week."
This was not the thing she needed to hear, and frankly all she wanted to do was get one of her dearest friends out of the line of fire. Still, considering that Will had been there for her in the exact same situation nearly a decade ago, she decided to give him a little latitude. "This isn't safe for you, Will."
Will looked at her. "There never is, Syd. But I don't want to be left in the dark. I spent too much of my life like that."
This may have been true, but her resolve didn't shift. "Will, this was just an accident of circumstance. Nothing more."
"There are no accidents. You and I both know that. So at least be honest to tell me what the hell's going on."
Syd looked at her friend, who had gotten up this morning with no idea that he was going to have to bury the woman he loved today. So she made a bad judgment, and listened to her heart instead of her head.
"Get her in our car. I'll explain on the drive over."
The moment Vaughn saw the phone, he knew they had just gotten confirmation that there was more going on than a drug war. The cell was a variation on a model they'd seen a couple of times in CTU. It didn't respond when you pressed the keys or when you tried to call a different line, and would be next to impossible a run a trace on it. Pablo Escobar would not be able to get a phone like this, much less a fly-by-night drug dealer.
After Jack told Cutter to give Williams immunity, he had called Marshall and asked him point blank if he'd ever created a phone like the model they had, meaning 'for Sloane.' Marshall told them he had not, but he had worked on a couple of models like it before, and that there was no way to initiate a backtrace in the time they had, even if he was on site.
"I'm not the only one who thinks that letting this kid get this call is a bad idea, right?" Nadia asked. "This whole thing smells like a Trojan Horse."
"It probably is," Jack admitted. "But the cops have talking to all the other dealers we picked up. None of them know anything about this Brother Jamal or any other sit down. Edgar's going through the backlog of call, but he says even the most efficient search is going to take at least thirty minutes. This is the best lead we have."
Just then, Lt. Goldblume reentered the office, looking genuinely worried. He told them that the rioting was starting to escalate in the immediate area. He'd had to dispatch three units already, and half of his people were still on the street locking up the remnants of Bell's crew. He'd already called for assistance from other precincts, only to find that the gang warfare had stretched the resources of the city so thin.
"I gotta ask you, Jack, how much shit are we in?"
"I'm not going to lie to you," Jack told him. "This may just be the beginning."
And at that moment, Jack's cell rang again. This was the call he had not been looking forward to. "Hello, Bill."
"Jack, what the hell have you got the city into?" Bill Buchanan demanded.
"You've got my old job, you tell me," Jack replied.
He knew he wasn't being fair. Before Jack had gotten axed, Buchanan had been one of their oldest allies in the company. Considering that he was in the Division track, he was both incredibly capable and amicable to the majority of what CTU agents could pursue. The fact that his promotion had come because of the mass exodus over a year ago didn't change that. Most of the people in CTU wouldn't have bothered calling him at all with the news that he was about to be overridden.
"You wouldn't want your job now," Buchanan told him. "We've got three other agencies snapping that they should be taking the lead on this particular problem. So, please try to explain why you wanted this dropped in CTU's lap?"
"It's nothing personal, but this doesn't smell like a gang war," Jack then relayed what they had found over the last hour.
"A gangbanger's confession and a bulletproof cell doesn't add up to a terrorist action," Buchanan reminded him. "But you didn't call for that yet."
"You have to have been monitoring the situation before we called," Jack pointed out. "We need the government to get out of the circle jerk it seems to be in, and do something before the city combusts."
"I don't have to remind you the situation with CTU's manpower."
"Bill, I think we're about two more shootouts away from reenacting Assault on Precinct 13. If New York starts going up in smoke, they will find a way to blame you."
There really wasn't any way to answer, so Buchanan agreed he would dispatch three units to their location, and start coordinating with local law enforcement. "Can you hold out another ten minutes?"
Jack thought of saying "Ask me in ten minutes." Then he realized he was going to be dealing with a much bigger problem by then.
As it turned out explaining what was going on right now took far less time than Kim had thought it would. Will seemed to be assuming that they were will still working with the government, and this was part of some much larger plan. Sydney no doubt thought that she was just giving Will something else to concentrate on while they got to where they needed to be.
That in itself was a much smaller problem than they had thought that it would be. Apparently, breaking up one group of rioters combined with an explosion was enough to clear the area. Kim had no doubt they had probably moved the carnage to the next neighborhood over, but that was a problem would deal with when they had adequate backup.
The urgent care center, not surprisingly, was overwhelmingly crowded, and the day when their names could clear a room had passed. So Sydney took Will up to the front desk, and explained in a succinct matter that Will's fiancée was dead, and they needed a place where he could wait with the body. The doctor on staff was understanding, and managed to get someone to take care of Will.
Sydney was trying to figure out to way adequately say goodbye to her friend when he seemed to beat her to it with a non sequitur. "When were you planning on telling me you didn't work with the government anymore?" Will asked.
She was only momentarily nonplussed "I don't see how that matters," she responded.
"I was in witness protection for four years, not on another planet; I'm fully aware why and how you left," Will replied. "What I can't understand is why you're still dealing with something that isn't in your paygrade any longer."
"This is at least partially our mess," she said slowly. "We didn't cause it, but it's happening in our backyard."
"Is that why you still don't ask for help even when it's right in front of you?" Sydney clearly didn't follow this, so Will followed up. "Remember that consulting job the FBI had me up for last time we met?"
"You still work with the Bureau?" At some other point, Sydney might have considering using this, but she had no intentions of making lemonade with these particularly bitter lemons.
"Have been for the last three years. They moved me out of Witness Protection after Sloane was killed. I thought I could get back to a normal life." A grimace passed over Will's face. "As normal as any of us are allowed to get, anyway."
"Will, I'm glad to hear all this, but your fiance just got killed. You shouldn't have to do anything like -
"-Like the way you did when Sloane had Danny killed?" Will seemed way too rational for someone who had to be going through a world of hurt.
By now, Kim had reentered the room. "Look, I don't mean interrupt, but the situation isn't going to get any easier with us just staying here."
"Yeah, we should go," Will told them.
"Will, you're in no condition to be doing anything," Sydney tried to argue one last time.
"The woman I love is dead. Much as I'd like to change that, she's gone. But I can't ignore the fact that the world is imploding around me." Will told her. "Now, if you're really serious about stopping the same kind of monsters who murdered Shannon, I can help you. Frankly, I have to."
Why do my friends keep wanting to put themselves in harm's way?Sydney thought. But she knew Will, and how hard it was to get him to let go of something, even if it was for his own good. However, she swore to herself that she would make sure that nothing else happened to him today.
"How?" she asked.
15th Precinct
Jack had not been able to convince Goldblume to completely empty out the squad room, mainly because there were still too many felons, and they were starting to run out of police. "Besides," as he put it, "there are a lot easier ways to ice a drug dealer."
Mainly to humor them, he reduced the number of people in the station by half, and put the group of them in a smaller room out of the line of traffic.
Vaughn still thought they'd be better off waiting for Buchanan's people to come in, which would make tracking the call a lot quicker, and definitely could come up with a more secure location. Jack would've been willing to do that given another five minutes, which they just didn't have.
Williams seemed to find all this maneuvering hysterical, especially considering that it might end up with him a body bag. Vaughn was beginning to wonder, Sydney's concerns about him notwithstanding, if it was worth all this trouble just to keep this kid alive.
"Man, this dude's probably out there getting bail money for me," Williams told him. Jack decided against telling him that Jamal probably wasn't go to waste a dime on saving his life.
Just then, the phone rang. "Just remember to stick to the story," Jack told Williams.
"What, you think I'm stupid?"
No, just expendable.
Williams picked up. "Yo, it's Kenny."
"I honestly didn't think you'd pick up," the voice on the other end said.
"It's like your boy said earlier, cops are too busy dealing with the mess outside to deal with the rank and file." Williams told him.
"You must think I'm a complete fool, Kenny," The speaker's voice grew ice cold. "My people saw you got picked up an hour ago."
"Kenny, put the phone down now," Jack ordered.
Vaughn didn't know whether it was Jack's mood or the speaker that got to Williams, but whatever it was, he dropped the phone fast.
"You're a problem, now, Kenny, and I have of dealing with problems."
"DOWN!" Jack shouted.
All three of them hit the dirt, Jack slamming Williams to the floor. Five seconds later, the phone exploded.
Considering that they'd been expecting something like this for the last ten minutes, the explosion was something of a disappointment. There wasn't a lot of damage done or even much of a blast- the walls were barely singed. Then again, how much explosive can you fit in a cell phone? Or maybe Brother Jamal didn't think it was worth wasting so much firepower on some so low down the food chain.
Whatever the reason, the three people who were used to things like this happening got to their feet without even getting their clothes that mussed or their ears ringing. The people who were more concerned about it were the cops in the precinct, who now realized that they were being assailed from within as well as without.
"You willing to accept we're on to something?" Jack told Goldblume the second both of them could hear without a loud ringing in his ears.
"Then explain to me how Williams getting iced has anything to do with the chaos breaking out across the city," Goldblume asked.
The lieutenant had just asked a question Jack couldn't answer, but right then his phone started ringing. Marshall's technology seemed capable of surviving just about anything short of a nuclear blast. Though that was a theory Jack didn't want to test.
"Please tell me that my husband and my sister are still alive," Sydney asked tensely. After Jack assured her that they were, she laid into him. "What the hell were you thinking?"
"I was trying to follow a lead-"
"And you decided to make sure that everybody who was capable of handling this situation was all in the same place when you did it? That's the kind of logic I thought we'd gotten away from when I resigned."
Jack acknowledged that this probably hadn't been his best call, but that he had done the best he could with the intel and situation. "No one died," he reminded her.
"Yeah, I think we need a better criteria for success than that," Sydney reminded him. "Kim's not exactly thrilled about this, either."
Jack supposed he deserved that, too. "Have you handled the situation with Will?"
Now Sydney turned a bit reserved. "About that. Will's offered to give us a hand in this investigation." She then explained that Will was now an FBI liaison agent, that he had been transferred their less than a month ago, and that he had a certain amount of pull with the domestic terrorist network.
Jack knew that he shouldn't throw stones at this particular glass house, but knew he needed to make this clear. "You really think he's in the best position to be helping us right now?"
"He says that he needs a distraction," Sydney admitted. "And that he doesn't want to mourn his wife while the city burns around him. Given everything he and I have been through, I'm not sure how to argue with that."
Will Tippin had always been part of their pre-CTU life that Jack, even now, didn't ask much about. From the most cold-blooded standpoint, it would be useful to have another asset working with them. Still, there was something about the situation that smacked of trouble. Jack might've argued about it some more, but then Nadia came walking up to him, and told them that CTU was finally on the scene.
"What's our next move?"
"Tell Chloe to start running a filter through the recordings we hadn't yet had a chance to go through. Anything related to a Brother Jamal or any kind of operation that might be coming off today. Check if there's anyone in Marlowe Bell's gang that we haven't yet arrested who might be part of this." Jack paused. "Ask Will if he can speed up the process of accessing the Bureau database. Maybe there's someone there who can help us narrow it down."
"You don't want us to come in?" Sydney asked.
Jack looked outside one of the windows. In the early morning sky, he could see smoke coming over the horizon. The carnage that had infested their streets was getting closer.
"I think right now, the safest thing for you to do is to make any location you're at secure as possible." Jack told her. "This is going to get ugly fast, and we're going to need to have people out there, who know what they're doing."
"We'll update you as soon as we brief CTU. "
"Got it," Sydney hung up and walked over to Chloe, who was already online with Edgar. "How long will it take you get the data we need?"
"Five minutes, maybe a little less with these pass codes that your friend gave us," Chloe looked at Will. "Jack okay having him around?"
"He'll live with it." By now, Kim was back over to her.
"Technically speaking, it's not safe for him to be here," she told Syd.
"Technically speaking, neither are we," Sydney countered. "You have the hope chest?"
The 'hope chest' was the euphemism that all Double B employees called the weapons locker that was on all of their vehicles. They contained enough weapons, ammo, and selected riot gear to furnish a small troupe. Two of them put together would probably be enough firepower to stave off a small invasion. Sydney hoped that she wasn't going to have to prove that they could.
They took out the keys they carried, twisted them in the locks and entered a three digit ID code. There was no other way to access them. When Will saw the munitions they were carrying, he had to blink several times. "Guys, we're in Harlem, not Chechnya." he reminded him.
"Russian soldiers are more easily identifiable than the enemies that we might end up fighting," Sydney pointed out.
When Will reached for a weapon, Kim fixed him with a look. "We appreciate your help, Will, but we're not going to arm civilians," she told him.
"You gave one to Miss O'Brien," Will reminded her.
"Yeah, and you saw how well that worked out," Kim countered. "You may work with the FBI, but even I know that you spend your day behind a desk."
Will looked a little hurt at this. "Syd, if I could handle Allison Dorian, I can certainly handle a few gang-bangers."
Syd knew that Will could handle a weapon, and that they needed people they could trust, but she wasn't entirely sold on Will being able to help that much, given his emotional state. She also knew that making this argument with him would hold next to zero weight with him.
They were then interrupted by Chloe. "Think I've got something!" Apparently while going through the backlog of calls they had, they had come with a name that might have a link to what they were looking for.
It was a ninety second conservation between Freddie Mackenna, chief supplier and a lower-level enforcer named Elijah Kaye, a member of a rival crew. Kaye fell outside the scope of the investigation, and the conversation they were having was mostly a back and forth about re-ups. But in the last thirty seconds of the conversation, Mackenna mentioned "that thing we talked about." Kaye said that he had checked it with his guy in Em City, and that he was good. "Call me with the time and place."
"I've no idea what he means by Em City, but I back-traced the origin of the call," Chloe told them. " A payphone just outside of Washington Heights, enemy territory for both of them."
Marveling that they had found a working payphone anywhere in New York, Sydney wondered why either one would risk a public call in a section of town where neither one knew where they'd be safe.
"Why don't we have my father ask him?" Kim replied. "Last I checked, Freddie Mac was the first one we picked up."
By the time Jack and Vaughn had finished briefing Buchanan's team (one tech, four heavily armed field agents and a supervisory agent named Lee Castle, who Kim had worked with in LA), you would have had to have been blind or worked at Division to not see how desperate the situation was getting. The rioting and shooting had been spreading in a concentrated pattern, and while some of the groups had been put down, the one they were dealing with seemed to be, if anything, gathering steam. And it was clearly heading due east, right for the precinct squad.
"I've already had calls from the President's chief of staff," Buchanan told Jack. "She wants to know if he should begin mobilizing the National Guard."
"I don't think we're there yet," Jack admitted, "but it may just be a matter of hours."
Nadia walked out, and told the others what Chloe had just uncovered. "I checked the logs; Mackenna's still in lockup."
Jack looked at Castle. "Whatever you're planning on doing, you better do it fast," Castle told them. "We'll be ready to stand siege here, but if what you say is true, some of Mackenna's people are going to be en route. And he's got to know that."
Nadia nodded, and turned back to her husband. "Who do you want to handle it?"
Jack had already considered this. Freddie Mackenna had spent his entire life in one bad-ass confrontation after the other. The only way to get to him was use whatever surprise they could, which meant it had come from the person he would expect the least threat.
This interrogation room was quite a bit smaller then the one where Sydney had impersonated a public defender, and the walls were the color most commonly associated with urine. There was a camera on the far wall; Nadia and Jack had been assured it was turned off. Goldblume was uneasy with this, even after he had been assured by CTU that what they were looking for would not come back to bite them in court. No one was thinking further ahead then the next ten minutes. Mackenna had been handcuffed to the chair in the far corner of the room.
Nadia walked in the room. Like everyone else associated with Double B, Freddie Mac didn't know her from Eve. So his reaction was probably about the same he'd give any woman who walked in the room. "Hey bitch, where's my lawyer?"
Freddie Mackenna was not an imposing figure even by the standards of drug dealers. He topped out at five-eight, and most of his hundred sixty pounds tended towards fat rather than muscle. He nevertheless probably thought that Nadia amounted to nothing more than a twig. She was going to change that mindset quickly.
"Attorney can't get you of the mess you're in," Nadia told him. "You're assuming way too much."
"You gonna scare me with some weak-ass threat?" Freddie didn't seem to realize the trouble he was in. "You know my record. I can jail."
"Oh, Freddie, you have so much more to worry about than prison. I'd be more concerned about you're getting out of this room." You wouldn't think a sentence like that could've been delivered pleasantly, but Nadia made it sound like butter wouldn't melt in her mouth.
Mackenna snorted, then began to laugh outright. "Shit! Now they're making runway models into cops?"
"I'm not a cop, Freddie. You'd probably be safer if I was a cop. But I did once do this for a living. And I learned something very useful at my old job."
Mackenna never knew what hit him. Nadia hit him twice in the gut so fast that his mind didn't realize what had happened until his body did. He was doubled over and moaning.
"Very useful, learning how to hit someone without leaving a mark. But that's probably too subtle for you gangsters."
She then reached down and kneed him in the testicles. Hard enough for his howl of pain to go up an octave. Unfortunately, his mouth worked ahead of his mind.
"You crazy bitch, aggh!"
This time she hit him in the small of the back.
"Who is Brother Jamal?" she demanded.
"What the fuck-"
Nadia then took out a very small knife, grabbed Mackenna's sleeve, and yanked him up. "You're going to start telling me all you know about Brother Jamal. Names, dates, people he runs with. Otherwise, I'm going to start taking your balls out from under you. See how long you last on cell block nine without those."
She then began to lower the knife. She had just reached the crotch of his pants, when he finally started jabbering. "I never met the guy! He just started making contact with me a month ago through a guy I knew in the joint! Says he's been working the projects for months!"
"Doing what?' Nadia's grip didn't even loosen.
"Some Black Panther bullshit, about taking the streets back from the cops, stopping us from warring among ourselves and focusing the rage on the ones who deserve it!"
"How do we find him?"
Mackenna actually looked at her if she were crazy. "Look around! Bastard's gonna be on your fucking doorstep in a few minutes."
This was almost certainly a line. The days of gangster leaders fighting on the ground had gone out with Che Guevara. Brother Jamal, whoever he was, would be watching from a distance. "You'd better be telling the truth."
"Or what? I saw how they got to Snot Boogie," There was more fear in McKenna's voice then when she'd had a knife to his balls. "Right under your damn noses. I'm a dead man either way."
Nadia decided not to tell Freddie Mackenna that Williams was unconscious but alive, because the fundamental point was still true. This guy had a hell of a reach, and he wouldn't have to try that hard to get them soon.
Chloe had spent the last ten minutes going through the backlog of calls, and was now performing one of those tricks that only Marshall's software could have provided. Using the cell network that they had been tracking ever since that had been chasing Bell, Marshall could use a reverse GPS to figure out where the caller had been at each call. He had not bothered to report this particular item to the NYPD because, frankly, this was a detail that wasn't pertinent to any part of the investigation. Until now.
"Five members of the Bell crew took calls that originate from areas within Washington Heights." Chloe told them. "All of them seem to come from accounts that were terminated some time in the last three days."
That did seem to indicate that they were prepping for something. "Anything in Marshall's software that can narrow down our location a little more?" Sydney asked.
"Working on it, but, um," Chloe paused deliberately "don't we have to deal more pressing matters?"
It was a pretty pertinent question. During the twenty minutes since they'd arrived, the noise on the streets had been getting noticeably louder, and the smoke and shooting had become more prominent. Up until now, no one seemed intent on raiding the Center, but none of them thought they would stay that lucky.
Kim had just gone into waiting room, which was another problem. There were at least thirty people, half of whom hadn't been there in the last fifteen minutes. The gangsters didn't seem to care that much who got hit; she had scene at least five people wearing gang colors, and who appeared to be packing serious heat. Kim had gotten well-versed in gang relations to know that this med care center was probably about one shouting match away from becoming a shooting gallery itself.
"There any chance we'll be seeing help from anybody on the right side of the law?" she asked Syd.
Reluctantly, Syd told her no. Never mind getting help from the fifteenth precinct; the police scanner had revealed that forces throughout the city had been dispatched to cover the major flashpoints. CTU decision to take command aside, a good part of the alphabet soup was trying to figure out which portions of the city were the biggest. Normally, knowing that they would not be apart of the giant clusterfuck that this was shaping up to be would have raised both of their spirits. However, given their situation, this wasn't cheerful news.
"Most cheerful estimate is maybe forty minutes to an hour," Sydney told them. "Do you think we can hold out that long?"
And at that point, the shouting in the waiting room, which the former government agents had managed to regard as white noise up until now.
"I think we're about to find out where we get it from first," Kim told her.
Telling Chloe to stay put no matter what she heard (she was armed but, as she had proved just an hour earlier, pressed she couldn't hit the broadside of a barn) Sydney and Kim took out their weapons and proceeded to the front.
Two black gangstas dressed in loud colors were in the middle of a shouting match with a young Latino. They had progressed from random insults to a cacophony of abuse, and the boiling point had just been reached, as all three of them had .9mm's out.
Somehow, Sydney didn't think reasoning with these people was going to work. She fired her weapon in the air. Half of the people in the waiting room hit the dirt. This did get all of the participants attention, but not in a good way. They all turned their weapons from each other to her.
"Bitch, this ain't any of your goddamn business!" the would be gangsta told her.
"Drop your weapon or I spread your brains on the wall," Sydney replied
"Don't you know, we ain't taking shit from cops no more," one of them told her.
"Then I guess it's a good thing we're not cops," Kim told them.
"Hey, bitch," the Latino shouted. "Can't you count?"
Nothing better to bring gang scum together than the threat of a cop, Sydney thought. Martin Luther King was so wrong.
Kim took it a different way, and fired a perfect shot into one of the shooters wrists. "Insult me again. I fucking dare you," she snapped as he dropped the gun.
Unfortunately, they had been so focused on the shooter, they had forgotten about the other people in the waiting room. The other would be gangstas grabbed one of the patients, and put the gun at her head. "You willing to play with the big boys, little girl?" he snarled. "Both of you girls, put your guns on the ground now."
Vaughn had heard how bad the situation was at the urgent care center, and was about to head out into the firestorm, when the decision was taken out of his hands.
A bullet hole appeared in the squadroom wall. The rioters had officially arrived.


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One of our deacons, John Staley, recently reminded me of something I'd written about the Eucharist four years ago. Since Eucharist means "Thanksgiving," this seems like a perfect time to share it.
I was prompted to writing by C. Michael Patton, a Reformed blogger. He'd written a post entitled, "Why I Don't Buy the Roman Catholic Interpretation of John 6 in Defense of Transubstantiation," in which he argues that John 6 was never meant to be taken literally. He offered two primary reasons for this claim.
What follows are Patton's arguments, and my responses:
First, that Christ is "always" being misunderstood, so it would be "irresponsible" to take Him literally:
1. Jesus is always being misunderstood. John rarely records Jesus' correcting the misunderstanding of people.
"Loaves and Fishes" Relief, Church of Our Lady of Ravensburg (1897)
The people in John 6 were looking for Christ to provide for them like Moses did and they were not interested in His talk about belief and eating his flesh. Some naturally thought that he was being literal about his statements. It is true, Christ did not correct them. But this is a common theme in the ministry of Christ. As Peter demonstrates, it is only those who stay with him that get the answers for eternal life (John 6:68). Often Christ would speak in parables and not tell any but those who were His true followers (Luke 8:10). The rest He let go in their ignorance since he knew all men and he was not committing himself to them.
John presents this side of Jesus more than any other of the Gospels when he says: John 2:24-25 "But Jesus, on His part, was not entrusting Himself to them, for He knew all men, and because He did not need anyone to testify concerning man, for He Himself knew what was in man." He did not entrust himself to his listeners. Why? I suppose some wanted a king who would provide literal food for them like Moses did in the wilderness and they left when it became clear that He was not going to do the same. Some thought that He was speaking about actually eating his flesh and blood, I violation of the Mosaic Law, and they left. But why didn't He simply correct their misunderstanding in this case? For the same reason He does not throughout the book of John. He often says things that are open to misinterpretation and then leaves His listeners in their confusion. Notice these examples
a. John 2:18-21 "The Jews then said to Him, 'What sign do You show us as your authority for doing these things?' Jesus answered them, 'Destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it up.' The Jews then said, 'It took forty-six years to build this temple, and will You raise it up in three days?' But He was speaking of the temple of His body."
Notice, Christ was not being literal here yet He did not correct the misunderstanding. This misunderstanding eventually leads to His conviction and death.
b. John 3:3-4 "Jesus answered and said to him, 'Truly, truly, I say to you, unless one is born again he cannot see the kingdom of God.' Nicodemus said to Him, 'How can a man be born when he is old? He cannot enter a second time into his mother's womb and be born, can he?"Notice again, Jesus does not correct Nicodemus' misunderstanding (although, like in John 6, it is obvious to the reader that this is not to be taken literally).
c. The disciples want Jesus to eat: "Rabbi, eat" (John 4:31). Jesus answers: "I have food to eat that you do not know about" (4:32). "So the disciples were saying to one another, 'No one brought him anything to eat, did he?'" (John 4:33).
This time Jesus does correct his disciples, but in frustration because they cannot see the symbolism behind it. In other words, they should know enough by now to interpret His words symbolically since this is the way He always spoke.
Now we come to John 6. John's readers should know by now that Christ speaks symbolically in such statements as these. We should understand by now that Christ is always being misunderstood by "outsiders." They also know that sometimes Christ corrects the misunderstanding (especially with true followers) and sometimes he does not. Therefore, it would be irresponsible for the reader to take Christ literally in John 6.
It's true that Jesus often uses figurative language, which is a hyper-literal reading of the Bible (of the kind favored by some Fundamentalists and atheists) fails to grasp what is being taught. But it's an exaggeration to say "Jesus is always being misunderstood" or that the Apostles "should know enough by now to interpret His words symbolically since this is the way He always spoke." Imagine if we were to wave away our need to forgive our enemies, or the reality of Heaven and Hell, or Christ's Resurrection, claiming that these were mere symbols, since Christ "always" spoke symbolically, and it would be "irresponsible" for us to take Him literally.
In any case, here's what I said in response:
Luca Signorelli, Communion of the Apostles (1512)
I really liked the way you approached this issue, and wanted to respond. I agree with you that not every time Jesus spoke, He was understood by the crowd, and I agree that an attempt to over-literalize Jesus has gotten a lot of people into trouble. I've actually used the same example from John 2:18-21 to show that people who brag about how "literally" they take the Bible are making an oft-repeated mistake. Take the Bible seriously, but not always literally – in other words, take it as it was meant to be taken.
That said, I think there are some pretty easy Catholic responses.
The answer to your first point is Mark 4:34: "He did not tell them anything without using a parable, though he explained EVERYTHING to his disciples in private." So Jesus allowed the crowd to be confused, and then would explain things to the Disciples. The reasons are pretty clear — the crowds weren't ready for the full Truth yet, and so He revealed it slowly, and according to His own timetable. The Disciples were given more information, and still didn't really get it at first. So looking at your examples:
1 (a) is the crowd misunderstanding, with a note from John explaining what Jesus meant. How does he know? Because Jesus explained parables to His disciples, and John was a disciple.
1 (b) is the exact same thing, only it's Nicodemus (and not a whole crowd) misunderstanding. Once again, John is "in the know," so to speak, so he clues in his readers.
1 (c) has the Disciples initially confused, and then Jesus explaining it.
All of this comports with Mark 4:34. Now look to how Jesus reacts in John 6. The crowd, I think we'd both agree, think that Jesus is speaking literally. They didn't initially think this: in John 6:42, they think He just means that He's come down from Heaven (with no hint that they get anything about eating His flesh). After He keeps talking, their initial objection gets replaced with a much bigger one in 6:52, suggesting that NOW they are taking Him literally.
If this was like 1(a)-(c), we would see either a description of Jesus explaining this to His disciples, or a note from John explaining what Jesus meant. Instead, we see in John 6:67, "Jesus then said to the Twelve, 'Do you also want to leave?'"
3rd century depiction of the Eucharist, catacomb of San Callisto
So it isn't even that John omits to include what Jesus really meant, or the fact that He talked to the Twelve afterwards. It's that Jesus went to the Twelve, and instead of saying, "here's what that symbol means" like He did for the other examples (and which Mark 4:34 says He would do), He basically says, "Take it or leave it."
This is pretty unique amongst the teachings of Christ. The only other one can be found in Mark 9:9-10, when Jesus warns them not to say what they've seen until "the Son of Man had risen from the dead." Mark 9:10 says, "So they kept the matter to themselves, questioning what rising from the dead meant."So the two times we see Jesus refusing to explain away the "metaphor" are for the Resurrection and the Eucharist. If Mark 4:34 is accurate, this [is] because the Son of Man literally was to rise from the dead, and because Jesus meant the Eucharistic part literally.
The only thing that I would add to this response is that Patton assumes that "it is obvious to the reader that this is not to be taken literally." That's because he's reading this through the lens of centuries of Protestant exegesis. As a matter of historical fact, that's not how the early Christians approached this passage. They took it literally, as we see from the writings of the first and second, third, and fourth century Church Fathers.
Writing the first four centuries of Christians off as irresponsible, and incapable of understanding basic metaphors isn't a very compelling argument — particularly for someone who bases his whole religion off of a belief that the Holy Spirit was working through these exact same men to preserve the Gospel. The burden is on the person rejecting transubstantiation to explain why the early Church believed in it: did the Apostles just forget to correct the idolatry of their followers?
Patton's second argument is that John omits the institution of the Eucharist at the Last Supper:
2. Another important factor that Keating and other Catholic apologists fail to take into account is that John does not even record the central events of the Last Supper at all. Obviously if we took the Catholic interpretation of John 6 and believed John included this passage to communicate that believers must eat the literal body and blood of Christ in order to have eternal life, you would expect John to have recorded the events that it foreshadows. You would expect John to have a historical record of the Last Supper, the inaugurating meal of the Eucharist. But John does not. What an oversight by John! In fact, John is the only Gospel writer that did not record the Last Supper. Therefore, it is very unlikely that in John's mind, a literal eating and drinking of Christ body and blood are essential for salvation. Remember John wrote the only book in the NT that explicitly says it is written for the purpose of salvation and he does not even include the Lord's Supper.
This is a fairly common argument by Protestants who take John 20:30-31 to mean that the Gospel of John was intended to be sufficient for salvation, apart from the Church or the rest of the Bible. I responded:
Fra Angelico, Communion of the Apostles (1451)
As for your second point of opposition, it's true that John doesn't include the Last Supper. But Paul does, making it one of the only biographical details which he records. To use the standard that "anything not found in John's Gospel isn't important" would take out the Virgin Birth as well as the [Institution of the Eucharist at the] Last Supper.
Remember that John is writing last, perhaps as last as the 90′s A.D. Notice also that Matthew, Mark, Luke, and Paul use almost identical wording for their description of the Last Supper, and that St. Paul claims to have received this "from the Lord" (1 Corinthians 11:23). This suggests two things:
(1) This was important enough for Jesus to tell Paul personally;(2) the Synoptic writers and Paul seem to have this memorized basically verbatim.
Now notice that the Didache (written before the Gospel of John), was a book intended for new entrants into the Church to explain some of the basics – a sort of "Idiot's Guide to Christianity." It includes Eucharist prayers in Chapters 9 and 10, and calls the Eucharist "spiritual food and drink." Chapter 14 says that you have to confess your sins before you can receive the Eucharist, so that "your sacrifice may be pure," and says that it's celebrated on the Lord's Day.So given that the people to whom John is delivering this message have already heard of the Last Supper from 4 Apostolic sources, plus the Didache, it's no wonder that John didn't feel the need to include that information. Besides that, his Last Supper discourses already run 3 chapters long (as long as the Crucifixion, Resurrection, and Ascension of Jesus all rolled into one). John's Gospel is radically different than the other three because his goal is to build off of them.
Anyways, I like your post. I thought it was thought-provoking, and hopefully, I've provided at least some context for why people come out on the other side of those arguments.
The point that I raised in that comment is supported by Eusebius, a fourth century Catholic considered to be the first Church historian. Eusebius, who is one of the sources used in establishing the authorship of the four Gospels, tells us:
For Matthew, who had at first preached to the Hebrews, when he was about to go to other peoples, committed his Gospel to writing in his native tongue, and thus compensated those whom he was obliged to leave for the loss of his presence.And when Mark and Luke had already published their Gospels, they say that John, who had employed all his time in proclaiming the Gospel orally, finally proceeded to write for the following reason. The three Gospels already mentioned having come into the hands of all and into his own too, they say that he accepted them and bore witness to their truthfulness; but that there was lacking in them an account of the deeds done by Christ at the beginning of his ministry.
This is an important point, because it shows that Patton's whole hermeneutic for understanding the Gospel of John is backwards. Patton suggests that anything John omits is false or unimportant, or "an oversight by John." Eusebius shows that this is false: John intended to build off of the Synoptics, without repeating the same details.
Understood in this light, John is building off of the existing accounts of the institution of the Eucharist (found in the Gospels of Matthew, Mark, and Luke, as well as in the writings of Paul, and the Didache), by adding two important details omitted by the others: (1) Christ's Last Supper Discourses (John 14-17); and (2) the prefigurement of the institution of the Eucharist in John 6. Fittingly, both the institution of the Eucharist and the Bread of Life discourse happen at the time of Passover (John 6:4; Matthew 26:17-19).
The Gospel of John wasn't intended to be divorced from Scripture or the Church, and read in that divorced manner (and through the lens of faulty Protestant exegesis), it's understandable why Patton would wind up misunderstanding of John 6.


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Chloë Foden, Head of Marketing at Prodigy Finance, wraps up the 3-part series on international MBA loans by covering the MBA financing options for Indian students and the differences between getting an education loan for overseas studies from Indian banks versus approaching an international lender like Prodigy Finance.
In this post, Chloë invites Padmapriya (Indian student at HEC Paris) to share her experiences and views on the various lending options she evaluated before taking a call.
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Padma's view was that "unless you have really good family backing or you have property to show for it, it's very difficult to get overseas study loans in India."
"I was looking at all of my options, and Prodigy came along at exactly the right time," she adds.
She learned from the HEC MBA Council that Prodigy Finance was in talks with the business school about starting a loan programme, and was very intrigued. Once the official agreement between HEC Paris and Prodigy Finance came through, she applied immediately.
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"The banks in India do not give you the APR. I heard of the APR for the first time when I looked at the Prodigy loan offer and saw that it is a much more transparent way of communicating exactly how much you would end up paying.
In addition, the process itself is somewhat less laborious. I applied for loans in India with banks and the processes were very convoluted. I would approach the customer relations department and tell them what I want to do and they keep asking for documentation, a lot of documentation. A loan in India would take about a month and a half to come through.
With Prodigy the application process is really simple. And the terms were pretty simple to understand – there was just a five page document which explained everything, including how to go about restructuring and how to make the payments. Everything was all there. I did not have any questions once I read the loan document."
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"Coming from a developing country myself, it's very good that it's not the finance aspect of things holding me back from pursuing my dreams."
|Indian Banks*
|Prodigy Finance
|Loan amount
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|Specified on a 'per school' basis
*Aggregate information from 2 Indian banks for student loans to study abroad.
Learn more about education loans from Prodigy Finance: Edu Loan FAQs | Blog | Get a Loan
Dear Chloe Foden,
I am in the same situation ryt nw searching for the sponsors who fund my education abroad…i am unable to show any type of collateral, your article nw gave me a small hope of life to me!! Could you pls help me in this situation!!
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Waiting for your reply!!
Thank you!!
Hi Kaushik
Once you've been admitted to one of the business schools that we have a programme with please apply on our website https://prodigyfinance.com/get_a_loan
Best of luck and let me know if you have any problems with your loan application
Hello Chloe,
This is really a ray of hope for aspirant like us who suffers from ill economic health and can't fulfil their dream and passion. I saw a link of universities in the website who has tie ups. However, I would like to know the list of universities where Prodigy is trying to tie up as loan provider for international student.
hello Chole,
would you able to provide for students applying to universities other than those mentioned in the site..
Hello Somenath
There are a few additional business schools where we may be able to offer loans soon – Hult Business School, and Rochester University amongst others. May I ask which business school you have been admitted to, or are hoping to attend?
Hello Ramkaran
In most cases, we cannot offer loans for business school that are not listed on our site. However, the list of schools that we offer loans for is updated quite regularly, so please keep checking our website!
Hi chloe,
Can you provide loan for smurfit business school. I want to do my project management from there and it's among one of the best business schools for the course and I don't want to loose such an opportunity.
how can i take take education loan, what is the procedure?
Hi Chloe,
I have gone through the list but i am applying for colleges in Canada, so can I get a loan for colleges in Canada?
Do prodigy take rupee depreciation into the picture, with that 6-7 % loan in prodigy is equivalent to 11-12 % loan in India.
Hi Aman,
Great question! While the rupee has indeed depreciated 4% in the past few years, it would be a fallacy to assume the same depreciation in the future. In the past INR has significantly appreciated reaching highs of 38 rupees per USD. There is no reason to assume that similar appreciations will not happen in the future, specially given that in an increasingly gloomy global economic environment, India is the leading light, leading stats such as GDP growth, FDI inflows etc.
As a community lender, the offer that we extended is the lowest possible interest rate that we can offer to students and continue to be financially viable. In fact, the funding comes from a community of investors that forgoes a better market return to invest in your education. Thousands of students find our offers to be the most favourable option for funding their studies.
At Prodigy Finance, we're proud to be different to a traditional bank. For us, it's not enough to provide competitive interest rates. Instead, we listen to current international students to offer student-friendly education loans with a number of tailored features:
1. No Collateral/Co-signer: There is no need to put up your family assets to attend the education you deserve. We are encouraging an environment where students can fund themselves, just as you received an admit on your own merit.
2. No prepayment penalties: You can make early payments on your loan with no penalty. This effectively saves you interest on your education loan (and reduces APR).
3. Simple User Experience: As a FinTech company, we are tech-enabled and the whole application process happens online,. Also, loan disbursements are done by sending your funds directly to school.
4. Transparency: We have a simple, honest and transparent loan origination process with easy simple-to-follow steps. Our Applications team works incredibly hard to provide a personalised experience for 116 nationalities.
5. Community: Lastly, and perhaps most importantly, we support our borrower community to succeed professionally and personally with a host of community initiatives such as networking events, mentoring opportunities, and access to international careers resources.
Happy to answer further queries and concerns!
Kind regards,
Hi chole.
I was looking to apply to prodigy for my student loan.
i found that you have suddenly stopped funding to McGill university, canada.
Can you please help me with it
Hi Arun,
Thank you for your interest in Prodigy Finance.
In our current list of supported schools, you will find McGill University, Canada.
We look to open the loan application for McGill students in January.
Hi Chloe,
I have an unconditional offer to pursue my MBA in Warwick Business School for 2017-2018. I heard that Prodigy Finance has been having discussions to collaborate with Warwick for the student loans. Will the collaboration be up and about for the Sept'2017 intake?
Hi Harika,
Thank you for your interest in Prodigy Finance.
Yes, Prodigy Finance is currently discussing a collaboration with Warwick Business School. Please stay in touch so that we can update you when the collaboration is up.
Rishabh Goel
Hi Chloe,
Is there any education loan for studying MBA in new Jersey city university and how much will the loan amount will cover.
Hi Biki,
Thank you for your interest in Prodigy Finance.
Prodigy Finance supports Rutgers University in New Jersey. For more details, go to our website at prodigyfinance.com and start a loan application :)
Rishabh Goel
Hello Team,
There are few other good business schools like "UCD Micheal Smurfit Business School"- Ireland and "ESCP Europe" which are not mentioned on your website. Can you please tell whether you provide loan for these schools (MBA program).
Hi Nitin,
Thank you for your interest in Prodigy Finance.
As a community Lender, Prodigy Finance can only support certain schools where it has community funding. At the moment, we support most of the top 100 B-schools according to the FT MBA rankings. See the full list of supported schools on our FAQs page: here https://prodigyfinance.com/resources/faq.
Rishabh Goel
Can Prodigy Finance give contact numbers 5 Indian students whom they gave loan for study in USA proof?
Hi Manus,
Thank you for your interest in Prodigy Finance.
As a responsible lender, we cannot share contact details of any of our customers. We do have a team of Ambassadors who talk about their Prodigy Finance experience. One of our Ambassador shares her insights here: https://prodigyfinance.com/resources/blog/
Rishabh Goel
Hey Chloe,
I have already applied to prodigy finance.
How long does it take for the loan process to yield a result (approved / disapproved)?
Hi Vrushal,
Thank you for your interest in Prodigy Finance.
After you complete the application, we get back to you in 5 business days. In case of further queries, please email firstname.lastname@example.com.
Rishabh Goel
i have send some queries to prodigy finance, but they are tremendously slow. They reply only once or twice but they don't address the real problem. On the website of prodigy finance they says: Just few days etc etc etc. but it's been so long and they didn't addressed my query let alone the approval of loan. It's pathetic.
Hi Vijay,
Thank you for your interest in Prodigy Finance.
Congratulations on your admit to Texas A&M! Prodigy Finance is currently setting up the risk-assessment model for your programme, and we'll reach out to you very soon when it is live.
Thank you for the patience :)
Rishabh Goel
Hi Chloe,
I have been admitted for the MSc. in Energy Management programme at ESCP (London & Paris campuses)?
I tried creating my account successfully, but was unable to find ESCP among the list of schools.
Can you please help me out in guiding me in this case?
Maanabh B
hello , does prodigy finance offer education loan for australian universities? i have an admit from la trobe university australia?
In case one doesn't have an alternate funding mechanism, how is one assured that the max loan amount by Prodigy for a B-school can be availed?
I want to apply to EDHEC and the prodigy website says that a loan of up to 80% of the cost of attendance for an MBA at EDHEC can be availed.
Since I don't have an alternate funding mechanism, can I apply to EDHEC assuming that i can borrow 80% of the cost of attendace from Prodigy?
If there is no alternate method of funding, what can I do?
Your response is much appreciated!
Hi Rishab and Chloe,
I am planning to pursue either PhD in Business Administration or M.S in Information Systems at UT Arlington. But, I don't see that school listed eligible on your site. Could you please help ??
Thank you
I want to do JD from US school. However, only thing Prodigy helps in is 2 years of LLM or 2 and 3rd year for JD.
Could I get clarification in that. As Prodigy was my only hope.
Best Regards


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