text: I'm getting the factory ballast system installed in my '02 Mobius LSV and I would like to add larger ballast bags. I measured the space along side the engine in the back and I get 18" high, 24" wide and 50" long. Im hoping to get as large a sac as possible to fit in there. Looking in the Overtons catalog at the choice of sizes of Fat Sac, they are either too big or dont completely fill the area. I guess what Im saying is that I want as much weight as I can put back there. Anybody else upgrade their bags in this year of Moomba?


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On Monday, Apple announced something altogether different from its typical new products that consumers can touch and feel: An entertainment service that in some ways resembles Amazon Prime and will include Apple's own films and television shows with Hollywood stars including Reese Witherspoon, Jennifer Aniston and Steven Spielberg.
At an event at its campus in Cupertino, California, Apple said it was launching a raft of new services, from news to video games and a credit card. Its biggest initiative is entertainment streaming service Apple TV+, which, in an effort to attract a wider audience than just Apple customers, will be available on smart TVs.
Apple didn't announce a price for the streaming service or when it will launch.
Apple CEO Tim Cook kicked off the event, in the Steve Jobs Theater, after a short opening movie that paid homage to Apple's products, from the iPhone to Siri. "We've also been creating a collection of world class services, and that is what today is all about," Cook said.
Cook highlighted what the company has already been doing in the services realm, such as iCloud information storage, and touted the way they work across a myriad of Apple's devices, all the while keeping users' information "private and secure," a line that drew big applause.
Usually, when Apple holds big, splashy press events, it unveils a new product like the iPhone or the MacBook. For years, Apple's business has centered around the iPhone, but sales of that once-revolutionary but now commonplace device have slowed. And the entire world of computers has been flipped on its head. Apple has been diversifying beyond hardware, selling iCloud storage to its customers, a $10 a month music streaming service and movies and television shows through iTunes.
But Monday's anticipated announcement takes that diversification to a whole new level.
First, Cook unveiled a new service called Apple News +, a $10 a month subscription service that will include magazines like Sports Illustrated and The New Yorker. The service costs $12.99 a month in Canada.
"Quality journalism matters," Apple said in a short video touting the magazines it would include in the new service.
What Apple didn't talk about in its presentation is that it had largely failed to convince some of the largest newspapers, including The New York Times and The Washington Post, to participate in the service. Though it briefly featured The Wall Street Journal and the Los Angeles Times during the presentation, it more or less focused on magazines.
The design of the paid news app downplayed the publications behind individual articles. Articles about Costa Rica from several publications were mashed together into one place. That might be good for readers, but it takes away the power of distribution from the publishers of the magazines and hands it to Apple, much like what happened to the music industry when Apple launched 99 cent songs on iTunes in the early 2000s.
Another selling point for its news service: Apple uses "on-device" intelligence to make recommendations, so that the company doesn't actually know what you read and the data can't be used to target advertisements, the company said.
Apple also announced Apple Card, which builds on the popularity of its Apple Pay service that allows people to pay for products using their phones and watches. Offering its own credit card, with the backing of Goldman Sachs and Mastercard, allows Apple to cut out some of the middlemen in payment transactions. Apple is offering consumers competitive cash back and no late fees.
Apple Card requires Touch ID or some other form of authentication for payments to reduce fraud, and it said it won't collect purchase data. It said Goldman Sachs won't sell or share data with third parties, which implies Goldman would be able to get some data on users. Apple didn't say whether it would pass on late payment information to credit agencies.
As far as Apple's bottom line is concerned, its announcement of a credit card may one day turn out to be the most significant announcement of the day. It puts Apple one step closer to placing itself in the middle of a large swath of consumer transactions. By combining this with the company's vast number of customers who carry around its devices, its payments services have the potential of giving Apple a massive, low overhead revenue stream.
Cook said iOS has become the largest gaming platform in the world, with roughly 300,000 games on the platform. With its new gaming subscription service called Apple Arcade, the company says it has created a way to help game developers monetize their games.
Apple Arcade appears positioned to compete in some ways with Google's new "Stadia" service, which was announced last week. Google will sell a game controller that will allow people to pay high quality videogames on any screen, from televisions to tablets, without an expensive gaming PC. Apple Arcade and Google Stadia both still have not named a price.
Apple is expected to invest many billions a year, according to analysts, on making video content to compete in a crowded market that includes Amazon, Netflix, Hulu and Disney. It's a gamble with no guarantee of success, which signals just how important these new businesses are to Apple.
Last week, as hype around Monday's event steadily built up in the media, Apple made three hardware announcements, with upgrades to its iMac Pro, iPad Mini and AirPods. There was no news conference devoted to those announcements. It was unusual, because it showed Apple's hardware taking a back seat to its new services-oriented businesses. Wall Street liked what it saw, rewarding Apple with a stock bump that boosted the company's market cap above $900 billion. It had fallen below $700 million in January after news of slowing iPhone sales.
The real magic in consumer technology is happening less and less inside the devices people carry around and more and more in server farms scattered around the world, where massive amounts of data get processed and then transmitted to gadgets like the Amazon Echo or Google Home.
In essence, the gadgets people are excited about buying are becoming vessels for sending and receiving data. And in that area, Apple has fallen behind companies like Google, Amazon and Microsoft, which now pull in significant revenue from selling cloud services, which is a fancy term for data centre usage and storage.
The invite Apple sent to invitees said simply, "It's show time." The question now is whether Apple can break a leg.

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… being a round-up of thoughts on some of the new (that is, 2013) books I've read so far this year, and some related items.
The Best of All Possible Worlds by Karen Lord (Jo Fletcher Books). There's an awful lot going on in Karen Lord's second novel, that's for sure. The content is serious social sf in the Le Guin mode: a galaxy where there are many varieties of human and human life, all one species but with greater phenotypic divergences than found in contemporary races -- high grav builds, different lifespans, different fertility spans, different sleep requirements and, er, psychic powers (these last, we are specifically told, the result of both nature and nurture). Following a genocide, the survivors of one group, the superior and emotionally contained Sadiri, are looking for a new home that will allow them to preserve their distinctive culture and traits. The form of the novel is a highly episodic memoir, written by a part-Terran part-Ntshune civil servant on Cygnus Beta, assigned to escort a party of Sadiri around a succession of different diaspora communities. And then the narrative style is a very middle-class light romantic comedy, with culture-clash humour in the Star Trek vein, as our expressive narrator and the Englishly reserved lead Sadiri start to form a serious bond. These disparate elements make for a novel that is by turns charming and jarring; a book that nods to contemporary inclusive attitudes to gender and sexuality -- there is a non-gendered character, and a gay couple, and some polyamory -- yet is ultimately about a strangely old-fashioned performance of monogamous heterosexual femininity; and a story that sometimes leaves you feeling, as Nalo Hopkinson put it in a caveat to her broadly positive LARB review, "as though you're in a tour bus being whisked past a war zone." The most curious thing is that Lord's first novel, Redemption in Indigo, was notable for its assured navigation of a comparably varied range of emotional registers and contexts; I'm not sure quite what happened here to lead to such a tonal see-saw, but it's a bit of a shame.
The Machine by James Smythe (Blue Door). When I read Smythe's The Testimony last year, I admired the novel's suppleness, but felt it didn't quite commit to its premise: not quite global enough in its voices, a bit too generous to its characters towards the end. With The Machine, certainly a superior novel, I feel a bit like he's gone too far in the other direction. The canvas is much smaller, and at its centre is a brutal blank novum, the titular Machine. It can edit peoples' memories; it has rendered Beth's army husband a vegetable, but may yet be able to bring him back. Around this central relationship is shaded a worn near-future Britain, warmer, more authoritarian, less cohesive than the present: a nation that ruthlessly turns individuals back on themselves, sets them searching for their identities. Smythe's chosen style is an obsessive pseudo-real-time claustrophobic present tense, a voice that juxtaposes mundane details of action with startling nuggets of information, and which naturalises, when they come, the descriptions of human indignities and wounds. Like The Testimony it is an exploration of the limits of human authority in the world, but it is more clearly a horror novel than its predecessor -- and a harsh and effective story for much of its length, but one that is in the end perhaps let down again slightly by its ending. This time around the last page felt to me like a release from the engrossing intensity of the previous three-hundred-odd pages, just a little too close to well, there is a moral after all for my taste. Before that, however, The Machine is one of the most convincing iterations of 21st-century British science fiction I've come across.
Six-Gun Snow White by Catherynne M. Valente (Subterannean). If there's a problem with Six-Gun Snow White, it's that it doesn't really go beyond what you envisage when you hear the elevator pitch: Catherynne Valente rewrites Snow White in the American West, with added Coyote. So the voice is slightly coarser than usual, but no less conspicuously elegant. There are striking and original images, but also the requisite gunfights and outlaws, woodsmen and dwarves. There are bones of story that rub close to the surface -- always implicit in a retelling, and explicit here. A repeated motif is the moment that seems like a choice but is not, in particular such moments that amount to the imposition of femininity on a child to construct a woman (specifically the imposition of white femininity on a half-Native American child, in this case). The cumulative effect is deeply claustrophobic for both protagonist and reader. A partway shift from Snow White's first-person to a self-conscious third-person -- after we leave her childhood, because "no one can tell a true story about themselves" -- provides an illusion of freedom, which finally becomes more than an illusion in the story's closing chronological leap. But this is itself a move borrowed from Theodora Goss' "The Rose in Twelve Petals" (2002), and no doubt others I'm not familiar with, and so for me Valente's novella didn't quite manage to re-set the bones it borrowed. Interesting, and not without moments of beauty, but not a whole-hearted success.
A Stranger in Olondria by Sofia Samatar (Small Beer Press). I said more than once, while waiting for this somewhat delayed first novel to appear, that Sofia Samatar is one of the few writers who has intrigued me about their long-form fiction through their criticism, reviews in these pages and elsewhere. For others I gather Samatar's poetry was as much of a draw. Both tendencies are as visible as you'd hope in A Stranger in Olondria, which is a remarkable and beautiful secondary-world fantasy whose capacious voice encompasses, among other things, literary-cultural history, biography, journal fragments, poems, songs, and a lengthy heart-rending testimonial from a ghost. Parts of the novel, particularly in the first half, reminded me very much of Jan Morris's Hav, or its narrator as described in this review: an "erudite, charming, witty, purblind, drowning-in-the-right-quotation eternal-spectator innocent-abroad twit, unable to see three feet beyond the end of her own nose." And to make that narrator work Samatar has to give us a painstakingly rich creation, not just a world, but an entire cultural nexus -- famous writers are quoted, snippets of story and history are introduced to provide context -- and then hint that her protagonist is getting it wrong, or at least not getting it wholly right. In other parts I thought I detected echoes of Earthsea, or at least of my memories of those novels, which I haven't actually read for about twenty years. What's constant throughout the novel is a suffusing love of the written word -- not just the common physical form of words, bound in books (though there is that, to the point that reading an ebook of Stranger could be a slightly weird experience), but a cautious love for the immense power of the act of writing, the way it shapes and controls and defines a world. Very occasionally I found myself getting lost in the richness; there is little in this novel that is not in some way elaborate or elegant, even the violence and tragedy, and sometimes I wanted a little more viscerality. But more than that I want to re-read it, because so much of it is unambiguously astonishing and lovely work.
Shackleton's Man Goes South by Tony White (Science Museum). This is a curiosity, and a labyrinth of found texts. In chapter one, an authorial introduction claims that what follows are introductory notes to an unrecovered book by James Colvin -- a winking reference to Michael Moorcock tells us we're to take this New Worlds house pseudonym for real -- that describes the workings of an immense early-twentieth-century telegraphic listening post in Kensington, razed to the ground by zeppelin attack in 1916. Chapter two switches to a near future in which Emily and her daughter Jen are fleeing south, illegally, to Antarctica, the last refuge in a environmentally destablised world. Chapter three is, so far as can be determined, straight non-fiction about Ernest Shackleton's arctic adventures, leading up to his creation of South Polar Times as expedition newspaper, in the archives of which real-world author Tony White unexpectedly found … a short climate change parable by the meteorologist GC Simpson. For real this time, no faking. Ah. The rest of Shackleton's Man Goes South, part of White's output as writer-in-residence at the London Science Museum (linked to an ongoing climate-change exhibition, and available for free download until the end of this month) continues in this playful mode, blurring expected stylistic lines between fiction and non-fiction, challenging the resolutions we expect from each form, passionate yet never wholly earnest. A late shift in focus from the ongoing failure to address climate crisis to a different kind of political disingenuousness didn't quite work for me, but it's certainly the most distinctive and formally creative novel I've read this year.
… which means that at least in that respect it beats out the year's second museum exhibition science-fictional tie-in literary experiment, Memory Palace by Hari Kunzru (V&A museum), although the latter is still a beautiful artefact and a pretty decent tale. The main attraction is a long dystopian novelette (or thereabouts) by Kunzru, the last testament of a captured dissident describing the world in which they live and how they live. It is 'curated' along with artwork from an exhibition at the Victoria and Albert museum (reviewed by Nick Harkaway here), plus an afterword by the curators, Laurie Britton Newell and Ligaya Salazar, and a short graphic story by Robert Hunter about the preparation of the exhibition. (And with all of that it's still more straightforward than Shackleton.) The backstory of Kunzru's dystopia runs thus: a great event known as the Magnetization wiped all the world's electronic systems leading to a general collapse known as the Withering. In a ruined and drowned London, the authority of the Thing works towards the Wilding, a time when humanity can abandon all attempt to measure or control or impose on the world, and live as one with the world, outside time, in a pure natural/spiritual existence. Opposing them are the Memorialists such as our hero, who pass down sparks of knowledge from our world, many corrupted. As in other tales of this type, discovering the corruptions is half the fun -- voicemail is "a kind of armour made of speech", an internet is "a plot against nature", photoshop is "a ritual conducted before going out into the world" -- and in this case, it's also where the artworks, which range from sketched scenes to purely abstract representations, come into their own. The body of the story -- an interrogation, a debate between abnegation and corruption -- is compelling enough, but it's the whole artefact that impresses, right down to the typeface, which was apparently designed by William Morris.
The Shining Girls by Lauren Beukes (HarperCollins). I don't think any review of this book would surprise me, because it seems continuously contradictory. Are the characters vibrant and distinct individuals, or are they types? Yes. Is Beukes' imagined Chicago constructed vividly and precisely, or is it thin and cliche? Yes, again. Is the story original and beautifully constructed, or familiar and too neat? Yes once more. I think The Shining Girls' greatest virtue is probably its structure, the way it braids a story not just from its two main threads -- malevolent serial killer Harper and precocious victim-survivor Kirby -- but from a succession of character vignettes scattered across the twentieth century, without ever losing momentum or clarity. I think it's by far Beukes' most successful attempt at a novel-shaped piece of prose. At the same time, I think the novel's great weakness is probably the execution of its "high concept". It's a time travel novel in which the time travel is just a mite too convenient for the story being told: this is the dispiriting recurrence of misogyny, yes, but it's also a force of nature that diminishes the agency of Beukes' killer, leaving him too much of a motivational blank to justify the number of pages we spend with him. My preferred solution, actually, would be to decrease Harper's page count rather than increase his depth, because I don't think the force-of-nature metaphor is entirely a bad one for the book's political goals, it's just that as things stand Harper -- and his concept of 'shining' -- seems to get in the way a bit. At one point, Kirby is told that "justice is high-concept", which is a typically witty turn of phrase; but I did close the book wishing it was a sufficiently high concept to sell a commercial novel all on its own.
Wolfhound Century by Peter Higgins (Gollancz). This, I think, is good: a swift, creative and intense political fantasy, reminiscent of Steph Swainston's Castle novels as a secondary-world tale that begins and ends pretty much in media res, and in its capacious and modern attitude to fantastical worldbuilding, building an original setting the conveys a sense of many potential stories to be told. Nina Allan's thorough and thoughtful review for us outlines in much more detail than I could the nature of Wolfhound Century's resonances with Russian history and (more importantly, I think) fiction; she worries that in the forthcoming sequel said resonances may not amount to much, but given that the central concern of the narrative is not just the fate of the world, but the fate of the past -- there exists a snapshot of the world before, waiting to be restored or erased -- that seems unlikely to me. Higgins feels consummately in control of his creation, and even just looking at the material between these covers it seems to me that his story has much to say about how societies structure, sustain and remake themselves in response to internal and external challenge. And unlike other reviewers, perhaps because I was thoroughly forewarned, I don't find myself terribly discombobulated by the ending: it may be abrupt, but it's also a natural break point, with our core protagonists finally united by experience, and having decided their next course of action. Which is not to say I don't feel a burning need to snap up Truth and Fear as soon as it's available and find out what happens next.
Adam Robots by Adam Roberts (Gollancz). Thesis: Adam Roberts is distinctive among contemporary sf writers not just because he writes unashamed ideas-fiction, but because he writes unashamed old ideas-fiction. There aren't many novums here you won't have seen before, from the Adamic robot of the title to the various kinds of immortality, the ethics-modifying substances to the time travel devices. That's perhaps true of much of the field, and yet by and large Roberts doesn't pursue either of the common strategies for dealing with it, or even give much indication that he sees it as a problem; he doesn't really write multi-novum stories, and his worlds are often too streamlined to be fully immersive. So in what ways do the stories here work? First, I think Roberts is getting extremely good at structure; his stories vary widely in length and register, from a very effectively fragmented tale like "A Prison Term of a Thousand Years" (2008), which at four pages is in no danger of outstaying its welcome, to a near-novella-length piece like "Anticopernicus" (2010), which uses its duration to invest its Fermi Paradox-riff with psychological and thematic complexity. Second, his writing is precise and often funny, with its now-familiar precise yet fussy-fidgety style. And third the absence of immersion is actually often freeing, used as a prompt to encourage critical reading and reflection. Some of my favourite stories are the most meta-referential, such as "Wonder: A Story in Two" (2007), which explicitly investigates the notion of conceptual breakthrough, and is echoed by "Dennis Bayle: A Life" (2013), a review of an imaginary book filled with imaginary books that asserts and (I think) disproves the notion that sense-of-wonder requires "novelistic momentum." Most of the pieces here didn't get much attention on their first publication -- there are few Year's Best alumni, and no award nominees -- but Adam Robots demonstrates that Roberts can be as effective in the short form as in the long.
Also read: The Disestablishment of Paradise by Phillip Mann (Gollancz), reviewed in these pages; Evening's Empire and A Very British History by Paul McAuley, reviewed for LARB.
Briefly noted: Two partly-read anthologies, themed around climate change in the case of Beacons ed. Gregory Norminton (Oneworld), and the solar system in the case of The Lowest Heaven ed. Anne Perry and Jared Shurin (Pandemonium). Both pretty strong and tonally varied so far. Two pre-2013 novels reaching UK shores for the first time: God's War by Kameron Hurley and Osiris by EJ Swift, both definitely worth seeking out. And one novella, Spin by Nina Allan, that I was fortunate enough to read last year; a version of the Arachne myth, and a critical fiction, about art and systems of thought.
Some good stories: (excluding SH, obviously): "We're All Gonna Have the Blues" by Rodge Glass (Beacons), the bleak reflections of an environmental lobbyist boozing in a jazz bar in Krakow (really); "Saga's Children" by EJ Swift (The Lowest Heaven), taut and enigmatic family future history; "In Metal, In Bone" by An Owomoyela (Eclipse Online), discussed here; "The High King Dreaming" by Daniel Abraham (Fearsome Journeys), a compressed time-skipping epic fantasy; "Terrain" by Genevieve Valentine (Tor.com), about the coming of the railroad in the steampunk west, and about race; "With Fate Conspire" by Vandana Singh (Solaris Rising 2), a long and complex tale of time-viewing and ecological collapse; "Dennis Bayle: A Life" (Adam Robots), discussed above.
And last but not least, a list of books to be read in the second half of the year (he said optimistically): Sunburnt Faces by Shimon Adaf; Microcosmos by Nina Allan; Stardust by Nina Allan; iD by Madeline Ashby; Life After Life by Kate Atkinson; Proxima by Stephen Baxter; American Elsewhere by Robert Jackson Bennett; Days of the Deer, Liliana Bodoc; What Lot's Wife Saw by Ioanna Bourazopoulou; Arctic Rising by Tobias Buckell; Self-Reference ENGINE by Toh EnJoe; Seoul Survivors by Naomi Foyle; Trafalgar by Angelica Gorodischer; The Folded Man by Matt Hill; No Return by Zachary Jernigan; The Summer Prince by Alaya Dawn Johnson; Reflections by Roz Kaveney; River of Stars by Guy Gavriel Kay; Yellowcake by Margo Lanagan; Conservation of Shadows by Yoon Ha Lee; More Than This by Patrick Ness; The Glass Republic by Tom Pollock; The Adjacent by Christopher Priest; On the Steel Breeze by Alastair Reynolds; Odds Against Tomorrow by Nathaniel Rich; Shaman by Kim Stanley Robinson; The Water Sign by CS Samulski; Gemsigns by Stephanie Saulter; Gooseberry Bluff by David J Schwartz; Theatre of the Gods by M Suddain; The City of Devi by Manil Suri; How the World Became Quiet by Rachel Swirsky; Necessary Ill by Deb Taber; Strange Bodies by Marcel Theroux; The Violent Century by Lavie Tidhar; The Stone Boatmen by Sarah Tolmie; The Healer by Antti Tuomainen; The Man with the Compound Eyes by Wu Ming-Yi.
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12 Days of Christmas - Simplicity
On the second day of Christmas, my true love gave to me....
The Gift of Simplicity
God's Gift of Simplicity
by Wanda E. Brunstetter
The Amish people I write about celebrate Christmas in a much simpler way than most of us do. There are no Christmas trees or colored lights in their homes. The gifts they give one another are simple and functional, not elaborate or expensive. Their emphasis at Christmas is on the birth of Jesus and the love they feel for God, family, and friends. Anyone can give the gift of simplicity, and it can be given any time of the year. A smile, a hug, a listening ear. . .these are the gifts of simplicity.
Wanda E. Brunstetter is the author of many Amish themed books including the latest A Sister's Secret (Barbour Books, 2007) , the first installation in the Sisters of Holmes County series. Watch for the second installment, A Sister's Test, in January 2008. For more information visit www.wandabrunstetter.com


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The costs of living increase every year due to inflation, and tuition costs routinely go up even faster. Of course, your parents could have used the power of interest to your advantage in establishing an early savings plan. A few thousand invested in a tax-deferred savings plan in the 1990s would likely cover your total tuition costs today with money left over for books and Internet access.
Whether your parents have left you in the cold on tuition or some other circumstances lead you to going it alone, there are many funding streams available for higher education expenses. Some are definitely more desirable than others, but any option is better than none considering the effect of a diploma on lifetime earnings. With a wise choice of major and funding, anyone can access college for a much lower cost than the sticker price.
Private Versus Public
High achievers and students looking for specialized experiences should consider applying to private schools. Private schools are more expensive, but they often offer diplomas with the most prestige. The admissions process is the toughest part, since these schools tend to offer full and partial scholarships for students demonstrating financial need.
For students set on attending public college, there are several low- and no-cost funding streams. It still pays to shop around for the highest rated school offering your preferred major(s). However, you'll have very similar access to money with any public choice.
FAFSA Gateway
The first step to accessing the many funding sources is filling out the annual Free Application for Federal Student Aid. This lets the university know your status and provides the potential for Pell grants, work study, and subsidized loans. It is also an eligibility requirement for most scholarships offered through the university and state educational funding.
Avenues for Investigation
You are obviously on the right track by investigating options online. Some college financial aid offices will incorporate state programs you are eligible for in the aid package, but this is not a sure thing. A good source to check is your state's Department of Education. General searches may turn up useful information as well.
College scholarships are usually all administered by one office. You need to find that office and fill out their application. Administrators feed this data into the database to look for matches. They can miss scholarships, so you need to also look through the list available in the handbook.
Many private scholarships are available through employers, religious and civic organizations, and foundations. Several websites do nothing but compile lists of private scholarships, so spend a day making profiles.
If you do need to rely on loans, there are ways to minimize their impact on your future finances. One is to pay interest through the college years. Another is to access federal and state programs for loan forgiveness by choosing a public service major, such as education.
Students without the cash on hand should not feel discouraged from achieving the benefits of higher education. Take advantage of every funding option. Your future income and ability to fund education for your own children depends on it.
Emily Dyer writes for higher education blogs nationwide. She recommends www.christiandegreeprograms.org as a great resource for students interested in finding degree programs for Christian leadership.


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Huntsville, Ala. native Dr. Deborah Barnhart has been working on and off with the U.S. Space and Rocket Center in Huntsville for over 40 years. Her career has taken many different twists and turns, but she finally "landed" at her home base in January of 2011.
Barnhart graduated from the University of Alabama in Huntsville in 1973; while she was finishing her senior year she worked in the public affairs and marketing offices at the U.S. Space & Rocket Center. A few years after graduation she came back on staff at the space center managing publicity for the museum's newest addition — the Space Shuttle.
At the age of 27, Barnhart decided to switch gears and joined the U.S. Navy, hoping to work with satellites.
However, the Navy had other plans for her. She attended Officers Candidate Schoo (OCS)l, and after graduating at the top of a class of 500 people, was given the opportunity to become one of the first ten women ever to serve on a Navy sea vessel. And she took it.
"I was the seventh woman to be certified to fight on and drive Navy vessels," she told Kari Hawkins in an interview. "I drove ships on the west coast and the east coast. I loved the Navy, and the ability to see the world as a finite place. I've heard it said that everyone joins the military to get away from something, to 'get out of Dodge.' And maybe I did want to get out of Dodge, but I also joined the military to go toward something, to pursue an interest and an opportunity."
Barnhart commanded five units, experienced submarines, Navy air and space aspects, and missile defense systems throughout her 26 year military career. When she went into the Navy Reserves, she found her way back to the U.S. Space & Rocket Center for the third time in her career, this time serving as the director of Space Camp and the Space Academy. During this time she had two children and obtained a M.B.A. from the University of Maryland College Park.
In 1990 Barnhart left the Space Center for the third time to pursue work in the private sector. That same year she received a doctorate degree in education from Vanderbilt University. After leaving the space center, she became vice president of Hamilton Sundstrand Space, Sea Systems International, and Honeywell Space and Defense, and reached a lifelong goal: working with satellites. She also acquired another M.B.A., this one from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology where she was a Sloan Fellow in 1998.
She had retired from her long accomplished career when the Space Center contacted her in 2010, convincing her to return to the center for the fourth time, but this time to the helm of the "ship," as Executive Director and CEO, a position she has held since January of 2011.
The first year she served as CEO, Barnhart reduced the Space Center's debt by $1 million, and brought attendance up by 13 percent after 10 years of decline. In 2017, the center had it's all-time record attendance, with an 11 percent increase in revenue.
"In everything that we do, we want to inspire that next generation of explorers," Barnhart told Hawkins in an interview.
Barnhart has received a lot of honors during her lengthy career. She is a recipient of NASA's Distinguished Public Service Medal, the highest form of recognition awarded by NASA to a non‐government individual. A member of the Board of Managers of the Air Force Museum Foundation and a Trustee on the Board of the University of Alabama in Huntsville Foundation. She also served as Governor Robert Bentley's appointee to the Alabama Space Authority Task Force.
In October of 2017 Barnhart was inducted into the Alabama Academy of Honor alongside Governor Kay Ivey, and two other women, making her part of the first class of all female inductees.
For over 20 years of service to our Nation through the Navy, her service to the state of Alabama through the U.S. Space and Rocket Center, and for setting the level of excellence the nation has come to expect from Alabama Women, Dr. Deborah Barnhart is absolutely and Alabama woman of Influence.


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Our nation is exploding with the epidemic of obesity and diabetes. This explosion is coming from the massive consumption of fast food, sugary and fatty junk foods, and other processed foods that Americans continue to consume at increasing rates. We are a nation that has Junk Food Habits that need to be broken.
So how do we make a change? With a few Tips to Kick the Junk Food Habit, and a little effort, you can get those Junk Food Habits back under control.
These Tips to Kick the Junk Food Habit will help adjust the wiring in your brain. Unfortunately, by adulthood, most of us are a hodgepodge of neuroses and psychoses and we have developed habits that may have made junk food a security blanket, and unless we work on making some changes this urge to splurge will never vanish. Yes, we can consciously understand that our body does crave and want healthy food, but your psyche may never stop seeking validation of a junk food style.
Tips to Kick the Junk Food Habit begin with training your body with clean nutrition. Eating correctly goes a long way toward helping a junk food mentality. When you spend significant time eating clean (consistently for 6-12 months), your digestive system will begin to lose its ability to handle the toxic effects of a sugar hit, not to mention preservatives and other synthetic additives.
Step 1 – Clean All Junk Food Out of Your Home
Out of Sight Out of Mind! If the ice cream is not in the freezer, odds are that you won't go out late at night to buy some.
If you don't have access to the junk, you're more likely to grab something healthy, like baby carrots.
Step 2 – Eat Clean 80-85% of the Time
Just because your kitchen cupboard no longer looks like a candy and junk food aisle at the grocery store doesn't mean you can't enjoy those things once in a while. If most of your nutrition is super tight, you're doing great, so cut yourself some slack, and relax 15-20% of the time. The biggest thing to remember is in the beginning it will be to your benefit to be really consistent and tight until you hit some or all of your goals.
Step 3 – Be Prepared with Healthy Foods at All Times
Being prepared is half the battle. Be sure to carry a purse or a backpack wherever you go. Always keep healthy snacks like apples or raw nuts with you. This will keep you from getting too hungry and making bad decisions. When you are prepared you don't have that excuse.
Great Snack Ideas:
- Fresh fruit (Apples, plums, pears, and stone fruit travel well!)
- Dried fruit
- Raw nuts
- Whole-grain crackers
- A Shakeology packet
Step 4 – Try New Fruits and Veggies
There are plenty of different, healthy foods that many of us have never tried. You don't always have to go for the same old boring oranges or carrots. Look for fruits and vegetables that you have never tried, find new things you like, and look for new ways to use them in your meals.
Step 5 – Binge on Healthy Foods
If you just have the urge to use food as a security blanket because you have not quite broken that old habit, hit the fridge and binge on healthy foods, especially raw veggies. At some point you may still want to grab chips or cookies, but if you start with the healthy food, you are more likely to go light on junk food. Bingeing in any form isn't a great idea, but it's better if you overdo it with healthy food than with garbage.
Eating right when you have been a junk food junkie for so long can be difficult and won't change overnight. If you are willing to choose your health, and use these Tips to Kick the Junk Food Habit it will get easier, and the reward is your health!


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Fix api Latency Arbitrage is a high-frequency approach in trading, which consists in opening trading positions based on the exchange rate delays. This approach is implemented through trade both in the faster and in the slower broker. Thus, the trading robot conducts a constant analysis of price quotes and, in case of maximum delays, it commits a trading operation on the side of the slower broker towards the faster one. The logic of the automatic trading strategy consists in an implemented parameter, which is analyzed in an online mode. As soon as the price quotes for the same currency pair reach a certain (given) value in points, the robot will open the deal and close it after reaching the price marks that were for the asset on the side of the faster broker at the time of opening the transaction.
However, this simplicity of the algorithm has its hidden pitfalls, of which not every fix api trader knows:
- Most brokers prohibit the arbitrage principle of trading, so if the broker determines your trading style, he may not pay you the profit from the trading positions.
- Continuing the first point, the broker can easily identify this algorithm, because it also contains algorithms that automatically monitor such operations.
- Since all the operations on the transactions were carried out on the side of the slower broker, it is possible that the trader will go to a company that operates by the "kitchen" scheme. Therefore, he can lose not only his profit, but his capital as well.


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At Janet, Janet & Suggs, LLC, we believe that all cases, no matter their size, deserve justice. We know that a preventable injury or the death of a loved one can have a devastating impact on your life, which is why we are committed to fighting for the maximum compensation you need.
Our accomplished personal injury lawyers have recovered verdicts and settlements of all sizes, ranging from thousands to hundreds of millions of dollars. Because we are experienced in handling even the most complex cases, we have the skills and knowledge necessary to handle your case with the attention and skill you deserve.
During a work retreat on a Caribbean island, a supervisor plied an employee with alcohol and proceeded to sexually abuse him.
$190 million Dr. Nikita Levy class action settlement, was called "a historic day" not only for the victims but for the United States civil justice system. The settlement is one of the largest in U.S. history for sexual abuse. The agreement is "fair and reasonable" for the 8,000 or more women who will participate in the settlement, Howard Janet said. He noted both sides in the negotiation process "worked zealously" to obtain a settlement "in the best interests of their clients".
The first and only successful litigation in Pennsylvania against a Catholic diocese, bishop and child predator which resulted in the creation of a new law in the field of sexual abuse.
Penn State University failed to take action to prevent children from being sexually abused by PSU football coach and serial molester Jerry Sandusky.
Tens of millions of dollars in settlements and verdicts obtained in delayed diagnosis and misdiagnosis of cancer cases. These cases involved lung, breast, prostate, and numerous other forms of cancer.
Warning signs of an impending potential obstetrical emergency that developed during labor, which included unrelenting, continuous abdominal pain, were not fully appreciated and responded to in an emergency manner, which was required under the circumstances.
Settlement reached in a case involving the misinterpretation of a prenatal sonogram that resulted in the birth of a child with severe, life-long brain damage.
Recovery for failure to properly respond to airway obstruction resulting in brain damage.
Recovery for a child because of a failure to respond in a timely manner to signs of placental abruption resulting in severe brain damage.
Settlement obtained for infliction of spinal injury during diagnostic procedure. A negligently-performed discogram of neck produced a spinal abscess which was not diagnosed or treated promptly. The patient, who was in his 60's, suffered permanent spinal injury that left him a quadriplegic.
Verdict on behalf of a 62-year-old woman and her husband after surgeon and hospital failed to diagnose and perform surgery to treat a spinal epidural hematoma (blood clot) following back surgery, in a timely manner, resulting in permanent damage.
Recovery for the parents of a child in a wrongful birth case because of failure to detect severe brain defects that appeared on prenatal ultrasound film.
Medical professionals failed to recognize and respond to complications from anesthesia during a minor gynecological procedure, leaving the patient in vegetative state.
Recovery for a man who suffered quadriplegia and brain damage due to anesthesia malpractice.
Forceps and vacuum extraction were improperly used during delivery.
Failure to manage signs and symptoms of infection that developed shortly after delivery, resulting in meningitis.
Verdict reached in a case of obstetrical malpractice that resulted in the death of a child.
Settlement obtained for excess unnecessary radiation therapy. An erroneous decision to administer radiation therapy to a woman's pelvic area was compounded by inadequate shielding of her spine. This young mother developed significant limitations in the use of her legs.
Settlement obtained for mismanagement of medication. Adolescent who had asthma was treated with excessive doses of medication leading to seizures and brain damage.
Settlement obtained for a baby whose prenatal sonogram was misread, resulting in lack of advance preparation to provide adequate oxygen support at the time of his birth.
Recovery for a child who has brain damage and seizure disorder because of a negligent failure to respond to severe dehydration in a newborn
Recovery for a member of the Armed Forces whose prior attorney mishandled his medical negligence case involving surgical negligence that rendered him quadriplegic.
Verdict obtained for wrongful death of child who died from complications of brain damage that was caused by a massive overdose of medication he received for treatment of a condition associated with his premature birth.
Caused significant intracranial bleeds that in turn caused pulmonary and cardiac complications and death.
A jury found that delays in performing an urgently needed cesarean section resulted in a baby developing severe brain damage and cerebral palsy.
One of the largest medical malpractice jury verdicts ever won in the District of Columbia, obtained for a child who suffered brain damage and cerebral palsy because her doctors failed to properly diagnose and respond to an airway obstruction.
Verdict obtained on behalf of a child who developed spastic quadriplegic cerebral palsy after the mother was taken off of continuous electronic fetal monitoring and placed on intermittent monitoring despite known risk factors.
Broke the record for the largest birth injury jury award in Minnesota, obtained on behalf of a child who suffered brain damage and developed cerebral palsy as a result of mismanagement of labor and delivery.
Settlement obtained in a case involving an obstetrician's failure to come to the hospital to deliver a baby in a timely manner. The delay caused brain damage that was ultimately diagnosed as cerebral palsy.
This record jury verdict in Iowa was obtained for a child's cerebral palsy caused by brain injury as the result of inconsistent fetal heart monitoring during birth.
Jury verdict for a child who suffers from cerebral palsy and mental retardation due to a failure to respond to signs and symptoms of a uterine rupture.
An infant developed cerebral palsy after signs of an infection were not immediately treated by emergency room personnel.
Jury awards record verdict in Minnesota for child's cerebral palsy caused by brain injury sustained during birth.
Delivery was delayed despite knowing fetal compromise would occur. As a result, the infant developed cerebral palsy.
Settlement reached on behalf of a baby asphyxiated at birth because of the failure to timely and appropriately use a vacuum extraction device or forceps to speed up vaginal delivery.
Mismanagement of labor and delivery resulting in brain damage and cerebral palsy.
Recovery of $6 million after medical staff failed to appropriately interpret and respond to evidence of fetal compromise and perform emergency C-section, resulting in brain damage.
Following surgery, hospital staff failed to diagnose and treat blood loss in a timely manner, leaving the patient with permanent brain damage and cerebral palsy due to insufficient oxygenation.
Recovery for a child who suffered cerebral palsy and mental retardation because of a mismanaged labor and delivery.
Medical staff did not act on worrisome fetal monitor tracings in a timely manner, leading to brain injury and cerebral palsy.
Verdict reached on behalf of a child due to the negligent decision to use a slow-acting form of anesthesia for an emergency cesarean section. The inordinate delay caused the baby to suffer a neurological injury that was later diagnosed as cerebral palsy.
Recovery for a child who suffers cerebral palsy and mental retardation due to a mismanaged labor and delivery.
Salesman drove over the median resulting in a head-on crash with a family. The pregnant mother lost her baby and their 5-year-old daughter became a paraplegic. The salesman's company offered $12 Million to settle, and the family wanted to take it. We encouraged them to let us keep on negotiating and use the money to help the community's other paraplegics. Actor Christopher Reeves joined the initiative and helped raise funds for wheelchair basketball.
When an 18-wheeler driver was distracted and lost control of his truck, it went over the median and crashed into a car with two brothers inside. The car caught fire and the brothers were severely burned. The truck driver said he was 'afraid of getting burned' and wouldn't help.
Settlement obtained in tractor-trailer collision. A young woman sitting in her car well on the shoulder of the road suffered facial burns after being rear-ended by a tractor-trailer that negligently veered off the road.
Settlement reached on behalf of a driver run off the road by a hazardous waste truck.
Verdicts and settlements for car accident victims in cases of all sizes and values. Every case is important to us, no matter the size.
Recovery obtained in a car accident where a distracted driver crossed the yellow line, resulting in a head-on collision.
Recovery obtained in a car accident involving a drunk driver who jumped the curb and struck a woman who was walking her dog.
The electricity from the transformer was supposed to be cut off. The worker on a scaffold was struck by an electrical arc that burned him severely and caused him to fall to the ground, striking his head on scaffolding and breaking his
Recoveries for victims of dangerous drugs and pharmaceutical products, including Baycol, Rezulin, Fen Phen, breast implants and latex gloves.
Settlement received in a case against a U.S. government-employed healthcare provider whose poor post-operative care resulted in brain damage and cerebral palsy.
Janet, Janet & Suggs, LLC obtained a $200 million settlement from New England Compounding Center on behalf of victims who received contaminated steroid injections. NECC failed to maintain a clean, safe environment when making compounded medications, resulting in a widespread outbreak of fungal meningitis.
$190 million Dr. Nikita Levy class action settlement, was called "a historic day" not only for the victims but for the United States civil justice system. The settlement is one of the largest in U.S. history for sexual abuse. The agreement is "fair and reasonable" for the 8,000 or more women who will participate in the settlement, Howard Janet said. He noted both sides in the negotiation process "worked zealously" to obtain a settlement "in the best interests of their clients".
Class action settlement with mine owners who failed to properly contain and remove waste stored on the mine site. Toxic chemicals seeped into groundwater, contaminating nearby residential water wells.
Defendants failed to secure expert witnesses and prosecute the case on a timely basis. Underlying case was a malpractice case that involved mismanaged anesthesia resulting in death.
Verdict reached on behalf of two boys injured at a traffic scene due to improper police procedures.
Settlement obtained in death of infant. The baby suffocated in crib after fabric ball that was negligently merely glued and not sewn onto stuffed Christmas bear's Santa cap detached and lodged in his throat obstructing his airway.
Verdict reached in Federal court for two paramedics injured in a helicopter crash due to pilot error.
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MIAA Bona Fide Team Member Rule
The MIAA has strict rules about a student having their high school sport being their number one priority:
MIAA rule 45 states:
A bona fide member of the school team is a student who is consistently present for, and actively participates in, all high school team sessions (e.g. practices, tryouts, competitions). Bona fide members of a school team are precluded from missing a high school practice or competition in order to participate in a non-school athletic activity/event in any sport recognized by the MIAA. Students cannot be given special treatment (late arrival, early dismissal, etc.) for non-school athletic programs.
First Offense: Student athlete is suspended for 25% of the season (see chart on Rule 62).
Second Offense: Student athlete is suspended for an additional 25% of the season, and is ineligible for
tournament play immediately upon confirmation of the violation.
See Rule 96 for additional tournament restriction and Rule 86 for waiver guidelines.
86. Bona Fide Team Member Waiver Guidelines
The Bona Fide rule requires that members of a school team actively participate in all team practices and competitions. Members of a school team are precluded from missing a high school practice or competition in order to participate in a non school event/activity in any sport recognized by the MIAA.
On occasion, a student might find himself/herself in potential conflict with this rule. This can happen when a student-athlete has an association with an out-of-school team or has an opportunity to participate in some special tournament or on a special team.
A waiver of the bona fide team rule excusing the student from the school activity that day and allowing the student to participate in such a non-school event is possible under the guidelines set forth below. Before a waiver request (See White Book for form) is submitted ALL of the following considerations must be present:
86.1 The non-school event must be a significant experience -- not one normally available to most anyone.
86.2 The invitation must have come from a personalized invitation -- not a form letter that went to a large number of students.
86.3 It must be clear that the student is not being exploited and that the student is truly being singled out to participate.
86.4 The amount of time being missed from school will definitely be considered.
86.5 The number of school team activities being missed will be a factor considered.
86.6 There is a limit to the number of times that a student could qualify for a waiver. It would be extremely rare that a student-athlete would be granted more than one waiver per year.
86.7 The request for a waiver must have the written support of the school principal, the athletic director, and the coach.
Waivers will be considered on an individual basis on the merits of each case.
Requests for a waiver should be addressed to the MIAA. The above points should be addressed in the waiver request.


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The Wine Cellar is a beautiful and intimate space that hosts up to 14 guests for a 5-course tasting menu* paired with a matching wine flight** and optional exclusive sommelier*** service. The Eclectic Hotel Collection is proud to be partnering with George Bergier, Chairman of the Guild of Sommeliers and Consul of the Ordre des Coteaux de Champagne, to enhance this exceptional private dining experience.
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List of Black Organization related characters
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Many main and minor characters have been linked to the Black Organization.
This list excludes major Black Organization members and characters with jobs investigating crime generally, like the police. Characters who are part of an agency targeting the Black Organization like the FBI and CIA are also excluded unless their connection to the Organization goes beyond their work.
- 1 Collaborators
- 2 Targets
- 2.1 Shinichi Kudo/Conan Edogawa
- 2.2 APTX 4869 Victims
- 2.3 Masami Hirota
- 2.4 Shigehiko Nomiguchi
- 2.5 Araide family
- 2.6 Jazz club man
- 2.7 Starling family
- 2.8 Senzo Fukuura
- 2.9 Werewolf man
- 2.10 Yasuteru Domon
- 2.11 Kogoro Mouri
- 2.12 Toji Funemoto
- 2.13 Tohei Benzaki
- 2.14 Natsuko Shibuya
- 2.15 Amanda Hughes
- 2.16 Gaito Hotta
- 2.17 Rokumichi Hado
- 2.18 Tsutomu Akai
- 3 Hinted people of interest to the Black Organization
- 4 Acquaintances of individual Black Organization members
- 5 Extended Canon
- 6 References
This is a list of people who are known to have collaborated with the Black Organization, voluntarily or involuntarily. Some of these collaborators became assassination targets later. Those whose collaboration with the Black Organization is not clearly confirmed are listed with targets below.
Unnamed Weapons Smuggler
Gin and Vodka blackmailed an unnamed company owner who had been smuggling guns for over 100 million yen in cash. After Vodka received the briefcase of cash, he returned the film evidence of the business' gun smuggling. Vodka may have intended to kill the man when the transaction was complete as he began to draw his gun, but it could also have been in response to the company owner's remark the Black Organization does even worse things than gun smuggling. The man escaped when Gin assaulted Shinichi who had been spying on the transaction and Vodka was distracted.
Akemi Miyano and the billion yen robbery gang
Five years prior to the current time-line, FBI agent Shuichi Akai infiltrated the Black Organization by dating Akemi Miyano. He was expelled after his true allegiance was uncovered, but Akemi could not be silenced because it would jeopardize the loyalty of her valuable sister Shiho Miyano. Eventually the Organization came up with a way to get rid of Akemi by pretending to make a deal with her; in exchange for a successful bank robbery, Gin told Akemi she and Shiho could go free. The Organization thought Akemi would surely fail and thus they would have an acceptable reason to kill her.
Akemi hired two partners, the family-less, get-away driver Kenzo Hirota who worked at a taxi company in Tokyo, and an unnamed giant man with connections at a Pachinko building to serve as muscle. Akemi and her two partners successfully pulled off the robbery, killing a guard in the process. Kenzo Hirota then backstabbed the other two by running away with the billion yen. In order to track him down, Akemi and her partner approached different detectives pretending to be Kenzo's relatives. Under alias Hirota Masami, Akemi Miyano pretended she was school girl from Yamagata to enlist Kogoro's help. Masami's other giant accomplice pretended to be Kenzo's elder brother, Akira Hirota, from Kyushu. After the two find Kenzo, a fight broke out between the two men, resulting in the giant strangling Kenzo against Akemi's wishes. Akemi and the giant hung Hirota's corpse from a rope to make it appear like a suicide, grabbed the cash, and left for a hotel. Gin had given Akemi sleeping pills to add to the giant man's drink so she could take the money from him. The pills were really laced with cyanide and the giant man was killed. Akemi left the real cases of money at the hotel and went to meet with Gin and Vodka at the shipping yard. Gin killed her there, but was unable to recover the money.
Kenzo Hirota
Kenzo Hirota, age 48, was a taxi driver, who Akemi hired to be the get-away driver, likely due to his profession would make him the one to know the best escape route. However after the robbery, Hirota backstabbed his partners and went into hiding with the money. Akemi and her other partner, a giant, hired each a detective to search for Hirota, posing as relatives. First Akemi's detective, Kogoro, found him. When Akemi stood face to face with him, he became terrified, but couldn't do anything in front of Kogoro, Ran and Conan. The giant killed Hirota for his betrayal. There isn't known much about him expect that he plays on horses and owns four cats.
Akira Hirota
Akira Hirota, age 28, was the giant hired by Akemi to be a part of her robbery gang due to his strength. After Kenzo Hirota betrayed them, the giant hired a detective to search for him, posing as an elder brother. After Kenzo Hirota was found, the giant killed him. Akemi who happened to also have tracked him down gave him her watch, which had Conan's tracker on. He and Akemi hide in a hotel room, and while the giant was counting the money, Akemi slipped cyanide pills into his drink in the belief that they were just sleeping pills, hence killing the giant.
Unnamed woman
- See: Shinkansen Bomb Case
An unnamed woman exchanged 400 million yen for information about gold worth even more money with Gin and Vodka on a bullet train's dining car. Instead of information, the Organization packed the case they were giving her with explosives to kill the woman because she was no longer useful. The anime replaced Gin and Vodka with lookalikes in the corresponding episode.
Hideaki Nakajima
- See: Game Convention Case
Hideaki Nakajima, age 27, worked for Mantendo corporation's game development section and designed a mystery video game about Kogoro Mouri. He was in a University boxing club and has issues with creditors. He made an exchange with Tequila, giving Tequila a list of some of the world's most highly skilled programmers in exchange for a large amount of money. One of Hideaki's coworkers wanted to kill him for revenge, but Tequila was killed instead by accident. The Black Organization then immediately blew up the Daiko Building's Cocktail Bar where Hideaki and Tequila had meetings.
Ki'ichiro Numabuchi
Ki'ichiro Numabuchi is an assassin who escaped the Black Organization before they could test APTX 4869 out on him when they decided he was useless. He then escaped from prison after that. He first showed up in Osaka in the The Naniwa Serial Murder Case where he is a suspect. He is innocent of these particular crimes and was being starved in a shack by the real serial killer who wanted to frame him. He tries to stab Conan with a kitchen knife while escaping, but Heiji's good luck charm luckily blocks the blow. He took driving lessons at a seminary 20 years ago but failed. He appears again in Mitsuhiko's Mystifying Forest. When he escaped from the police (again) in a forest in Gunma, Conan discovers he apparently lived by the forest when he was younger and liked fireflies.
Suguru Itakura
Suguru Itakura was a famous CG graphic designer/games system engineer who also worked on special effects for films. He probably owns Itakura studio. Three years before the current timeline, he stopped developing CG and a particular program due to poor eyesight. Two years ago Tequila showed up at his office to say he was interested in the particular "system software" Itakura stopped developing. One year later, he was later forced to finish the program with a year deadline. Itakura didn't want to complete the program "not only for his eyesight but for the sake of humanity." He stayed in New Beika Hotel where he was killed by an unrelated party. He kept a diary and noted Vermouth had a cat around when he talked to her. Conan pretending to be him was told to put the disk in locker 1012. Itakura also helped provide many special effects for films and plays Vermouth and Yukiko Kudo were in. This is presumably how Vermouth hired him for the Organization's research as she was seen arguing with him on sets, something she never did with anyone else.
- See: Case from 17 years ago and Rum
Asaka (浅香 Asaka) is a mysterious person from seventeen years ago who Conan believes is the killer of Kohji Haneda and potentially the Black Organization member Rum. Asaka approached the Black Organization target Amanda Hughes to be her bodyguard. Amanda and Kohji were later found dead in their American hotel rooms under mysterious circumstances. Kohji was apparently killed by APTX 4869 or something like it. Asaka then vanished without a trace. Not much else is known about the person.
Asaka's gender is uncertain. Gaito Hotta learned that someone witnessed Asaka holding a small hand mirror, and he guessed Asaka's gender is female; however, his reliability is questionable and perhaps influenced by the fact that the bodyguard was in possession of a women's accessory. Currently, Conan suspects that Asaka is a strong female bodyguard rather than a male based on Gotta Haito's testimony.
In addition, Conan suspects that Asaka may be Rum after examining Kohji Haneda's broken handmirror shown in a picture on the case website. Kohji's broken hand mirror only had the letters PTON. The missing letters "U MASCARA" can be arranged to make the phrase "ASACA RUM". If this message means "Asaka is Rum" or something else is currently unclear, but not only did Okiya and Conan both arrived at that solution, the Black Organization has proven itself to be paranoid about anything related to the name ASACA spelled with a C and seventeen years ago. Bourbon was sent to investigate a song titled "Asaca", written by Rokumichi Hado who took a hiatus seventeen years ago. The song and the title turned out to be entirely to be unrelated to Haneda Kohji's case or the Black Organization.
This is a list of people involved in a Black Organization plot, either as victims of crime, intended victims, or intelligence targets. Targets who are known to have collaborated with the Black Organization are listed above.
Shinichi Kudo/Conan Edogawa
Shinichi Kudo has been involved in many Black Organization plots over the course of the series. For a full account of these events, please see the Black Organization timeline.
APTX 4869 Victims
The Black Organization keeps a record of people who were poisoned with APTX 4869. According to Haibara they were all confirmed dead (死亡), except for Shinichi Kudo (工藤 新一) who was listed as uncertain (不明). Haibara says she changed Shinichi's status to "Dead" while she was still in the Organization, which was first shown in the version of the list that Rumi Wakasa looks at on her laptop in file 1005. The list doesn't seem to be in chronological[1] or alphabetical order. At least 10 people are shown listed, and there may be more victims if the list is longer than shown. The following people are on the list.[2]
- 樽井 英成 (Status: Dead)
- Possible surname: Taru, Tarui
- Possible given name: Akishige, Eisei, Hideshige, Hidenari
- 新岡 芳江[3] (Status: Dead)
- Possible surname: Araoka, Shin'oka, Nioka
- Possible given name: Yoshie, Fusae, Masae
- 松坂 宗男[4] (Status: Dead)
- 武石 良雄[8] (Status: Dead)
- 工藤 新一 (Status: Unknown)/(Status: Dead)
- Surname: Kudo
- Given name: Shinichi
- 豊田 稔[9] (Status: Dead)
- 羽田 浩司 (Status: Dead)
- 野本 昌治[11] (Status: Dead)
- 五島 淳実[12] (Status: Dead)
- Possible surnames: Goto, Goshima, Gojima, Itsushima, Itsujima
- Possible given name: Atsumi
- 上園 孝也 (Status: Dead)
- Possible surnames: Uwazono, Uematsu, Uesono, Uezono, Kamisono, Kamizono
- Possible given names: Takaya, Koya
Kohji Haneda
The victim Kohji Haneda is Shukichi Haneda's non-blood brother. He was murdered seventeen years ago along with Amanda Hughes. In file 947, Shukichi quoted his brother Kohji as saying "one should stick with one's original plan" (初志貫徹 shoshi kantetsu). During "Let's Talk with Gosho Aoyama-sensei Day 2016", Gosho mentioned there was "red herring" in volume 18, the same volume this list appeared in.
Mary Sera
Mary Sera, an unknown child whom Masumi calls sister outside the territory, was revealed in file 972 to be the mother of Shuichi Akai, Shukichi Haneda, and Masumi Sera. Ten years ago before the current timeline, she possessed an adult body. That means during the timeskip, she took something similar to APTX 4869 which caused her body to shrink. She currently lives in various hotels, switching locations often as if pressured by a sense of threat.
Masami Hirota
Masami Hirota, age 61, was a Nanyo University professor. Akemi Miyano had contact with and was probably close to him because she borrowed his name when coming up with an alias. When Shiho returned Akemi's vacation pictures to her, she had accidentally mixed in disks containing information about APTX 4869, which were saved by Professor Hirota.[13] The Black Organization intended to kill Masami Hirota, but he was killed by an unrelated person first. Vodka disguised his voice and left a message on his answering machine pretending to be from "Kuro Life Insurance" so he could try to set up a meeting.
Shigehiko Nomiguchi
Shigehiko Nomiguchi, age 56, and a politician, was bribed by someone who was never clarified (possibly by the Black Organization), and was going to be arrested and divulge information. The boss decided to eliminate him. Pisco, with the unwilling help of Vermouth was ordered to perform the assassination. Pisco managed to successfully kill Nomiguchi by dropping a chandelier on him, but due to Conan's interference, the police discovered it was a murder and not an accident like the Black Organization hoped it would be ruled. His family disappeared soon after, but it's unknown if the Black Organization got rid of them or if they went into hiding to escape them. Haibara did not react to his presence while she was watching him with Conan.
Araide family
Vermouth attempted to kill the Araide family so she could disguise and take the place of Tomoaki Araide. Dr. Araide was targeted for his job as school nurse at Teitan Elementary and Teitan High which allowed Vermouth to get close to Haibara Ai, Conan Edogawa, and Ran Mouri. The FBI caught on to Vermouth's intentions before she could act and used disguised stunt doubles to make it appear that the Araide family were all killed when their car ran off a cliff into the ocean. After Vermouth was unmasked, Dr. Araide has been able to come out of hiding and continue his job as school nurse where Vermouth left off. At this time, Vermouth was acting without the approval of the Black Organization, so it is doubtful whether Tomoaki Araide was of any interest to the rest of the Organization.
Jazz club man
- See: Bus Hijacking Case
Gin and Vodka set up a man to be killed when they met with him at a jazz club. Vodka remarks that he seemed happy even though "he didn't even suspect that that drink would be his last." He was never shown in the manga, but was shown stepping into a taxi in the anime. Vermouth was disguised as a waiter in the club at the time, although it isn't clear whether she was there to assist if Gin and Vodka failed or if she had her own reasons.
In the anime added a non-canonical business card which lists his name as Masahito Yoshioka (吉岡昌仁 Yoshioka Masahito), the real-life chief producer of many Conan-related films and episodes from the anime studio Tokyo Movie Shinsa.
Starling family
Vermouth killed Jodie Starling's parents twenty years ago and burnt down the Starling house. Vermouth's primary aim was to kill the FBI agent Mr. Starling and destroy his investigation files that involved Vermouth. Jodie survived because she left the house before it burnt down. After hearing that only two bodies were discovered, Vermouth desperately searched for Jodie, but to no avail; Jodie had been placed into the witness protection program by her father's colleagues. Jodie became an FBI agent to seek out Vermouth.
Senzo Fukuura
- See: Halloween Party Case
Senzo Fukuura, movie producer of "The Haunted Ship" series, was killed by a man wearing a werewolf costume whom Vermouth had blackmailed. His death was part of Vermouth's plan to lure Shinichi Kudo away from Ai Haibara, so it is unclear whether Vermouth had a particular reason for wanting Senzo Fukuura dead or if she only selected him as the target because he was convenient. Since she's an actress, she most likely used her connections in the movie business to gather information about the party in order to cocoon the murder plan. At this time, Vermouth was acting without the approval of the Black Organization, so it is doubtful whether this man was of any interest to the rest of the organization.
Werewolf man
- See: Halloween Party Case
Vermouth blackmailed this unnamed man into killing Senzo Fukura. After this man posted in a murder forum about wanting to kill Senzo Fukura, Vermouth replied back using her codename and asked if he would do so if she provided the tools and the strategy. The man revised his thoughts and refused, so Vermouth blackmailed him with a letter threatening his family and a box full of recordings of his family, tapped phonecalls, and detailed notes of his and his family's daily schedule. Blackmailing the werewolf man was part of Vermouth's plan to lure Shinichi Kudo away from Ai Haibara, so it is unclear whether Vermouth had a particular reason for blackmailing this man, or if she chose him because he was convenient. At this time, Vermouth was acting without the approval of the Black Organization, so it is doubtful whether this man was of any interest to the rest of the organization.
Yasuteru Domon
Yasuteru Domon is a politician hard on crime whom the Black Organization attempts to assassinate after the events of the Ding Dong Dash. The FBI believed the boss ordered the assassination of Yasuteru Domon who wasn't even part of the Diet yet because he is hard on crime and had a chance of becoming the next Prime Minister. The Black Organization ordered Kir to arrange an interview with him in exchange for suppressing information that his father was under suspicion of having an extramarital affair twenty years ago. The Black Organization planned the timing so that it could be blamed on female gang leader Kiriko Busajima who had been accused of hiring a hitman to kill him before. The assassination plot was called off because Yasuteru Domon decided to stop running for office when the affair information was about to come out anyway. The Black Organization had not realized that this information was enough to get him to stop running for office.
Kogoro Mouri
- See: Black Impact!, Wedding Eve, and Soul Detective Murder Case
Kogoro Mouri temporarily became an assassination target when Gin mistakenly thought that the detective planted a tracking and listening device on Kir's shoe. With the boss's permission he, Vodka, Vermouth, Korn and Chianti went Beika city to silence the detective. As the Black Organization snipers, Korn and Chianti, prepare to fire at Kogoro, they are interrupted by Conan kicking a soccer ball into Kogoro's window and Shuichi Akai's sniper shots. Thus, Kogoro is saved at the last second by a double effort from Conan and Shuichi Akai, and the Organization is made to believe the FBI planted the tracker. Despite Vermouth's prompting, Gin does not believe that Kogoro is completely innocent.
Tooru Amuro investigates and then apprentices himself to Kogoro because Amuro suspected the detective may be connected to Sherry. Kogoro was previously suspected of being linked to Sherry because the tracker, microphone, and gum combo Gin found on Kir's shoe after the Ding Dong Dash case was the same style as the one Gin discovered in his car that Sherry supposedly planted.
When Gin heard that Gaito Hotta, someone who had information on the Kohji Haneda case, had been killed and that Kogoro had been involved, his suspicions rose again. The he says "Its like encountering a demon in the darkness... If that guy is the demon, then we've got to finish him off while he sleeps."
Toji Funemoto
Toji Funemoto, age 8, is a boy who bore witness to Rena Mizunashi's motorcycle accident. Vermouth confronted and interrogated him to figure out how much he knew. Gin noticed Toji was taken into witness protection by the FBI, but Vermouth told Gin he was irrelevant.
Tohei Benzaki
Tohei Benzaki is a single man who inadvertently became a random target in one of Bourbon's plans to further investigate Conan and the FBI. Needing to use his appearance to approach Jodie at a cherry blossom viewing place, Bourbon made Tohei unconscious and disguised as him with Vermouth's help. Unfortunately for Bourbon, Tohei had just been pickpocketed by a female thief and he got caught up in a murder case where she's the victim. After the case is over, Bourbon returned the stolen purse to Tohei's unconscious body and left him to eventually wake up. Some point later, the police arrived at Tohei's apartment to question him about the pickpocketing case but he declared he did not know anything regarding the murder of the pickpocket. At this point it appears that Bourbon and the Black Organization have no further interest in Tohei Benzaki.
It is very unlikely that the real Tohei Benzaki had any involvement in the Teito Bank Heist, instead this backstory was fabricated by Bourbon.
Natsuko Shibuya
- See: The Scarlet Return
Natsuko Shibuya is a Japanese friend of Jodie Starling's whom she helped in a case while she was studying abroad in America. Tooru Amuro was hired by Shibuya because she was being stalked and they met multiple times. One of these times, Amuro stole her phone and texted Jodie while pretending to be Shibuya, asking Jodie to go out for drinks. Jodie contacted Shibuya back via Camel's phone. Bourbon then planned to have Shibuya get into an accident, possibly by running her over with his car. Before Amuro could attack her himself, another person attacked Shibuya first. When the police came to the accident, they contacted Camel because it was one of the most recent phone numbers used. Vermouth copied Jodie's clothing while Amuro participated in solving the case. Vermouth then lured Jodie and Camel to the hospital by pretending to be a nurse calling in to report that Shibuya's condition had become critical. In the end, Amuro and Vermouth were able to trick Camel into revealing that Rikumichi Kusuda killed himself. Shibuya was fine in reality and recovered without incident. It is unclear how Amuro found out she was connected to Jodie.
Amanda Hughes
Amanda Hughes (アマンダ・ヒューズ Amanda Hyūzu) was an elderly wealthy American who was killed seventeen years prior to the current timeline. As the cause of her death could not be determined, it is possible that she was poisoned by APTX 4869 or a similar substance. Haibara has yet to confirm whether she saw Amanda's name on the list or not. Amanda apparently had contacts to two American intelligence agencies, the FBI and CIA. She died while staying at a hotel which was also occupied by shogi champion Kohji Haneda whom Amanda was a big fan of, and who was killed the same night. It was proved that she visited his hotel room. Conan suspects that a Black Organization agent posed as a bodyguard named "Asaka" and killed her with a drug. The bodyguard then vanished completely afterwards.
Gaito Hotta
Gaito Hotta (堀田凱人 Hotta Gaito) was a TV-personality, who claimed to solve cases by connecting with the spirits of the dead. He was exposed as a fraud at one point in connection with a case of a missing person. He then decided to make a comeback by using the mysterious murder case of Haneda Kohji and Amanda Hughes. He made research and discovered that Asaka, the missing bodyguard, had been seen holding a small mirror. He then concluded that Asaka was a woman and wanted to use that in his show. But he was murdered before it could happen. It is not known if the organization wanted to kill him, but they were keeping an eye on him.
Rokumichi Hado
- See: Bourbon's Mission
Rokumichi Hado (波土禄道 Hado Rokumichi) is a rock musician who took a hiatus seventeen years ago and was investigated by Bourbon and Vermouth because his new single was to be named ASACA. He committed suicide for personal reasons. His single "Asaca" was entirely unrelated to Kohji's death seventeen years ago or Asaka. Despite the lack of clues about Asaka or Rum, the case proved that the Black Organization is aware of the decoding of Kohji's dying message and is paranoid about it.
Tsutomu Akai
Tsutomu Akai somehow became involved with the Kohji Haneda case and made enemies which resulted in him having to leave his family behind and send them into hiding. While he is believed to be dead, his body was never actually found.
Hinted people of interest to the Black Organization
This is a list of people that has been hinted in manga to be of interest to the organization.
Mikoto Shimabukuro/Kimie Shimabukuro
Kimie Shimabukuro, age 27, assumed the identity of her great-grandmother Mikoto Shimabukuro, an elder from the mermaid island claimed to 130 years old and rumored to be immortal. As the elder Mikoto was the star in a festival on the island, where she, in a lottery, gave three dugong arrow, said to give the owner a long life and protection against demons, away to three winners. Because of the elder's supposedly long life and a mysterious legless body corpse found in a fire, it has gather interest of people around Japan even from high-up and celebrities. Conan found Shiho Miyano's name in the register of people who had anticipated in the lottery and recalled that it was Haibara's real name. But he doubt it's the same person.
Acquaintances of individual Black Organization members
This is a list of people who are acquaintances of Black Organization members, but were never part of the Organization themselves. Former Black Organization members are listed on the main Black Organization page.
Hiroshi Agasa
Hiroshi Agasa is a distant acquaintance of Atsushi Miyano and Elena Miyano. Agasa had met them at conferences, and Atsushi complimented Agasa on his inventions.
Toichi Kuroba
Toichi Kuroba taught Vermouth (who was disguised as Sharon Vineyard at the time) the finer arts of disguise.
Yukiko Kudo
Vermouth, as her alias Sharon Vineyard, and Yukiko Kudo had a friendly relationship between the time they met under Toichi Kuroba's tutelage until the time Sharon "died". Yukiko had no idea Sharon was leading a double life as an operative in the Black Organization. Yukiko and Sharon seemed to have kept in contact with one another because Yukiko and Sharon both know about events in each others' lives that occurred after Toichi's lessons. Sharon was the one who got tickets for Yukiko, Shinichi, and Ran to the Golden Apple play on Broadway in New York City one year prior to the current time line. Yukiko also attended Sharon's funeral. Yukiko is currently aware that Sharon and Chris are the same person and a member of the Black Organization who had tried to kill her son earlier.
Shinichi Kudo
Vermouth, as Sharon Vineyard, knew Shinichi Kudo since he was young through her friendship with Yukiko. After Shinichi helped Ran save Vermouth's life in New York while she was disguised as a serial killer, she nicknames him "Cool guy". Vermouth later becomes one of the few characters who know Conan is Shinichi.
Ran Mouri
Vermouth, as Sharon Vineyard, met Ran Mouri through the Kudo family. After Ran saved Vermouth's life in New York City, Vermouth nicknames Ran "Angel".
Sohei Dejima
- See: Bathroom Murder Case
Sohei Dejima, age 54, was Haibara's father's childhood playmate. He hasn't seen Atsushi Miyano for thirty years, which means they were friends until their twenties. He has lived in the house that Professor Miyano inherited from his father (Haibara's grandfather) for thirty years. Professor Miyano and his wife Elena stopped by after Akemi was 4 or 5 years old (and they were in the organization) to tell Dejima something important but Dejima was out so he never got to say what it was. Sohei Dejima was being watched by the Black Organization at that time. Akemi came back as an adult to hide tapes left by Haibara's mother for Shiho in the toilet, and afterwards the Black Organization came to investigate secretly. Sohei Dejima was killed by Tetsuo Imai, one of his office designers unrelated to the Black Organization.
Wataru Date
Wataru Date was a close friend of Rei Furuya while they were in police academy together. Rei was the top-ranked student, while Date held second place. While Date went on to become an officer, Rei went somewhere else, probably the Secret Police or the Black Organization, and fell out of contact with Date. Date's last text to Rei asked him where he was and chided Rei to communicate once in a while. After discovering his old friend was dead, Rei visited Date's grave, and left a toothpick out of respect for Date.
Kyosuke Senma
Kyosuke Senma (千間 恭介 Senma Kyōsuke) was an archeologist of a village who Renya Karasuma, the boss, invited to his Sunset Manor forty years ago. He wanted Senma to find the treasure before he died of old age. It was a very well-paid job. His wife and daughter Furuyo received large sums of money, along with a letter from him, almost every day. But after six months, the money and letters suddenly stopped coming. Senma, who had never given their his address, vanished forever. After becoming a famous detective, his daughter only found out the truth when she held his last letter, which she had kept as a memento, against a light. He had written a secret note by poking tiny holes in the paper left for her with a needle. He recorded the riddle of the treasure and wrote that many other scholars had been invited to the manor. He also wrote that Karasuma had begun to kill those scholars, one by one, as a warning to the others, and that even if he found the treasure, he too would be killed. She didn't tell the police about it because it was twenty years after the fact, when Karasuma had already passed on. Presumably a victim of his treasure hunting fanaticism, Senma did solve the riddle, and left a clue about it in a note letters written in blood on the piano, revealed with luminol in the dark, and Karasuma never activated the device clock because never knew the answer to the riddle. His old daughter hasn't never met Karasuma[14] and was arrested for Shukuzen Ogami's planned murder.
Extended Canon
Yakub (ヤクブ Yakubu) is the ambitious uncle of Latoona, the princess of Panasunugara, a fictional poor country in the African Savannah.
UCAR Inc.
UCAR Inc. (ユーカル社 Yūkaru-sha) is a company run by the Black Organization which corrupts Yakub.
Kazuki Honjou
- See: The Raven Chaser
Kazuki Honjou (本上 和樹 Honjō Kazuki) is a certified public accountant in Funabashi, Chiba, and the serial killer who murdered their minor agent Masaaki Okakura for revenge of his younger sister Nanako's death entirely unrelated to the Black Organization. Without knowing it, he has taken away the amulet bag with a memory card listing their complete agents that have infiltrated various organizations, that Masaaki obtained it possibly as insurance. The boss orders his men to retrieve the memory card before the police catch the culprit and look into the database. He didn't turn himself in, so was unmasked by Conan and defeated by Irish. As confirmed by his sister's boyfriend, he'll get a death sentence for seven planned murders, so the Black Organization decided to not kill his parents and let the police take care of him.
Kiyonaga Matsumoto
Kiyonaga Matsumoto, as a superintendent of the Tokyo Metropolitan Police, was kidnapped by the Black Organization under their boss' order, so Irish could disguise as him and infiltrate the police department.
Latoona (ラトゥーナ Rato~ūna) is the Princess of Panasunugara, a fictional poor country in the African Savannah.
Eva Port
Eva Port (エヴァポルト Evu~a Poruto) is a foreign child idol.
Acquaintances of individual Black Organization members
- ^ Shinichi is the first victim according to Gin: "We'll use this, the new poison the Organization developed. You can't find any signs of poison on the body with this stuff. We haven't tested it on humans yet, so this'll be our little guinea pig".
- ^ Thanks to DCTP's Fujiwara for the name translations.
- ^ Later anime episode version of the list provided the first three characters and showed the name as "佐藤 和江". This was contradicted later by the manga in file 1005, where the first three Kanji were replaced.
- ^ Muneo Arimune (有宗 宗男 ) in episode 129 of the anime only, this was fixed in a later episode.
- ^ Later anime episode version of the list provided the first character. The manga showed the first character had a less-than-full-height 厶 radical thus making the name ?-saka, ?-zaka (e.g. Hirosaka/Kosaka 広坂, Matsusaka/Matsuzaka 松坂, Densaka 伝坂).
- ^ a b c d e f Used by Viz
- ^ a b c d e f g Used in the anime.
- ^ Yoshio Ōishi (大石 良雄 ) in the anime.
- ^ This name was not included in Viz's translation.
- ^ a b Used in the manga.
- ^ Masahiro Nomoto (野本 昌浩 ) in the anime.
- ^ Final character is 美 in the anime version.
- ^ Source of disks is volume 18, chapter 9, page 12 (English online fan translation).
- ^ Detective Conan SDB Black Plus (2018)