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5.3 million pax of China Golden Week Holiday, Korean Air expects 3Q2009 profitability
The CAAC reported that Chinese carrier transported 5.3 million passengers during the 'Golden Week' holiday in China (between 28-Sep-2009 and 08-Oct-2009), a 22% year-on-year increase (although this included one extra day from 2008). Load factors averaged 72.5% in the period, a 1.5 ppt reduction.
China Southern Airlines reported an 11% increase in passenger numbers in Sep-2009. Cargo volumes were up by a greater rate (+25%), due to double-digit domestic growth, while passenger load factors slipped 4.0 ppts to 72.6%.
On Friday, shares in Hainan Airlines, China Eastern, Air China and China Southern all gained, rising 4.7%, 2.4%, 0.4% and 0.4%, respectively. Shanghai Airlines' shares remained unchanged, while in Hong Kong, Cathay Pacific's shares were up 3.5%, for the fourth consecutive day, as the market continues to react positively to news that load factors are improving.
China Eastern and Shanghai Airlines one step closer to joint restructure with shareholder approvals
Meanwhile, China Eastern Airlines and Shanghai Airlines shareholders approved the first joint restructuring plan involving two listed companies in China's civil aviation history on 09-Oct-2009. The approval marks the completion of all internal legal proceedings related to the joint restructuring, with the plan now awaiting approval from the China Securities Regulatory Commission (CSRC).
In other positive news for the Chinese airlines, China's National Development and Reform Commission stated it would reduce the price of aviation fuel from 11-Oct-2009, although no details on the scale of the reductions were provided.
Korean Air expects 3Q2009 profitability, but facing pressure from LCCs in the domestic market
Also in North Asia, Korean Air's shares gained 1.3% on Friday, as the carrier stated it expects to report an operating profit of USD163.3 million in 3Q2009. Also during the quarter, the carrier handled 3.7 million international passengers, a 8% year-on-year gain, with cargo volume also up in the quarter (+2% to 253,700 tonnes).
However, domestically the carrier is facing greater competition from the country's four major LCCs - Jin Air, Air Busan, Jeu Air and Eastar Jet – who had a combined domestic market share of 31.1% in 3Q2009, up from 9.7% in 3Q2008 and from 20.8% and 25.8%, in 1Q2009 and 2Q2009, respectively.
Qantas expecting business demand to eventually return
Qantas' shares were up 2.4% on Friday. CEO, Alan Joyce, stated he expects premium demand to eventually return, stating, "the business market will return, and when it does return you could easily see in a couple of years' time the bulk of our profitability being made through the Qantas brands again…I think [the Business market] does have a life, and after the end of every recession people have called the market as being dead and it's never been the case".
Fuel reprise for Indian carriers?
In India, Kingfisher's shares slipped 3.4%, while Jet Airways and SpiceJet rose 1.0% and 1.6%, respectively, for gains of 23%, 66% and 44% over the past month.
In a positive development for the carriers, India's Finance Ministry is reportedly in favour of a proposal to allow the import of aviation turbine fuel (ATF) under open general licence. If accepted, the recommendation would provide respite to airline companies, as it would reduce the price of ATF, which constitutes 40-45% of the airlines' operating costs.
Asia Pacific selected airlines daily share price movements (% change): 11-Oct-09

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In the historical dimension, there is still discrimination between birth and death, and this and the other. But when you go deeper, all these notions just disappear and you touch the nature of no birth and no death, no coming and no going, no being and no non-being. You are free from all notions. And that is nirvana. That is the state of coolness. Nirvana, the philosophical term, the spiritual term has come from the daily talking of the presence. In the morning, when you make a breakfast for your husband, you should gather some sticks in order to make fire. And the fire of yesterday may have died completely, so when you touch the ash, it's cooled and does not burn your finger anymore. So, nirvana is the state of coolness, not burning.
And the Buddha used the word, Nirvana, to talk about the state of no afflictions. Because afflictions like anger, fear, despair, they are burning us. They make us suffer. When we are able to remove all these afflictions, we are in the state of cooling. Nirvana is cooling, the cooling down. Because afflictions like fear, anger, despair, they are burning, that is why we suffer. And why we have these afflictions? Because of our way of looking at the world. Because we have notions of fear. Because we have notions of birth and death, being and non-being, me and you as separate entities. We use our mind of discrimination. We are caught by many notions, including the notions of subject and object, matter and mind. That is why afflictions arise. Once we are able to remove all these notions, including birth and death, being and non-being, and then all these afflictions have no cloud in order to be born and we are free. So, nirvana is freedom. And first, freedom of notions.
And in order to reach nirvana, you can not use your mind of discrimination. And the modern science begins to see that. There are scientists who say that quantum mechanics is dealing with nature as she is. And that is absurd. She is absurd. Quantum mechanics is dealing with nature as she is. It means absurd. Because we thought that it is here, it can be both here and there. We thought that it is wave but it may be something else like particle. Why? Because we are using a kind of mind. That can not touch the ultimate. In classical science, we have notions and ways. We believe that the reality can be independent from our mind. Whether we are there or not, nature is the same. Maybe in modern physics, we don't think like that anymore. We think reality is a function of mind. Mind is linked with reality in such a way that you can not take mind out of reality and you can not take reality out of mind. And modern science begins to see that object and subject, they can not be taken apart. They inter-are. Without this, the other one can not be.
So, the mind that we use in the historical dimension is called in Buddhism the discriminative mind. The Chinese word is "分別智". It's good for classical science. But it's no longer good enough for modern science. The Sanscrit word is "vikalpajnana". "jnana" means wisdom and "vikalpa" means discrimination. The mind of discrimination. We have to distinguish with between birth and death. Birth and death are two different things. We have to distinguish between left and right. They are different things. A rose is a rose. A rose can not be clouds. A rose can not be the sunshine. And our discriminative mind is based on the principle of identity. A can only be A. (A=A) A rose can only be a rose. A rose can not be something else. A human being can only be a human being. A human being can not be a plant or animal or mineral. And that is the mind of discrimination. And with that mind of discrimination, we can not touch the ultimate dimension.
And that modern science begins to see, to feel it. And that is why using the mind of discrimination, they find nature absurd. And that is why in Buddhism, we should use another kind of mind in order to approach the ultimate dimension, in order to touch nirvana. But the ultimate dimension is not something apart from the daily life. What we touch in the historical dimension contains nirvana. And you touch them deeply enough, and then mind of non-discrimination, and then nirvana is available in the here and the now. You don't have to go and look for it elsewhere. And that kind of mind is called the "nirvikalpajnana". The mind of non-discrimination. And when you train yourself to use that kind of mind, you don't suffer anymore because you can touch the ultimate dimension. You touch the reality as it is. And no longer are mental constructions.
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The reality in the historical dimension for ego (separate self) is the relative truth, conventional truth. It's not too much to say that Albert Einstein explained it through his theory of general relativity. Albert Einstein's theory of general relativity is the principle in the historical dimension based on the duality. On the other hand, the reality in the ultimate dimension is the ultimate truth which transcends the duality. It is nirvana based on the non-duality. Only awareness (Buddha nature, Divine nature) can dwell in the ultimate dimension which has no space and time. That's because awareness is nature, not matter. Awareness can dwell in the phenomenal world and in the noumenal world at the same time because awareness transcends the space and time. If we (ego) attain the full enlightenment, awareness revives and we (awareness) can live in mindfulness 24 hours a day and will never return to ego (separate self).
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Renowned for its horological mastery and its creative talent, Jaeger-LeCoultre now wishes to share the fruits of its expertise with a broader public. This is why it is introducing an original collection with a pure, uncluttered design, driven by a new Haute Horlogerie calibre encapsulating the inventive spirit of the Manufacture. Geophysic® line reveals its gripping story, so that we can better tell our own. The first glance reveals a clean-cut design that is the epitome of elegance and equilibrium. Each model in the Geophysic® line features several layers of meaning. It gradually unleashes a powerful and innovative horological content expressed through classic characteristics. This refined and contemporary creation asserts its masculine nature in a number of subtle ways. The collection is named after a watch that belongs both to universal history and to the heritage of the Manufacture. In 1958, the International Geophysical Year, Jaeger-LeCoultre created a chronometer for scientists on mission. Capable of withstanding the magnetic fields of the North Pole while losing nothing of its formidable precision, its overriding characteristic was extreme resistance. Whether in True Second® or Universal Time versions, the Geophysic® conveys a constant intensity.
It cultivates an attitude entirely in tune with the times. The message of the Geophysic® is one of simplicity and complexity co-existing in perfect harmony. The movements driving the Geophysic® collection, automatic Jaeger-LeCoultre Calibres 770 and 772, are synonymous with high precision and mechanical beauty. These calibres called upon the talents of the most highly specialised engineers of the Research & Development division within the Manufacture. The strength of their expertise and their imagination drives their authentic capacity for innovation. The latter is in this instance expressed by an atypical balance wheel featuring a non-circular configuration that required lengthy research in order to reduce air friction. Named the Gyrolab®, this device was initially developed in a laboratory version back in 2007 to equip the Master Compressor Extreme Lab 1 watch. It took eight years to transition from this confidential version to one that could be incorporated into an entire watch line. Geophysic® is the first collection to enjoy the full benefits of this key breakthrough and its determining influence on the precision of the watch.
Refinement and discernment
Nothing that Jaeger-LeCoultre does is governed by exclusively external considerations. This is demonstrated by the case of the Geophysic® True Second® watch which measures exactly 39.6 millimetres, an elegant and reassuring diameter confirming its cultural roots in the field of Haute Horlogerie, and the choice of which was determined by a quest to find the perfect size enabling the watch to express perfect harmony. Geophysic® explores the subtle nuances of contemporary classicism, reinforced by the traditional hands reflecting the codes of the Vallée de Joux as well as the linear hour-markers. The design of the case in turn reveals another facet of its personality through finishes worthy of the most precious Jaeger-LeCoultre models. The lugs do not meet the case middle with a gentle curve, but rather with a decisive angle expressing strength and confidence.
For Jaeger-LeCoultre, mechanical performance is meaningless if it is not matched by beauty. At first glance, the calibre reveals its relationship to the characteristic line of automatic movements from the Grande Maison. The gaze then becomes aware of the more generous volumes, and of the construction whose effectiveness is expressed on the dial by a pleasantly rhythmical reading of the seconds.
This specific expertise, which has been mastered by the Maison since the 19th century, testifies to the authentic instrument-worthy nature of the Geophysic®.
The true second
This precision is also expressed by the true seconds system that causes the seconds hand to move forwards while "beating the second", meaning by performing a jump every second. This is no ordinary feat for a mechanical movement, and one that does not disturb the smooth running of the watch.
True seconds mechanism involves an extremely sophisticated construction whose effectiveness is expressed on the dial by a pleasantly rhythmical reading of the seconds. This specific expertise, which has been mastered by the Maison since the 19th century, testifies to the authentic instrument-worthy nature of the Geophysic®.
Jaeger-LeCoultre Calibre 770
They deliver a degree of reliability and precision certified by the rigorous "1000 Hours Control" that Jaeger-LeCoultre is the only Manufacture to implement. Despite the sophisticated nature of these mechanisms, they are both functional and easily adjustable by merely positioning the crown. Here, Jaeger-LeCoultre transposes the philosophy of the namesake historical model into a resolutely contemporary watch.
Reference Q801 25 20 Case: pink gold, Ø 39.6 mm, 11.7 mm thick. Dial: silver-toned, grained, applied hour-markers. Hands: baton-type, enhanced with Super-Luminova®. Movement: mechanical automatic Jaeger-LeCoultre Calibre 770, 40-hour power reserve, 28,800 vibrations per hour, 275 components. Functions: hours, minutes, true seconds, date. Strap: alligator leather, pin buckle. Water resistance: 5 bar.


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MrsL and I have had some incredible days, nights, and weekends over our 27 years of marriage. This past weekend was truly the weekend that was: sexy, erotic, challenging, scary, and rewarding. I apologize now for the wordiness of this post and be warned it is not all about chastity and kink.
Let's start with the non kinky weekend that was first.
It is getting down to the last few days for 25 in his safe cocooned away from the real world treatment center. I must admit that MrsL and I are very worried and nervous about him leaving there. However, we know and understand this is a crucial step for him. It is just he has done a complete 180 degree turn on his aftercare plan!
For the past 10 weeks we were operating under the belief he would move in to a sober living house somewhere other than back near us and all of the people, places, and things he knew as an addict. As I wrote about last week, briefly, he now is obsessed with going back to finish his degree back at the school he transferred to 2 years ago. That SCARES us completely. I guess going to Nar Anon Family Group meetings have had a positive impact on my peace of mind. I am scared but I am accepting that this is his recovery and all I can do is be there to offer my moral support.
So he is at home for a few days on an "extended therapeutic leave" to hammer out all of the details. We went with him to the sober living program he wants to move into next week and was pleasantly surprised. I left there with a new found peace of mind that he is taking this seriously. One of the men living in this sober living program is an "alum" of 25's treatment center. The treatment center offers a "relapse prevention therapy week" and this guy had done his three weeks ago and met 25. This guy said something to us and the soon to be director (let's calm him Bear because he is a mountain of a man with a full beard, a certified licensed addiction counselor, and the heart of a teddy bear) of the program here about 25 as we left that made my heart happy. He told Bear that he would only stay if 25 was put in his apartment because of all the men he met three weeks ago 25 was by far the most serious about his recovery! I nearly broke down right there hearing that statement!
Then last night, with much trepidation, MrsL took him to meet the young lady who had been supplying his heroin last summer, before she got arrested and spent 3 months in jail for a 3rd shoplifting arrest, and had been "clean" for 10 months. We will call her Alex. They were going to go to a young adult NA meeting and Alex was then going to bring him home. I was petrified until 25 and Alex walked in the door. I have never seen two people more excited about sobriety and meeting like minded people. 25 said they were late because he and Alex had every intention of scurrying right out the door as soon as the meeting was over; however, they were each surrounded by guys and girls respectively and welcomed to the group officially. 25 met three guys going to his university that have offered to get him to/from campus and be his support (not sponsor) but sober friends. Alex met several young women who did the same. So I slept much better last night. It is still going to be a long road but I know he is on the right path. Oh, and even Bear told MrsL and I that he should find a meeting close to his sober living apartment and this one is close.
He and MrsL have more appointments today at his school and a Relapse Prevention Program before she takes him back for his last week on Wednesday.
The weekend was challenging in that my Dad called distraught because he had to read in the local paper my younger brother had been arrested for driving without a license (which means he has already been convicted of a dui) and possession. Apparently he is using meth! I've long since detached from my sister and brother because they are both dead beats. After Mom died my sister started seeing a woman that got her mixed up in pills and doctor shopping and my brother had steadily became a lazy unmotivated slug. Both have been leaching off of Dad and he had finally cut them off completely. To hear my Dad upset because of those two angers me to no end. I'm just glad he cut them off.
20 is doing great. He is getting an intro into management at his pool that will serve him well in his young career. Oh, and lots of overtime!
Okay, now for the salacious times in between everything else.
So as I posted Saturday morning, MrsL gave me some pretty specific instructions for when I woke up Satuday and I followed them without exception. I've written about the magic bullet shot a few times as it is awesome…with one exception…if you hit a vein! Not painful but the medicine which intended to be intermuscular goes into the blood stream and is nowhere near as effective. Oh and there is the little issue of blood rushing to that area. It leaves a nasty bruise that is still there today. Needless to say, MrsL still got what she wanted and boy was it different that what I thought!
Even with applying the shot incorrectly, MrsL still had over an hour to implement her devious little plan. She allowed me inside her warm wet pussy the forbade me to move. She milked her cock with her vaginal muscles. Holy crap it was erotic! Every time I whimpered I was close to having an orgasm she would stop flexing while demanding I look at her without breaking eye contact and reminding me I was not allowed to cum. She did this 5 or 6 times before she pushed me off of her, tied me to the bed, then sucked and stroked me to three orgasms. I have never been so hypersensitive.
The first orgasm was pure ecstasy. The second orgasm was sensory overload. Bucking and thrashing against the restraints was all I could manage as she stroked and giggled the entire time. (Oh and did I mention the nasty bruising effect of screwing up the location of the shot…I felt it every stroke)!
After taking a quick break to capture the cum pooling all over my chest so I could lick her hands clean she went for the third time . The third orgasm was, and I thought I would never say this, torturous! Three orgasms in less than about 10 minutes is a record. As she watched what little ejaculate remaining in my body oozed from her semi hard cock she commented: I think I like using the shot like this! Moments later I was untied and begging to give her orgasms and was denied.
Nope, I need to know you really want me…plus…we have things to do. You can stay unlocked as I might want to play with my cock some more today.
Thinking back on the it was the absolute bliss. The look on her face as she was draining my balls the third time was addicting. A great kind of addiction!
Stay tuned for the rest of the weekend that was.


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I got a nice sun tan today. I set off early, but then lost track of time. Yep, that sunnies mark on the side of my face. And one better, nice arms - but what's with the white hands? Riding gloves. Not a good look.
Hugging the coast from Goolwa to Victor Harbor, the 31km Encounter Bikeway follows bike paths, back roads and foot paths. A brochure is available from the Victor Harbor website.
I had ridden the bikeway before, but only from the bridge at Goolwa to the causeway at Victor Harbor. Today I rode the whole trail, some 7-8km longer, and then I rode back as well - last time I only rode one way. I rode 63km.
The trail is well sign-posted, except for in Port Elliot. I got lost going both ways, even with a map, there are a few signs missing at critical junctions in the town. The bike paths are the best bits to ride on, I think, and on the roads along the coast. Some of the roads inland are just houses and more houses, both old and crusty and contemporary new homes.
Riding back was quicker, because I didn't stop much except for 10 minutes to each some lunch, and I had a tail wind. Also, no photos on the way back.
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|Goolwa to Victor
|Return ride
|Distance: 32.2km
|Distance: 31.2km
|Start time: 8:50am
|Start time: 11:25am
|End time: 11:25am
|End time: 1:20pm
|Moving duration: 2h 05m
|Moving duration: 1h 35m
|Stationary duration: 30m
|Stationary duration: 20m
|Moving average: 15.4km/h
|Moving average: 19.6km/h
|Overall average: 12.7km/h
|Overall average: 16.2km/h
|Max speed: 35.7km/h
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Paradise Alley? Shampoo First Fridays? Heat on Sundays? Perhaps you've seen these fliers. Over the past ten year, Chris Hunter (aka Simply Christopher) has produced social events and parties for Philadelphia's LGBT community. And if you've seen his promotion fliers, you know the art work of Spenser Michaels. I recently walked by a community center in West Philly branding his art.
Here is a small sample of party fliers (side 1) from Simply Christopher Events with the artwork of Spenser Michaels.


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COMMERCIAL GENERAL LIABILITY INSURANCE covers liability exposures of an organization which includes defense costs. It is a combination of three separate coverages, each with its own insuring agreement and exclusions:
- Coverage A = general liability which includes bodily injury and property damage;
- Coverage B = personal injury and advertising injury liability; and
- Coverage C = medical payments.
Coverage for premises and products-completed operations is part of the typical form.
COMMERCIAL PROPERTY INSURANCE covers direct loss or damage to an organization's property, such as buildings or business personal property. It can also include coverage for indirect loss. Several endorsements are available to tailor the coverage to your organization's specific needs.
BUSINESS AUTO POLICY (BAP) provides liability coverage for your organization (including bodily injury and property damage) and physical damage coverage caused by an accident arising out of the ownership or use of an insured motor vehicle.
WORKERS' COMPENSATION AND EMPLOYERS' LIABILITY INSURANCE The first part of the policy covers expenses an employer is mandated to pay by state statute to cover specific benefits for employee injuries. The second part protects employers from employee-related suits that are separate from Workers' Compensation claims.
UMBRELLA LIABILITY INSURANCE provides excess coverage over several primary policies, such as the general liability, auto liability and employers liability. Increases the amount of liability insurance beyond that of the basic policies carried and reaches out to cover areas of unknown exposures lacking in the basic insurance policy.
PROFESSIONAL LIABILITY COVERAGE, also known as malpractice coverage or errors and omissions (E&O) coverage, covers liability for damages arising from the rendering of or failure to render professional services. Coverage includes defense costs.
- Directors' & Officers' Liability Insurance (D&O) provides coverage against wrongful acts which might include actual or alleged errors, omissions, mismanagement, neglect or breach of duty on the part of the board of directors and other insured persons and entities. Non-profit boards also have exposure from these types of claims. Coverage includes defense costs.
- Employee Benefits Liability (EBL) covers errors and omissions in the administration of the insured's employee benefits such as health insurance or pension benefits.
- Employment Practices Liability Insurance (EPLI or EPL) covers lawsuits brought by employees (past, present or prospects) against the insured employer, alleging such things as wrongful discharge, discrimination, or certain types of harassment. Coverage includes defense costs.
INLAND MARINE COVERAGE, also known as a floater policy, insures special property, such as computers, contractor's equipment and fine arts at an agreed amount.
FLOOD INSURANCE provides coverage for direct loss or damage by flood to buildings and their contents . In areas declared eligible by the Federal Insurance Administrator, we can arrange for insurance directly with the National Flood Insurance Program or with a participating insurance company.


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A daily papercrafting blog which features my handmade cards showcasing Creative Expression's products including my own line of cutting dies and embossing folders, Cosmic Shimmer, Ranger and more which use various techniques and ideas to hopefully inspire the creativity in you.
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Wednesday, 24 July 2019
All The Best
52 comments:
- hazel young said...
Beautiful card Sue xx Hazel
- 24 July 2019 at 06:00
- firstname.lastname@example.com said...
Morning Sue.
Thank you a beautiful card.
Take care and have fun Kitty.
- 24 July 2019 at 06:02
- Barbara Gosden said...
Hi Sue
A beautiful card. Not too girlie so would work as a card for the guys.
B xx
- 24 July 2019 at 06:10
- Vi Wilkinson said...
Hi Sue, beautiful card, I just love the Millie die, she is just so pretty and versatile . Take care . Vi x
- 24 July 2019 at 06:19
- Marion Scott said...
Hello Sue, a beautiful card , love the combination of dies
Marion S x
- 24 July 2019 at 06:21
- BridgetCG said...
Hello Sue, a lovely card, the colours reminding me of the sort of tiling and paving you find in Greece. Have a great day everyone. Bx
- 24 July 2019 at 06:22
- June Smith said...
Morning Sue and all Wilsonettes, what a stunner this one is today, love it, I know it is a big card but you could use the inside to make a smaller card without the 3d outside if you wanted. brilliant.
Stay safe, healthy and happy, hugs, June Smith xxx
- 24 July 2019 at 06:28
- carol edwards said...
Wow Sue this is a beautiful stunning card. Real contrast of colours and patterns with the dies. Really pretty too xx
- 24 July 2019 at 06:33
- Steph Cotterill said...
Morning Sue. There's not much to say apart from that this is such a powerful but gorgeous sample, one of hundreds that you upload throughout the year that make us go "wow" as it shows itself. Stunning Sue absolutely stunning xxx
- 24 July 2019 at 06:41
I know I'm early today, but everyone has said
it all, lovely card,
Doreen x
- 24 July 2019 at 06:58
- Catherine Lyons said...
Morning Sue
A beautiful card and lovely combination of colours.
Catherine v94
- 24 July 2019 at 07:00
- Janice K said...
Good morning Sue,
Tina makes a great frame for a pretty centrepiece. Beautiful. X
- 24 July 2019 at 07:01
Hello Sue
This is the sort of card that you can make in advance then add the finishing touches when needed. I just wish I was that organised
- 24 July 2019 at 07:14
- CraftyCoffey said...
Gorgeous card today, love the colour combination.
- 24 July 2019 at 07:24
Good morning Sue.
My favourite type of card today Sue. The beautiful mix of colours that really stands out and makes a statement. More to add to my Wish List.
Thank you Sue.
Marie P.
- 24 July 2019 at 07:38
- karenlotty said...
Beautiful! I love how you've used Tina as a background I will definitely be trying that out
- 24 July 2019 at 07:42
- Ann Topp said...
Good Morning Sue. Ohhh you have used my favourite lady for this mornings offering...I love Millie...I bought her as soon as she came...and I just love her...she always reminds me of Wedgwood. Beautiful card this morning Sue. Thankyou. Sending hugs and best wishes to everyone. Kind regards Ann Toppcards Leeds.
- 24 July 2019 at 07:46
- Muriel said...
Hello Sue and all
Oh Millie is so beautiful, yes just as Anne said, had to have her as soon as she was released and is such a favourite. I am still waiting to get back to my craft room, plaster is off but still very sore, lots of physio but Millie is one of the first dies I will be making a bee line for. The colours are gorgeous too.
Thank you Sue,
Muriel x
- 24 July 2019 at 07:55
Morning Sue, Yes, you've done it again; given us another of your 'specials'. I challenge anyone to criticise this card.
Can you tell? I love this card. Hugs xx Pauline
- 24 July 2019 at 08:10
- lydia jordan said...
Morning Sue,
Another glorious card.
- 24 July 2019 at 08:21
- June Horrocks said...
I got Millie die as a gift over used it so much the colours you have used are brill sue your card is stunning
Thank you love always
June Horrocks xxxxx
- 24 July 2019 at 08:24
- Anne said...
Love the colour combination you have used here, Sue. Beautiful card.
Anne (Northampton)
- 24 July 2019 at 08:25
Good morning Sue,
A beautiful card & colour combination that makes your card stand out.Yvonne xx
- 24 July 2019 at 08:57
- Princess Pixie! said...
Hi Sue
Love it - striking card x
Running late and on my way out x
Crafty hugs x
Yvonne x
- 24 July 2019 at 09:15
- Tressa said...
Lovely card, nice colour combination.
- 24 July 2019 at 09:27
- theresa w said...
Hi Sue and lovely wilsonettes x
Fabulous card Sue x I love the millie die she is so pretty x the colours you have chosen are gorgeous x thankyou Sue x
Theresa w in Berks xxx
- 24 July 2019 at 09:29
- Helen Terry said...
Hi Sue lovely card and dies, blue and white is so fresh and crisp. Thanks Helen . Xxx
- 24 July 2019 at 10:03
Hi Sue, yet another stunning creation. The colours and design are suitable for anyone. Thank you. WakeyL
- 24 July 2019 at 10:11
- ursula said...
Like the cobalt blue, black and white together, really makes Millie stand out in the centre, beautiful card...thank you Sue...luv Ursula xx
- 24 July 2019 at 10:23
- Fluffycat said...
Hi Sue, a lovely card that reminds me very much of the tiles you would find around a Victorian fireplace (which I love to see) and the colours are perfect.
- 24 July 2019 at 10:52
- Pat L said...
Hi Sue
Stunning card, love the colours and Millie is on my must-have list
Love and hugs to everyone
- 24 July 2019 at 11:13
- Jackie T said...
Hi Sue this is a stunning card. I just love how you have used the dies. Take care. Hugs Jackie
- 24 July 2019 at 11:23
- Crafty Cruiser said...
Beautiful all occasion, any gender card - gorgeous!
Doreen R
- 24 July 2019 at 11:49
- Marianna Hammer said...
A very classical card. Beautiful
- 24 July 2019 at 11:50
- Lisbeth said...
Hi Sue. What a very smart looking card, probably because you have used blue and white. Love the way you have made the background.
- 24 July 2019 at 12:02
- CraftyJo said...
Very nice :)
- 24 July 2019 at 12:29
Today's offering is lovely and dramatic. I especially like the center square with the Millie die. You made me smile today as I was reading your write-up on this card. I like that you shared your train of thought into creating this design. Thank you for sharing. Hugs
- 24 July 2019 at 14:25
This is a very regal looking card Sue. Love the colors you have chosen and the Millie die is the show stopper!!
- 24 July 2019 at 16:34
Hi Sue, lovely card today. Love the colours too.
Barbara V
- 24 July 2019 at 17:58
- Suemac said...
A beautiful card
- 24 July 2019 at 18:47
Lovely card, it works well using the cobalt & black together. Almost has a Wedgwood look to the centre. Thank you Sue.
- 24 July 2019 at 19:48
- Maria said...
Hi Sue
Beautiful card, gorgeous colours together.
hugs to all,
Maria x
- 24 July 2019 at 19:51
- Laura O said...
Beautiful card sue. Every element of this card is fantastic. Laura O Springfield
- 24 July 2019 at 20:04
Hi Sue,
Card is fabulous. But so are the dies you've used. Colour choice is also beautiful.
- 24 July 2019 at 20:33
- Lynne L said...
Hi Sue Beautiful card with such a lovely combination of dies
- 24 July 2019 at 22:25
- Betty McAlister said...
A beautiful card Sue, love the mix of dies and colours xx
- 24 July 2019 at 23:12
- cr@fty said...
Hi Sue
I was poorly today so only now catching up with your post. It's so gorgeous and in beautiful colours.
Hugs x
Heather T
- 25 July 2019 at 08:10
- sued99 said...
I love this card. It's so striking and Millie is so pretty. X
- 25 July 2019 at 09:37
- Seafield Jo said...
I love everything about this card, gorgeous dies and great colours, will definitely be giving this a go.
Jo x
- 26 July 2019 at 22:27
- DeCor said...
Quite stunning colours. Love the background a great contrast to the focal center
- 27 July 2019 at 06:13
- June Ballenger said...
I love this card the colours Cobalt is just stunning xx
- 27 July 2019 at 23:00
- Dawn Holben said...
I am mesmerised by that background, i just love it and love looking at it.
This is one stunning card x
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For our fifth anniversary, we're doing a fun feature with some of our long time subscribers. They'll each be sharing a bit about themselves and what they love about Studio Calico. We also asked each of them to issue a challenge to our design team - we'd love to see YOU take their challenges as well. Check the bottom of the post for more information! Thank you to these fabulous ladies for taking the time to help us out with our party!!
Say hello to : Kimber-Leigh Drown (you'll find her on the message boards / gallery as Kimber-Leigh)
She blogs at : http://new-everymorning.blogspot.com
Her favorite kit : Such a tough question. Brooklyn Flea or Boardwalk. But my most used kit ever is Bibliography. (Looks like I have a thing for "B" names!) I sometimes have a hard time using the kits I'm most excited about!
Her favorite SC line : Autumn Press, by far. Autumn is my favorite season, and I love how this collection mixes such great colors that work well for the season as well as both girls & boys (since I have both!) And those bookplates are one of my favorite SC products.
Tell us a little bit about you & why you love SC : Hi! I'm Kimber-Leigh, and as the wife of my wonderful Air Force pilot, I have lived in NC, TX, OK, and now Northern Virginia. Home is wherever the five of us are together, but when people ask me, Asheville, NC is where we're from. I start each morning with a cup of Earl Grey tea, and I spend my days homeschooling our three children (aged 8, 6, & 4). As a former high school English teacher, history and literature are my favorite subjects to teach, but I think, so far, my children enjoy math the most! By afternoon, you may find me blogging, scrapbooking, reading, writing, or crafting with my kiddos! In the evenings, I enjoy cooking, reading as a family, and relaxing with a good movie, a bowl of popcorn, & my sweet husband.
I have been an SC subscriber since kit # 3 "In Session" and have never looked back. In addition to the beautiful kits that first caught my eye, there were three things that drew me to Studio Calico from the very beginning: the warm community on the message board, the site design, and the quality of customer service. These four things continue to impress me. I think I am most excited each month to see the exclusive products and stamps in the kits and to learn the kit names. I LOVE the kit names! Thanks SC for five amazing years!
Her favorite project made with SC : let's go fly a kite - Summer Camp
Kimber-Leigh's challenge to the design team : Use something old, a stamp that's new, something borrowed (scraplift, using a former SC design team member's gallery for inspiration) and washi that's blue.
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The upper reaches of the Danube River, which begins in Germany and flows through ten countries before ultimately spilling into the Black Sea, has long been one of the most popular river cruise routes in the world. Now, thanks to high demand from curious cruise-goers and ease in access to a host of Eastern European countries, the Lower Danube is opening up to tourism. To experience as much of the region as possible, consider a seven-day sailing on the Scenic Black Sea Explorer, which cruises between Bucharest, Romania, and Budapest, Hungary—stopping at off-the-beaten path port cities in Bulgaria, Serbia, and eastern Croatia along the way.
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Dubrovnik's grand dame—the c. 1913 waterfront Hotel Excelsior—reopened in June 2017 following a seven-month renovation, in which interiors were modernized with reclaimed woods and understated earth-tone furnishings while the exterior was impeccably restored to its century-old original form. (Over the years, the hotel has hosted the likes of Queen Elizabeth II, Elizabeth Taylor, and Princess Caroline of Monaco.) Don't miss a daytime cocktail at Abakus Piano Bar and Terrace, which overlooks the Adriatic Sea and Dubrovnik's majestic old city walls (easily recognizable from Game of Thrones).
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A natural crossroads of mountain and sea, Montenegro's seaboard combines medieval fortresses and Roman ruins with picturesque villages, pink-sand beaches, and sparkling blue water. Make a beeline for the most exquisite swathe of Montenegrin coastline, Sveti Stefan, and live like a modern-day royal at the former royal residence of Queen Marija Karadordevic, Villa Milocer at Aman Sveti Stefan resort. (Alternatively, head past the water's edge and cross the bridge to stay on the resort's namesake island, a stunning 50 rooms built in the existing houses of a 15th-century fishing village.) In either case, eat like a king or queen in the bona fide, lost-in-time fishing village, Pržno, due south of the greater Aman estate. Here, half-dozen waterfront restaurants serve daily catch for dinner—typically in the form of massive calamari rings, langoustines, mussels, and tuna. (You can even watch the fishing boats reeling in these fruits of the sea.) Book ahead at our favorite, no-frills seafood house, Restaurant Konoba Langust.
Transylvania gets its fair share of tourists in search of "Dracula's Castle," but the real gem of this region is lesser known—and infrequently visited—Castelul Corvinilor or Corvin Castle in Hunedoara. Foreboding and mystical, this c. 1446 Gothic fortress was built by regent-governor of the time John Hunyadi, and today stands at the surrealistic edge of fantasy and nightmare (feeding into all our medieval day dreams). Ogle at the exterior of double-thick impenetrable walls, a colossal drawbridge, and countless rectangular and circular towers used to keep watch and house prisoners. Inside, view the ceremonial marble-lined Diet Hall, a massive dungeon and torture chamber, and the remains of the "bear pit," where human remains were fed to the castle's resident bears.
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Taiwan-based Asus announced the launch of world's first liquid-cooled laptop in India, the ROG GX700, priced at Rs. 4,12,990. The company also launched its gaming laptop the ROG Strix GL502 in India.
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The Canadian Press is reporting that Barrick Gold (NYSE:ABX) was handed a setback by Argentina's supreme court, which brought back some glacier protection laws that the mining giant had until now sidestepped.
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By Stephen Lerner
We live in a dangerous time when large corporations and the super-rich are restructuring the nation's economy. There is a crisis for most Americans, but not for the elites who dominate the political economy of the country. Unfortunately, organized labor can be as much of an obstacle as it is a solution to mounting a movement for social justice that might reverse this trend and offer hope for the future.
Unions have the money, members, and capacity to organize, build, and fuel a movement designed to challenge the power of the corporate elite. But despite the fact that thousands of dedicated members, leaders, and staff have worked their hearts out to rebuild the labor movement, unions are just big enough—and just connected enough to the political and economic power structure—to be constrained from leading the kinds of activities that are needed.
Campaigns challenging corporate power can't be held in check by institutions with too much to lose. Unions with hundreds of millions in assets and collective bargaining agreements covering millions of workers won't risk their treasuries and contracts by engaging in large-scale sit-ins, occupations, and other forms of non-violent civil disobedience that must inevitably overcome court injunctions and political pressures.
This isn't an abstract or theoretical problem; we are already living it every day:
- In city after city, a project labor agreement—or a collective bargaining agreement covering a small percentage of a corporation's total workforce—can make a union want to veto any demonstrations and actions that might upset its relationship with a particular employer.
- A recent demonstration in the Northeast—against corporations that damage the economy by not paying taxes—ended up taking place in an isolated area, where nobody could see it, because a number of unions feared that a more visible site would offend an employer.
- In Ohio, a set of unions actively worked against a recent multi-state mobilization at a JP Morgan Chase shareholder meeting. The unions said the planned demonstrations seemed "too anti-corporate," with the potential to turn off independents and buoy conservative fundraising efforts. They feared all of this would undercut the passage of a ballot initiative to regain bargaining rights for public employees.
And what was so anti-corporate? In the case of the Ohio demonstrations it was the demand that JP Morgan and other big banks stop foreclosures, pay their fair share in taxes, and renegotiate toxic loans that are bankrupting cities and states. These issues are critical to building a broader movement that engages tens of millions of people from across the political spectrum. Instead of seeing this as an opportunity to connect efforts to destroy public employee unions with the broader economic problems caused by the Big Banks (and the resulting loss of jobs and revenue in Ohio), the unions unnecessarily chose a narrow path that weakens them in the short and long term.
If our goal is to offend no one, we're in danger of doing next to nothing. It is understandable that unions don't want to risk their own relationships with certain employers or politicians. But that shouldn't restrain a broader effort to hold those corporations and politicians accountable. Unions continue to act as though they represent 30 percent of the private sector workforce and that bargaining for those workers drives wages for the whole economy. Decisions are made based on how to protect the 7 percent of private sector workers who are unionized (instead of the 93 percent of private sector workers who aren't in unions). The last thirty years prove that this strategy doesn't make sense for the remaining unionized workers or the overwhelming majority of workers who aren't in unions.
As the stakes are raised and the intensity of campaigns increases, these problems will be magnified. The solution isn't to try to defy institutional gravity by convincing people to do something they aren't willing to do. Instead, we need a different model. We need to develop a movement-based organizational model that taps into and builds on union resources—both financial and organizational—but denies unions' "veto power" over campaign activities. Unions should support, help set up, launch, finance, and ultimately engage directly in campaigns based on their comfort level—but they shouldn't have the ability to control or shut down activity because of legal risk or pressure from an employer or politician.
If our strategy is to turn the tables so workers and regular people feel more secure, hopeful, and powerful—and so the elite feels less sure of its control over the country's politics and the economy—we can't tamp down momentum when someone wins a victory or gets pressured to back off. As a practical matter, if unions cede control and are not able to exercise veto rights, they are able to resist political and employer pressure. Taking it a step further, if unions have contributed money in advance to community organizations, they lose the ability to shut down activity later. Far from being a threat to winning smaller fights and victories, open-ended escalating activity that can't be shut down is exactly what will force powerful corporate interests to make real concessions. This doesn't mean individual unions or organizations shouldn't make settlements that arise in the context of bigger battles; they just can't shut down the broader fight.
With the SEIU's 2006 janitors' strike in Houston, we built incredible momentum—a Houston-based mini-movement—by tapping into issues that went way beyond the specificities of the strike. We won the strike because it was seen as part of a bigger fight that scared the hell out of Houston's business elite. If we had taken it a step further—engaging and supporting other organizations with the capacity to expand the fight beyond janitors—the movement would have grown (instead of having dissipated) when the strike settled.
So what sort of movement-based model might address these issues? What does recent activity suggest about how to take advantage of the resources that only labor can offer, without allowing those resources to restrain the civil disobedience, radicalism, and creativity necessary to challenge the corporate elite?
One example is what happened in Madison, where the work of the teaching assistants and students was critical to launching, sustaining, and expanding the campaign. Along with community groups, they led the occupation of the state capitol building, which helped define and propel the campaign. The student and community activity inspired unions to take bold actions that probably never would have been launched if the decisions had been made at a traditional labor coalition table.
A movement-based model should welcome the energy, creativity, and nimbleness of existing and emerging social justice groups, newly activated students, as well as people and organizations steeped in non-violent direct action. While it is not yet clear when (or from where) the organizations and people that can potentially lead and drive such a movement will emerge, we do know that more people, communities, and organizations have been impacted and politically marginalized by the reorganization of the economy than at any time in recent history.
We need to take a leap of faith. During past surges of activity in the civil rights, peace, women's, environmental, and gay rights movements, new leaders, formations, and organizations emerged, accomplishing things that previously seemed impossible. By avoiding the pitfalls that stifle the creation of movements, we can help generate conditions that increase the likelihood of new activists, leaders, and organizations propelling us forward.
Protesters spearheaded more than eighty street blockings, lobby occupations, flash mobs, and other creative activities in the days leading up to the twenty-thousand-person May 12th New York City march to Make Big Banks and Millionaires Pay. This has led to discussions, among a number of unions, about the potential of engaging both their members and the public around a different set of tactics organized to address a broader set of issues.
Instead of a one-day march, corporate players—including all the major banks, the Koch brothers, and key private equity and hedge fund operators—were confronted by angry citizens on a daily basis. The march broke other patterns as well. Groups gathered in ten different locations, according to their focus on a particular constituency or sector damaged by economic reorganization (i.e., there were groups centered around students, housing, transportation, human services, education, people facing foreclosure, the unemployed, and those at risk of losing health care and other critical services). We saw this march as something bigger than a labor rally—it painted a big picture about who is responsible for the economic crises our families face.
Instead of listening to hours of speeches, each group hosted a teach-in before taking to the streets and converging into one giant march that shut down much of the Wall Street area. Organizers combined the mass turnout of union members with the direct-action approaches—i.e., lobby occupations and street blockings—that had been used earlier in the week. This series of marches and actions offers a window into how to think about a movement model of activism that builds on, but isn't limited to, what unions are comfortable with, while creating conditions that expand their comfort zone.
The Make Big Banks and Millionaires Pay approach illustrates that there may be three concrete ways to resolve the contradiction of "We can't do it with unions and we can't do it without them":
Prolonging protest. We need to commit ourselves to the idea that intensive escalating activities—designed to challenge and disrupt unfair corporate abuses of power—are needed. These activities shouldn't be limited to one-day marches or rallies—they must go on for weeks, growing in size and intensity like the protests in Madison.
Weeks of creative direct action and activities. Just as unions escalate from one-day symbolic strikes to longer strikes that have a real impact, so must we expand from one-day marches and demonstrations to weeks of creative direct action and activities. There are two potentially overlapping ways to do this. The first is to build these kinds of longer and more involved protests around students and community groups that have the energy and willingness to take time off from their day-to-day lives to engage in more intense activity (which includes the risk of getting arrested). Secondly, unions must revive (and reinvent) the strike. Strikes consistently bring thousands of people together in full-time action mode. During Justice for Janitors strikes (i.e., in Boston in 2002 and in Miami in 2006) workers became full-time activists and organizers. Instead of just picketing, the strikers led escalating actions with a creative intensity that disrupted the status quo and led to political crises for building owners and their political friends. Imagine combining traditional, short-term strikes with larger-scale, ongoing community mobilization efforts that continued (and escalated) activities on broader issues even as the strike settled.
Labor support without control. Unions need to help finance and launch these kinds of activities with the explicit agreement that they won't control or call them off because of outside pressures. There are national and local organizations with bases that can move thousands of people; but they lack the financial resources to do so on a sustained basis.
Unions need to explore creative ways for their members to organize, mobilize around, and engage in these activities. While it will be unnerving for many unions to allow and encourage other organizations to engage and mobilize their members, this is a key ingredient to scaling up activism. Unions could encourage their members to join partner-community organizations, with the intent of sharing membership lists and enabling community groups to recruit and mobilize union members. Many community-based organizations fighting local battles like foreclosure are not tied to collective bargaining relationships—so they're in a stronger position to organize and lead the escalating activities that are needed to challenge corporate economic and political power.
The mass mobilizations we've witnessed in Wisconsin, Ohio, on Wall Street, and across the country can't just be a flash in the pan. Ordinary Americans understand that the economy is rigged against them. They are angry, and ready to mobilize and engage in ways we haven't seen in generations. Unions can help make this happen, and their greatest contribution may be to support—not control—a new wave of direct action and mass activity. Only then can we rebalance power and start winning again.


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Today we're hosting our first social care summit, bringing together the UK's key care and fire professionals to find solutions to a growing problem.
New figures released today show that a third of people who died in accidental fires in London last year were receiving care services.
Deputy Commissioner Rita Dexter, who is hosting the event, is calling for closer working between the care and fire profession.
The Deputy Commissioner is also strongly recommending the installation of sprinklers in residential care homes as well as promoting our free home fire safety visits, including fitting smoke alarms and, in some instances, flame retardant bedding for vulnerable people who smoke.
The data shows that of the 31 people who died in accidental fires last year eight had been receiving care at home, while the other two people died in fires at care homes - in the last financial year there were 10 fires a week in the capital's care homes.
There are more than three million people over 80 years old in the UK today; this expected to double by 2030. This could mean more people having mobility problems and dementia, which are increasingly factors in fatal fires.
Past research shows that vulnerable people are 18 times less likely to have a fire if they receive a visit from firefighters in their home.
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- I am normal. It's the rest of the world that's weird.
- — Impulse src
Early Life
Bart Allen was the product of the union between two families who had been bitter rivals for centuries. His father, Don Allen, was the son of Barry Allen, the second Flash, and his mother was Meloni Thawne, daughter of the Earthgov president and descendant of Flash villains Cobalt Blue and Professor Zoom.Shortly after Bart's birth, his family was attacked by Zoom, wishing to end the union of the rival families. They, along with the family of Don's sister Dawn, attempted to flee to a parallel Earth using the Cosmic Treadmill. However, Zoom sabotaged the device, causing an explosion which created a rift in the multiverse. Zoom was ultimately defeated by an army of three different Legions of Super-Heroes, but Bart and his family were subsequently stranded on Earth-247.[2]
Bart was born with his grandfather's speed. He had an incredibly high metabolism and also aged at hyperspeed. When he was chronologically two years old, physically, he appeared twelve years old. President Thawne had the Dominators killed Don and his twin sister, Dawn Allen. The Dominators then abducted Bart, who was later captured by Earthgov for observation. The scientists of Earthgov raised him in a virtual reality environment so that he aged as swiftly mentally as he did physically. Bart was going to die of old age very quickly, with Earthgov not doing anything to fix his problem. His grandmother Iris West took him away and brought him back to the twentieth century, so that her nephew, Wally West, the third Flash, could show him how to control his speed.
He later adopted the superheroic identity of Impulse.
After Wally helped him solve his problem and Bart helped him to defeat Kobra, Bart moved to Manchester, Alabama with Max Mercury. Wally had used his connections to supply Bart with a birth certificate, etc. Bart began the ninth grade at Manchester Junior High. He managed to make quite a few friends, chief among them Carol Bucklen. Max continued to train him in the art of superspeed, having him run obstacle courses while dodging axes and knives, solve jigsaw puzzles in mid-air, etc. During this time, he became one of the founding members of Young Justice.
Following Max's disappearance, he was taken in by Jay Garrick, the first Flash, and his wife Joan Garrick.
Kid FlashFollowing the breakup of Young Justice, Bart joined the new Teen Titans. He soon had his kneecap blown out by Deathstroke (who was at the time possessed by Jericho) and replaced with an artificial one. While recovering, Bart read every single book in the San Francisco Public Library and reinvented himself as the new Kid Flash. Even with the artificial kneecap, he could still run close to light speed. After Superboy-Prime attacked Superboy (Conner Kent) in Smallville injuring and killing many Titans, Bart joined with Wally West and Jay Garrick to stop the rampage of Superboy-Prime by running him at top speed into the Speed Force. Jay reached his limit before entering the Speed Force and Wally turned into energy and vanished, leaving Bart alone with Superboy-Prime. Barry Allen, Johnny Quick and Max Mercury, all of whom had previously been absorbed into the Speed Force, appeared and aided Bart. After taking Superboy-Prime into the Speed Force, Barry told Bart that "Wally is waiting for you". After they disappeared, Jay claimed that the Speed Force was gone.
A speedster wearing Barry's costume returned in Tokyo shortly thereafter to warn of the return of Superboy-Prime. This same Flash, still wearing Barry Allen's costume, would appear in the middle of the Battle of Metropolis against the army of escaped super villains. Superboy-Prime reveals that the person in the Flash costume is Bart Allen, aged 4 years older. Bart explains to the nearby Wonder Girl (who was surprised by her fellow Titan's transformation) that his grandfather's uniform was the only thing that could survive the trip back from where he had been, and that he was the only one there "who could still run". Bart then unleashed his anger against Superboy-Prime for killing Conner Kent, pummeling him at superspeed and forcing Superboy-Prime to retreat from the battle. When the crisis was over, Bart explained to Jay that he spent years in an unknown dimension where time passed quicker, causing him to grow older. Bart confirmed that the Speed Force was destroyed and he used up the residual speed locked in his body fighting in Metropolis. He gave Barry's costume to Jay and says Jay was now the fastest man alive once again.
Flash: The Fastest Man Alive
Bart shunned his superheroic past for the next year. He received a job working at Keystone Motors and began sharing an apartment with another young man named Griffin Grey. However, he was still connected to the Speed Force, but the connection threatened to kill him. S.T.A.R. Labs modified one of his grandfather's old costumes to help him control his connection. While at first he refused to don the costume, he finally gave in and became the fourth Flash. He also began a relationship with S.T.A.R. Labs employee Valerie Perez.
Bart decided to get a fresh start and moved to Los Angeles, applying for a job in forensics with their police department.Inertia hired the Rogues to help him build a device in Los Angeles with the purpose of transferring the Speed Force from Bart to himself. Despite warnings from his grandmother, Bart confronted them. The machine was successful in removing his powers, but in doing so, it threatened to detonate with the energy of several atomic bombs. Bart sacrificed himself heroically, distracting the Rogues while Val deactivated the machine.[3]
A funeral was held for Bart in a stadium in Keystone City. It was attended by a large number of costumed heroes, including his former Teen Titans teammates Robin, Wonder Girl, Raven and Beast Boy, and televised around the world. Eulogies were given by Jay Garrick, who revealed Bart's secret identity to the world. The funeral ended with the presentation of a video he had recorded shortly after becoming Kid Flash, to be shown in the event of his death.[4]
During Final Crisis: Legion of 3 Worlds, XS charged a lightning rod with the assistance of different versions of Garth and Ayla Ranzz in order to restore Bart to life. Bart returned as a teenager again and he received his Kid Flash costume ring from Brainiac 5.[2]
The Flash: Rebirth
Rebirth is the recent comic The Flash: Rebirth, which features the return of Barry Allen, the Silver Age Scarlet Speedster and Bart's grandfather. At Titans Tower West, a newly returned Bart Allen views his grandfather's return with skepticism, admitting a desire for things to "go back to the way it used to be" with Wally as the primary Flash and himself as Kid Flash, as well as feeling angry that Barry is the only one to escape the Speed Force and not Max Mercury. Bart, along with Superboy, is resurrected, but Death hunts them down to reclaim their lives. Bart then asks Barry why Max was unable to come back during when the JLA were trying to de-contaminate him of Zoom's Speed Force. Bart and Jay are then attacked by Zoom, who attacks Bart first because of him being both a Thawne and an Allen.[5]He and Wally are present when Barry brings back Max Mercury from the Speed Force, (Barry is unable to bring back Johnny Quick, as he had already been "killed" by Professor Zoom's Negative Speed Force) and is overjoyed to see his old mentor again. Bart, Barry, Wally, Max, Jay, Jesse Quick, and Iris West II (now taking up Bart's mantle as Impulse) and the Justice Society and the Justice League participate in Barry's plan to strip Zoom of his connection to his Speed Force, a plan that succeeds.[6]
Blackest Night
With Bart and Conner Kent's return, both of their statues were removed from the Titans Tower "Hall of Fallen Titans" memorial. However, Nekron, the personification of Death, sought reclaim their lives during the Blackest Night crossover.[7] Bart, along with Wally, raced across the globe to warn every hero of the Black Lantern Corps' invasion. Bart later arrived at Coast City with Wally and scattered members of the Justice League and Teen Titans to take a stand against Nekron, who was responsible for the Black Lanterns. Despite being resurrected, Bart's previous status as a deceased still allowed one of the undead lord's black rings to transform him into a Black Lantern.[8]
After his grandfather is chosen as a Blue Lantern by Ganthet of the Guardians of the Universe and leader of the Blue Lantern Corps, Bart immediately engages battle with him.[9] Barry's blue power ring detects that Bart is still alive but he would eventually die if not freed from the black ring soon. Barry nearly releases Bart from the black ring using blue energy constructs crafted in the images of Bart as Impulse and Kid Flash, before being interfered by Black Lantern versions of Professor Zoom and Solovar. Wally and Blue Lantern Bro'Dee Walker join Barry against them.[10] Bart attempts to use his speed powers to kill Wally, only to be temporarily returned to normal. Realizing that their mutual connection to the Speed Force can save Bart, Barry uses his powers to break the ring's connection, freeing him.[11]
Return to the Teen Titans
Sometime after Blackest Night, Bart and Conner were recruited by Cyborg to help rescue a current Titan by the name of Static, who had been kidnapped while visiting his hometown of Dakota. The three heroes arrive at the scene of a battle between the Teen Titans and a superhuman gangster named Holocaust, and intervene just as he is about to finish off the their comrades. Bart and Conner then comment that it is time for them to come out of "retirement" and rejoin the Teen Titans. Holocaust simply laughs and tells them to bring it, and Bart responds by saying "We were hoping you'd say that".[12] After a lengthy battle, Bart deals the finishing blow to the villain by running around him fast enough to open a vacuum which sucks him into the Earth's inner core.[13]
At the behest of Tim Drake, Bart travels to Gotham City and saves Selina Kyle from members of the League of Assassins while she is sleeping in her apartment. After knocking out the would-be killers, Bart remarks to Tim over the radio that Selina is "super-fine", and that this may be the best day of his life.
Powers and Abilities
- Speed Force Conduit: Speed force conduits possess a connection to the Speed Force, a cosmic force that allows its users to push the boundaries that keep time and space. As a conduit of the Speed Force, all aspects of their physiology are accelerated and enhanced.[14]
- Accelerated Healing: By having a connection to the speed force, every speed force conduit has an incredibly fast healing factor and can heal from most injuries in seconds and devastating injuries in minutes.[15]
- Enhanced Senses: The Speed Force enhances the speedster's senses, allowing them to perceive and process thoughts faster than the normal person.[16]
- Phasing: Speed Force conduits can tap into the Speed Force to vibrate their molecules in a way to achieve intangibility for short bursts, allowing them to phase through objects.[17]
- Speed Force Aura: The Speed Force manifests an aura around the speedster and whatever they are carrying, protecting them from adverse effects of their speed, such as friction with the air.[18]
- Superhuman Durability: The Speed Force Aura also protects speedsters from kinetic impacts, which in turn, makes them much more durable and resistant to injury than any normal human.[19]
- Superhuman Stamina: The Speed Force grants its conduits with a great increase of stamina, allowing them to fight or run much longer than the average person. Although a great increase, it is not unlimited.[16]
- Superhuman Speed: The universal factor of being a Speed Force conduit grants its user with imperceptible amounts of speed. All powers that conduits possess derives from their speed.[16]. This also confers:
- Superhuman Agility: The speedster's agility, balance, and bodily coordination are enhanced to superhuman levels. This allows them to easily maneuver while moving at superhuman speed.[16]
- Superhuman Reflexes: In conjunction with their enhanced senses, The speedster's reflexes are heightened immesurably, allowing them to dodge or react faster than normal.[16]
- Vortex Creations: Speed Force conduits are able to create vortices of air by running in circles or rotating their extremities at super-speed. These vortices can be used for a number of effects.[20]
- Enhanced Mental Process: The Speed Force enhances Bart's mental capacity to levels greater than any normal human, allowing him to take in and process information at an accelerated rate. While most speedsters will eventually forget information they rapidly receive, Bart does not.[21]
- Electrokinesis: As a conduit of the Speed Force, Bart generates large amounts of electrical Speed Force energy from his body. This Speed Force Lightning emanates off of him especially when moving at super-speeds. Bart was able to charge his hand with the lightning to electrocute Jay Garrick, in order to restart his heart.[22]
- Speed Scouts: Bart has the ability to create "scouts", which are energy-like avatars of himself which he could send through the time-stream, then absorb their memories when they returned.[23]
- Decelerated Aging: Along with every speedster that draws from the speed force, the loved ones of the speedsters will gain eternal youth like Jay's wife and Barry's wife ages have shown.[24]
- Speed Force Empathy: Bart can sense when another Speed Force conduit is troubled, and can be drawn to the location of that speedster.[25]
- Photographic Memory: Unlike other speedsters, Bart has a true photographic memory; that is, he can permanently remember everything he has ever read, seen or heard. Other speedsters generally lose that information almost as fast as they gain it.[25][21][26]
- Multilingualism: Bart can speak both English and Interlac fluently (he hardly ever makes use of the latter, despite it technically being his native language), and presumably more on a basic level due to his speed-learning.
- Hand-to-Hand Combat (Basic): Was trained by the LAPD and Red Robin in combat.[3]
- Criminology: During his time as the Flash, Bart attended Forensics Classes at the LAPD and applied a job as a Forensic Scientist like his Grandfather.[27]
- Hypnosis: Bart once taught himself hypnosis and used it to hypnotize Lil' Lobo into suppressing his violent tendencies. The hypnosis was not a perfect job, but it was successful enough to keep the Top Teen calm for a dinner date.[28]
- Illness (Formerly): Bart has suffered hyper-accelerated metabolism, causing accelerated aging.
- Artificial Kneecap: Bart suffered from a blast wound to his kneecap and had to get it replaced with a prosthetic, thanks to Jericho possessing Deathstroke.[29][30][21]
- Bart's first appearance as Kid Flash was Teen Titans (Volume 3) #4.
- His first appearance as the Flash was The Flash: The Fastest Man Alive #2.
- Max Mercury trained Kid Flash to get a proper handle on his powers.[31]
- Bart has been quoted on several occasions stating that he would never become Kid Flash.[citation needed]
- Bart has expressed a romantic interest in Rose Wilson, the Ravager. The feeling seems to be mutual, as Rose once described him as "cute."[32][33]
- Bart once channeled the Speed Force in the form of lightning to kick-start Jay Garrick's heart.[34]
- Both Superboy and Impulse once commented on how "their" comics had been canceled yet some heroes, who were no less worthy just seem to go on, at this point Robin walks in and both of his friends give him the "evil" eye when he asks, "What?"[35]
- Bart strongly dislikes the band Hanson.[36][37]
- Batman is the one who gave Bart the "Impulse" moniker.[38]
- Bart briefly controlled the power of Infinity Man when he merged with the Forever People. While he had a verbal cadence similar to the standard Infinity Man, Impulse's personality was the dominant one that was evident.[39]
- Bart's favorite TV series was Tiny Titans.[40]
- 565 Appearances of Bart Allen (New Earth)
- 232 Images featuring Bart Allen (New Earth)
- 104 Quotations by or about Bart Allen (New Earth)
- Character Gallery: Bart Allen (New Earth)
- ↑ Flashpoint: Kid Flash Lost #3
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Final Crisis: Legion of 3 Worlds #3
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 The Flash: The Fastest Man Alive #13
- ↑ Countdown #43
- ↑ The Flash: Rebirth #4
- ↑ The Flash: Rebirth #6
- ↑ Blackest Night #1
- ↑ Blackest Night #5
- ↑ Blackest Night #6
- ↑ Blackest Night: The Flash #2
- ↑ Blackest Night: The Flash #3
- ↑ Teen Titans (Volume 3) #81
- ↑ Teen Titans (Volume 3) #82
- ↑ Being a speed force conduit conveys some core powers as demonstrated by Barry Allen and Wally West.
- ↑ The Flash (Volume 5) #73
- ↑ 16.0 16.1 16.2 16.3 16.4 The Flash (Volume 2) #1
- ↑ The Flash (Volume 2) #76
- ↑ The Flash (Volume 2) #63
- ↑ The Flash (Volume 2) #2
- ↑ The Flash (Volume 2) #74
- ↑ 21.0 21.1 21.2 Teen Titans (Volume 3) #4
- ↑ The Flash: The Fastest Man Alive #4
- ↑ Impulse #75
- ↑ The Flash: Rebirth #5
- ↑ 25.0 25.1 The Flash Secret Files and Origins #2010
- ↑ Teen Titans (Volume 3) #5
- ↑ The Flash: The Fastest Man Alive #8
- ↑ Young Justice #32
- ↑ Teen Titans (Volume 3) #2
- ↑ Teen Titans (Volume 3) #3
- ↑ The Flash: The Fastest Man Alive #2
- ↑ Teen Titans (Volume 3) #11
- ↑ Teen Titans (Volume 3) #12
- ↑ The Flash: The Fastest Man Alive #6
- ↑ Young Justice #49
- ↑ Young Justice #1
- ↑ Young Justice #2
- ↑ Secret Origins 80-Page Giant #1
- ↑ Young Justice #29
- ↑ Teen Titans (Volume 3) #50
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