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Badges affect a {{OBP|Pokémon|species}}'s behavior. [[Outsider Pokémon]] over a certain [[level]] will refuse to obey the player without the appropriate Badge. In {{game2|Diamond|Pearl|Platinum}} only, obedience is determined by the number of Badges, not which specific Badges the player has.
In the anime in ''[[EP044|The Problem with Paras]]'', [[Cassandra's grandmother]] mentioned this when [[Ash's Charmeleon]] refused to obey him.
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Revision as of 10:13, 31 October 2016
- This article is about the Badges in the core series Pokémon games. For the element in the Pokémon Trading Card Game, see Pokémon League (TCG).
A Badge (Japanese: バッジ Badge) is an item which denotes a Pokémon Trainer as having defeated a Gym Leader.
Trainers need to collect a certain number of Gym Badges in order to qualify for a region's Pokémon League. Young Trainers usually begin their initial Pokémon journey by traveling from city to city in order to collect them. Badges are small enough to fit easily between one's thumb and index finger and can be pinned to a shirt or kept in a Badge case.
- 1 Development
- 2 Effects
- 3 List of Badges
- 4 In the anime
- 5 In the manga
- 6 In Pokémon Live!
- 7 Trivia
- 8 In other languages
- 9 See also
In early character artwork by Ken Sugimori, a selection of familiar and unfamiliar Badges can be seen. It appears that the original concept of Badges was more similar to an embroidered patch than the pinned badge as it is portrayed in the anime. Clockwise from top left opposite are a possible version of the Earth Badge, an unknown Badge, another unknown Badge, a possible version of the Rainbow Badge, a possible Volcano Badge and two Cascade Badges.
Stat boost
In Generations I-III, some Badges boost a certain stat or stats of the player's Pokémon. This boost is applied only in internal battles, not link battles. In Generations I and II, the stat or stats are increased by 12.5%; in Generation III, the stat or stats are increased by 10%. This boost does not exist from Generation IV onward.
In Generation I, this boost is reapplied whenever the player's Pokémon's stats are raised or lowered, allowing boosts to be stacked (this stacking effect is lost if the Pokémon levels up). In Generation II, if the attack is a critical hit and the attacker's used offensive stat stage is less than or equal to the opponent's defensive stat stage, all Badge boosts are ignored.
|Badges by stat boosted
|Indigo League
|Johto League
|Hoenn League
|Boulder Badge
|Zephyr Badge
|Stone Badge
|Thunder Badge
|Mineral Badge
|Balance Badge
| Special Attack and
Special Defense*
|Volcano Badge
|Glacier Badge
|Mind Badge
|Soul Badge
|Plain Badge
|Dynamo Badge
Note that in Generation I the game states that the Thunder Badge raises Speed and the Soul Badge raises Defense, but these are not the actual effects caused.
Type boost
In Generation II, every Badge boosts the power of the moves of a certain type by 12.5% (1/8), despite never being referenced in the games. The type strengthened matches the type theme of the Gym (for example, Zephyr Badge boosts the Flying-type). These boosts work similarly to the way same-type attack bonus (STAB) boosts work, and are, in fact, calculated in-between weather modifiers and STAB.
Just like stat boosts, type boosts are not applied in link battles.
- Main article: Obedience
Badges affect a Pokémon's behavior. Outsider Pokémon over a certain level will refuse to obey the player without the appropriate Badge. In Pokémon Diamond, Pearl, and Platinum only, obedience is determined by the number of Badges, not which specific Badges the player has.
In the anime in The Problem with Paras, Cassandra's grandmother mentioned this when Ash's Charmeleon refused to obey him.
|Badges by obedience level
|Indigo League
|Johto League
|Hoenn League
|Sinnoh League
|Unova League
|Kalos League
|Up to Lv. 20
|Zephyr BadgeHGSS
|Stone BadgeORAS
| Trio BadgeBW
Basic BadgeB2W2
|Up to Lv. 30
|Cascade Badge
|Hive Badge
|Knuckle Badge
|2 Badges
| Basic BadgeBW
Toxic BadgeB2W2
|Bug Badge
|Up to Lv. 40
|Dynamo BadgeORAS
|Insect Badge
|Cliff Badge
|Up to Lv. 50
|Rainbow Badge
|Fog Badge
|Heat Badge
|4 Badges
|Bolt Badge
|Rumble Badge
|Up to Lv. 60
|Balance BadgeORAS
|Quake Badge
|Plant Badge
|Up to Lv. 70
|Marsh Badge
| Storm BadgeGSC
Mineral BadgeHGSS
|Feather Badge
|6 Badges
|Jet Badge
|Voltage Badge
|Up to Lv. 80
|Mind BadgeORAS
| Freeze BadgeBW
Legend BadgeB2W2
|Fairy Badge
|Up to Lv. 90
|Psychic Badge
|All Pokémon
|Earth Badge
|Rising Badge
|Rain Badge
|8 Badges
| Legend BadgeBW
Wave BadgeB2W2
|Iceberg Badge
HM moves
- Main article: HM
While Trainers can teach their Pokémon HM moves and use them in battle, Trainers require the appropriate Badge to use them in the overworld in Generations I through IV as well as Generation VI. In Generation V only, Badges are not needed to use HM moves in the overworld.
Poké Mart stock
From Generation IV onwards, the number of Badges a Trainer possesses affects which items Poké Marts sell. The more Badges, the more items that become available for purchase, with more expensive items generally appearing after more Badges are obtained.
|Generation IV
|Generation V
|Generation VI
Pokémon League
In the games, in order to enter the Pokémon League and challenge the Elite Four and Champion, the player must have all eight Badges from that region (or in the case of the Indigo Plateau, either Kanto or Johto). In Unova, Kalos, and Generation I/III Kanto, Badges are checked individually through a series of Badge Check Gates; in Hoenn, Sinnoh, and Generation II/IV Kanto, Badges are checked all at once.
List of Badges
Indigo League
In Generation IV, these badges do not affect stats.
|Indigo League
|Badges: 8
|Region: Kanto
Johto League
In Generation IV, these Badges do not affect stats.
|Johto League
|Badges: 8
|Region: Johto
Hoenn League
In Generation VI, these Badges do not affect stats.
|Hoenn League
|Badges: 8
|Region: Hoenn
Sinnoh League
When Badges are touched in the games, they play a single note, and will make a musical C major scale when all eight Badges are collected. When a player rubs the stylus across them numerous times to polish them (as they gradually tarnish), they will begin to shine. This process can be continued until four sparkles are visible. The musical notes are also the most clearly defined and accurately tuned when there are four sparkles.
Unlike other generations, it is the number of Badges that determines which Pokémon obey the Trainer, rather than the Badges themselves (this distinction is important owing to the fact that the order of obtaining the Cobble, Fen, and Relic Badges can differ). For every second Badge the maximum level of obeying Pokémon increases (2 Badges—level 30; 4 Badges—level 50; 6 Badges—level 70; 8 Badges—level 100). The number of Badges collected also affects the items that the player can purchase in Poké Marts.
|Sinnoh League
|Badges: 8
|Region: Sinnoh
Unova League
Unlike previous Badges, the level at which traded Pokémon will obey the player goes up by ten per Badge, rather than the previous system of rising twenty levels after every even-numbered Badge. They can be polished like Sinnoh's Badges, although they do not make different notes when polished at the same level. Instead, the picture of the Gym Leader from whom the Badge was earned gets grayer.
In Black 2 and White 2 the Badges no longer dull over a period of time, and Sinnoh's notes were reintegrated into the Badge screen.
Although Badges are not required to use any of the HMs outside of battle, some HMs cannot be obtained until after obtaining certain Badges. However, they are not required, as traded Pokémon that have learned an HM move in another game can still use the HM move before acquiring any Badges.
Black and White
|Unova League
|Badges: 8
|Region: Unova
Black 2 and White 2
|Unova League
|Badges: 8
|Region: Unova
Kalos League
|Kalos League
|Badges: 8
|Region: Kalos
Orange League
These sets of Badges only appear in the anime. Trainers must receive these Badges from the Orange Crew.
|Orange League
|Badges: 4
|Region: Orange Archipelago
In the anime
In the anime, Gym Badges signify that the Trainer has succeeded at a particular Gym. If a Trainer earns eight Badges in one region, they are eligible to enter that region's Pokémon League Conference.
Trainers do not necessarily have to win a battle with the Gym Leader in order to earn a Badge, and Gym Leaders can be quite lenient about giving out Badges. For example, Ash has been awarded several Badges because of his kind heart and determination; Misty has berated Ash on several occasions because he didn't properly earn all of his Kanto Gym Badges, arguing that he really only earned three Badges (the Thunder, Soul, and Volcano Badges) and the other five Badges were given to him on technicalities. In Flint Sparks the Fire!, the Sunyshore Gym was shown to be handing out free Beacon Badges. The Orange Crew all have entire Gym matches devoted to unconventional battling styles.
Some Pokémon will not obey their Trainer if they do not respect them, due to their Trainer lacking in Badges. For example, after evolving into Charmeleon, Ash's Charmander began to disobey him, which was only exacerbated upon evolving again into Charizard.
In Kalos, due to Clemont's perception of an ideal challenger of the Lumiose Gym, he programmed the Clembot—the substitute Gym Leader—to throw out challengers who did not have four Kalos Gym Badges. As a result, when Ash attempted to challenge the Gym shortly after arriving in the Kalos region, Clembot acted according to its programming and threw him out. After Clemont was able to reprogram the Clembot, he removed the Badge restriction, but Ash indicated he would still collect four Badges before challenging Clemont himself at the Gym.
Many fellow Trainers that Ash has encountered have been shown to have Badges that do not exist in the games, such as Gary Oak earning ten Badges in Kanto, indicating that there are more than eight Gyms in each region. Other Badges observed in the anime which do not correspond to known Badges suggest that there are at least 9 Gyms in Hoenn, 11 in Sinnoh, 14 in Unova, and 11 in Kalos. Despite this, Ash's Badge case has frequently had indents specifically shaped for the Badges that appear in the games. However, Trainers only need eight to qualify
It is also implied in the anime that a Gym Badge serves as a primary ID for a Gym Leader (and probably a secondary ID for a Trainer). Brock has used his Boulder Badge to identify himself in order to clear his name from any accusations of stealing parts from a machine shop in Cerulean City.
Additionally in special cases, Badges may not be required to enter the Pokémon League. Pokémon Tech, a boarding school for Pokémon Trainers, is an expensive school for children, where moving up a grade is the equivalent of winning two Gym Badges. Upon graduation, students may immediately apply for entry in the Pokémon League. Alternatively, Trainers can take the Pokémon League Admissions Exam, which awards a single Badge that grants entry to the Pokémon League on its own; it is convenient for people whose age, health, or work keeps them from traveling around to collect Badges.
Alternative Badges in the anime
So far, Ash has only obtained Badges that are obtainable in the games, with the notable exception of those he obtained in the Orange Archipelago. Several unknown Badges can be seen at the beginning of Mystery at the Lighthouse, while many Trainers Ash has met have had Badges that differ from those that are obtainable in the games. This suggests that there are Gyms in locations which do not appear in the games and therefore more than eight Gyms in each region. Trainers with Badges not seen in the games include:
Gary acquired more than the standard eight Kanto League Badges, thus leading to confusion as to whether or not there is a fixed number of Badges that can be given out in a particular region. By The Battle of the Badge, he is shown to have at least ten Badges, only three of which correspond to known Kanto Badges, suggesting there are at least fifteen Gyms in Kanto. Incidentally, this would provide one Gym for each of the (at the time) 15 types.
In addition, before Ash competes in the Indigo League, a Trainer named Otoshi is shown in the episode Bad to the Bone; he owns eight Badges, but only shares four in common with Ash; later in the episode another Trainer is seen with eight other completely different Badges altogether. In total, Ash, Gary, Otoshi, and the other Trainer display 27 different types of Badges, so there must be at least this number of Gyms in Kanto at the time, assuming they are all from the same region. However, Sakura, a Trainer on her journey, was shown to be collecting Badges from both Kanto and Johto, so it is unclear what the specific rules are for competing in championship tournaments.
On closer inspection, Otoshi's Badges each look somewhat similar to Ash's Badges and only differ in size and shape. Similarly, what can be identified as a Soul Badge, Thunder Badge, Marsh Badge, and Volcano Badge slide across the screen every time his Marowak knocks out a Pokémon in his flashback. His Badges are in this order from upper-left to bottom-right: Thunder, ? (Rainbow), Cascade, Volcano, Marsh, Soul, Boulder, and Earth. This hints that there may be different varieties of the same Badge.
At the Hoenn Pokémon League Championship in Saved by the Beldum!, Morrison is shown to have an eighth Badge different from Ash's, suggesting that there are at least nine Gyms in Hoenn.
In Ash's dream in Malice in Wonderland, Ash has many Badges that haven't been on-screen before, as well as some older Badges. Considering it was only a dream, it is possible that some of the Badges seen don't exist at all.
In Barry's Busting Out All Over!, it shows that Barry has three Badges. While the Forest Badge and the Mine Badge are no different, Barry has a third Badge that is different from the eight Sinnoh Badges. In Fighting Ire with Fire!, Barry was revealed to have obtained eight Badges already, two more of which are different. This means that there are at least 11 Gyms in Sinnoh. The same unknown red Badge that Barry owns is shown at the end of An Old Family Blend!.
In Last Call, First Round! it is revealed that Nando has acquired seven Badges, two of which are unknown. These two Badges are the same as two of Barry's unknown Badges.
In Ash Versus the Champion! Trip revealed all five of the Badges he had collected, three of which are unknown and not seen in-game.
In Goodbye, Junior Cup - Hello Adventure!, Cameron revealed all seven of the Badges he collected, four of which are known and three of which are unknown. Two of those unknown Badges are the same as Trip's. Since there are 10 Badges in Unova in the games (due to two of them being replaced in Black 2 and White 2), this means that there are at least 14 Gyms in Unova.
In A Fashionable Battle!, Sawyer stated that he had earned one Badge. Later, in From A to Z!, he was revealed to have earned four more Badges, including three unknown ones. This means there are at least 11 Gyms in Kalos.
Gallery of unidentified Badges
Gary's ten Badges
Otoshi's eight Badges
Morrison's eighth Badge
Ash's Badges in the dream
Barry's eight Badges
Nando's seven Badges
Trip's five Badges
Cameron's Badges
Sawyer's Badges
Non-Gym Badges
Several Badges have appeared in the anime that are not official Gym Badges.
In the Indigo League, Trainers can take the Pokémon League Admissions Exam, which awards a single Badge that grants entry to Indigo Plateau Conference on its own, replacing the requirement to collect Gym Badges. It is convenient for people whose age, health, or work keeps them from traveling around to collect Badges.
During the closing ceremony of Indigo Plateau Conference, all participants are awarded the Pokémon League Badge.
For helping the band of Diglett thieves with their facade, the mayor of Diglett Village awarded Ash and his friends with the Silver Wing Badge.
In the manga
In the Pokémon Adventures manga
In Pokémon Adventures, Badges have mystical and mysterious qualities that can somehow increase the power of the Pokémon owned by the Trainer who wields the Badges, just as the Boulder Badge increases the Pokémon's Attack stat in the games. In addition, Badges that don't allow higher leveled Pokémon to obey, such as the Soul Badge, do indeed allow the wearer to control even Legendary Pokémon such as Articuno.
It is not known what sort of material Badges are made of, but it has been confirmed that the Gym Leaders each own a Badge made of different material than the kind given out to normal Trainers, as that is how the Masked Man's identity was narrowed down to among the 16 known Gym Leaders when Aibo scraped off a part of his hidden Badge with its Scratch attack.
Team Rocket used seven Kanto Gym Badges to power a machine that combined Articuno, Zapdos, and Moltres into a single beast. The machine also had a secret slot for the Earth Badge, which Lance manipulated to further his own goals by turning Cerise Island into a giant Badge energy amplifier to fuel the Legendary Lugia with.
Badges are not required to enter the Pokémon League tournament; however, without eight Badges corresponding to their home region, a Trainer must battle their way in to qualify for the finals. However the Unova League requires eight Gym Badges to participate in the tournament.
Four main characters have actively been collecting Gym Badges: Red, who managed to collect seven Kanto Badges (missing the Earth Badge); and Sapphire, Platinum and Black, all of whom managed to collect all of the Badges in their respective regions. Other characters have also gathered Badges, such as Cheren and Silver.
In The Electric Tale of Pikachu manga
In The Electric Tale of Pikachu, Badges work in a way similar to the anime, however, there are some minor differences. All Badges have the Pokémon League logo printed on them.
In addition, Pokémon Trainers are organized by class, much like Pokémon Tech "Class D", "Class C" and so forth. Badges increase the rank of the Trainer who owns them. Ash once believed that he could increase his rank by capturing rare wild Pokémon, however this was not the case.
Ash has obtained eight Badges from Kanto, but only three (Boulder, Cascade, Earth) actually matching known Badges, and another three lookalike Badges (resembling the Soul, Marsh, and Volcano). Ash also obtained four Badges from the Orange Islands, but none of them match any known Badges.
In Pokémon Live!
In Pokémon Live!, Giovanni offers the Diamond Badge to Trainers who defeat his MechaMew2. He gives Ash the Diamond Badge prior to the battle, believing that Ash will never win. However, Ash defeats Giovanni with Mewtwo's assistance, proceeding to give the Diamond Badge to Misty as a belated birthday gift. Pokémon Live! is not in continuity with the anime, and the Diamond Badge is not mentioned elsewhere in the series; however, it is the inspiration for DiamondShipping's name.
- In the Pokémon Project Studio Red and Blue computer programs, the Soul and Marsh Badges' names are reversed, with the pink heart-shaped Badge being the Marsh Badge and the yellow circular Badge being the Soul Badge. Several anime and game handbooks also make this same switch. This appears to be because of an initial error in naming the Badges in Red and Blue. A soul would be more attuned to psychic abilities and one finds poisonous gases in a marsh.
- Official artwork of the Earth Badge (featured in media such as Pokémon Project Studio Red and Blue and Extreme Pokémon: The Guide for the Ultimate Fan) differs significantly from its appearance in the games, anime, manga, and TCG. The design in its official artwork resembles a plant, whereas its other design resembles a feather.
- The Orange League is the only known Pokémon League with fewer than eight Badges.
- It is possible to obtain certain Badges in a non-linear order. The most notable example of this are the Kanto Badges in Generations II and IV, which can be obtained in virtually any order, although the Earth Badge must be obtained last in Generation IV.
- In Generation III, the only Gym that can be skipped entirely is the Fortree Gym. The player can get to the point in the game where the guards at the Pokémon League check to see if the player has received all eight Badges. This is not the case with the Dewford Gym as it must be defeated in order for the player to fight Norman, though it can be put off until after Flannery has been defeated.
- In FireRed and LeafGreen, the Earth Badge is the only Badge that doesn't allow the use of an HM outside of battle, while in HeartGold and SoulSilver it is the only Kanto Badge that does.
- The Rainbow Badge's colors correspond with the colors of all the other Kanto Badges, explaining the colors in its design.
- In the code of the Generation I games, items named for each Badge can be found. The items named BoulderBadge and CascadeBadge allow players to throw rocks and bait, respectively, at Pokémon outside of the Safari Zone when used in battle. The other Badges have no known purpose.
- The Basic Badge is the only Badge to be given out by more than one Gym.
- The Rising Badge is the only Badge the player receives outside of its respective Gym.
- The Legend Badge is the only Badge from the games that has not appeared in the anime, not counting Badges from Gyms that have not been seen yet.
- When Ash initially got his Badge case, the slots were made to fit each Badge in Pokémon Black and White, but they eventually became circular to accommodate the Toxic Badge.
- Ash has not won a Badge in the same episode as his first encounter with its respective Gym Leader since earning the Dynamo Badge from Wattson in Watts with Wattson?.
Name origin
- With the exception of the Rainbow and Rising Badges, all Badges in Kanto and Johto were renamed for audiences outside of Japan. All eight Hoenn League Badges keep their Japanese names, as do Sinnoh League Badges, with the exception of the Icicle Badge, due to its name originally being the Glacier Badge in Japanese. In English, the Glacier Badge is the Mahogany Gym's Badge, which was originally called the Ice Badge in Japanese. This naming conflict continued in Generation V, with the Icirrus Gym's Badge being the Icicle Badge in Japanese, where it was renamed the Freeze Badge in English.
- The Japanese names of the Kanto Badges are all colors, following the color pattern for the town and city names.
- The Trio and Insect Badges are the first Badges since the Glacier Badge in Generation II to get renamed in the English version of the games, without there being a localization conflict between the Japanese and English versions.
- The Storm Badge's English name may derive from the lucha libre wrestler Fray Tormenta—also the inspiration for Crasher Wake—whose name translates as "Friar Storm".
In other languages
See also
|The Pokémon League
| Participation
Trainer • Battle • Gym Leaders
Gyms • Badges • Referee
Championship matches
Elite Four • Orange League
Champion League
Pokémon League Conferences
Indigo • Silver • Ever Grande • Lily of the Valley
Vertress • Lumiose • Manalo
| Regional Pokémon Leagues
Indigo • Orange* • Johto • Hoenn • Sinnoh
Unova • Kalos • Alola • Galar
Areas of jurisdiction
Pokémon League Reception Gate • Hall of Fame
Palace of Victory • Cerulean Cave
Pokémon Association • PIA
World Coronation Series
|This item article is part of Project ItemDex, a Bulbapedia project that aims to write comprehensive articles on all items.


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Zyz wrote:Magikern wrote:Zyz wrote:It's like watching previews to a movie before you go see it. I guess I don't see the issue and why people are actually mad about it... Oh no they shared some photos!!!!
Yeah ofc u dont mind leaked pictures from CG ,cus mattet of fact flough allready showed u what needed to be seen even before this beta came out..
I don't care because I don't care. Besides what the boss looks like, exactly what helpful information are these leaked screen shots showing? Nothing.
Just a screenshot could show:
How many people are needed to take it down
It's level
Where it is in reference to the map
The skills it uses
Where for example a ranger would stand in order to do its best capabilities
Now that is all just a screenshot, a video would show even more and we have no idea what the person who is showing it said to describe the image.
So sorry but a screenshot holds more information that I think you realise


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- Wed Sep 16, 2015 6:23 pm
- Forum: Horse Hall
- Topic: The background music!
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Re: The background music!
It's stock music licensed for the game, not original to it, so it comes from a number of different collections and creators. I tend to prefer browsing catalogs so I can pick just the right sound for an occasion. Ahhh, I see. You did a great job of it then! It really sounds like it could be an OST. :)
- Tue Sep 15, 2015 8:53 pm
- Forum: Horse Hall
- Topic: The background music!
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The background music!
Where can I find the music used in Magical Diary? :O Is it an OST? I get the songs stuck in my head all the time. Often I'll just boot up the game and wait for a certain song to come and then just leave it on that moment so I can listen to the BGM, lolol. Props to whoever made it! I think the variou...
- Mon Sep 14, 2015 10:14 pm
- Forum: Horse Hall
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Re: Hodag Glitch?
Are you referring to the dungeon for Exam 4? If I recall, it is possible to go through the dungeon without encountering the Hodag. Are you sure? :o The dungeon is laid out such that it would be incredibly unusual for that to happen. He'd have to crawl away into one of the corners...! I'm pretty sur...
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Re: Favorite Moments so far?
The Grabiner story as a whole is irresistible to me, even though I feel like I should be... better than that? Like, I'm such a sucker for those brief moments when he shows you affection, and I'm only drawn further in by each snub. My favorite scene is the Grabiner kiss - I think it's well done, in-c...
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Open Sesame
A poem
Some shelter in madness; most rent it out
and live, off the proceeds, a balanced life,
giving and taking, but you are too proud
to line pockets of your house to house fights.
Yet I believe that they can be used,
manipulated even, and why not by us?
Don't sell your soul; just let points of view,
yours and mine, be iron and rust.
I'm here to teach you how to decay.
Custom demands that you slowly descend
from the ancient thresholds of pain
to relationships we can find you out in.
We need you to experience the banality
that's second nature to your fellow men.
Solitude has made you uppity.
We want you to mingle so we can be pals,
and find ourselves experimenting in labs,
heating fugues to an inaudible voice,
whipping one another till we're ready to rat-
confess, I mean-the day we were born.
I've read the manuals: humiliation,
the victim's cicerone, opens up
a forty thieves' cave actually hidden
in Ali Baba's soul-special eye drops
allow the free world to peer into his secrets,
favourite foods and taste in music,
his God fetish, medical diagnosis
that calls epilepsy drug-induced fits.
The pleasure, nay joy, of destroying a man
senile storytellers treat gingerly-
in truth, the torturer is a fan
drilled into the ceiling of morality
which, as we know, is a bare whitewashed room
without the windows for natural air.
Electric light bulbs mean there's no gloom.
If you're beautiful, you won't be scared,
stripped of fig leaves, back in paradise,
each inmate a new Adam or Eve.
As for the ones who come packed in ice,
they're neo-Neanderthals, different species.
How they got here nobody knows,
but nothing inhuman is foreign to us.
We even have museum pieces on loan;
the heads we can't shrink are these marble busts.


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Chapter One
As soon as he opened the door, he could hear the screaming. It ripped through the damp air and shrieked in the yews. It echoed from the gravestones and died against the walls. It was like the sound of an animal, dying in pain. Yet this sound was human.
With every breath he took, Derek Alton seemed to draw the noise into his own lungs with the air, until something like an answering scream came from deep inside him. The asthmatic wheeze of his inflamed air passages was so high-pitched that his ears couldn't locate its direction, but identified it as a noise that came from the air around him. The pain in his upper chest told him where that noise came from.
And Alton knew where the screaming came from, too.
With shaking fingers, he brushed some of the dust from his sleeve. He rubbed at a fresh scratch on his knuckles, but managed only to smear a streak of blood across the back of his hand. He could taste dust in his mouth, too -- old dust, the debris of years, stirred into the air by a random act of violence.
The screaming reminded Alton of the shriek of agony he had once heard from a rat, when a terrier had flushed it from its nest in a barn and its back had been broken under a farmer's spade. The dying rat had squealed with its last strength, as its legs kicked and its pale claws clutched and uncoiled in the dry earth.
Now he waited, expecting to hear other noises. At first, there was only the stirring of the breeze in the yews and the drip of rainwater from the ivy on the church walls. But gradually he began to distinguish something else -- a rhythmic thudding. It reverberated inside a room some distance away, well beyond the first houses on the road into Withens. It was like a ritual drumbeat, folding over on itself and creating multiple layers of sound. He shivered as he recognized the undertones of menace, which spoke of imminent death.
Then there was a burst of laughter somewhere in the village, followed by the slam of a door. A female voice shouted something that Alton couldn't make out. It was just one sentence, half a dozen words, and then the voice was gone. Farther away, an ewe called to its lambs on the slopes of Withens Moor, where the hefted flocks still roamed their territories on the heather and peat bog. Alton had seen Withens Moor. He had seen Black Hill and Hey Moss, too. And he knew the moors themselves were dying.
Death had been on Derek Alton's mind all day. He had awoken with a jolt in the early hours of the morning, panicking that he might have disturbed Caroline with one of his bad dreams. But as soon as he opened his eyes, he realized that his mind had been banging back and forth like a pendulum, swinging between the distant dualities of darkness and light, winter and spring, death and renewal. He might have been thinking of the end of winter and the first invasion of spring. But, mostly, he was sure he had been thinking of death.
Alton heard footsteps approaching through the aisle of the church. There were no carpets in St. Asaph's, and his visitor was wearing heavy work boots that thumped on the stone flags.
He turned back toward the nave and squinted at the figure moving slowly out of the light to stand beside him. Once they were standing close together, the porch of the church seemed far too small.
Neil Granger was wearing a black leather jacket of the kind that Alton thought of as motorcyclist's gear, though he knew Neil didn't have a motorbike, only the old Volkswagen Beetle he used for getting to and from his job at the Lancashire Chemicals factory in Glossop, fifteen miles to the west. He looked very tired.
"You might as well go, Neil," said Alton. "You can't do any more here tonight."
Neil had sweat running from his temples into the black smudges on his cheeks. He wiped a hand down the side of his face, spreading the smudges even more. But he looked at Alton with concern when he heard his wheezing.
"Are you sure you're all right?"
"I'm fine," said Alton. "I just needed some fresh air. And we ought not to do any more until the police have been to take a look."
"Don't hold your breath, then. They might get here next Easter."
"I know, I know. But all the same..."
"You want to do things by the rules."
Alton sighed. "I wish there were still rules for this kind of thing."
"You like rules, don't you? It goes with the job, I suppose."
"Well, there are the Ten Commandments." But Alton smiled to show that he knew it was a joke.
"In Withens?" said Neil.
"Yes, even in Withens."
"I think you'll find they've broken all the tablets of stone."
A few feet away, a blackbird scuttled into the undergrowth over the horizontal gravestones that lay like fallen monoliths in front of the church. The blackbirds were always the last to go to their roosts in the dusk.
Neil flapped the lapels of his jacket to fan his face. Alton could smell his sweat, and he felt a surge of affection and gratitude toward the young man for taking the trouble to stop by and help. Not many people would have done that. Not in Withens.
"I appreciate what you've done, Neil," he said.
But instead of acknowledging Alton's thanks, Neil turned his face away, staring out into the churchyard.
"Vicar," he said, "I'm sorry."
"What for?" said Alton, surprised.
Neil waved a hand vaguely toward the village. "Well, all this. It's not what you expected, is it? Not what you deserve, really, I suppose."
"I don't know what you mean, Neil."
Neil laughed, then coughed as the dust got into his throat. Alton caught the glitter of the rings in his ear and the sheen of his black hair. He wanted to put his hand round the young man's shoulder and tell him it was all right. Whatever Neil was apologizing for, it was perfectly all right. But he hesitated, worrying that the gesture might be misinterpreted, then cursing himself for being so cautious. He ought to be able to give forgiveness, if that was what Neil Granger needed. But by the time the reactions had run through his brain, the moment had passed, and it was too late.
In any case, Neil immediately seemed to have forgotten what he had been saying, and his mood changed again.
"Well, like I said, we'll tackle the churchyard this weekend."
"Yes," said Alton. "We'll do that."
"I was hoping Philip would help us, but he's being mardy about it."
"Your brother is busy these days. I understand."
"Some new business he's got involved in. I don't know what he's up to anymore. But we'll get it sorted between the two of us, eh? Remember, Vicar -- death and renewal, winter and spring -- "
"The darkness and the light."
"That's it. Time for a bit of light on the subject, I reckon."
Neil turned to look at the vicar then, but Alton could barely see his eyes. They, too, were dark, and they were at the wrong angle to catch the light leaking into the porch from the nave. Alton couldn't tell what expression was on Neil's face. But a strange thought ran through his mind. If he had been able to read Neil's eyes at that moment, he might not have seen any expression at all -- only a reflection of the gravestones outside in the churchyard.
"I've got to be up early in the morning, anyway," said Neil.
Alton nodded. "Do you remember, the year before last -- ?"
But Neil held up a hand before Alton could finish his question.
"I don't even want to think about it," he said. "Two years ago, Emma should have been there."
"Of course. I'm sorry."
"It's all right. I suppose it seems a long time ago now, for most people. I don't expect everybody to remember."
"But I do remember," said Alton. "And there are her parents, of course."
"Oh, her parents remember," said Neil.
Because of the failing light, Alton could see little beyond the wall of the churchyard now, except the streetlights in Withens. He was sure it wasn't Caroline's voice he had heard in the village earlier. Perhaps it had been that of Fran Oxley, or even Lorraine, or one of the other members of the Oxley family.
But it definitely wasn't Caroline -- she would never laugh like that, or shout so loudly in public. At this moment, Caroline would be walking past the Old Rectory, averting her eyes from the house and garden until she could turn into the crescent and reach their bungalow.
Somewhere in the darkness beyond the streetlights was Waterloo Terrace, where the Oxleys lived. Alton could picture the eight brick cottages, tightly packed like a row of soldiers, standing shoulder to shoulder against the larger stone buildings that clustered around them.
Derek Alton and Neil Granger stood in the church porch a few moments longer, listening to the noises from the village. The screaming faded, then grew louder again.
"Does that sound like a rat to you?" said Neil.
"Yes, it does."
Neil nodded. "Okay, then."
He rubbed at his face as he began to walk away down the flagged path. His clothes rustled like the sound of the blackbird in the dead leaves. Alton lifted his head for a second to look toward the village. And when he turned back, he found that Neil had already disappeared into the darkness beyond the yew trees.
Later, Derek Alton would have a lot to regret. He would be sorry that he hadn't watched Neil Granger leave, and hadn't observed the moment when the young man passed out of his sight. Perhaps he could have called Neil back and said something that might have changed his mind. But he hadn't. Alton had been too distracted by the noise coming from the village, and too absorbed in his own concerns. He would feel guilty for that, too.
But most of all, Derek Alton would regret not saying good-bye.
There were ten more dead bodies to collect that night. Others had probably died underground, or had been trapped deep in the spaces between the stone arches and the hillside behind them. But Sandy Norton wasn't satisfied.
"We're going to have to put more poison down," he said. "The buggers are breeding like, well -- "
Norton shone his torch into the mouth of the middle portal. It was one of the nineteenth-century tunnels, the old westbound line, which wasn't used for anything these days. The railway track had long since been ripped up, and the tunnel abandoned. The arched walls glistened with water, and a small stream ran into a stone conduit near his feet. Just beyond the limit of his torch beam, there were shadowy, scurrying movements on the dirt floor.
"It makes you wonder what they find to eat," said his mate Jeff Cade, as he took off his rubber gloves and put them away in a pocket of his overalls. "I mean, aren't they supposed to live near people? You're never more than six feet away from a rat, and all that? But there are no houses around here anymore."
Norton laughed. "That's no problem. Look up there, where the old station and platforms used to be. You see that car park and the picnic area, right? Well, that's like a drive-in McDonald's as far as these little buggers are concerned. Just think -- there's all the food that people leave on the grass when they've been having their picnics, and all the bits of sandwiches and chocolate bars, and God knows what, that they chuck out of their car windows. There's thousands of people coming past here, especially at the weekend, ever since they turned the old railway line into a footpath."
"It's called the Longdendale Trail. I know."
"And then there's the road up there -- the A628. Have you ever seen how much stuff lorry drivers bung out of their cabs? You can't walk along the roadside up there without getting splattered with lumps of flying pork pie and pasties. It's disgusting. Not to mention the cafés in the lay-bys. The bins are overflowing with rubbish up there sometimes."
"I suppose you're right."
"No, there might not be people living here anymore. But the whole world comes by to feed the rats in Longdendale."
"It's a good job they can't get to the cables in the other tunnel. They can gnaw their way through anything, given time, can rats."
"We need some more poison, anyway," said Norton.
A few yards away, in the old eastbound tunnel, a pair of four hundred thousand volt cables ran through a concrete trough. The cables entered the tunnel three miles away at Dunford Bridge, carrying a section of the National Grid between Yorkshire and Manchester. As they emerged again at Woodhead, they ran past a relay room, then up into a series of giant pylons that marched down the valley toward Manchester. The abandoned Woodhead tunnels had saved the moors from being covered in pylons for those three miles.
Sandy Norton had often admired the quality of the stonework in the tunnel arches, which had survived in good condition for more than a hundred and fifty years. But their present use was one the navvies who built the tunnels couldn't have imagined as they hacked their way through the hill with their pickaxes and gunpowder.
In fact, those navvies wouldn't even have been able to imagine the newer two-track tunnel to the south, which had been cut in the 1950s and accommodated the country's first electrified rail line. That tunnel was empty, too, now. Apart from the little battery-powered locomotive that ran on the maintenance track in the National Grid cableway, the last trains had run through the Woodhead tunnels over twenty years ago.
Norton and Cade were packing up to leave the site when a car slowed and stopped on the road overhead. They heard it pull onto the bare concrete pad where a house had once stood above the tunnel entrances, but which was now no more than a pull-in for a good view down the valley. After a few moments, the car started up again and drove off.
"That was an old Volkswagen Beetle," said Norton.
"How do you know that?"
"I recognize the sound of the engine. It's distinctive -- air-cooled, you know. I used to have a Beetle myself years ago, when I was a lad."
"Have we finished with these rats, then?"
"For now," said Norton. He turned off his torch. "You know, I wouldn't like to walk through this tunnel in the dark."
Cade shuddered. "Me neither. Three miles in the dark? No thanks. It'd be bad enough, even without the rats."
He turned back toward their van. But Norton didn't follow him immediately. He was looking up at the stones over the arch of the tunnel mouth. He'd once been told that the navvies who built the old tunnels had been superstitious men. They were convinced that their tunneling had disturbed something deep in the hill, which had been the cause of all the disasters that happened to them -- the tragedies that had earned Woodhead the nickname "Railwaymen's Graveyard." Norton had heard that when the navvies had finished tunneling, their final act had been to carve faces at each of the tunnel entrances to control the evil spirits. But if the carvings were still there, they were so worn now that he couldn't make them out.
Sandy Norton shrugged. He didn't know about evil spirits. But the faces hadn't done much to control the rats.
Finally, he locked the steel gate that prevented unauthorized access to the middle tunnel. All three tunnels had their own gates. Without them, rail enthusiasts and others who were even less welcome would always be trying to get into the tunnels. Some of those folk would want to walk all three miles to the other end, just to prove they could do it. They wouldn't be bothered by the rats. They wouldn't take any notice of the risk from the high-voltage power cables. They wouldn't even be deterred by the National Grid's yellow-and-black signs on the gates. The meaning of the signs was clear enough, with their symbol of a black lightning bolt cutting through a body. It was clear even without their message, which read: danger of death.
Whenever the phone rang in the Old Rectory, Sarah Renshaw stopped what she was doing and looked at the nearest clock. It would be important to have the exact time, when the moment came.
She was in the sitting room, where the mahogany wall clock said five minutes past ten. Sarah checked her watch, and adjusted the minute hand slightly so that it read the same. She didn't want there to be any confusion. All the times were important -- the time Emma had last been seen, the time her train had left Wolverhampton, the time she should have arrived home. And the exact minute they got news that she had been found would be vital. Sarah felt comforted by the recording of the minutes. It was more than a ritual. Time was important.
Howard had gone to answer the phone, so Sarah waited. In the middle of their big oak Jacobean sideboard, a candle was burning. The wick was already halfway down, and the melted wax was pooling in the brass holder. There were plenty more candles in one of the drawers, and Sarah wanted to light a new one right away to mark the moment, as if the act itself would make a difference. But she hugged her hands under her armpits and restrained herself as she listened to Howard speaking in the next room. She would be able to tell by the tone of his voice.
Sarah looked at the clock again. Six minutes past ten. For a moment, she panicked. Which would be most important -- the exact time the phone had rung, or the moment she had got the news? Which would she celebrate, in the years to come?
"Howard?" she called. "Howard?"
But he didn't respond, and Sarah quickly calmed again. Howard's voice was subdued. If the call had been about Emma, she would have known it by now. The news would have communicated itself to her through the wall.
And certainly there would be the sensations -- the tingling and the little quivers of pleasure that she experienced whenever she felt that Emma was close by. When the call came, she expected a jolt like a great charge of electricity, like the entire four hundred thousand volts from the cables that ran through the hillside two hundred feet below their house.
Howard came into the sitting room, instantly dominating it with his bulk. He was wearing a thick, white Arran sweater that made her want to wrap her arms round him and bury her face in the wool. But he shook his head briefly, and averted his eyes.
Sarah had been standing at the bookcase near the door. She ran her hand along some of the spines, and touched a folded and dog-eared piece of paper that had been used to mark a page in Twentieth-Century Design. She tried to breathe in the scent of the books, but the familiar smells of paper and ink seemed fainter tonight. She took out Art Deco Graphics and a David Hockney book, and put them back the other way round.
Many of the books were inscribed in Emma's own handwriting on the title page. She had only put her name and the date, but the inscriptions seemed to offer a sort of continuity, a narrative reflecting a particular period in Emma's life.
These were the books Emma had once handled and read, which meant that the words on their pages must have entered her mind and become part of her. Sarah was able to pick up a book that Emma had once opened, and read the words that Emma had studied.
Sarah wiped a tear from her eye. She caught herself just before she spoke aloud, and dropped her voice to a whisper, so that Howard wouldn't hear her.
"I'll help you put them back exactly how you want them, dear. We'll do it together."
Sarah turned away from the bookcase and took down a calendar from the top of the TV set. She crossed off another day, neatly deleting it with two short, sharp strokes of a black marker pen.
It was Day 743. Emma Renshaw had been missing for over two years.
Now the laughter in the village had subsided, or the woman making the noise had moved out of earshot. Derek Alton stood in his church porch and listened to the sound of Neil Granger's car engine as it moved slowly out of Withens. It climbed the road away from the village and began to cross the miles of bare moorland toward the valley of Longdendale.
Finally, even the sound of the engine disappeared behind the hill. The blackbirds settled into the yew trees, Alton's breathing returned to normal. And as it grew dark, Withens became almost entirely silent. Except for the screaming.
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Derek Newman-Stille holding a Prix Aurora Award Derek Newman-Stille is a PhD ABD at Trent University and teaches in Trent's Department of English Literature. Derek researches representations of disability in Canadian speculative fiction. Derek is a 7 time Prix Aurora Award winner for his digital humanities project Speculating Canada ( speculatingcanada.ca ) and the Speculating Canada… Continue reading Derek Newman-Stille


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Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and right doing there is a field. I'll meet you there – Rumi
This is an unusual time of constant political uncertainty with Brexit, a VUCA time, which means a period of volatility, uncertainty, complexity and ambiguity. VUCA means that nothing is predictable, and past experience tells you nothing about what is to come. VUCA stands for:
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- Uncertainty: a lack of clarity around the present and the future creates unpredictability. Past events are no longer predictors of the future, making forecasting and decision making difficult
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When faced with a VUCA situation we are challenged to stay flexible, be curious and get out of our comfort zone. Being curious means stopping, looking and listening, asking, probing and challenging through open-ended questions. When things are complex, we need to find new ways to seek clarity and to make sense of chaos. We can talk to others and collaborate to seek different perspectives (rather than competing to be right). In a world of growing social media, we are able to do this more widely and more quickly than ever before.
Ambiguity is overcome with flexibility, agility and being open to constant change with resilience. Based on the responses to our questions, we can learn to become more flexible and agile, and consider alternatives, possibilities that we may not have considered in the past. An antidote to the volatility of VUCA is a clear, new and different vision. With the current turmoil at the top of British, and global, politics, there is no leadership, and so there is no clear vision. Uncomfortable as it might seem, maybe we have to be patient and wait. In that time, we can remain curious, seek to understand and to be understood, and remain open, resilient, creative and flexible. There's many things we can't do, but what we can do is to set our own vision for the future, and through dialogue and collaboration, the future usually becomes clearer over time.
Recently, I read a book called Messy, by Tim Harford, on how to be creative, messy and resilient in a tidy minded world, focussing on how messy situations, teams, lives and mindsets can often help to give rise to enhanced creativity and collaboration in the workplace and across our lives, and how to build up resilience to navigate our work and our lives with increased flexibility and ease…
Executive coaching plays a key role in the state of play we are living in, as more and more leaders in the corporate workplace are required, and learning, to adapt consistently to a faster, consistent pace of change, think creatively and innovatively, and respond appropriately on their feet to often what seems a constantly moving target, developing their ability to respond better to random circumstances in a smarter way.
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Another global corporate I'm coaching in at senior leadership level finds that a lighter way of working, staying agile, a sense of humour, delegating downwards a lot more, outsourcing to external providers, and regular leadership meetings to troubleshoot any business issues works well in responding to the current moment too.
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Hi all! I am Prudhvi Ganta. I am here to share my SBI PO GD/PI experience.
I had my Interview at 10 AM on 13th September 2017. I reached the venue by 9:30 AM. Document/certificates verification took place for almost an hour. The members were so friendly as they were cracking jokes. 1 person was absent in my group, so we were a 10 member group. At 11 AM, we were taken to another room for GD/GE exercises. A 2 member panel congratulated us and continued some spiritual classes and by 11:15 AM, they announced the topic " Indian Villages – Strengths or Weakness. We were given 5 minutes to prepare key points and then GD started.
I was the second person to start the GD, gave my points briefly. As the time was exhausted, none of us could give the conclusion. Then was no gap, we were given a paper where the list of priorities were given, along with the topic for G.E., 'Things you consider if you want to embrace a change'.
List of Priorities :
- Adaptability
- Positive Attitude
- Optimism
- Readiness for change
- Risk Factors
- Adjusting
- Flexibility.
This time I started the conversation and gave my priorities but after 15 min of our discussion as our group didn't came to the consensus we made it differently by giving our priorities from the reverse order. By 12:15 PM, GD/GE were completed and we were taken to Interview hall. I was the second person in order in my group and my turn came at 1:00 PM.
Me: Entered the room and wished everyone a good afternoon.
F1: Please take your seat.
M2: Yes. Tell me about yourself.
(Before completion Sir1 interrupted)
M1: What is Smiles ? (As I mentioned that am working in an social welfare group Smiles,) explained him about our work etc.,
Me: Explained.
M1: Why didn't you pursue your career as a civil engineer ?
Me: Explained.
M1: Why banking ?
Me: Explained.
M1: You are 23 now. Why didn't you go for higher studies/ went for MBA and work for private banks like HDFC. Why only SBI ?
Me : I will have job security in public sector banks, and working in India's largest lender, behemoth banking organisation post and pre merger is a matter of pride, SBI is the one among very few organisations which made a P.O. as Chairperson which was proved by our Hon'ble Chairperson Arundathi Madam.
M1: Tell me about brexit issue.
Me: Explained but not in detail.
M2: What the changes you bring if you were made as a branch manager in a rural branch?
Me: Answered.
M1: Tell me about Boko haram issue.
Me: I am not aware of the recent development, so said sorry sir I couldn't remember.
M3: Tell me about Rohingyas issue. Is Indian government decision to deport them correct ?
Me: Expalined in detail and I felt a bit nervous as the entire panel was keenly listening (As I mentioned China, Bangladesh, at the end I also gave my opinion.)
M3: What is Portland cement? (After the series of bullets can't able to remember and told him sorry sir I can't remember now.)
From the beginning Madam was just smiling and she didn't asked even a single question. Finally they told me to leave. I thanked everyone. My interview lasted for 16 minutes.
Hoping for the best.
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So how does a not good MS week feel for me as we all different
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Hope you all well!
So how does a not good MS week feel for me as we all different
Just in summary:
- Started with headaches and not sure if from MS or Aubagio
- Losing almost all feeling in left leg and arm partially
- Having challenges seeing through the blurs in my eyes
- And pyn well made up on my Stillpaine tablets between 6 and 10 a day
- On positive spend time with Kids
- Worked on company profile and so
- In proses of starting NPO .... watch the space...
- New branding of Hadders Pty Ltd thanks to Poffit
So in general had a good week but it is difficult to explain to people what is like to loose control of body, mind that has never been the britest so that ok to have a brain freeze now and then.
Please don't see this as complaining about life with MS we have to make it fun.
I am surrounded by friends Family and loved ones that really care and it is small things that make life great.
Like lunch with my Daugther Attorney and myself and just being abble to chat about life we have.
Letting cars be washed with son and daugther and enjoying plate off chips.
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"Historically, artists painted the court and the aristocracy. I'm the court painter of hip-hop -- the artists are that important." So says Justin BUA, the hip-hop generation artist who celebrates the release of his new book The Legends of Hip-Hop with a signing session at Booksmith this Friday starting at 6 p.m. The scratch wizard Qbert will also be in attendance, providing the sounds to accompany BUA's art. So ahead of BUA's book launch, we got him to run down his five favorite illustrated hip-hop album covers.
"I think this album cover was actually done by his cousin. For me, obviously it's not a great painting, and it's super obvious that the guy is definitely not a great artist -- but it's iconic. It's naive, super simplistic, not painterly, and there's no control of temperature, but the illustration just felt right to me. My first reaction when I saw it was, first, jealously, like, 'How come I didn't get to do that cover art?' Then it was, 'What, is this done by a four-year-old?!' The third, though, after time went on, was, 'Okay, this just feels right.' It fits the vibe."
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Defining and preserving good health
The word health refers to a state of complete emotional and physical well-being. Healthcare exists to help people maintain this optimal state of health.
According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), healthcare costs in the United States were $3.5 trillion in 2017.
However, despite this expenditure, people in the U.S. have a lower life expectancy than people in other developed countries. This is due to a variety of factors, including access to healthcare and lifestyle choices.
Good health is central to handling stress and living a longer, more active life. In this article, we explain the meaning of good health, the types of health a person needs to consider, and how to preserve good health.
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I am presently offering free initial phone consultations on all consumer cases, free group trainings for self represented litigants, and a low cost personalized training in the specifics of defending your lawsuit in District Court.
Of course I also offer traditional full representation of consumers in bench trials, jury trials, and class actions. But I am also painfully aware that the vast majority of people cannot afford a lawyer, and that there are not enough lawyers to go around to handle even the profitable consumer fraud cases.
To combat the problem of the lack of affordable lawyers, and to increase access to justice, I also encourage other lawyers to start offering free or low cost Brief Advice and Legal and Court Coaching to Maryland residents.
Traditionally, clients retain attorneys for "full service representation": their attorney advises them, examines and drafts documents, communicates with opposing counsel and represents them in court. However, full service representation is expensive, and often cost prohibitive.
Brief advice, limited scope services allow clients to consult with an attorney for only parts of a case. For example, if you are sued by a debt buyer and can't afford to hire a lawyer to represent you in court, it might still be helpful to have a lawyer give you an overview of the substance and procedures of a debt collection lawsuit. Or, perhaps you can use some verbal guidance in how to prepare Answers to Interrogatories, or responding to a Motion to Compel, or propounding discovery on the Plaintiff.
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Over the past few years more than 50,000 Maryland consumers were sued by debt buyers. Fewer than two percent of them had a lawyer. According to the Federal Trade Commission, debt buyers pay on average 4 cents on the dollar (sometimes less than a penny on the dollar), and they then seek to recover 100 cents on the dollar: a massive windfall. The accounts are sold so cheap because there is little or no documentation to support any legal claims, and the Banks have often specifically disclaimed any warranties of accuracy, completeness, or validity. I have found that with some hard work and a little coaching, consumers can successfully defend themselves against these lawsuits. By "success" I mean that they can win at trial, or settle out of court for far less than someone with no coaching can. Here are some examples of court coaching:
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- Interrogatories to Plaintiff
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- Demands for Plaintiff to Produce Proof
- Responding to the "Business Records Certificate"
- How to make and respond to objections
- A checklist of "points to tell the court" based on a guided review of the Complaint and supporting documents
- Where to sit, what to say, how to say it, when to stop at the trial