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Crypto's Big Lie: It Is Not An Asset Class
Chuck Epstein
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We live in the age of the "big lie," but it would be a mistake to think this mass deception is restricted solely to politics.
It's now evident in the once-staid world of investing. Today, the world of investing, including federal regulators and the financial media, have caved into social media pressure, faddism, anti-government movements, "democratized investing" (whatever that is) to create the global bubble and hype surrounding crypto.
Crypto is a $2 trillion global market, and it has created a black hole of hype, fueled by some 1,400 crypto companies in the U.S. today. But while this extraordinary promotion and price volatility mainly go unchallenged, one of this industry's biggest lies is that crypto is an asset class.
Nothing could be farther from the truth.
Being considered an asset class is based on the academic definition and its application in modern portfolio management.
Now, this will sound nerdy to those hyping cryptos and all of its iterations in coins named after dogs and fantasylands. Still, an asset class is a real-world legitimate investment category that determines real-life portfolio allocation and risk management decisions.
The people hyping crypto know this. They also know they lack the rigorous data and solid factual foundation to convince investment professionals and informed adults that crypto is an asset class.
Crypto As a Fantasy Investment
So, what is an asset class, and why do crypto propagandists want their fantasy investment categorized as an asset class?
The reason is simple: the key to being included in an institutional and extensive wealth portfolio is to be named an asset class. This category means that the asset in question can be considered an element in a diversified portfolio. When this happens, portfolio managers who make the allocation decisions analyze the asset class and its inherent risks and potential benefits to hold it as a diversifier and risk reduction instrument.
This process also means that the asset class's value in question can grow dramatically once legitimate portfolio managers decide to include the asset in their portfolios.
That's the real reason why crypto hypesters float the big lie that crypto is an asset class. Unfortunately, many financial media and some questionable financial professionals buy crypto and use the lame excuse that it is an asset class. Unfortunately, this is one of the biggest lies in the investment world.
What Is an Asset Class?
Academic finance has objective criteria to empirically evaluate an asset class based on risk, efficiency, and actual returns over time.
The traditional asset classes are stocks, bonds, Treasury bills, precious metals, and real estate. In addition, academics have included different investment strategies, such as those involving futures, options, private equity, and hedge funds, as vehicles and instruments that offer different and expanded risk management and return characteristics.
This is the process used when analyzing any asset class mix in a diversified portfolio. When managed futures were being considered as an asset class supplement, academics relied on historical data, standardized definitions, and indexes to see what, if any, benefits futures made in a diversified portfolio.
As noted in the book I edited, Managed Futures in the Institutional Portfolio, consultant Harry Marmer wrote: "Traditionally, finance academics have analyzed anything that wants to be considered an asset class to analysis using modern portfolio theory techniques. This involves plotting historical prices against an efficient frontier to determine risk-returns, often using mean-variance analysis (MVA). MVA is based on the belief that rational investors (which probably does not include many crypto people) choose investments that maximize expected return for a given degree of risk and minimize risk for a given level of return.
Given this rule, academics run an optimization model to determine the efficient frontier. This efficient frontier is plotted as a curve that contains all the portfolios that maximize expected returns at each level of risk. (Risk is measured as the variance or standard deviation of returns.)
But all this is just the starting point. While breathless crypto news reporting is daily, the hypsters have not yet produced a serious, impartial academic paper that approaches this rigorous analysis. Instead, we have celebrities like Matt Damon and Tom Brady hyping crypto.
Even someone named Alexis Ren, who has appeared as a swimsuit model and contestant on Dancing With the Stars, opines that "the economic structure we have been living on is a lie and it's delusional, and it's just an agreement, and so we need to find something better, and I think bitcoin and cryptocurrency are that."
According to Yahoo Finance, Ren continued that "the economic 'agreement' (maybe she means hard currencies) that had been in place for a 'very long time' needed to be changed for something new and acknowledged that was 'scary.'"
So, what does Ren suggest? Crypto, of course.
Her observations about the state of global finance can now be added to a young crypto buyer who told CNBC that he bought "a meme coin," called unisocks, or $SOCKS, which is a digital token representing a claim on a physical pair of socks.
Sad News for Young Investors
The dangerous part of crypto hype is that 80% of crypto buyers are Gen Z and Millennials. Most people in this age group have little or no knowledge of traditional investing, distrust traditional banks, or claim they don't have access to these firms.
Interviews with crypto buyers who claim they have some investment knowledge sound as if they never heard of portfolio diversification, the role of fixed income, or even high-beta stocks or precious metals that have more benefits than crypto.
This should not be surprising. Global surveys have found that Americans have very low literacy rates when it comes to investing and politics.
According to the 2014 S&P Global Financial Literacy Survey, only 57% of US adults are financially literate—as measured by those showing knowledge of at least three out of the four basic financial concepts assessed by the survey: risk diversification, numeracy, inflation, and compound interest.
An earlier 2008 study by the IMD World Competitiveness Yearbook found that the US ranked 22 out of 55 nations in financial literacy. (Singapore, Finland, and Ireland were in the top three.) A few years ago, 401(k) educators launched "financial wellness" programs to educate participants about investing.
Uninformed investors cannot manage retirement planning, household finances, debt, and credit management and are susceptible to hype and lousy advice. A 2021 study by the Milken Institute said that "financial literacy is particularly important in the US, where individuals are—to a large extent—solely responsible for ensuring their financial security. Indeed, with Americans having more access than ever to increasingly complex financial products and services, financial literacy is crucial in preventing ill-informed decisions that could have negative long-term consequences on their financial well-being."
So, who benefits when Americans are uninformed about investing and politics?
That is a loaded question. Entire industries, such as those in payday loans, people who buy Medicare advantage plans, rent-to-own, used car leasing, and of course, crypto, is based on selling expensive items to uninformed, often lower-income individuals.
Crypto Scams, Tax Evasion, Online Gambling, and Avatars
Finally, while crypto has been around for a decade, the hype machine now in high gear comes at a time when online gambling, Facebook pushing avatar identities, money laundering, online scams, and tax evasion are all reaching new heights.
Crypto is a great way to evade taxes and launder money. It is even better if the user has an avatar, distrusts the government, or as the swimsuit model cited earlier, who also has an Instagram channel that links exercising and dispensing financial advice, says the hard currency global system is on the verge of collapsing.
This must-have merit because we can read about it in Forbes, Business Insider, Yahoo Finance, and shady websites that survive on ad revenues generated by sending unsuspecting Millennials to brokers selling crypto. These are the same sites that hyped SPACs to naïve investors who thought they were getting the "insider" prices on IPOs.
A Bad Mix of Greed and Hype
Today, Millennials day trade crypto and ignore the basic observation that only greed and hype are the driving forces of these anti-government currencies. This must amaze traditionally-trained investment people in established firms who are looking on in amazement at descendants of the mob that fueled the tulip bulb mania in the early-1600s. At its height, people who bought the bulbs were "spending a year's salary on rare bulbs in hopes of reselling them for a profit."
So, what should rational investors do?
The Big Lie about crypto is that it is not an asset class. It has the same role in an investment portfolio as a flyer in a high beta stock, but even that stock has fundamentals to analyze. Instead, crypto has the same role as roulette, except, unlike a crypto buyer, a casino will give a player a free drink.
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Chuck Epstein has managed marketing communications and public relations departments for major global financial institutions and participated in the launch of industry-changing financial products. He also has written by-lined articles for over 50 publications, five books and served as editor and publisher of nation's first newsletter on the topic of using the PC for personal investing and trading. ("Investing Online, 1994-1999). He also is a marketing consultant, writer and speaker on topics related to investor protection and opportunities in the very dynamic cannabis industry. He has held senior-level marketing, PR and communications positions at the New York Futures Exchange, Chicago Mercantile Exchange, Lind-Waldock, Zacks Investment Research, Russell Investments and Principal Financial. He has won national awards from the Mutual Fund Education Alliance (MFEA) and his web site, www.mutualfundreform.com, was named best small blog in 2009 by the Society of American Business Editors and Writers (SABEW).
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Disney Will Sell ESPN and ABC in 2023 Predicts Wells Fargo
Investors have been urging Disney to sell ESPN for months. Activist Investor Dan Loeb made waves when he sounded the charge encouraging the sale. Later, after learning of Bob Chapek's plan to incorporate sports betting, he backtracked on his initial opinion. Others however continue to think the Walt Disney Company should sell off the sports channel.
Credit: ABC/Disney
Wells Fargo, a significant Disney investor, has gone a step farther and has predicted Disney will sell off not only ESPN but ABC as well. In a document published last Tuesday, Wells Fargo analyst Steve Cahall outlined the firm's top predictions for the media business in 2023, which is something many investors and news outlets have done recently. Cahall, however, made bold prediction about the future of ESPN under Bob Iger's leadership at Disney:
"DIS will begin the spin-off process for ESPN & ABC including launching ESPN in streaming a la carte," Cahall wrote. "Cost rationalization and balance sheet options are critical to reaching this outcome. The result is a better-off remaining DIS."
Credit: ESPN
Spinning off ESPN may be believable but ABC seems a bit far fetched. Still, so did Bob Iger's return as CEO so anything could happen! ABC was one of the first acquisitions ever made by the Walt Disney Company and has proven to be an asset for decades. Time will tell if this prediction comes to fruition but it's interesting to think of ABC and ESPN post Disney.
Not everyone is on board with this prediction, though. As Jason Bazinet, managing director at Citi Bank frankly put it, "We're very much against spinning off ESPN… that's the dumbest thing ever." He went on to explain that ESPN generates much of Disney's cash flow which will be needed to offset losses as the streaming wars continue to make streaming services unreliable profit engines. "What Disney is embarking upon with a direct-to-consumer business is very much like a cable company or a telecom company," Bazinet said, "They should not spin it off."
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"Haykakan Zhamanak" writes that Artashes Tumanian, the chief of President Robert Kocharian's staff, gave "the most nonsensical of all possible answers" to a journalist's question about the ideological orientation of his political party: "I don't know." "That means Tumanian and his supporters will gather, decide to form a party and only then determine what ideas they espouse," comments the paper. "This is perhaps the standard path which has been followed by virtually all Armenian political forces." Tumanian, it says, will therefore bring nothing new to the Armenian political arena.
"Haykakan Zhamanak" also emphasizes that Tumanian did not deny that he will use the next infrastructure projects to be implemented by U.S.-Armenian billionaire Kirk Kerkorian's Lincy Foundation for his own political purposes. The paper notes that during his reelection campaign Kocharian already claimed credit for $150 million that was spent by Lincy in 2001-2003. "Kocharian will not be [in the running] this time around and Tumanian will definitely try to put the laurels of glory for the work performed by Lincy on his head," it claims.
"Hayots Ashkhar" quotes Levon Mkrtchian, the parliamentary leader of the Armenian Revolutionary Federation (Dashnaktsutyun), as denying reports that the nationalist party wants a postponement of the November constitutional referendum. "We did not come up with such a proposal," he says. The possibility of a referendum delay is effectively denied by Galust Sahakian of the Republican Party. "I don't think there is a need for postponement," he says.
"Panic within the government camp is obvious and is manifesting itself thorough Dashnaktsutyun's periodical hints about the referendum's postponement," opposition leader Aram Sarkisian tells "Haykakan Zhamanak." "If they see that they can not ensure a positive outcome of the referendum, they will postpone it." Sarkisian also says that Armenia's leading opposition parties "will act as a single and united team" during the referendum campaign." "All those forces that are saying no to the constitutional changes will join forces and there is no alternative to that consolidation," he says.
"Haykakan Zhamanak" reveals that Putin signed a decree on August 4 granting Russian citizenship to Armenia's former energy minister, Karen Galustian. That means Galustian is no longer an Armenian national.


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Video 1 is the view of the proposed Riseley Eco House site when travelling along the Riseley High Street from South to North. In the summer months, when the trees are in leaf, there is no view of the " open space" and there will be a very limited view of the Riseley Eco House. The site begins at the gateway and has houses either side of it. The intent is to retain the hedge and tree line essentially unaltered except that we will add more trees and hedging to further increase the screening. The video was taken in August 2009.


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Urodził się w rosyjskiej rodzinie szlacheckiej. Od 1900 mieszkał z rodziną w Poniewieżu, gdzie w 1911 z wyróżnieniem ukończył szkołę realną, później studiował w Charkowskim Instytucie Technologicznym i Petersburskim Instytucie Politechnicznym. W lipcu 1914 został aresztowany za udział w demonstracji robotniczej i na 3 miesiące osadzony w Twierdzy Pietropawłowskiej, w październiku 1914 wcielony do rosyjskiej armii. Od listopada 1914 do lutego 1915 przebywał na froncie, pod Warszawą, w maju 1915 ukończył kursy szkoły chorążych piechoty w Piotrogrodzie i został skierowany do zapasowego batalionu w Tambowie, a w czerwcu 1915 na front. 28 października 1915 dostał się do niewoli, potem do jesieni 1918 był w obozie jenieckim. W grudniu 1918 przybył do Kowrowa, gdzie pracował jako technik, od czerwca 1919 służył w Armii Czerwonej, był dowódcą plutonu i pomocnikiem dowódcy kompanii piechoty, od marca do listopada 1920 jako dowódca kompanii i dowódca batalionu brał udział w wojnie domowej na południu Rosji, m.in. na Kubaniu.

Po wojnie służył w 13 Dagestańskiej Dywizji Piechoty w Północnokaukaskim Okręgu Wojskowym jako dowódca batalionu, a od lutego 1924 do maja 1931 kolejno pomocnik dowódcy pułku, szef sztabu i tymczasowy p.o. dowódca 37 pułku piechoty, w 1929 ukończył kursy "Wystrieł". Od maja 1931 dowodził 95 pułkiem piechoty 32 Dywizji Piechoty w Saratowie, w grudniu 1931 został pomocnikiem szefa sztabu 18 Dywizji Piechoty w Jarosławiu, od września 1935 do maja 1936 pomocnikiem szefa sztabu 52 Dywizji Piechoty w Moskiewskim Okręgu Wojskowym, w latach 1936-1939 pomocnikiem naczelnika szkoły wojskowej im. Frunzego w Omsku, a od sierpnia 1939 jej naczelnikiem w stopniu pułkownika. Od sierpnia 1942 uczestniczył w wojnie z Niemcami jako dowódca 308 Dywizji Piechoty w składzie 24 Armii, 1 Gwardyjskiej Armii i 62 Armii Frontu Stalingradzkiego i Dońskiego, brał udział w bitwie pod Stalingradem. 7 grudnia 1942 otrzymał stopień generała majora. W lutym 1943 wraz z dywizją został skierowany na Front Kaliniński, gdzie uczestniczył w operacji rżewsko-wiaziemskiej, w maju 1943 dywizja ta została włączona w skład 3 Armii Frontu Briańskiego, w lipcu 1943 brała udział w bitwie pod Kurskiem. 3 sierpnia 1943 Gurtjew zginął w walce w rejonie orłowskim. Jego imieniem nazwano ulice w Wołgogradzie, Omsku, Orle i Znamience oraz szkołę w Orle. W Orle postawiono jego pomnik.

Odznaczenia
 Złota Gwiazda Bohatera Związku Radzieckiego (pośmiertnie, 27 sierpnia 1943)
 Order Lenina (pośmiertnie, 27 sierpnia 1943)
 Order Czerwonego Sztandaru (dwukrotnie, 4 maja 1943 i pośmiertnie 4 sierpnia 1943)
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Rosyjscy Bohaterowie Związku Radzieckiego
Czerwoni (wojna domowa w Rosji)
Generałowie majorowie Sił Zbrojnych ZSRR
Odznaczeni Orderem Czerwonego Sztandaru
Odznaczeni Orderem Lenina
Uczestnicy I wojny światowej (Imperium Rosyjskie)
Radzieccy dowódcy dywizji w II wojnie światowej
Urodzeni w 1891
Zmarli w 1943

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The Detainee Inquiry, headed by Rt. Hon. Sir Peter Gibson, was supposed to have investigated the allegations of complicity in torture and "extraordinary rendition", by the British government, especially its secret intelligence agencies - MI5 Security Service, SIS Secret Intelligence Service, GCHQ and possibly DIS the Defence Intelligence Staff.
However the Detainee Inquiry has been shut down before it even got started formally, even after 18 months delay, supposedly because of the suspiciously lengthy and ineffective Metropolitan Police Service and Crown Prosecution Service investigations into old allegations and the effect of the "smoking gun" documentary evidence discovered in Libya last autumn.
In order to probe exactly how potential witnesses and whistleblowers to the Detainee Inquiry might be protected from vengeful secret bureaucrats, Spy Blog requested, under the Freedom of Information Act 2000, the full, detailed text of the latest draft(s) (or the final version) of the promised undertakings from the Attorney General and the Cabinet Secretary and the heads of the intelligence services.
This seems to be a reasonable level of legal immunity, especially for criminal offences which the Attorney General himself decides whether to prosecute or not e.g. Official Secrets Act cases.
How can it can enforce any prosecutions for giving, or conspiring to give it any "false evidence", which the Attorney General's undertaking explicitly does not give immunity for ?
However the letter does not really provide the necessary guarantees for any whistleblowers who might contradict their current or former bosses.
Neither is it clear what whistleblower guarantees the vast array of private military contractors, defence industry suppliers and sub-contractors etc. who are not civil servants, but who will fear that their security clearances and government contracts could be at risk if they make allegations, or provide evidence which contradicts the official intelligence agency briefing positions, which those agencies might have provided to the Detainee Inquiry or which they might do so to a future inquiry.
There is no explicit prohibition on using the self authorised legal powers, human and technological resources available to each intelligence agency, to prevent them from snooping on the members and staff of the Detainee Inquiry itself (and their friends and families), so as to try to obtain advance notice of the identities of potential whistleblowers and the information or evidence which they might be offering to the Detainee Inquiry.


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How Old Is Beast Boy – All You Know
One of the main characters of the Titan series is Beast Boy. He is a present member of the Doom Patrol. Among the five founding members of the Teen Titans, Beast Boy is one of them. So, how old is beast boy?
This fiction superhero has appeared in American comic books a lot of times. The character beast boy is one kind of shapeshifter. It has the ability who possesses metaphor itself into any animal it chooses.
The appearance of this character was first noticed in Doom Patrol, and after that, it appeared in Teen Titans. There has been a lot of appearance of Beast Boy in numerous films, cartoons, and television shows.
Beast Boy first appeared in Legion of Super-Heroes, which was unrelated to Garfield Logan. Beast Boy is estimated to be eighteen years as of now.
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This cartoon show was introduced back then in 2003 which was highly stylized. All of the characters play unique roles maintaining simplicity, and soon they are adopted by the younger audience.
The Actual ages of the most well-known Teen Titans members are given below:
At the end of issue 4 in the miniseries, Tales of the New Teen Titans, Cyborg mentions that Beast Boy is only sixteen years old. So as of now, he is esteemed to be eighteen years old.
In the Tales of the New Titan, Tara was said to be sixteen years old, and it was at the time of her death. This age was indicated in the tombstone of Terra.
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According to the miniseries of the Tales of New Titan, when the victor spoke of the past, he mentioned that he was only seventeen years old. Although the transformation after his passing away was seen at the age of eighteen.
Kory mentions in her story in the miniseries of the Tales of New Titan that after training with Warlords based Okaara, she grew from a child to a woman. So she is estimated to be twenty to twenty-three years old by now.
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When Dick accepted an alcoholic drink, it was understood as alcohol was permitted at the age of eighteen age of Starfire will be around eighteen to nineteen.
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The character of Raven changes and keeps updating from time to time. On the contrary, her age is supposed to be eighteen to nineteen by now. Her character always faced deception from the original character.
Mark and Marie were the parents of Beast Boy. They would travel various jungles of the world to study their wildlife as they were geneticists.
There were several jungles of Africa, Brazil, and India where Beast Boy was brought up.
The main attraction of interest for the Logans was in a rare species, which consisted of green monkeys.
But something terrible happened when they finally found them. Beast boy was nibbled by one of the monkeys, and a severe illness was contracted, which was Sakutia.
To save Beast Boy, his parents attempted to cure him with the help of a new serum. And that curing serum bestowed him with such shape-changing abilities.
His skin, hair, and eyes were turned to green color as a side effect. Beast boy's faced a boat accident which caused them to die later in his life.
A superhero team called the Doom Patrol, and soon after his parents left, Beast boy showed interest in joining that team.
He entered the headquarters of Doom Patrol as an intruder. But as he was a superhero, his fantastic way to escape the capture was successful, and thus he earned membership on the team.
Beast boy was the youngest in the team of Doom Patrol. However, soon due to a less than encouraging attitude, separated Beast boy from his surrogate family, revealed in Homecoming Mento's harsh discipline. After that, he followed in his footsteps and struck into on his own.
Afterward, he searched to look for a new place and then came to jump city. There he met Starfire, Robin, Cyborg, and Raven.
After his appearance, he helped them in liberating Starfire from the captive of her Gordanian. In this way, the five formed a new team, and it was called Teen Titans.
As per the forces of nature, Beast Boy's career with the Titans was a bit odd. His attitude was a jokester, and he also used to exhibit a carefree character. For this reason, he has to face some trouble too.
One advantage of Beast Boy is that he had a strong sense when it comes to responsibility. But the exhibition of this special advantage was rare.
There are five seasons in total, and each of the seasons is followed by some episodes. They are described below:
The third chapter of the series and the first period is the Final Exam. This episode is similar to another episode, Divide and Conquer, and they tend to get mixed up.
Final Exam was the first episode to be released on TV, and on the other hand, Divide and Conquer was the inaugural episode to be composed.
The main focus of Teen Titans in this episode is to play the central role.
Other episodes in this series are:
The Sum of His parts
Deep six
Mad Mod
The main attraction was in the eighth episode, which is the Deep Six. In this episode, Beast Boy desires to prove him as the best.
The second chapter of the second period and the fifteenth season of the Teen Titans is Every Dog has his day.
In this episode, Beast Boy is seen taking solo trips around the city. He wanted to be seized by Soto with a false identity with the latter's personal alien dog.
Soon after, in the next episode, which is Terra, the third episode of the Teen titans beast boy falls in love with Terra.
But he didn't immediately start a relationship with Terra. Beast Boy started his love relationship in the tenth episode of the second season, which is Betrayal.
When Terra didn't have so much confidence and didn't feel welcomed, Beast Boy had a lot of support.
Another problem with Terra was that she couldn't control all her powers. So she asked Beast to help him and made him a promise that he cannot say anything to reveal.
Terra was also told to turn into evil by Slade as he is convinced her, but Terra wouldn't listen to her. In this way, Terra's power went out of control.
Soon after defeating Slade, Robin's the observation kid, told him that everyone knows that she couldn't hold her powers and cannot control them. Terra felt betrayed and left Beast Boy and ran away.
Other episodes in this season are:
How long is forever?
Only Human
Winner Take All
Fractured
One of the most surprising episodes in Teen Titans was during Titan Rising. It is the eighth episode of season two and twenty-one episodes of Teen Titans. The returning of Terra in the Titan rising episode gave a huge surprise.
The reason Terra came back is that she wanted to be among one of the Teen Titans. Beast Boy was surprised and excited to see her back.
Similarly, Terra was also eager to continue their departed relationship. Thus in this way, Beast Boy and Terra got unified again.
Some accident caused to download a malicious computer virus by Cyborg in the fourth episode of the third season.
This virus came from a bootleg copy of Mega Monkey 4, which was his favorite computer game. When it entered into the latter system, it caused him to rampage across the city.
After that, Beast Boy, along with Gizmo, who assists in press-ganging, entered Cyborg's body in the form of a decomposer which is an amoeba, and successfully managed to defeat the virus. Other episodes of this season are:
Betrothed
Can I keep him?
Bunny Raven or How to make a titan animal Disappearance
Titans East
The ninth episode, which is The Beast Within, showed the confrontation of Beast Boy with Adonis. Both Beast Boy and His Opponents were doused with chemicals that were hazardous.
The chemicals caused and the emergence of creating a more wild side and resulting in some transformation.
Eventually, they were turned into super-werewolf-type animals. Being in such a condition, Adonis was defeated by Beast Boy, and he successfully managed to save Raven's life.
But the other partner's Cyborg, Starfire, and Robin were astonished to see Beast Boy in such a form.
They say that Beast Boy was holding the teeth of Raven, and he was unconscious. As a result, they thought that he was the main criminal who attacked her.
They were in a misconception as Beast Boy was the one who saved Raven, but Adonis plotted it in such a way that Beast Boy was framed to be the culprit.
After that, when Adonis was defeated, Cyborg made an antidote for them. Adonis was found to be the leading criminal and handed to the authorities. So afterward, Beast Boy's name got cleared, and he was declared to be innocent.
The main attraction of this season was noticed in the eleventh episode, which is The End. In this episode, "The Beast Within" was again used and in the form of a werewolf.
The attack of Slade as a minion for providing the service for Trigon was made to the Titans Tower, and the army was full of fire demons.
Although that army gave him a lot of strength and ability, he never used it again. He thought that only using it as a last resort would be beneficial. The other episodes of this season are:
Episode 257-494
Cyborg and Barbarian
Employee of the month
Mother Mae-Eye
In this season, Beast Boy is given the highest priority by the Teen Titans as Beast Boy has a pre-history with Doom Patrol, so taking him as a great deal was something necessary. A surprising amount of intrinsic leadership skills was seen by Beast Boy in this season.
He convinced Mento to think positively and think wise in a challenging situation rather than muscling it.
One of the toughest situations they faced was when the Brotherhood of Evil carried an attack on all the young superheroes around the world.
This was revealed in the eleventh episode of season 5, which is Calling All Titans. Other episodes are of this season are:
Revved up
The character beast boy played the role of jokester of the group, and he was lighthearted. Beast Boy is playful, sometimes immature, and very much energetic.
In the whole Teen Titan series, he constantly kept proving himself by showing kindness and battle competence.
All of the series, starting from Doom Patrol all the way to Teen Titans, the Character of Beast Boy is something to remember forever.
His current age being eighteen, he played a significant and authentic part in both of the series for a long time. Beast boy was also health-conscious, and for that, he is a very strict vegetarian.
More ever Beast Boy will get transformed into a human again if he remained unconscious for some time. His character showed the obedience of maintaining proper health at how old is beast boy.
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This hotel is located some 1.5 km from the town centre and railway station of Salach,between Stuttgart and Ulm,both about 40 km away. The hotel is situated inside a renovated historic castle overlooking the river valley and the surrounding landscape of Fils. Its location at the top of the hill in the woods makes it a place of tranquillity and relaxation. The business and conference hotel was renovated in 2011 and offers 41 rooms. Younger guests can run wild on the children's playground and in the hotel restaurant guests can enjoy gourmet specialties from Swabia as well as Mediterranean dishes. The panoramic hotel bar awaits visitors at night and business travellers can make use of the conference facilities. For those who seek relaxation,the hotel has a solarium,a sauna,a steam room and offers massage treatments. Fans of the fairway can visit a golf course about 6 km away.
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Menlo Park, CA – November 28, 2011 – nlyte Software, the data center infrastructure management (DCIM) solution provider founded by data center professionals for data center professionals, today launched nlyte 6.2, the first DCIM solution to provide large scale data center project lifecycle management.
nlyte DCIM project lifecycle management allows customers to auto-allocate hundreds of assets, easily create what-if models for any number and size of data center projects, automatically convert those models into actionable project plans with associated work orders, and predict the impact those projects have on the availability of power, space, cooling and connectivity. Each model can support moves for hundreds of assets tracked through Gantt charts to an on-time project completion. nlyte DCIM project lifecycle management makes it easy to simulate and manage large scale moves, adds and changes, technology refreshes, migrations, consolidations and other complex data center projects.
"Using predictive intelligence and analytics to automatically create actionable outputs is extremely useful to operators who need to make moves, adds and changes in the data center. I would expect data center professionals involved with planning and executing large scale initiatives who use the capabilities in nlyte 6.2 to generate substantial time and cost savings," said Andy Lawrence, Research Director for Datacenter Technologies at The 451 Group.
Additional capabilities available in the nlyte 6.2 release include expanded browser support for Safari on the Mac, ongoing support for French and enhanced cable visualization. The cable visualization features allow users to selectively show one or many levels of connectivity so they can rapidly navigate even the largest networks to trace connections and identify potential redundancy issues at a glance.
"The DCIM Project Lifecycle Management functionality allows us to easily orchestrate the end-to-end process for deploying new assets in the data center. It handles prototyping the deployment, verifying the capacity, projecting the impact, reserving the space, generating the work orders and tracking the project to a successful completion. With nlyte 6.2, Nomura gains extended control of our data center projects and decreases the time and cost to deploy hundreds of assets in our data center," explained Mark Andrews, Data Centre Manager, Nomura.
"DCIM needs to become simpler to adopt and use. In August of this year, nlyte introduced an entry level solution, nlyte Express Edition that makes it easy for companies to get started quickly with DCIM. DCIM project lifecycle management makes it easy for customers interested in enterprise class capabilities to move rapidly up the DCIM maturity curve and take advantage of advanced features that more effectively optimize the user of power, cooling and space," said Jon Temple, president & CEO, nlyte Software.
nlyte Software was founded by data center professionals for data center professionals and is the independent provider of DCIM solutions. The nlyte DCIM suite provides the predictive intelligence and management controls needed to achieve smarter, more efficient and highly available data centers. nlyte Software is headquartered in Menlo Park, Calif. http://www.nlyte.com.


In August 2010, after years of praying and longing to see a church established in the mid-Valley, God sovereignly brought together a group of people that shared a vision to love, grow in, and proclaim God's Word. With a core group of about 30 people, we began meeting together without a pastor or a definite plan. Little by little God drew from among us our leadership, committed members, and a vision for this church. By January 2011, we had the church assessed by the leadership of Heritage Bible Church in Greer, South Carolina. The men came to encourage, confirm, and assess our ministry. They also helped us constitute and formalize Redeemer Bible Church of the Valley. Since being constituted, God has led us to develop a church that puts absolute supremacy on God's truth, on loving one another, and on sharing the Gospel. Because of Jesus Christ rescuing us from our sin and bringing us home to the Father, we long to respond by sharing this great news with others.


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Apple developers aim with 3000 experience
One year later, HP resolved one 3000 issue
In May of last year we tracked a list of HP 3000 issues that remained unresolved by the vendor. HP had announced it was closing its 3000 group operations, including its lab. It expressed the belief that it had addressed all outstanding issues concerning 3000 ownership.
One year later, nearly all of the list of unresolved issues remains in limbo. The lone exception is the identity of the parts of the MPE/iX source code HP licensed for outside use. But only the eight licensees have learned what's included in the millions of lines of 3000 OS code. At least someone outside of Hewlett-Packard has discovered something of the 3000's secrets.
What remains secret, or undiscovered this year, are issues around support in 2011, as well as the fate of dozens of 3000 enhancements and fixes finished by the lab in 2008. There's also the matter of HP's assistance to creating an emulator -- in the event that an emulator emerges for cross-hardware virtualization.
Among the support questions without a response are those related to HP's post-2011 services as well as independent support assistance.
1. The process to unlock the HP 3000 diagnostic software hasn't been outlined. Some of these programs were built for the HP Unix servers, both HP 9000 as well as Integrity systems. As of the last report from the independent support community, some diagnostics require HP-supplied passwords.
2. The HP 3000 knowledge base from the HP Response Center has no plans announced to become available to the independent support providers. HP has said that the database includes customer-specific comments throughout, a privacy issue. But you'd think that the world's top enterprise computing company knows how to remove such comments, so known problems can be identified quickly.
3. HP's services to restore an HPSUSAN number for a system board seem to be landing in the exclusive realm of Client Systems in 2011. This kind of disaster recovery will need to continue to be available to all 3000 owners by next year, and 2011 has no HP support offers for the community. Client Systems competes with several HP 3000 resellers who also offer support. That means Client Systems will best serve the community by responding to these disaster requests as if they don't compete with some customers.
For example, Cerro Wire's HP 3000 support, for both hardware and software, comes from Genisys. Client Systems is in competition with Genisys for hardware upgrade sales. HP divided up this kind of conflict by separating system sales from support in two divisions, but that kind of separation is hard to maintain for a small company like Client Systems.
4. Throughout the past year, HP's charges to restore HPSUSANs on a per-call basis have been inconsistent, according to resellers. Published flat rate pricing seems fair, but it's still a dream.
The above unanswered questions can be resolved by HP's Worldwide Support team. An announcement of the post-2010 policies from HP Support could clear up major issues related to homesteading on a 3000. Places like the 80-year-old Cerro, which has been using 3000s since 1980, will homestead for years beyond HP's exit date.
Then there's the development and enhancement issues. Dozens of HP patches to several versions of MPE/iX remain in limbo today. This engineering passed alpha testing but didn't get enough testing from the customer community to pass beta. Some of the problem lay in HP's methods: only HP Support customers could test and report.
HP's release policy remains unchanged about patches it's created. The beta-test limbo since 2007 has seen a lot of patches check in to be built, but far fewer checked out for public release. HP was supposed to be considering reducing the test requirements. But the vendor closed its lab early in 2009 without altering the policy.
Finally, there are requests that went unresolved for years on the list, wrapped more around HP's operating policies than strategic HP exit plans. The community asked for the test suites HP used while developing MPE/iX. Denied. The community has asked for years that Series 9x7 3000s be allowed to boot up on the more modern MPE/iX 7.0. Denied. The community asked that the CPU throttling that cripples processors on 3000s be removed. This is a simple software command sent during boot-up to the 3000 system-specific stable storage. Denied.
We don't even need to get into assistance on bringing SSH security for the 3000 up to Secure Copy Protocol standards. HP started the work but didn't finish in the labs. Risk is a part of every IT solution, even HP's 3000 replacements. Remaining on the 3000 is an alternative HP understands but doesn't recommend. Resolving issues like this list from last year would show some support of homesteading. In 2009 we could still say, "There's always next year." In 2010 that's not true anymore.
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The Syrian civil war has reached what's widely being mistaken for its endgame as shelling and airstrikes began in the last major rebel-held enclave this week. The Russian-assisted regime assault on Idlib means the conflict "could be about enter its final stage" according to the BBC. Over the past week, The Washington Post has twice referred to a coming "final showdown" in the war-torn country. The campaign could bring the conflict into a new phase without ending it in any meaningful sense. If Assad does eventually retake Idlib, the regime's reconquest of all significant rebel-controlled territory will raise a string of new dilemmas for Israel.
Over the seven years of the Syrian conflict, Jerusalem's main objective has been to maintain its ability to strike at Iranian or Hezbollah-linked targets inside Syria, while keeping the chaos of the civil war and Israel's numerous enemies as far away from its borders as possible. This approach has basically worked so far: This week, the IDF acknowledged that it has struck at Iran-linked targets in Syria some 202 times over the past year-and-a-half. Spillover violence inside Israeli-held territory has been minimal.
At no point has Israel even toyed with regime change in Syria, and the country's security planners and diplomats insist that Jerusalem isn't backing a side in the conflict. As Israeli United Nations Ambassador Danny Danon told Tablet in a late August interview, "Prime Minister Netanyahu made the very smart decision that we are not interfering in the civil war in Syria. And it wasn't easy for us, being a Jewish nation and seeing the atrocities in Syria." Instead, "our goal is to move the Iranians far away from our border and outside of Syria," Danon explained.
The Idlib campaign is likely to complicate Israel's attempted neutrality on the war's outcome. As Assad consolidates his control of Syria, Iran and Russia have become even more entrenched in the country, with outside powers accepting their long-term presence as one of the conflict's realities. For instance, in early August Russian military police began patrolling the Syrian-Israeli disengagement zone in the Golan Heights alongside U.N. peacekeepers. That move put ground forces allied with the Assad regime, and fighting on the same side of the conflict as Iran, along Israel's frontier with the tacit blessing of the U.N. itself. Israeli Ambassador Danon doesn't see this as a threat to Israel: "Those are technical things for us," he said of the Russian deployment. Still, Moscow is likely to enjoy an even greater degree of operational freedom during the coming phase of the conflict, with the tolerance and even the complicity of leading international institutions—which raises the possibility that the international community will eventually accept a permanent Iranian presence in Syria as a fact of life in the Middle East, too.
Apart from the Iranian proxies active in Syria, the country's constellation of jihadist groups will probably survive whatever the regime does in Idlib. But even if Assad succeeds in conquering the country's last major contiguous pocket of opposition-controlled territory, precedent suggests that the campaign will come at an appalling human cost, with thousands or tens of thousands dead, substantial refugee outflows, and a permanent-looking Iranian and Russian military presence within the newly "liberated" areas. Syrian refugees are not returning to the places Assad has retaken—not surprising given most of them were fleeing his government in the first place—and civilian deaths spiked this past August after an uptick in Russian airstrikes.
Idlib presents one of the steepest military challenges Assad has faced over seven years of war. An estimated 3 million people live within opposition-held parts of the province, which borders Turkey and is close to Syria's regime-controlled coastline and major cities. According to the BBC, around half of the area's current civilian population fled into Idlib from other rebel-held territories that fell to Assad, an indication of how desperate and unsparing the coming battle is likely to be. There's a reason Assad has decided to go after Idlib last: The enclave's size and strategic importance make it, arguably, an even more fraught battleground than Aleppo had been.
The Assad regime and its allies are also prematurely looking to a post-conflict Syria, in the hopes that foreign donors will begin to finance the country's reconstruction. In practice, Syria's "rebuilding" means distributing the costs of Assad's brutal campaign to various multilateral donors like the U.N. and the E.U., who would end up underwriting an Iranian-allied human rights abuser to the tune of some $250 billion. Again, Danon seemed unconcerned. "We will not get involved about who will do what, who will control what in Syria," he said when asked about how the politics of the country's reconstruction could impact Israel. Still, an international community exhausted with the Syrian quagmire—and eager for any reason to send millions of refugees back home—might be tempted to hand the Assad regime whatever it asks for, enriching and emboldening one of Israel's adversaries.
Israel's national security chiefs have always believed the country was better off reacting to events in Syria than shaping them. Jerusalem's patience through a critical stretch of the war, if it holds, will owe to Israeli planners' skepticism that even the most dramatic developments in the Middle East can be decisive or even all that clarifying. When asked about the possibilities of a long-term truce with Hamas, Danon hinted that his country can never expect its strategic challenges to be solved with any real finality. "It says in the Bible that after each war, varetz tiskhot arbayim shana—basically after a war, no matter against who, there was quiet for 40 years. You can call it a truce, a ceasefire, but basically there was a war, we won, and the other side respected or learned the lesson for 40 years. Nowadays it's much shorter than 40 years." For better or worse, Israel believes it's locked in an indefinite state of wait and see nearly everywhere it looks.


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ALTOONA, PA — The Baysox had a bevy of hits Tuesday night in Altoona. But sometimes it is when not how many. Bowie's 15-hit night was not enough as the Baysox left 12 men on base in a 6-4 loss in Altoona.


Video display and scoreboard specialist Daktronics has installed several new displays at the North American University of Dayton's UD Arena and the Elmina Stadium in Accra, Ghana.
The Ohio University will see a new nine-display centrehung system, two ribbon displays, four basketball stanchion displays and five digital scorer's tables.
The main centrehung displays are capable of variable content zoning, allowing them to show one large image or to be divided into multiple zones to show any combination of live video, instant replays, game statistics and information, graphics and animations, and sponsorship messages.
The University of Dayton will also receive digital content to be produced and delivered by Daktronics Creative Services.
Meanwhile, Daktronics has also installed two new LED video displays at Accra's Elmina Stadium, home to Ghanaian Premier League football club Elmina Sharks.
Ashiaki Wilson-Tei, an associate of the business development department of Groupe Nduom, the conglomerate which selected Daktronics' displays for the venue, said: "We were highly pleased with the entire process and working with Daktronics. Our goal is to have a facility with a quintessential design and amenities that would not only make sports and entertainment accessible to the people in the area.


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Tweak says, "Tonight we dine in Hell!!"
Entry tags: -backdated, -complete, -gamewide plot, loki laufeyson, wanda maximoff
Who: Wanda & Loki
What: visiting during the haunting
When: Saturday evening
Notes: Backdated
The air felt heavy in the Avengers Tower, and Loki found it to be oppressive. It was like a veritable weight on his shoulders. He felt it as he watched Thor's furnishings move, although he and this much better version of his brother had a chuckle moving things back so that unseen hands could move them again. There was no disagreement about polter-ghosts existing. He'd been to Helheim when he was learning to walk the paths, and the ambience of that wasteland was similar. Hel was much worse and he, in his youth, was wise enough to go back the way he came and never go back again.
His older counterpart noted more than one return to Hel in warded journals, but Loki knew better. He knew better than to call out the shade haunting this place, for it felt as though his every step was being watched. Whatever it was, it was malevolent rather than benign.
He wandered through the residential floors that he was relegated to, a tall, thin figure clad all in black, moving as quiet as a shadow. This tower was vastly different to the one of his most recent memories. Half-mad due to the scepter and Thanos' influence, he was still struggling to come to terms with what transpired. This evening was no different, and his restlessness dictated that he needed another walk to clear his head of dark thoughts.
Having accessed the virtual assistant to find out who was staying in the tower, Loki stopped outside Wanda's door. He meant to check in with the talented young woman, to see how she was fairing after pulling a con job on Mephisto.
He lightly knocked on the door and stood back, hoping he didn't wake her and fully prepared to leave if there was no answer.
Wanda was inside the room, crimson wisps shooting to and fro, a flurry of baby cradle parts circling her as she determined where they all would go. The twins (due in February, but she expected to deliver end of January or at least she hoped considering this wide load she was carrying) had a nursery in the tower too. She'd decided upon the sun and the stars as a theme, but for that special time when they were very little, they'd sleep in the same room as her. Hence why she was putting together the cradles using telekinesis - but she gently deposited the wooden pieces back on the ground when she heard the knock.
A poltergeist infecting the tower wasn't going to stop her from assembling either. Wanda had faced much worse, when it came to the supernatural.
"Coming," she called, since it took her a little bit of extra time to heft herself off of her bed and waddle to the door. She was surprised, in a good way, to see who was on the other side. "Loki, hi. Come in - is everything alright?"
Loki smiled, and there was no trace of any mischief making. It was surprisingly kind. Apparently even the God of Mischief had a limit, and pranking mothers of any realm was one of them.
"Hello, Wanda," he said, voice smooth as silk even as he almost nervously glanced back over his shoulder toward the end of the corridor. It felt like he needed to keep an eye on a dark elf with an invisibility cloak, who was creeping up to knife him in the back. "I wished to check on your well being. As well as consult with you, regarding the...uhh...spirits in our midst, as it were."
He entered the room as she bid him to do, slipping past her both quickly and carefully. It was mindfully done, so he didn't brush against the swell of her belly, or jostle her in any way.
Wanda didn't usually let people touch her belly - that all came about because whenever she was in public, she got so many ladies cooing at her and asking when she was due and trying to lay hands on her twin-bump, and she just wasn't having it. However, she didn't mind friends touching. She counted Loki among those.
She'd been feeling kicks too, little popcorn kernels, and it was such an odd feeling. Sometimes she was guilty of grabbing a friends hand (Stephen, she had done this to Stephen) and placing it on her belly excitedly so they could feel too.
"I'm well," she smiled, sitting on the edge of her bed. "Tired a lot. And...heavy." She felt like a beached whale, but let's not split hairs. "But yes, this whole thing - I have been trying to communicate with the spirit, but can't really pick up on much. It does not seem overly friendly though." She felt chilly whenever she reached out to it, and was loathe to really push given her dealings with Mephisto.
He wouldn't take the liberty of doing so, not without her permission. He worried about the brush of another mind against his, the subtle reading of surface thoughts and intents with carefully woven spells he cast on himself long ago. He could use that to influence others, but it was nowhere near what Wanda could do. Sometimes he did so without thinking, and it was his reason for such care around her and her children. He didn't want to invade on her space more than he was already.
As he listened, he was idly rubbing and picking at the palms of his hands with his fingers. It was the only outward sign of nervousness he ever dared show, as though his hands were twitching to cast a spell or throw a knife.
At least Wanda knew what was prowling in their midst. Of course she did. The Scarlet Witch would sense such things, fleeting though they may be, the same as he and Thor would.
"However weary you feel now, when your children are born, it will be worthwhile. Your discomfort a mere memory, blotted out by overwhelming joy." He smiled back at her, standing before the foot of the bed. "The same can't be said for a spirit tha-"
BANG! It sounded like a clenched fist punching the wall by the door, followed by an eerie silence.
He eyed the door warily and looked down at Wanda, all without moving his head.
"...that is rather agitated, indeed," he finished. "Has it been bothering you within your chambers?"
Wanda started a bit at the loud banging noise, bluebird eyes squinting into an irritated slit. The spirit was listening, that much was apparent. "Not too much - I think it just keeps hopping around and bothering others more closely," she mused. "Tony, Natasha, Thor..."
Whatever grudge the spirit had, it seemed to hold it most strongly against the original Avengers crew. Perhaps it was someone who felt wronged by them. Wanda wished she could ask, but all her attempts to talk were thwarted and she didn't want to try other methods without Stephen's guidance.
"I am probably going to create some safe spaces though," she added. "Salt circles. Hopefully it will help others in the tower find peace of mind to know they have places to go. If you want to do it with me, that might be more efficient."
The air felt heavier in an instant, and Loki was certain they were being watched. He raised a single finger to his lips, casting a spell of silence around them. This effectively bypassed Heimdall's hearing many times, for that skill was just as formidable as the gatekeeper's ability to see afar.
"Salt is effective, and yet it can be broken with one false step from the living," he said. He considered options before pulling a lump of silver and a delicate chain that glimmered like quicksilver from his pocket dimension. As he clenched his fist and opened his fingers again, the lump was shaped into a round loop, crossed at the bottom, the two smaller ends curling in on themselves. Along the larger loop were faintly etched runes for protection.
He put it on the chain and offered it to Wanda, the best he could manage without having a smith make it. "Wear this. It can protect pregnant women and unborn children from dark magic, among other evils."
The bubble of silence didn't stop the air from growing so cold, so suddenly, that their breath could be seen.
"It doesn't seem to appreciate the wall of silence," he told Wanda with a smile. "I could ward the threshold with blood magic in the form of a protective sigil. It might not fend it off forever, and those walking by will wonder why there is blood over your doorway."
The dreaded funny looks from the neighbors. Perish the thought!
Well, yes. Wanda was of the opinion that the living should stay away from the circles, then (or within their protective bounds), and not trifle in them. And she was also of the opinion that they couldn't all just sit on their hands doing nothing, waiting until Stephen returned to babysit - she wanted to try something, rather than cowering. She'd do whatever she could to help, while at the same time exercising smart caution.
The appearance of the charm made her smile and she took it, placing the chain around her neck. "Thank you," she said sincerely - because the last thing she needed was more trouble with dark magic, for her and her twins. "I also don't mind blood in my doorway. I'm sure people have come to expect these strange things around me." That was just a perk of having a Scarlet Witch living in the Avengers tower.
"Stephen will be back soon though. Hopefully we can all hold down the fort in the meantime."
Loki smiled from her response to the necklace, but said nothing about his worries over the salt. Others could stumble through it, not appreciating the full importance, and one false footstep could open a vulnerability. He would leave that to her, since it was Midgardian magic and this was a purely Midgardian wraith in their midst.
"I will attempt to render it invisible, should I have some of the ingredients pocketed away." He paused, eyeing her as though curious and wary at the same time. "You trust him implicitly, don't you? I do find that curious. Surely you know that he is hiding more secrets than all of us combined."
"Stephen? I do trust him," Wanda nodded. "He took me in when I first appeared in this universe, and immediately agreed to teach me to hone my power. I hadn't had much training before that." Steve and Natasha tried after she first joined the Avengers, they were both intelligent people, but there was also a lot they couldn't help with - only someone who understood the burdens of magic would be able to assist in that specific way.
And regardless, at that juncture in her life, Wanda felt like she'd done more harm than good. She'd come a long way since then, and it was partly because of Stephen. "He is entitled to his secrets," she added. "Though I also asked him to be the godfather of one of the twins. That means he'll be changing a diaper or two, at some point."
The thought made her grin a little impishly. He'd probably find some spell to do it without getting his hands dirty, but not even Masters of the Mystic Arts were safe from projectile baby poop.
Well. There was no sweeter revenge than that, he thought with a mischievous smirk tugging at the corners of his lips. Although it wasn't exactly surprising that a cursory brush against the Midgardian magician's mind was like trying to delve into a veritable pit of darkness. It was locked down tight, and Loki knew from experience that didn't happen unless there was much to hide...including what they were willing to sacrifice.
"You are incredibly talented. Remind me to speak to you about Berglind's Principles of Mental Illusions," Loki said, while walking toward the door and resting a hand there with the lightest tough. There was a slight tilt of his head as though silently sensing the goings on beyond the threshold. "I think the would-be predator has tired of the hunt. I will place a sigil above your door, and attempt to cast an illusion over, so none know it is there. Simply because others expect an oddity, does not mean one need suffer unnecessarily."
He smiled at Wanda before opening the door, "Thank you for offering me refuge."
"You're welcome back anytime," Wanda promised. "And thank you for the assistance with all of this...ghost business." She couldn't guarantee that she'd fix everything, but she'd do her best to pitch in - and it was nice to have someone else around who understood the ways of poltergeists, as much as there was to even understand in the first place.
So now it was just a matter of making sure nothing too awful happened, before her mentor returned.


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