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When Eric finally went upstairs, he heard water running from Carrie's bathroom and walked past Ellie's door to go into his own room, carefully locking the door behind him. Stripping down to his underwear and a t shirt, he went quietly through his bathroom door and then through to Ellie's room. As he poked his head in the door, she looked up immediately and smiled, mouthing the word "Hi!" as she stepped all the way in. He tiptoed across the room to make sure Ellie's door to the hallway was locked before finally walking back to sit on the edge of her bed next to her.
Eric leaned over to kiss Ellie full on the mouth and felt her open her lips to accept his tongue as soon as he did. His hand went to her breasts and he could feel that she wasn't wearing a bra through the thin fabric of the soft t-shirt she was wearing. His hand snaked up under the bottom edge of her shirt and slid across the warm, and impossibly soft, skin of her stomach, before finally attaining a handful of her luscious boobs.
Ellie broke off from his kiss to sit up and pull her shirt over her head. Her eyes locked on Eric's face to drink in the reaction he had to seeing her topless. She reached down and scooted her panties down under her butt, before sliding them off of her legs, to lay completely naked beneath him, her eyes twinkling with flirty desire and the thrill of letting Eric see her this way. Eric lowered his head to her chest and took one of her puffy areolas into his mouth, like a soft pink marshmallow of fleshy joy that he just couldn't get enough of by seeing and touching.
Ellie's fingers slid along his scalp and locked together in his thick wavy hair, as her other hand wrapped around the back of his thick strong neck, and pulled him toward her. She gasped at the intense pleasure of having her brother sucking her tit and lightly pinching her hard pink nipples between his firm lips as he rose to the tip each time.
Eric paused to pull off his shirt and then stood up to pull down his underwear. He hadn't even managed to sit back down on the bed before Ellie had reached out to grab a handful of his thick, throbbing dick as his mouth found hers again. Breathing through her nose, Ellie could smell her own excitement and felt the familiar twinge of anxiety as she wondered if Eric would find it unpleasant. No guy had ever said anything, but she had always wished that girls didn't make a smell like that when they were turned on.
For Eric's part, the smell of Ellie's pussy would be forever linked to the most exciting events of his life. He thought it was the scent of sexual intoxication and the aroma of the dream-like impossibility of everything Ellie had done with him. It was the perfume of joy and carnal enchantment and its presence was simply a confirmation that he was about to enjoy another visit to the most wonderful place he had ever been.
Eric lifted his mouth off of Ellie's, even as her lips tugged his tongue regretfully. "There's something I really want to do," His voice was barely above a whisper. He kissed her lightly on the lips, the chin, her nipple and her stomach as he slid down her bed. He paused at the top of her thigh, halfway between her hip and her pussy as the rest of his body aligned itself between her legs. He looked up to find Ellie watching him and he had a hard time reading her expression as her eyes locked into his.
Eric's tongue reached out at and gently brushed the uppermost folds of her pussy, even as his eyes never left Ellie's. Her mouth tightened into a tight little 'o' shape even as the muscles of her stomach contracted and a shudder went through her entire body. Her legs slowly parted and Eric lowered his chin to allow his tongue to make a slow, gentle furrow from bottom to top along the surface of her pulsating labia. Ellie let out a small gasp and her hips rotated upward to try to extend and intensify the sensation of having her brother's tongue sliding along the outer folds of her sex. As Eric looked up to find her eyes again, he found hers locked in with his and reflecting an insatiable hunger for more of his mouth on her.
For her part, Ellie had never enjoyed receiving oral sex. The few times that guys had done it for her she felt were spoiled by her own self-consciousness, about whether all girls could smell themselves when they were excited, and the fact that they had really only given her a handful of indifferent licks that were followed by an immediate attempt to poke their dicks into her pussy or mouth. She had been left with a sense of being relieved that it was over and convinced that it would never live up to how one imagined it was before you experienced it. Much like finally tasting your first beer in somebody's garage, or backyard, and wondering why the people in the commercials always seemed to be so enthusiastic about it.
If she had to initially fight the urge to ask Eric to stop out of embarrassment, the look in his eyes after his tongue had touched her dispelled every bit of anxiety she had ever felt. He had looked at her like she was a goddess. Instead of an obligation, Eric had embraced her throbbing pussy like it was a sacred portal, meant to be approached with reverence and awe. She couldn't remember any guy looking at her like that and it was the most gratifying sensation that she'd ever experienced during sex. Eric had barely touched her and he had already given her more pleasure with his eyes than any guy previously had been able to with their entire body. Ellie reached down, to entwine her fingers in the crown of Eric's hair, as she lifted and spread her knees, like an exotic flower, blooming in time lapse photography.
Eric slid his shoulders up under the bottom of Ellie's thighs and felt her small feet touch lightly down onto his muscled back. He began taking deeper and deeper passes through the folds of her beautifully pink pussy now opened before him, noting how she responded each time his tongue reached the apex and slid over the tiny hard nub of flesh that extended itself shyly to meet his tongue each time.
Remembering the effect his finger had, he extended his tongue as deeply as he could into the upper folds of her pussy and licked upward as he brought it back out to the top. Ellie gave a small cry as her hips lifted and rolled with the motion of his tongue, her stomach and chest undulated with the movement of her spine and her body froze in an arch as a shock wave of pleasure washed over her from the detonation Eric's tongue had coaxed from her body.
Ellie looked down at Eric, his eyes closed as he focused intently on his work as her second hand joined her first in winding her fingers through his hair while her hips rode his tongue and she pulled him deeper into the throbbing epicenter of her consuming pleasure. Eric brought up his finger underneath his chin and slid it further back into the tightly clenching sides of her pussy than his tongue could reach. He felt her body tighten around his finger as the tip trailed along the roof of her pussy and the smooth skin and warm, firm flesh of her thighs pressed against the sides of his neck.
Ellie struggled to comprehend how much better this felt than anything she'd imagined from reading or hearing about oral sex. The sensitivity and writhing flexibility of Eric's thick long tongue as it worked through, and around, her pussy was unlike anything she'd ever been able to do for herself, let alone anything another man had ever done for her. As Eric had added the reach of his finger she'd felt like a fairy tale princess, whose body was being pleasured by a whole host of enchanted beings.
When Eric added a second finger, and began sliding them in and out, as his tongue danced around the upper folds of her pussy, she couldn't restrain the rising waves of pleasure that lifted her up onto a crest of tingling light. She held there, suspended in a frozen moment of ecstasy, that lingered there impossibly, before finally flinging her into a maelstrom of shuddering bliss as her body rode each grinding spasm of pleasure. Her hips rode Eric's fingers and tongue until she could no longer bear his touch, pushing him firmly away, restraining his mouth by her fingers, locked tightly in his hair, as her head slowly rocked from side to side and her chin reached for the ceiling above her.
When Ellie collapsed back onto her bed, quivering and panting, Eric slowly slid up alongside her and watched every inch of her petite frame, and luscious curves, writhing in the pleasure that would not easily leave her body. He marveled at how beautiful her swollen tits and puffy nipples were, the smooth swell of her strong little thighs and the hypnotic lines of her hips, stomach and pussy as they converged into that valley of mystery and pleasure that she had now allowed him to enter.
As Eric looked up to meet her eyes, he found Ellie staring at him like she'd never seen him, or any man for that matter, ever before. She lifted herself up on one elbow and leaned in to kiss him hungrily, not caring that his lips were covered with her own smell, and taste. Backing up on her knees she pulled her pillows from beneath him and propped them against her headboard, guiding him to sit up, reclining against them. She kissed him one more time before crawling backward to kneel between his legs.
Ellie wrapped her hand around the shaft of Eric's cock and lifted it from against his stomach to stand like an obelisk of manhood towering over his rippling stomach and his powerful thighs. Making sure Eric was watching, Ellie took the fleshy plum of his cockhead into her mouth and sucked it lovingly as her dangling boobs hung and wobbled deliciously just under where her pink lips were wrapped around the crown of his thick, meaty dick. Sucking all the way to the tip, Ellie opened her eyes and felt a surge of tingling go through her as her eyes locked onto Eric's.
Even after surprising him in the dark of the den the night before, Eric had a hard time believing that Ellie would willingly take his dick into her mouth, but here she was, doing it in full view and even looking up into his eyes as she did. He couldn't believe the sensation of having her lips and tongue caress the most sensitive part of his dick in the warmth and wetness of her mouth, but he was equally turned on by the idea that here was his older sister Ellie, the cutest girl in school with his dick in her mouth! Rather than being disgusted and ashamed to take his thick, vein-rippled cock in her mouth, here she was giving him a show and making sure he saw every second of her doing it!
Eric could feel his dick twitching of its own accord and he was sure that he must be producing precum with each pulse. He kept waiting for Ellie to make a face and spit it out once she realized that he was leaking it into her mouth, but she simply sucked more lovingly on the swollen head of his dick as each moment passed.
"Oh Ellie," he moaned softly. "That's so incredibly sweet…" He reached out to stroke her hair, hoping that touching her would somehow convince his that this wasn't just a dream. "Oh that's so good….you're sucking it so good…mmmm…mmm."
Ellie could taste the slippery precum as she made love to the head of her brother's dick with her mouth. As ashamed as she would have been to have a guy watch her sucking his dick before, she found herself wanting Eric to see every moment of her surrender to being his dicksucker. She wanted to give him even a tiny fraction of the pleasure that he had given to her and she would sacrifice every bit of her pride in order to do so.
Sliding her mouth further down onto his dick, she could feel her lips rubbing over the soft ridges of his head as she returned to the tip. Eric's dick was thicker and longer than any that she had sucked before, but she was determined to give him the most amazing blowjob she could. Taking a deep breath, she stood a little higher on her hands and knees in order to get a better angle and plunge her mouth down over his cock, as far as she could, in order to get as much of it as she could into her mouth. She fought the urge to gag as she felt it tickle the top of her throat, but held it for a moment in order to give him the opportunity to enjoy the sensation of having his dick fill her mouth. She sucked it all the way back to the tip and looked up to see his reaction.
Eric was entranced by the sight of Ellie bobbing up and down on his dick, feeling her warm wet mouth sweetly sucking and coaxing his achingly hard dick toward orgasm. When she had taken as much of his dick as she possibly could into his mouth, he was in awe to see this beautiful girl so willing to push herself to get every bit that she could into her cock-stuffed mouth. As many times as he had jerked off to pictures and videos of women giving head, he had no idea that it could feel even better than he imagined now that it was his dick being sucked, The fact that it was Ellie who was sucking it made it that much more intense.
When Ellie opened her eyes to look up at him, his dick shiny from her mouth and a thin strand of saliva connecting the tip of his dick with her swollen pink lower lip, it was the most incredible thing Eric had ever seen. She looked so beautiful like that, naked and vulnerable, kneeling between his legs after gorging herself on every inch of his dick that she could fit in her mouth. Her big blue eyes looked up into his and it was like time froze as Ellie drunk in the look of awe and admiration that her brother was unable to conceal, written all over his face. She gave him a sweet smile and felt herself blush to have him openly stare at her sucking his dick before she plunged his cock back into her mouth.
Ellie brought up her hand and began to stroke the shaft of his cock as her mouth continued to suck up and down on the top few inches, working with her hand in a seamless motion. She milked his cock with her hand and mouth, creating an additional pinching sensation with her fingers and lips as she reached the very tip each time. She varied the pressure of her hand and mouth as she bobbed up and down on his pulsating cock and felt his body tense up as he got closer to cumming. She could hear his breath coming in uneven stops and starts as the intensity of sensation caused him to gasp and hold his breath.
When his body went fully tense, Ellie eased up toward the tip and prepared herself for what was to come. She had asked the few guys whose dicks she'd sucked to warn her if they were going to cum, but Eric was the one guy she didn't need to warn her. She could tell he was getting close. She felt Eric grab her shoulder, but it was already too late.
Eric had been so caught up in how incredible it felt, and how surreal it seemed to have Ellie sucking his dick, that he was only able to reach out in the last seconds to warn her that he was about to cum. As his body tensed up, he grabbed for her shoulder and whispered her name urgently, but it was already too late.
Ellie shut her eyes tight as the first spurt of cum shot into her mouth and she swallowed it with a determination that she didn't care how disgusting it tasted or slimy it felt going down. As the second load filled her mouth she swallowed again, but realized, even as the cum slid down her throat, that it wasn't nearly as awful as she always imagined it would be. As the next pulse of his dick delivered a smaller load, she swallowed it easily and continued taking the diminishing squirts of his next few loads and swallowed each one as it came out, now fully sucking at the tip as only a small amount was oozing out and his cock had stopped twitching.
Eric's mouth froze in a shocked expression as he released his first load of cum into Ellie's mouth expecting her to pull back sputtering and choking on the thick nasty mouthful, but as load after load shot into her mouth, she simply kept her mouth locked over the head of his dick and took each one, sucking the last few from the tip of his dick before he could pull it away as it became too sensitive to touch. He slid up against the headboard, his chest heaving as his breath came in ragged gasps and he watched Ellie wipe across her lips with the back of her hand as she rose up from between his legs, and sat back on her heels.
Ellie wasn't sure if she'd feel the urge to gag or spit, as she swallowed the last of Eric's cum and tasted it in her mouth. But as she waited for a reaction, she realized that it really wasn't that bad, aside from the slimy texture, and she felt a sense of pride that she'd been able to go through it for him. Even if she ended up hating it after it was over, she had committed herself to doing it, at least once, for Eric, even if she never did it for another man again.
Still, she had no idea how he'd react after she had, and she couldn't help feel a little apprehensive, as she finally looked up to meet his eyes. She prepared for the worst as their eyes met, but she was completely unprepared for the look of concern on his face when they did.
"Ellie, I'm so sorry," he pleaded. "I tried to warn you…but it was too late." His eyes searched hers.
She smiled and shook her head in disbelief. "Eric, I knew it was coming," she rolled her eyes, embarrassed at the pun. "I mean, I could tell it was about to happen."
"You did?" he seemed confused.
"Yeah…" she was now getting really worried what he would think. "I wanted to swallow it….for you…so you would know…you know…what it felt like."
His face fell, in utter disbelief, and he leaned forward to scoop her up in his arms, kissing her neck, her chin and finally her mouth. She tried to stop him, but never expected that he would try to kiss her, let alone plunge his tongue into her mouth like that. She felt a hot flash of anxiety and embarrassment, but as he lowered her to the bed, encircled in his strong arms, every thought she had melted away in the deep water that his kiss pulled her into.
When he finally pulled his face away from hers, he could only whisper, "I can't believe you did that for me. That's…that's the sweetest thing anyone has ever done for me, Ellie. I never would have believed that a girl like you would even, you know…," he blushed. "suck it like that."
"I'm not the biggest fan of doing that, but…it's…different with you," she blushed and smiled herself, looking down at his chest. "I want to make you happy…like…like you make me, I guess." She looked up at his eyes. "You're the first guy that I ever let cum in my mouth like that. Let alone swallow." She rolled her eyes and blushed again. "I just wanted it to be special. So you'd remember it."
"Ellie, I will never forget that as long as I live." He kissed her again.
"Are you sure you want to be kissing me…you know…after I…" Ellie winced.
"I don't care," he looked at her in amazement. "There's nothing about you that would ever make me want to stop kissing you." He planted another small kiss on her lips. "No part of you that I would ever be ashamed to kiss." He kissed the side of her neck. "I love every single inch of your body and I will kiss every single one of them, every chance I get, if you'll let me." He shifted his weight to suck briefly one of her pink puffy nipples before kissing it lovingly. "Can't you tell that I adore everything about you?"
He looked into her eyes and she knew it was true.
They laid naked together until well past midnight, hands touching and stroking each other's bodies in amazement, whispering, smiling, kissing, blushing and teasing as they walked the fields of this undiscovered country that they had only crossed over into during the last few days.
When Eric finally picked up his clothes and crept back into his own room, Ellie slowly put her shirt and panties back on, grabbed her phone, put in her earbuds and played a song as she laid back down in her bed. She whispered "adore' softly to the ceiling as the opening notes of Paramore's "The Only Exception" began playing.
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HomeTURKEYCentral Anatolia Region06 AnkaraQuota Application for the Disabled in YHT Flights Ended!
Quota Application for the Disabled in YHT Flights Ended!
04/11/2020 06 Ankara, Central Anatolia Region, RAILWAYS, GENERAL, High Speed Trains, HEADLINE, TURKEY
The Ministry of Transport and Infrastructure has lifted the shame of the quota application on High Speed Train (YHT) flights for the right of free travel granted to the disabled by law.
The Ministry of Transport and Infrastructure abolished the quota shame imposed on the High Speed Train services for the free travel right granted by the law to the disabled. The Disabled People in Transport Platform announced the quota practice, which was lifted after the struggle of the disabled, non-governmental organizations and opposition parties, on social media. Utku Çakırözer, CHP Eskişehir deputy, who brought the travel restrictions imposed on the disabled to the agenda of the Turkish Grand National Assembly, said, "They first took away the free travel right of the disabled on the train services, they applied quotas after the reactions. Since the beginning of the pandemic, the disabled have been fighting for the right to free travel, which is granted to them by law and taken away by TCDD. The quota application for the free travel right of the disabled was against the Law No. 4736. Now the struggle of non-governmental organizations has yielded results. Quota application has ended "he said.
THE STRUGGLE HAS RESULTED, LEFT
TCDD restricted the right to free travel for disabled people by granting free travel rights to only 400 persons with disabilities on 8-person trains and only 600 persons with disabilities on trains of 10 persons on High Speed Train and main line trains. In the presence of the quotas that TCDD description 226 disability rights in Turkey and Disability consisting of associations Transport Rights Platform publicly announcing, the barriers after the quota regime, civil society, gave the struggle of their organization and political party representatives. The quota for disabled people in YHT has ended as of yesterday.
KILIÇDAROĞLU CALLED, THE DEPUTY GAVE THE URBAN
Following the victimization, Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu, President of the Republican People's Party, called for the elimination of the grievances experienced by the disabled in his group speech at the Turkish Grand National Assembly, and Eskişehir Deputy Utku Çakırözer gave a parliamentary question in the Parliament.
REMOVING THE LEAD IS NOT ENOUGH, VICTIMS MUST BE REMOVED
CHP member Çakırözer said that his struggle for the acquired rights of the disabled has yielded results, and demanded that the grievances experienced during this process be eliminated. Çakırözer said, "The right to free travel given to the disabled by law was first taken away from them, and then the quota was brought after the reactions. The struggle of our disabled and hundreds of non-governmental organizations since the beginning of the pandemic has yielded results. The quota application for the free travel right of the disabled has ended. But it's not enough! In this process, the grievances of our disabled citizens who were forced to take the train by paying their wages and not using the right granted by law should also be eliminated ".
"NO EXPLANATION HAS BEEN MADE"
While there was no statement from the Ministry of Transport and Infrastructure and TCDD regarding the end of the quota application, the disabled learned that the quota was lifted by purchasing collective tickets. Rights of Persons with Disabilities Transportation said in a statement through social media platform, "Confederation of the Disabled and Turkey after discussions with Ministry officials conducted injured Konfederasyonunu we were waiting no explanation and description. As we were getting ready to take legal action for the return of our rights, we learned that the quota was removed by purchasing collective tickets. On Tuesday, November 3, 2020, 11 disabled friends were able to get free tickets from the same train or even from the same wagon. Thus, we determined that the quota application was removed from now on ".
I BUY TICKET AND GIVE YOU TO USE IT
In the post, it was announced that "people who have the right to free travel by buying tickets twice and who do not come to the train will not be able to use their rights by the system for 180 days, and those who become a habit will lose their rights indefinitely".
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Be careful what you wish for – it may come true. Comfortably residing at the top of many a militiaman's wish list as the summer release got closer was that something be done about plex farmers. CCP responded by making changes to Faction Warfare plexes in Kronos, but those have not been received without controversy. Today's Lowlife examines how lowsec is reacting and adapting.
Amongst those vocal about the changes we find a strong contingent of solo PvPers. The toughness and spawn frequency of the 'new' NPCs mean that they will affect a large number of solo fights. In small and novice plexes where the margins between victory and defeat are routinely narrow they can make all the difference. For instance; a balanced frigate running a small plex will spend somewhere in the neighbourhood of 3-4 minutes killing off the destroyer NPC's, so there's a good chance they will be on grid once a fight ensues. Solo roaming in FW space is often done in frigates for a number of reasons. Flexibility to enter plexes and better chance at getting through gate camps are two of them. Some of that flexibility is removed however because attacking or defending a medium (not to mention large) plex where the NPC is on the side of the opponent is a severe handicap. The NPCs now also have a heavier influence on fitting for solo fighting and plexing. Kiting and neuting setups are common for solo action but both pay for their specialisation with low DPS. The lowered DPS means that running a plex in a kiting or neuting ship has now been rendered comparatively inefficient – the NPCs don't do much damage but have a considerable active repair, don't care about neuting and magically match the speed of anything they're engaging. Commonly people looking for a fight would find a suitable plex, clear it, and then sit there and wait for a fight to come their way. Any potential opponents could jump into the system, scan down the plexes like a smorgasbord and warp to the gate, at which point both combatants could clearly see each other on short scan and choose to take the fight or leave. The NPC presence is now a considerable factor in that scenario and sitting in a plex in enemy territory, waiting for / offering a fight, now takes quite a lot of work. Some worry that these things are having a detrimental effect on solo content.
When stepping back and taking in the big picture for Faction Warfare another concern emerges. The changes mean that offensive plexing requires considerably more effort than defensive. While this has had the intended effect of severely reducing farming for farming's sake it has also reduced offensive plexing amongst active PvPers. According to a faction of military thinkers and analysts across the militias this translates to a significant reduction to 'organic' offensive plexing, leaving only coordinated and concentrated effort and resulting in an overall stagnation of Factional Warfare conflict. The logic here is that the NPCs themselves are fine, but that the spawn intervals are far too short.
Grievances from the perhaps unexpected standpoint of newer players also exist. The argument from this camp is that novice pilots now find it even harder to make a living by plexing and that the changes ostensibly become an even tighter bottleneck. A number of those who subscribe to this line of thinking argue that the changes were brought on by veteran PvPers with little concern for the new guy. It is believed that not only will green pilots have trouble dispatching the NPC's but they will also be more vulnerable to attack.
Some of the earliest complaints to the decloaking mechanic came from players who routinely hunted in cloak-fitted ships. These pilots felt that their game was being sacrificed for a perceived greater good that they didn't necessarily agree with. They argue that the changes dumb down plex fighting and that the decloaking radius is a clumsy solution, often pointing out that warp core stabilizers are the problem, not cloaks. Farmers can still sit just on the edge of 30km, move out of the decloak radius within seconds and simply cloak up and wait just as they always have.
It's easy to complain – EVE players are specially good at it. The smallest change will have someone up in arms, meanwhile no change equally has people marching up and down the forums wreaking havoc. Sometimes we get it right and push the game in the right direction, other times it's just growing pains. It is my (and many others) belief that that the changes to plexes in Kronos are good for lowsec, all of them. Sure, the spawn rates and some supporting mechanics may need to be tweaked, but all in all I think this is a leap in the right direction. Alternatives such as the elegant DPS penalty to warp core stabilizers or the much supported (albeit debated) timer rollbacks idea are still valid, but it's easy to forget that they too would have unwanted side-effects (on a side note; Mynnna proposed a very different and interesting solution). All across the warzones we have seen a reduction in blatant farming; op success as far as mission statements are concerned. Solo PvP and cloaking combat fits may be chipping in for the bill, but with Kronos other avenues for solo work as well as increased incentives for people to visit lowsec compensate for that. Even though belt fighting and exploration are cooling off from the initial shipping of Kronos they're bound to stay at a higher level than before, hopefully picking up the slack where plexes may be losing fight opportunities. As for reduced 'organic' offensive plexing, the changes mean that warzone control is taking on a more strategic tone, which in my book is a good thing. Faction Warfare tacticians have grown used to manipulating and using farmer behaviour as a part of their schemes, but it is a tool that didn't really fit the toolbox to begin with. Increased incentives for taking territory are probably a better answer to those concerns, things that are worth fighting and working for together, perhaps not even limited to the war zone. It must be said that it is indeed a harder FW out there for the new player. However, many of these green pilots are acting on what they've been told, and quite often those guidelines stem from an obsolete way of thinking. Plexes and LP aren't the only viable way to make some ISK in lowsec, especially not after Kronos. Even the value of LP is changing; with many of the farmers gone the LP market is cooling down and items are worth more, compensating for the added time and risk involved in taking a plex in enemy territory.


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Mats Hummels (Bergisch Gladbach, 16 december 1988) is een Duits voetballer die doorgaans centraal in de verdediging speelt. Hij verruilde FC Bayern München in juli 2019 voor Borussia Dortmund, waarvoor hij ook van 2009 tot en met 2016 uitkwam. Hummels debuteerde in 2010 in het Duits voetbalelftal, waarmee hij in 2014 het WK won.

Clubcarrière

Jeugd
Hummels werd in 1988 geboren in het West-Duitse Bergisch Gladbach als de zoon van gewezen voetballer Hermann Hummels en sportjournaliste Ulla Holthoff. Twee jaar later werd zijn jongere broer Jonas geboren. In 1995 werd vader Hermann jeugdtrainer bij Bayern München en verhuisde het gezin Hummels naar München. Ook de jonge broers Mats en Jonas sloten zich aan bij de jeugdopleiding van Bayern München. Mats doorliep alle jeugdreeksen en tekende op 19 december 2006 zijn eerste profcontract bij de Duitse topclub.

Bayern München
Op 19 mei 2007, de laatste speeldag van het seizoen 2006/07, maakte hij zijn competitiedebuut voor Bayern. Hij mocht toen van coach Ottmar Hitzfeld, in een duel tegen 1. FSV Mainz 05 dat met 5-2 gewonnen werd, invallen voor Martín Demichelis.

Borussia Dortmund

Toen Hummels in de eerste helft van het seizoen 2007/08 geen nieuwe speelkansen kreeg, besloot de club hem tijdens de winterstop te verhuren aan het Borussia Dortmund van trainer Thomas Doll. Op 29 januari 2008 maakte hij in de DFB-Pokal zijn officieel debuut voor Dortmund. In de competitie kwam hij dertien keer in actie voor "die Schwarzgelben". Op 19 april 2008 nam Dortmund het in de bekerfinale op tegen Bayern München. Hummels kwam in dat duel, dat na verlengingen gewonnen werd door Bayern, niet in actie. In de zomer van 2008 werd trainer Doll opgevolgd door Jürgen Klopp. Hummels bleef aanvankelijk op huurbasis bij Dortmund. In februari 2009 nam de club hem voor 4 miljoen euro definitief over van Bayern. Onder coach Klopp groeide Hummels uit tot een titularis. Centraal in de verdediging werd hij net als de Serviër Neven Subotić een vaste waarde. Op 18 oktober 2008 was Hummels voor het eerst trefzeker voor Borussia Dortmund, in de uitwedstrijd tegen Werder Bremen. Hummels moest in het seizoen 2008/09 bijna de volledige tweede seizoenshelft missen door een blessure. In dit seizoen maakte hij zijn Europese debuut, in het UEFA Cup-duel tegen Udinese.

In het seizoen daarop speelde Hummels dertig competitiewedstrijden waarin hij vijf keer scoorde, waaronder twee keer in de uitwedstrijd tegen FC Köln. In 2011 veroverde hij zijn eerste landstitel met Dortmund. In dat seizoen kreeg Borussia Dortmund verreweg het minste aantal tegendoelpunten in de Bundesliga. Hummels miste slechts twee wedstrijden. Hij scoorde op 2 december 2010 zijn eerste doelpunt in Europees verband, tegen Karpaty Lviv in de Europa League. Op 23 juli 2011 verloor Borussia Dortmund na een strafschoppenserie de Duitse supercup van rivaal Schalke 04, ondanks de benutte strafschop van Hummels. In het seizoen 2011/12 won de club de dubbel. De Bundesliga werd voor het tweede jaar op rij gewonnen, met acht punten meer dan nummer twee Bayern München. Tegen datzelfde Bayern won Dortmund op 12 mei de finale van de DFB-Pokal. Hummels scoorde met een strafschop de 2–1 in de met 5–2 gewonnen wedstrijd. Op 3 juni 2012 ondertekende hij een nieuw contract bij Dortmund tot 2017.

In 2013 bereikte het team van Klopp de finale van de Champions League. Dortmund moest het daarin opnemen tegen Bayern München. Hummels' ex-werkgever won de Duitse finale met 2–1. De Duitse verdediger speelde de volledige wedstrijd. Bayern was dat seizoen ook al te sterk voor Dortmund in de Duitse Supercup en in de kwartfinale van de DFB-Pokal. In de Bundesliga eindigde Dortmund op de tweede plaats achter Bayern. In alle competities speelde Hummels in het seizoen 2012/13 in 42 wedstrijden. Op 27 juli 2013 won Hummels met Borussia Dortmund de Duitse supercup door met 4–2 Bayern München te verslaan. 'Die Borussen' bereikten later dat seizoen de finale van de DFB-Pokal. Na een verlenging bleek Bayern München te sterk (0–2). Een paar maanden later werd 'Der Klassiker' opnieuw gespeeld, voor de Duitse supercup van 2014. Deze wedstrijd werd met 2–0 gewonnen, maar Hummels kon er wegens knieklachten niet bij zijn. In zijn laatste twee seizoenen bij Borussia Dortmund droeg Hummels vaak de aanvoerdersband van Borussia Dortmund. Dat deed hij ook in de finale van de DFB-Pokal in 2015. Deze werd verloren van VfL Wolfsburg. In zijn laatste seizoen bij Borussia Dortmund werd Hummels getraind door Thomas Tuchel. Onder hem stond Borussia Dortmund opnieuw in de finale van de DFB-Pokal. Na een strafschoppenserie moest Dortmund de beker aan Bayern München laten. Ook eindigde Dortmund tweede in de Bundesliga en werd de kwartfinale van de Europa League bereikt. Daarin werd het uitgeschakeld door Liverpool, ondanks een doelpunt van Hummels in de eerste wedstrijd.

Terugkeer bij Bayern München
Hummels tekende in mei 2016 een contract tot medio 2021 bij FC Bayern München. Dat betaalde 35 miljoen euro om hem na acht jaar bij Dortmund terug te halen. Zijn eerste wedstrijd sinds zijn terugkeer bij Bayern München speelde Hummels tegen zijn voormalige ploeg Borussia Dortmund, voor de Duitse supercup van 2016. Bayern won met 0–2. Op 19 augustus 2016 was Hummels voor het eerst trefzeker voor 'Der Rekordmeister'. Tijdens een invalbeurt kopte hij de 0–5 binnen tegen Carl Zeiss Jena. In de Champions League werd Bayern München in de kwartfinale uitgeschakeld door de uiteindelijke winnaar Real Madrid. Hummels kon vanwege een blessure niet bij de eerste wedstrijd zijn en moest noodgedwongen in de tweede wedstrijd spelen, ondanks dat hij nog niet helemaal fit was. Bayern München werd in de halve finale van de DFB-Pokal uitgeschakeld door Borussia Dortmund, ondanks het doelpunt vlak voor rust waarmee Hummels Bayern op voorsprong zette. Hummels won voor de derde keer in zijn carrière de Bundesliga.

Op 5 augustus 2017 begon Bayern München het seizoen goed door Borussia Dortmund na een strafschoppenreeks te verslaan voor de Duitse supercup. Hummels speelde de volledige wedstrijd. Op 28 april 2018, tijdens een competitiewedstrijd tegen Eintracht Frankfurt, droeg Hummels voor het eerst de aanvoerdersband van Bayern München. In de Champions League werd Bayern München opnieuw uitgeschakeld door Real Madrid, dit keer in de halve finale. Bayern München bereikte de finale van de DFB-Pokal, maar verloor deze van Eintracht Frankfurt. Bayern München werd voor het zesde seizoen op rij kampioen van de Bundesliga. Op 12 augustus 2018 won Bayern de Duitse supercup door Frankfurt met 0–5 te verslaan. In het seizoen 2018/19 kreeg Niklas Süle enkele keren de voorkeur boven Hummels. Na de 3–2 nederlaag van Bayern tegen Borussia Dortmund bleek dat Hummels ziek was, maar toch speelde. Hij werd hierdoor bekritiseerd. Bayern München won de landelijke dubbel door in de Bundesliga twee punten boven Borussia Dortmund te eindigen en de in finale van de DFB-Pokal RB Leipzig te verslaan.

Terugkeer bij Borussia Dortmund
Op 19 juni 2019 werd bekend dat Hummels terugkeerde naar Borussia Dortmund. Dortmund betaalde 38 miljoen euro aan Bayern München, Hummels ondertekende een contract tot 2022. De eerste wedstrijd van het nieuwe seizoen werd gespeeld tegen Bayern München voor de Duitse supercup. Borussia Dortmund won met 2–0, Hummels kon echter niet meespelen.

Clubstatistieken

 Bijgewerkt t/m 14 april 2021.
 *=Dit betreft een clubtotaal, dus over beide periodes van de club.

Interlandcarrière

In 2009 nam Hummels met Duitsland onder 21 jaar deel aan het EK in Zweden. Duitsland bereikte de finale en versloeg daarin Engeland met 4–0. In dat duel werd Hummels door bondscoach Horst Hrubesch ingeschakeld als verdedigende middenvelder.

Op 13 mei 2010 debuteerde Hummels voor het Duitse nationale team. Hij mocht toen van bondscoach Joachim Löw in een vriendschappelijk duel tegen Malta na de rust invallen voor Serdar Taşçı. Voor het WK 2010 in Zuid-Afrika werd de 21-jarige verdediger niet geselecteerd. Vanaf het seizoen 2011/12 kreeg Hummels steeds vaker speelkansen bij "Die Mannschaft". Hij speelde onder meer vier kwalificatiewedstrijden voor het EK 2012 in Polen en Oekraïne. Op 26 mei 2012 maakte hij in een voorbereidingswedstrijd voor het EK tegen Zwitserland zijn eerste doelpunt voor de nationale ploeg. Het EK 2012 was het eerste grote toernooi voor Hummels, die geen enkele speelminuut miste. Hij vormde samen met Holger Badstuber het centrale duo in de Duitse verdediging en bereikte met zijn land de halve finale. Daarin verloor Duitsland met 2–1 van Italië.

Twee jaar later nam Hummels met Duitsland ook deel aan het WK 2014 in Brazilië. De Duitsers werden groepswinnaar in de poule van Portugal, Ghana en de Verenigde Staten. In de met 4–0 gewonnen groepswedstrijd tegen Portugal zorgde Hummels met een kopbal voor de tweede Duitse treffer. De achtste finale tegen Algerije miste Hummels wegens griep. In de kwartfinale tegen Frankrijk stond hij opnieuw in de basis. Hummels zorgde na twaalf minuten met een kopbal voor de enige treffer van de wedstrijd. Na afloop werd hij verkozen tot man van de wedstrijd. In de halve finale werd gastland Brazilië vernederd met 1–7. Hummels werd uit voorzorg tijdens de rust, en bij een 5–0 voorsprong, vervangen door Per Mertesacker. In de finale stond de centrale verdediger opnieuw in de basis. Duitsland won na verlengingen met 1–0 van Argentinië en werd voor de vierde keer wereldkampioen. Hummels speelde de volledige finale. Hij was een van de tien genomineerde spelers voor de Gouden bal voor beste speler van het toernooi.

Met het Duits elftal nam Hummels in 2016 deel aan het Europees kampioenschap voetbal in Frankrijk. Duitsland werd in de halve finale uitgeschakeld door Frankrijk (0–2), Hummels was geschorst voor deze wedstrijd. In de eerdere twee knock-outwedstrijden werden Slowakije (3–0) en Italië (1–1, 6–5 na strafschoppen) verslagen. In de laatst benoemde wedstrijd benutte Hummels zijn strafschop in de strafschoppenserie. Hummels maakte eveneens deel uit van de Duitse selectie, die onder leiding van bondscoach Joachim Löw deelnam aan de WK-eindronde 2018 in Rusland. Daar werd Die Mannschaft voortijdig uitgeschakeld. De ploeg strandde in de groepsfase, voor het eerst sinds het wereldkampioenschap 1938, na nederlagen tegen Mexico (0–1) en Zuid-Korea (0–2). In groep F werd alleen van Zweden (2–1) gewonnen, al kwam die zege pas tot stand in de blessuretijd. Hummels miste de laatstgenoemde wedstrijd.

Op 5 maart 2019 werd bekend dat Hummels niet meer op een uitnodiging van Löw hoefde te rekenen. Hetzelfde gold ook voor zijn ploeggenoten bij Bayern München Thomas Müller en Jérôme Boateng. In 2021 haalde Löw Mats Hummels en Thomas Müller na tweeënhalf jaar afwezigheid toch weer bij de nationale ploeg voor het EK.

Erelijst

Zie ook

 Lijst van spelers van FC Bayern München
 Lijst van spelers van Borussia Dortmund

Duits voetballer

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Bill to open up energy market stalls
Lynley Donnelly
The transfer of Eskom's transmission assets appears to be a sticking point.
The unexpected delay in processing the Independent Systems and Market Operator Bill in Parliament sends the wrong signals to investors, creates uncertainty in the market and hinders those trying to enter the electricity market, according to independent power producers.
The Bill is intended to establish an independent systems and market operator (ISMO) to manage the country's power system and make decisions about planning, allocation and procurement regarding new entrants into the electricity market, which will compete with state utility Eskom.
Parliament's portfolio committee on energy completed its work on the Bill and delivered its report to the National Assembly, and the Bill was due to go to the National Council of Provinces for further deliberation. But it emerged late last month that the Bill, which falls under the department of energy, has been sent back to the portfolio committee.
South Africa faces a power shortage and, in the next 20 years, will need to build 40 000MW of new generating capacity. Eskom has repeatedly stated that it cannot fund this alone and will require the entrance of independent producers.
An independent systems and market operator was highlighted in the national development plan as necessary to widen participation and accelerate investment in the electricity sector.
Lance Greyling, the Democratic Alliance spokesperson on energy, recently described the move as "unprecedented" and said the executive was interfering in the processes of Parliament "in order to avoid Eskom relinquishing its control of the grid".
Seeking clarity
But parliamentary officials denied this. The chairperson of the portfolio committee, Sisa Njikelana, said the Bill was resubmitted following a request from the portfolio committee on public enterprises, which wanted to "clarify" some issues regarding the Bill.
He could not say what they were. Attempts to reach the public enterprises committee chairperson, Peter Maluleka, were unsuccessful.
The spokesperson for Parliament, Luzuko Jacobs, said that referring the Bill back to the committee was raised in a meeting of Parliament's programme committee early this month.
It was a multiparty structure and there had been no objection to the move. Later, through a motion in the National Assembly, it was "unanimously" adopted, he said.
The question of whether the ISMO should incorporate the transmission assets, essentially the wires that transport the country's electricity and which Eskom owns, was discussed during deliberations on the Bill.
The committee determined that the processing of the Bill should go ahead, but it recommended in its report to the National Assembly that the ministers of energy, public enterprises, finance and co-operative governance and traditional affairs should conduct a due diligence study on the feasibility and implications of the transfer of transmission assets to the ISMO and to submit a final report to the National Assembly by November 30 2013.
Making "no sense"
It also recommended that a cost-benefit analysis of establishing a transmission-system operator "or any other arrangement suitable to the South African situation" be undertaken.
But the managing director of the South African Independent Power Producers' Association, Doug Kuni, said sending back the Bill made "no sense".
Since 2008, the country had been in the grip of a power crisis, but the state had done little to give investors confidence that it was working to address the regulatory or institutional challenges facing the sector.
"[The government's] position on the structure of the sector oscillates all the time. It says it wants independents producers, but creates confusion in the market," he said.
The energy department and the treasury have facilitated the entry of independent green energy providers through the renewable energy independent power producer procurement programme.
Under the programme, which is entering its third and final bidding phase, independent power producers can sell power directly to Eskom under a purchase agreement guaranteed by the treasury.
Investors look to other countries
The programme has boosted the growth of renewable energy, but it represents only a small portion of the new capacity required by the grid.
According to Rajen Ranchhoojee, the projects and energy director and head of Africa at the law firm Routledge Modise, the complexity of the bidding programme has made it increasingly expensive for investors, encouraging them to look to other African countries for more competitive investment opportunities in renewable energy and alternative power projects.
The cost of bidding compliance was estimated to be between $1.5-million and $2-million, he said, roughly twice as expensive as in other parts of the world.
As the programme progressed, the maximum or ceiling tariffs offered per kilowatt for a number of technologies had also dropped substantially.
The ceiling tariff offered for solar photovoltaic in round one was R2.85 per kilowatt hour, but this had dropped to R1.40/kWh by round three, a decrease of 51%, he said.
That meant the cost of simply submitting a bid was becoming too high when weighed against the risk of a bid being unsuccessful.
Enough cash, insufficient human resources
Other problems included the regulatory compliance requirements of the programme and funding, Ranchhoojee said.
There was enough cash in the market, but insufficient human resources within the banking sector, he said, limiting banks' abilities to assist with these projects.
Ranchhoojee said that, given the government's other large infrastructure investment requirements, it was very unlikely to stand as guarantor to Eskom for those kinds of deals in the future.
The government had a better credit rating than Eskom and, although the utility was very large and relatively stable, without government's backing, investors were "losing a layer of security".
But the department said it had received "very positive feedback" about the programme, which was currently ranked the seventh most attractive such programme globally.
It had received international recognition and garnered several international awards, including the best renewable energy infrastructure programme in the world for 2012 by the Global Leadership Infrastructure Programme in New York in March this year. Eskom did not respond to requests for comment.
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NRL: Melbourne Storm coach Craig Bellamy left to wonder why Sia Soliola not sent off for tackle on Billy Slater
By Paul Zalunardo
Jul 23rd, 2017
Melbourne Storm coach Craig Bellamy joined the throng of dissenters who criticised the decision not to send-off Canberra Radiers forward Sia Soliola for his high tackle on Melbourne Storm star Billy Slater.
Bellamy used a pair of examples from his side's 20-14 win to highlight the differing weightings handed to offences by players.
The fact Soliola remained on the field – a decision NRL referees boss Tony Archer later admitted was wrong – remained on the field and Storm five-eighth Cameron Munster was given 10 minutes in the sin-bin for holding down a tackled player left Bellamy scratching his head.
''If it's not a sending-off, well I don't know what is a sending-off,'' the Melbourne coach said.
''It just seems that an incident like that happens, then you're on report – and he's (Soliola) gonna come under scrutiny no doubt.
''But we lose a player for holding onto someone for 10 minutes. That's right and fair, but that's probably the game at the moment.
''At the end of the day the decision was made and we play on.''
Speaking after the match, Bellamy said Slater was still struggling with concussion.
''It was a pretty heavy knock, he is just laying on the table in the room out the back,'' he said.
''He is talking and whatever but he's not feeling too good. We will just have to see how he goes throughout the week.
''For him to get knocked out like that was pretty severe.''
Slater's injury wasn't the only concern for the Storm.
They also lost influential skipper Cameron Smith to a pectoral strain in the early stages of the second half.
Smith said the decision to leave the field was made with the finals in mind.
''It's alright, I spoke to the doctor, he believes it is just a slight strain there,'' he said.
''I will have some scans and go from there, I think it was more of a just a precautionary thing.
''I went out on the second half to see how it was feeling and it was feeling pretty average and the decision was to come off.
''There is still a long way to go in this season, it wasn't worth the risk to be honest.''
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Hmm this explains a lot. I have been getting the same exact message. I just went through the reactivation, but still no luck.
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"Ft. Frank Turner" is a non-album single by the American hardcore band The Armed featuring archived vocal tracks of folk punk musician Frank Turner. The song was posted online for streaming exclusively at Adult Swim on June 5, 2019 as a part of Williams Street Records' Adult Swim Singles series. The following day, the song was made available on most major digital streaming sites through Sargent House. The Armed announced they had signed with the label coinciding with the release of "Ft. Frank Turner". Turner claims he did not authorize use of his vocal tracks for the song and was surprised by the release. The single's cover art features Frank Carter of Gallows, Pure Love and Frank Carter & The Rattlesnakes.

Unauthorized vocal samples
As the song's title suggests, "Ft. Frank Turner" features vocals from English folk punk musician Frank Turner. Early news reports about the song's release erroneously reported Turner was not present on the track. However, later that day, Turner posted to his social media accounts that he recognized his vocal tracks as originating from an unused and unfinished demo from a recording session with Kurt Ballou from eight years prior, and he did not authorize use of the tracks for "Ft. Frank Turner". In a tongue-in-cheek Facebook post announcing the new single, The Armed acknowledged the song was "riddled with uncleared samples." About the unauthorized vocal tracks, Turner said, "I was not at any point aware this was happening, don't know the band personally (though I am a casual fan), and didn't clear this." Concluding Turner's Twitter thread, he said that he had reached out to all parties involved in the creation and release of the single, but none of them were responding to his inquiries.

The band's media representatives have given differing responses to journalists' requests for comment regarding the controversy. When Pitchfork reached out, their reps pointed the publication to the American photographer and appropriation artist Sherrie Levine. When Stereogum reached out, The Armed trolled the publication by pretending to confuse Frank Turner with Frank Carter. The band replied, "It saddens us to hear that he's upset about the song. We've been big fans of Gallows for a long time."

Music video
The music video for "Ft. Frank Turner" was directed by Tony Wolski and co-produced by Joe Gall. The video's story centers around a convenience store clerk wearing a ghillie suit who is trying to close up shop, but can't because of two loitering customers. He ditches his post at the store to go skateboarding, but his friend (who is also wearing a ghillie suit) is struck in a hit-and-run accident. At 3:20 in duration, the video is a full two minutes longer than the audio track.

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External links
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Ft. Frank Turner on Bandcamp

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It\'s All More Common Than You Think
But I have a male friend who was told by his parents that a girl in his social circle was his father\'s love-child precisely to avoid any incestuous misadventures.
Must have been an interesting conversation, don\'t you think?
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Eva January 16, 2008 at 12:40 pm
At one time, wasn't the prefix 'Fitz' added to patronymic surname used for the illegitimate sons of aristocrats? If so, such conversations must have been common – which makes sense when social circles were more circumscribed and the number of suitable prospective mates smaller.
Peter Risdon January 16, 2008 at 1:22 pm
Fitz is just Norman French – 'fils' – son (of), retained most commonly where other forms of 'son of' were in common use, like Ireland (O' , Mac)
Eva January 16, 2008 at 1:33 pm
From Wikipedia, for what it's worth:
In later times, similar forms were coined for members of the English and British royal family, who historically lacked a surname, and particularly for illegitimate children of kings and princes (Fitzroy – son of the king, Fitzjames – son of the king James II of England, and FitzClarence – son of the Duke of Clarence). From this later use, it has been implied that the name indicates illegitimacy, which was not originally the case.
devilskitchen January 16, 2008 at 6:16 pm
Amusingly, I once knew a girl who kissed a young gentleman of her acquaintance and was quite hopeful that it would lead to more.
It was only during the holidays, when said young man rang her home, that she was told that he was, in fact, her father's lovechild.


The point is that I have never heard any enterprise leader default to the core values of the business as a way of developing the business. They are secondary to the overriding need to make a profit, at all cost.
I have for a long time lamented the fact that too many businesses, including professional service firms, do not discern when taking instructions whether the new or existing client chimes with the values of the firm. It should be obvious that any putative client that doesn't align with your values should not be accepted into the fold. Of course, this is easier said than done. Who knows when you speak to a client whether and to what extent they will turn out to fit the values that you hold so dear?
But too often the weighting is towards the net worth or monetary value of the client, as opposed to the type of client that fits with the sort of business you want to become.
It should be obvious though that like attracts like. Too often you fudge the issue so that it is not clear what, if anything, you stand for.
My advice is to take your values beyond a vanity statement and ask yourself if they do properly reflect who you are. If not, you either need to ditch the values and just accept that as long as people pay it doesn't matter a fig how they act, or you need to develop a strong sense of purpose that if your clients don't pass the values threshold you will not act for them.
Think carefully about your values. If you do care to write another long blurb make sure you are willing to stand by them.


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Virus killer gets supercharged
by Rice University
From left, Professor Qilin Li, graduate student Michael Liga, alumna Huma Jafry and Professor Andrew Barron have published a paper outlining their method to dramatically improve the effectiveness of a common disinfectant. (Credit: Jeff Fitlow/Rice University)
A simple technique to make a common virus-killing material significantly more effective is a breakthrough from the Rice University labs of Andrew Barron and Qilin Li.
Rather than trying to turn the process into profit, the researchers have put it into the public domain. They hope wide adoption will save time, money and perhaps even lives.
The Rice professors and their team reported in Environmental Science and Technology, an American Chemical Society journal, that adding silicone to titanium dioxide, a common disinfectant, dramatically increases its ability to degrade aerosol- and water-borne viruses.
"We're taking a nanoparticle that everyone's been using for years and, with a very simple treatment, we've improved its performance by more than three times without any real cost," said Barron, Rice's Charles W. Duncan Jr.-Welch Professor of Chemistry and a professor of materials science. Barron described himself as a "serial entrepreneur," but saw the discovery's potential benefits to society as being far more important than any thoughts of commercialization.
Barron said titanium dioxide is used to kill viruses and bacteria and to decompose organics via photocatalysis (exposure to light, usually ultraviolet). The naturally occurring material is also used as a pigment in paints, in sunscreen and even as food coloring.
"If you're using titanium dioxide, just take it, treat it for a few minutes with silicone grease or silica or silicic acid, and you will increase its efficiency as a catalyst," he said.
Barron's lab uses "a pinch" of silicon dioxide to treat a commercial form of titanium dioxide called P25. "Basically, we're taking white paint pigment and functionalizing it with sand," he said.
Disinfecting a volume of water that once took an hour would now take minutes because of the material's enhanced catalytic punch, Barron said. "We chose the Yangtze River as our baseline for testing, because it's considered the most polluted river in the world, with the highest viral content," he said. "Even at that level of viral contamination, we're getting complete destruction of the viruses in water that matches the level of pollution in the Yangtze."
Using a smaller amount of treated P25 takes longer but works just as well, he said. "Either way, it's green and it's cheap."
The team started modifying titanium dioxide two years ago. Li, an assistant professor in civil and environmental engineering whose specialties include water and wastewater treatment, approached Barron to help search for new photocatalytic nanomaterials to disinfect drinking water.
The revelation came when students in Barron's lab heated titanium dioxide, but it wasn't quite the classic "aha!" moment. Graduate student and co-author Michael Liga saw the data showing greatly enhanced performance and asked fellow graduate student Huma Jafry what she had done. Jafry, the paper's first author, said, "I didn't do anything," Barron recalled.
When Barron questioned Jafry, who has since earned her doctorate, he discovered she used silicone grease to seal the vessel of P25 before heating it. Subsequent testing with nonsilicone grease revealed no change in P25's properties, whether the sample was heated or not. Remarkably, Barron said, further work with varying combinations of titanium dioxide and silicone dioxide found the balance between the two at the time of the discovery was nearly spot-on for maximum impact.
Barron said binding just the right amount of silica to P25 creates an effect at the molecular level called band bending. "Because the silicone-oxygen bond is very strong, you can think of it as a dielectric," he said. "If you put a dielectric next to a semiconductor, you bend the conduction and valence bands. And therefore, you shift the absorption of the ultraviolet (used to activate the catalyst)."
Bending the bands creates a path for electrons freed by the UV to go forth and react with water to create hydroxyl radicals, an oxidant responsible for contaminant degradation and the most significant reactive agent created by titanium dioxide. "If your conduction band bends to the degree that electrons find it easier to pop out and do something else, your process becomes more efficient," Barron said.
Li saw great potential for enhanced P25. In developed countries, photo reactors designed to take advantage of the new material in centralized treatment plants could more efficiently kill bacteria and inactivate viruses in water supplies while minimizing the formation of harmful disinfection byproducts, she said.
But the greatest impact may be in developing nations where water is typically disinfected through the SODIS method, in which water is exposed to sunlight for its heat and ultraviolet radiation.
"In places where they don't have treatment plants or even electricity, the SODIS method is great, but it takes a very long time to make water safe to drink," Li said. "Our goal is to incorporate this photocatalyst so that instead of taking six hours, it only takes 15 minutes."
Barron wants to spread the good news. "Here's a way of taking what is already a very good environmental catalyst and making it better," he said. "It works consistently, and we've done batch after batch after batch of it now. The methodology in the paper is the one we routinely use. As soon as we buy P25, we treat it."
More information: Read the abstract at pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/es102749e
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One of Britain's most prominent and successful investors, business entrepreneur Mike Ashley laid a foundation and accumulated a lot of fame over the years. In his remarkable professional career, he often featured in news headlines for his passion for sports and his Barclay premier league club Newcastle United. He regained and inspired his football team to do well in English Premier Leagues. Mike Ashley has a fantastic start in his new role as a retailer for his retailing group named Sports Direct.
He has a phenomenal business reputation and seasoned entrepreneur who owned the Newcastle United Football team. Throughout his golden and remarkable outing in the Newcastle United team, Mike Ashley saw a lot of success and also familiar with the fan's expectation from his side. He is not just an owner of Newcastle United football club but also entered into the department store industry at the backend of his career.
Ashley owned the reputed football club Newcastle United with a phenomenal amount to buy the football club. His passion for sports never questioned off, and he always brings and commands over the team composition and also played a crucial role in marketing and player recruitment.
Mike Ashley is a seasoned and vastly experienced entrepreneur who guided his football team, Newcastle United, to glory and able to help his club sustains the fan follower's expectation. Mike Ashley was born in Burnham, and he always had a passion for sports from the beginning of his career.
Mike grew up watching his favorite legendary player's warm-up and had the privileged to interact with them. Before he began his professional career as an owner of the football team, Newcastle United Mike Ashley started his sports clothing chain when he just left the school in 1982.
Ashley continued to attach to his side and helped his football club to make a resounding start in the English Premier League. In 2007, he sold a significant portion of an asset of the company to whopping figures around $1.8 billion. Later Mike became the owner of the Newcastle United football team and paid nearly more than the people can think of. But Mike Ashley has not convinced the move he has taken and decided to sell the club twice. But both occasions he tried unsuccessfully and received criticism the way he handled the situation.
Personal Life and Achievements
Ashley's Sports Direct firm has an around about 38.5% stake, and in June 2019, Ashley keen to sell the club for huge money. In March 2020, Mike Ashley and Sports Direct both received a lot of negativity after it announced to open the business despite strict government instructions to close down all business centers after the COVID -19 outbreaks.
Just a day later, they told that they would implement all the government's decisions and lockdown their sporting goods chain retailer business and will reopen after government lift the lockdown and resume the normalcy. In 1988, Ashley married Linda Jerlmyr, and the couple has three children. Ashley is pretty much protective of his private life. He wears casual dresses and outfits, which many people fail to understand.
Mike Ashley's Net Worth Is $6.3 Billion
Billionaire Mike Ashley made a lot of wealth and fortune thanks mainly for his investments in sports. He accumulates most of his wealth from ownership of the football club Newcastle United. At the current time, Mike Ashley's overhauls net worth is $6.3 billion. He is among one of the wealthiest entrepreneurs and the owner of a football club that highlights his so far involvement in football sport. He makes a lot of money through investing and helped his reputation as a seasoned business person.
Mike Ashley is a familiar name when it comes to the English Premier League. His team Newcastle United has been a force to reckon football club mainly for Ashley's contribution and passion for winning the money-spinning English Premier League championship. He is such a successful entrepreneur and knows the demands of millions of football fans, and he assured his team not to let down their fans until the game is over.
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