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Ultimate Spider-Man è una serie a fumetti pubblicata negli Stati Uniti d'America dalla Marvel Comics dal 2000, incentrata sul personaggio dell'Uomo Ragno dell'universo Ultimate. La collana, dopo il crossover Ultimatum, è ricominciata da capo con il titolo Ultimate Comics Spider-Man. Successivamente la serie è ripresa nel 2014 come Miles Morales: Ultimate Spider-Man (vol. 1).

La serie è esterna alla continuity dell'universo Marvel classico e ha generato un universo parallelo, lo Ultimate Marvel, con un protagonista con caratteristiche diverse da quello classico.

Storia editoriale
La serie, Ultimate Spider-Man (vol. 1), è stata scritta da Brian Michael Bendis il quale è partito dalla originale storia di esordio dell'Uomo Ragno apparsa nell'agosto 1962 sulla rivista Amazing Fantasy in una saga di 150 pagine. Inizialmente è stata disegnata da Mark Bagley e poi Stuart Immonen. La serie viene interrotta col n. 133 per riavviarsi nel 2009, rinominata per l'occasione Ultimate Comics Spider-Man (vol. 1), disegnata da David Lafuente, che ha ripassato poi il testimone a Mark Bagley per la saga finale sulla morte di Spider-Man. Questa seconda serie si è interrotta a dicembre 2010 dopo quindici numeri ed è stata ripresa la prima serie, Ultimate Spider-Man (vol. 1), che ha proseguito la numerazione inglobandovi anche i numeri pubblicati nella seconda e completandosi con il n. 160.

Da dopo la storia "La morte di Spider-Man" la collana è ripresa da capo nel novembre 2011 con una nuova serie, Ultimate Spider-Man (vol. 2), incentrata su un nuovo protagonista e si è conclusa dopo 28 numeri nel 2013 al quale è seguita la miniserie Cataclysm nel 2014. La serie ha poi assunto una nuova intitolazione e nuova numerazione nel 2014, Miles Morales: Ultimate Spider-Man (vol. 1).

L'edizione in italiano è iniziata nel 2001, a cura dell'editore Panini Comics. I capitoli della prima numerazione (dall'1 al 133), fino all'evento Ultimatum, vengono raccolti originariamente in settantuno volumi, per poi ricominciare numerazione per i quindici numeri del primo rilancio ai quali seguirono quello dal 150 al 160.

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Ultimate Origins

Quando Peter Parker era ancora in fasce, circa sedici anni prima del morso del ragno, Nick Fury era stato posto dal Presidente a capo della seconda generazione del "Progetto Rinascita", che aveva lo scopo di riprodurre la formula del supersoldato che il professor Erskine aveva sviluppato negli anni quaranta e che aveva trasformato prima Nick Fury e poi Steve Rogers; il gruppo di scienziati era composto da Franklin Story Conant, Richard Parker, Bruce Banner e Henry Pym. Il progetto sembrava però non portare ad alcun risultato anche avendo come punto di inizio il sangue potenziato di Fury, finché un giorno Banner si inietta un ritrovato e si trasforma per la prima volta in Hulk rischiando di uccidere Richard, sua moglie Mary e il neonato Peter, venuti in visita proprio quel giorno. Riusciti però a sopravvivere, Richard si ritirerà dal progetto. A causa di Hulk i coniugi Parker sembrano rimanere uccisi e Peter viene preso in custodia da Fury. In realtà i due Parker erano solo svenuti e leggermente feriti, ma non morti.

Ultimate Spider-Man (Vol. 1)

Peter Parker è un ragazzo di sedici anni appassionato di scienze e studente molto dotato ma timido con difficili rapporti con i suoi coetanei. I suoi genitori sono morti in un incidente aereo durante un viaggio d'affari assieme ai coniugi Brock. Ora Peter vive nel Queens a New York, con gli zii materni Ben e May Parker. Durante una gita alle industrie Diamond, un ragno modificato geneticamente morde Peter corrompendone il sangue e facendogli acquisire la forza e l'agilità di un ragno oltreché riflessi pronti, un sesto senso che lo avverte dei pericoli e l'abilità di aderire alle superfici con mani e piedi. Inizialmente usa questi poteri per guadagnare qualcosa come lottatore di Wrestling.

Si comporta in maniera egoistica e altezzosa tanto che non interviene per bloccare un ladruncolo, sebbene fosse perfettamente in grado di farlo. Quello stesso giorno suo zio viene ucciso durante un furto. Peter, messosi alla ricerca del ladro, scopre che è lo stesso che aveva lasciato scappare. Nei giorni successivi gli ritorna in mente una massima di suo zio Ben, «da grandi poteri derivano grandi responsabilità». Inizia, così, la sua lotta contro il crimine. Peter trasforma la colla creata dal padre in un adesivo multifunzionale che usa nei suoi lancia-ragnatele da polso, che gli danno la possibilità di lanciare una sorta di liquido che diventa solido a contatto con l'aria. Da allora cerca di conciliare la scuola, la vita sociale di un normale ragazzo con la lotta al crimine, guadagnando nel frattempo soldi con un lavoro come web designer per il Daily Bugle. Norman Osborn, accortosi delle strane reazioni che la sua formula OZ ha avuto sul corpo del ragazzo, decide di replicare il successo dell'esperimento, iniettandosi il composto ma come risultato si trasforma in un enorme orco verde privo di controllo. Solo l'intervento congiunto di Peter e della polizia permettono di bloccare l'uomo, che scompare nelle acque. In seguito avvengono i suoi contatti con la malavita, prima attraverso Mr. Big e i suoi Enforcers e poi con lo stesso Kingpin, che attraverso l'intervento di Electro sconfigge Peter e ne scopre il volto ma non l'identità e lanciandolo giù dalla finestra del suo grattacielo. Spider-Man riesce però a salvarsi e decide di trafugare i video della sorveglianza in cui si vede Fisk uccidere Mr. Big. Il padrino di New York è costretto a lasciare la città per l'estero per evitare la cattura.

Peter si confida con l'amica d'infanzia Mary Jane Watson che dopo un iniziale shock si rivela entusiasta della cosa. Sfruttando l'occasione i due confessano i reciproci sentimenti e si mettono insieme. Nel frattempo il genetista Otto Octavius, che era rimasto coinvolto nell'esperimento di Osborn, si risveglia dal coma con le braccia metalliche usate nell'esperimento attaccate all'addome; in preda alla follia uccide tutti i dottori che lo attorniavano e fugge. In città arrivano Kraven, un avventuriero protagonista di uno strano reality show sulla caccia deciso a catturare Spider-Man e una nuova studentessa Gwen Stacy. Peter si ritrova ad affrontare Dr Octupus e Kraven. Norman ritornò successivamente in pieno possesso dei suoi poteri minacciando Peter di uccidere i suoi cari se non diventerà un suo sottoposto; decide di rifiutare l'offerta di Goblin che decide di vendicarsi arrivando a lanciare Mary Jane giù dal ponte di Brooklyn, salvata all'ultimo da Spider-Man. L'intervento congiunto di Spider-Man e dello S.H.I.E.L.D. riesce a sconfiggere Norman.

A causa dei fatti avvenuti però Mary Jane obbliga Peter a prendere una pausa nel loro rapporto, dicendogli che benché lo ami non riesce a reggere il ritmo che la sua vita. Depresso per la separazione Peter viene a conoscenza della morte di George Stacy causata da un finto Spider-Man. Peter vendica la morte dell'uomo catturando il criminale, ma Gwen, non riesce ad accettarlo e giura vendetta contro Spider-Man.

In seguito, Peter viene a conoscenza tramite un suo amico d'infanzia, Eddie Brock, che i loro padri stavano lavorando insieme a una tuta organica nera, con l'intenzione di curare il cancro, attingendo alle risorse interne del corpo. Peter decide di rubarla per fare delle ricerche per conto suo, ma viene infettato da essa, ricoprendogli il corpo di un nuovo costume e nota che la tuta aumenta i suoi poteri e gli dona un potente fattore rigenerante, ma dopo poche ore sembra influenzarlo negativamente e cerca di inghiottirlo. Peter riesce a togliersela sfruttando delle scariche elettriche. Poco dopo rivela ad Eddie Brock la sua identità e quello che aveva fatto, quindi decide di distruggerla. Eddie finge di assecondarlo, ma appena Peter se ne va, si versa addosso un campione da lui tenuto da parte e si trasforma in Venom. Nello scontro che ne consegue Eddie viene fulminato e il costume scompare nel nulla. Nei giorni successivi Peter si rimette insieme a Mary Jane e viene a contatto con la Forza di Pace degli X-Men, i quali scoprono la sua identità.

Saga del clone

Dopo la scuola Mary Jane invita Peter ad andare con lei a rilassarsi un po' al centro commerciale, nella chiacchierata che ne segue entrambi confessano i loro rispettivi fallimenti sentimentali; improvvisamente un criminale che si fa chiamare Scorpione scatena il panico nel centro commerciale. Peter è costretto ad intervenire in costume, non prima di aver intimato a Mary Jane di mettersi al riparo e, una volta messo al tappeto il folle criminale, scopre che è identico a lui. Mary Jane tornata a casa, viene rapita da un uomo misterioso.

Non sapendo cosa fare, Peter porta lo Scorpione dai Fantastici Quattro, che attraverso delle analisi mediche confermano che lo Scorpione è un clone di Peter, che si è smascherato per evidenziare il problema, con una corrispondenza del 94%. Sconvolto, ma rassicurato sulla non partecipazione di Nick Fury nella faccenda, Peter torna a casa e scopre che MJ è scomparsa: andandola a cercare incontra una donna misteriosa con i suoi stessi poteri. Pensando che lei abbia rapito la ragazza l'attacca, ma viene sconfitto e sviene. Risvegliatosi, decide di cercare presso la sua vecchia abitazione ed incontra con sua grande sorpresa una rediviva Gwen Stacy. Intanto, Mary Jane riprende conoscenza in una cupola di vetro in una centrale della Oscorp ormai abbandonata e scopre che a rapirla è stato un Peter sfigurato, intenzionato a iniettarle l'OZ affinché possa proteggersi da sola.

Mentre Peter si trova con Gwen, confusa e spaventata quanto lui, May li scopre e Peter non sapendo che fare le confessa ogni cosa. In uno scatto d'ira per essere stata messa all'oscuro, May intima al nipote di andarsene, quando all'improvviso appare Richard Parker, che confessa di non essere mai partito quel giorno e di essersi così salvato e di essere stato successivamente ingaggiato dalla F.B.I. per proseguire i suoi studi.

Durante la spiegazione, Nick Fury, a capo di uno squadrone dello S.H.I.E.L.D., intima a tutti di uscire a mani scoperte: il generale è venuto infatti a conoscenza di ciò che stava accadendo ed è prontamente intervenuto. Le minacce mettono nel panico Gwen che si trasforma nel mostruoso Carnage, causando a May un attacco cardiaco.

Nel caos che ne segue i Fantastici Quattro riescono a portare May in ospedale e a bloccare Gwen, mentre Peter riesce a sfuggire alla cattura grazie a quello che è il suo clone femminile, Jessica Drew, che gli racconta di come un'unità governativa abbia data vita a lei e ad altri suoi simili. I due decidono di ritrovare Mary Jane e pensano che un posto dove possa essere sia la Oscorp. Trovano il clone sfigurato e un altro clone dai tratti più ragneschi, che aveva cercato di salvare MJ, alle prese con un enorme essere vermiglio, il quale vedendo Peter si placa ritornando a essere la rossa Watson.

Rintracciati da Fury e consegnata Mary ai FQ affinché la curino, Peter e i suoi cloni scoprono finalmente chi è stato a formare tutto questo delirio, Otto Octavius, capo dell'ennesimo progetto del super soldato sponsorizzato dalla F.B.I. L'uomo afferma inoltre che il suo redivivo padre non è altro che un clone sottoposto a un invecchiamento progressivo. In preda alla rabbia, Peter accetta di seguire Fury, a patto che lo lascino da solo con Octavius. Durante lo scontro perisce il clone ragnesco, mentre quello sfigurato era già stato neutralizzato in precedenza, e vengono scoperti i poteri di manipolazione dei metalli di Octopus.

Dopo la sconfitta del dottore, Peter riesce a eludere ancora una volta Fury e ad andare prima da Mary Jane, poi da sua zia all'ospedale, scoprendo che entrambe stanno bene e sono fuori pericolo. Susan Storm riferisce a Peter della morte del clone "Richard", deceduto per la vecchiaia causata dall'invecchiamento forzato, e lui le risponde che già lo sapeva.

Mentre Peter veglia su May, viene raggiunto da Nick Fury, il quale gli chiarisce la sua situazione e gli spiega che cosa era davvero successo quella notte. Aveva programmato delle macchine apposta per la sua cattura, pensando che dopo tutto quello che aveva dovuto passare si sarebbe trasformato in un nuovo super criminale, invece si è dovuto ricredere, affermando al contrario che stava per nascere qualcosa di grandioso. In quel momento zia May si risveglia e si riappacifica con il nipote. Il mattino seguente, Peter si incontra con Mary Jane e, chiariti i loro sentimenti, i due si rimettono insieme.

Blockbuster

In più di un'occasione Peter collabora con il professor Xavier e i suoi X-Men. In questa saga, pubblicata su Ultimate X-Men, Peter di ritorno a casa trova Wolverine ferito nel suo scantinato che gli chiede di tenerlo nascosto per una notte e gli spiega che probabilmente era stato vittima di uomini del governo. Peter decide di dargli una mano. Successivamente si scopre che i militari sono tutti ex agenti di Arma X, congedati dopo la chiusura del progetto, assoldati da qualcuno affinché catturassero Wolverine. Una parte dei militari viene poi eliminata da Jean Grey a causa della loro entrata nella zona di Westchester mentre l'altra, scoperta, viene eliminata dal capo-gruppo che si suicida prima che i mutanti o gli agenti S.H.I.E.L.D. possano fare qualcosa per impedirlo. Il mistero sulle origini di Logan resta tale con sua profonda rabbia e frustrazione.

Ultimate Six

In questa saga, comparsa sulle pagine di Ultimates, alcuni dei nemici di Spidey, Ultimate Goblin, il Dottor Octopus, Kraven, Electro e l'Uomo Sabbia evadono da una prigione dello S.H.I.E.L.D., grazie a Otto Octavius. Peter Parker viene prelevato dalla sua scuola e portato al Triskelion mentre agenti S.H.I.E.L.D. tengono d'occhio zia May e Mary Jane.

Nel tentativo di bloccare le minacce di ricatto di Osborn, attraverso la diffusione del video sulla cattura di Kraven, Fury assalta la rete TV del russo che si rivela una trappola. Infatti, contemporaneamente Octopus fa partire un attacco informatico verso il Triskelion e non appena le difese si annullano gli altri quattro invadono la base spargendo distruzione e morte. Dopo l'assalto ci si accorge della mancanza di Peter, rapito dal gruppo. Norman Osborn rivela finalmente i suoi piani durante il colloquio con Peter: pensa che questi sia il sesto membro del gruppo, figlio suo e di Octopus, il prodotto finale del siero Oz. Cerca quindi di convincerlo a passare dalla loro parte, minacciando anche la vita di Zia May ed infine lo conducono alla Casa Bianca, per un attacco al Presidente.

L'assalto vede i Sei scontrarsi con le forze degli Ultimates e dello S.H.I.E.L.D.: dopo un'iniziale ritrosià alla lotta, l'Uomo Ragno reagisce attaccando Capitan America solo dopo esser stato nuovamente minacciato. Nello scontro tra lui e Cap, Peter scopre che le minacce di Osborn erano false, poiché May si trova sotto protezione dello S.H.I.E.L.D. e reagisce, pieno di rabbia, attaccando Osborn. Nel culmine della battaglia arriva Harry Osborn che chiede al padre di fermarsi: proprio mentre questo si stava trasformando in uomo, Iron Man spara un colpo e Goblin reagisce con violenza scatenando una nuova gragnola di colpi da parte di tutta la squadra, venendo tramortito. Intanto, il resto dei Sei viene sconfitto dagli Ultimates: Electro, dopo un duro scontro, viene fermato da Thor; Wasp entra nel corpo del Dottor Octopus e riesce a fargli perdere i sensi; l'Uomo Sabbia viene bloccato da Iron Man. Di fronte alla disfatta di suo padre, Harry giura di vendicarsi.

La situazione è completamente risolta: Peter viene riconsegnato a sua zia May, le braccia del Dottor Octopus vengono portate via, Electro, Kraven e l'Uomo Sabbia vengono rinchiusi nel Triskelion, mentre Norman Osborn viene ibernato e tenuto sotto stretta sorveglianza.

Potere Supremo

Vedendo che i Fantastici Quattro sono sotto l'attacco di un gruppo di superesseri terribilmente potenti, l'Uomo Ragno, trovandosi a svolazzare da quelle parti in compagnia di Shadowcat, li aiuta a combattere gli assalitori. Durante la battaglia vengono contattati anche gli Ultimates e gli X-Men, creando così un sostanziale equilibrio tra le due squadre.

All'improvviso gli assalitori sembrano essere ritornati in piena coscienza di sé e bloccando lo scontro fanno una dichiarazione sconcertante: vogliono arrestare Reed Richards, il leader dei Fantastici Quattro per crimini contro l'Umanità.
Il gruppo di sconosciuti si presenta come lo Squadrone Supremo, ovvero la Task Force di superesseri degli U.S.A. proveniente da un universo parallelo, devastato da spore emerse da una sonda lanciata da Reed per studiare quella dimensione; purtroppo le spore hanno causato innumerevoli danni alla Terra alternativa e ucciso diverse decine di migliaia di persone. Nonostante le resistenze da parte dei suoi amici, Mister Fantastic decide di seguirli.

Gli eroi della Terra però non vogliono arrendersi e decidono di trovare un modo per poter seguire Mr. Fantastic. Peter Parker nel mezzo della discussione propone di usare il Mjolnir di Thor per creare un varco e collegarsi all'altro universo.
In seguito, l'Uomo Ragno combatte insieme agli Ultimates sulla terra dello Squadrone fino all'arresto di Nick Fury, riconosciuto come vero responsabile dei danni che hanno causato distruzione in quella dimensione.

Ultimatum

Quando Magneto scatena l'onda anomala contro New York, Peter è uno degli eroi che si trova direttamente coinvolto nella catastrofe.

Direttosi con i suoi amici verso il centro cittadino in metro, e vedendo con i suoi stessi occhi la distruzione perpetrata da Magneto, Spider-Man decide di intervenire per salvare più persone possibili. Durante uno di questi salvataggi, J.Jonah Jameson lo vede dall'interno del Daily Bugle (che si trova sott'acqua ormai) e capisce che è un vero eroe.

Durante il suo cammino incontra Hulk, stranamente calmo e privo di rabbia, capitato anche lui in mezzo al caos che pervade la città. L'Uomo Ragno riesce a convincerlo ad aiutare a mettere in salvo più superstiti possibili e nel loro tentativo di soccorso si imbattono in un'ennesima tragedia: con grande dolore di Peter, sotto un cumulo di macerie scoprono il corpo senza vita di Devil. In quello stesso frangente, il gigante verde si calma definitivamente e ritorna ad essere Bruce Banner; vedendo New York distrutta, lo scienziato pensa di aver causato la catastrofe e, preso da uno scatto d'ira contro se stesso, si ritrasforma in Hulk e pieno di rabbia attacca Peter, non riconoscendolo più.

Inseguito dal mostro, l'Uomo Ragno giunge presso l'abitazione del Dottor Strange, trovandola distrutta e infestata da entità spiritiche. La barriera posta a loro protezione si è distrutta e ora i demoni circolano liberi per la città.
A peggiorare ulteriormente la situazione si presenta uno dei più potenti demoni esorcizzati da Strange, il dio degli incubi, il temibile avversario proveniente dalla dimensione onirica, già in precedenza affrontato da Peter e Strange. È più che deciso a ottenere un corpo per potersi impadronire della dimensione terrena e per questo decide di attaccare Spider-Man e Hulk facendo apparire i loro peggiori incubi: i nemici più agguerriti del giovane eroe e le persone uccise dal gigante verde. In tal modo l'essere acquista sempre più potere fino ad assumere una forma precisa.

All'improvviso Hulk gli si avventa contro distruggendo il suo nuovo corpo; riconoscendo in lui un temibile pericolo, l'essere si dà alla fuga rifugiandosi dentro la bolla di contenimento da cui era fuoriuscito. Hulk la colpisce ed essa provoca un'esplosione di energia mistica violacea che si estende per chilometri verso il cielo.

Intanto Kitty e Jessica Drew, intervenute anche loro in soccorso dei civili, si sono unite per cercare di trovare Peter e riportarlo dai suoi cari. Incuriositi dalla colonna violacea si dirigono nella sua direzione e nella frenesia delle ricerche trovano la maschera dell'Uomo Ragno; in preda al panico provano a chiamarlo ma non ricevono risposta. Kitty non può far altro che tornare a Forest Hill e consegnare la maschera a Zia May e a Mary Jane che pensando al peggio piangono l'eroe disperso.

Successivamente alla sconfitta di Magneto, J.Jonah Jameson fa ritorno a ciò che resta della sua redazione e scrive un elogio funebre in onore dell'Uomo Ragno, dato per morto, ricordando tutto ciò che ha compiuto per la comunità, ammettendo di averlo condannato e perseguitato ingiustamente, arrivando a considerarlo uno dei più grandi eroi che l'America abbia mai avuto. Durante le operazioni di recupero portate avanti dagli Ultimates, Capitan America e Iron Man, trovano il corpo inerme ma vivo di Peter sotto le macerie di un edificio.

Ultimate Comics: Spider-Man

Sei mesi dopo il crossover Ultimatum la vita di Peter Parker è completamente cambiata. Dopo la distruzione del Daily Bugle, Peter ha un nuovo lavoro in un Fast Food. Inspiegabilmente, Peter e Mary Jane si sono lasciati, lei si è tagliata i capelli e lavora come giornalista della scuola mentre lui ha iniziato a stare con Gwen Stacy, anche se Kitty Pride è ancora innamorata di lui. In città Spider-Man viene acclamato come un vero eroe, dopo le dichiarazioni di J.Jonah Jameson e c'è in giro un nuovo vigilante, che sembra la versione Ultimate di Sudario (Shroud). Mysterio uccide Kingpin ed è intenzionato a diventare il capo della malavita di New York. Inoltre, una sera Johnny Storm si presenta a casa di Peter chiedendogli ospitalità ma quando cerca di spiegarsi sviene per la stanchezza. Dopo essersi svegliato, Johnny contatta la sorella e dopo aver parlato con May, la zia di Peter decide di adottare la Torcia Umana. In seguito, Spider-Man affronta Mysterio riuscendo a sconfiggerlo solo grazie all'intervento di Shroud, che in realtà è Kitty Pride travestita. Poco dopo, Peter viene a sapere che Zia May ha adottato anche Bobby Drake, l'ex-Uomo Ghiaccio degli ormai disciolti X-Men, perché i suoi genitori lo hanno cacciato di casa per via della sua natura mutante. Bobby e Johnny iniziano a frequentare la scuola di Peter, cambiando il loro cognome in Parker, fingendosi suoi cugini.

La Trilogia del Nemico
La vita di Peter viene sconvolta dall'attacco portato da una misteriosa entità aliena che vuole purgare la terra da ciò che la società attuale ha provocato. Oltre a lui sono state vittime di attacchi anche Reed Richards, il Baxter Building, una filiale della Roxxon, Nick Fury e Jessica Drew.
Dopo vari disastri si viene a scoprire che la mente dietro a tutto questo è proprio il giovane Richards, che prende il posto del dottor Destino. Gli eroi Ultimate lo sconfiggono nella zona Negativa, e rimane sospeso nello spazio. Jessica Drew diventa un agente dello S.H.I.E.L.D. e Susan Storm chiede a Benjamin Grimm di sposarla.

La Morte di Spider-Man
Norman Osborn è sopravvissuto. Dopo mesi di stato comatoso si è risvegliato ed è riuscito a fuggire dal carcere dello S.H.I.E.L.D., per di più in un momento in cui l'agenzia governativa sta vivendo un momento di crisi, portando con sé i suoi compagni di prigionia, Otto Octavius, Kraven, Electro, l'Uomo Sabbia e l'Avvoltoio.

Rifugiatisi in un lussuoso appartamento del centro, fortunatamente vuoto, i sei fuggitivi vengono a conoscenza che le forze dello S.H.I.E.L.D. si trovano in una situazione di stallo, a causa di alcuni dissidi interni; capiscono che è la loro occasione di poter fuggire senza che nessuno possa impedirglielo ma al contrario Goblin propone un'alternativa: vendicarsi una volta per tutte di Spider-Man. Nessuno sembra avere niente in contrario, a parte il Dottor Octopus.

Octavius ringrazia Osborn per averlo aiutato a evadere, ma afferma anche di volere iniziare una nuova vita, e propone a lui di fare lo stesso. Per tutta risposta Goblin lo scaraventa fuori dal palazzo per poi ucciderlo in strada. In seguito i cinque fuggitivi si dirigono dal Riparatore, il progettista dell'attrezzatura dell'Avvoltoio che, sotto minaccia, li rifornisce di armi.

Intanto Peter, che aveva seguito di nascosto Steve Rogers per vedere se poteva dare una mano a risolvere la crisi che vedeva uno scontro tra forze amiche, viene avvertito da Mary Jane della fuga di Osborn e dei suoi. La ragazza gli dice che si metteranno sulle sue tracce per ucciderlo. Peter sempre sotto consiglio della sua ragazza decide di avvertire Gwen e sua zia May per metterle in salvo da possibili ripercussioni dei suoi nemici.

Una volta certo che le due donne sono partite e al sicuro, Peter riceve un'altra chiamata da MJ che lo avvisa dell'omicidio del Dottor Octupus per mano di Goblin. Peter si mette sulle loro tracce e trova il luogo del uccisione e anche il rifugio dei criminali anche se abbandonato. Da lì riparte e si ritrova presso il ponte di Queensborough luogo dello scontro tra le due fazioni dello S.H.I.E.L.D., dove scopre il Punitore pronto a sparare su Rogers. Non riuscendo a colpire il cecchino con una delle sue ragnatele, si getta come scudo umano sul Capitano prendendosi il proiettile al posto suo. La ferita è brutta e molto sanguinosa e prima che Cap. lo possa portare in ospedale, War Machine interviene in aiuto di Fury che stava per essere catturato e nel farlo distrugge parte del ponte. Peter al contrario di altri riesce ad aggrapparsi e a rimanere sul ponte.

Peter si risveglia sdraiato sul ponte fa appello a tutte le sue forze ma è ancora sul punto di perdere i sensi. Alla fine riesce ad alzarsi e a fasciarsi la ferita con la ragnatela bloccando l'emorragia. Decide di andare in ospedale, non dando importanza al fatto che poi tutto il mondo verrebbe a scoprire la sua vera identità. Ma proprio in quel momento vede i suoi nemici dirigersi verso il Queens. E a quel punto sa di non avere altra scelta.

Giunti di fronte a casa di Peter, i cinque pericolosi criminali si ritrovano di fronte Johnny Storm e Bobby Drake, che aveva fatto ritorno a casa solo allora ed erano ignari di tutto quello che stava accadendo. Lo scontro è inevitabile e il primo a cadere è proprio il Goblin. I due supereroi però si ritrovano soverchiati dai poteri elementari loro contrari dell'Uomo Sabbia e di Electro. Alla fine Spider-Man riesce a raggiungere il Queens e a sostituire i tramortiti amici nello scontro. Nonostante il dolore, la fatica e le forze che sempre più si fanno deboli Peter riesce a tenere testa ai quattro criminali.

Al culmine dello scontro, Electro si impone sui suoi compagni e decide che il colpo finale spetta a lui. Prima che possa agire, però, viene colpito al petto da un proiettile che produce una scarica che travolge anche i suoi compagni. Lo sparo proveniva dalla pistola di zia May accorsa non appena aveva sentito alla radio di quello che stava accadendo.

Zia e nipote si ritrovano ma la pace viene subito interrotta in quanto Goblin, ripresosi dai colpi subiti, si scaglia contro Peter. Messe in salvo sua zia e Gwen, Peter cerca l'aiuto di Johnny che non appena riprende coscienza affronta con grande coraggio Osborn scagliandogli contro tutto il suo potere, ma inutilmente: i poteri di Goblin si basano sul fuoco e le fiamme della Torcia vengono così assorbite privando di forza il giovane Storm.

Peter, nonostante tutto, decide di provare a bloccare il mostro e lo scontro ricomincia, ma il Goblin viene improvvisamente investito da un camion, alla cui guida c'è Mary Jane, che allo stesso modo di May non poteva certo restare a guardare senza fare niente. Ma Goblin è stato solo fermato e, messa in salvo Mary, a quel punto Spider-Man sfrutta le lamiere del camion per colpire Osborn ripetutamente, ma una nuova esplosione divampa prendendo in pieno il ragazzo e scagliandolo indietro.

Passano alcuni istanti: Peter si ritrova disteso sul prato mentre il corpo di Osborn è bloccato sotto le macerie infuocate. Mary Jane e Johnny accorrono e per primi si rendono conto che potrebbe non farcela: la ragazza invoca inutilmente un'ambulanza e un dottore. Arrivano anche Gwen e May, che si avvicina al nipote disperata dicendogli di farsi forza, che ce la farà. Ma Peter sorride, e prima di esalare l'ultimo respiro, afferma che è tutto a posto, di essere contento di aver salvato almeno lei, non essendo stato in grado in passato di salvare suo zio Ben; mentre i suoi cari piangono la morte del giovane eroe, le labbra del Goblin, bloccato sotto le macerie, si piegano in un ultimo sogghigno, soddisfatto di essere riuscito ad uccidere la sua nemesi.

Ultimate Fallout
Nei giorni successivi la morte di Peter, ogni persona che lo ha conosciuto, ma anche l'intera comunità, vive il lutto in modo diverso, reagendo (come Jameson e Mary Jane), sfogandosi (come Johnny e Kitty) o colpevolizzandosi dell'accaduto (come Gwen).

Il funerale, delle cui spese si occupa Tony Stark in persona, avviene nella cattedrale di New York e all'inizio della funzione May, accompagnata da Gwen riceve prima i ringraziamenti di una bambina, una delle tante che Peter aveva contribuito ad aiutare in passato, e poi le condoglianze di Steve Rogers che le confessa di aver avuto una parte, seppur indirettamente, nella morte di Peter. May in risposta gli dice che suo nipote ammirava tutti loro e che voleva diventare come loro, ma che non lo hanno preso sul serio, e tira uno schiaffo in viso a Cap.

In preda allo sgomento May si dirige verso l'uscita e ha un mancamento di fronte all'ingente folla radunatasi di fronte alla chiesa. Jameson, anche lui presente, la invita a rientrare, dicendole che altrimenti lo avrebbe rimpianto per tutta la vita.

Durante la funzione Kitty però non resiste e se ne va, dando mentalmente a tutti degli ipocriti, poiché hanno sempre cercato di fargli del male, arrestarlo, aizzargli contro l'odio delle folle, e ora con la sua morte cercano di trarne una specie di spettacolo. Poco dopo incontra Bobby e Johnny, anche loro distrutti e preoccupati di quello che accadrà dopo, perché non avevano un posto dove andare e non potevano mettere in pericolo May che li aveva accolti; Kitty però è a conoscenza di un posto, l'ex-rifugio dei Morlock, dove avrebbero potuto decidere con calma del loro futuro, usando quel luogo come base.

Una settimana dopo il funerale, casa Parker è ancora sotto l'assalto di giornalisti e troupe televisive; May e Gwen, che per cercare di non farsi riconoscere si è tinta di nero e tagliata i capelli a caschetto, decidono di accettare l'offerta di Tony Stark e di trasferirsi nella sua villa sulla Costa Azzurra in Francia, per cercare pace e tranquillità, per maturare il lutto e ritrovare un punto di inizio lontano dal martellamento dei media.

Lo stesso giorno Fury fa visita a Mary Jane dovendole dire una cosa importante, dato che già in precedenza si era avventurata sui luoghi degli ultimi scontri di Spider-Man per trovare le prove che dimostrassero come in realtà tutto quello che era accaduto non fosse stato un mero incidente casuale, ma un insieme di elementi che hanno portato alla sua morte.

Fury le dice che voleva bene a Peter e che aveva conosciuto i suoi genitori; dopo la loro morte voleva rendere onore alla loro memoria e sapendo ciò che Peter era diventato, poteva farlo, occupandosi di lui, insegnandogli ciò che sapeva, facendo maturare le grandi qualità e capacità che già così giovane dimostrava di avere. Lo avrebbe aiutato a diventare ciò che era destinato ad essere, ma avrebbe dovuto rallentare il percorso, i tempi della sua crescita. Fury dice infine a Mary, versando una lacrima di dolore, che se stava cercando qualcuno da accusare per la morte di Peter, e voleva puntare il dito contro di lui, faceva benissimo poiché aveva assolutamente ragione.

Mentre avvengono tali fatti per le strade di New York City si aggira qualcuno che ha deciso di vestire i panni che furono di Peter e di portare avanti al suo posto la crociata contro il crimine per le strade della città: un nuovo Spider-Man ha fatto la sua comparsa.

Ultimate Spider-Man (Vol. 2)

Miles Morales è un ragazzo afro-americano di origini portoricane che vive a New York.

Un giorno Miles si reca da suo zio Aaron, ignorando il fatto che sia un ladro che compie i suoi furti con un'attrezzatura speciale, per avvisarlo di essere stato preso in una scuola esclusiva; in quell'occasione viene punto da un grosso ragno fuoriuscito da una sacca di Aaron che conteneva il bottino ricavato da un colpo effettuato alla vecchia sede della Oscorp.

Il ragazzo collassa al suolo. Al suo risveglio scopre di poter fare cose incredibili come diventare invisibile e rilasciare scariche paralizzanti dalle mani, abilità che possiedono molti ragni, oltre a saper aderire alle pareti con le mani e i piedi. Il ragno che lo ha punto era uno della seconda generazione di ragni geneticamente modificati di Osborn: ora Miles è il nuovo Spider-Man.

Come il suo predecessore anche il nuovo Spider-Man verrà "addestrato" in un certo qual modo dagli Ultimates ed entrerà da subito nel vivo della battaglia, sempre continuando gli studi al college e camuffando la propria identità segreta. Il nuovo costume in stile "black" che indossa il giovane è un dono di Fury.

Miles Morales: Ultimate Spider-Man
Un anno dopo che Miles è diventato il nuovo Spider-Man, si scoprirà che Peter Parker è misteriosamente ancora vivo. Miles verrà lasciato da Katie, la sua ragazza dopo avergli rivelato la sua identità segreta. Durante una lotta con Green Goblin, quest'ultimo rivela a Miles che è lui il suo genitore biologico. Dopo che i due Spider-Men riescono a metterlo K.O., per accertarsi che non si riprenda, dato lo straordinario livello di potere che possiede, gli sparano e gli danno fuoco. Fuggiti dal luogo dell'incidente, Peter Parker dà i lancia-ragnatele a Miles e gli dice che da quel momento sara lui l'unico Spider-Man mentre lui sarebbe stato occupato a cercare la verità del suo risveglio in un laboratorio e dell'assenza del suo corpo nella tomba. Il padre di Miles ritornerà dicendo a Miles che in passato aveva fatto parte dello SHIELD e di non averglielo detto per tenerlo al sicuro.

Miles decide di andare da Katie e di risolvere le cose con lei. Dopo essere andato a casa di quest'ultima, incontrerà il padre di Katie che dopo avergli chiesto come ha ottenuto i suoi poteri, lo rapisce. Miles verrà portato nella base dell'Hydra dove incontrerà Katie che si scusa con lui per non avergli detto la verità sui suoi genitori. Cercando di scappare, Miles verrà fermato subito dal Dottor Doom. Miles riuscirà a scappare con suo padre e Ganke dalla base del Hydra. Uscito dalla base scoprirà che la Terra-616, l'Universo Marvel originale, e la sua (Terra 1610) stanno per scontrarsi, distruggendosi a vicenda. L'unico modo per sopravvivere è distruggere una delle due. Le due terre danno inizio alla Secret Wars. Solo alcuni supereroi della Terra 616 si salvano tra cui i Fantastici Quattro, Spider-Man, Pantera Nera. La nave con cui stavano per lasciare la Terra si spacca a metà a causa della gravità delle due Terre che causano dei forti fulmini. Reed, Pantera Nera e altri sopravvivono mentre Sue, Valeria, Franklin, Ben muoiono, almeno apparentemente. I sopravvissuti riescono a lasciare la terra vedendo da lontano la loro vita essere distrutta. Subito dopo una nuova terra si ricrea. Questa Terra si chiama Battleworld ed è un pianeta composto dalle Terre rimaste integre. Nessuno degli abitanti di Battleworld ricorda cosa è successo durante la distruzione delle due Terre. È stato Doom a salvare tutti e adesso è il dio di questo mondo. Sue, Valeria e Franklin non ricordano niente di quello che è successo. Il dottor Strange è l'unico che non ha lasciato la Terra e che ricorda gli avvenimenti accaduti. È diventato anche il braccio destro di Doom. Tre anni dopo il disastro, Strange trovò una navicella, non sapendo che dentro c'erano i Vendicatori. Decise di non aprirla. Due navicelle sono sopravvissute: quella di Thanos e quella di Reed. Quando Strange scopre che nella navicella di Thanos c'è Miles Morales ancora vivo decide di aprire anche l'altra navicella. I Vendicatori sono ancora vivi ma pensano che sia passata solo un'ora dal disastro mentre in realtà sono trascorsi otto anni.

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Cinema
Nel luglio 2012 è uscito nelle sale cinematografiche The Amazing Spider-Man, diretto da Marc Webb e sceneggiato da James Vanderbilt, che si è basato molto, seppur non esclusivamente, sui fumetti Ultimate.

Televisione
 Ultimate Spider-Man (2012).

Videogiochi
 Ultimate Spider-Man (2005)
 Spider-Man: Battle for New York
 Spider-Man: Shattered Dimensions
 Marvel's Spider-Man

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Altri progetti

Serie regolari a fumetti Ultimate Marvel
Fumetti dell'Uomo Ragno
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Le cerro Nahuel Pan est un sommet de la cordillère des Andes situé dans le département de Futaleufú et dans la province de Chubut en Argentine, au sud de la ville d'Esquel, proche du village de Nahuel Pan. Le sommet culmine à  d'altitude, et permet la pratique du trekking, sport très populaire à proximité de la montagne.

En période de dégel, des cours d'eau naissent sur les flancs de la montagne. Ils servent d'affluent au río Percey et au río Corintos, affluents du fleuve río Futaleufú.

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  Juan Carlos Luchetti, Geología del cerro Nahuel Pan

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Mansell and 'the peoples' circuit'
Nigel Mansell was back in the spotlight at the weekend, as he prepared for an FIA GT race at Silverstone.
The 1992 World Champion took the opportunity to share his thoughts on a variety of issues, including, as one might have guessed, the astonishing F1 debut of Lewis Hamilton.
With the Daily Telegraph's Sue Mott giving him free reign, Mansell was allowed to remind us once again - just in case we'd forgotten the previous ten-thousand times he'd mentioned it - that his rise through the ranks was "a lot harder".
The Englishman reminding us of the trials and tribulations of having to sell his house, the broken neck and the perceived conspiracy against him within the sport.
Taking time out to speak of something other than himself, Mansell, who scored some of his finest victories at the track - and make no mistake we simply adored him as a racer, we merely dreaded the moment he got out of the car and started whining - turned his attention to Silverstone, home of the British Grand Prix.
In a move which will surely delight his colleagues at the British Racing Drivers' Club (BRDC), Mansell claims that the best solution for Silverstone would be if Bernie Ecclestone would acquire it, thereby adding the track to his ever-growing game of Scalopoly, a cross between Scalextric and Monopoly, only one buys race tracks as opposed to houses.
"I'll say something very strange," said Mansell, clearly missing the irony. "I think it would be wonderful if Bernie Ecclestone ended up buying the whole thing and doing something very special at Silverstone.
"He is the only person who could afford to do that," he continued, before adding, in what some might see as a masterpiece of understatement; "It would cost a lot of money but Bernie is the godfather of motor sport.
"The power of Bernie and the influence of Bernie is absolute," added the Englishman. "His success has been instrumental to the sport. He's a great businessman. Silverstone have been their own biggest enemy by not investing in the infrastructure. It should be a shop window for motor sport worldwide."
Mansell, for reasons known only to himself, failed to make any mention of the bid in late 2004, which saw Brand Synergy Limited - of which the 1992 world champion was said to be a director - claim to have secured a long-term deal that would keep Silverstone and the British Grand Prix on the calendar.
Speaking at the time, director Kim Cockburn said: "We have agreed with Bernie Ecclestone to sign a seven-year F1 Grand Prix licence. We have sent our proposals to the BRDC. We share their vision to develop and deliver the masterplan that will make sure that Silverstone stays firmly on the map for the years to come."
The company, which had claimed to have £1bn available for its Silverstone project subsequently gave up on the idea and turned its attention to the Jaguar Racing Team.
If Mansell is still associated with Brand Synergy Limited, and if Ms Cockburn still has designs on Silverstone and a billion quid to spend, then why bother with Bernie... get in there 'our Nige', buy it and turn it into 'the peoples' circuit'.
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Apple's new iMacs go on sale
30 November, 2012 - Paul Dixon
Just as Apple promised earlier this week, its all-new iMacs have today gone on sale. You can order the 21-inch model via the company's online store, with a dispatch time of 1-3 business days. And if you can't wait that long, you should also be able to pick one up at your local Apple retail store. The 27-inch model is also available to order online, but as expected, it will take 2-3 weeks to ship.
Priced at £1,099.00 ($1,299.00), the entry level 21.5-inch iMac comes with a 2.7GHz quad-core Intel Core i5 processor, 8GB of RAM, 1TB hard drive, and a GeForce GT 640 with 512MB of RAM. An extra £150 ($200) gets you a version with a 2.9GHz quad-core Intel Core i5 processor, and an NVIDIA GeForce GT 650M with 512MB.
The entry level 27-inch iMac is priced at £1,499.00 ($1,799.00), it has a 2.9GHz quad-core Intel Core i5 processor, 8GB of RAM, 1TB hard drive, and a GeForce GT 660 with 512MB of RAM. For an extra £200 ($200) you can have a version with a 3.2GHz quad-core Intel Core i5 processor, and an NVIDIA GeForce GT 675MX with 1GB.
Built to order configurations for both screen sizes include Intel Core i7 processors, increased RAM, flash storage, and the company's new Fusion Drive, which combines a traditional hard drive with flash storage.
A top of the range 27-inch iMac configured with the best of the above options comes to a total of £3,499.00 ($4,249.00).
Will you be getting one of the new machines?
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KOOL day ; tomorrow it seems.
But there were yesterday to look forward too. It's dead and gone no doubt. But memories linger on. They live right infront of our very eyes, waiting for a playback button. Or a rewind button.
I have sweet memories of days gone by; those days that never appear to vanish from my mind. And I'm very fond of all those KOOL yester-things. Elvis was the King, Muhammad Ali was the Greatest, New Wave was hip and Jazz was KOOL.
And there were others as well. Some were my good and dear friends. Some were people I knew from my childhood. But they never left, really. They were in my heart, embedded and engraved ; assimilated forever and beyond yonder.
If ever there was a way, I would love to be back again to yesterday. I wanna see those faces again, hear their voices. They never fade away, they just assimilated into my emotion.
How I always cherished my childhood. I loved those simple yesteryears where I could just put on my soccer boots and kicked a ball or two with all my good friends until the light faded out and the night was creeping in, or jumped onto our old two-wheelers and vroomed across infront of some girls' house or took out our comic books and sprawled ourselves under a shade besides a KOOL stream to read. Or we might just ganged-up on Friday night to watch our favourite western. Clint was 'The Man' and Lee Van Cleef too. And then there was those Hindi movies where all the girls would parade along to watch with their big sisters or their mother tagging along for added security.
Al-Fatihah (Prayers) for both of my grand-parents and my mum who are gone but would never be forgotten. They will be here as the sweetest memories that will remain as sweet for a timeless eternity. And thanks to my father and sister who are still around; and my wife and kids to keep me company until it is my turn to dream in a long sleep of voyage into the next destination where all the people before us has gone to congregate.
Until then, I'll spend my time on this real world, as well as this cyber-world.
1st. pix was my late mum in 1956.
2nd. pix was my home where I was raised by my late grand-dad Muda Haji Ismail and my late grand-ma Fatimah Taib. With me in the pix was my sister Sabariah.
In the 3rd. pix was me and my parents, taken when I was 3 years old.


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Money to provide much needed uniforms
THE Community Chest money will help provide new uniforms for the majorettes, based at Crosland Moor.
Club spokesman Pam Shepherd said: "It can cost hundreds of pounds for the material, so this donation will be very helpful.
"I'll make up the uniforms for the girls and have them ready for next spring".
Mrs Shepherd - whose daughter, grand-daughter, grandson and niece are all in the group - said: "It will be nice for them to stand out at competitions. Not all the parents can afford to pay for uniforms."
The majorettes, who come from all over Huddersfield, train once a week at the Manor House, Crosland Moor.


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What I'm missing?

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{
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{
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    {
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}

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class Fahrer
{
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The lawyer for Steven Avery, the subject of Netflix's Making A Murderer, has shared new evidence in the case of Teresa Halbach's murder, which she says proves his innocence.
Kathleen Zellner, who's work on Avery and Brendan Dassey's case is documented in Part two of the series which came out last month, has taken to Twitter to outline the evidence that was not featured in the new episodes in 20 steps.
In conclusion, Zellner says the "killer is the person who had the access and opportunity to plant Steven Avery's fresh blood in Teresa Halbach's car".
Earlier this month, it was revealed Avery and his nephew Dassey may be freed thanks to a US midterm election result which saw Democrat Tony Evers gain control of the governorship in Wisconsin – the state that the true-crime documentary is set in.
Jerome Buting, Avery's trial lawyer for the murder of Halbach, called for the Governor-elect to free Avery and his nephew.
The true-life crime documentary was first released in 2015. Part one documents Avery's false conviction of sexual assault in 1985, which took 18 years to overturn, and later focuses on his and his nephew's conviction for Halbach's murder in 2005.
In the second series, tenacious lawyer Zellner thoroughly examines the Halbach investigation and unearths new evidence she believes will prove the men's innocence.


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A Estação Iztapalapa é uma das estações do Metrô da Cidade do México, situada na Cidade do México, entre a Estação Atlalilco e a Estação Cerro de la Estrella. Administrada pelo Sistema de Transporte Colectivo, faz parte da Linha 8.

Foi inaugurada em 20 de julho de 1994. Localiza-se no cruzamento da Avenida Ermita-Iztapalapa com a Rua Hombres Ilustres. Atende os bairros San Pablo e El Santuario, situados na demarcação territorial de Iztapalapa. A estação registrou um movimento de 3.267.242 passageiros em 2016.

A estação recebeu esse nome por estar situada na demarcação territorial de Iztapalapa. O nome da demarcação é derivado dos vocábulos náuatles iztapalli (laje ou placa), atl (água) e pan (acima), que juntos significam nas lajes de água ou água em lajes. A toponímia de Iztapalapa alude à sua antiga posição ciliar do Lago de Texcoco.

Ver também
 Metrô da Cidade do México
 Linha 8 do Metrô da Cidade do México
 Iztapalapa
 Cidade do México

Ligações externas

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Dit is een chronologische lijst van beelden in Westerkwartier. Onder een beeld wordt hier verstaan elk driedimensionaal kunstwerk in de openbare ruimte van de Nederlandse gemeente Westerkwartier, waarbij beeld wordt gebruikt als verzamelbegrip voor sculpturen, standbeelden, installaties, gedenktekens en overige beeldhouwwerken.

Voor een volledig overzicht van de beschikbare afbeeldingen zie: Beelden in Westerkwartier op Wikimedia Commons.

Zie ook
 Lijst van oorlogsmonumenten in Westerkwartier

Cultuur in Westerkwartier
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Professor Mike Hough is professor of Criminal Policy at the School of Law, Kings College London, and director of the Institute for Criminal Policy Research (ICPR). The institute is one of the largest of its sort in Britain. It has a staff of 15, carrying out policy research for central and local government and for independent funders. Hough has extensive experience in quantitative research methods, especially large-scale sample surveys such as the British Crime Survey and the Policing for London survey. He has published extensively on topics including crime prevention and community safety, policing, probation and drugs. (See www.kcl.ac.uk/icpr for publications.)
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Wrapped Up in Politics, Granddaddy of Cap-And-Trade Plans Has an Uncertain Future
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In the eyes of health advocates and some policymakers, the nation's fleet of power plants has its share of decrepit clunkers, relics that are barely sticking around.
But some people might apply a similar description to the cap-and-trade program that Congress created 20 years ago to cut air pollution from those power plants. The plan was wildly successful in its time, but over the past decade, U.S. EPA's plans to keep cleaning up the air through emissions trading were torn to shreds by judges and left in tatters by the wide partisan divide on Capitol Hill.
Now, as the Obama administration tries to cobble back together its signature cap-and-trade program under the Clean Air Act, it faces a daunting array of lawsuits, political pressures and regulatory snags. But supporters of trading are trying to stay optimistic.
They are poring over EPA's new rules for interstate soot and smog, which will set emissions limits for power plants in 27 Eastern states. Power producers aren't sure what to make of the final plan, which runs 1,323 pages -- not including a 414-page economic analysis and a 99-page explanation of how the emissions allowances will be doled out.
But Tom Williams, a spokesman for North Carolina-based Duke Energy Corp., said the company is glad that EPA is still trying to use emissions trading. Like its two predecessors, the Cross-State Air Pollution Rule is designed so dirtier power plants can buy credits from plants that clean up the air more cheaply.
"The cap-and-trade approach was vilified by many in Congress, but it was actually a Republican idea, and it works," Williams said in an interview. "It worked well with the Clean Air Act of 1990, and I hope it will work here too.
"One thing about markets," Williams added after a brief pause, "is they always have surprises."
In the aftermath of the debate over a climate and energy bill in 2009 and 2010, the phrase "cap and trade" became Republican shorthand for an intrusive, expensive federal boondoggle -- which, from critics' point of view, is a good description for just about any Obama administration policy that would make businesses spend money on new health and environmental safeguards.
The irony is that cap and trade has long been backed by power companies as a cheaper alternative to so-called command-and-control rules that tell companies to use a certain technology or shut down. It started with the Acid Rain Program, which made deep cuts in soot-forming sulfur emissions from coal plants, stopping an estimated 19,000 early deaths each year at an annual cost of $3 billion -- a fraction of what the George H.W. Bush administration predicted when it started the program in the early 1990s.
EPA predicts that its latest rules would stop tens of thousands of extra premature deaths at a cost of a few billion dollars each year.
But it remains to be seen whether the new emissions market, which will make its debut next year and phase in tougher pollution limits at the start of 2014, will end up being a vibrant trading floor or a bureaucratic mess.
The agency is working under tight legal constraints. When a George W. Bush-era sequel to the Acid Rain Program was rejected in 2008, the court told EPA that it needed to limit the amount of pollution that crosses state lines, which means power companies can't have the kind of freewheeling, nationwide exchange that the agency had in mind.
The court was specific in its objections to the old program, but EPA staffers still tried to make their replacement plan as flexible as possible, Administrator Lisa Jackson told reporters after releasing her version of the program in early July.
"We feel we've respected those limits and we are confident this will stand up to challenge," she said.
Analysts say that compared to the proposal, the final rule was more lenient on interstate swaps. That will give power companies more leeway to buy credits from the plants that make their pollution cuts at the lowest cost, no matter where they are.
But it's little consolation for companies with billions of dollars on the line. Electric utilities need to be able to plan decades ahead because power plants are "big, chunky, expensive assets," said Chris MacCracken, an analyst at ICF International Inc.
They know the new trading program will no doubt be taken to court. And at the same time, power companies will need to be thinking about EPA's proposed rules for toxic emissions such as mercury, coal ash and cooling water, said Steve Fine, another analyst at ICF, in an interview. (The company has held technical consulting contracts with EPA for the past 35 years.)
Without action by Congress, parts of the trading program could start to collapse within a few years, analysts say. If every power plant needs to clean up its acid gases under new toxic emissions standards that were proposed this spring, there will be little demand for sulfur credits, and they are likely to become almost worthless.
The market for smog-forming nitrogen oxides is seen as more stable, but it too is wrought with uncertainty. Right now, the Obama administration is deciding whether to update the standard for the safe amount of smog in the air -- something that would create a need for another round of trading rules in a year or so, EPA says.
All this makes risk-averse utilities, and the traders who make their living on the emissions markets, uneasy.
"An allowance is only worth something if the regulations allow it to be," Fine said. "That spooks a lot of people -- the uncertainty around markets and the fact that regulations can, and apparently do, change awful often."
An industry divided
For a decade now, many power companies have been crying out for Congress to come up with a long-term fix for emissions trading.
Some of them are willing to accept tougher air pollution limits than EPA has established, so long as they get certainty on deadlines and get to avoid more onerous command-and-control rules, such as the mercury standards that were proposed this spring. It would also allow them to sleep a little easier by avoiding some of the litigation that is bound to follow EPA's new emissions trading plan.
"The bottom line is, it's a minefield of technical complexity with a lot of room for people to complain," said Thad Huetteman, an emissions trading consultant and a former chairman of the Environmental Markets Association. "So, if there's anything that's going to be interrupted by litigation, it's this."
Still, the negotiations have proved fruitless so far on Capitol Hill.
They were led most recently by Sens. Tom Carper (D-Del.) and Lamar Alexander (R-Tenn.), who introduced a "three-pollutant" bill last session to create a nationwide trading program for sulfur dioxide (SO2) and nitrogen oxides (NOx) and set limits on mercury from the power sector.
With a final rule later this year, EPA is planning to make every plant control mercury emissions because of a court ruling that said the George W. Bush administration's Clean Air Mercury Rule, another cap-and-trade plan, was illegal.
Talks on the three-pollutant bill stopped last fall, and have been written off for this session while House Republicans try to pass legislation to block EPA's rules for power plants altogether. Carper said last month that the negotiations ended because some utilities decided they would rather try their luck with the new Congress.
"I think there's reason to believe that a legislative approach is going to be more cost-effective than a regulatory approach," he said. "We had an opportunity to do that last year, and the industry said 'No, not yet.'"
"The ball's in their court," Carper added, referring to the power companies. "When they feel like they want to put it back in play, we're ready" (E&ENews PM, June 14).
One major reason the legislation has stalled is a divide so pronounced that the Edison Electric Institute -- the main trade group for the utility industry -- has declined to give an opinion on EPA's latest trading plan at all.
Some power companies have become cheerleaders for the new rules, knowing they have little to lose because they get little of their electricity from coal. Other utilities that get more of their electricity from older coal plants without modern controls have been vigorously lobbying against them. Hardly a week passes without a new study from one faction saying the rules will save lives and an analysis from the other saying that they will destroy jobs and hike energy prices.
Duke Energy Corp., the nation's sixth-largest power producer, hasn't aligned itself with either group.
In a sense, the Charlotte, N.C.-based company is a microcosm of the utility industry, with a fleet of power plants that closely mirrors where the entire United States gets its electricity.
The company says its capacity is about 47 percent coal, 25 percent natural gas, 20 percent nuclear and 8 percent renewables, most of it hydropower. Last year, 45 percent of U.S. electricity came from coal, 24 percent came from natural gas and 20 percent came from nuclear, according to 2010 data from the U.S. Energy Information Administration.
But that's not to say that Duke, which does most of its business in North Carolina and Indiana, doesn't have its own interests.
The reason EPA had to redesign its trading program was that it lost a court challenge from North Carolina, which argued that the George W. Bush-era plan allowed neighboring states such as Tennessee to keep polluting its air.
North Carolina had moved on its own a few years earlier, passing a law called the Clean Smokestacks Act that ordered the state's coal plants to cut their emissions by installing scrubbers. Because the law required power companies to upgrade their plants rather than buy emissions credits from other states, Duke has a cleaner fleet than some competitors do, Williams said.
Having already paid for controls, the company could have allowances to sell to its competitors -- and that would mean extra profits.
A crossroads on trading
There's no denying that cap and trade -- or at least its name -- is going through a rough patch.
But analysts said there's little chance that the United States will move away from emissions trading, given its popularity with businesses. The tides will turn and Congress will come back to cap and trade, for climate change as well as conventional air pollution, Huetteman of the Environmental Markets Association predicted.
"The utility sector knows, knows, knows this stuff is coming on carbon," Huetteman said. "They already have those obligations on SO2 and NOx. They'll keep the political wheels greased to make sure they'll have their continued access to trading, and I think they fully expect, someday, to have that for CO2 as well."
The Obama administration's desire to expand trading will soon be tested on its new climate change rules for power plants and refineries, which are due next year under a settlement with environmental groups.
EPA has never crafted this type of greenhouse gas rule before, making it a completely blank slate. And unlike other kinds of pollution, carbon dioxide mixes evenly in the atmosphere and is safe to breathe, meaning that a ton is interchangeable no matter where it comes from.
But with climate change so thoroughly politicized, the rules are sensitive.
Republican critics on Capitol Hill have made a mantra of saying that EPA is trying to do through regulation what President Obama and the Democrats couldn't do through legislation. Top officials at EPA, such as air chief Gina McCarthy, have responded by insisting that the agency isn't trying to replicate a cap-and-trade bill by putting a limit on emissions from power plants.
But still, during a listening session for power companies earlier this year, many said they want the agency to offer as much trading as it can (E&ENews PM, Feb. 4).
So do members of the environmental think-tank crowd. Under the section of the Clean Air Act that allows for "New Source Performance Standards," there's plenty of room to design those kinds of programs, according to a report released last week by scholars from Resources for the Future and two law schools.
Michael Livermore, the executive director of New York University's Institute for Policy Integrity, said it would be a mistake to give that up just because critics would raise the specter of cap and trade.
"If we ever want to get serious about greenhouse gas reductions, it will include these kinds of things," Livermore said in a recent interview. "We're not going to, as a society, impose double costs completely unnecessarily because of some silly rhetorical issue. I think it will get figured out."
An upcoming review of federal air pollution rules for nitric acid plants could be an early chance, his group said in a recent report.
That's because nitric acid plants, which make a key ingredient for fertilizer, produce 88 percent of the nation's industrial nitrous oxide emissions. Better known as laughing gas, nitrous oxide is 300 times better than carbon dioxide at trapping heat in the atmosphere.
And while the hopes for existing coal plants rest largely on capturing carbon dioxide at the smokestack and trapping it underground, there are well-established ways to cut nitrous oxide emissions by more than 80 percent.
When those emissions are made equivalent to carbon dioxide, the controls cost as little as $2.20 per ton of CO2 -- well below EPA's estimate of the "social cost of carbon," and far less than most lawmakers suggest for a carbon tax.
Livermore imagines a program in which power plants could offset some of their carbon emissions by buying credits to pay for nitrous oxide controls at nitric acid plants. It would be a quick and cheap way to cut emissions, he said.
Bill Herz, who is following the rules as vice president of scientific programs at the Fertilizer Institute, said he thought the group's cost estimates were a little low. He noted that some nitric acid plants have voluntarily gone ahead and listed themselves on an exchange, called the Climate Action Reserve, to offer offsets to companies that need to cut emissions under rules such as California's new global warming law.
The big hurdle to creating a program linking power plants and nitric acid plants, Herz said, is that there's a political risk in making wide use of emissions trading.
"EPA is bound by what the federal legislators would do," he said. "They may or may not be supportive of the various state, regional and voluntary markets, but ... I don't think they're going to get out in front of the legislative process."
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Final, 2-1 Belgium: It's over. The United States is out of the 2014 World Cup, and Belgium moves on to the quarterfinals.
Team USA fought to the bitter end but ultimately fell short against the Red Devils. The extra-time goals de Bruyne and Lukaku scored gave Belgium a large enough cushion to absorb the impact of that furious United States comeback.
Green's strike gave America hope and a glimpse of his vast potential, but destiny was not on Team USA's side as it failed to convert late scoring chances.
Belgium's second-half performance exhausted the Americans, who would have been overrun were it not for Howard, who delivered one of the finest goalkeeping performances in World Cup history.
Howard's showing against Belgium cements his reputation as one of the top goalkeepers in the world. The longtime U.S. international deserves every plaudit that is coming his way.
That's all for now, and thanks for joining us. Let's discuss this one on Twitter @NESNsoccer and Facebook. Be sure to keep an eye out for some news, fan reactions, analysis and opinion that is on the way on NESN.com.
120th minute, 2-1 Belgium: The United States has one more minute to save its World Cup dream, and Klinsmann is furious that the referee didn't add more time.
117th minute, 2-1 Belgium: The United States is trying to scrape and scheme its way to the tying goal, and it almost works.
114th minute, 2-1 Belgium: The U.S. nearly ties it up with a free-kick routine straight from the playground.
Dempsey was in on goal, but Courtois reacted quickly, cut down the angle and made a crucial save.
111th minute, 2-1 Belgium: Belgium removes Hazard and brings on Nacer Chadli for the final 10 minutes.
111th minute, 2-1 Belgium: Howard denies Belgium again.
Lukaku dribbled into the U.S. area and shot, but Howard saved it with his trailing leg.
109th minute, 2-1 Belgium: The United States is brimming with belief.
Yedlin crossed into the penalty area, where a U.S. player headed it back to the spot for Jones, who missed with his shot.
107th minute, 2-1 Belgium: Green scores and cuts Belgium's lead in half.
Bradley lofted a delicate pass into the Belgium penalty area. Green ran onto it and volleyed it past Courtois.
106th minute, 2-0 Belgium: The second half of extra time is underway.
105th minute, 2-0 Belgium: That's the end of the first half of extra time. The United States has 15 more minutes to climb out of this hole.
105th minute +2, 2-0 Belgium: The United States makes its final substitution, replacing Bedoya with young winger Julian Green.
105th minute, 2-0 Belgium: Lukaku finishes a Belgium counter-attack with aplomb, and Belgium is up by two.
104th minute, 1-0 Belgium: Howard makes another fine save after Mirallas breaks free behind the U.S. back line and shoots.
102nd minute, 1-0 Belgium: Jones is down after de Bruyne kicked the ball straight into his face.
101st minute, 1-0 Belgium: Team USA is pushing forward in search of the tying goal, and it nearly paid dividends.
100th minute, 1-0 Belgium: The United States has plenty of time, but exhaustion is an issue.
The Americans were under siege throughout the second half, and Belgium's sustained possession forced them to exert a lot of energy in the hot and humid conditions.
93rd minute, 1-0 Belgium: Belgium takes the lead after de Bruyne slots a shot past Howard.
Lukaku created the danger with a run down the right. Gonzalez failed to clear Lukaku's cross, and the ball fell to de Bruyne, who expertly finished to the far post.
32 - Belgium finally score with what was their 32nd shot of the game vs #USA. Eventually.
8 - The last 8 goals in World Cup football scored by Belgium were all scored by different players. Depth.
91st minute, 0-0: The first period of extra time is underway.
Belgium made a substitution during the interval, replacing Origi with Romelu Lukaku.
End of 90 minute, 0-0: The latest craze continues. This one is goalless and heading into extra time.
There will be two, 15-minute periods of extra time. If there is no winner at the end of the half-hour, a penalty-kick shootout will determine which team advances to the quarterfinals.
90th minute +3, 0-0: Wondolowski misses what would have certainly been the game-winner.
Wondolowski is one of the best goal scorers in the recent history of Major League Soccer and one of Klinsmann's favorites, but he let the U.S. down with that miss. Extra time could give him a shot at redemption.
90th minute, 0-0: There will be three minutes of added time.
90th minute, 0-0: Kompany surges forward and mis-kicks a cross that nearly beats Howard.
But it doesn't because the U.S. goalkeeper is having the game of his life.
11 - Tim Howard has now made 11 saves in the match against Belgium, the highest number of saves in one World Cup 2014 match. Heroic.
88th minute, 0-0: Hazard misses with a shot from close range.
Belgium caught the United States up the field, and nearly scored the winner with a counter-attack.
85th minute, 0-0: Origi turns and shoots. Howard saves it over the crossbar.
83rd minute, 0-0: Besler blocks van Buyten's shot, as another scoring chance eludes Belgium.
79th minute, 0-0: Howard simultaneously saves and clears Hazards shot out of danger.
It's like Howard is playing two positions out there.
78th minute, 0-0: Gonzalez is down. The U.S. center back landed on Kompany's foot during an aerial challenge and appeared to badly twist his ankle.
76th minute, 0-0: Howard is the hero once again for team USA.
Mirallas was sent in behind the U.S. defense and shot, but Howard was quick off his line, cut down the angle and made a save with his trailing leg.
74th minute, 0-0: Belgium coach Marc Wilmots pushed Fellaini into an attacking midfield position, leaving Wistel alone to shield Belgium's back line.
Fellaini can cause havoc in the opponent's penalty area, creating and finishing chances with his head (afro) and feet.
Cameron must track Fellaini into the U.S. penalty area or risk a goal.
72nd minute, 0-0: Zusi is being replaced by striker Chris Wondolowski in the United States' second substitution of the game.
71st minute, 0-0: The U.S. defense breaks down, allowing Origi to collect the ball inside the penalty area and shoot, but Howard rushes off his line and makes a sliding save.
69th minute, 0-0: Belgium continues to dominate possession and test Howard — the latest being Fellaini who shoots wide from outside the U.S. penalty area.
64th minute, 0-0: Howard saves Vertonghen's long-range soht.
63rd minute, 0-0: Belgium has overwhelmed the U.S. during the second half, but the score remains tied.
Belgium has shifted de Bruyne to the left wing and moved Hazard to the right, which has reduced Yedlin's impact to almost zero.
60th minute, 0-0: Mertens is being replaced by Kevin Mirallas.
60th minute, 0-0: Origi ghosts past a pair of American defenders and crosses to Mertens, who misses the target with a back-heeled effort.
57th minute, 0-0: Howard makes a kick save on Vertonghen.
56th minute, 0-0: Origi heads on goal, but it grazes the crossbar and goes out for a goal kick.
54th minute, 0-0: Vertonghen serves a menacing pass through the U.S. goal-mouth, but none of the Red Devils can redirect it past Howard.
53rd minute, 0-0: Belgium is having all the possession so far in the second half, but the compact U.S. defense is handling the threat.
47th minute, 0-0: Once again, Howard makes a save early in the half.
Mertens headed de Bruyne's cross on goal. Howard backpedaled and tipped it over the crossbar.
Halftime, 0-0: That's the end of the first half. It's goalless in Salvador.
Team USA gave and Team USA took in the opening period. A mistake gifted Belgium a scoring chance in the first minute, and the Red Devils had the brighter start overall.
But the United States grew into the contest as the half wore on, particularly after Johnson's injury and Yedlin's arrival.
Yedlin had an instant impact and won admirers around the world for his blazing speed, serviceable crosses and a solid, two-way performance against Hazard.
The United States must remain aggressive — physically and tactically — in the second half. Belgium is pushing forward, leaving plenty of open space at the back into which the U.S. can counter. It goes without saying that the American attackers must finish the chances when presented. They should have more than a few in the second half.
45th minute, 0-0: The lively de Bruyne snaps a long-shot from distance, but Howard saves it without much fuss.
42nd minute, 0-0: Kompany is cautioned for a foul on Dempsey.
38th minute, 0-0: Yedlin makes an early impact.
The young fullback is using his considerable speed to bomb forward and cross into the Belgium penalty area. Yedlin's teammates haven't connected with his deliveries, but he's moving into great positions and causing problems for Belgium.
34th minute, 0-0: Yedlin's job is arguably more important than any of his teammates.
Yedlin, 20, must stop (or contain) Belgium's superstar Eden Hazard when defending. He also must push forward at the right times, forcing Hazard into doing the defensive work that the soccer world knows he doesn't particularly enjoy doing.
32nd minute, 0-0: Now we know why.
U.S. right back Fabian Johnson injured his hamstring and is forced out of the game.
DeAndre Yedlin replaces Johnson and takes up his position at right back.
30th minute, 0-0: Belgium is exploiting the right side of the U.S. defense and creating chance after chance.
26th minute, 0-0: Beasley saves the U.S. with a heroic clearance deep inside his team's penalty area.
23rd minute, 0-0: The United States dodges a bullet.
Belgium counter-attacked with more players than the U.S. had defenders, but de Bruyne slowed the play and selfishly shot wide.
21st minute, 0-0: Dempsey and Bradley combine at the top of Belgium's penalty area to produce the United States' first clear-cut scoring chance.
Dempsey shot from inside the area, but it went straight at Belgium goalkeeper Courtois, who is one of the best in the business.
12 - Thibaut Courtois has kept a clean sheet in 12 of his 20 games for Belgium, while winning 14 & losing none of those matches (D6). Star.
18th minute, 0-0: Cameron is cautioned for tripping Mertens.
The yellow card could make it uncomfortable for Cameron, who is not afraid to tackle robustly.
16th minute, 0-0: There's a temporary delay, as a man runs onto the field and enjoys the freedom of the stadium.
He was out there for ages before security finally intervened and escorted him off the field.
Klinsmann didn't seem to be particularly impressed.
14th minute, 0-0: Origi is down after Besler tackled him from behind.
The U.S. center back is lucky to avoid a yellow card for that tackle.
10th minute, 0-0: Team USA is looking to lure Belgium into its half — either with its own possession or by defending deep.
When Belgium moves forward, the United States has sprayed long passes in an effort to use its speed on the flanks to create scoring chances.
It hasn't work so far, but there are signs that it could be effective.
Fourth minute, 0-0: Neither team has established possession early on, but the Americans are aggressive when counter-attacking.
First minute, 0-0: The game is underway, and Belgium nearly strikes first.
Howard was forced to make a kick save on Origi, who broke in behind the defense.
Kickoff: The anthems have been sung, and the game is set to begin.
Pregame: Geoff Cameron returns to the starting 11 in Jurgen Klinsmann's biggest gamble since cutting Landon Donovan.
Cameron started at center back in the United States' first two games, but Klinsmann dropped him to the bench after his errors against Portugal lead to goals. Omar Gonzalez replaced Cameron in defense — and played well — for the Germany game.
The versatile Cameron will start as a holding midfielder against Belgium. Cameron's athleticism and willingness to play physically could be an asset. More important, the presence of Cameron should liberate Michael Bradley.
With Cameron doing the dirty work behind him, Bradley shined in Team USA's 2-0 victory against Panama on June 12, 2013.
3:30 p.m. ET: The United States men's national soccer team puts its credentials as would-be soccer power to the test on Tuesday when it faces Belgium in the Round of 16 of the 2014 FIFA World Cup.
The United States can match its best-ever showing at a modern World Cup if it defeats Belgium. Team USA would advance to the World Cup quarterfinals for the first time since 2002, and add to its legions of new fans at home and around the world.
Belgium, a rising soccer power, qualified for the Round of 16 by winning Group H. The Red Devils defeated South Korea, Algeria and Russia to finish the group stage with a perfect haul of nine points.
The United States surprised the world by surviving Group G — the so-called "Group of Death." Team USA defeated Ghana and drew against Portugal before losing to Germany in the group finale.
Jozy Altidore will start on the bench for the United States. Altidore injured his hamstring in Team USA's opening win against Ghana but is now available.
Center back Vincent Kompany will start for Belgium. Kompany, Belgium's captain, is nursing a groin injury, which ruled him out of some of his team's recent practice sessions.
The game kicks off at 4 p.m. ET. Stay right here for all the action from the Arena Fonte Nova in Salvador, Bahia, Brazil.


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Bridgerton's Ruby Barker addresses rumours Regé-Jean Page is set to become next James Bond
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Ruby Barker, 25, has backed her Bridgerton co-star Regé-Jean Page, 33, to become the next James Bond. The Marina Thompson actress spoke about the speculation, which exploded after the Duke of Hastings actor sensationally quit his role in Bridgerton earlier this year.
Rumours have been swirling about Page becoming 007 ever since Daniel Craig's final film as the iconic character, No Time To Die, was released in cinemas.
Addressing the speculation, Ruby insisted in an exclusive interview with Express.co.uk that Page would make a "brilliant" James Bond.
The Netflix star said: "I mean, like, I don't know, I have absolutely no idea.
"But that would be brilliant. That'd be brilliant.
"I mean, who knows if, or when, or how?
"But I mean, who wouldn't want to see that?"
Ladbrokes' favourite to be the next James Bond is Page.
He is closely followed at 4/1 by acting Batman actor Tom Hardy.
Alongside Ruby's seal of approval, Pierce Brosnan, who played James Bond in the late 90s, said Page would be a "wonderful" choice for the next 007.
The actor told Entertainment Tonight: "I think he would be wonderful.
"Good luck, good luck."
However, Page recently denied the rumours while speaking to GQ.
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The Bridgerton heartthrob revealed: "Well, of all the things you'll read about yourself on the internet, it's one of the more pleasant and more flattering.
"But I take it and leave it at that, personally."
It comes after the official Bridgerton Instagram account shared the sad news of Page's departure from the series in a statement presented as a note from Lady Whistledown back in April.
The announcement read: "Dear Readers, While all eyes turn to Lord Anthony Bridgerton's quest to find a Viscountess, we bid adieu to Regé-Jean Page, who so triumphantly played the Duke of Hastings.
"We'll miss Simon's presence onscreen, but he will always be a part of the Bridgerton family.
"Daphne will remain a devoted wife and sister, helping her brother navigate the upcoming social season and what it has to offer—more intrigue and romance than my readers may be able to bear."
Page also confirmed the news by retweeting the Netflix statement and adding: "Pleasure and a privilege!
"An honour to be a member of the family – on and off screen, cast, crew and incredible fans – the love is real and will just keep growing."
Ruby Barker is an ambassador for Raleigh International, one of the 900 charities which participated in this year's The Big Give Christmas Challenge, the UK's biggest online match funding campaign which this year raised £21.1 million www.thebiggive.org.uk
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