#outside of the NICE program and therefore Celia

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It makes sense, but I’ve got opinions on Quiroz living with his dad

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4 stars

Trapped on an island for three years, Cee can't remember anything except that she has a sister named Kay and she'll stop at nothing to get back to her. Kay has lived her whole life in an eco-city, a genius who never minded holos and stasis pods. Her older sister, Celia, however, found herself drawn to the dangerous outside world. Kay never expected for her sister to take a boat and never return though. After three months, Kasey follows the last steps in Celia's life, revealing secrets both sisters have.

I really loved this book but I do think it can get a little bit confusing. It follows two sisters both searching for the other sibling, but the subject matter discusses some important and heavy topics. Global warming, climate change, and the irreversible damage done to the planet. Many people can't live in eco-cities and therefore live on the ground where terrible natural disasters and are vulnerable to all kinds of toxic poisoning from the sea, air, etc.

Cee is the only one on the island with no memories except a few involving her sister and a need to get to her. It was really enjoyable to follow Cee struggle with the boat and on the island. I actually didn't care for Hero eventually joining her on the island but it did lead to some interesting mystery and confusion and tension, and ultimately a little sadness. The reveals through Cee's journey, and I loved the alternating chapters that often mirrored each other, were done really well. And I'll get to those soon.

Kay was a harder character to really connect to only because she's not emotional but highly logical. But she's still a good character and a nice little break from Celia, and I enjoyed both characters. I liked Kay because she did love her sister, perhaps not in a way most people show their love or expect love to be given. But she also seemed to want to do good? Because she was just capable of it. She's angry at first but then she realizes that the science doesn't matter who deserves to live or not. What she was capable of and did was pretty impressive.

The reveal that Cee was a robot following orders to find Kay so she could wake up the rest of humanity was such a cool thing. Cee pushing Kay back into the pods because she didn't want to die was wild. Act being the lost Cole was pretty surprising. I was actually really digging the screw the people who hurt the world and everyone else deserves to live deal he was for, but I appreciate Kacey's just saving as many as possible.

I didn't really follow the "betrayal" and fallout of Act and Kacey. I liked them better than Hero and Cee. Learning that they basically made robots and he made robots to battle against her success was a bit of a bummer. Cee, once she learned of her duty and wanted to live, became a bit annoying to read. I'm all for her being horrified she's a robot and shocked at what she did, and struggling with it. I'm fine with her wanting life. But it became really focused on Hero and being with him for little while until Hero, who is clearly Act's robot programmed to stop Cee from waking up Kay and has attempted multiple times to harm her and stop her, literally takes himself out of the picture by jumping off a cliff. Then and only then can Cee truly decide.

I liked the open ended ending of Cee's part. She comes to appreciate the memory of Celia and dives into the ocean. Is she going to release Kay so the human race can live? Is she choosing just a swim like Celia used to do? We don't know! Kasey's part ends I think a little more clearly with her words about how she loved her sister and would never replace her, which I think fits with her willingness to have Cee be shut down after Kacey wakes. But I think it could ALSO mean that well... Cee in a way is Celia and even if she fails to wake up Kacey, she'd never make another. All in all, it's totally up to interpretation and I love it.

Despite being a bit confusing near the end, it was still a really good story. I enjoyed it overall!

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Javier Fernandez, Don Quijote on ice / Technical reinforcements / Autumn Classic / Schedule for the season / Fixed spot for the Olympics

Javier Fernandez’ agenda is always smoking (very full). Even in August, the five-time European figure skating champion barely has any free time. He’s been in Spain for a few week now, where he’s been giving out summer classes to the new generations in this sport, first in Granada, and then in Madrid, while he prepares his new programs and even poses for his figure at the Wax Museum. After finishing a class in “La Nevera” (Majadahonda), he received MARCA to give us a few key points of what promises to be the most important season of his career. The one in which he dreams to win that Olympic Medal that got away in Sochi in 2014.

In a discipline such a figure skating, the strategy starts with the choreographies for the programs that, generally, change every year and are like the best kept secret. “Javi” had already announced that, for the short program, he would bring back a character previously used, and for the free, he would portray an icon of our (Spanish) culture. He will portray Chaplin again, something he did in 2013, and he will get under the skin of “The Man of La Mancha”, the musical based on “I, Don Quijote” by Dale Wasserman, choreographed by Canadian David Wilson, who has traveled to with Fernandez to Spain.

“With Chaplin I won the first European gold and World medal, that’s why it will always be considered one of my best programs. Bringing it back is a nice way to start giving a closure to my career, but we will present it in a different way. It will no longer be the ‘Limelight’ Charlie Chaplin, but the one from ‘Modern Times’, the one that fight against labor exploitation and the dehumanization that industry represents. It will be a conceptual choreography based off on gestures” he said. Parts of this program have already been revealed in his most recent tour throughout Japan.

“For the free, we wanted to use an icon of the Spanish culture, and what’s best than “El Quijote”, but not form the novel, but from the musical, where Cervantes merges with his character. I will fight for that missing medal emulating the hero and author by excellence in our literature. A choreography that is still taking shape but looks promising” he comments.

Possible Technical reinforcements

Conscious that, last season the level of jumps (technical difficulty), has gone up and therefore the medals have been scarce, Fernandez is already thinking about some possible technical reinforcements should he make use of them to fight his rivals. “The content of the Short Program will remain as it is, but for the free, we’ve been considering introducing a new jump, the quadruple Loop (an element that he’s executed outside of competition), that way I would have 3 different quads (Toeloop, Salchow and Loop), and i could present aside form other jumps, two combinations, one of them consisting of 3 triples. Those are ideas we’ve been considering and that we will start working on. Depending on how they work and the level of the competition we will decide if we include them or not. The key to the medal will not lie so much on the risk, but on not making mistakes and that’s why perfection must be my goal”.

He will debut at Autumn Classic

Unlike the past few years, when he traditionally made his debut at Japan Open in early October, this season he will do it earlier, in the Autumn Classic at the end of September, where he will face his main rival Yuzuru Hanyu in the season debut for both. The Japanese skater will use Chopin’s Ballade no. 1 for the short and he will bring back the free for the 2015-16 season known as ‘SEIMEI’. Afterwards Fernandez will go to Japan Open and his tow Grand Prix events (Beijing and Grenoble) where he will try to get enough points to get to the Final which will take place in Nagoya in December, a few days before the Spanish National Championships in Jaca. In 2018 there will be 3 big events: Europeans in January, Olympics in February and Worlds in March.

This will be the competition schedule for Javier Fernandez

Autumn Classic (September 22-23, Pierrefonds - Canada)

Japan Open (October 7, Saitama - Japan)

Grand Prix Cup of china (November 3-5, Beijing - China)

Grand Prix Internacionaux de France (November 17-19, Grenoble - France)

Grand Prix Final (December 7-10, Nagoya - Japan). His assistance will depend on the results in Beijing and Grenoble, for only the six skaters with the most points qualify.

Spanish National Championships (Mid-December in Jaca)

European Championships (January 15-21, Moscow - Russia)

Olympic Games (February 9-25, Pyeongchang - South Korea)

World Championships (March 19-25, Milan - Italy)

The only fixed spot in the Olympic Team

Javier Fernandez is the only skater that de FEDH consideres fixed for Pyeongchang 2018. These will be the Madrid-native’s 3rd Olympic Games who finished 14th in Vancouver 2010 and 4th in Sochi 2014, where he was the flag bearer for the Spanish Team. Alongside snowboarders Lucas Eguibar, Regino Hernandez and Queralt Castellet, they are the main hope for a Gold Medal for the National team in Korean soil.

The rest of the Olympic spots that the Spanish figure skating team (a second spot for the men, and one in ice dance) will eb given to whoever gets the highest score in two competitions : Golden Spin (December 6-9 in Zagreb - Croatia) and the Spanish Championships. For the second spot in the men’s discipline two names come up: Javier Raya and Felipe Montoya. While 3 teams will fight for the spot in ice dance: Olivia Smart & Adriá Díaz, Sara Hurtado & Kirill Khaliavin and Celia Robledo & Luis Fenero.

Our country could get two more spot in the Pre-Olympic event that will take place in Obertsdorf (Germany) at the end of September to which Sonia Lafuente will assist in search of a spot for the ladies, and the rookies Laura Barquero & Aritz Maestu, that will do the same for pairs. Lafuente will be the alternate to Valentina Matos who is recovering from an injury. If these spots are obtained they will not be given straight to those who get it as it had been done until now. They will be given to those who get the highest scores at Golden Spin and Nationals. The ladies (candidates) are Sonia Lafuente and Valentina Matos, while in pairs, Laura Baquero & Aritz Maestu and Dorota Broda & Pedro Betegón. The qualification depends on Lafuente finishing among the top 6 in the Pre-Olympic test, while Barquero & Maestu will have to break the top 4. Both are ambitious goals. 

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Why SpaceX keeps sending out a senior executive to a tiny Texas beach town

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SpaceX, the rocket business established by Elon Musk, is attempting to construct a personal spaceport in Boca Chica at the southern suggestion of Texas and one day launch missions to Mars from the website utilizing a system called Starship.

A senior executive at SpaceX is visiting holdout property owners in individual to attempt and convince them to sell to the rocket company.

It’s not every day that a senior authorities at SpaceX calls you up, asks you to offer your home to the rocket company founded by the tech entrepreneur Elon Musk, and explains that your property may one day become part of a Mars spaceport.

But that call just recently came for Maria Tip, who lives full time with her spouse, Ray, in Boca Chica: a lobe of coastal prairie at the southern tip of Texas that’s remote and abundant with wildlife. The Guidelines live nearby to a formerly quiet hamlet of numerous lots homes that residents call Boca Chica Town. The nearby inhabited area is Brownsville, which is a 30- minute drive west and where approximately half the population lives below the poverty line.

When Maria Guideline took SpaceX’s call on January 7, the official she talked to was Dave Finlay, the business’s senior director of financing and now, apparently, South Texas real-estate dealmaker. She stated their conversation lasted about two hours.

His overture came after years of relative silence from SpaceX and in the middle of disquieting uncertainty the Pointers felt about their future. The couple told Company Expert they had actually planned to grow old and die in their customized house– however SpaceX’s arrival in September 2014 put a giant question mark on everything. Should they remain? Should they go? Should they spend cash to improve their property or perhaps make repair work?

Finlay sugarcoated nothing about the danger of trying to cling to Boca Chica, Maria Pointer stated, including that he addressed years’ worth of bottled-up questions, fears, and aggravations. After the call with Finlay, she felt relieved– and later on chose it was time to leave.

” He’s a real pleasant guy who has actually enlightened all of us,” she stated of Finlay. “The minute he began shining a light on things, I began having closure.”

Finlay didn’t stop with call, however. Every other week or two, from January through February, he has actually traveled about 1,400 miles to the area from SpaceX’s headquarters in Hawthorne, California, frequently for days, to knock on the doors of residents and make personal sees.

Finlay’s objective is not to make friends. Rather, it is to encourage everyone to accept a buyout deal that SpaceX drifted to location property owners in September– which lots of had not consented to months later on– prior to Musk “loses his patience,” Finlay told several locals.

Finlay’s method seems working. According to Company Expert’s reporting, more than half of the remaining homes in Boca Chica have actually now sold to SpaceX, including the Pointers’, or are near to or in closing. The rest are in other phases of dealmaking.

Key to transforming some citizens has actually been listening to them about, and even owning up to, mistakes of the past.

” They truly require these houses. They’re being very absurd,” one resident who just recently sold to SpaceX said. “As smart as they have to do with technological stuff, they’re not wise about individuals.”

The local, whose identity Service Insider verified, spoke on the condition of privacy to keep their personal privacy.

Life in SpaceX’s ‘corporate shadow’

Satellite-tracking antennas in South Texas.

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Turning Boca Chica into a personal spaceport was an imagine Musk’s as early as2011 That’s when he had SpaceX workers call the workplace of then-Texas Gov. Rick Perry about introducing a lots commercial satellite missions a year from the site. Not long afterward, according to The Dallas Morning News, Musk met authorities from the state and Cameron County, where Boca Chica is, and promoted incentives to bring SpaceX there.

The Tips and a number of their next-door neighbors questioned the business would in fact land in Boca Chica when news about SpaceX’s interest broke in April 2012 There seemed to be far more suitable areas dad north in Texas– ones without a cluster of senior citizens spending time– they said, along with in Georgia, Puerto Rico, Florida, and a number of other places SpaceX was hunting.

However in Texas, SpaceX spent hundreds of countless dollars in lobbying, contributed tens of thousands of dollars to key authorities’ projects, and even paid for politicians to visit its headquarters, according to The Dallas Early Morning News.

Government officials eventually approved a bundle worth $15 million in tax breaks and job-creation rewards in2013 SpaceX then won federal, state, and regional approval in July 2014 to build a spaceport. The rocket company finally broke ground in September 2014.

” At the extremely, really starting, I saw surveyors outside our windows. I thought, ‘Oh god, individuals here are going to burn me on a cross if I’m not with SpaceX,'” Maria Pointer stated. Therefore began what she has consistently explained over the years as the beginning of “life in a business shadow” or a “business footprint.”

The company’s existence broadened quickly. SpaceX bulldozed lawns and cacti next to the Pointers’ home to set up a busy barbwire-fenced work yard. The business also trucked in adequate dirt to bury an American football field 13 stories deep and dumped it atop squishy soil near Boca Chica Beach to assist compact it into a launchpad structure. A couple of homes SpaceX acquired early on became workshops, storage websites, and shipment centers. Towering spacecraft-tracking antennas from NASA’s old space-shuttle program settled in next to an old corner store.

SpaceX may have used to purchase the town early on, however that did not take place– locals state they connected with few if any deals at that time.

” They do not approach you, you approach them,” a resident informed Company Expert in2019 Celia Johnson, a Brownsville native and Boca Chica homeowner since 1992, said she provided to sell her rental house to SpaceX a couple of years ago for about $150,000 but the company decreased.

In 2015, some in the town tried to open a dialog by asking SpaceX to hold private conferences.

However SpaceX rocket failures in 2015 and 2016, along with weaker-than-expected need for the company’s Falcon 9 and Falcon Heavy launchers– which were expected to fly industrial objectives monthly from Boca Chica– ground launch-site development almost to a halt.

” They did not like to answer any questions,” Sam Clauson informed Organisation Expert in April, when he was still a part-time citizen.

Starhopper’s final launch on August27

Elon Musk/SpaceX; Twitter SpaceX-owned homes became crash pads for employees, and the company even turned one into a recreation center with a bar, the confidential local said.

Cameron County ultimately started closing off areas of Highway 4– the only roadway out to Boca Chica– to permit SpaceX to move devices and conduct rocket tests.

Today, advancement work continues to speed up as Musk invests more time in Boca Chica to oversee SpaceX’s advancement of the Starship launch system, upon which the business’s future success may hinge.

” We can’t sleep anymore.

In The Middle Of all of this work, SpaceX’s attitude to the town shifted, changing from relative silence into a seemingly generous plea for everybody to offer their houses in the name of safety– and to do it rapidly.

On September 12, the business sent out every house owner in the hamlet a buyout deal letter via the real-estate firm Jones Lang LaSalle, or JLL. Many bristled at the offer’s preliminary two-week deadline (which was later on relaxed). The offer offered 3 times a base appraisal, some homeowners explained the appraisal as a “lowball” and “bulls–.” And even with a three-times deal, according to nearly all the homeowners we spoke to, the funds wouldn’t compensate for “a like residential or commercial property” in a likewise remote low-tax location within a stone’s toss of an undeveloped and beautiful public beach.

So 2 weeks later on, while Musk remained in town to present progress on Starship, the CEO met with villagers throughout a quick and “awkward” conference Guests said the group “made it clear we were not delighted” and didn’t “play nice” with the billionaire CEO.

That meeting brought something of a turning point, though: Musk stated that while the three-times figure was nonnegotiable, the base appraisal worth was undoubtedly versatile. This encouraged some citizens to offer in the following months as they discovered methods with JLL to increase the on-paper worth of their properties.

However, as numerous as 15 property owners had their independent appraisals rejected. And as the weeks wore on with slow momentum on sales, numerous villagers burnt out of dealing with JLL and requested to work straight with SpaceX.

The rocket business dispatched Finlay to coax villagers to turn over their secrets before the county might attempt some legal remedy to require them out. (Company Expert asked for an interview with County Judge Eddie Treviño Jr., however his workplace said the judge was traveling for work and unavailable to talk to till mid-February.)

‘ My objective is to provide any assistance that I can’

Weems Roadway is the primary path through Boca Chica Town, Texas, and was unpaved till SpaceX showed up.

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Finlay appears an odd choice for the job based on his LinkedIn profile

However SpaceX decided on the individual for the task, Musk desired everyone gone by March 31, citizens said representatives from both JLL and SpaceX told them.

Finlay started outreach to residents as soon as December, beginning with those who had reached an impasse in negotiations with JLL.

” I operate at SpaceX in California and would truly value the chance to go over the SpaceX offer to acquire your property,” Finlay told a local in an e-mail sent the morning of January 3. “My goal is to offer any assistance that I can.”

The resident responded that SpaceX’s deal “would not even come close to permitting us to acquire another property anywhere else close sufficient to the beach for us.”

In his reaction two days later on, Finlay took a conciliatory tone.

” I am really happy to work with you to fix any error in your evaluated worth that drives the $ quantity of the purchase offer,” he wrote. “My objective is to make it as precise as possible and if any errors were made we will repair them. I will be in the Town all the time on Monday must you want to fulfill personally– I ‘d like to check out any opportunities I may have to help you.”

A model of SpaceX’s Starship envisioned behind a home in Boca Chica Town on September28

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Finlay physically showed up on January 13 to walk the neighborhood. He spent hours that week with some locals, like the Tips, and returned in following weeks to pick up where he left off and work on other holdouts.

” Finlay was a reprieve, the last resort that provided us any kind of voice,” Maria Guideline stated, adding that Finlay asked forgiveness for the tension caused to her and her other half over the years by the company’s presence.

Dave Cohen is another (now-former) homeowner who offered after being approached directly by Finlay.

” I found Dave Finlay a satisfaction to talk to.

According to Service Insider’s reporting, citizens have actually been paid near to $100,000 on the low end to more than $1 million for their residential or commercial properties on the high end. Both Maria and Ray Tip said they’ve ended up being fans of what Musk and SpaceX are doing and wish to leave however that getting retiree-age people like themselves out of the way is “harder than throwing cash at the issue.”

” We have actually got to find a home, relocation, get surgery, and relative pass away in the middle of all this,” Maria said, describing the passing of her previous husband and the dad of her kids in 2019.

Johnson expressed comparable thoughts but said she still questioned what SpaceX was thinking by picking the town location for its main office.

” It’s not that I do not like development or SpaceX, either. It’s just that there’s hundreds and hundreds and numerous acres here,” Johnson said. “Why they picked our area to build whatever is beyond me.”

The confidential local stated Finlay even hired a real-estate agent to help one household discover a “like” house in another part of Texas.

Whatever SpaceX decides to do, however, the company may quickly discover itself in a bind: Some homeowners told Organisation Expert that they no longer answered Finlay’s calls, texts, or e-mails.

The citizen stated her household had “no interest” in selling to SpaceX– not even for millions of dollars– and added that she was prepared to go to court over their house.

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