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Series B, Episode 08 - Hostage
AVON: Blake, there's a mass of ionized particles, vector three nine. If we can fly into it it could confuse their scanners for just long enough.
BLAKE: Avon might be right. Tangent one eight. Go for it.
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There is a long and storied history of whistles for protection. Ancient Egyptian guards used to place a blade of grass between the thumbs to alert other guards of issues that were transpiring. Later, shells were used to the same end. In China, acorns with holes drilled in them were used similarly.
As a dedicated instrument, whistles have been made of wood, bone, metal, and later, plastics. British bobbies have used whistles to communicate over distances since the 1880s. They are a commonly used tool for boatswains, crossing guards, and referees.
I wish I knew more about rape whistles, but they seem similar in functionality to hikers taking whistles with them in case of injury, as the sound carries much further than yelling, and is much less tiring.
As someone regularly stalked by a large creepy harasser, I am grateful for the whistle I was given for self-protection, even if the creeps who it was given to defend against resent the fuck out of it.
Fin.

[ February 21, 2025] Conference or similar: On Morality and Revelation: A book symposium on Amir Saemi's Morality and Revelation in Islamic Thought and Beyond (OUP, 2024) https://philevents.org/event/show/129842

On Morality and Revelation: A book symposium on Amir Saemi's Morality and Revelation in Islamic Thought and Beyond (OUP, 2024)
This online workshop is a book symposium on Amir Saemi's Morality and Revelation in Islamic Thought and Beyond: A New Problem of Evil (OUP, 2024), which will later be published in AGATHEOS – European Journal for Philosophy of Religion. The program: 8:30 – 10 am (est) Speaker A: Robert Audi     Speaker B: Lara Buchak Speaker C: Imraz Aijaz                 10:15 – 11-45 am (est) Speaker A: Farbod Akhlaghi Respose: Amir Saemi Open discussion

My dear dear friend had been misdiagnosed with lingering pneumonia in the spring, and had spells of being very sick, nothing was helping. She finally got a breast cancer diagnosis a couple of weeks ago, and it had already spread everywhere, two weeks later she passed. I’m still in shock. Please stay up to date with your self exams and mammograms, and if you have an ailment that’s not clearing up, keep seeing doctors until they figure out what it is, get second opinions! Don’t wait. Love you Mary.